Let's all congratulate ourselves on how well we're taking the flushing of this country down the toilet, as all the good little Troo Cunservativez are wont to do.
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Went to a street fair in town. There was a BLM tent manned by three white womyn. They had a sign which said: "White silence is violence." Almost said something to them but then again, I think they would most likely have preferred my silence.
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Maestro, a bit of the ol' bloody schmatta, if you please...
The old black and whites... yes, the silents,
Authentic portrayals of violence.
Projectors still clatter
That just their lives matter.
Intolerance always to tyrants!
[BBC] Bob Dylan's failure to acknowledge his Nobel Prize in literature is "impolite and arrogant", according to a member of the body that awards it.
The 75-year-old singer was named the shock winner of the prize last week.
But all efforts by the Swedish Academy to contact him have failed, and he has not acknowledged the win in public.
Academy member Per Wastberg told Swedish television: "He is who he is," adding that there was little surprise Dylan had ignored the news.
"We were aware that he can be difficult and that he does not like appearances when he stands alone on the stage," he told Sweden's Dagens Nyheter newspaper in a separate interview.
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I wouldn't want my name associated with Rigoberto Menchu and jugears either...
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Yasser Arafat got one of these baubles too for peace. Al Gore won 1/2 a Nobel peace prize. They have become a joke. As Groucho said: "I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member."
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Where were they when Dylan was writing all of his hit songs? Ignoring him, that's where. Treating him like a leper. But he didn't need them then and he doesn't need them now. They are worse than irrelevant.
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The Peace prize is a joke but I thought the others were still prestiges.
In Bob's defense he was probably stoned out of his gourd on peyote in some kind of Indian Sweet-tent away from civilization and suddenly they surprise him with an award he didn't know he was even in the running for. Give him a break.
[Long Wars] Senior commanders in the Sunni Palestinian Quds Brigade, known as the Liwa al Quds or the Syrian Arab Army Fedayeen, have been photographed receiving medals from Russian military officers for battlefield action. The latest interaction further indicates the deep level of Russian involvement and impact they are having on the Syrian civil war. ZANLA and ZIPRA Soviet proxy redux. Putin now doing what he knows works well.
The pro-government militia is drawn from the Palestinian diaspora in Aleppo province, and has openly operated as an auxiliary to pro-regime forces there since 2013. The unit numbers in the several hundreds.
Late last month, the Quds Brigade and the Syrian Arab Army succeeded in taking the strategic Handarat Palestinian refugee camp and Kindi Hospital north of Aleppo proper, following the launch of an offensive in late September and several rounds of intense back-and-forth with the Islamist-led Fatah Halab coalition. Pro-regime forces and the Quds Brigade have been fighting to control the camp since 2014. Con't, with interesting reader comments.
[Long Wars] The US military says eight al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives were killed in a pair of airstrikes in Yemen over the past two weeks. The military said the strikes were conducted to deny al Qaeda "a haven" in Yemen.
The U.S. military successfully struck two targets in central Yemen, killing eight terrorists associated with the group known as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
One strike Oct. 6 killed two terrorists in a remote area of the Shabwah Governorate.
A second strike Oct. 18 killed six terrorists also in a remote area of the Shabwah Governorate.
"Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula remains a significant threat to the region and to the United States," said Army Maj. Josh T. Jacques, U.S. Central Command spokesman. "Al Qaeda's presence has a destabilizing effect on Yemen, and we are working to deny them a haven from which to plan future attacks."
The US has stepped up its air campaign against AQAP in Yemen. The US previously targeted AQAP's network in Yemen at least twice in October, and at least 30 times in 2016, according to data compiled by The Long War Journal. In 2016, the US has already exceeded the number of strikes of each of the three previous years (26 strikes in 2013, 23 each in 2014 and 2015). Since 2009, the US has launched 159 drone, missile, and conventional strikes against AQAP. [See LWJ report, Charting the data for US airstrikes in Yemen, 2002 -; 2016.]
AQAP still controls rural areas of central and southern Yemen despite both attacks from the US and a United Arab Emirates-led ground offensive, which ejected the group from major cities and towns that it held between March 2016 and the summer of 2016. AQAP is known to operate training camps in Yemen, and claims to do so to this day. In mid-July, AQAP touted its Hamza al Zinjibari Camp, which trains its "special forces." Zinjibari was an AQAP military field commander who was killed in a US drone strike in Feb. 2016.
The US military targets AQAP with the approval of Yemen's government in exile. The government was forced to flee the capital of Sana after Houthi rebels overran it and several provinces in both north and central Yemen.
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[Feral Jundi] I really liked this presentation, because it brings in all of the elements that I have been talking about on this blog into a nice format that Dr. Sean McFate has put together. It is definitely worth your time to watch and absorb.
The thing that stood out to me was the discussion of the strategic uses of private forces or PMSC’s. He presents the case that A. the industry is not going away B. we are reverting back to a pre-westphalian era C. that the west might not want to use PMSC’s for waging war, but other countries like China or Russia have no issue.
It is that dynamic that is interesting to me. That countries are slowly going towards the use of PMSC’s to wage war, and they are doing it as a part of their national interest. Russia for example used their little green men hybrid warfare strategy in the Ukraine. Iran uses mercenaries in Syria. China and their use of maritime militias. And even with the west, contractors have been used in Iraq and Afghanistan as a way to supplement manpower shortages. The common theme here is that private forces are used as a part of a larger ’strategy’, and this presentation challenges those who are closed minded or unaware, to think on how to use PMSC’s strategically.
In the past, I have discussed all sorts of interesting ways that private forces have been used for the sake of national interest. The very first overseas land operation of the US was the Battle of Derna (Shores of Tripoli from the Marine Hymn) in Libya, where a small contingent of Marines/Army commanded several hundred Christian and Islamic mercenaries to fight in the First Barbary War. The early privateers that the US used in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 were another example of the use of PMSC’s as a part of a larger strategy to support a national interest. The Flying Tigers was another example of modern PMSC’s, or Watchguard International Lmtd. in Yemen, or even recently with STTEP in Nigeria. Private forces can be used to great effect, and there is historical cases that make this point.
Sean covers a broad scope of ideas, and they are provocative to the say the least. What I wanted to post was the ten ideas of this future war he describes. Bear in mind, he is mostly referencing what is going on right now, and trying to envision where this goes with each point.
1. There will never be ’symmetry’.
2. Technology won’t save us.
3. States matter less.
4. Warriors are masked and may not fight for states.
5. Laws of war and international law don’t apply.
6. There will be a market for force with mercenaries.
7. Others will wage war and new kinds of superpowers will emerge.
8. Plausible deniability is power.
9. Hearts and minds matter very little.
10. There will be more war.
I won't ruin the whole thing for the reader, but I did want to comment on one deal he brought up that is not discussed a lot out there. He mentioned "hack back" companies, or basically cyber companies contracted to attack hackers or countries that used hackers to hack that attacked first. To me, this is pure cyber privateering, and we are getting close to the concept of state sanctioned hacking as this becomes more of a problem.
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I've been planning to write something longer about Putin, but the Jewish holidays have intervened. So, a quick answer to the question: What does Putin want? Russia has grand ambitions and a failed economy, but it always has had grand ambitions and a failed economy (World War I came about in part because Russia required taxes from its Western provinces to finance its Eastern adventures). Through most of its history Russia was behind the West in technology, especially cutting-edge military technology, and this inspired caution--with two exceptions. The first exception was 1957 through the early 1960s, after Sputnik put Russia ahead in the space race; Russia's achievement contributed to the euphoria that produced the Berlin and Cuba crises. The second exception is the present, when Russia's air defense effectively shuts us out of Syria. As some wag wrote, there is a no-fly zone, except it's operated by the Russians. Putin's interest lies in humiliating the US and proving his importance to his Chinese partners, who still need Russian technology in air defense, jet engines, and other military applications.
In addition, Putin as before wants to preempt the creation of a Sunni Islamist government in Syria which would support jihadis inside Russia. Where Turkey is concerned, Putin keeps his friends close and his enemies closer. His deal with Turkey in Syria is a masterstroke, and a gauge of American impotence and incompetence. As for the Europeans: the Italians (!) vetoed a resolution warning of sanctions against Russia at last night's European summit, and the Germans and French bit their tongues. As Il Foglio observes, the Italian public thinks that the mess in the Eastern Mediterranean is the fault of US (and French and UK) policy--which in large part it is.
Up til a few months ago there still was a change to stabilize the situation in the Levant and Mesopotamia. No more: Putin is now playing Richelieu, keeping the war going with the object of exterminating enough of the population to remove the long-term threat. It is just what I would do in his position, if I could get away with it -- and he can.
I do not think Russia can be contained until the US re-establishes a technological edge in air defense, and that would take years under the pest possible assumptions (meanwhile the Russians are learning how to shoot down our stealth aircraft). The result inevitably will be disgusting.
