[Punch Bag] For months, rumors have been circulating that Putin’s Russia is secretly backing anti-fracking groups in the US. Thanks to WikiLeaks, we now have proof:
Hillary Clinton talked about Russian-backed environmental groups during a private speech on June 18th, 2014. This is what she said:
"We were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media. We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you, and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia."
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, a "shadowy Bermudan company" has donated "tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States."
A January report by the EPA specifically implicates Klein ltd ‐ a company that is believed to be "run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle."
Fracking is a violent drilling procedure that allows companies to access hard-to-reach resources of gas and oil. It is controversial because it requires vast amounts of water and can contaminate groundwater at the drilling site.
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The Russians, the Iranians, the Saudis, and several other Clinton Foundation donors.
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And in public instead of private, Hillary (and all the other democrats) always shows more respect for the Russian-backed groups than the oil industry.
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I love the editorial in the last paragraph. Idiots.
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You'd think it would be far cheaper to buy state elected officials rather than feds. At least in New Mexico it is and there is no new drilling or fracking. The state government is having to deal with a significant deficit created by the drop in income largely attributed to legacy wells not delivering as much revenue as projected. Never occurs to them to make it up in volume. The Greens (Reds) reign.
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Fracking is NOT a drilling procedure; it is a completion procedure. 'Vast' is an imprecise term - compared to an ocean it is a negligible amount of water. Technically it CAN contaminate ground water if everything is done wrong, but only a few actual cases seem to exist. (Lots of groundwater -and surface water - contamination occurs due to poor auto maintenance.)
[Express Tribune] TRIPOLI: Five years after an uprising killed Libya’s Moamer Kadhafi, residents in the chaos-wracked country’s capital joke they have grown to miss the longtime dictator as the frustrations of daily life mount.
Those living in the capital say they are exhausted by power cuts, price hikes and a lack of cash flow as rival authorities and militias battle for control of the fragmented oil-rich country.
"I hate to say it but our life was better under the previous regime," says Fayza al-Naas, a 42-year-old pharmacist, referring to Kadhafi’s more than four decades of rule.
Today, "we wait for hours outside banks to beg cashiers to give us some of our own money. Everything is three times more expensive."
A UN-backed unity government has struggled to assert its authority nationwide since arriving in Tripoli in March, with a rival parliament in the country’s far east refusing to cede power to it.
On Friday it suffered a new blow when a rival seized key offices in the capital and proclaimed the reinstatement of a third administration previously based in Tripoli.
The turmoil after Kadhafi’s 2011 fall has allowed the Islamic State group to gain a foothold on Europe’s doorstep after seizing the strongman’s hometown of Sirte in June last year.
...the far left Air America reporter and and a former member of the Friends of Cindy Sheehan club...
is facing charges of participating in a "riot" after filming Native American-led protests over an oil pipeline in North Dakota.
The Democracy Now! reporter said she would surrender to authorities on Monday in response to the charge.
District Judge John Grinsteiner will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to support the riot charge.
Ms Goodman filmed the crackdown on protesters by authorities last month.
"I wasn't trespassing, I wasn't engaging in a riot, I was doing my job as a journalist by covering a violent attack on Native American protesters," Ms Goodman said.
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Gurls with dawgs. Always iffy, you can't kick the yappers into next week, the good shy ones are hiding and the goons are sniffing your ballz and checking for ammonia and you can't dart either on the first date.
[Wash Times] A federal judge has ordered the IRS to finally clean up the tea party targeting mess, giving the tax agency less than a month to decide on a handful of applications that are still pending more than three years after officials first admitted they were targeting the conservative groups and subjecting them to intrusive scrutiny.
The IRS also must file a brief detailing the steps it has taken to prevent further targeting and to make sure the tea party groups don’t face any more fallout from the stigma of having been singled out in the first place, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said in an order issued late Friday.
Judge Walton ordered final decisions on two applications that have been pending for years and said four other groups that had withdrawn their applications amid the unconstitutional targeting can resubmit and the IRS must decide on those, too, by Nov. 11.
The Albuquerque Tea Party, which filed its application in December 2009, has been waiting nearly seven years. Unite in Action, a Michigan-based group, applied in 2010.
Judge Walton called that "an exorbitant period of time" and said the IRS should have been able to act once it admitted it was targeting the groups.
"These determinations should have been made by now," he said at a hearing last week.
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That month will take them past Election Day, which strikes me as unreasonable. I hope the judge can arrange for baliffs to pick up the recalcitrant, should they not comply, and has other punishments in mind for so egregiously misbehaving for so long.
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Nah, the judge probably got the O.K. from Hillary, because at this point, what difference does it make?
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8 years too late.
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Trump should have been banging the anti-IRS drum a lot more as part of his anti-government insurgency. The agency is weaponized and very un-American.
Long piece (of course) at the NYT which has all the hand-wringing you'd expect as a progressive liberal newspaper recognizes that their hero, Obama, is making yet another war. It's almost as if the NYT has finally noticed what we at the Burg have been saying about Somalia for quite some time -- except for my call for a wall, moat, alligators and sharks...
The Obama administration has intensified a clandestine war in Somalia over the past year, using Special Operations troops, airstrikes, private contractors and African allies in an escalating campaign against Islamist militants in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
Hundreds of American troops now rotate through makeshift bases in Somalia, the largest military presence since the United States pulled out of the country after the “Black Hawk Down” battle in 1993.
The Somalia campaign, as it is described by American and African officials and international monitors of the Somali conflict, is partly designed to avoid repeating that debacle, which led to the deaths of 18 American soldiers. But it carries enormous risks — including more American casualties, botched airstrikes that kill civilians and the potential for the United States to be drawn even more deeply into a troubled country that so far has stymied all efforts to fix it.
The Somalia campaign is a blueprint for warfare that President Obama has embraced and will pass along to his successor. It is a model the United States now employs across the Middle East and North Africa — from Syria to Libya — despite the president’s stated aversion to American “boots on the ground” in the world’s war zones. This year alone, the United States has carried out airstrikes in seven countries and conducted Special Operations missions in many more.
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Shadow government involved in Shadow War ?
"Our business is war, and business is good."
~ Author unknown.
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Hundreds of American troops now rotate through makeshift bases...
...coming back with personal impressions of the culture. I had a fascinating conversation with the young gentleman who was installing our new fiber optics cable. He'd just retired from the Army motorpool, which got him sent to Afghanistan twice. It was clear he was censoring his discourse to suit his assumptions about his audience, which I appreciated.
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But then again I can hit the breakfast table at Thanksgiving Morning and ask if anyone here can get a message to Garcia and Silky always volunteers just wants a compass direction and a piece of turkey. Luckily Garcia lives just up the hill and always has treats and is easily amused.
[Hot Air] The United States has gotten fairly adept at keeping track of people who are born here over the years. There are birth certificates, the issuance of Social Security numbers, announcements in newspapers and all manner of other proclamations when a new life enters the world. But when it comes to the other end of the lifespan scale we've mostly relied on the honor system when folks shuffle off this mortal coil. Once you're dead, the government sort of counts on you remaining dead, and your friends and relatives are pretty good about acknowledging this unless you happen to live in one of those unfortunate zombie apocalypse areas.
Why should we care? Because the dead get up to all manner of shenanigans these days and it has people concerned. One of the latest is the outcry over the election being rigged, and a part of that is the unpleasant habit some of the deceased have acquired when it comes to voting. We've seen it in large numbers in the Los Angeles area, in Colorado, in Virginia and beyond.
But it's not just voting. The dead are out there participating in other things as well. We see too many reports of fraud where Social Security checks are cashed by relatives of the dead, sometimes for decades. When children die in infancy, identity thieves wind up resurrecting them years later for any number of purposes. The fact is that when people die, their identity becomes available for nefarious purposes and there are all too many out there ready and willing to take advantage of it.
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It's the Dems who are claiming that showing ID at the polls is too onerous for their voters. After all, they can't have that door to voter fraud/election theft closed.
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You're a typical white male, JQC. Doesn't it occur to you that since blacks couldn't vote through most of the USA's existence, they're entitled to vote several times! (-:
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Too much work. Just purge voter registrations right after the presidential election. It's not too much trouble to register anew every 4 years in order to exercise your franchise.
[Daily Caller] Two attorneys with close ties to the Clinton family believe then-Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign "flooded" the caucuses with "ineligible voters," according to leaked emails.
Emails hacked from Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta cites two attorneys and "old friends of the Clintons," James Lyons and Michael Driver, tasked with "caucus protection, election protection and to raise hard $" for the 2016 Colorado caucus.
Apparently, Lyons and Driver didn’t want a repeat of 2008 when, they believe, the Obama campaign "flooded the caucuses with ineligible voters," according to the email chain released by WikiLeaks. It’s unclear if they are only talking about the Colorado caucus or those in other states.
"High importance," Podesta wrote to campaign staffers in a May 2015 email.
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I wonder if Obama's backers (as distinct from the moron himself) had compromising evidence against Clintons and used it to restrain Clintons from using the staff they had on Obama?
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Total rubbish! The polls were well guarded in 2008 and 2012. So-called 'voter fraud' and 'voter intimidation' are a popular myths invented by 'the man.'
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Obama said he would heal the planet and slow the rise of the oceans 8 years ago. It is not difficult to imagine that he raised the dead as well.
If Bernie Sanders did not sell out to the devil, he might have something to say about the voter fraud and suppression in the primaries. However, I understand there are lawsuits brought by his very PO'd supporters. Also check with the DNC hacked files which indicate Bernie never had a chance in the first place. Of course, Bernie might have been a stalking horse from the beginning. Had to have a debate to showcase the queen, right?
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Wouldn't have mattered. Folks knew Obama had issues and they didn't care. Folks know Hillary is a criminal and they don't care. Folks know Trump is a vulgarian and they don't care.
When people love their candidate they are not blind to such things, they just factor them as less important.
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Maybe it's the choosing between the evil of two lesser in this election, i.e. voting for the candidate who hurts you the least. I don't know that people are so outraged about Trump's vulgarity--mostly the usual suspects--Dems, Rinos, establishment politicians.
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What's to choose? One thing nearly everyone (88%?) agrees on is their dislike for Congress. Only one candidate offers any hope at all of causing some sort of change in D.C., but somehow, most of the 'nearly everyone' doesn't see that.
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(88%?) agrees on is their dislike for Congress. It's that high? What's the disdain level for the MSM. Left-wing college professors? Journalism schools? The left? Hillary? ISIS? Liars?
[PJ] FORT MILL, SC -- Dr. Carol M. Swain, professor of law at Vanderbilt University, argued that Hillary Clinton is proof that Satanism is on the rise in America, in an interview with PJ Media on Saturday evening. She also discussed her university's decision to honor Wicca as a religion while denigrating Christianity, and how the Black Lives Matter movement is using the suffering of black people to promote a Marxist agenda.
"I would argue that Satanism itself is on the rise in the country, and I think that that's well documented," Swain declared. She argued that the deceptive tactics associated with Lucifer have infiltrated the country's political discourse, and traced that back to the leftist professor Saul Alinsky.
It's just a fact that Saul Alinsky dedicated this book Rules for Radicals to Lucifer, and I find it significant that we have, you know, world leaders, our president [Barack Obama] for example, and one of the major presidential candidates [Hillary Clinton] who saw Saul Alinsky as a mentor. And many activists, leftists, they view Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals almost as a Bible. It's all about the way he frames it, taking power from the haves and redistributing that power to the have-nots. He advocates deception, manipulation, infiltration, and so when we see our political candidates telling lies, we shouldn't be surprised because the Bible tells us that Satan is the father of lies.
Swain even noted that "Lucifer has his own TV show," which airs on the Fox network. "So people are celebrating Satan in the way that many of us Christians celebrate God."
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"The greatest deception the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist." An even greater deception was the devil convincing people that "he" wasn't a "she."
