[New York Post] In a last-minute effort to save Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House, Barack Obama’s chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, has urged the president to fire FBI Director James Comey, according to a source close to Jarrett.
Obama and Jarrett are furious with Comey for reopening the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s emails just 11 days before the presidential election. They blame Comey for Clinton’s alarming slide in the polls.
"Valerie argued that Comey was interfering deliberately in the election process and had to be stopped," the source said. "The president said he was worried about the consequences of taking such an action -- the tsunami of outrage that would come his way, and possibly become a major footnote, or worse, in the history of his presidency.
"There is also the real possibility that such an action could backfire on the president and result in a Saturday Night Massacre," the source said.
Nonetheless, "the president gave orders to convene meetings with his other top advisers over the matter," the source continued. "And that’s how he and Jarrett left the matter for now."
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Yep the last POTUS to fire an FBI director for yanking the lid off of a scandal opened a huge can of whuppass on himself and several members of his inner circle.
I don't think ValJar quite understands how angry most Americans are with her boss and how much that would tilt the table.
Now if he did it AFTER the election, all hell will break loose.
Egypt tried to draw a line under a deep economic crisis Thursday by allowing its currency to float freely.
The move saw the Egyptian pound crash 48% against the U.S. dollar... "[this will] improve Egypt's external competitiveness, support exports and tourism and attract foreign investment," IMF Mission Chief for Egypt, Chris Jarvis, said in a statement.
According to central bank data, one U.S. dollar now buys 13 Egyptian pounds, compared to 8.8 on Wednesday.
of course this makes imported goods including food (Egypt is not even close to being self sufficient) more expensive... let's see how the people in the street take this when the retail market settles
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After hosting the president at his home for a Hillary Clinton fundraiser, the DreamWorks founder tells THR Obama "is still very ambitious about these last couple of months. ... You can't help but be impressed -- still [fighting] after eight years."
Jeffrey Katzenberg has shared private dinners and counseled Barack Obama on his post-White House plans, but even he says it's a "unique" experience to host the president in his home.
On Oct. 24, the DreamWorks founder and wife Marilyn hosted a roundtable with tech venture capitalist Chris Sacca and his wife, Crystal, and political consultant Andy Spahn and his wife, Children's Action Network's Jennifer Perry. J.J. Abrams, his wife, Katie McGrath, and lawyer Skip Brittenham were among the 25 guests who paid $100,000 each to attend and benefit the Hillary Victory Fund.
Three nights later Katzenberg picked up his amfAR Inspiration Gala honor and told THR that Obama "is still very ambitious about these last couple of months, and he's got a huge agenda with things he wants to get done. You can't help but be impressed -- still [fighting] after eight years." It takes a lot to destroy a country of 300+ million (and a shitload of illegals). Every day counts!
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The SCOAMF (look it up) still has time to pardon a small army of violent black thugs from their richly-deserved prison sentences. He can then become crime lord of this murderous horde.
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(Abbreviation) Stuttering Clusterf$ck of a Miserable Failure; mostly used by conservative and right-wing blogs to describe some politicians
Usage: Narcissists, because their self-evaluation is faith-based, might be considered by some as SCoaMFs.
[FreeBeacon] Chinese spies repeatedly infiltrated U.S. national security agencies, including official email accounts, and stole U.S. secrets on Pentagon war plans for a future conflict with China, according to a forthcoming congressional commission report.
"The United States faces a large and growing threat to its national security from Chinese intelligence collection operations," states the late draft report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
"Among the most serious threats are China’s efforts at cyber and human infiltration of U.S. national security entities."
Chinese intelligence activities have "risen significantly" in the past 15 years and are conducted through several spy services, including the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), and Communist Party military organizations such as the PLA General Political Department and the Party’s United Front Work Department.
A copy of the draft annual report for 2016 was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The final report will be released Nov. 16.
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Especially when they can get top secret stuff off Yahoo accounts.
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[The Hill] A woman who accused Donald Trump of raping her when she was 13 called off a press conference at which she planned to speak out after receiving threats, her attorney said.
The unidentified accuser, known as Jane Doe, was set to make a public statement for the first time about the accusations Wednesday afternoon alongside lawyer Lisa Bloom. But Bloom said the woman changed her mind in light of numerous threats.
"Jane Doe has received numerous threats today, as have all the Trump accusers that I have represented," Bloom told reporters.
"She is living in fear. She has decided that she is too afraid to show her face. She's been here all day ready to do it. But unfortunately she is in terrible fear."
The woman filed a lawsuit over the summer that alleges that Trump and Jeffrey Epstein raped and sexually abused her at a series of parties in 1994, when she was 13. Epstein is a New York financier who pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a young girl in 2008.
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Jane Doe has received numerous threats today, as have all the Trump accusers that I have represented
'Threats' were probably of filing defamation lawsuits.
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But Bloom said the woman changed her mind in light of numerous threats. Threats or just a Gloria Allred-like hit job that disappears after the election. The case was tossed in California and refiled in NY. Probably someone in NY owes the Clintons a favor. A "Jane Doe" case-c'mon?
[The Hill] KAMPALA, Uganda ‐ Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has had surprising resonance in parts of Africa where people are weary of the political establishment and see the real estate mogul as a global force for change.
Despite famously pushing an "America first" foreign policy and appearing to show little interest in events outside the U.S., the Republican nominee for president is enjoying a strong amount of popularity in Uganda and other African nations, a week out from Election Day.
Trump is also up against Hillary Clinton, a woman known on the international stage for more than two decades, most recently as a globetrotting secretary of State, and whose family foundation has helped to save millions from malaria, HIV/AIDS and other diseases -- including many Africans.
Yet for many in and around this capital city, scattered across hills in the jungle of East Africa, Trump’s candidacy represents a strike against political dynasties and the established order that has kept strongmen such as their own president in power for decades. Trump’s tough rhetoric and a fake viral quote have boosted his appeal to many looking for a change.
"Trump has presented himself as a candidate that is anti-establishment, that he wants to turn around things and cause a revolution of some sort," said Moses Khisa, a lecturer in political science at Northwestern University and columnist for a Ugandan newspaper. Con't.
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“For me, as an African, there’s just something familiar about Trump that makes me feel at home,” Daily Show host Trevor Noah, a South African native, quipped last October.
The poor, dull kaffir has his polls confused. It's the Jacob Zuma wanna-be Obama he's actually referencing.
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Interesting. Especially because so many others beyond our borders have been loudly proclaiming disapproval of Mr. Trump, which will become amusingly awkward should he win.
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I think that Trump could turn out to be a major force for change in the world. Not sure he will, but he could.
If nothing else, a Trump victory would restore a lot of the checks and balances in our system as all the anti-Trumpers take to the media to high light any contretemps that may occur.
This would also be the first time in the social media age where there was a non-elite insider in the WH. Could be interesting. Of course if Evita wannabe dictator Crime Queen Hillary is elected all bets are off and we may find out what happens post United States.
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I suspect a Trump Administration will be the least corrupt in American history while having the appearance in the media of being the most corrupt ever.
[Al Manar] Two American soldiers were killed and two others wounded Thursday during operations in the Taliban hotbed of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, officials said, in the latest US casualties as the conflict escalates.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the killings, which highlight growing insecurity after the Taliban sought to overrun Kunduz city for the second time last month.
The soldiers came under fire as they were assisting Afghan troops to clear a Taliban position and disrupt the group’s operations in Kunduz, US forces said in a brief statement.
"On behalf of all of US Forces ‐ Afghanistan, today’s loss is heartbreaking and we offer our deepest condolences to the families and friends of our service members who lost their lives today," said John Nicholson, the top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan.
The killings come just days before the US presidential election.
Moved to Opinion because The New Yorker labelled it "humor".
In an unexpected televised address on Saturday, Queen Elizabeth II offered to restore British rule over the United States of America. Jolly good!
Addressing the American people from her office in Buckingham Palace, the Queen said that she was making the offer "in recognition of the desperate situation you now find yourselves in."
"This two-hundred-and-forty-year experiment in self-rule began with the best of intentions, but I think we can all agree that it didn't end well," she said.
The Queen urged Americans to write in her name on Election Day, after which the transition to British rule could begin "with a minimum of bother."
Elizabeth acknowledged that, in the wake of Brexit, Americans might justifiably be alarmed about being governed by the British parliamentary system, but she reassured them, "Parliament would play no role in this deal. This would be an old-school monarchy. Just me, and then, assuming you'd rather not have Charles, we could go straight to William and those children of his who have mesmerized you so."
Using the closing moments of her speech to tout her credentials, the Queen made it clear that she has never used e-mail and has only had sex with one person "very occasionally."
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Russia has offered to send 10000 little green men to Alaska to oversee a referendum about the return of said province to the motherland.
Mexico has offered to take back California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado. In return they will build a wall on the northern border of the new Great State of Aztlan.
France has offered to send the Charles de Gaulle to liberate Louisiana (but prefers to wait out the hurricane season).
Germany will occupy Germantown, Ohio... and all breweries.
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Germany will occupy Germantown, Ohio... and all breweries
I was going to suggest Luke AFB in Arizona and much of the Hill Country of Texas, but I suspect Texans might have an issue with the latter.
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Pappy, EC you ever read about the German State visit to the LBJ ranch during? Say what you will about that SOB, he could turn on the charm and thru a great house party.
[Red State Watcher] According to multiple sources, after the NYPD confiscated Anthony Weiner's laptop which was filled with Huma Abedin's emails they continued their search and discovered the property of Hillary Clinton in the form of emails that implicated her and Bill in the most heinous and serious crimes. Makes the 'Monkey Business' of 1988 seem rather tame.
An NYPD source just claimed that within the emails on that device, Hillary and Bill are directly implicated ins a MASSIVE child sex/trafficking ring along with their friend, and convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. (See Below)
According to the source,
"...It’s much more vile and serious than classified material on Weiner’s device. The emails DETAIL the trips made by Weiner, Bill and Hillary on their pedophile billionaire friend’s plane, the Lolita Express."
"We’re talking an international child enslavement and sex ring"
These claims were backed up by other NYPD sources as well:
Jeff Epstein is a level-3 registered sex offender and the media ignores the fact hat Bill Clinton flew 26 times on Epstein’s private Jet and allegedly visited Epstein’s sex slave island. Now that Hillary has also been directly implicated, the media cannot ignore this any longer!
The NYPD source makes specific claims about her involvement. He says, "Hillary has a well documented predilection for underage girls, and Mr. Weiner could not bear to see those details deleted."
Grocery store check-out lane tabloid stuff (at this point), unless sources are produced and evidence is forthcoming. Interesting, nonetheless.
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#12 Trump has been accused of child rape
There was a case filed in California by this person but it got tossed out of the courts. Appeared again in NY (more fertile climate for dems I guess).
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IMO the Trump allegation is bogus and a red herring. IMO the Weiner-Clinton-Epstein thing might yield much more damaging stuff before this is all over.
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Just heard on news that the Trump rape accuser canceled event because of threats on her life.
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#23 Anonymous announced around Oct. 12 that they would release a video of BC with an underage girl Heard there was a recording of BC also but so far I haven't seen such a vid. It's possible it exists as it is said that Epstein liked to record such things.
[Red State Watcher] Former New York Mayor and federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani spoke with Megyn Kelly on Fox news and confirmed what many have been speculating about a civil war within the highest levels of our government.
[AlArabiya] Russia on Wednesday told anti-government rebels holed up in Syria's Aleppo to leave by Friday evening, signaling it would extend a moratorium on air strikes against targets inside the city.