To those who say we should get tough with Putin, I ask, "How?" The mainstream of both parties got us into this mess and gave Putin room to cause havoc.
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A Bear waved his willie. How cheeky!
But Putin's poor Peter was weak. He
Popped down to the Dragon
(his spirits were flaggin')
For shots and a hot cock-a-leekie.
November 1 marks the start of Safar in the Islamic moon calendar.
It's month 2 of the year 1438 for them.
This is significant for terrorism because while jihadi attacks can occur all year round, we are just coming out of 3 "holy" months where warfare is frowned upon.
Safar by contrast is a month of retribution where warfare is actively encouraged.
SO the ultra devout Islamic State jihadis, hidden among the Muslim migrants like so many exploding currants in nasty bun, may take this opportunity to come out and play.
It will likely be a Red November and probably a Red December too. Our intelligence agencies cannot be prepared for this because they are not allowed to think terrorism has anything to do with Islam. It's just countering "violent extremism" and what have neo-nazis or environmental activists got to do with the innocent Islamic moon calendar?
What will this mean for the US election? It's on November 8.
There might not be an explosion of pent-up Jihadi aggression on November 1 it might not be till November 15 or 20
or it could be November 7 or November 2
Whatever, it's coming in November sure as the moon rises.
Will the media be able to lie to the public now that social media is censored? and google is also censored?
this helps them the way a butterfly's random flight helps it evade predators (apologies to butterflies)
if you are just "on" all the time it's easy to mobilise will and force against you
if you are sometimes "on" and sometimes "off" on a seemingly random timetable, people get lulled into a false sense of security in the "off" times, think it has all gone away
that's when the PR team are useful to harp on Islamophobia and "it's all your fault"
it starts to work, it lays the ground
and then bam, along comes the concentrated violence again
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Speaking of red, who is that lady with the red dress, white gloves, gold shimmering earrings and cleavage behind Donald and to his right? Forget Donald. Forget Hillary. Who is that lady in red? She's the show.
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[Iraq Sun] Kurdish fighters along with the Iraqi army and special forces launched a large-scale operation in east and north djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq earlier this week to free the city from 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.... s’ (IS) two-year reign.
On Thursday, the forces have further advanced and the Iraqi army too is moving from south to join the offensive.
Following the joint operation, residents are not the only ones to escape the city. Reports suggest that top ISIS leaders too have fled the last stronghold of the group in Iraq.
But the remaining ISIS forces of Evil (up to 5,000) are putting up strong resistance to 94,000 coalition forces, reports suggest.
There were also reports of suicide kabooms and attacks that killed several coalition fighters on the way to Mosul with some reports further suggesting that civilians were used by the forces of Evil as human shields. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... U.S. officials say the battle can take months but it would be a key step to oust the terror group.
U.S. Army General Gary Volesky, commander of Operation Inherent Resolve's ground forces, said, "Make no doubt the Iraqi security forces have the momentum. Coalition forces must continue to apply unrelenting pressure on the enemy and then the enemy's going to break. There are fewer snuffies today than there were yesterday; there will be less tomorrow than there are today."
Volesky also expects the terror group to intensify their attacks that can include chemical attacks. "I expect that they're going to go into an insurgency mode and they'll try to do these high-profile, spectacular attacks to draw attention away from the losses that they're suffering," he said.
"What I can report to you is that it is on track with the plan. In some areas, we are right where we expected to be and in other areas we are a little bit ahead of where we expected to be," said U.S. Army General Joseph L Votel, U.S. Central Command chief.
But the situation is more miserable for the residents. Up to 1.5 million civilians are still expected to be in Mosul.
According to the British charity, ’Save the Children’ at least 5,000 people from the conflict zone have fled to a refugee camp near the Syrian border and at least 1,000 more are waiting at the border. The UN expects at least 200,000 people to flee Mosul and take shelters in the refugee camps. In order to make prior arrangements, camps are being built in the south, east and north of Mosul.
In the U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has accused democratic nominee Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as Deplorable, Irredeemable and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edmund Randolph ... yet again claiming that the Mosul-offensive strike by Iraqi joint forces are to promote Clinton’s election campaign.
"The only reason we did it is because she's running for the office of president. They want to look tough, they want to look good," Trump said on the Iraqi advance in Mosul that is backed by U.S. advisors and air crafts.
Clinton in reply said, "I'm just amazed that he seems to think that the Iraqi government and our allies and everybody else launched the attack on Mosul to help me in this election, but that's how Donald thinks. You know, he always is looking for some conspiracy."
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claiming that the Mosul-offensive strike by Iraqi joint forces are to promote Clinton’s election campaign
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... on Thursday urged Yemen’s Houthis to respect a ceasefire and said 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... had a right to be free from rocket attacks like one that he said killed two Saudi civilians.
Speaking after he met Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, Kerry said the two had discussed ways to try to "fix" the US Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, known as JASTA, which grants an exception to the legal principle of sovereign immunity in cases of terrorism on US soil, clearing the way for lawsuits seeking damages from the Saudi government.
Violations
It was earlier reported that Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias have committed several ceasefire violations less than a day after it was implemented, targeting civilians. Rights activists based in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz confirmed to Al Arabiya English, Houthi militias carried out heavy shelling on civilians in the city on Thursday night.
"Moments after the truce Houthi-Saleh militias started shelling Taiz heavily in different areas in eastern and western parts of the city," Mohammed al-Rumim told Al Arabiya English, adding that two civilians were maimed south of the city below Qahira castle.
Sources also confirmed that gunnies hit the city of Marib with ballistic missiles, some of which were intercepted by coalition forces. Coalition forces recorded at least 24 violations to the truce since it began on Thursday. At least 17 of those violations were missile rocket attacks or gun shots that were fired from inside 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... into the Saudi border city of Najran while seven hit Jazan.
A ceasefire took effect in war-ravaged Yemen late on Wednesday under a United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... plan. The UN special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, announced that the cessation of hostilities would take effect "at 23:59 Yemen time (2059 GMT) on 19 October 2016, for an initial period of 72 hours, subject to renewal".
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[RUDAW.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... carried out Arclight airstrikes on Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) positions in northern Syria in order to prevent Kurdish forces from reaching al-Bab, according to security sources.
Turkish officials issued an ultimatum to the People’s Protection Units (YPG) after they began to advance towards al-Bab, giving them until 8:00 Wednesday evening to withdraw to the previous position, Hurriyet Daily News reported Turkish security forces saying on Friday on the condition of anonymity.
The Turkish military claimed to have killed up to 200 fighters in Arclight airstrikes over Wednesday night.
The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) reported on Twitter that Turkish planes had carried out at least 14 Arclight airstrikes, bombing positions of the Jaish al-Thuwar, a member of the SDF, near the border of Efrin, the western-most canton of the Rojava, the self-autonomous region of northern Syria.
The YPG and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported much lower casualty figures of between 10 and 15.
Russia has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... ed about Turkey’s actions, the country’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
"As for reports of Turkish Air Force Arclight airstrikes in northern Syrian regions, we have heard about these statements. We are very alarmed about what is happening. As I understand it, we are talking about attacks on areas inhabited by the Kurds," Lavrov said at a briefing, according to Sputnik News.
Lavrov pointed out that Turkey is a member of the US-led multinational coalition fighting Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) holy warriors and urged Washington to "remain within the stated objective as commanders of the coalition."
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I suspect the Turks have staked out several territories in Syria and Iraq and are engaged in securing them.
2) given that there is no answer to #1, what do they plan to do with the Kurds in the parts of Syria and Iraq that they annex?
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In modern Turkey the attitude has been that they are allowed to live so long as they are merely loyal Mountain Turks, rather than insisting in a separate identity as Kurds, Dr. Steve.
[An Nahar] Hundreds of police have taken to the streets of Gay Paree for a third night of demonstrations calling for reinforcements and stiffer penalties following a string of attacks on officers.
Protests also took place in other French cities on Thursday night despite the government's efforts to contain growing anger among police as the issue of safety of law enforcement officers enters the presidential race.
Around 500 officers, most dressed in civilian clothes and some with their faces partly covered, protested near the Eiffel Tower.
"Police officers need recognition," Prime Minister Manuel Valls said earlier Thursday.
"They are loved by the French people, and not only since Charlie," he added, referring to an outpouring of sympathy for police following the attack last year on the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... magazine.
The execution-style killing of a police officer during the assault by two bully boyz became one of the emblematic images of the tragedy, the first in a string of Islamist-inspired attacks that have shocked La Belle France.
"I call for calm and peace and I say to the coppers of La Belle France that they can count on my support, my solidarity, my understanding and my commitment," Valls said.
With security at its highest possible level, officers have been up in arms over attacks on police during patrols in tough suburbs and during street demonstrations.
On October 8, a 28-year-old officer suffered serious burns when he was attacked with a petrol bomb on the outskirts of the capital. He remains in a coma.
Police unions, which have already met with Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, are demanding a meeting with President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... and calling for fixed minimum sentences for attacks on the police.