[SA Today] The 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was fatally shot in the neck, authorities and the athlete’s agent said Sunday, and police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting.
Trinity Gay died at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, the coroner’s office for Fayette County said in a statement. The athlete’s agent, Mark Wetmore, confirmed in a text message to The Associated Press that Gay’s daughter had died.
Police on Sunday evening announced that Dvonta Middlebrooks, 21, was arrested and charged with wanton endangerment and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. A statement said investigators determined that Middlebrooks was in the parking lot and fired multiple shots at the time of the incident.
Another man questioned by police has not been charged.
Lexington police said in a statement that officers went to the parking lot of a restaurant near the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington about 4 a.m. Sunday after witnesses reported an exchange of gunfire between two vehicles. Officers located one of the vehicles and stopped two people for questioning, the statement added.
Police spokeswoman Brenna Angel said police don’t believe Trinity Gay was in either of the vehicles involved.
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This article fails to answer questions that I think most of us would want to know. Was Ms. Gay a bystander, asleep in a building hit by gunfire or standing around watching the action? Something else?
[Jpost] A regional council in France that includes Paris passed a precedent-setting amendment that excludes funding from promoters of boycotts against Israel.
The council of the Ile-de-France region, where right-wing parties have a majority, adopted the amendment Thursday, the Le Monde Juif website reported the following day.
The report said the council’s president, Valérie Pécresse of the UMP party of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, led the vote in keeping with her campaign promises to pursue vigorous measures against the BDS movement – an acronym for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
“In accordance with the law, I will not tolerate any form of boycotts against Israel in the Ile-de-France region,” she said while campaigning for the top executive political position of the region, which is home to most of France’s 500,000 Jews.
Robert Ejnes, deputy president of the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities, in a Twitter post congratulated the council for its amendment, whose final text was not yet published. Ariel Goldmann, another CRIF vice president, wrote on Twitter about the measure: “Thank you and bravo.”
In France, several dozen promoters of a boycott against Israel have been convicted of inciting hate or discrimination. Some activists have been convicted based on the 2003 Lellouche law, which extends anti-racism laws to the targeting of specific nations for discriminatory treatment.
The judiciary in neighboring Spain has cracked down in recent years on BDS initiatives, declaring them unconstitutional. Last month, the high court of the Asturias region there joined other Spanish high tribunals in upholding rulings by lower instances declaring BDS discriminatory.
Britain’s ruling party is formulating legislation against BDS, officials said earlier this year.
Sweden Legalises Flying The Islamic State Battle Flag
16 Oct 2016
Swedish prosecutors have effectively legalised the display and use of the Islamic State (ISIS) battle flag by refusing to prosecute a Muslim male who used an image of it as his Facebook profile. An unidentified 23-year-old was the subject of a
Austrian Intelligence Warns Of Domestic Islamic Radicalisation
16 Oct 2016
The Austrian domestic intelligence agency has warned law makers that there could be a hot bed of Islamic radicalisation developing in the region of Styria. Director of the Federal Office for State Protection and Counter-terrorism (BVT), Peter Gridling is warning law
Denmark: Foreign Crime Doubles In Six Years
16 Oct 2016
A new report from the national commissioner of police in Denmark states organized migrant criminal gangs have become more numerous, more specialized and pose a greater threat than ever before. A large police operation in February of 2015 in the
Slovak Police Charge Five With Smuggling Migrants to Germany
14 Oct 2016
(REUTERS) – Five Slovaks are facing charges of smuggling at least 300 illegal migrants last year from Hungary to western Europe, mostly to Germany and Italy, Slovakian police said on Friday.
Smugglers To Be Charged With Death of 71 Migrants in Lorry
14 Oct 2016
Eight men are currently awaiting trial in a Hungarian court after an intense investigation led to their arrests for the deaths of some 71 migrants who died in a truck last year along the side of the road. During the
Migrant Pair Acquitted In Swimming Pool Sex Assault Case
14 Oct 2016
Two Afghan adult migrants have been acquitted in a sexual assault case at a German swimming pool that involved a 14-year-old boy in the German town of Delbrück . The two men in the case, 20-year-old Mozamel M and 25-year-old Rajab H, are
Street fighting, vandalism and sexual assault: Mayor of picturesque German ski town begs for help to tackle an 'explosive refugee crime wave'
16/10/16
Police say refugees brawl in the streets and vandalise public property in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and residents allege they are responsible for serious sexual assaults. Dr Sigrid Meierhofer (pictured) has now written about the 'massive problems' in a letter begging for help from Bavarian politician Maria Els, which was leaked to the press. The mayor, from the centre-left SPD party, says she will need to take action 'to secure public safety and order' after a series of public clashes with police. ...
Smuggling gang netted more than £1.3m by setting up their own BUS COMPANY to whisk African migrants across Europe under the noses of authorities
16/10/16
Police say employees of legitimate bus companies were involved in the operation, which used decoy buses to take migrants from Spain to France, German and Sweden.
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There's a bleak Euro report. They have invited these problems on themselves. The immigrant flow needs to be slowed or cut off. Pew Research has some demographics on the Muslim population in Europe. I don't know how accurate these numbers are. Some enclaves are almost exclusively Muslim. Numbers. Good luck.
[RUDAW.NET] A 30,000-strong Iraqi and Kurdish force has launched its offensive against an estimated 3,000 to 4,500 ISIS turbans in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , where approximately 1 million civilians are caught in the middle, eager to be freed from the brutal rule of the self-proclaimed Caliphate.
Estimates of the number of ISIS turbans in Mosul have steadily dropped over the months. In early March, Col. Christopher Garver, spokesperson for the US-led anti-ISIS coalition, estimated that there were less than 10,000 turbans in the city.
More recently, another coalition spokesperson Col. John Dorrian said there are between 3,000 and 4,500 ISIS fighters in Mosul, both foreign and local.
Some have been killed - coalition Arclight airstrikes have targeted ISIS leadership in Mosul; 13 were killed in September alone, Dorrian announced at the end of the month.
Many ISIS leaders have fled the city with their families in anticipation of the military offensive, Iraq’s then minister of defence, Khalid al-Obeidi, said in July, noting that most were going to Syria.
Others have deserted the Death Eater group and fled, with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... the most popular destination. "This very morning, three ISIS fighters have fled to Turkey," the Mosul Eye, a blogger in Mosul and one of the few sources of information from the city, told Rudaw English earlier this month. They were local recruits, he added.
Those turbans remaining in the city are largely young, inexperienced Mosul teenagers. The Mosul Eye estimated that 90 percent of the turbans who contributed to building the Caliphate are now gone - including the many Saudi fighters that once filled Mosul’s streets.
The few that remain have again filled the streets, putting on a show of force for the civilian population. "They want to show themselves that they are ready and strong. But this is not true, many of the fighters are teenagers," locally recruited, the Mosul Eye said.
The large proportion of local fighters may bode well for hopes of a quick offensive if the liberation of Qayyara is any indication. When Iraqi forces retook the city in August, local ISIS turbans deserted and only the foreigners stayed, fighting to their deaths, residents of the city told Rudaw.
"The foreign ISIS turbans were the real fighters and many of those ready to become jacket wallahs were from La Belle France and the Caucasus," said Omer Ibrahim, a Qayyara resident. "The local ISIS turbans were deserting the battlefields."
"It was at 10pm when the ISIS turbans deployed in the streets. The foreign turbans went to the forefront to halt any advance from the Iraqi army," said Mustafa Ali, another Qayyara native. "But at 12am, the Iraqi ISIS turbans together with their families and civilians all fled to Hamam Ali. Only the imported muscle stayed and did not give up."
Some of the civilians living in Mosul are prepared to fight ISIS, a man from Mosul told Rudaw English. He is living in Erbil and spoke on condition of anonymity to protect his family and friends still in the city and with whom he is in contact. People in some neighbourhoods have weapons in their homes, AK-47s and pistols, and are waiting for the offensive to begin, before they rise up and fight.
[Rooters] The United States said on Sunday it was proud to stand with its allies after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the start of an offensive to retake Mosul, the capital of Islamic State's so-called caliphate in Iraq.
"PM Abadi issued orders to initiate major operations to liberate Mosul after two years of darkness under ISIL terrorists," Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the coalition against Islamic State, said in a message on Twitter.
"Godspeed to the heroic Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga, and Ninewa volunteers. We are proud to stand with you in this historic operation," McGurk said.
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A million civilians and 4000 ISIS? A lot of those civilians must be supporting ISIS or this would have been over a while ago.
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"Godspeed to the heroic Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga, and Ninewa volunteers. We are proud to stand with you in this historic operation," McGurk said.
"And hopefully it'll be done before the elections," he added under his breath.
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Turks, Peshmerga, Iranians, Iraqis, US SOF, French...all surround this city as the attack begins. The Iraqis threaten both the Turks and YPG...the Turks hate just about everyone in this mix, the Sunni in the city will rise up in the thousands to fight the Iranians and their militias...ISIS is already sending the suicide bombers out by the dozens today...what could go wrong?
[Ynet] A jacket wallah believed to be from ISIS killed three people and injured at least 20 others in an attack on Sunday on an outpost manned by a Syrian rebel group at a refugee camp on the border between Syria and Jordan, a rebel official said.
The attack targeted the Jaish al-Ashair rebel group at the Rakban camp, said Said Saif, front man for the Forces of Martyrs Ahmed al-Abdo Brigades, a Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... rebel group fighting against ISIS.
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[Al Ahram] Attacks killed at least 46 people in Iraq on Saturday, including a suicide kaboom 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 that was the deadliest to hit Baghdad in months.
The violence comes as Iraqi forces prepare for an operation to retake djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the last IS-held city in the country -- a key battle, but one that will not end the threat of attacks such as those carried out on Saturday.
In the deadliest attack, a jacket wallah targeted a funeral tent where mourners were gathered to pay their respects in the Shia-majority Shaab area of north Baghdad, killing at least 34 people and wounding least 36, officials said.
IS issued an online statement claiming the attack, saying it was carried out by a man who detonated an explosive vest.
A witness said the bomber entered the funeral tent and went kaboom! as lunch was being served.
"I saw with my eyes 20 deaders on the ground," the witness said.
Blood stained the ground at the scene of the attack, which was littered with the remains of plastics chairs mourners had been seated on.
IS, a Sunni Death Eater group, considers Shias to be heretics, and frequently carries out suicide kabooms and other attacks against them in Baghdad and elsewhere in the country.
Saturday's bombing is the deadliest to hit the Iraqi capital since early July, when a suicide kaboom in central Baghdad sparked infernos in a crowded shopping area, killing more than 300 people.
That attack led to a shakeup of senior Baghdad security officials and the announcement of other measures aimed at improving security in the capital, but the bombings have continued.
Also on Saturday, bully boyz attacked two areas north of Baghdad, killing a further 12 people, according to police.
In Malha, an area east of the city of Tikrit, suicide bombers attacked a federal police position, killing eight and wounding 11, officers said.
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Its Monday here and a nice bright morning. I am drinking my morning coffee and reading about Moslems killing OTHER Moslems ( in some numbers ).
It makes the coffee taste particularly good.
The Mosul Advance is coming next. 30,000 to 4,000 and a lot of Civilians who want to leave and live in New Jersey, I expect. The ISIS "fighters" are deserting by the platoon load. Only the walking dead willing to fight. ( according to propaganda ).
But it DOES all boil down to Moslems killing EACH OTHER.
[Al Ahram] South African police raided a university student residence in Johannesburg early Sunday, arresting a leader of sometimes violent protests for free education who caused an outcry last year when he declared admiration for Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... The arrest of Mcebo Dlamini, a former student council president at the University of the Witwatersrand, followed recent festivities between protesters and police that led the university to impose tighter restrictions on access and movement on its campuses at night.