The Russian Defence Ministry, which is helping forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad try to retake full control of Aleppo, said rebels would be allowed to exit the city unharmed and with their weapons between 0900 and 1900 local time on Nov. 4 via two special corridors.
Civilians and the sick and wounded would be allowed to leave via six other corridors, it said.
President Vladimir Putin had ordered the pause in fighting "to avoid senseless victims," the Defence Ministry said, saying that Syrian authorities would ensure that Syrian troops pulled back from the two corridors designated for rebels.
Russia and its Syrian allies say they halted air attacks on Aleppo on Oct 18. Western governments had alleged that the strikes had been killing civilians in large numbers, an allegation Moscow denied.
Humanitarian pauses designed to allow both rebels and civilians to exit the city have been organised by Moscow and Damascus before, but have largely failed amid continued violence with both sides accusing the other of stopping people from leaving.
A Kremlin spokesman said on Tuesday that the moratorium on air strikes was still in force, but could not be extended if rebels in the city did not halt their attacks.
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that rebels inside Aleppo had taken heavy losses during fighting and were effectively trapped.
"All attempts by the rebels to break through in Aleppo have failed," the ministry said. "The terrorists have suffered heavy losses in lives, weapons and equipment. They have no chance to break out of the city."
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday sharply criticized government departments for the late and non-delivery of fuel and supplies, including food, weapons and ammunition, to the Afghan security forces – many of whom are on the battlefields.
He called for urgent action by the security institutions to address the problem.
Ghani also raised deep concerns over a dramatic surge in fatalities among the conventional forces, and ordered security leaders to outline a new strategy to curb the rising trend.
Ghani said that the high number of military casualties in the country is an enormous challenge and said that the seizing of government forces' equipment by armed opposition is not acceptable.
The statement comes as embattled Afghan security forces have persistently complained about the lack of food, fuel and ammunition.
In a new development, Afghan security forces fighting the Taliban in Uruzgan's Dehrawood and Charchenoi districts made similar complaints.
Certain issues such as corruption and mismanagement by the responsible institutions undertaking the delivery of fuel and other logistics to forces have angered Ghani.
There has been speculation among military commentators that issues such as corruption and mismanagement by the security institutions have been the main cause of the surge in fatalities and the spike in takeovers of check posts by the enemies.
"I really felt shame when I heard that our security forces went for 15 or 20 days with only rice or bread. What are our intelligence services doing? People should call me or call the media. I want solutions to these complaints. It is not a request but an order and it must be implemented ... I will bring changes and the system has to be reformed," Ghani added.
"This is not supposed to be a request, but an order and it needs to be implemented, I want change, the system must be reformed, these facilities were not supposed to be for stealing, because on the other side blood is shed," said Ghani.
"I can not say that corruption was handled 100 percent, but there is a commitment to curb corruption, we recently reshuffled all those who were employed in the supply sector or accounts," said defense ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri.
"Bullets, uniforms and other privileges are being stolen, this issue needs to be investigated and the trend must stop," said MP Sayed Hussain Sharifi Balkhabi.
Military commentators believe that the timely delivery of supplies to security forces will help to reduce fatalities and secure check posts which are all too often seized by insurgents.
[DAWN] An army officer was killed and six soldiers were maimed in a kaboom in Wana of South Wazoo Agency on Tuesday. "They're ba-a-a-a-ack!"
A statement issued by the Inter Services Public Relations said Major Imran had "embraced shahadat" and six soldiers suffered injuries when an improvised bomb went off during a search operation in Wana Bazaar. According to officials, army and paramilitary forces cordoned off the area to search shops for arms and ammunition as local authorities had imposed a ban on their sale and purchase in the agency. The kaboom took place in a shop belonging to one Khan Kharoti, killing Major Imran on the spot and injuring the six soldiers.
The body of the army officer was flown 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. while the injured were taken to a military hospital in the area.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top commander of the Haqqani terrorist network was killed during an operation of the Afghan police forces in eastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province. Photo at the site is blurred by Photoshop, but the bloodstain sez he was gut shot.
Ulululululululululululululululu!!
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said commander Wahid also famous as Jamshid was killed during a targeted operation in Warmami district.
MoI further added that the Afghan police forces did not suffer any casualties during the operation.
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The US Sea-Based X-band Radar (SBX), one of the world's largest and most sophisticated phased-array X-band radar units, was deployed to the waters off North Korea in late September, Yonhap news agency quoted a South Korean military official as saying on 1 November.
"The [SBX] Radar was sent to an undisclosed location off the Korean Peninsula for a one-month deployment after departing Hawaii in late September," the official told Yonhap. "It sailed back to its home port in late October," he added.
Although no details of the SBX's mission off the Korean Peninsula have yet to be made public, the radar is designed to detect and track long-range ballistic missiles and rockets.
If the SBX was able to collect data from North Korea's recent launches of intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs), this information could be used to assess the performance and range of the missiles.
A spokesperson for the United States Forces-Korea Public Affairs Office declined to confirm the media report to IHS Jane's, citing "operational and security reasons".
As part of the United States' Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, the SBX takes the form of an X-band ballistic missile-tracking and discrimination radar that is installed aboard a fifth-generation, semi-submersible, self-propelled, oceangoing platform.
Displacing about 50,000 tons, the SBX platform is understood to be 73 m wide, 119 m long, and measures 85 m from its keel to the top of the radar's protective radome.
Alongside the SBX radar, the platform's main deck provides accommodation for a crew of 85; work and storage spaces; power generation (comprising six 3.6 MW generators as originally fielded); bridge; control rooms; and the space and infrastructure needed to support the SBX radar antenna, command, control, and communications suites, and an in-flight interceptor communication system data terminal that hands off target-tracking and discrimination data to GMD interceptor missiles.
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It may or may not have succeeded at collecting data, but at least it was able to "sail home" which is better than some.
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The US Sea-Based X-band Radar (SBX), one of the world's largest and most sophisticated phased-array X-band radar units, was deployed to the waters off North Korea in late September
Um, no. The Pueblo was an intel unit (signals-interception and translation.) A bastard child of the DoD and IC, un-beloved by the Navy and (like the Liberty) considered expendable by LBJ.
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That is loitering off the Nork coast line doing electro-magnetic gathering of some sort with little or no self defense.
You left out the mission, the conditions of deployment and the political support (translation: significant US and Japanese defense assets nearby/standby.) Other than that, you're right.
[Vice] If you happen to find yourself in Sydney this week, you have the unique opportunity to have sex with the earth. You just need to stop by the "ecosexual bathhouse," which is currently part of the Syndey LiveWorks Festival of experimental art. The bathhouse is an interactive installation created by artists Loren Kronemyer and Ian Sinclair of Pony Express, who described the work to me as a "no-holds-barred extravaganza meant to dissolve the barriers between species as we descend into oblivion" as the result of our global environmental crisis. But they also see their piece as a part of a much larger ecosexual movement, which they say is gathering momentum around the world. Got nuthin'. Do not try to hump Mother Earth. If she slaps you, you will stay slapped.
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In Aesop we read of a skeeter
Who fancied the goddess Demeter,
And how they'd have married
If only he'd carried
The peter he'd carved from a cedar.
[DeutscheWelle] Sixteen asylum-seekers were incarcerated on Wednesday, suspected of running a crime ring. Authorities said the raid was unrelated to an operation in October that also focused on Chechen asylum-seekers.
German authorities conducted raids against Chechen asylum-seekers suspected of forming a crime ring on Wednesday.
Authorities rounded up 16 suspects in the raids across three German states: Saxony, Thuringia and Rhineland-Palatinate. The suspects hailed primarily from Russia's restless region of Chechnya. Police said the suspects formed an organized crime ring focused on blackmail, illegal restraint and harassment. The effort was coordinated by police in Saxony. Due to the risk of violence, counterterrorism unit GSG 9 took part in the raid. No injuries were reported.
"Especially in these times when counterterrorism constitutes such a key part of our criminal investigative work, we cannot allow other more traditional types of criminality - especially organized crime - any room to sprawl," said Jörg Michaelis, president of the state of Saxony's investigative criminal police force (LKA Sachsen).
Wednesday's raid follows an operation on October 25 in which primarily Chechen refugees in Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia were nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on suspicion of involvement in financing terrorism. Officials said there was no connection between Wednesday's raids and those of October 25.
At least two Kenyan defense force (KDF) soldiers were killed, and four others wounded in a bomb blast near El Wak town in Gedo province, south-west of Somalia on Wednesday.
The attack occurred at Burta-Mangete, a small locality located in the outskirts of El Wak city when a remote-controlled landmine struck a military convoy carrying Kenyan forces. The KDF convoy was transporting a military supply to Kenyan army base at Buzar area, near Somali-Kenyan border at the time of the roadside bomb attack, according to locals.
Reports indicated that they were casualties among KDF soldiers as a result of the attack, however, neither Al Shabaab group nor Kenya has commented on the land mine blast.
Kenyan forces in Somalia who are serving with African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have crossed into the horn of Africa country in Oct, 2011 to fight Al shabaab militants.
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Nine suspected terrorists were killed in an 'encounter' with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Sheikhupura early Wednesday, a CTD statement said.
The CTD received information that a cell of 13-14 'Al Qaeda terrorists' was hiding in Sheikhupura to "launch attacks on police personnel and offices of sensitive agencies in and around Lahore," the statement said.
The CTD raided a place in Kheroki Malian at about 1am to arrest the suspects. At the site of the raid, the CTD challenged the 'terrorists' to surrender.
"In response, the terrorists started firing at CTD officials and divided them into 2-3 small groups. The CTD team took cover and retaliated in self defence. When the firing stopped, nine terrorists were found dead killed by firing of own accomplices, whereas 4-5 succeeded in fleeing from the scene in darkness," the CTD statement claimed.
The CTD recovered 6 kilograms of explosive material, prima cord, four Kalashnikov rifles, five pistols, five motorcycles, and bullets from the scene.
An investigation was launched to track down the absconding 'terrorists' and a case is being registered in the CTD police station, the statement said.
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Turkey will complete a 911-kilometer-long wall along its border with Syria in the first half of 2017, Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Işık said Nov. 2 during a visit to the border along with the commander of the Land Forces, Salih Zeki Çolak, and Hatay Gov. Erdal Ata.
Over 900 km? That's some wall. A wall like that would fence off much of Arizona from Mexico...
Stating that Turkey had the right to take all the measures to fend off ostensible threats aimed at itself, Işık said Turkey’s Euphrates Shield Operation, launched on Aug. 24 in order to rid the border of terrorist organizations, was part of these efforts.
“One of the other measures we took is to ensure emergency physical border security – in other words, build walls along the border as long as the geographical situation allows. We have built 268 kilometers of the wall as of now,” Işık said Nov. 2.
“Within the first half of 2017, we wish to finalize all of the 911 kilometers of the Syrian border with physical border security,” he added.
As part of the precautions being taken to preserve border security, the government is planning to form a professional armed border patrol that will work under the aegis of the Interior Ministry in 2017, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Işık said that out of the 520 kilometers of the wall, around 200 kilometers of it had been already contracted, with around 250 kilometers more to be contracted within a week or two. He said the remaining 85 kilometers of the border were river passages, over which different precautions had been taken.
Along other parts of the border, protection and surveillance services are provided by the Turkish Land Forces, the Gendarmerie and the Coast Guard.
However, a state of emergency decree law passed on July 23 tied the Gendarmerie and Coast Guard to the Interior Ministry, removing them from the authority of the Land Forces and Naval Forces.
With its new border plan, Ankara aims to gather and centralize different authorities for border services under the full command of the Interior Ministry.