Hollande said early Friday that he planned to meet with police union leaders at the start of next week.
Under French law, police may protest only when off duty, out of uniform and provided they leave their service weapons and vehicles behind.
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Then gasped that grim lady of Dorset:
"I'm sure it will fit, but don't force it!"
Astern of her, pulling:
"We'll soon see, G-d willing"
(referring, of course, to her corset).
#3
"Do widow's weeds make me look chubby?"
"No, Madam, just gruesome and grubby...
And too long in mourning!"
"Okay, but fair warning:
You're in for what rubbed out my hubby."
[DAWN] A FEW hours before I was to board a train from Rawalpindi to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. last Thursday, I received a message warning me that activists of religious organizations were waiting to lay siege to the twin cities in the event of a decision in favour of Asia Bibi, the tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy whose final appeal is pending in the Supreme Court. The case was supposed to be heard that day. It wasn’t, and the mobs supposedly waiting to be unleashed were stood down.
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[IsraelTimes] Its economy depends on Soddy Arabia, but its single-minded campaign against Islamic State pushes Egypt closer to Russia, Assad and Iran.
Egypt has made fighting Islamic holy warriors its overriding foreign policy objective, a decision that has brought it closer to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... , Russia and Iran, in turn antagonizing its chief financial backer, Soddy Arabia
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[Sun Star] A suspected Abu Sayyaf Group militant was killed in a clash with policemen in Lantawan, Basilan province. Police chief Alfadda Osalli identified the slain rebel as Said Ummal, also known as Said Usman, a resident of the village of Bulan-Bulan.
Osalli said Ummal has standing arrest warrants for two counts of murder. Ummal was also involved in the ambush of a police vehicle on October 2 in the village of Bulan-Bulan, Lantawan.
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[An Nahar] Armed men have attacked an overcrowded dinghy carrying migrants colonists off Libya, leaving at least four dead and up to 25 missing, the German NGO Sea-Watch said Friday.
The group said the Italian coastguard had sent a Seawatch rescue ship and a diverted oil tanker to help a dinghy in distress in international waters, 14 nautical miles off Libya, early Friday.
As the operation was unfolding, assailants arrived aboard a vessel with Libyan coastguard insignia and tried to steal the dinghy's motor, a front man for Sea-Watch said.
The men, who spoke only Arabic, beat some of the migrants colonists with clubs, causing panic which caused most of them to fall into the sea, the front man said.
Sea-Watch said it had rescued 120 out of the estimated 150 people onboard.
Its team recovered four bodies but saw other corpses in the water that could not be retrieved. They estimate that between 15 and 25 are missing, the group said.
The Italian coastguard confirmed that the rescue vessel SeaWatch2 rescued 120 people before dawn Friday, but gave no further details.
According to the U.N., at least 3,654 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean this year.
Attempts at the dangerous crossing are continuing despite worsening weather as winter approaches, with more than 2,400 migrants colonists rescued off Libya in total since Sunday.
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Interesting time & place to steal a boat motor, isn't it?
[NATION.PK] India’s Border Security Force on Friday claimed to have killed seven Pak Rangers and a suspected bad boy in firing along the Line of Control (LoC).
According to a Hindustan Times report, the incident took place in Kathua district. The report added that a BSF trooper was injured in what it claimed was a ceasefire violation by Pakistain.
Earlier on Friday, Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) said that Pak and Indian border troops exchanged fire across the border in two separate incidents.
Cross-border firing occurred across the Working Boundary in Punjab's Shakargarh area, and across the Line of Control in the Karela sector, said Pakistain’s military media wing.
A Pak civilian was killed and 12 others injured when India fired across the LoC on Wednesday. Pakistain lodged a protest with India over the incident on Thursday.
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The government has decided to recruit 5,000 additional village guards in a bid to combat the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) east and southeast Anatolia, daily Habertürk has reported. At a meeting at the presidential palace in the capital Ankara on Oct. 20, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu told attendees of a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and 49 NGO representatives and opinion leaders from the region.
In line with the plans, the newly recruited personnel will officially be named “security guards” rather than “permanent guards” or “village guards.”
Ankara has also decided not to take from the new guards a “weapon fee,” worth 4,000 Turkish Liras, which was paid to the state once every five years.
Personnel benefits and social rights of village guards will also be improved, with their retirement age being reduced to 40 or 45, down from the current age of 55. Relatives of retired village guards will also be tenured, according to the new measures.
Retirement at 40 or 45 -- do they think they're California teachers?
Earlier, the gendarmerie general command had decided on Sept. 4 to recruit 1,000 extra village guards under 35 years old as specialist sergeants under the authority of the military. According to the decision, a special team to conduct operations against PKK militants in the east and southeast would be formed with existing village guards.
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Yippy's Brownshirts
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The hicks in the sticks are reliable
(in any case, poor and more buyable),
Read faces, not novels,
Are aces with shovels...
Those yokels are oh-so-deniable.
Some 33 outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants have been neutralized in an ongoing operation in the southeastern province of Hakkari, the Turkish Armed Forces stated on Oct. 21.
The Turkish General Staff said a drone strike on the morning of Oct. 21 neutralized six militants on the Dilekli Nizar Mountain in Yüksekova, while another 26 militants were neutralized on Oct. 20 during an air-backed operation in Çukurca, a mountainous district on the Iraqi border.
Meanwhile, one other PKK militant was killed during a clash with security forces in the Lice district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Oct. 20.
The security forces also destroyed on Oct. 20 a vehicle loaded with three tons of explosives in the Savur district of the southeastern province of Mardin, the statement said.
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[IsraelTimes] Officers tase 19-year-old suspect, hold him over item found on train Thursday
Armed police jugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a 19-year-old man in London on Friday under counter-terrorism laws in connection with a suspicious package on the underground train network that sparked a security alert.
"The man was arrested by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, assisted by armed colleagues, in the street in Holloway Road" in north London, the police said in a statement.
London’s Metropolitan Police said they had used a taser during the arrest but that no shots were fired.
The police said they "made the item safe" after it was found on a train on Thursday and that the package was now being "forensically examined."
"The public will see more officers, including armed police, in and around transport hubs to provide reassurance around public safety," it said, adding that the Underground was working as normal.
Counter-terror detectives opened an investigation on Thursday after the suspicious item was found on a train at North Greenwich station, which serves The O2 entertainment complex, formerly the Millennium Dome.
The police said in a statement on Thursday that "a controlled detonation" of the package had taken place.
Since August 2014, the terror threat level in Britannia has been classed as "severe" -- the second highest level, meaning an attack is considered "highly likely."
Police declined to comment on the possible motive, but a security source told The Times that there is a possibility the planned attack could have been a 'copycat' methodology and the motivation was not Islamist.
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"The public will see more officers, including armed police, in and around transport hubs to provide reassurance around public safety," it said, adding that the Underground was working as normal.
[AFP] Suspected Abu Sayyaf rebels have kidnapped the captain and a Filipino crew member of a South Korean cargo ship in the southern Philippines.
Ten people, who reportedly identified themselves as Abu Sayyaf militants, boarded the cargo ship on Thursday and abducted its Korean captain and a local crewman. Military spokesman Filemon Tan said, "They identified themselves as Abu Sayyaf group members... We're looking into this."
The ship, a heavy load carrier called
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Dong Bang Giant 2, was en route to South Korea from Australia when it was attacked. The vessel was allowed to continue on its course after the abductions.
Tan said the abduction marked the first time that kidnappers in the area had targeted a large ship.
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KIRKUK, IRAQ: An air strike killed 15 women on Friday at a shrine near the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, local officials and medics said.
“Fifteen women were killed and another 50 wounded in a raid that targeted a Shiite place of worship at Dakuk,” local council chief Amir Huda Karam told AFP.
The toll from the afternoon raid was confirmed by Dr. Abbas Mustafa Dakuki at the local hospital, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Kirkuk.
Earlier, Daesh attacked Kirkuk in an apparent effort to divert thousands of troops and militiamen closing in on their stronghold in Mosul, Iraq’s second city.
Ankara and Baghdad have agreed in principle over the former’s much-debated involvement in a military operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Oct. 21, private broadcaster CNN Türk has reported.
Carter said the details of Ankara’s possible role in the operation had not been shaped yet as they were also awaiting confirmation from Baghdad.
"That will have to obviously be something that the Iraqi government will need to agree to and I think there's agreement there in principle," Carter told reporters travelling with him in Turkey, according to Reuters.
"But now we're down to the practicalities of that ... and that's what we're working through," he said.
Turkey and the United States have reached an agreement in which Turkish warplanes will join an ongoing operation to capture Mosul, Turkey’s Prime Minister, Binali Yıldırım, said on Oct. 18, adding that Turkey’s F-16 Fighting Falcons would be called for duty by the Kuwait-based command center if required.