Police confirmed that a 32-year-old man was nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at a student residence at around 1 a.m. as part of investigations into "recent violence, criminality and acts of intimidation," but declined to reveal his identity pending his appearance in court.
Protests have roiled many South African universities since last month, leading to dozens of arrests, arson and vandalism as well as the suspension of classes at some institutions. While there is widespread support for the idea of free education, the government says it doesn't have the funds and many students would rather study than go along with protesters' calls for disruption.
Still, Dlamini has often delivered fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches to crowds of students who feel the University of the Witwatersrand, a leading university in Africa, is not responsive enough to poor blacks who struggle to pay school bills. They link the problem to the legacy of white minority rule, whose ending in 1994 brought democracy but failed to lift many in the black majority out of poverty.
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Witwatersrand, a leading university in Africa, is not responsive enough to poor blacks who struggle to pay school bills.
They've run critically short of payers. Shall we call it Obamaschool ?
[Al Ahram] Clashes have erupted in the Libyan capital between militias loyal to a U.N.-backed government and those supporting a rival Islamist-oriented administration that had ruled Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... until March this year, Libyan security officials said on Sunday.
The festivities, which began late Saturday and continued into Sunday, followed Friday night's takeover by gunnies loyal to the Islamist administration of the offices of the U.N.-backed National Accord government.
The sites captured included a residential compound for some 145 members of a consultative chamber formally called the Supreme State Council.
The council issued a statement condemning the takeover of its offices, describing the move as "a desperate and bizarre attempt to confuse the political landscape and derail efforts to bring stability to the country."
In a separate statement, the U.N.-backed government said it had instructed law enforcement authorities to identify and arrest those behind the takeover which, it said, wanted to create "parallel" institutions.
The Islamist General National Congress government has said it intends to seize all other state facilities in Tripoli, including the Central Bank and ministries. It also declared it was now the government in charge, seven months after it stepped aside in favour of the U.N.-backed government.
There was no information immediately available on any casualties from the festivities. The Friday takeover, which came after an hours-long standoff, did not involve any violence, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.
Late Saturday, the United States expressed its concern about what it called "reports of violence" in Tripoli and called on all parties to work together for a "safe, prosperous and free Libya."
More from the Libyan Herald
Tripoli has been descending into military anarchy over the last 48 hours although, extraordinarily, some parts of the city still appeared calm and normal this evening.
The two-day old Rixos coup by Khalifa Ghwell has triggered disparate outbreaks of fighting between rival militias in which one person is known to have been killed and several wounded.
The death was of a Tawerghan woman in the IDP camp in Fallah district by the Airport Road. Six other camp occupants were injured including a child whom some reports say has since died.
The Rixos is now surrounded by irregular, heavily armed units supporting Ghwell and whose vehicles carrying no markings and the gunmen wearing civilian clothing. Early this evening gunfire was heard in Bab Ben Gashir near the Rixos. Earlier shopkeepers in the area had shuttered their premises.
The Prime Ministry in Railway Road has been busy all day with Presidency Council head Faiez Serraj holding a series of meetings. His deputy Ahmed Maetig discussed the security situation with the commander of the new Presidential Guard, Colonel Najmi Al-Nakua.
Meanwhile, as militias move to reinforce with positions, Haithem Tajouri’s Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigade (TRB) has today expanded its network of checkpoints set up immediately after the Rixos coup. These include Sidi Al-Masri, Ain Zara and the city centre around Martyrs’ Square into which armoured vehicles have been moved. Last night, Tajouri’s men ordered shops the square to close.
“Tajouri’s men are everywhere,” one local resident observed this afternoon.
There are unconfirmed reports, though that in the growing chaos in the city, they too are fighting among themselves, with two TRB units clashing in Zawiat Al-Dahmani. However, it is also being said that fight was in fact between the TRB’s 6th unit and a neighbourhood family. Local residents said that the TRB had burnt down a house yesterday and that the owners, said to be part of a local militia, retaliated by attacking the 6th unit’s base in the district.
Elsewhere, to the south of the capital there was fighting near Qasr Ben Gashir between armed men said to be from Wirshefana and Tarhouna.
Last night there was also heavy firing from what locals said were light and medium weapons near Busetta which caused some injuries. This fighting erupted again early this evening but it is still unclear who is fighting who and why.
However, despite the noise of gunfire from various parts of the city Tripoli has been getting on with life cautiously. The Libya Herald spoke to a member of staff at Tripoli university who explained there had been clashes nearby today. “It was a little dicey,” he said. However, driving through Zenata, Suq Al-Juma and Busetta “I did not see anything. People were going about their business as normal”. The university has not announced that classes will be cancelled tomorrow.
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(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – Diyala Member of Parliament Karim al-Jabouri revealed on Sunday, that a Shia soldier of al-Hashd al-Shaabi was killed while two others were wounded in sequential bomb blasts, northeast of Baqubah.
Jabouri said in a statement, “A Shai solider was killed and two others were wounded in the explosion of two bombs that exploded sequentially targeting security detachment while searching the gardens of Sensil villages.”
“The gardens of the liberated areas are witnessing violent terrorist acts targeting al-Hashd al-Ashaeri, army patrols and al-Hashd al-Shaabi members,” Jabouri explained. “Extensive military operations are needed to eliminate the presence of any terrorist cells in these areas,” he added.
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[Ynet] Asian nation says that its actions are to make sure the UN body properly functions to foster trust; Japan second-largest donor after the US, which has withheld dues since 2011 because of Palestinian participation.
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, asked by a reporter, confirmed that Japan withheld dues of nearly 4 billion yen ($40 million) for this year. He refused to say if that was to protest UNESCO's listing last year of Chinese Rape of Nanking documents as a memory of the world.
Israel suspended its cooperation with UNESCO on Friday, a day after the UN cultural agency adopted a draft resolution that Israel says denies the deep, historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem.
Kishida said the decision is based on "comprehensive" observations. Japan disputes China's historical views on the 1937 massacre and has criticized the UNESCO decision.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A group of six men have reportedly been tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in India as they were planning to behead some people on instructions of a loyalist 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 based in Afghanistan.
According to local media reports, citing the security sources, the six men were part of an Islamic State-inspired group and were arrested from Kerala earlier this month.
The Afghanistan-based handler had allegedly asked the men to behead at least three people and release the gruesome footage of the execution after recordings.
One of the accused -- Abu Basheer, 29, alias Rashid, a mechanic -- had been asked to procure swords, an official told The Hindu newspaper.
They had been under watch for four months and were arrested on October 2 as they assembled at a hilltop in Kannur of Kerala to plan an attack at a rally planned for November by the RSS in Tamil Nadu, the official said.
Officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had earlier told The Hindu that the module had been under surveillance for four months, and they arrested the group on October 2 after one of the accused -- Manseed alias Omar al Hindi, 30, a Kerala resident working in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... -- made an unscheduled visit to India in the last week of September.
This comes as the terror group has been attempting to expand operations in South Asia by recruiting fighters from different countries as thousands of loyalists of the terror group are already fighting in Afghanistan.
Earlier, reports emerged suggesting at least 22 Indian nationals who went missing earlier this year have joined the loyalists of the terror group in Afghanistan.
The revelation was made during the interrogation of an Indian woman, 29-year-old Yasmin, who was arrested by the authorities from New Delhi airport earlier in August as she was planning to join the terror group in Afghanistan.
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After the Arab coalition’s confirmation and acceptance of the results of the Sanaa funeral strike investigation, Major General Mohammed Almgdashy revealed “the Yemeni Army started to hold meetings on the level of leaders in order to investigate and discuss the information mentioned in the Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT) report on the Great Hall Incident,” according to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.
“JIAT has concluded that a party affiliated to the Yemeni Presidency of the General Chief of Staff wrongly passed information and conducted the operation with the Saudi-led Arab Coalition permission,” added Almagdashy.
He added that interrogations will be held to figure out the party responsible for this mistake and will be dealt with according to the army regulations.
“The Air Operations Center in Yemen directed a close air support mission to target the location without obtaining approval from the Coalition command to support legitimacy and without following the Coalition command’s precautionary measures to ensure that the location is not a civilian one that may not be targeted,” said the JIAT report.
Earlier, in a phone call with Al Arabiya, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Asiri emphasized that “the important mission now is to modify the path and review the rules of engagement to make sure such errors which are not compatible with the principles of the alliance, which aims to serve the citizens. will not happen again.”
The coalition announced Saturday, that it accepts results by the Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT) on the Great Hall incident in Sanaa after examining the investigation.
“The coalition affirms that it accepts the results of the investigation, and has begun to implement the JIAT’s recommendations,” the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoted the coalition as saying.
The investigation’s report has mentioned that one of the coalition warplanes had “wrongly targeted” a funeral in the capital Sanaa after receiving false information from a party within the Yemeni army.
[Al Jazeera] Some of the 21 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the gangBoko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... have reunited with their families, following their release after 30 months in captivity.
Shouts, kisses and cries of joy filled the room as the freed girls, who had been kidnapped along with more than 200 other pupils in the town of Chibok in April 2014, met their relatives in Abuja on Sunday.
The girls were freed on Thursday, but it took days for most of the families to reach the capital for the reunion.
At the meeting, the parents of one of the girls spoke of their excitement at seeing their daughter.
"When we heard they found some of the girls, and that our daughter was among them, we slept as if the day is not going to break," Muta Abana, a father of one of the Chibok girls, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency.
"We wanted the day to break quickly, to see if the government is going to call us, to come and see that our daughter was among them."
Hawa Abana, the mother, said that Boko Haram kidnapped her daughter and hundreds of other schoolgirls, because "they did not want them to succeed in life".
"By God's grace she is back," she said. "She will go back to school. Boko Haram has no power again."
Eleanor Nwadinobi, women and girls manager at the Nigeria Stability and Recognition Programme,
said the girls will now undergo treatment which must be tailored to individual needs, including trauma counselling and health and nutritional requirements.
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"we slept as if the day is not going to break"
"We wanted the day to break quickly, to see if the government is going to call us, to come and see that our daughter was among them."
Children reunited with their families - I wish there was more good new like this.
[Al Ahram] Turkish-based rebel fighters will advance to al-Bab after seizing the emblematic northern town of Dabiq from 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.... , the Turkish foreign minister said on Sunday.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in August embarked on an ambitious operation dubbed "Euprates Shield" inside Syria, backing opposition fighters to cleanse its border from the IS group and Syrian Kurdish militia forces.
Rebel fighters on Sunday captured Dabiq in a symbolic setback to jihadists as the town was cited as the site of an end-of-times battle between Christian forces and Moslems according to a Sunni prophecy.
The IS defeat in Dabiq comes after rebel fighters captured Jarabulus and al-Rai from the jihadists in the early weeks of the operation.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Sunday Dabiq was now "completely" under the control of Syrian opposition, Turkish media reported.
"The next target is of course to move to al-Bab" south of Jarabulus in northern Syria, he told a joint news conference with his United Arab Emirates counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan.
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[Al Ahram] Egypt's army has launched a major campaign to target "terrorist elements" in several areas in North and Central Sinai, the army's front man announced on Sunday.
The front man said in an official statement that the campaign includes operations by special forces units, the second and third field armies, as well as the police, all of whom aim to "capture and target terrorist elements and outlaws in the vicinity of villages, cities and residential areas in North and Central Sinai."
The campaign will include a review of all security arrangements in the areas, with security forces "adhering to the rules of engagement to ensure the safety of civilians who may be used as human shields by bad boys," the statement added.
The front man said the campaign is bolstered by ongoing Arclight airstrikes against bad boy positions where security operations are taking place.
This is the second comprehensive campaign launched by the army since "Operation Martyr's Right" was first launched in September 2015 to root out holy warriors operating in the restive peninsula.