Centralizing: what sultans do best...
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I'll believe if/when I see it. And a post-election Champ just might pardon everyone. It does beg the question of why the New York State AG ordered the Trump Foundation shut down for "irregularities" while letting the Clinton Foundation continue. Then again, I think we all know why...
Fox News Channel's Bret Baier reports the latest news about the Clinton Foundation investigation from two sources inside the FBI. He reveals five important new pieces of information in these two short clips:
1. The Clinton Foundation investigation is far more expansive than anybody has reported so far and has been going on for more than a year.
2. The laptops of Clinton aides Cherryl Mills and Heather Samuelson have not been destroyed, and agents are currently combing through them. The investigation has interviewed several people twice, and plans to interview some for a third time.
3. Agents have found emails believed to have originated on Hillary Clinton's secret server on Anthony Weiner's laptop. They say the emails are not duplicates and could potentially be classified in nature.
4. Sources within the FBI have told him that an indictment is "likely" in the case of pay-for-play at the Clinton Foundation, "barring some obstruction in some way" from the Justice Department.
5. FBI sources say with 99% accuracy that Hillary Clinton's server has been hacked by at least five foreign intelligence agencies, and that information had been taken from it.
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Indictment of who is the question. Most likely a mid-range person that is expendable so McKacklepants can take the throne.
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O can't pardon her without a conviction, because the Constitution says she is innocent until proven guilty. To pardon her without a conviction of a specific crime would make her look guilty!
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Bobby, think Nixons pardon by Ford, he was never convicted of anything.
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@#6: Zero didn't let anything go forward. He may have been aware of the investigations, but could not stop them (although DO"J" appeared to have done their best.).
FBI Directors are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate for 10-year terms. This give some protection against Political influence.
Zero couldn't remove Comey without some seriously nasty evidence. Mr. Comey impresses me as a "Boy Scout" with a squeaky clean CV and, therefore, somewhat immune to dismissal pressure.
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From Judge Napolitano column" At the time he sent his Friday letter, Comey had not yet seen the contents of the Weiner laptop because the search warrant authorizing FBI agents to access its contents was not signed until Sunday. If he saw something incriminating before he wrote his letter, he saw it unlawfully; yet his duty was to bring what he saw to the Department of Justice, for which he works, not to hint about it publicly to Congress.
Comey's progress report to Congress is prohibited by the internal regulations of the DOJ and the FBI -- and by the canons of legal ethics that regulate lawyers. Comey had no obligation to send the letter at any time; moreover, sending it last week was a direct violation of DOJ and FBI rules that prohibit all public announcements about candidates for public office within 60 days of Election Day.
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When the "Obama DOJ" stands for everything but Justice for all, it's pretty hard to demand fielty to their political decrees. Comey should never have said it was "closed" in July but the Weiner investigation saw new info and I think he had to note that. Note Judge Napolitano has been wrong on MANY things before, but never unsure
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See this damning article (with WSJ excerpt) at AOSHQ
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Three-prongs to investigation: 1. Weiner schlong problem with underage girls, 2. RICO-level corruption in the CF and CGI, and 3. mishandling (maybe treason and espionage) of classified info?
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"prongs" should not be used in a Weiner-related comment
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I can't see any scenario where a Democrat in the Oval Office will allow anyone of any status to be charged with a crime. If Clinton is elected this story will be debunked as media hype and Mitch and Paul will dine in the White House with Hil & Bill.
The FBI has had AW's computer for nearly 6 weeks if reports are true. It's hard to believe they haven't done something by now other than CYA.
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#13 The FBI has had AW's computer for nearly 6 weeks if reports are true.
In addition to the AW/HumaA computer, the FBI is reported to have Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson's computers too. Searching the latter computers would imply the immunity agreements have been violated by Mills and Samuelson.
[CBSNews] Hillary Clinton’s campaign is returning thousands of dollars in donations linked to what may be one of the largest straw-donor schemes ever uncovered.
A small law firm that has given money to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Harry Reid, President Obama and many others is accused of improperly funneling millions of dollars into Democratic Party coffers. The program was exposed by the Center for Responsive Politics and the same team of Boston Globe investigative reporters featured in the movie "Spotlight."
The Thornton Law Firm has just 10 partners, but dollar for dollar, it’s one of the nation’s biggest political donors, reports CBS News correspondent Tony Dokoupil.
But according to the firm’s own documents ‐ leaked by a whistleblower -- days or even hours after making these donations, partners received bonuses matching the amount they gave.
"Once the law firm knew that we had these records, they didn’t deny that this was the case," Funny how that works.
said Scott Allen, Boston Globe’s Spotlight editor. Nice little graphic included showing a few other recipients of the $.
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Oficial name - Thornton Law Firm LLP (home page is here), and they're a couple of blocks away from South Station. Basically a bunch of ambulance chasers. I wonder if the Board of Bar Overseers received a complaint yet? Shit like this ought to be an ethical violation.
The poor Rutgers lad succumbed to Sudden Jihad Syndrome over and over again.
[IsraelTimes] A 24-year-old New Jersey man is convicted of terrorism for vandalizing and Molotov cocktailing synagogues and a rabbi’s home in Bergen County in 2012.
Aakash Dalal is also convicted by the court in Bergen County on 16 other counts, including conspiracy to commit arson, attempted arson, bias intimidation, possession of a weapon and possession of a destructive device.
Dalal, a former student at Rutgers University, has been tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! since he was locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! in March 2012. He will be sentenced on December 21.
His former high school classmate Anthony Graziano also was found guilty of terrorism and 19 other counts in May for the anti-Semitic attacks in December 2011 and January 2012. Graziano also awaits sentencing.
NewJersey.com has all the details on the attacks on three synagogues, a Jewish community center, and a rabbi's home next to the synagogue where he worked, the multiple specific charges for each attack, and the dozens of AOL chat messages retrieved from Mr. Graziano's laptop detailing their plans and their hatred of Jews. A charge against Mr. Dalal for conspiring to murder the assistant prosecutor while in jail is still pending.
(IraqiNews.com) Diyala – An IED blast killed a bomb expert and a member of al-Sahwa, while wounded three other personnel, northwest of Baqubah, Al Sumaria News reported on Wednesday.
The bomb targeted security forces while searching the village of Mokhaisa (25 Km northwest of Baqubah).
Al Sumaria News said, “A security force scurried to the scene, carrying the wounded victims to a nearby hospital, while taking dead bodies to forensic medicine department.”
Mokhaisa is one of the conflict hotspots in Diyala, and occasionally witnesses security tensions due to the use of its vast farmlands as havens by Islamic State fighters.
Also on Wednesday, an IED blast killed an ISIS leader in Hawijah, according to Al Sumaria News.
“The IED was planted on the road side on the outskirts of Hawijah, southwest Kirkuk,” Al Sumaria explained. “The bomb targeted the convoy of Abi Muslim, who headed what was referred to as the group’s ‘services divan,’ Al Sumaria added.
Several ISIS leaders had been assassinated by opposing groups that have become active recently in Hawijah.
Hawijah was a major Islamic State stronghold in Kirkuk. It fall to the group’s control after June 2014.
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(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – Eight militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State extremist group were killed in an air bombing by US-led international coalition, west of Ramadi, Iraqi army forces announced on Wednesday.
Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Mohammadi said in a press statement, “International coalition aircraft bombed a gathering of ISIS terrorists north of Hadithah, west of Ramadi.”
In Baqubah, a local official said that army forces defused seven IEDs planted inside a school at a liberated village, northeast of the city.
Adnan Al-Tamimi, Head of Maqdadiah municipality, said, “A force from the army’s fifth brigade ran into the bombs while combing the village of Kahilaniyah (13Km north of Maqdadiah).”
“A specialized unit dismantled the IEDs with no losses,” he said. ” The discovery supports our earlier warnings that ISIS could use the village’s emptiness of citizens to turn it into a hotspot,” he explained.
Khailainiyah is among the largest villages north of Maqdadiah that had been cleared from ISIS fighters who occupied it in June 2014. Its citizens, however, have not yet returned home.
Eyes are currently on Mosul, Islamic State’s last stronghold in Iraq, for which US-led foreign forces, Iraqi security and allied Shia militias are carrying out a major liberation campaign.
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[PROJECTVERITASACTION] In a new video released by Project Veritas Action, a top Democratic donor is caught on camera disparaging members of the African American community at a fundraiser for North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Deborah Ross.
In the video, prominent Ross donor Benjamin Barber expresses his opinion about blacks who vote Republican by comparing them to Nazis.
"Have you heard of the Sonderkommandos? Jewish guards who helped murder Jews in the camps. So there were even Jews that were helping the Nazis murder Jews! So blacks who are helping the other side are seriously fucked in the head. They’re only helping the enemy who will destroy them. Maybe they think ’if I help them we’ll get along okay; somehow I’ll save my race by working with the murderers,’" said Barber at a fundraiser for Ross on the Upper West Side of New York City on September 19, 2016.
Project Veritas Action thought it was important to share Barber’s words with African American Republicans in North Carolina. They expressed outrage over the comments that were made at the Ross fundraiser.
"I think that Deborah Ross has shown her true colors. If this is not a, if that...what you just showed me is not racism and condescending and basically calling blacks stupid and ignorant and saying that we are voting against our own self-interest if we support any republican. I am appalled. I am in incensed. Deborah Ross should be called to task for something like that," said Bishop Wooden, a black voter in North Carolina.
Project Veritas Action Fund (AKA Project Veritas Action) was founded by James O’Keefe to investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct.
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Is Hillary going to repudiate Barber or refuse his money?
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He actually stated Blacks that support Republicans are seriously F'd in the head. I don't think the Democrats see anything wrong with saying that. They think anyone associated with the Republicans are F'd in the head.
North Korea is apparently purging military officers with family members who have defected to South Korea. Officers and soldiers who have family or relatives that have defected have been driven out since early October in a purge led by the Politburo and state security, a source said Monday. Around 1,000 officers and enlisted soldiers have been dishonorably discharged over the last month.
"There seems to be a lot of resentment among soldiers who claim to have been driven out even though they are innocent," the source added.
Military service is crucial in rising up through the ranks of the Workers Party.
When the number of recruits dwindled after a massive famine in the late 1990s that killed more than 1 million North Koreans, the North eased drafting standards allowing even family members of defectors to join. But screening has become more stringent following recent high-level defections.
One defector who used to be a senior official said, "Defectors send not only money back to North Korea but information as well. Top officials probably became nervous when they found out that information from the outside world was being passed on to soldiers through family members who defected."
The number of North Korean defectors in South Korea is soon expected to surpass 30,000. The pace of defection slowed over the past few years due to tougher crackdowns but is expected to rise around 15 percent this year as Kim Jong-un's reign of terror intensifies.
The military is Kim's last bastion of support.
One military source said, "Kim Jong-un probably shares Mao Zedong's mantra that power comes from the barrel of a gun. He has to weed out soldiers with ties to defectors to maintain ideological purity among troops."
And Choe Kyong-hui, a defector who now works at Hanyang University, said, "North Koreans in their 20s, who are the backbone of military, were born during the famine and are familiar with money and markets. They tend to look up to families who receive money from defectors living overseas, which could persuade them to defect."
One North Korean soldier who defected across the heavily armed border in September of this year said he came down to the South due to rumors that he would be given U.S. dollars.
"There is no mention in our propaganda broadcasts of U.S. dollar payments to defectors," a military officer here said. "But there may be rumors that we compensate defectors who provide intelligence."