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ERDOGAN: "Mosul is ours, I'm giving a history lesson"
https://twitter.com/cumhuriyetgzt/status/789810216326094848 …
Some of this is true, some of this is PR worthy of a Saigon press briefing...
General John Nicholson, the commander of U.S forces in Afghanistan has said that the Taliban insurgents have failed to achieve their military targets in Afghanistan, referring to offensives on some strategic locations across the nation over the past six months.
He said that the Afghan and foreign forces in Afghanistan should take advantage of the upcoming winter season for regaining those areas under Taliban control.
Nicholson made the remarks during a visit to Ghazni province where he was accompanied by the Afghan Minister of Defense General Abdullah Habibi, Minister of Interior Taj Mohammad Jahed and head of the Afghan intelligence agency-National Directorate of Security (NDS) - Masoom Stanekzai.
"In those six months the Taliban have not accomplished any of their objectives, they tried to take Kunduz three times, they have tried to take Lashkargah twice, they tried to take Trinkot and Farah, they briefly took over Janikhail, but we quickly took it back," said Nicholson.
"We appreciate our security forces who firmly foiled the expansion of Taliban operations, they (Taliban) wanted to extend their infiltration in Paktia and Ghazni, but failed," said Defense Minister Abdullah Habibi.
Meanwhile, Ghazni police Aminullah Amarkhail said that at least half of the Taliban leadership is from Ghazni, and as such the group strives to worsen the security situation in the province.
"Taliban in the first step wanted to takeover Gero district, but Taliban failed to reach their objective," said Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, the commander of 302 Thunder Armyu Corps.
"Nearly half of the Taliban leadership belongs to Ghazni, therefore the group wants to damage security in Ghazni," siaid Aminullah Amarkhail, Ghazni police chief.
In addition, security officials have said that 620 insurgents were killed and more than 300 others were wounded during battles with security forces over the past few months which was a major blow to Taliban's military power.
Ghazni has eighteen districts. The security situation has been fragile in at least four districts in the province including Gero, Andar and Gelan districts.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranians media outlets with reformist editorials recently published a story on the release of Hassan Kord Mihin, the criminal mastermind behind the attack on the 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... embassy last January.
Kord Mihin was seen attending an Ashoura ceremony days ago and had delivered a sermon in a Tehran mosque, according to Reforms News website, clearly indictating he was released on bail.
The front man of the Iranian’s judiciary, Ghulam Hussein Mahssani Aijia, announced in March the release of all detainees ‐ at least 154 people ‐accused of the attack on the Saudi Embassy.
Contradicting information published by mainstream Iranian media outlets also indicate Iranian authorities’ efforts in concealing the identities of the Saudi embassy attackers.
Admitting Rowhani complicity
Kord Mihin, a holy man who heads a pressure group close to the Supreme Leadership of Iran, has admitted to planning the attack on the embassy and inciting members of the " The revolutionary heirs of Hezbollah" from Bassij and The Revolutionary Guards to carry out the January 2015 attack. He has also reportedly admitted that the Hassan Rowhani’s government was complicit in the crime, since they authorities did not prevent the attack from happening.
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That's a pretty stupid question.
The real question is why Iran put him in jail in the first place
The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have retaken the control of key areas of Ghormach district during an operation led by the Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum.
According to the local security officials, the Afghan forces have retaken the district administrative compound, the district police commandment, and the market of Ghormach from the Taliban.
A spokesman for Ghormach security commandment, Abdul Karim Yurish, said the Taliban insurgents were pushed out of the mentioned areas on Thursday afternoon.
He said the Afghan forces have also retaken the control of at least 16 security posts which were seized by the Taliban insurgents nearly two weeks ago.
Yurish further added that the operations were supported by close-air support and the Taliban insurgents suffered heavy loss but he did not disclose the exact number.
The Taliban militants group has not commented regarding the report so far.
Gen. Dostum left for northern Faryab province on 11th October, shortly after reports emerged regarding the fall of Ghormach district.
The Taliban militants have intensified attacks on key northern provinces during the recent months as the group attempts to expand its insurgency activities in northern parts of the country.
The Taliban militants launched a coordinated attack on the strategic Kunduz city around three weeks ago and managed to infiltrate into some parts of the city, including the central Kunduz city square.
The Afghan forces managed to push the Taliban militants from the city although sporadic clashes still continue in parts of the city with the security officials saying the operations are slowly being as the group have taken positions inside the residential areas.
[IsraelTimes] Two 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.... fighters were killed in the northern Sinai overnight Thursday, according to reports.
The men were killed in a firefight with Egyptian security forces operating in the Rafah area, near Egypt’s border with Gazoo, Israel Radio reported.
According to the London-based Arabic daily al-Hayat, the growing frequency of jihadist attacks in Sinai is caused by the return of Egyptian fighters who had gone to Syria and Libya to fight in the ranks of the Islamic State’s forces there.
[AlAhram] Two coppers were killed and one conscript was injured on Friday after an improvised bomb (IED) detonated on a North Sinai highway, Egypt’s interior ministry announced on Friday.
In an official statement, the ministry said that unknown assailants planted the IED on the roadside of a highway in the vicinity of al-Arish’s cop shoppe. The IED detonated as a water tanker was en route to distribute water to security checkpoints on the highway.
[An Nahar] Oman has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! claims that arms were being smuggled through its long border with 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... to Shiite Houthis, saying traffickers were using unmonitored areas of the war-torn nation's coast.
"This is baseless," said the sultanate's foreign ministry in a statement on its website late Thursday. "There are no weapons passing through the sultanate's territory" to Yemen.
The denial came in response to media reports of arms being smuggled through Oman.
Oman, one of the few Arab states which have good relations with Iran, a backer of the Huthis, has used its links to mediate peace talks between the hard boyz and Yemen's U.N.-recognized government.
The foreign ministry said the issue of arms smuggling "has been proven false after being discussed with member states of the (pro-government) Arab coalition, the United States and the United Kingdom."
"Yemeni shores that are close to Oman's coast are not subjected to the control of any government authority in Yemen. Therefore, these shores are open to arms smugglers," it added.
Oman is the only Arab nation in the Gulf that has remained outside the Saudi-led coalition which in March 2015 launched a military campaign against the rebels in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
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[An Nahar] Four Paleostinians have been detained by their security forces after attending a religious festival in a nearby Jewish settlement, a Paleostinian security official said Friday.
Around 30 Paleostinians from two neighboring villages visited a celebration in the occupied West Bank settlement of Efrat on Wednesday, Oded Revivi of the YESHA settlers council told AFP.
In total more than 100 people attended, including senior Israeli military and coppers, he said, as part of celebrations for the annual Jewish festival of Sukkot.
On Thursday, four men were called in for questioning by Paleostinian security forces, a security front man told AFP. They were still detained on Friday lunchtime.
"We heard from our neighbors they had received (summonses) for interrogation," Revivi told AFP.
He said the men were senior figures in the local Paleostinian villages of Wadi al-Nis and al-Khadar.
In an interview with Israeli army radio, Mohammed Taha, deputy governor of the nearby town of Bethlehem, said it was against Paleostinian law to normalize relations with Israeli settlements.
While Paleostinians were free to talk to Israelis, "it is unacceptable, going inside (a settlement) is unacceptable", he said.
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[An Nahar] Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition have hit rebel positions outside the Yemeni capital Sanaa, witnesses said Friday, after the alliance accused turbans of breaching a shaky ceasefire.
The air strikes late Thursday targeted positions of the Iran-backed Huthi turbans at Jebel al-Nabishuaib, on the southwestern outskirts of rebel-held Sanaa, according to witnesses.
They said the area hosts bases for air defences controlled by renegade troops loyal to former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , who is allied with the Iranian catspaws.
The truce, for an initial period of three days, took effect just before midnight on Wednesday to allow aid deliveries in Yemen, where the war has killed thousands and left millions homeless and hungry.
The coalition and Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi had vowed to respect the UN-sponsored truce, but accused rebels of violations, while Huthi media accused the alliance of continuing with air strikes.
Air raids also targeted rebels in the northern provinces of Jawf and Saada, witnesses and rebel media said.
Coalition front man Major General Ahmed Assiri said on Friday that alliance warplanes were only conducting surveillance flights and "reactive" strikes, in response to rebel truce violations.
Patriot missiles shot down two rebel missiles fired in Marib, east of Sanaa on Thursday, he said.
The Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened in March 2015 to support Hadi's government after the Huthis overran much of the impoverished country on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
Five previous truce attempts failed but cautious optimism preceded the current pause after intensified international pressure following an escalation in fighting.
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[An Nahar] The UN human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. council opened a special session on Syria's devastated city Aleppo on Friday, with rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein demanding action against "crimes of historic proportions."
The session, called by Britannia, is seeking a resolution condemning gross abuses especially in Aleppo's rebel-held east where an estimated 250,000 civilians are besieged by a brutal government offensive backed by Russia.
"The siege and bombardment of eastern Aleppo, are not simply tragedies; they also constitute crimes of historic proportions," Zeid said.