The newly-announced campaign comes one day after the Armed Forces launched what is said were successful Arclight airstrikes on a number of terrorist hideouts and arms depots in North Sinai. The operation followed a Friday terrorist attack on a security checkpoint in North Sinai that killed 12 army personnel.
Hundreds of security forces in North Sinai have been killed in attacks by Islamist holy warriors in the past few years. Egyptian security forces say they have killed hundreds of holy warriors in North Sinai during the same period.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The commander of the Sparta battalion of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Arsen Pavlov aka "Motorola", has reportedly been assassinated by the Ukrainian special forces.
The DPR's Ministry of Defense confirmed his liquidation by an bomb.
"According to preliminary information, Motorola was killed as a result of a terrorist operation of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group. Upon returning home, a remote-detonated bomb was set off in the elevator," the Ministry said.
The commander was known because of his involvement on the front lines of some of the most intense battles between the Ukraine forces and its far-right militia allies, and between Russian-backed separatists rebels operating in the eastern Ukrainian regions collectively known as Donbass.
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"The Trick Is Not To Get Killed. That's Really The Key To The Benefit Program."
~ Peter Falk as Vincent J. Ricardo, The In-Laws (1979).
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Cairo court sentenced 18 defendants on Sunday to two years in prison for insulting the judiciary, after the defendants cheered inside the cage when one of them threw his shoe at the judge, security sources and a lawyer said.
Amar El Shahat, a 19-year-old student, turned around and aimed his shoe at the head of the court as he was being sent back to the cage after being questioned before the court for making noise inside the cage, a police official who was in the courtroom said.
El-shahat is being tried along with 22 others on terrorism charges and possessing weapons, with five being tried in absentia. The trial that began in 2015 was taking place in the police academy.
Sunday's sentence was for a separate charge of insulting the judiciary during a court hearing.
A policeman who was standing behind the Mohammed Shereen Fahmy, the judge, caught the shoe just before it could hit Fahmy's head, said Khaled el Masry, a lawyer representing three of the defendants, who was in the courtroom.
The rest of the defendants supported their colleague, which is what led the court to move a criminal case against them, and accuse them of insulting the judiciary, the police official said. They were all sentenced to two years in prison after a representative of the general prosecution in court called for them to be handed the maximum sentence, the police official added.
The defendants have the right to appeal against the decision, but El Masry said they had been handed two years in prison in a previous court session but didn't appeal. "They do not recognize the court as a valid judicial body that could try them," el Masry said.
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The defendants have the right to appeal against the decision, but El Masry said they had been handed two years in prison in a previous court session but didn't appeal. "They do not recognize the court as a valid judicial body that could try them," el Masry said.
*clang*
"I don't recognize this prison cell as legitimate!"
"Shuddup"
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There are things worser than being sent to your room. Ignorashun is one such. I'll be in the basement withe the LOP&G, working the Foley Live Oak Interchange.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An Arclight airstrike targeted the convoy of a top Taliban leader in southern Uruzgan province of Afghanistan, leaving at least 30 holy warriors dead.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the Arclight airstrike took place in Chinartu district and targeted the convoy of Haji Lala, the military commission chief of the group.
It is yet not clear if the Arclight airstrike was carried out by the Afghan Air Force or the coalition forces based in the country.
Uruzgan is among the relatively volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan where the Taliban gunnies are actively operating in a number of its districts and often carry out insurgency activities.
In another statement, MoD said at least 41 holy warriors were killed in separate Arclight airstrikes conducted in Mosa Qala and Greshk districts of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
The Taliban gunnies group has not commented regarding the report so far.
The Taliban led insurgency has been rampant across the country during the recent months and following the launch of group’s spring offensive in mid-April this year.
The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) also launched an annual operation "Shafaq" in response to Taliban’s annual spring offensive after efforts by the government failed to ensure a ceasefire and resolve the issues through reconciliation process.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan intelligence operatives incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! at least four members of Jundullah terrorist group in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said the four suspects were involved in terrorist activities including roadside kaboomings in this province.
According to a statement by NDS, the four Death Eaters were arrested from the vicinity of Dasht-e-Qala district as they were attempting to plant an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
The statement further added that the detained Death Eaters have been identified as Enayatullah son of Khudai Qul, Faizullah also famous as Hujatullah, Mohammad Akbar famous as Hazifa, and Abdul Hadi son of Abdul Baqi.
The detained individuals have confessed that they were involved in terrorist activities in this province since one year, including roadside kaboomings and liquidation of the tribal elders, NDS said.
The statement by NDS also added that the intelligence operatives confiscated 2 landmines, 3 kg of TNT explosives, 3 RPG rockets, 13 magnetic bombs, 3 remote controls used for bombs, and 17 meters of explosives strip.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups have not commented regarding the report so far.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A young woman was set on fire by her husband in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province of Afghanistan as the Afghan police forces have launched an operation to arrest the perpetrator.
According to the local government officials, the 23-year-old woman was doused with petrol and was set on fire in Injel district.
The officials further added that the incident has likely taken place due to an argument between the couple and the husband of the woman managed to flee the area after the incident.
This comes as numerous incidents involving murder of women have been reported during the recent months across the country.
The Talibs executed a 19-year-old girl in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan earlier in August while a 22-year-old woman was rubbed out in July by her relatives on charges of having relations with an stranger over the telephone.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in its report released late in November last year said "statistic of violence against women, obtained from the registered cases of violence against women during the first six months in 1394 exceeds 2579 cases."
The report further added that figure was reported 2403 cases during the six months in 1393 which shows 7.32 percent increase in 1394, the last solar year.
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[Al Ahram] Tens of thousands of people have marched in Gay Paree to call for the repeal of a law allowing gay marriage, six months before La Belle France's next presidential election.
The protesters ended up at Trocadero Plaza, near the Eiffel Tower. Police estimated the crowd at 24,000, while organizers gave a figure of 200,000.
They were also protesting Sunday against the use of assisted reproduction techniques and surrogate mothers to help same-sex couples have babies.
Assisted reproduction is allowed in La Belle France only for infertile heterosexual couples and surrogacy is banned.
The group organizing the march presents itself as promoting the traditional family model of "one mother and one father." It hopes to influence the debate before the presidential election next year.
None of the major candidates in the election attended the march.
A small group of bare-breasted Femen demonstrators briefly showed up Sunday during the march to protest against what they call "homophobia." The half-dozen Femen protesters were removed by police.
The 2013 law allowing gay marriage exposed deep divisions in French society, prompting big protests for and against such unions.
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[An Nahar] Three coppers were attacked with machetes in restive northwestern Myanmar on Saturday by assailants who were rubbed out, the military has said, amid lethal violence that authorities have blamed on homegrown Islamist hard boys.
Security forces have killed at least 29 people since attacks were launched a week ago on police posts along the Bangladesh border, according to state media.
The government says the raids in the majority-Moslem region were carried out by an Islamist group led by a Taliban-trained krazed killer who spent months training up to 400 recruits for the attacks with the help of funding from the Middle East.
If true, it could represent an ominous new chapter for Myanmar's Moslem ethnic Rohingya minority, which had so far shown little taste for jihadist ideology despite being one of the most repressed peoples in the world.
The army said assailants armed with machetes on Saturday attacked three coppers in Lake Ai village in Maungdaw, one of the main towns in the restive northern state of Rakhine.
"Security officers shot them (the attackers) dead as they bravely ran away after the attack," the military said in a statement.
The police were apparently not injured, according to media reports.
Troops have poured into Rakhine since the latest violence broke out, locking down an area where most residents are Rohingya.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A jacket wallah believed to be from ISIS killed three people and injured at least 20 others in an attack on Sunday at a refugee camp in Syria near the border with Jordan, a rebel official said.
The attack targeted an outpost manned by the Jaish al-Ashair rebel group at the Rakban refugee camp, said Said Saif, front man for the Forces of Martyrs Ahmed al-Abdo Brigades, a Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) rebel faction fighting against ISIS.
Rakban is home to more than 75,000 people, among the millions of Syrians who have fled their homes during the country’s five-year civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of others.
Jaish al-Ashair is one of the groups that polices the camp. The blast, triggered when a bomber rammed an explosive-laden truck into the post, targeted one of its positions about 400 metres (yards) from a medical station, Saif said.
During a similar attack in July, six Jordanian border guards were killed by a suicide bomber who drove his car at speed across the border and into a military post near Rakban, which is located in a desert area near where ISIS is present.
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[DAWN] Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... on Sunday said that India had no moral ground to talk about counter-terrorism efforts and pointing fingers at other states as Indian state sponsored terrorism and terror financing on Pak soil has been proven irrefutably.
The adviser reacted strongly to Indian Prime Minister Modi's statement that Pakistain is the 'mothership of terrorism' and said that "Modi is misleading his BRICS and BIMSTEC colleagues".
"The Indian leadership is desperately trying to hide its brutalities in the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmire, an internationally recognised dispute on the UN Security Council agenda, where innocent people are being killed and injured by the occupation forces daily with impunity," said Aziz
He said the people of India-held Kashmire (IHK) are being subjected to genocide by India for demanding their fundamental right to self determination, as promised to the Kashmiris in the relevant UNSC resolutions.
"The ongoing Indian atrocities have taken over 150 Kashmiris lives, including children and women, and inflicted injuries on around 15,000 and blinded many hundreds," said the foreign affairs adviser.
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And anybody who tries to talk to Muslims (anything but "Do A,B,C or we will kill you all") are wasting their time. Muslims operate on the principle "All you have belongs to us, unless you're both strong and brutal.".
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Read an article recently about some Guantanamo Jihadi who was originally in a Pak hospital where he was given a MUCH bigger anus before being shipped to Gitmo.
Gitmo surgeons sewed his butt down to a normal size. Any truth in the moslems having a tendency to like boys and sometimes anal reconstruction is necessary according to the Koran?
And is it true that the Paks are America's "friends"? India in Kashmir is a whole lot better for everyone than paks in kashmir. Just among friends.
[DAWN] Pakistain and Indian border troops exchanged firing across the Line of Control (LoC) early Sunday in the Bhimber sector, said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
An exchange of fire started at 4:30am lasted till 7am in Bhimber's Khuiratta area. No loss of life was reported, ISPR said.
The ISPR statement claimed that Indian troops resorted to "unprovoked firing", adding that Pak troops provided a 'befitting response'.
This the latest in a series of ceasefire violations as tensions simmer between Pakistain and India following the Uri attack, an Indian cross-border 'surgical strike' ─ a claim rejected by Pakistain, and Indian allegations that Pakistain is a 'terrorist state'.
The Foreign Office claims ceasefire violations by Indian troops are indicative of New Delhi's nervousness following a "diplomatic offensive" spearheaded by Pakistain to expose human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations by Indian troops in held Kashmire.
Pakistain maintains India is attempting to divert the world's attention away from 'atrocities' committed by government forces in India-held Kashmire.
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new infiltration before the weather hits hard
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[DAWN] After keeping his friends and foes guessing for weeks, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... unveiled on Saturday his plan to paralyse Islamabad: party workers will block roads leading to government offices ‐ particularly those continuously being mentioned in his speeches.
"Now, Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... will have to either resign or will be held accountable for his proven corruption," Mr Khan said at a gathering of Insaf Professional Forum.
Mr Khan, however, hinted at the possibility of a change in the schedule of the Islamabad lock-down date. Earlier, he had announced Oct 30 as the final showdown date.
Urging the masses to be ready for a longer showdown in Islamabad, the PTI chief said the workers would continue occupying roads and entrances of major government offices such as National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Federal Investigation Agency, Federal Board of Revenue and Election Commission of Pakistain.
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[DAWN] "The message we want to convey is not just for the Pak nation but for the whole world. I have noticed that ever since violence in the India-held Kashmire has escalated, our artists are quiet about it. I’m a little disappointed in those colleagues of mine who are afraid to talk about it. Apart from being a national and artistic issue, it is also a humanitarian issue."