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"His name was Kim, your name is Kim. Guilty"
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A prince in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to prison and was lashed after a court ruling for breaking the law.
The lashing was carried out on Monday afternoon, after going through a medical checkup to make sure that he wasn't suffering from any diseases, that could have postponed the sentence, Saudi daily Okaz reported.
A five member panel, representing various agencies, administered the lashings, the report added.
Earlier in October, a young Saudi prince was executed for murder for the first time since 1975. He spent his last hours with his family, saying goodbye to his loved ones.
Prince Turki bin Saud bin Turki bin Saud Al Kabeer, a Saudi national, was killed in Riyadh after pleading guilty of firing to death Adel bin Sulaiman bin Abdulkareem Al Mihaimeed, also a Saudi national, following a group quarrel, a statement by the Ministry of Interior said. The prince's family tried to reach an agreement with the victim's father at multiple times throughout the day to accept the blood money and forgive him, however all attempts failed according to a report.
News of the execution was welcomed online by Saudis, who interpreted the rare execution as a sign of equality under Islamic law, including royal family members who said King Salman had been "decisive" and "fair". Khalid al-Saud, an academic and royal family member, wrote on a Twitter account: "This is the law of God Almighty, and this is the approach of our blessed nation."
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At least 12 migrants died off the coast of Libya on Wednesday after they put to sea in stormy weather, the Italian coastguard said, adding that many others might have died in the incident, Reuters reported.
Some 29 people were rescued when their rubber dinghy started to take in water 25 miles (40 km) north of Libya. An Italian navy helicopter took part in the rescue operation, helping ferry survivors to safety.
"The dinghy was put to sea despite very bad weather at the time," said a coastguard spokesman in Italy.
Twelve bodies were recovered, but it was not clear how many people might have originally been on the boat and rescuers are continuing to sweep the area in search of other possible victims.
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Desperate Moslems fleeing the Moslem sh**hole. Going for Italy to turn it into another Moslem sh**hole. Hard to feel sorry for them. They are with Allah now, look at it that way. That makes it good for them and good for you. Win/win.
And we get a reprieve from all praying with our butts in the air.
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Shots were heard as the boat captain next to me called for another round of Jagr. The drapes blew as Maisha repositioned herself at the window. I was getting that uncomfortable feeling. Returning from the loo, the captain and the boat were gone, leaving me stranded in Sirte, alone, ponderous.
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Today being the first day of the rest of my life, I looked around at the dockside bar. Maisha was still looking out the window, the little automatic in her left hand, and the bucket of ice and bottle of scotch still at her old table, being watched by the mook. He looked like the sort who would be dangerous if he ever paid attention. I mean, I have my overactive bladder, but what's his excuse?
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I turned back to my drink, when suddenly, a shot rang out. I spun around. Meisha was staring at the mook, who was sitting at the table with a shocked expression on his face and not moving. For a second, I thought he was shot, but the bullet didn't hit him. It had hit the whiskey bottle. Perhaps I should grab the bucket, salvage what I can. I don't know what other inventory Sirte still has of scotch...
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I found myself at the jukebox. Must have blacked out again. Thinking. Yusuf Islam is playing. I dig that guy, the ups, the downs. He's digging that five string like a cat in a sandbox, deep enough to loosen a falafel lunch. I heed the call to my favorite spot. Reading the stall wall, underneath three strange words I see it! A cartoon drawn by Mahmoud the Weasel. I can recognize his work on a moonless desert night.
I figured he was around, but I've never seen him. Could he have been the captain's bartender?
Iran-backed Houthi militias have incurred major loses in their military equipment in both Hajjah and Sanaa provinces following the Arab Coalition’s airstrikes against the militia group, killing dozens of its members, Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Tuesday.
In the northwestern province of Hajjah, the coalition targeted missile launch pads and armed vehicles in the Haradh district.
The coalition has also targeted launch pads for ballistic missiles west of the capital Sanaa.
Military sources also said that the coalition’s jets pounded arms storage sites in Bani Mater district - west of Sanaa - in addition to weapons depots in Jabal Naqam and Al-Haqa military camp east of the capital.
Meanwhile, the operation to target Houthi militias’ arms also continued in Sarawih frontier west of Maarib city, 20 km east of Sanaa.
The coalition also targeted militia forces in the northern al-Jawf province, bordering Saudi Arabia. Houthis’ military sites in the western coastal area of al-Hudayda were also targeted. So far, figures of the damages were not disclosed.
Damascus – The US-led coalition and local allies continued on Wednesday their preparations for a major military campaign against the Islamic State’s (ISIS) capital of Raqqa, in northeast Syria.
US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said the plan to isolate Raqqa “would take place soon” with the forces available, adding that talks continued with Turkey on the role it could play “further down the road.”
“We intend to go there soon with the force that is capable of doing that and enveloping the city of Raqqa … the final seizure of Raqqa, we continue to talk to Turkey about that and a possible role for Turkey in that further down the road,” Carter told a press conference on Wednesday.
Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is expected to lead the ground operations against ISIS in Raqqa with an air cover from the US-led coalition. A similar strategy has been used earlier by the SDF and the coalition, and led to the liberation of large areas in northern Syria from ISIS.
However, Turkey has stressed its opposition to any participation by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the looming battle for Raqqa.
After a meeting with NATO members in Brussels last Thursday, Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik told reporters that his country wouldn’t allow pro-Kurdish forces to join the Raqqa operation.
Syrian Kurdish authorities confirmed that they had been asked to participate in the operation and were ready to isolate the Islamic State’s (ISIS) capital.
Aldar Xelil, a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM), also confirmed that that the Kurdish YPG and allied SDF were prepared for the Raqqa operation.
However, the TEV-DEM politician said that there was a condition – Kurdish troops will only take part in the operation if Turkey is kept out of it. Xelil said: “If Turkey doesn’t join then we will participate. We are ready to save the people of Syria.”
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[DAWN] In what has been unravelling like a game of whack-a-mole for the state and the disturbing array of Death Eater groups spread across the country, there seems to be no clear end in sight. Until Pakistain disbands all religious parties they won't even begin to get a handle on the problem -- always assuming they see it as a problem.
On Oct 24, Quetta’s air was once again echoing with the sound of ambulances as armed Lions of Islam successfully infiltrated the city’s police training academy, killing 62 young men.
In the global fight against terrorism, unlikely alliances between militant groups have been a regular feature and the Islamic State, cornered in the Middle East, is finding newer allies in this part of the world.
The attack on Quetta’s police academy is part of a series of attacks in Pakistain’s urban centres staged by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
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"The LJ is no longer simply a sectarian group targeting Shias in Pakistain,"
"we were cool with that, but then...."
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[Daily Excelsior] Army today decimated six Pak posts opposite Mendhar and Balakote sectors in Poonch district to stop shelling from across the Line of Control (LoC), as these posts were directly targeting the civilian population in the towns, leading to killing of two innocent women and injuries to many others while BSF said it has inflicted heavy casualties on Pakistain Rangers during yesterday’s assault across Ramgarh and Arnia sectors in Samba and Jammu districts respectively in which 14 posts of the enemy troops were destroyed.
As two more civilians including a teacher were maimed in Mendhar in Pakistain shelling today, the Army launched massive assault on Pak posts across Mendhar and Balakote, which were targeting innocent civilians and reduced to ashes their six posts after which shelling stopped in Mendhar, Balakote and Mankote sectors of Poonch district, which was going on since yesterday morning.
Official sources told the Excelsior that Pakistain might have suffered casualties in destruction of their posts, which were razed to ground in massive counter offensive launched by the troops to save lives of civilians. A woman and her daughter-in-law were killed on the LoC at Naika Panjgrain in Tarkundi-Manjakote yesterday while half a dozen civilians were maimed.
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Need to sell, or give, the MPAF some more of those Starfighters.
[Al Arabiya] Houthi militias and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh have forced more than 150 families to leave their homes in a number of towns and rural areas in Taiz, south west of Yemen, local sources and human rights organizations said.
According to local sources, the rebels forced more than 50 families from the towns of al-Dayh and al-Rawd in the northern parts of the al-Rabihi area, west of Taiz, to leave their homes after threatening them at gunpoint on Monday and told them to leave within 24 hours.
Sources also said that most of these families are very poor, adding the displacement only worsens their tragedy amid the catastrophic situation which most of Taiz areas are going through as the result of the militias’ war.
Meanwhile, sources from human rights organizations said more than 100 families from the town of al-Saeed in al-Silw district, east of Taiz, have been displaced. This happened amid violent clashes which have been on since Monday between the popular resistance forces and Houthi militias and Saleh’s forces.
Abdullah al-Silwi, a human rights activist, told Al-Arabiya that families from al-Silw have been leaving since Monday and heading to different places, either mountains or areas that are far from al-Saeed, adding that there is neither shelter nor food in these places where they sought refuge.
He added that residents are fleeing their homes due to the Houthis’ threats as they were forced to escape and leave their belongings and cattle behind.
Silwi appealed to UNICEF and regional and international relief organizations to provide urgent aid supplies to those who have been forcibly displaced as they need food, tents and blankets especially that the weather is getting colder.
Political analyst Sami Naji said the militias’ forcible displacement of residents is due to the militias’ and their allies’ desire to transfer the war to rural areas in Taiz in order to empty the fighting fronts around Taiz of resistance forces, adding that this will make it easier for the militias to storm the city which is mostly controlled by legitimate forces.
Houthi militias and forces loyal to Saleh have in the end of September forcefully displaced more than 250 families in the town of al-Sayyar in the al-Silw district. Most of these families fled to neighboring districts and sought refuge in abandoned houses. Some families were housed in the rooms where cattle were kept while others were housed in schools.
The militia have in the past expelled Jews from Bani Salem and other residents from Dammaj in Saada when they stormed it. They’ve also displaced people from Thabi al-Aabus, Thaabat, Kulaba and towns of al-Waazaaia, south west of Taiz, and from the Ghurab area, west of Taiz.
[Al Arabiya] Houthi militia leaders slammed the UN special envoy for Yemen, accusing him of being biased and not impartial, the Arabic website of Al Arabiya News Channel reported.
A spokesman for the Houthi militias, Mohammed Abdul Salam accused the UN envoy of fabricating evidence against them, specifically when he condemned their attempted attack on Makkah – stating that the allegation was false.
Salam’s comments came a day after Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told the Security Council at a briefing on the situation in the country that the deterioration of the economic situation threatens to worsen the humanitarian crisis, calling on Yemeni actors prioritize national interest.
“After 18 months of horrific fighting, thousands of deaths, injuries and unspeakable human suffering, we all need to ask how long will Yemenis remain hostages to personal and reckless political decisions,” Ahmed said.
In response, Salam stated that the UN envoy lacked impartiality and overstepped his role as a mediator.
The Houthis militia’s criticism of Ahmed is not the first. Previously Houthis accused the UN envoy of being biased and is not qualified for the role as a United Nations mediator, AlArabiya.Net reported.
[Dhaka Tribune] The local leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... played a key role behind the planned attacks on Hindu houses and temples at Madhabpur in Habiganj on Sunday as a sequel of the communal attacks in Nasirnagar area of Brahmanbaria over a fake blasphemous post on Facebook.
Several hundred Moslem hardliners carried out the attack after an announcement was made in front of Rail Mosque in Montola area by some local supporters of Jamaat and its radical student unit Islami Chhatra Shibir
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Oh, those fiendishly byzantine Turks -- assuredly no one will see through their cleverness.
Aleppo – Headquarters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Aleppo Governorate were exposed to simultaneous attacks by Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants and Turkey-backed rebels of the Euphrates Shield, military sources and activists reported on Wednesday.