Calling Syria's more than five-year civil war "a proxy conflict", he urged parties to the fighting to set aside "global gamesmanship".
The head of the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... 's commission of inquiry for Syria, Paulo Pinheiro, reiterated a call for the International Criminal Court to probe violations in the war-ravaged country.
While rights council resolutions are non-binding, regime ally Russia is expected to push back against any draft strongly condemning Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... 's government.
The session, also supported by La Belle France, Germany and the United States as well as Assad rival The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , is aiming to adopt a resolution later Friday.
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[An Nahar] A prominent Sudanese rebel group said on Friday it was suspending peace talks with Khartoum after a rights group accused government forces of using chemical weapons against civilians in war-torn Darfur.
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North, which is fighting government troops in Blue Nile and South Kordofan, this summer signed a roadmap brokered by African mediators to end conflict in the two states.
But on Friday the SPLM-N said it would suspend talks with Khartoum after Amnesia Amnesty International accused government forces of unleashing chemical weapons on civilians in Darfur state this year, killing up to 250 people.
Urging an investigation into the suspected attacks, the rebel group in a statement announced an "immediate suspension of political engagement with the Sudan government on all political matters, including national dialogue and peace negotiations."
It said Amnesty's report showed a "new dimension to the genocidal war in Sudan, and as such, the people of Sudan, the regional and the international community should take it seriously."
The signing of the roadmap by SPLM-N along with two other rebel groups in August had raised hopes for a permanent ceasefire to be negotiated and humanitarian aid to be delivered in Sudan's three conflict areas.
While SPLM-N is fighting in Blue Nile and South Kordofan, two other rebel groups -- the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Army faction headed by Minni Minnawi -- are fighting government forces in Darfur.
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[An Nahar] A Norwegian court on Friday confirmed that conditions have been met to extradite a controversial Iraqi Kurdish holy man to Italia to face terrorism-related charges.
In June, the Oslo District Court had authorized the extradition of the 60-year-old Mullah Krekar, the religious leader of a Kurdish network suspected to be linked to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
A refugee in Norway since 1991 but not a citizen, Krekar is accused by Italia of leading the Rawti Shax, a network that has planned to carry out attacks in the West.
Krekar, whose real name is Najmuddin Ahmad Faraj, had appealed the case, which was rejected on Friday by the Oslo appeals court that authorized the extradition of another suspect in the case, Kamil Jalal Fatah.
Krekar's lawyer, Brynjar Meling, told AFP that his client was now going to the Supreme Court.
Meling said his client had merely made an attempt to form a political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. "This has nothing to do with terrorism," he told TV2.
The lawyer has repeatedly accused Norway of using the case as an excuse to get rid of a cumbersome Krekar, who cannot be deported to his country.
Krekar has twice been sentenced to prison in Norway because of threats and inciting violent behavior.
He has been at risk of deportation since 2003 after Norwegian authorities ordered him to be expelled as a threat to national security.
While courts have upheld the ruling, Norwegian law bars him from being deported to Iraq, where he risks the death penalty.
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[An Nahar] Venezuela's opposition has suffered a major blow after authorities halted their drive to recall leftist President Nicolas Maduro and reportedly ordered top opposition leaders not to leave the crisis-torn country.
Henrique Capriles, a former presidential candidate and governor of the state of Miranda, said on Twitter late Thursday that he and seven others had received court orders barring them from travel outside the country.
The government was taking the country into a "very dangerous scenario" and an even greater crisis, he warned on Twitter.
The opposition had been gearing up for a massive three-day drive next week to collect signatures from millions of voters demanding a recall referendum in the crisis-stricken country.
It was supposed to be the last hurdle in a multi-stage process to meet the constitutional requirements for a recall vote.
But on Thursday, pro-Maduro governors in four states informed the National Election Council that small-time Mister Big court judges had annulled the results of an earlier petition drive because of alleged fraud.
Soon after, the council suspended the recall process, saying it was acting in compliance with the courts.
"Let us hope that those responsible will now be sought out and detained and go to prison for the deception they have committed," Maduro's number two Diosdado Cabello said in a speech.
Maduro also accused the opposition of "a gigantic fraud," in a speech before leaving on a tour of the Middle East. "Their cheating is coming out," he said.
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[An Nahar] A home for asylum seekers was set on fire in a Stockholm suburb early Friday, the second such incident in the Swedish capital in less than a week, police said.
Police suspect arson in both cases, which caused no injuries. No arrests have been made.
The nine asylum seekers living of the center in the well-heeled northern suburb of Sigtuna and two staff members were evacuated before firefighters arrived shortly before 2 am, media said.
The previous fire hit a home in Stockholm's working-class Fagersjo neighborhood early Sunday. All 40 residents were evacuated safely.
Sweden accepted the second highest number of refugees per capita in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... in 2015 as the continent struggles with its worst migration crisis since World War II.
The nation saw a wave of around 20 arson attacks against refugee centers last year, but the culprits have rarely been caught.
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[An Nahar] Amnesia Amnesty International Friday protested a "reprehensible" ruling by Pakistain's Supreme Court that said schizophrenia is "not a permanent mental disorder", in a decision that paves the way for execution of a mentally ill man.
Lawyers and rights groups say convicted murderer Imdad Ali, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia while in prison in 2012, cannot be executed as he cannot understand his crime and punishment.
However in a detailed judgment issued Thursday the Supreme Court said schizophrenia was an "imbalance," exacerbated by stress, that could be treated by drugs.
Therefore it was a "recoverable disease" and not a mental disorder, according to the ruling.
As such, it could not be used to delay Ali's death sentence, which now could go ahead as early as next week.
Rights groups slammed the ruling, with Amnesty calling it "a deeply worrying development."
"It is utterly reprehensible if this Supreme Court judgment leads to the execution of Imdad Ali, who has been clearly diagnosed as mentally ill," said Champa Patel, Amnesty's South Asia program director, in a statement.
International laws regarding mental disability are "important safeguards", she added.
Maya Foa, a director of Reprieve, called the ruling "outrageous" and said it flies in the face of accepted medical knowledge -- including in Pakistain.
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[DAWN] The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday denied the Indian claim that Pak forces suffered casualties in firing across the Line of Control (LoC) in the Shakargarh sector.
"Indian claim of hitting or killing any Pak soldier or Ranger with firing at anytime today at LoC is absolutely false," said the statement released from the armed forces media wing.
Earlier today, India's Border Security Force (BSF) claimed they rubbed out seven Pak soldiers in retaliation to a ceasefire violation on the disputed Kashmire border.
BSF alleged Pakistain Rangers targeted Indian positions with sniper fire early Friday, following a failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! by Lions of Islam overnight to enter the Indian side in Hira Nagar near the main city of Jammu in India-held Kashmire.
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[Dhaka Tribune] RAB has said it is looking at evidence pointing to the involvement of New Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) in the killing of Italian citizen Tavella Cesare in Gulshan last year.
RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed held a press briefing at BSCIC Bhaban in Kawranbazar on Friday, informing that the paramilitary force has identified the dead terrorist Abdur Rahman as New JMB chief Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch has submitted charges to a Dhaka court in the Tavella murder case accusing BNP Dhaka City Joint Convener MA Qayum, his brother MA Matin and several other men. It did not find terrorist group’s involvement in the crime.
Benazir said documents recovered at Abdur Rahman’s den in Ashulia on October 8 suggest that the group may have been involved in the murder.
However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... RAB was still investigating the matter.
Cesare Tavella, an aid worker and veterinary surgeon, was rubbed out on Road 90, Gulshan 2 in September last year. He had been living alone in Dhaka and worked on food security issues for a Dutch aid organization.
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[Dhaka Tribune] RAB has locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... two men who it says are close accomplices of Abdur Rahman, the New JMB man who died at a RAB drive in Ashulia earlier this month
At a press briefing in Dhaka on Friday, RAB chief Benazir Ahmed said the men were caught in the early hours of Friday from Motijheel and Mohakhali and a sum of Tk 27.7 lakh, a pistol and some knives were recovered from them.
Their names are Hasibul Hasan, 48, and Nasir Ahmed Noyon, 28, he said.
Hasib is an engineer with the Rajshahi Public Works Department, Benazir said. His hometown is Gopalganj and Nasir’s is Boalia in Rajshahi.
Both men were Hundi traders, and the money was intended for financing of New JMB, according to RAB.
Initially, RAB did not know how big a fish Abdur Rahman was. The recent investigations and arrests of his associates led to the discovery of his importance within the New JMB structure.
Abdur Rahman died after he was taken into custody by RAB. He was found in a critically injured state after he jumped from the fourth floor to escape being caught by RAB.
The drive that led to his capture also recovered Tk 30 lakh and a small cache of weapons. His wife Shahnaz Akter Ruma was also caught and detained for questioning.
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Abdur Rahman died after he was taken into custody by RAB. He was found in a critically injured state after he jumped from the fourth floor to escape being caught by RAB.