This was said by popular singer Umair Jaswal at a presser at the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Press Club on Saturday afternoon held to announce a ’Kashmire theme anthem song’ which will be composed and released within 10 days.
Mr Jaswal thanked Umer Ahsan, the man behind the project, for giving him the opportunity to be a part of the song. He said renowned artists such as Sabir Zafar (poet who is writing the lyrics to the song), Abid Ali (actor, who will lend his voice to the voiceover segment) and Waqar Ali (music director who will compose the song) would be participating in the project. He said he wanted every child of Pakistain to know that in one part of our neighbourhood people were being oppressed (buhat zayadah zulm ho raha hai) and it was important to raise your voice against it. This anthem, he said, would not be a Kashmire anthem; rather it would be an anthem for humanity. There’s no financial interest in it, and people were working on it on a voluntary basis, he said.
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Led Zeppelin already did it
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Ah-ah, allah !
Ah-ah, ah! allah!
Ah-ah, ah!
We come from the land of the nuts and the guns
From the hot desert sun, where the hot blood flow
The tiny hammer of allah
W'ell drive our inflatables to new lands
To eat like a horde and bitch and moan
allah I am coming in my pants
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels of Ibna al-Sham and the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) launched a counter-assault at Ma'ardes in northern Hama today after losing this key town earlier in the day to the Syrian Armed Forces.
According to Ibna al-Sham's official media wing, their forces reportedly reentered Ma'ardes after shelling the area and recaptured the entire town from the Syrian Armed Forces.
No photos have been released by the jihadist group as of yet; however, Syrian Army sources confirmed that intense festivities are still ongoing.
Over the last two weeks, the Syrian Armed Forces have managed to recapture more than 15 villages from the jihadist rebels in northern Hama, leaving less than 10 sites to go before they can officially reverse all of the latter's gains since September.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Iraqi media outlets reported on Sunday, that six persons were either killed or wounded in a suicide bombing that targeted a Hussainiyah march under Jardiyah Bridge in central Baghdad.
Al-Sumaria News stated, “A suicide bomber blew up himself in front of a Hussainiyah march near Aghsan al-Zaiton restaurant under al-Jardiyah Bridge in central Baghdad.”
Al-Sumaria News reported earlier today that the bombing resulted in the killing and wounding of an unidentified number of people, then it was confirmed by Baghdad Operations Command that the bombing claimed 6 casualties.
“The suicide bomber immediately blew up himself, killing two persons and wounding four others with different injuries,” the Command revealed.
Security forces imposed strict procedures in the area of incident, while ambulances transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the bodies to the forensic medicine department.
Fog of war or subsequent report when some of the injured had died?
[Ynet] A suicide bomber struck a gathering of Shiite mourners in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding another 12, Iraqi officials said.
The attack took place in Baghdad's Shiite-dominated Jadriyah neighborhood on the Tigris River, where the explosive-laden bomber approached Shiites commemorating the 7th century death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, a police officer said.
A medical official confirmed the toll. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information to the press.
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Hasakah – Thousands of Iraqi civilians, who escaped war-torn Nineveh, arrived on Sunday to Syria’s northeastern Hasakah Governorate looking for a safe haven.
The Kurdish-led Self-Administration of Rojava said that its local committees in Hasakah provided thousands of Iraqi families with shelter in the al-Hawl Camp –near the Syrian-Iraqi border.
“Thousands of civilians crossed the border into Rojava [Syria’s Kurdish region] over the past few days, fleeing the intensified fighting in Nineveh Governorate, especially in the vicinity of Mosul city,” Hozan Mahmo, a member of the Hawl Camp administration, told ARA News.
“On Sunday, more than 200 families arrived to Hasakah and took shelter in al-Hawl Camp,” he said.
Meanwhile, the directory of al-Hawl Camp appealed to the international community to provide aid to the camp in order to be able to shelter “as many displaced Iraqi civilians as possible”.
“The camp suffers from shortage of basic supplies. We hope that the international community would assist us to cope with this unprecedented influx of Iraqi refugees into Rojava,” it said in a statement.
According to local source, with the start of the anti-ISIS Mosul campaign tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees are expected to cross the border into Rojava.
Federal authorities say an Ohio man has been indicted on more criminal charges for using a social media site to incite violence against U.S. military members on behalf 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.
Twenty-five-year-old Terrence McNeil, of Akron, was originally indicted in December on three counts each of solicitation of a crime of violence and threatening military personnel. Nine additional charges were added in a new federal indictment handed up Friday in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... The government accuses McNeil, a one-time hospital employee, of posting a file on his Tumblr account in September 2015 that purportedly contained the names and addresses of military personnel. McNeil is accused of urging Islamic State supporters to kill and behead military members.
McNeil’s attorney couldn’t be reached for comment Sunday about the new charges.
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[Breitbart] RALEIGH, NC ‐ A North Carolina Republican Party office in Orange County was firebombed overnight, causing major damage and destruction. Thankfully, there was no loss of life.
The explosive device was thrown through the window of the office, and the words, "Nazi Republicans, leave town or else," were painted on a nearby building. The news comes less than 25 days before Election Day, as dedicated NCGOP volunteers and activists are canvassing the state and spending long hours getting out the vote and exercising their rights in a free and open democratic society.
"Whether you are Republican, Democrat, or Independent, all Americans should be outraged by this hate-filled and violent attack against our democracy," said Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party. "Whether the bomb was meant to kill, destroy property, or intimidate voters, everyone in this country should be free to express their political viewpoints without fear for their own safety. We will be requesting additional security at all Republican Party offices and events between now and Election Day to ensure the safety of our activists, volunteers, and supporters."
Woodhouse added, "We will not be deterred by this hate crime."
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In a sense, CNN is correct. Had 'Low Energy Jeb' or one of the other establishment clones been the Republican candidate, there would have been no need for such bombings.
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EVEN IF Hillary does win...what is her Legitimacy worth?
It is already too late. The Military will not follow her. It is not in the Military's self interest.
The Election WILL be contested, that is inevitable.
And after that ?
Humpty Dumpty.
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It is already too late. The Military will not follow her. It is not in the Military's self interest.
The active duty generals will follow her...they imagine themselves as amateur political hacks...not sure about the majority of the troops or national guard. Uncomfortable times.
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Any Republican candidate is H*tler (but never Stalin or Mao), and a rapist (well, they're all white males). Except for Sarah Palin who was, let me recall, uneducated trailer park slut or something.
"Fox news has apparently cancelled a scheduled appearance by Project Veritas head and Conservative activist James O'Keefe. O'Keefe recently released a video that exposed deliberate corruption in the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the DNC."
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – The Islamic State committed a new massacre at the eastern coast of Sharqat, killing 12 people, including women and children, Al Sumaria News reported on Sunday.
The Iraqi news outlet stated, “ISIS pursued a boat carrying people who were trying to cross the Tigris River to reach the liberated areas of Sharqat,” adding that, “The boat flipped and ten people, including women and children, drowned.”
“ISIS also attacked families who were trying to flee from ISIS-held areas, killing two persons,” Al Sumaria added.
The eastern part of Sharqat is still under the control of ISIS, while the security forces are now preparing to launch an extensive attack to liberate this part of the district.
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Iraqi media outlets reported on Sunday, that nine civilians were either killed or wounded in the explosion of an improvised explosive device, northwest of Kirkuk.
Al Sumaria News stated, “An improvised explosive device exploded, today, targeting families while fleeing from the areas controlled by ISIS on Debika road, in Dibs district, northwest of Kirkuk, killing four civilians and wounding five others.”
“Improvised explosive devices are targeting the civilians who are fleeying on daily basis from the areas controlled by ISIS,” Al Sumaria added.
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[Ynet] A college student from Florida who is the first student allowed to wear her Moslem headscarf beneath her military uniform at the country's oldest private military college says she doesn't feel like a pioneer.
Sana Hamze just wants to learn what she needs to know as a first-year student at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont.
Hamze has embarked on the path to fulfill her lifelong dream of continuing her family's legacy of military and public service while staying true to her devout religious beliefs.
When applying to military colleges earlier this year, the 18 year old asked for a uniform accommodation to wear her hijab beneath her uniform. Norwich agreed.
Hamze's great-grandmother was in the Air Force and two of her grandparents met while serving in the Navy in Puerto Rico. Her father is a police officer in Florida.
But I'd bet the two ladies did not wear a hijab, either in or out of uniform.
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"... the 18 year old asked for a uniform accommodation to wear her hijab beneath her uniform. Norwich agreed."
"A hijab (/hɪˈdʒɑːb/, /hɪˈdʒæb/, /ˈhɪ.dʒæb/ or /hɛˈdʒɑːb/; Arabic: حجاب ḥijāb, pronounced [ħiˈdʒæːb] or [ħiˈɡæːb]) is a veil traditionally worn by Muslim women in the presence of adult males outside of their immediate family, which usually covers the head and chest."
Black Lives Matter activists have no chill. A rally called Clown Lives Matter set to take place in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday was cancelled abruptly last minute because of the organizers received a series of death threats.
Clown enthusiasts organized the rally as a reaction to the creepy clown movement that has been terrorizing people across the country. Think of it as the clown version of police outreach to the communities.
Well #BlackLivesMatter wasn't having it. ABC reported that the organizer was flooded with death threats for even associating clowns with the same brand as group.
[DeutscheWelle] In an exclusive interview with DW, the brother of terror suspect Jaber Albakr has threatened the Syrian refugees who turned in his brother. He also said he intends to sue Saxony's police over Jaber's suicide.
The brother of deceased terror suspect Jaber Albakr issued a warning to the Syrian refugees who handed over his brother to the police in an exclusive interview with DW's Jaafar Abdul-Karim on Saturday.
"My reaction as an Arab is Dire Revenge."
When asked to clarify what he meant, Alaa Albakr said: "You understand. I have nothing more to say about it. I will come as a refugee."
That's not as easy as it was the two times your brother went, Mr. Albakr.
Twenty-two-year-old Jaber was tied up and handed over to police in Leipzig on Monday by three other Syrian refugees, who have since been described as heroes. They reportedly invited the runaway to stay in their apartment, only to realize shortly afterwards that Albakr was being sought after by police.
In his first video interview after his brother Jaber was found dead in a Leipzig jail cell after committing suicide, Alaa told DW he was convinced of his brother's innocence.
"I raised him. I know how he is. He is not a terrorist," he said.
Jaber told his brother that some imams in Berlin mosques tried to radicalize him.
"In Germany, they tried to brainwash him for a while," he said, adding that, "it is important to know that it was only for a short time and they didn't manage it. If they had, he would have flown back to Syria and never come back."
"I assure that Jaber was not a terrorist and is not a member of IS," he insisted.
Then why was he building Mother of Satan bombs in a rented apartment?
Alaa Albakr called for Germany to return his brother's body and also announced he will take steps against Saxony's police department.
Why should they go to the expense, when there are perfectly good Muslim and non-denominational cemetaries in Germany? Perfectly good crematoria, no doubt, as well.
"The German police potted him," Alaa told DW. "I want to sue the police in Germany, in the state of Saxony."
Alaa Albakr is 30 years old, married, and lives with his parents and seven siblings in Rif Dimashq near Damascus. According to Albakr, his brother Jaber is a martyr of whom the family is proud.
Clearly one man's terrorist is another man's martyr. The German authorities will naturally want names, photos, and contact information of the siblings and parents for the No Entry list.
Thwarted attack
In a raid on Jaber Albakr's Chemnitz apartment last Saturday - during which the suspect apparently escaped - police found 1.5 kilograms (3.31 pounds) of TATP. The homemade explosive was the same as that used in the deadly jihadist attacks in November in Gay Paree and in Brussels last March.
After a two-day manhunt, he was handed over to police, but did away with himself in his cell on Wednesday.