The ISIS jihadi fighters bombed SDF positions in the northern countryside of Aleppo with mortar shells. This was coupled with heavy artillery bombardment by the Turkey-backed Euphrates Shield rebels on SDF headquarters east of Aleppo.
More than 20 SDF fighters were killed and dozens wounded in the attacks, according to an SDF officer who spoke to ARA News at the frontline.
The offensives targeted SDF positions in the towns of Hasila, Harbal, Sheikh Issa and Meranaz.
“These simultaneous attacks on our headquarters by ISIS and the Euphrates Shield were definitely coordinated,” SDF officer Habun Osman said.
“Obviously, there is a high-level cooperation and coordination between ISIS terrorists and Turkey’s mercenaries to hit the Syrian Democratic Forces,” the SDF official told ARA News.
In the meantime, the rights activist and member of the Syrian Democratic Council, Rezan Hiddo, reported that rebels of the Euphrates Shield have handed over several villages in Aleppo countryside to ISIS.
“The Turkey-backed rebels of the Euphrates Shield group have delivered the villages of Taltana, Deir Hawa, Alba, Beraan, Homad and Baruza to the Islamic State militants,” Hiddo told ARA News. “This comes as a result of an undeclared agreement between the two groups to fight side by side against the Kurds and allied SDF factions.”
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial governor of northern Balkh province Ata Mohammad Noor He was appointed in 2004 by President Hamid Karzai. An ethnic Pashtun, he was a high school teacher before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; after the conflict began, he worked in education for the Mujahideen, who gave him the nickname "The Teacher." He then became an anti-Soviet mujahideen resistance commander for the Jamiat-e Islami. When the Taliban took power in late 1996, Atta Noor served as a commander in the anti-Taliban United Front (Northern Alliance) under Ahmad Shah Massoud. He led operations in the Balkh area. He has been described by The Economist as being "immensely wealthy".
If I remember correctly, Noor took over as Northern Alliance military commander after the assassination of Massoud.
has rejected reports of political agreement with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani to leave Balkh and assume a key post in the capital.
Noor issued a statement after a report emerged on a local newspaper suggesting that the prominent political figure belonging to Jamiat-e-Islami has agreed to leave Balkh province. The Afghan Jamiat emerged from the Pak Jamiat, but then diverged greatly in terms of political Islam. During the Soviet war the Pak Jamaat supported Hekmatyar, who colluded with the KGB and KhAD against the Pandjir Valley mujaheddin.
Calling the report as baseless, Noor said he had discussions with President Ghani in consultation with the President of Jamiat-e-Islami regarding the power share of their team, insisting that respect to the share of their belongs to those who have stood with the party following a same path.
He said no agreement has been reached regarding his transfer from Balkh to capital Kabul as he emphasized that he serves for the nation.
In the meantime, sources close to Ata Mohammad Noor rejected the report as baseless and said the governor and chief executive of Jamiat-e-Islami is currently in United Arab Emirates.
Munir Farhad, a spokesman for Ata Mohammad Noor said no political agreement has been concluded between Noor and President Ghani.
The report published by Hasht-e-Sobh daily quoted anonymous officials saying that the agreement has concluded and Noor will be transferred to Kabul to assume a key post in the government.
The paper also added that the new governor of northern Balkh province has been selected in line with the demands of Noor who is politically close to him.
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[DAWN] Thousands 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) supporters, led by Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... and accompanied by other party leaders, gathered at Parade Ground in the federal capital to 'celebrate victory', following the Supreme Court hearing of Panamagate petitions.
The PTI chief thanked party politicians from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... for their bravery during the run-up to November 2 'lockdown', with Imran hailing Pervez Khattak as a hero of Pakistain.
Imran started his speech by saying that he waits for the day when "Nawaz Shairf and his brother are put behind bars".
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[AlManar] Leader of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group Abu Bakr Baghdadi is still hiding in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Fuad Hussein, chief of staff to Iraqi Kurdistan’s President Masoud Barzani, said.
“Baghdadi is there and, if he is killed, it will mean the collapse of the whole [ISIL] system,” Hussein told the Independent media outlet on Tuesday citing Iraqi government sources.
He noted that after Baghdadi’s death ISIL terrorists would have to choose a new leader amid the ongoing battle for Mosul but any new leader would not have authority and prestige of Baghdadi.
Hussein also said that the presence of Baghdadi in Mosul would complicate the operation aimed at liberation of the city as ISIL terrorists would fight to death to defend their leader. “It is obvious that they will lose, but not how long this will take to happen,” he added.
The operation to retake Mosul from ISIL has been ongoing since October 17. More than 30,000 Iraqi and 4,000 Kurdish fighters are taking part in the offensive supported by US-led coalition airstrikes.
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"A Justice Department spokesman, though, downplayed the significance of Kadzik’s 2015 email, saying it was “about public information” and sent “in his personal capacity, not during work hours.”
“He wasn’t communicating via official channels because it wasn’t official business,” Kevin Lewis told FoxNews.com. “He wasn’t emailing as ‘Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik.’”
Lewis, who would not characterize the substance of the email, said officials in the department do not typically provide campaign advice.
“It is not department practice to provide any strategic guidance to any campaign,” said Lewis, who did not answer when asked if Kadzik’s behavior was acceptable to the Justice Department."
[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Wednesday expressed satisfaction over the Supreme Court's order on the Panamagate probe a day earlier, and said those who pointed fingers at him would soon be embarrassed.
The apex court on Tuesday during a hearing of petitions moved by the 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), Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... , Awami Moslem League, and others, ordered the PML-N and PTI to submit Terms of Reference (ToRs) on the formation of a commission to probe revelations made in the Panama Papers.
The court's order came just a day before the PTI's planned Nov 2 'lockdown' of Islamabad, and was followed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... announcing that the party's siege of the capital would be replaced instead by a 'thanksgiving' rally at Islamabad's parade ground.
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[AnNahar] Swiss police tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! a holy man at a controversial mosque near Zurich on Wednesday after he allegedly urged followers to kill fellow Moslems who refused to join communal prayers.
In a statement, the prosecutor in Zurich's cantonal government said the imam at the An'Nur de Winterhour mosque, who is an Æthiopian national, were tossed into the calaboose for incitement to violence.
During an October 21 sermon, the imam "called for the liquidation of Moslems who refuse to participate in communal prayers in the mosque," the prosecutor's statement said, adding that a criminal probe had been launched.
Three of the imam's followers were also being held and investigated but the prosecutor said it was "unclear" what role they played in the alleged call to violence.
Separately, Zurich police raided the mosque early Monday and arrested three other men -- aged 23 to 35 -- over suspected immigration violations.
Swiss media have reported frequently on the An'Nur mosque, including on suggestions that it has played a part in radicalizing young Moslems.
According to the news site 20min.ch, the Æthiopian holy man starting working at the mosque recently, replacing a predecessor who was forced to leave amid accusations that he was preaching extremism.
Swiss media have further reported that the compound's landlords do not intend to extend the mosque's lease, possibly forcing its closure by the of the year.
Swiss daily Tages Anzeiger wrote that in the past, a number of young men who were regulars at the mosque later left to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria and Iraq.
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from the hadith collection of Bukhari I:II:626 Mohamad said,
"Certainly I decided to order the Mu'adh-dhin (call-maker) to pronounce Iqama [second call to prayer] and order a man to lead the prayer and then take a fire flame to burn all those who had not left their houses so far for the prayer along with their houses."
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thanks trailing wife, i kept trying and couldn't see it so i kept trying
apologies
it's amazing delving into the wikileaks you find that the Clintons are allied with all the major corporations and they are all arrayed against Mr Trump
it will be a miracle if he can beat them
worse, they all knew they were doing wrong, taking bribes in return for favours at State
They used a shell company called Teneo to launder the bribes
Bill Clinton was sure to get off the advisory board in 2011
on legal advice
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5486
also in 2011 the head of Teneo complained about signing a conflict of interest document when Bill Clinton did so much worse... and they deleted billionaire Marc Lasry's name as well due to an audit
"ddly, wjc does not have to sign such a document even though he is personally paid by 3 cgi sponsors, gets many expensive gifts from them, some that are at home etc
I could add 500 different examples of things like this and while I removed lasry bc they are all on the offense,"
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AT&T, huh? Look for that merger with Time Warner to happen right after the Beest's coronation.
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Huma worked full time for Teneo while working full time for the State Department and the Clinton Collective. She must be exhausted.
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i think she'll be done on travel expenses.
her flights racked up $225,756 in costs during Clinton’s time in the Senate, from 2001 to early 2009, according to Bloomberg.
But guess who is a client of Teneo? They advise Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Coca Cola and billionaire Marc Lasry who runs hedge fund Avenue Capital Group
Avenue gave hillary a jet to fly around on for $408 in 2006 when she was campaigning for Senate
Teneo got its clients to donate to the Clinton Foundation and the clintons both in cash and kind
I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary billed the taxpayer that $200k in airline ticket travel expenses, but got the flights for free (or a peppercorn rate) thus pocketing the difference
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The Dallas IRS office is still telling me my tax refund from last spring is "still in processing", and gives no other information (it's a machine - can't talk to a person): I figured (only half-facetiously) it was because of my Tea Party membership. If so, I don't figure this investigation will hurt Clinton.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi Anti-Terrorism forces killed tens of suicide fighters of the Islamic State group inside Mosul’s eastern city of Kokajli, while continue advancing to liberate the city, Al Sumaria News reported on Wednesday.
Al Sumaria News stated, “This development came after the security forces besieged the explosive belt-clad fighters inside the city,” adding that, “Civilians in the area remained inside their houses.”
Hossam-Eddin Al-Abbar, a member of Nineveh Provincial Council, said, “Last Monday, army forces liberated Kokajli, the first district on the line of operations in eastern Mosul, labeling the development as a deterioration in ISIS defense lines.”
In a related context, commanders of the security operation in the battle to liberate Mosul, Islamic State’s last bastion in Iraq, said on Wednesday that operations to free the city continue non-stop at the city’s western coast, while Commanders of the operation, codenamed “We Are Coming, Nineveh,” said they managed, today, to liberate al-Minkar village.
Joint security forces, al-Hashd al-Shaabi militias, Kurdish Peshmerga, all backed by Army Aviation and US-led coalition air force, continue advancing towards Mosul, entering the 17th day of operations to liberate ISIS last stronghold in Iraq from the militant group.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi federal police said on Wednesday, that security forces have become only 16 kilometers away from Mosul Airport, as battles continue to liberate the city from the grip of the Islamic State militant group.
Raed Shaker Jawdat, Federal Police Chief, said in a press statement, “Federal police forces had managed to free 12 villages near Hammal al-Alil,” adding that, “16 kilometers separate us from Mosul Airport.”
“Federal police forces continue to advance to liberate the rest of regions,” he added.
Iraqi government forces, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga troops and US-led international air forces, are proceeding with an all-out battle to free Mosul, the Islamic State’s last bastion in Iraq.
Meanwhile, operations, codenamed “We Are Coming, Nineveh,” have proven to be largely successful, with the Islamic State reportedly evacuating its wounded fighters from hospitals, closing down its secret prisons and facing food shortages.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A video released by Al Sumaria News on Wednesday showed, that Iraqi Anti-Terrorism forces arrested a number of militants from the Islamic State extremist group in Kokjli area in the city of Mosul.
The footage reflected the joy of residents after the security forces freed them from the control of the extremist group, and emphasized that members of the Anti-Terrorism Directorate will chase the remaining fighters of the Islamic State with the help of the people of Mosul.