[Iraq Sun] Turkish warplanes killed up to 200 Kurdish militia members in northern Syria, the Turkish military said on Thursday.
The jets hit 18 targets in Maarrat Umm Hawsh, a region north of the city of Aleppo, official news agency Anadolu said.
Between 160 and 200 gunnies from the YPG (People's Protection Units) group were killed in 26 strikes on Wednesday night, the report stated, citing the army.
Syrian Kurdish leaders denied the figure, saying no more than 10 fighters had been killed.
YPG and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have been designated as terror groups linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has been fighting against for several years.
Turkey says the group is an extension of its own outlawed Kurdish gunnies who have carried out a series of deadly attacks in Turkey over the past year.
The PKK, proscribed as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , has waged a bloody insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984.
Anadolu said nine buildings used as YPG headquarters, meeting points, shelters and weapons depots were destroyed as well one armoured vehicle and four other vehicles. The exact location of the attacks was not disclosed in the statement.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A statement from 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... ’s Ministry of Interior has confirmed on Tuesday it has carried out the execution orders on Prince Turki bin Saud al-Kabir.
The prince was found guilty three years ago by a Saudi court for murdering a young Saudi man following a group fight in al-Thumama region in the outskirts of Riyadh.
The statement said that "Turki bin Saud al-Kabir killed Saudi citizen Adel bin Suleiman bin Abdul Karim Mohaimeed."
The statement added that "authorities were able to arrest the above mentioned offender. After the investigations, they charged him of committing the crime and his indictment was sent to the General Court. He was charged with what was attributed to him and sentenced to death as retribution."
The Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court both agreed on the indictment. A Royal Decree was issued for the implementation of the court’s rule.
The victim’s family refused offers of ’blood money’ and demanded justice be carried out.
The statement added that the Interior Ministry confirmed "King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... ’s keenness on enforcement of security, justice and God's judgments."
It also warned "that legitimate punishment would be the fate of whoever tries to assault innocent people and shed their blood".
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Wonder what would have happened if he killed a Pakistani or Indian worker?
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A major part of the problem is that the people of Kunduz are waiting for the government to protect them...
MPS and members of Kunduz provincial council have said that Taliban insurgents continue to maintain a grip on suburbs in Kunduz city and that another offensive on the city is likely by the militants.
The lawmakers argued that a move to terminate military operations would give the Taliban a chance to regroup and attack the city once again.
Last year the Taliban managed to seize control of Kunduz city for a few days, a takeover that marked an important gain for the group since it was toppled from the power in 2001.
However the Taliban once again launched an offensive on the city earlier in September and took control in some parts of the city.
The onslaught sparked a major outcry among the Afghan political elite and public with many terming poor war leadership as the main reason for the failure to secure the strategic town.
After ten days of fierce fighting, the security forces repelled the group, but the battles left scores of civilians dead and hundreds others wounded while hundreds of families fled.
"The operations must be planned in a very systematic way. There is a need for nighttime operations, offensive operations and siege operations to bring the entire area in Kunduz under control, if we thoroughly asses the geography of Kunduz, we can easily take control of the entire Kunduz," said Mohammad Ayoub Salangi, ex-deputy minister of interior.
"The area which you see belongs to the department of agriculture, on the backside, the opponents can move around easily, all residential homes in the area are under threat," said a member of Kunduz provincial council Amruddin Wali.
Kunduz has nine districts with three of them out of government's control. Taliban control the majority of these three districts.
Besides Kunduz city, the security situation in Kunduz-Baghlan and Kunduz-Khanabad and Takhar highway is also critical.
"The question is that the clearance operations were terminated. Why is time being given to the Taliban to make new arrangements and mobilize?" asked lawmaker Fatima Aziz.
"The decision and direction from the center is that there should not be any opponent in Kunduz and all areas need to be cleared," said Mohammad Masoom Safai, head of Kunduz security department.
Residents and military analysts argue that the Taliban could attack Kunduz in the spring again unless the government takes steps to address the security problems.
[An Nahar] 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 fighters may be preparing to use civilians as human shields, or simply kill them, rather than let them be liberated in an Iraqi offensive to retake djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the U.N. said Friday.
Elite Iraqi troops have been closing in on Mosul, the last jihadist bastion in Iraq, in a long-anticipated offensive.
United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said his office had reports that civilians were being held close to IS fighter positions in Mosul, possibly as a buffer against advancing Iraqi forces.
"There is a grave danger that ISIS fighters will not only use such vulnerable people as human shields but may opt to kill them rather than see them liberated," Zeid said in a statement, using another acronym for IS.
Separately, Zeid said his office had reports that the jihadists forced an estimated 200 families to walk from the nearby Samalia village to Mosul last week.
Another 350 families were forced to Mosul from Najafia, according to the rights office.
Those forced displacements were consistent with IS' "apparent policy of preventing civilians from escaping to areas controlled by the Iraqi security forces," Zeid added.
The U.N. has voiced fears that a million people still trapped inside Mosul could be forced to flee the fighting, sparking a humanitarian emergency.
Speaking to news hounds in Geneva by phone, the U.N.'s humanitarian chief in Baghdad, Lise Grande, said the "working scenario" foresees 200,000 people fleeing Mosul, but she cautioned that the numbers could be higher depending on how the military campaign develops.
So far, just 3,900 people have been displaced from the northern city, U.N. refugee agency front man Adrian Edwards said.
He added that UNHCR was working to build up camps and emergency settlements in the area, as humanitarian agencies try to expand their capacity to help civilians as the fighting intensifies.
Aside from caring for those who manage to flee, Zeid stressed that Iraqi military planning for the U.S.-backed offensive needs to prioritize civilian protection, especially with some of the combat expected to take place in confined urban settings.
"We know ISIS has no regard for human life, which is why it is incumbent upon the Iraqi government to do its utmost to protect civilians," he said.
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UN, nothing can stay hidden from their penetrating intellects.
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But we hear almost every evening on the TV news about how those bad Russians and Syrians are bombing those poor civilians in Aleppo. Would that be happening if the US government backed rebels in Aleppo were not using human shields? Except for the actors, exactly what is different between Aleppo and Mosul?
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I read the headline and wondered "is that a warning or are they granting permission"?
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"Mother, may I...?" we asked the UN.
She smirked as she whipped out a pen.
We went for our checkbook.
She winked. "What the heck...
Do come back when you have some more yen!"
Karachi police’s Counter-Terrorism Department on Friday claimed to have arrested four militants allegedly trained in Afghanistan from the Korangi and Orangi areas of the metropolis.
The suspected militants were allegedly involved in the killings of security personnel and members of the Shia community including other terror acts.
“The CTD team and personnel of an intelligence agency conducted targeted raids in Orangi and Korangi, during the raids four terrorists were detained,” said CTD-II SSP Junaid Ahmad Shaikh.
The police official claimed that the arrested individuals were ‘experts’ in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices (IED) and suicide jackets.
“They carried out targeted killings of Shias and security personnel,” added the officer.
Shaikh also claimed the four had been trained in Afghanistan, recruited militants and fought against the Pakistan Army.
Police claimed to have recovered a suicide jacket, four hand grenades, pistols and phones from their custody.
Karachi, a teeming metropolis of around 18 million people, is rife with political, ethnic, sectarian and criminal violence. Proscribed organisations have also used Karachi as a base to generate funds for furthering their anti-state agenda.
[Iraq Sun] TEL AVIV, Israel - A deal negotiated in secret will see the Israel Navy take delivery of 3 nuclear-enabled submarines over the next decade.
Germany is to provide the Dolphin-class submarines as a result of secret negotiations which have spanned the last few months.
Israel will pay a substantially discounted price of $1.3 billion for the three submarines.
The deal is expected to be finalised in early November.
According to The Jerusalem Post, quoting foreign reports, the israel navy’s Dolphins 'provide Israel with nuclear second-strike capabilities, as they can travel far from Israel’s territorial waters and are reportedly able to carry long-range cruise missiles tipped with nuclear warheads.'
Israel, which orchestrated the drive against Iran becoming a nuclear power, and has bombed emerging nuclear facilities in Iraq and Syria, has itself been developing nuclear weapons since the 1950s. The Dimona nuclear plant in the Negev desert had its origins in 1954, just six years after the birth of Israel. The late Shimon Peres as Director General of the Israeli Defense Ministry was responsible for the development of the facility. A pact with La Belle France was secretly negotiated and hundreds of French scientists were brought in to develop the facility, in absolute secrecy.
To offset the concerns of satellite surveilance, the Jewish state publicly touted the facility as a business park or textile factory. When U.S. President John Kennedy aroused suspicions in 1963, Israel maintained its denials. Kennedy applied so much pressure, David Ben-Gurion resigned as prime minister of Israel just months before Kennedy was assassinated. Some researchers implicate the Israeli inteligence agency Mossad among those considered responsible for the liquidation.