Albakr arrived in Germany last year and had been granted asylum after passing security checks. Investigators say they believe he was motivated 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.... " and may have become radicalized while in Germany.
Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of Germany's domestic intelligence service, said Albakr was preparing to carry out an attack on a Berlin airport within days before the raid on his apartment.
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Alaa Albakr is 30 years old, married, and lives with his parents...
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One of my many privileges is paying taxes so that bitch can have her EBT card and the illegal alien Chicana she is so busy defending can go to school.
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One of my many privileges is paying taxes so that bitch social justice warrior can have her EBT card and the illegal alien Chicana she is so busy defending can go to school.
Sorry. Fixed it.
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Once upon a time protesters welcomed media exposure. Now they attack it.
Of course once upon a time their demands and such were reasonably sane.
DONETSK (Sputnik) – On Sunday, Pavlov’s death was confirmed by the DPR’s Defense Ministry as well as Ukrainian security forces. He is said to have been killed in a dwelling house but further details remain unknown.
“As I understand, [Ukrainian President] Petro Poroshenko violated the ceasefire and declared us a war,” Zakharchenko told journalists late Sunday.
Pavlov headed the DPR Sparta Battalion that took part in a number of battles during the military conflict in Donbas
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Funny how the lion's share of top formation commanders in Donetsk and Lugansk have died as a result of assassinations and not in battle. So far neither Zakharchenko, nor Igor Plotnitski, nor anyone one else in the political hierarchy of Donetsk and Lugansk have addressed this contradiction.
Their formation commanders should stay at the front, where it's safer.
Pavlov prolly died for his role in helping Lugansk president Plotnitski last summer. Zakharcheko can't kill all the Cossacks in southern Ukraine.
ISTANBUL, Turkey: An explosion thought to have been caused by a suicide bomber wounded at least seven people in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep on Sunday during a police raid on a suspected Daesh safehouse, security and hospital sources said.
Police pursued a vehicle thought to be carrying explosives to the house, where 7 or 8 Syrian nationals were believed to be sheltering, and raided it, the security sources said.
Several of the seven people hospitalized were police officers, the hospital sources said.
Turkey launched an incursion into Syria in August in support of Syrian rebels to try to push Daesh from its border. The rebels said on Sunday they had captured the village of Dabiq from the jihadist group, a stronghold where it had promised to fight a final, apocalyptic battle with the West.
A suicide bomber suspected of links to Daesh killed more than 50 people, many of them children, at a Kurdish wedding in Gaziantep in August. It was the latest in a series of attacks by the radical Islamists on Turkish soil.
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Suspected ISIL suicide bombers blew themselves up Sunday during an anti-terror raid in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep that left three police officers dead, officials and media reported.
The bombers detonated their explosives to avoid being captured during an operation by Turkish security forces in the city which lies close to the Syrian border, state-run news agency Anadolu reported.
Local Governor Ali Yerlikaya said three police officers were killed during the incident, the agency said, with witnesses telling private NTV television they heard gunfire and clashes in the area which is mostly populated by university students.
It was not immediately clear how the police officers died. Another eight people were wounded in the incident, four of them Syrians, the governor said.
Yerlikaya said the raid took place after Turkish authorities gathered intelligence about a possible “suicide bomb attack” by a suspected ISIL “sleeper cell” in Gaziantep.
Since summer 2015, Turkey has suffered a string of attacks in Gaziantep and elsewhere blamed on ISIL Takfiris and Kurdish militants.
In August, a deadly suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding in the city killed 57 people, 34 of them children. The attack was blamed on ISIL.
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Today died Jean-Jacques Dessalines,
Cut down like an innocent teen!
Bagged up by Bazile,
He's dragged off as we kneel
And her madwoman's tears rinse him clean.
[DAWN] LAHORE: A group of young doctors, led by a postgraduate trainee, on Saturday allegedly subjected an elderly patient and his brother to severe torture and later locked them up at a police post inside the Mayo Hospital.
Young Doctors Association Pakistain Secretary General Dr Salman Kazmi confirmed the incident and demanded an impartial inquiry into it so that the offenders could be brought to the book.
Witnesses said the medics, led by Dr Shaharyar Niazi, first beat up 50-year-old patient Waqar Amin in the East Surgical Ward in the presence of other patients and their attendants and then took him to a room in the same unit where some other young doctors joined them to "teach the victim a lesson".
They said no one came to rescue the old man who kept on appealing to attackers for mercy. He was admitted a couple of days back to the ward.
YDA officials condemn the incident
Victim’s brother Waqas Amin told the media that he had gone to market to get some medicine when he was told that a group of young doctors was giving a severe beating to Waqar.
Quoting witnesses, he said Dr Niazi got annoyed when the patient repeatedly complained of severe pain and protested for being ignored.
He said when Waqar cried for help, Mr Niazi slapped him and then beat him up in the presence of other patients.
The duty doctor lost his temper when the patient threatened to take up the matter with the deputy medical superintendent (DMS).
Mr Waqas said Dr Niazi called his colleagues, locked his brother in a room, and beat him up with fists, kicks and slaps.
"As soon as I reached there to rescue my elderly brother, Dr Niazi and his colleagues pounced upon me and also subject me to torture," Waqas said, adding he later approached the DMS and filed a written complaint against the attackers.
On knowing about the complaint, the attackers barged in the DMS office and again thrashed him and his brother in the presence of the admin official, he added.
"Dr Niazi grabbed my brother’s beard and dragged him to the police post where he was locked up by medic even without waiting for the police," Waqas alleged.
A senior doctor of the Mayo Hospital told Dawn that complaints against Dr Niazi had been surfacing since long.
He said in the recent past, Dr Niazi had misbehaved with the King Edward Medical University (KEMU) vice chancellor and other senior faculty members by making a forced entry into the admin offices.
He said some evidences, including CCTV footages, had been sent to the authorities concerned for action against Dr Niazi and his colleagues showing their rude entry into the VC office but of no avail. He said the group enjoyed backing of some senior medics with vested interest.
Dr Niazi had allegedly also tortured attendants of a pregnant woman in the Lady Aitchison Hospital a couple of months back for protesting after the death of a newborn.
Police official manning the Mayo Hospital check post, Mohammad Riaz, said the patient locked up by the doctors was freed because of his health condition.
He, however, said patient’s brother Waqas was still in police custody as the doctors wanted to get him booked for "hurling threats at them".
"YDA Mayo Hospital condemned the barbarian act and we also appeal to the KEMU VC as well as Mayo Hospital MS to take strict notice of it to hold the assailant medics accountable," YDA Mayo Hospital chapter president Dr Shoib Khan Niazi said.
He said the victim patient and his attendants had approached the YDA office bearers shortly after the incident.
"We are going to request to the central command of the YDA Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... to take up this issue," Dr Shoib said. He said it was 8th such incident in which a particular group of young medics was involved.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Hezbollah made their first major push at the southern outskirts of Aleppo in several weeks, capturing a number of sites from the jihadist rebels of Jaish al-Fateh (Army of Conquest).
The assault began with the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah surprising the jihadist rebels along the Khan Touman Road, killing a number of forces of Evil in the process.
As a result of this surprise attack, the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah managed to impose full control over the Air Defense Base and small hilltop of Tal SyriaTel along the main road to the jihadist-stronghold of Khan Touman.
Currently, the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah are pushing south towards the Aleppo-Damascus Highway (M-5 Highway), which is also the location of Khan Touman and the ICARDA Farms.
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It turns out Israel is not as partisan a subject as the antizionists would like us to believe.
[Jpost] "Israel for America is a point of American patriotism."
It could be said that the impressive success story of the 12 US states using their laws to counter the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel started in the living room of South Carolina state politician Alan Clemmons.
The Jerusalem Post recently interviewed Clemmons and two other leading figures in the effort to counter BDS at the state level.
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So now we find that Obama is at war with Israel but also we find from Wikileaks that he and Hillary are at war with Catholics and Christians as well. Are the these groups all a part of the basket of deplorables and irredeemable?
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So now we find that Obama is at war with Israel but also we find from Wikileaks that he and Hillary are at war with Catholics and Christians as well.
It's nothing personal. It's just that every church and synagogue is a power center not directly controlled by the elites. I mean, how can you tolerate people who believe that the Bible is true and the New York Times is not?
Now you would think the same logic applies to mosques, but identity politics produces some strange results.
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Huh. There goes the proof that they were Allah's Chosen.
[Dhaka Tribune] Turkish-backed Syrian rebels captured the emblematic northern Syrian town of Dabiq from 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 on Sunday, dealing a major symbolic blow to the jihadists.
The defeat for IS came as US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... was due to meet European allies in London as part of a new diplomatic push to end Syria’s conflict, which has left more than 300,000 people dead since 2011.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Turkish state media and a rebel faction said opposition forces backed by Turkish warplanes and artillery had seized control of Dabiq on Sunday.
The town, in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo, is of little strategic value.
Dabiq is between the city of Aleppo and the Turkish border.
But Dabiq holds crucial ideological importance for IS and its followers because of a Sunni prophecy that states it will be the site of an apocalyptic battle between Christian forces and Moslems.
The Observatory, a Britannia-based monitoring group, said rebel forces "captured Dabiq after IS members withdrew from the area".
They didn't even try to defend the ground for the final battle between the armies of Christendom and Islam? Oh dear. But perhaps it's because these are not Christian soldiers, but apostate Muslims -- as the ISIS apologists describe them -- and therefore this is only the penultimate battle to be fought there. Though how they are going to get it back from Turkish tanks in order to meet the Christian forces is beyond me.
The Fastaqim Union, an Ankara-backed rebel faction involved in the battle, said Dabiq had fallen after fierce festivities. Fastaqim said rebels then went on to seize several nearby towns, including Sawran, Ihtimaylat, and Salihiyah.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s state-run Anadolu news agency also said the rebels had taken control of Dabiq and Sawran and were working to dismantle explosives laid by retreating IS fighters.
It said nine rebels were killed and 28 maimed during festivities on Saturday.
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Lying is always a hot topic where Iran in is concerned. Iranians have long resented the Victorian statesman Lord Curzon for (among other things) depicting Iranians as inherently dishonest in his 1892 book, Persia and the Persian Question.. When US Republican senator Lindsey Graham made an ambiguous comment about “the Iranians” being liars in the context of nuclear negotiations last May, some Iranian-Americans assumed he was talking about them.
Part of the debate about lying in Iran centers on the attitudes of the country’s Shia clergy. Shiism is the minority sect in Islam, and Shia Muslims have, at various times throughout Islamic history, had to lie or “dissimulate” about their faith to avoid persecution by other Muslims. Since this dissimulation, or “taqiyya” as it is known, has become entrenched in Shia theology as an exception to the faith’s general proscription against lying, the image of the lying mullah has become a figure of fun among Iranians based on a bawdy sermon by the late Ayatollah Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani. Tehrani seems to suggest it is “permitted” to make one’s wife false promises in exchange for sex.
Seeking further insight on the matter, IranWire approached a UK-based academic expert on Shiism. The first point he made was that Shia Islam does not endorse lying in most circumstances. “Generally,” he says, “Shia ethics follow a rationalist approach. Medieval Shia scholars were of the opinion that to discern whether something is good or evil, one can simply rely on reason. So lying and murder and so on are intrinsically wrong because human reason helps us reach this conclusion.”
This, he says, is something Shia Islam has in common with all world religions. According to one statement traditionally attributed to Islam’s prophet Muhammad, he says, a person who deceives is not a Muslim.
So, what about Ayatollah Ahmad Mojtahedi Tehrani, who said that, although you shouldn’t lie to anyone else, you can promise your wife a new chador or a trip to the Shia shrine city of Mashhad in exchange for sex? “This is purely comical,” IranWire’s source says. “The guy was a well-known preacher and someone who focused on ethics and morality. This was just good old banter, and he himself was laughing and chuckling. In private male gatherings, these clerics often engage in sexual banter.”