One of people of Kokjli said that they are delighted to get rid of the extremist group, and he immediately shaved his beard after the ISIS members escaped from the area.
Earlier today, Anti-Terrorism forces managed to kill dozens of the ISIS members, after besieging them in Kokjli area in the eastern axis of the city of Mosul. Video report at the link
(IraqiNews.com) Mosul – Al-Hashed al-Shaabi said Wednesday that 115 square kilometers of the city of Mosul were liberated from Islamic State militants.
In a statement obtained by Alsumaria TV, the militia said six important locations in the city became under its control, while five booby-trapped vehicles were detonated west of the city, killing all on board.
The statement added that supply lines connecting group fighters had been completely cut.
The liberated areas bring the total of Daesh-free areas in Mosul to 705 square kilometers in five days of operations by al-Hashed al-Shaabi in the city’s western section, according to the statement, which added that 47 IS fighters had been killed in that period .
Prime Minister and Armed Force chief, Haider al-Abadi, announced on Monday that Iraqi forces were so close to Mosul, demanding residents to stay at home.
Government forces, aided by a US-led coalition, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Shia paramilitaries are carrying out a major offensive on Mosul, Islamic State’s last bastion in Iraq and its formerly proclaimed capital. IS militants have reportedly evacuated wounded comrades from hospitals to unknown locations, closed down their secret prisons and started to face food supply shortages.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – A senior official of al-Hashd al-Shaabi militia fighting against the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Mosul said on Wednesday, that his militia would continue to fight the militant group beyond the Iraqi borders inside Syria.
Abu Alaa al-Walaei, Secretary General of Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (Master of Martyers Battalions), said in a press statement, “Troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi would continue to chase ISIS fighters inside Syria after liberating Tel Afar, west of Mosul.”
Walaei also pointed out that seven ISIS members were killed, and caches of weapons were discovered after liberating Asiliya and Mostantak villages. He added that his forces managed to repel an attack by a convoy of booby-trapped vehicles in the village of Yazidi, west of Mosul.
“The battalions raised the Iraqi flag above the liberated villages, and they are now engaging with ISIS in the neighboring villages of Tel Saqf and Mahlabiya, and inflicting heavy losses in lives and equipment on the extremist group,” Walaei stated.
Last Monday, Hadi al-Aemri, a senior leader in the Shia-led al-Hashed al-Shaabi, also voiced readiness to take the fight to Syria. “Our mission is to liberate our country, and we would move to Syria if it requires so,” he said.
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Iraqi forces fought their way into terrorist-held north of Mosul, the military said, as a top commander declared the “true liberation” of the city from the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group had begun.
Just over two weeks into the massive offensive to retake Mosul, soldiers managed to push within city limits.
Troops had “entered the Judaidat Al-Mufti area, within the left bank of the city of Mosul,” said the Joint Operations Command.
Mosul is split by the Tigris River, with the eastern half of the city known as the left bank. Judaidat al-Mufti is on the southeastern side of the city.
Elite Iraqi forces had also recaptured the key village of Gogjali and taken control of a television station building belonging to a local affiliate of Iraqiya state TV on the eastern edge of the city.
Fighters from the Counter-Terrorism Service had pushed into the area amid heavy fighting on the eastern front in the past two days.
“Now is the beginning of the true liberation of the city of Mosul,” Staff General Taleb Sheghati al-Kenani, the commander of the CTS, told Iraqiya from Gogjali.
“We are working with army units to secure the area and advance on Mosul together,” Muntathar Salem, a lieutenant colonel with CTS told an AFP reporter near the front line.
Soldiers from Iraq’s 16th Division also retook a series of villages north of Mosul, according to the Joint Operations Command, while pro-government paramilitary forces said they captured villages southwest of the city.
Since the offensive was launched on October 17, federal forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters have retaken a series of villages as they advance on the city from the north, east and south.
As his forces advanced, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned the terrorists they would have no place to run.
“We will close in on (ISIL) from every place,” he said on state television on Monday, dressed in a camouflage uniform.
“They don’t have an exit, they don’t have an escape, they can only surrender — they can die or they can surrender,” said Abadi.
Paramilitary forces from the Popular Mobilisation Forces launched an assault at the weekend to cut off that route.
They have been advancing north, their sights set on the town of Tal Afar which commands the city’s western approaches.
On the northern and eastern sides of Mosul, peshmerga forces from the autonomous Kurdish region have taken a series of villages and towns and consolidated their positions, while federal forces have advanced toward the city from the south.
Iraqi forces are expected to try to open safe corridors for the million-plus civilians still believed to be inside.
Aid workers are bracing for a long-feared exodus of civilians from Mosul, a relief group said on Wednesday. The United Nations says up to one million people could be displaced in the coming weeks.
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Kirkuk-Iraqi security forces renewed clashes with ISIS militants across Mosul streets. The fighting is the first to take place after successfully breaking into the terror group’s stronghold.
As the offensive advances, Iraqi forces have locked control over the Kokjla area, located in eastern Mosul.
Counterterrorism forces raised the national flag over the Mosul’s state TV building as a sign of securing victory over the extremist gunmen in the neighborhood.
Special forces entered the eastern outskirts of the city earlier Tuesday, marking the first time Iraqi troops have set foot in Mosul since 2014.
A top military official at the taskforces headquarters along with other eyewitnesses said that ISIS terrorists have strategically installed snipers across rooftops hoping to slowdown the advance of Iraqi forces across residential areas.
One of the Quds neighborhood residents, in Mosul’s eastern vicinity, says that ISIS fire is visible to the naked eye, as it strikes Iraqi forces and vehicles in alleyways. The clashes have been downgraded to backstreet fighting, added the Iraqi citizen.
More so, the U.N. human rights office lauded efforts by the U.S.-led coalition in the battle against ISIS in Mosul.
The office in Geneva said that coalition flights over Iraq have largely succeeded in preventing ISIS from bringing in 25,000 civilians from ISIS-held areas into the city, where the militant group has been using people as human shields as Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.
OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on Tuesday cited unspecified reports of ISIS sending trucks and minibuses to Hamam al-Alil, south of Mosul, from where it was to bring people in.
She said coalition strikes along roadways largely prevented the transfer toward Mosul, forcing the trucks to turn back. She added some minibuses reached Abusaif along the way to Mosul.
Shamdasani also told reporters in Geneva that her office received new reports of “mass killings” by ISIS, including on Saturday of 40 former Iraqi security force members whose bodies were thrown into the Tigris River.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. has said the state of war in the country is going towards a declared war from as the enemies of the country are facing isolation due to an undeclared war they posed on the Afghan nation. Expect a story soon from the Paks denying they're isolated.
The President was speaking during a joint conference of the leadership of security institutions held in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... Warning that the country could face more tough weeks ahead, President Ghani said the government is fully prepared as the state of the war has turned to a declared one from the previous undeclared war.
President Ghani further added that the dimensions are clear and effective efforts are underway on international level, emphasizing that the enemies of the country are in isolation which is in contrast to previous years where the country was facing isolation.
According to President Ghani, the international community’s concentration is focused on Afghanistan since the stance of the country is justified and an atmosphere has been created to prove the right stance of the country based on logic and sacrifices the Afghan nation has endured.
In a meeting with the tribal elders and influential members late in September, President Ghani said Afghanistan has been facing Pakistain in an undeclared war during the past 14 years and the requested the Afghan people to assist the government in ending the ongoing war.
The Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for allowing the Taliban group leaders to use its soil for executing attacks in Afghanistan which causes most of the casualties to the ordinary Afghan civilians.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Pakistain has repeatedly rejected the allegations although Pakistain’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... admitted earlier this year that the country has influence on the group and could use certain leverages to force the group to join peace talks.
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Is there anyone who she has not communicated with? She has communicated with the DNC, the media, DOJ, the State Dept, and foreign and domestic donors--probably more. Moreover, she was fed questions on the debate and cheated.
Aden- Local authorities in Aden launched on Tuesday a wide-scale security operation to curb the illegal takeovers of the temporary capital’s directorates.
The security campaign stands to be of great importance to deter arbitrary acquisition of public assets, Haitham Al-Ghareeb, a representative for the directorates affairs, told reporters during a press conference. More so, the campaign comes at a request from Brig. Aidroos Zubaidi who has demanded that all sacrifices be made to restore civil life to the city and protect public order and properties.
Brig. Zubaidi also underscored the efforts of the Popular Resistance forces on protecting government institutes during difficult times.
Some have attempted to compromise Aden’s security launching inner-coups such as the Southern Movement announcing that the movement’s two existing councils have been merged into one, allegedly representing all southerners.
The new council is called “The Supreme Council of the Revolutionary and Peaceful Southern Movement.”
The government’s Security Committee in Aden city in turn warned the protesters to end their ongoing sit-ins and threatened to storm the movement’s encampment and disperse the protesters, given the threat they pose to stability.
Mohammed Saleh, who works at the Security Committee, said the protesters have blocked streets, causing traffic jams and inconvenience to people in Aden. “We are kind to them but that does not mean that we allow the chaos to continue. We are waiting for orders to remove the encampment,” he added.
After the press conference, directorate representatives gave details on the security measures that will be taking place, saying that the security crackdown would last the whole of November.
Local authorities had formerly voiced loud and clear warnings on protesters’ transgressions against public and private properties. Demonstrators were warned against any act of vandalism staged against public property.
Most protestors are former president Ali Abdullah Saleh loyalists who aided in the armed civil war which has been tearing up Yemen since early 2015.
[BreakingDefense.com] Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have not shown interest in appropriately resourcing our military, with the president presiding over hundreds of billions in dollars in cuts to national defense, an unprecedented readiness crisis, and the shrinking of our military to near historic lows. As a presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton has failed to discuss our national defense at all, refusing to address a subject that will, perhaps more than any other, shape the next Commander-in-Chief’s options on the world stage.
By contrast, Donald Trump has laid out a comprehensive, detailed, and forward-looking vision for the future of the American military. It is predicated on "peace through strength" and a sober appraisal of US national interests. Mr. Trump understands that, without a revitalized and strengthened military, the ability to shape events globally to our advantage is substantially diminished. He understands the crisis our military is facing, both now and long-term if current trends persist, and has vowed at nearly every campaign stop to make rebuilding our military a national project.
The facts are clear and disturbing. Under the Obama administration, the Navy has shrunk to its smallest size since World War I. The Army is the smallest it has been since before World War II. The Air Force is the smallest in its history, and its aircraft are the oldest. Readiness levels across the services are the worst in a generation, with pilots facing significantly reduced cockpit time and deferring critical maintenance, Navy ships and crews deploying as long as 10 months, and Army units are deferring critical training before deployments. The horror story of naval aviators taking spare aircraft parts from museums to keep their planes flying is simply unacceptable for those who wear our nation’s uniform.
The folks back home consider this news, it appears.
[ShabelleNews] One man sentenced to 16 years and two to eight years after girls as young as 14 were subjected to ‘degrading and violent’ abuse Three men have been jailed for their part in an inner-city sex ring involving the abuse, rape and trafficking of young girls.
Victims as young as 14 were subjected to sexual abuse that was “degrading, violent and horrible” in Bristol. Some of the girls were given drugs and alcohol and “pestered again and again” for sex by the men, who were mostly older teenagers.
Bristol crown court heard that the rapes became “routine” and the men regarded some of the victims, who cannot be named, as “cheap and easy”.
Three men – Sakariya Sheikh, 23, Mohammed Dahir, 24, and Abdirashid Abdulahi, 23 – were convicted of 14 charges relating to four girls.