Peres himself was asked point blank by Kennedy if Israel was building a nuclear facility. Summoned to the Oval Room in the White House on a 1963 visit to Washington, the young Peres was asked in his words, '30 rapid-fire questions,' before Kennedy asked: "Are you building a nuclear option?" Peres said he changed the subject.
To this day Israel has neither confirmed or denied publicly it has a nuclear facility. The only official statement on Dimona was made on December 21 1960 when Ben-Gurion, in response to an aricle in Time magazine which spawned a flurry of media coverage, announced to the Knesset his government was building "a 24 megawatt reactor which will serve the needs of industry, agriculture, health, and science," and that it "is designed exclusively for peaceful purposes."
The Israel Navy until last year had a fleet of four Dolphin-class submarines operating out of its naval base at Haifa. A fifth submarine ariived in late December last year after which it was expected to be fitted with Iraeli-built systems which took several months. It is believed it is operational now.
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Note this. The first point I noticed was Tel Aviv is not Israel's capital. Then the Dolphin deal was not negotiated in secret.I stopped reading after this because ofspelling mistakes.
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Summoned to the Oval Room in the White House on a 1963 visit to Washington, the young Peres was asked in his words, '30 rapid-fire questions,' before Kennedy asked: "Are you building a nuclear option?" Peres said he changed the subject.
"What is the average air speed of a unladen swallow?"
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You can browse the the public broadcasting website for their version of the story, but another story lies beneath the one the government tells.
On Facebook, watching video reports by John Lamb, two matters jump out. (You'll have to scroll down to watch the videos. He doesn't allow external links to his presentations.)
As far as I can tell, and from memory, at no time did the number of occupiers exceed 50 total, yet what came out in the trial was that the federal government had 15 paid informants occupying the park along with the 24 who were arrested and charged with felony conspiracy.
Think about that for a moment. 15 people were reporting directly to federal security agents, for a ratio of 3 occupiers for every paid informant, if my WAG numbers are correct.
According to Lamb, of the 15 that the government admitted to being in the park, three were named and used by the government. One of the three actually wound up testifying for the defense. One of the main contentions of the defense during the trial was that all illegal activities were done by paid informants, not by the defendants. Additionally, of all the firearms federal agents seized when the occupation was shut down, not one of them belonged to those charged.
The 15 informants are just the federal informants. They do not include state, county or local snitches. Just the federal ones.
The second matter is how the trial was conducted. According to Lamb, no mention of the Constitution was allowed in any part of the trial, not even in closing arguments. That is stunning. That means that the individuals who claimed the government mantle of justice in no way want justice to be carried out, because the basic law of the land interferes with what they are trying to accomplish.
So in federal jurisprudence, paid informants have a stake in helping the government arrest people by committing crimes and claiming others committed crimes with them, and no -- as in zero -- mention of the Constitution, the law of the land, is allowed in a federal courtroom. The Constitution has no place in federal jurisprudence.
The photo in the link shows a weapon that was put together in slapdash fashion with the butt stock taped together and a stovepiped cartridge casing still in the ejection port. Apparently the bad guy, identified as Adam Powell, fired the rifle, only to have a second round jam. As he left, the cops followed him and shot him to death.
Powell did not know enough about his rifle to clear the jam, apparently panicked and ran away. According to Owens, the jam was easily clearable.
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[An Nahar] Russia said Friday it was concerned over the refusal of fighters from a former al-Qaeda affiliate, the Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... Front, to leave Aleppo as Russian and Syrian forces have halted fighting.
The combatants, formerly known as al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... , and the some 250,000 civilians in rebel-held areas, have largely avoided the eight escape corridors announced this week by Russia and Syria's regime.
"We are highly concerned at the fact that, despite the goodwill gestures of Moscow and Damascus with the aim of normalising the situation in Aleppo, we see that al-Nusra fighters are refusing to leave the city," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Kremlin front man Dmitry Peskov told journalists Friday that whether Russia extends the pause in fighting further "depends on how the process of fighters leaving the city -- which so far is sluggish, unfortunately."
Asked whether the decision on extending the pause would be taken daily, he said it would be made on the basis of the current situation, since "the situation is changing quite quickly, it could change for the worse."
At a briefing in Moscow, Lavrov accused fighters from the Fateh al-Sham Front and influential Islamist Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... group of "sabotaging the efforts of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... -- with our support, with support of the Syrian government -- to get humanitarian aid supplies into east Aleppo."
He said the fighters "with threats, blackmail and brute force, are obstructing the departure of peaceful civilians from east Aleppo", as well as that of combatants who are prepared to leave.
Russia is "ready to extend this humanitarian pause" as long as there are not "provocations" by al-Nusra and allied groups, Lavrov said, adding that "this position was confirmed in our contacts with the United States."
Lavrov also said Russia is "very concerned" at Turkish strikes on US-backed militias in northern Syria, including Syrian Kurdish fighters.
He said Russia expected the United States, leading a coalition that includes The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , to "stay within the framework of the declared aim" of fighting 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.... jihadists and the Fateh al-Sham Front.
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Evidently he's tired of being treated like shit by the State Department. They look down on inferiors and Duterte has had enough of it. Based on my very limited experience dealing with the State Department overseas, I can't say I disagree with him.
He speaks pretty slowly so click the gear icon, select speed, and then 1.5 or 2. It gets it done faster and you can still understand him perfectly.
[DAWN] MUZAFFARABAD: United Jihad Council (UJC) chairman Syed Salahuddin ...the aging, morbidly obese chief of Hizbul Mujaheddin and the titular head of the United Jihad Council in idyllic Kashmire. Originally owned body and theoretical soul by Jamaat-e-Islami he and his organization are currently controlled by Pakistain's ISI. Salahuddin's hobbies include crocheting doilies shaped like the Taj Mahal, combing his enormous beard, and eating.... on Thursday asked Pakistain to extend "military support" to Kashmiri freedom fighters to help them accomplish their long-cherished goal of freedom from India.
"The festering (Kashmire) issue is not going to resolve through talks or resolutions... Pakistain should militarily support Kashmiris by providing resources to the mujahideen," he said at a presser here.
"If the mujahideen get military support, not only Kashmire will clinch freedom but the map of the subcontinent will also undergo a change," he added.
He, however, declined to elaborate the kind of military support required by the freedom fighters.
"India invaded and Indian Kashmiree at the strength of its military might and military occupation can hardly be brought to end through politics or diplomacy," he maintained.
The UJC chief said that since the killing of Burhan Wani, the mass movement in Kashmire had been on the rise.
Over the past 105 days, the Indian government exercised each and every measure to suppress the unarmed freedom-seeking people, but, ironically, neither did the international community appeared upset over the atrocities nor the world powers tried to rein in the oppressor.
"When the world is paying no heed to us, the only option left with us is the armed struggle," he said.
Along with brutal killings, the India government had also resorted to economic terrorism in Kashmire in a bid to pressure Kashmiris into surrendering their legitimate struggle, he said.
According to him, Indian intelligence agencies and their "touts" were trying to create disunity among the Hurriyat leadership as well as Kashmiri public. He was of the view that the base camp of the freedom movement -- a reference to Azad Kashmire -- should not only send a strong message of solidarity across the divide, but also adopt a forceful, rather aggressive, role in this regard.
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[An Nahar] The head of a Bangladeshi Islamist group accused of staging a deadly siege at a cafe and the killing of several foreigners died while trying to evade arrest earlier this month, security officials said Friday.
Abdur Rahman died in hospital on October 8 after jumping from the fifth floor of a building on the outskirts of Dhaka during a raid by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an elite security unit.
The identity of Rahman, who was leader of the Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), was later confirmed through his possessions and by his family, who were shown pictures of his body, the RAB said in a statement.
Several documents, letters and emails that were later retrieved by the RAB "all proved that Abdur Rahman was the emir (head) of the new JMB", the statement added.
Bangladeshi authorities are insistent that the JMB was behind a siege at an upmarket cafe in Dhaka on July 1 in which 20 mostly foreign hostages were killed, even though 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 grabbed credit.
The RAB said that some of the documents recovered during their raid had been signed by Rahman using the alias Sheikh Abu Ibrahim al Hanif.
While the statement made no mention of IS, the April issue of Dabiq, a magazine affiliated to the organization, reported that Shaykh Abu Ibrahim Al Hanif was the jihadists' "emir" in Bangladesh.
A RAB front man refused to comment on whether the two were the same men.
RAB, which is tasked with tackling militancy and serious crimes, has listed 19 attacks carried out by the JMB, including the fatal shootings of an Italian aid worker and a Japanese national late last year and a series of murders of religious minorities.
The siege at the cafe in July was by far the deadliest attack and caused widespread alarm about the growth of Islamist extremism in a country where more than 90 percent of the population is Moslem.
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[DAWN] The mystery surrounding the killing of four girls and two men from Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... took another turn on Friday after rights activist Farzana Bari claimed that the girls, who were declared alive during the Supreme Court suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... hearing, were dead.
Bari, who also heads the Gender Studies department at Quaid-e-Azam University, was included in the fact finding mission dispatched to Kohistan by the Supreme Court to inquire about the wellbeing of the girls, after allegations emerged that the four girls were murdered after their video of clapping during a marriage ceremony went viral.
The witness statement by Bari comes after the Supreme Court on September 27 sent a notice to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP) government and Kohistan DPO to again investigate the issue.
In her earlier statements, Bari claimed, she had expressed serious doubts that the two girls produced before the commission were not the girls who had appeared in the said video. Bari noted that her views were contrary to the other members' views on the issue.
Bari said she had appended a dissenting note at that time, demanding involvement of Nadra officials in the case for positive identification of the girls to ensure that the girls produced before the commission were the same girls who appeared in the video.
The case was closed by the then chief justice as it was established the girls were alive.
"Photos of the girls taken during the commission session were given to a Rooters' journalist, Katharine Houreld, who got the matching done through a renowned independent British agency 'Digital Barriers'. It was found in the said report that the photos of the girls, who were made to appear before the commission, did not match the images of the girls appearing in the said video," Bari stated in her witness statement.
Bari also referred to the two pressers of local leaders in which they had admitted that the girls had been killed.
Former MPA Maulana Dildar, who was nominated by the KP government to assist the commission, also testified in his presser that the four girls were murdered and that the commission had been misguided, she said.
The rights activist alleged that the local administration including the police had formed some kind of unholy alliance with the elected representatives of the Awami National Party founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism.... (ANP) to bury the whole issue.
She demanded reproduction the girls in front of the Supreme Court and formation of an independent investigation team to inquire the issue and alleged negligence of the authorities.
The court had taken a suo motu notice on the issue in 2012 since reports came up that holy mans had allegedly issued orders for the killing of four women and two men after a mobile phone video emerged of the six singing and dancing at a wedding in a remote village in Kohistan.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Around 900 violations have been recorded during Yemen's UN-brokered truce by Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias and forces loyal to ousted President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... during the past 24 hours, the coalition said Friday.
The coalition said Houthi rebels and their allies had breached the truce since it took effect at midnight Wednesday. It said the ceasefire violations increased dramatically during the past 24 hours.
"The Coalition Forces stressed that the response to the sources of fire was made in accordance with the approved rules of engagement," read a statement on Saudi Press Agency.
"The Coalition Forces also stressed their commitment to the policy of self-restraint towards these violations."
Violations were committed along the Saudi and Yemeni borders. Rockets and projectiles were fired and sniper weapons were used by the Houthis at Jazan and Najran, it added.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Major General Ahmed Assiri said coalition artillery and aircraft retaliated.
He told Al Arabiya’s sister al-Hadath channel that the Lions of Islam have not stopped the firing since the start of the truce.
"We will respond to each violation. We will be reactive," he said, in statements carried by AFP. "It's so easy. If they stop, we will not fire a bullet."
In one attack, a man and his daughter were maimed in the kingdom's Jazan region, according to Saudi civil defense authorities.
Furthermore, Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi stressed on the legitimate authority's commitment to the truce, despite ongoing attacks by Houthi militias.
During his meeting with UN Special Envoy for Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Hadi highlighted his keenness to achieve peace, knowing that the war will always lead to the dialogue table.
"We ordered our various field commanders to abide by the truce, despite the registered violations of the rebels in various regions and cities, including Taiz," he said.
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[An Nahar] U.S. 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... expressed caution on Friday regarding the possibility of electing a new president in Leb in the near future, a day after ex-PM Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. formally endorsed Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... founder MP Michel Aoun ...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... for the presidency.
In response to a news hound's question during Washington talks with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah, Kerry hoped there will be progress in Leb but noted that he is not sure about the outcome of Hariri's move.
"This stalemate on the issue of the presidency is hurting Leb and hurts the region and we hope it will move forward," Kerry added.
Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... bloc MP George Adwan later tweeted that Kerry's statements "prove that the presidential juncture is Lebanese par excellence," noting that "his skepticism increases Aoun's chances."
In a speech on Thursday, Hariri described his decision to endorse Aoun as a "major political risk" that he is willing to take for the sake of the country.
Leb has been without a president since the term of Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... ended in May 2014 and Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , Aoun's Change and Reform bloc and some of their allies have been boycotting the parliament's electoral sessions, stripping them of the needed quorum.
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The word cloud should read, "You know, my time to strut upon the world stage, telling a tale of sound and fury, delivered by an idiot, is almost over."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... issued another extradition warrant Thursday for an Iranian ex-foreign minister over the deadly bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994, the government said. Investigating Judge Rodolfo Canicoba asked Baghdad to extradite Ali Akbar Velayati, who is on the Interpol wanted list, since he is currently on Iraqi soil.
He asked Iraq to arrest Velayati "in order to extradite him, after learning via the international press that the accused travelled to Baghdad" on Wednesday, the Argentine justice ministry said in a statement. In July Argentina issued a similar warrant to Singapore and Malaysia after learning Velayati was on a lecture tour to those countries.
Argentine Sherlocks accuse Velayati and four other Iranian former officials, including ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ... the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until he was eased out in 2011 He continues, for the moment, as Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council. In 2005 he ran for a third term as president, ultimately losing to rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Khamenei's graces back then. In 1980 Rafsanjani survived an assassination attempt, during which he was seriously injured. He has been described as a centrist and a pragmatic conservative without all that much reason. He is currently being eased out of any position of actual influence or power and may be dead by the end of 2012... , of orchestrating the July 18, 1994 boom-mobileing at the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association in Buenos Aires. The Iranians allegedly ordered the Lebanese holy warrior group Hezbollah to carry out the bombing, the deadliest terror attack in the South American country’s history.
Iran, which denies involvement, has repeatedly rejected Argentine demands for the accused to testify. Velayati rejected the accusations as a lie in an interview last year with Argentine television channel C5N. The lead prosecutor in the case, Alberto Nisman, was found dead last year in mysterious circumstances four days after accusing then-president Cristina Kirchner of conspiring with Iran to shield suspects from prosecution.
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Velayati has escaped the law for now some twenty years. He first attracted attention in the early nineteen nineties when he became responsible for liaison with the Sunni-dominated Popular Arab and Islamic Conference, (the 'Terrorist Internationale'), located in the Sudan. His present "lecture tour" is almost certainly in conjunction with work for Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Because it's an urban city-state that abuts a critical maritime shipping lane, located next to Malaysia and a short air flight from Indonesia and Thailand.
[DAWN] An anti-terrorist court in Islamabad on Friday directed the police to implement its orders in relation to the arrest warrants of 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 who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... and Pakistain Awami Tehrik chief Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... in the Pakistain Television (PTV) headquarters attack case.
Today’s hearing of the case was presided by ATC judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi who inquired why the police had not been able to submit an implementation report on the court’s arrest orders.
Expressing his displeasure over the police's failure to submit the implementation report, the judge directed authorities to carry out the arrests of Imran Khan, Tahirul Qadri and 68 others by Nov 17 and present them in court on the said date.
The 70 were booked after a mob of protesters belonging to the PTI and PAT stormed PTV headquarters and forced its staff to take two of the state broadcaster’s flagship channels -- PTV News and PTV World -- off the air on Sept 1, 2014.
According to eyewitnesses, at the time nearly 400 PTI and PAT workers had stormed the PTV building, across the road from the main entrance to the Pakistain Secretariat. The attack had come soon after demonstrators were repulsed from the secretariat compound.
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[An Nahar] Jihadists staged a brazen raid on the Iraqi city of Kirkuk Friday, in what appeared to be an attempt to divert attention from the huge offensive against their djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... bastion.
Residents awoke to the sound of shooting and praise for the "Islamic State
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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.
[Long Wars] Senior commanders in the Sunni Palestinian Quds Brigade, known as the Liwa al Quds or the Syrian Arab Army Fedayeen, have been photographed receiving medals from Russian military officers for battlefield action. The latest interaction further indicates the deep level of Russian involvement and impact they are having on the Syrian civil war.
Hillary Clinton
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Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Sun Star] A suspected Abu Sayyaf Group militant was killed in a clash with policemen in Lantawan, Basilan province. Police chief Alfadda Osalli identified the slain rebel as Said Ummal, also known as Said Usman, a resident of the village of Bulan-Bulan.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iranians media outlets with reformist editorials recently published a story on the release of Hassan Kord Mihin, the 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A statement from 
[Iraq Sun] TEL AVIV, Israel - A deal negotiated in secret will see the Israel Navy take delivery of 3 nuclear-enabled submarines over the next decade.
[An Nahar] Russia said Friday it was concerned over the refusal of fighters from a former al-Qaeda affiliate, the 
[DAWN] MUZAFFARABAD: United Jihad Council (UJC) chairman 
[DAWN] The mystery surrounding the killing of four girls and two men from 
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State 
Michel Aoun