Tehrani, who married in 1967 at the age of 24, and died in 2008, has some of his of his jokes posted online. More than one of them hinged on the theme of deception. Here is another example:
A man went into a mill. He noticed that it was a mule, and not a man, that was turning the millstone with a rope fastened to its neck. There was also a bell hanging from the mule’s neck. When the man asked the miller about the bell, he answered, “It’s there so that I will know if he stops going around.” The man said, “Well, what if the mule just stops and just shakes his head?” The miller shouted, “Get out you bastard! Don’t teach my mule these tricks!”
According to IranWire’s source, “A tradition attributed to Muhammad says that true believers are people who have humor, people who joke, people who engage in banter. It’s seen as a sign of piety.”
Still, one wonders what Ayatollah Tehrani’s wife would have said if she had heard him laughing it up with his congregation. Many a true word, as the saying goes, is said in jest.
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Raymond Ibrahim's essay "Taqiyya about taqiyya", with numerous examples, fits here nicely. It is not specific to Shia Islam.
There is also this, which lays out the four types of lying required in Islam. It does not address lying to one's wife to ensure calm inside the home, though that one goes back to the Prophet Mohammed himself as well.
[Dhaka Tribune] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi branded Pakistain a "mother-ship of terrorism" at a summit of the BRICS nations on Sunday, testing the cohesion of a group whose heavyweight member China is a close ally of its South Asian arch-rival.
Modi’s remarks to a meeting of leaders from the BRICS ‐ which include Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa ‐ escalated his diplomatic drive to isolate Pakistain, which India accuses of sponsoring cross-border terrorism.
Tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours has escalated since a September 18 attack on an army base in Kashmire, near the disputed frontier with Pakistain, killed 19 Indian soldiers in the worst such assault in 14 years.
India later said it had carried out retaliatory "surgical strikes" across the de facto border that inflicted significant casualties. Pakistain denied any role in the attack on the Uri army base, and said the Indian operation had not even happened, dismissing it as typical cross-border firing.
"In our own region, terrorism poses a grave threat to peace, security and development," Modi said in his remarks to BRICS leaders who met at a resort hotel in the western state of Goa.
"Tragically, the mother-ship of terrorism is a country in India’s neighbourhood," the 66-year-old prime minister said, without directly naming Pakistain, in a series of tweets issued by the foreign ministry.
No immediate reaction was available from Pakistain’s foreign ministry.
Modi’s posturing overshadowed the gathering of leaders of a group originally set up to boost economic cooperation. It followed a productive bilateral summit with President Vladimir Putin of Russia on Saturday that yielded billions of dollars in defence and energy deals.
The BRICS leaders had donned brightly coloured sleeveless jackets, of a style made popular by India’s first post-independence leader Jawaharlal Nehru, for an informal dinner on Saturday evening.
They were due later on Sunday to hold an outreach session with leaders from a little-known group of countries from the Bay of Bengal region whose key attribute, from India’s point of view, is that Pakistain is not a member.
Modi’s hard line against Pakistain marks a departure from India’s tradition of strategic restraint, and New Delhi has won expressions of support from both the West and Russia over the army base attack.
Yet China, a longstanding ally of Pakistain that plans to build a $46 billion export corridor, has shown public restraint.
Modi and President Xi Jinping also held a bilateral meeting on Saturday and the accounts of their conversation emerging from both sides pointed to key differences of opinion.
In one remark reported by the state Xinhua news agency, Xi said that China and India should "support each other in participating in regional affairs and enhance cooperation within multilateral frameworks".
The dispatch went on to refer to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc). This grouping includes Pakistain, which was to have hosted a summit in November that collapsed after India and other members pulled out.
The final BRICS summit declaration was expected to repeat earlier condemnations of "terrorism in all its forms", say diplomats and analysts, but avoid levelling blame over tensions between India and Pakistain.
"Modi is aware that such language wouldn’t get the consensus necessary to make it into the final communique. Including it in his speech ensures it gets wide circulation anyway," said South Asia expert Shashank Joshi.
"So far, we haven’t seen any indication at all that China is softening its public support for Pakistain. India did not expect differently," added Joshi, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
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The Truth has been spoken.
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[Dhaka Tribune] It has been about two years since Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-7) cracked down on Shahid Hamza Brigade,
...a group no doubt of about seven people including Numbers One, Two, and Three...
a holy warrior organization based in Chittagong,
...that mysterious, exotic, and terribly corrupt sink of villainy and vice...
, but the two men they have identified as top leaders have so far eluded capture.
RAB says the men are Dubai citizen Allama Libdi and a Malaysian expatriate Bangladeshi who the captured Lions of Islam only know as "Boro Bhai" (big brother).
They're furriners?! Chittagong must be more corrupt than we imagined, dear Reader.
The information RAB has on these two are also scant, despite the fact that most of the organization is already behind bars, Sherlocks said.
Yep, all five of them thus far. They only take up one jail cell in the local two cell jail, though to be fair the RAB doesn't traditionally hang on to their prisoners for very long.
Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, RAB-7’s Commanding Officer Lt Col Miftah Uddin Ahmed said: "After quizzing the tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! Lions of Islam and financiers, RAB learned that Dubai citizen Libdi had come to Bangladesh several times and funded the organization to carry out holy warrior activities.
Ah. He was a drop-in hobby investor taking care of his jihad support requirement more directly than most, not an actual Number One. Betcha that went over well at cocktail parties back home.
"However, ars longa, vita brevis... the details regarding Libdi are yet to be known."
They've got a name, which might even be a true one. Put it on the unwanted list at all airports.
Lt Col Miftah said after learning of Libdi’s involvement with holy warrior funding, RAB went to immigration to look for his details but failed to get any information as they did not know his passport number.
How many Dubai citizens named Libdi can have come regularly through the airports?
"We have been trying to find out about Libdi by sharing our information with concerned authorities."
He said they had also learned about the involvement of a suspected Malaysian expatriate Bangladeshi.
He was code-named "Boro Bhai," Abdullah, Junayed and Mahmudullah and was funding and guiding the group.
Another hobby investor. How many Malaysians can afford such a thing?
However, ars longa, vita brevis... RAB believes the Hamza Brigade’s network has been destroyed as its top three organisers, key arms supplier and bombs expert are all under arrest.
Hamza Brigade took form in Chittagong in late 2013, gathering former Chhatra Shibir men, members of other holy warrior groups and former members of Hefajat-e-Islam ...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home... The elite force has so far arrested more than 33 persons including five alleged financiers of the brigade. A giant cache of firearms and ammunition including eight AK-22 rifles were also found in their possession.
My goodness. That is a good deal bigger than anticipated.
RAB busted the brigade’s indoctrination centre at a qawmi madrasa named Al Madrasatul Abu Bakar in Hathazari upazila on February 19, 2015 and arrested 12 holy warriors. Three days later RAB found a training centre in Lotmoni Pahar area of Banshkhali upazila.
Both schools had the slogan "We're building for the future."
Then RAB discovered another hideout of the group at a flat in the Halishahar residential area in Chittagong city where a large quantity of bomb making materials were found.
Has the brigade been that busy, or are they supplying to the trade as well?
Over the next two years RAB also caught five financiers, three of whom are lawyers and two readymade garment businessmen who allegedly funneled millions to the holy warrior organization.
The responsibility to support jihad, if one does not take up the sword oneself, is one of the five pillars of Islam, as I recall.
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One or both of these d00ds is aka Mahmoud the Rat.
"A U.S. Strike Group transiting international waters in the Red Sea detected possible inbound missile threats and deployed appropriate defensive measures," said a U.S. defense official. "Post event assessment is ongoing. All U.S. warships and vessels in the area are safe."
The destroyer USS Nitze and the USS Ponce, an afloat forward staging area ship, were close to the Mason at the time.
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As I understand it, the missiles can be launched from trucks, so they can "shoot and scoot". It would be difficult or impossible to take out the actual launcher.
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I expect a jStars could track one like a rat. But they are scarce to nonexistent.
Any minute, the Houthis and their Iranian backers will step right up for a talk, yew betcha.
The United States and Britain are calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Yemen to end violence between Iran-backed Houthis and the government.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday if Yemen’s opposing sides accepted and moved forward on the ceasefire then the special envoy to the UN, Ould Cheikh Ahmed, would work through the details and announce when and how it would take effect.
“This is the time to implement a ceasefire unconditionally and then move to the negotiating table,” Kerry told reporters. “We cannot emphasize enough today the urgency of ending the violence in Yemen,” he said after meeting British foreign minister, Boris Johnson, and other officials in London.
Kerry said he, Johnson and Cheikh Ahmed were calling for the implementation of the ceasefire “as rapidly as possible, meaning Monday, Tuesday”.
[Dhaka Tribune] JMB member Asadul Islam Arif, who was given death penalty in Jhalakathi judges Jagannath Pare and Sohel Ahmed killing case, has been hanged in Khulna district jail.
The sentence was executed at 10:30pm on Sunday amid tight security, said Khulna Jail Super Kamrul Islam confirmed the Dhaka Tribune.
Khulna Deputy Commissioner Nazmul Ahsan, DIG Prisons (Jessore) Tipu Sultan, Magistrate Md Nur-e-Alam Siddique, Civil Surgeon Dr Md Abdur Razzak and Jail Superintendent Kamrul Islam were present during the execution.
Arif and six other JMB leaders including its founder Shayakh Abdur Rahman and second-in-command Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai were sentenced to death on May 29, 2006. The six were executed on March 29, 2007 after the Appellate Division upheld their sentence and the president turned down their mercy petitions.
The four others executed were Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Majlish-e-Sura members Ataur Rahman Sunny, Abdul Awal Molla alias Omar alias Shakil Ahmed and Amjad Hossain alias Khalid Saifullah, and jacket wallah Iftekhar Hassan Al Mamun.
Arif, who was absconding during the trial, was tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! on July 10, 2007 and appealed against his sentence. Finally the Appellate Division rejected his appeal on August 28 this year.
He is the first death-row convict executed at the Khulna jail after a decade. On May 9, 2004, the jail authorities hanged top criminal Ershad Sikder.
Hailing from Bandorgachhia village of Barguna, Arif’s relatives were allowed to meet him at noon. He would be buried at his in-law’s village in Bagerhat’s Morelganj, family sources said.
Senior assistant judges of the Jhalakathi court Jagannath Pare and Sohel Ahmed were killed in a suicide kaboom at Purba Chadkati of the town when they were going to the court on a microbus on November 14, 2005 as part of the JMB’s all-out attacks on the courts and law enforcers across the country.
Sohel was struck down in his prime while Jagannath departed this vale of tears at a hospital. JMB member Mamun, who was injured in the attack, was arrested from the spot.
The JMB recently said that their members had conducted the suicide kabooms after the August 17, 2005 series blasts as the then "government did not respond to their call for establishing Islamic rule in the country positively."
After the execution of the six JMB leaders, its members rubbed out Jhalakathi public prosecutor Haider Hossain who represented the state in the case "as the first Dire Revenge."
A Jhalakathi court in February last year sentenced to death five members of the JMB for the murder of Haider.
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He is the first death-row convict executed at the Khulna jail after a decade.
"Next!"
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[Dhaka Tribune] Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. has urged Bimstec leaders to find out the mentors, criminal masterminds, abettors, financiers, arms suppliers and trainers of bandidosgunnies and holy warriors to defeat terrorism.
"We must be prepared to take strong actions against bandidosgunnies and their supporters. I firmly believe that within Bimstec we should be able to strengthen our cooperation to address terrorism and rise of violent extremism," she said.
Sheikh Hasina was delivering her statement at the Bimstec Leaders’ Retreat held at the tourist city of Goa on Sunday.