Judge Peter Blair QC jailed Sheikh for 16 years, and Dahir and Abdulahi both for eight years, after a seven-week trial. “You have brought shame upon your families and upon yourselves,” the judge told them. “You are not worthy of very much further attention in this courtroom. My attention is focused upon the victims of your crimes.
“They were four children trying to find their way in life, some of them struggling with difficult issues at home. You used your older age, your personal freedom and your relative stronger power to manipulate and coerce them into becoming for you little more than objects to satisfy you sexually.”
The judge said the abuse had left the victims feeling “worthless”.
“Their pain goes on and so it will for you now,” he told the defendants. “They are at long last receiving some measure of justice from your convictions. Their very brave and difficult decision to give evidence against you has been vindicated and I pay tribute to them.”
Seven men went on trial accused of 46 charges. Three were acquitted after the jury failed to reach verdicts and another man was found not guilty of the two charges against him.
The trial, which came after an investigation codenamed Operation Button, was the third in a series of prosecutions of Somali men for child sexual exploitation and drug offences.
In two earlier trials in 2014, after an investigation codenamed Operation Brooke, 14 men were jailed for more than 100 years between them. Sheikh, Abdulahi and Dahir – were also found guilty in Operation Brooke.
During the latest trial, jurors heard that a 15-year-old girl was simultaneously raped by Sheikh and another man in March 2013. The majority of the offences happened between 2011 and 2012 against girls who had travelled to Bristol by train to meet the men.
Anna Vigars, prosecuting, said the victims “suffered sexual abuse, some of it violent, degrading and horrible, some of it less so”.
Speaking after the case, DS Lisa Jones, of Avon and Somerset police, said the offences had inflicted “long-term pain and torment” on the victims.
“These defendants befriended these vulnerable young people who were still at school, grooming and sexually exploiting them,” she said. “Their systematic abuse over a number of years slowly eroded their confidence and made them think these crimes were normal behaviour.”
In a statement issued through police, the Bristol Somali community said it was “deeply appalled” by the case. “Our deepest sympathy wholeheartedly goes out to the victims and their families who are undoubtedly experiencing extreme pain at the moment,” it said. “Our community, a Muslim and black minority ethnic community, in Bristol would like to underline that we sincerely condemn the nature of these crimes.”
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Do beams in the eye become clearer
When we, the beholders, move nearer?
If we can still focus
On those who provoke us,
They might just be us in a mirror.
[Dhaka Tribune] The Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit has begun probing the origin of the Facebook post that sparked the large scale communal violence against Hindus in Brahmanbaria on Sunday.
Alimuzzaman, deputy commissioner of the CTTC unit’s cyber crime team, told the Dhaka Tribune that they have already started gathering information during the primary stages of the investigation.
Another cyber crime team under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is also helping with the probe, CID sources said.
The offending message, depicting Lord Shiva sitting atop the Kaaba, went up from the account of 30-year-old Rasraj Das on Friday. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the illiterate youth stated in his latest post early on Saturday morning that he had no knowledge of how this photo originated from his account. Rasraj said he apologises to "Moslem brothers" and was only made aware of the post when his friends told him about it. Why does an illiterate youth have a Facebook account? What does he do with it?
Rasraj deleted the post early Saturday.
Later that same day Rasraj was beaten up by locals and handed over to the police. On Sunday, a mob wrecked over 100 Hindu homesteads of Nasirnagar and vandalised more than a dozen temples, injuring about 100, instigated by local radical Islamist groups.
The attacks took place following a meeting of local Moslems who had gathered on Nasirnagar playground Sunday morning to demand justice for the blasphemous Facebook post.
The attack was similar to that on the Buddhist community in Cox’s Bazar in 2012, which was also sparked by a fake Facebook post.
Mizanur Rahman, superintendent of police of Brahmanbaria, told the Dhaka Tribune: "Everything will become clear after the investigation is over."
Dr AKM Ashikur Rahman of Buet’s computer science and engineering department, said people are vulnerable to Facebook hacking if they log in from shared computers.
"It is easy to verify Rasraj’s claim of his account being hacked by tracking the IP from which the post was made," Prof Rahman said. "Hackers could easily get hold of widely available software to gain access to accounts or send game requests, with malware, on Facebook which allows the hacker access to a computer if the target activates the link."
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Why does an illiterate youth have a Facebook account? What does he do with it?
ISIS fighters told to starve to offset food shortages During the 1941 winter offensive, the Soviets sent hundreds of thousands of starving troops in a week long operation, telling them if they captured a city, there would be food. Please don't make me look it up. General Andrei Yeremenko in operations around Lake Seligar, January, 1942
(IraqNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi media outlets reported on Wednesday, that the Islamic State leaderships are advising their militants to fast to cope with food shortage as the battle intensifies between the extremist group and security forces seeking to liberate the city of Mosul.
Al Sumaria News said, “ISIS commanders decided to diminish food allotments to their fighters to one meal a day,” adding that, “The move was taken after the militant group lost its biggest supply storage facility in Barttela in air strikes by international coalition and Iraqi army.”
“Attempting to raise their fighters’ morale in face of the shortage, ISIS commanders are reminding the fighters of a food embargo Jews imposed on Muslims during the earliest days of Islam under Prophet Muhammad,” Al Sumaria added. “Islamic State fighters are also pleading to local residents through mosques’ loudspeakers to donate food to them,” Al Sumaria revealed.
Iraqi security forces, al-Hashd al-shaabi militia, Kurdish Peshmerga, all assisted by US-led international forces, are proceeding to free the city of Mosul, entering a second week of fighting and claiming remarkable victories over the extremist group.
Victories over the Islamic State were remarkable enough that the group renounced reference to Mosul as its capital of caliphate.
In leaflets, the so-called “Supreme Military Council” of “Jaish al-Fateh” insurgent coalition said that any civilian who would like to get out of eastern Aleppo has to pay – 150,000 Syrian liras or approximately $300, Russian News Agency, Tass reported on Wednesday.
“Our leadership realizes the level of suffering endured by the city’s peaceful civilians because of the bombardments and the blockade of Aleppo neighborhoods by the Syrian army. After consultation with our brothers, we will let the residents aged under 14 and older than 55 out of the city if each of them pays 150,000 Syrian liras for an opportunity to leave in order to support our brothers fighting on the fronts,” the leaflets said.
This is a racking sum for most people remaining in eastern Aleppo. They do not have food or water.
“Where can we find 150,000 liras … and what if a person does not have the money? Does it mean that he or she should die?! We want to get out of here. We have nothing here to survive…,” the local residents said, according to TASS.
To prevent civilian casualties, the Syrian and Russian military have created 8 humanitarian corridors, which both the civilians and the militants can use to get out of the surrounded neighborhoods in eastern Aleppo. The corridors are working round the clock.
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[FreeBeacon] The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, the country's elite military force, is sending assets to infiltrate the United States and Europe at the direction of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to recent Farsi-language comments from an Iranian military leader.
The IRGC "will be in the U.S. and Europe very soon," according to the Iranian military commander, who said that these forces would operate with the goal of bolstering Iran's hardline regime and thwarting potential plots against the Islamic Republic. About the time Obama and Valjar leave Washington after providing massive financing to the mad mullahs.
"The whole world should know that the IRGC will be in the U.S. and Europe very soon," Salar Abnoush, deputy coordinator of Iran's Khatam-al-Anbia Garrison, an IRGC command front, was quoted as saying in an Iranian state-controlled publication closely tied to the IRGC.
The military leader's comments come as Iran is spending great amounts of money to upgrade its military hardware and bolster its presence throughout the Middle East and beyond. Iran intends to spend billions to purchase U.S.-made planes that are likely to be converted for use in its air force.
Congressional leaders and others suspect that Iran has used a large portion of the cash windfall it received as a result of last summer's nuclear agreement to upgrade its fighting capabilities war machine.
"The IRGC is [the] strong guardian of the Islamic Republic," Abnoush was quoted as saying. "The Fedayeen of Velayat [fighting force] are under the order of Iran's Supreme leader. Defending and protecting the Velayat [the Supreme Leader] has no border and limit."
Iranian military and government officials have continued to advocate violence against the U.S. and its allies, despite the nuclear deal and several secret side agreements that gave Iran $1.7 billion in cash.
Iran accuses the U.S. of violating its end of the agreement by not helping the Islamic Republic gain further access to international banks and other markets.
Iran's frustration over this has led to further accusations about a U.S. plot to foster unrest in the country.
"Our enemies have several projects to destroy our Islamic revolution, and have waged three wars against us to execute their plans against our Islamic Republic," Abnoush said. "The IRGC has defeated enemies in several fronts. The enemy surrendered and accepted to negotiate with us."
"And now all of our problems are being solved and our country is becoming stronger in all fronts. Some believe the holy defense ended," the military leader added. "They are wrong; the holy defense continues, and today, it is more complicated than before."
Congressional sources and experts involved in tracking Iran's increased aggression in the region and elsewhere told the Washington Free Beacon that these most recent comments are troubling given Iran's very public efforts to assassinate political enemies and others across the globe.
"If we look at Iran's previous terror attacks and assassination campaign around the world, such a statement is alarming," Saeed Ghasseminejad, an Iran expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Free Beacon. "The Islamic Republic has killed hundreds of Iranians and non-Iranians around the world in a coordinated campaign of terror. Iran may decide to restart the project now that many western companies are going to Iran and Iran feels its action in Europe may not be punished strongly."
Another source who advises congressional leaders on Iran sanctions issues told the Free Beacon that the Obama administration is blocking Congress from taking action to stop this type of infiltration by Iranian forces.
"Iran is ideologically, politically, and militarily committed to exporting the Islamic revolution through terrorism, which is why even the Obama administration says they're the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism," the source said. "Congress wants to act, but Obama officials keep saying that new laws are unnecessary because the U.S. has enough tools to block Iranian terror expansion. Instead of using those tools, though, they're sending Iran billions of dollars in cash while Iran plants terror cells in Europe and here at home."
White Flight: Number of Families Halve in Some Areas as Academics Urge Ethnic Brits to Stay in Urban Areas
2 Nov 2016
A leading academic has called on the government to tackle white flight from British cities “as a national priority”, as a study reveals the white population in some areas has halved in just ten years.
Somali Muslim Rape Gang Jailed for Raping and Trafficking Teenage Girls
2 Nov 2016
Three men of Somali origin in an alleged Muslim rape gang have been jailed for the “chilling”, “degrading”, and sometimes “violent” sexual abuse of teenage girls in Bristol.
Polish Migrants Jailed for Throwing Bacon in London Mosque
2 Nov 2016
Two Polish migrants have been jailed for a “racially motivated attack” after throwing rashers of bacon inside a London mosque.
Five Paris-Style Gun Massacre Plots Foiled in the Last Two Years
2 Nov 2016
Half of the major terrorist plots uncovered over the last two years have involved firearms, as jihadists plan a Paris-style attack on the streets of Britain, counter-terrorism officials have said.
Leading UK Sharia Court ‘Protects’ Violent Muslim Husbands From Prosecution
30 Oct 2016
One of the UK’s leading sharia courts “protects wife-beating suspects by sabotaging criminal proceedings against them”, a women’s rights group has told a Parliamentary committee.
White children should be BUSSED into schools dominated by ethnic minorities or vice versa to halt the rise of racial segregation, says report
02/11/16
White, Asian and black children should be bussed into schools to tackle growing segregation is towns and cities, a landmark report has suggested. Academics have called on the Government to intervene after they found white British populations in towns and cities are dwindling at record levels and in extreme cases have halved in a decade,
Two children and a baby are among 15 suspected migrants discovered in the back of an Albert Bartlett lorry full of sweet potatoes on its way to the factory in Norfolk
02/11/16
The group were discovered when the truck - believed to have travelled from Spain - arrived at the Albert Bartlett Factory in Worstead on Monday afternoon
Sudanese woman smuggled into the UK from Calais in the back of a lorry fails in her Court of Appeal bid to avoid being sent back to ITALY despite claiming she was raped there and 'would rather die than return'
02/11/16
The 37-year-old woman originally fled from her homeland - Darfur in Sudan - to Italy, where she was granted asylum. But she claims she was raped and then fled to Britain via the Calais Jungle
Nearly TWO THIRDS of the public believe migrants are not fitting in well to British society, according to a poll
31/10/16
Research by YouGov found concern over how arrivals were fitting in rose to 79 per cent among those who voted for Brexit in the historic EU referendum.
Afghan immigrant who said he was 16 to get from Calais to Britain 'has an internet dating profile saying he is 22 and a beard in his LinkedIn photo'
31/10/16
Haris Stanikzai from Afghanistan told Home Office officials he was only 16 and arrived in London on October 17 with the first 14 child refugees from the Calais Jungle to live with his uncle Jan Ghazi.
[DeutscheWelle] German police have placed in durance vile a Syrian man in Berlin on suspicion of being a member of a foreign terrorist organization. The man was thought to be have been planning an attack on one of the capital's two airports. "Dirka dirka jihad!"
The suspect is believed to be a refugee from Syria. Police said the man had given his age as 27 and had been living in Germany since 2015.
The as-yet-unnamed suspect reportedly planned to commit an attack on one of Berlin's two airports. Security authorities suspect that he acted on behalf of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... krazed killer militia.
He was tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in an apartment in the Schoeneberg district and an investigation has begun.
Police referred journalists to Germany's federal prosecutors for further information. Federal prosecutors, who handle most terrorism-related cases, did not name the man, but said he is suspected of belonging to the Islamic State group.
Berlin police tweeted approximately 40 minutes after the arrest: "Our state police forces #LKA have just arrested a man suspected of being a member of a foreign terrorist organization."
According to the newspaper "Berliner Zeitung," the Syrian was arrested at about 21.00 (UTC 20.00). His apartment was also searched, police said.
Authorities have until the end of Thursday to bring him before a judge for a decision on whether they can continue holding him.
Express adds the information presented in the indictment:
POLICE in Germany have tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a fake refugee suspected of scouting out sites in the capital Berlin for an Isis kaboom.
The 19-year-old Syrian immigrant was charged with supporting Islamic State.
Shaas al-M. is said by authorities to have fought for the gunnies in his homeland before leaving for Germany in the summer of last year.
As well as undertaking surveillance on potential targets in Berlin he is said to have recruited at least one man to fight for Islamic State in Syria.
Germany's top prosecutor said this is the first prosecution brought against an immigrant suspected of planning an attack.
Al-M is experienced in handling weapons, according to the prosecutor and for two years with Isis he served as a guard armed with a Kalashnikov rifle "during battles in and around the city of Deir ezZor," according to the indictment.
“He continued his IS activities after his arrival in Germany,” it went on.
“He scouted out potential attack targets during stays in Berlin and he helped send at least one person as a fighter to Syria. In addition, he made himself available as a contact person for potential attackers in Germany and signalled his fundamental readiness to commit an attack in Germany.”
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[AlAhram] Belgium's immigration minister is refusing to grant humanitarian visas to a family in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo despite being fined 4,000 euros ($4,438) a day for defying an appeal tribunal.
A lawyer for the family, Olivier Stein, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Belgian tribunal ruled three times that visas should be granted to the two adults with children aged 5 and 8 living in one of Syria's most dangerous cities.
Immigration Minister Theo Francken, whose office supervises Belgium's visa authority, has been visited by a bailiff directed by the tribunal, demanding 1,000 euros per person for each day that visas are not delivered. The tally so far is more than 30,000 euros ($33,000). The bailiff could confiscate goods to pay the fines.
Friends in the city of Namur have offered to lodge and feed the family. But Francken said their links with the would-be refugees are tenuous and that granting visas could set a precedent that would open the floodgates to other demands. He also believes the government and not courts should rule on visa policy.
[IsraelTimes] France’s interior minister has ordered the closure of four mosques that allegedly espoused a ‘radical ideology,’ the latest such shutdowns among dozens since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks nearly a year ago. A state of emergency in France allows for the closing of places of worship where the preaching risks provoking hate, violence or acts of terrorism.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve ordered the mosques in the Paris region closed on Wednesday. A ministry statement did not name the mosques, located east, west and north of the city.
Dozens of mosques where radicalism allegedly thrived have been closed and non-citizens, including imams, expelled since the attacks that killed 130 people.
Fact-Check Finds Majority of Anti-Migrant Attacks Recorded By Pro-Asylum Group Are False
2 Nov 2016
At least 80 per cent of events listed by the Amadeu Antonio Foundation as “refugee-hostile acts” are not what the ex-Stasi led far left group claims, a journalist found while checking facts.
German Interior Minister: NYE Sex Attackers Should Be Forced to Leave Germany
2 Nov 2016
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has called for tough action on the migrants who committed the Cologne New Year’s Eve sex attacks, recommending that they should be deported.
Officials Deny Prostitutes Being Bussed Into Troubled Asylum Home
2 Nov 2016
Officials in the German municipality of Rottenbuch have denied rumours that prostitutes were being bussed into a troubled and violent asylum home at taxpayers’ expense.
Pope Francis Warns Nations Not to Take in More Refugees Than They Can Assimilate
2 Nov 2016
In an unusually nuanced discourse, Pope Francis has seemed to walk back earlier statements encouraging European nations to open their doors to migrants and refugees, suggesting that harboring unassimilated migrants can lead to a dangerous “ghettoization.”
German Police Officer Refused To Report Assault of Teen Girl By Algerian Migrant
2 Nov 2016
A police officer in the German city of Rheinberg is under fire after it was revealed that she encouraged a young girl not to report the fact she had been sexually assaulted by a migrant.
Migrant Arson Leaves Several Injured
1 Nov 2016
Six migrants and a guard suffered smoke inhalation after a migrant in a German asylum home attempted to burn down the building.
Intelligence Service Concern After Migrant Camp Built Next To Radical Mosque
31 Oct 2016
A new report from Germany has revealed how an asylum home was built in close proximity to a known Islamist mosque, and it is often now frequented by the residents. An asylum home in Frankfurt is gaining attention in Germany
Fighting breaks out between rival gangs of unaccompanied children desperate to get from Calais to Britain
02/11/16
Riot police were called to the site of the former Jungle camp this evening after a brawl broke out between Eritrean and Afghan migrant children.
Iranian migrant from the Calais 'Jungle' KAYAKS across the Channel in an inflatable dinghy and claims asylum when he's spotted eight miles off the UK coast
01/11/16
In what is believed to the be the first solo attempt by a refugee to cross the Channel, the man was within eight miles of his destination when he was spotted by people on board a ferry.
Asylum chief is fired in Denmark after lurid details emerge of several female workers having sex with 'children' at migrant centres
01/11/16
Sisi Eibye was shown the door by the Langeland Municipality in Denmark after it was revealed one woman at the asylum centre in Tranekær, Denmark filmed herself having sex with a boy.
Schoolchildren returning from a half-term trip to France were forced to abandon their coach after police swooped to search for illegal immigrants hiding in the luggage hold
01/11/16
After the drivers contacted French police the coach carrying the party from Highfields School, in Matlock, Derbyshire, was seized and searched (file image).
Migrant battles on the streets of Paris: Riot police clash with Afghans and Eritreans as they clear up camps in French capital following Calais Jungle closure
31/10/16
Up to 3,000 migrants, many wanting to head to the UK, had set up tents on the pavements close to the Paris Eurostar hub but they were destroyed this morning after riot police moved in.
Syrian migrant goes on the run in Denmark after his 27-year-old wife and two daughters are found dead in his freezer
31/10/16
The bodies of the 27-year-old mother and her seven and nine-year-old daughters were found at their apartment in the Danish city of Aabenraa.
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[Libya Herald] The mayor of the oasis town of Traghen, 125 kilometres south of Sebha, has been kidnapped.
Mohamed Tahir Bakouri was grabbed by gunmen yesterday at his farm outside the town.
The reasons for the abduction are unknown although ransom is thought to be the motive. As in Tripoli, crime has soared in southern Libyan, with kidnapping now a major problem. So far this year, it is reported that 128 people have been kidnapped in and around Sebha, mainly for ransom.
Condemnation of Bakouri’s abduction has come from the Beida-based local government ministry and Traghen municipal council.
The council called for the security forces to ensure the mayor’s freedom, stressing the need to end the current impunity enjoyed by criminals.
For its part, the ministry, describing the abduction as barbaric and un-Islamic, called on local tribal leaders to work for Bakouri’s release.
[Ynet] The Pentagon says a US Arclight airstrike in Syria last month killed what the Defense Department describes as a senior al-Qaeda leader who once had ties to the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... A Pentagon front man, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, identifies the target as Haydar Kirkan. The front man says Kirkan oversaw the planning of attacks against Western targets outside of Syria, including in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Davis says a US drone carried out the Arclight airstrike Oct. 17 in the vicinity of Idlib, in western Syria.
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.
[New York Post] In a last-minute effort to save Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House, Barack Obama’s chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, has urged the president to fire FBI Director James Comey, according to a source close to Jarrett.
In an unexpected televised address on Saturday, Queen Elizabeth II offered to restore British rule over the United States of America.
[Red State Watcher] According to multiple sources, after the NYPD confiscated Anthony Weiner's laptop which was filled with Huma Abedin's emails they continued their search and discovered the property of Hillary Clinton in the form of emails that implicated her and Bill in the most heinous and serious crimes.
[DAWN] An army officer was killed and six soldiers 
Wazoo
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top commander of the Haqqani terrorist network was killed during an operation of the Afghan police forces in eastern 
The bathhouse is an interactive installation created by artists Loren Kronemyer and Ian Sinclair of Pony Express, who described the work to me as a "no-holds-barred extravaganza meant to dissolve the barriers between species as we descend into oblivion" as the result of our global environmental crisis. But they also see their piece as a part of a much larger ecosexual movement, which they say is gathering momentum around the world.
[CBSNews] Hillary Clinton’s campaign is returning thousands of dollars in donations linked to what may be one of the largest straw-donor schemes ever uncovered. 
[DAWN] In what has been unravelling like a game of whack-a-mole for the state and the disturbing array of
[Daily Excelsior] Army today decimated six Pak posts opposite Mendhar and Balakote sectors in Poonch district to stop shelling from across the Line of Control (LoC), as these posts were directly targeting the civilian population in the towns, leading to killing of two innocent women and injuries to many others while BSF said it has inflicted heavy casualties on Pakistain Rangers during yesterday’s assault across Ramgarh and Arnia sectors in Samba and Jammu districts respectively in which 14 posts of the enemy troops were destroyed.
[Dhaka Tribune] The local leaders and activists of 
Aleppo – Headquarters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Aleppo Governorate were exposed to simultaneous attacks by Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants and Turkey-backed rebels of the Euphrates Shield, military sources and activists reported on Wednesday.
[DAWN] Prime Minister 
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
[FreeBeacon] The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, the country's elite military force, is sending assets to infiltrate the United States and Europe at the direction of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to recent Farsi-language comments from an Iranian military leader.
[Ynet] The Pentagon says a US 