Chaired by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the retreat programme was also addressed by leaders of other Bimstec countries.
In Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina said her government has taken a ’zero-tolerance’ approach to terrorism and violent extremism.
"We’ve also taken massive awareness programmes for the youth, for families, for educational institutions. We’ve succeeded in disintegrating the homegrown terrorists."
Hasina said as she stood there as one of the four founding leaders who had inspired the launching of Bimstec way back in 1997 and during the past 20 years, Bimstec has made progress in connecting our two regions.
"Understandably, our progress has been slow, but the groundwork has been done. It’s now time to hasten the process of integration," she added.
Hasina said time has come to seriously re-look at how Bimstec could be made more effective and result-oriented one as well as to draw synergies with other groupings.
"While we’ve 14 areas of cooperation under Bimstec, I believe we should try to focus more on some key areas like trade and investment, energy, connectivity and counter-terrorism for next five years. Regular ministerial meetings on the key areas of cooperation are important for building momentum," she said.
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[ARANews] An airstrike by the US-led coalition killed at least ten ISIS militants, including the group’s military commander in Deir ez-Zor Abu Muhajir al-Maghribi, activists reported on Sunday.
The coalition’s air raid hit an ISIS convoy in the Mareiya District near the Deir ez-Zor Military Airport, killing al-Maghribi and another ten fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS).
“Abu Muahjir al-Maghribi had led several ISIS military campaigns against the Syrian regime’s forces as well as the rebel groups in eastern Syria. His death was a heavy loss for the Islamic State,” media activist Hajji al-Deri told ARA News, citing an ISIS official.
In the meantime, clashes erupted on Sunday between the Syrian army and ISIS in Deir ez-Zor city.
“Fierce clashes took place in the neighbourhoods of al-Umal, al-Jbellah and Sinaa after ISIS hit regime-held areas with mortar shells,” human rights activist Alaa al-Hadi told ARA News in Deir ez-Zor, adding that ISIS was eventually forced to withdraw towards its bases after failing to accomplish any progress.
[AlManar] A commander in Nour al-Din al-Zenki terrorist group was killed in clashes with Syrian army in the city of Aleppo.
Syrian sources reported that Omar al-Sheikh, known as Abo Osh, was killed in clashes taking place in Kram al-Tarrab neighborhood front in Aleppo city.
Nour al-Din al-Zenki is a US-backed group fighting against the Syrian government in Aleppo. Washington claims that it supports the so-called “moderate rebels” in the Syrian war. However, militants of Nour al-Din al-Zenki group carried out the horrible beheading of Palestinian child Abdullah Issa, 12, last July in Aleppo.
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A senior State Department official repeatedly pressed the FBI to change the classification of emails stored on Hillary Clinton's private server, according to FBI interview summaries set to be released in the coming days. Patrick Kennedy, the undersecretary of state for management, discussed providing additional overseas slots for the FBI in exchange for revisions to classifications of the sensitive emails. But..but..groping..
[Al Ahram] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Sunday replaced its envoy to Iraq whose comments about Iranian involvement in Iraqi affairs led to diplomatic tension with Baghdad.
Thamer al-Sabhan in 2015 became the first Saudi ambassador to be posted to Iraq since the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait - an appointment which was seen as heralding closer cooperation in the fight against 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.... bully boyz in Iraq, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
But in August Iraq asked Riyadh to replace Sabhan after his comments about Iranian involvement in Iraqi affairs and the alleged persecution of Sunni Moslems angered local Shia Moslem politicians and militia leaders.
Sabhan was appointed minister for Arab Gulf Affairs, a newly created position, according to state news agency SPA.
He will be replaced by Abdulaziz al-Shamri, Riyadh's military attache in Germany, who will be appointed as the charge d’affaires to the Saudi embassy in Baghdad, Sabhan said on his Twitter account on Friday.
Iraqi Shia politicians and militias had made repeated calls to expel Sabhan, who has been calling on the Iraqi government to exclude Shia paramilitary groups from its military campaign against Islamic State in order to avoid abuses against Sunnis in Iraq.
Baghdad's move underscores the depth of enmity between Sunni and Shia Moslem powers as sectarian conflicts rage in Syria, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and Iraq.
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What is the isolation time for stories like this?
[GatewayPundit] Rumors online that Julian Assange is DEAD!
STrange "deadman's keys" were posted in the Twitter feed Sunday afternoon.
Tweets can be seen at the link.
"Assange talked about his deadman’s switch in August.
Followers believe it is a key to open files on Hillary Clinton.
USA Supreme reported:
When WikiLeaks released a mysterious file labeled "WIKILEAKS INSURANCE" for people everywhere to download in advance of a huge upcoming announcement,everyone was having a second thought of what this file actually contain. This file serves as a type of "deadman’s switch" that is currently encrypted. WikiLeaks will release a second encryption key to unlock the file if they are prevented from making a planned announcement. Because of previous statements made by WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, many people are wondering if this insurance file is meant to ensure that WikiLeaks can release potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Well, Assange give a response to that question in an interview with John Pilger an Australian journalist based in the United Kingdom and his answer won’t surprise many!"
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Their hearts are too hardened. They are like beasts.
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Assange implied that Seth Rich was a political murder. No doubt Hillary would like Assange dead. I recall that Bob Beckle (D), formerly of Fox, called for wetwork on Assange a few years back.
Speaking to the host of NBC's "Meet the Press" earlier this week, Biden said that "at the time of our choosing, and under the circumstances that will have the greatest impact," Washington would exact revenge against Moscow for its alleged interference with the upcoming US elections.
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Assange should have been leaking his stuff during the primaries. Now so much is coming in so fast, and folks have already made up their minds, that it doesn't move the needle.
#9
"Assange is dead" is taken with a heavy dose of salts. However, I do recall Hildabeest asked about drone=zapping Assange. Who is the state actor that cut Assange's internet connection?
Receiving some word that it may have been the Ecuadorians who cut his internet. Apparently their agreement with him staying there involved not created issues or annoying them. Obviously the leaks are bringing down some pressure on Ecuador. That would explain why “Ecuador” is named in one of the tweets.
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When WikiLeaks released a mysterious file labeled “WIKILEAKS INSURANCE” for people everywhere to download in advance of a huge upcoming announcement,everyone was having a second thought of what this file actually contain. This file serves as a type of “deadman’s switch” that is currently encrypted. WikiLeaks will release a second encryption key to unlock the file if they are prevented from making a planned announcement. Because of previous statements made by WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, many people are wondering if this insurance file is meant to ensure that WikiLeaks can release potentially damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Well, Assange give a response to that question in an interview with John Pilger an Australian journalist based in the United Kingdom and his answer won’t surprise many!
Assange apparently dumped A LOT of Wikileaks at once making people think his “dead man trigger” had been activated.
[Dhaka Tribune] Under Moslem personal law based on the Sharia, a Moslem man can divorce his wife by pronouncing talaq thrice and men are also allowed to have four wives.
Gender equality is part of the basic structure of the Constitution and non-negotiable, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Friday while opposing the practices of triple talaq and polygamy in the Moslem community.
This is the first time the Indian government has officially taken a stand to oppose the contentious custom that has divided the community, with women’s groups and individuals advocating sweeping reforms in Moslem personal law that is heavily tilted against women.
Under Moslem personal law based on the Sharia, a Moslem man can divorce his wife by pronouncing talaq thrice. Moslem men are also allowed to have four wives. India has separate sets of personal laws for each religion governing marriage, divorce, succession, adoption and maintenance. While Hindu law overhaul began in the 1950s and continues, activists have long argued that Moslem personal law has remained mostly unchanged.
"Even though it may be true to say that only some women are directly and actually affected by these practices being divorced by talaq-e-bidat or being in a polygamous marriage, the fact remains that every woman to whom the law applies, lives under the threat, fear or prospect of being subject to these practices, which in turn impacts her status and her right to a life with confidence and dignity," the government said in its affidavit to the top court.
The Centre’s stand was in response to the court asking whether an intervention would violate the Moslem community’s fundamental rights.
Gender equality is part of the basic structure of the Constitution and non-negotiable, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Friday while opposing the practices of triple talaq and polygamy in the Moslem community.
This is the first time the Indian government has officially taken a stand to oppose the contentious custom that has divided the community, with women’s groups and individuals advocating sweeping reforms in Moslem personal law that is heavily tilted against women.
Under Moslem personal law based on the Sharia, a Moslem man can divorce his wife by pronouncing talaq thrice. Moslem men are also allowed to have four wives.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Shadow government involved in Shadow War ?
[Hot Air] The United States has gotten fairly adept at keeping track of people who are born here over the years. There are birth certificates, the issuance of Social Security numbers, announcements in newspapers and all manner of other proclamations when a new life enters the world. But when it comes to the other end of the lifespan scale we've mostly relied on the honor system when folks shuffle off this mortal coil. Once you're dead, the government sort of counts on you remaining dead, and your friends and relatives are pretty good about acknowledging this unless you happen to live in one of those unfortunate zombie apocalypse areas.
[Daily Caller] Two attorneys with close ties to the Clinton family believe then-Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign "flooded" the caucuses with "ineligible voters," according to leaked emails.
Total rubbish! The polls were well guarded in 2008 and 2012. So-called 'voter fraud' and 'voter intimidation' are a popular myths invented by 'the man.' 
[PJ] FORT MILL, SC -- Dr. Carol M. Swain, professor of law at Vanderbilt University, argued that Hillary Clinton is proof that Satanism is on the rise in America, in an interview with PJ Media on Saturday evening. She also discussed her university's decision to honor Wicca as a religion while denigrating Christianity, and how the Black Lives Matter movement is using the suffering of black people to promote a Marxist agenda.
[SA Today] The 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay was fatally shot in the neck, authorities and the athlete’s agent said Sunday, and police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting.
[Al Ahram] South African police raided a university student residence in Johannesburg early Sunday, arresting a leader of sometimes violent protests for free education who caused an outcry last year when he declared admiration for 
[Ynet] Asian nation says that its actions are to make sure the UN body properly functions to foster trust; Japan second-largest donor after the US, which has withheld dues since 2011 because of Palestinian participation.
[Al Ahram] Egypt's army has launched a major campaign to target "terrorist elements" in several areas in North and Central Sinai, the army's 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Cairo court sentenced 18 defendants on Sunday to two years in prison for insulting the judiciary, after the defendants cheered inside the cage when one of them threw his shoe at the judge, security sources and a lawyer said.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A young woman was set on fire by her husband in western 
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
[DAWN] Pakistain and Indian border troops exchanged firing across the Line of Control (LoC) early Sunday in the Bhimber sector, said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
[DAWN] "The message we want to convey is not just for the Pak nation but for the whole world. I have noticed that ever since violence in the India-held 
Ref #7.
[DAWN] LAHORE: A group of young doctors, led by a postgraduate trainee, on Saturday allegedly subjected an elderly patient and his brother to severe torture and later locked them up at a police post inside the Mayo Hospital.
[Dhaka Tribune] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi branded Pakistain a "mother-ship of terrorism" at a summit of the BRICS nations on Sunday, testing the cohesion of a group whose heavyweight member China is a close ally of its South Asian arch-rival.
"A U.S. Strike Group transiting international waters in the Red Sea detected possible inbound missile threats and deployed appropriate defensive measures," said a U.S. defense official. "Post event assessment is ongoing. All U.S. warships and vessels in the area are safe."
[Dhaka Tribune] JMB member Asadul Islam Arif, who was given death penalty in Jhalakathi judges Jagannath Pare and Sohel Ahmed killing case, has been hanged in Khulna district jail.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
[ARANews] An airstrike by the US-led coalition killed at least ten ISIS militants, including the group’s military commander in Deir ez-Zor Abu Muhajir al-Maghribi, activists reported on Sunday.
What Joe said:
