I don't wish death upon others, but I read certain obituaries with great pleasure...
[Politico] Gwen Ifill, the longtime news anchor who had served as a co-host of PBS’s NewsHour and as moderator of "Washington Week," has died after a battle with cancer, PBS has confirmed. She was 61.
"I am very sad to tell you that our dear friend and beloved colleague Gwen Ifill passed away today in hospice care in Washington," WETA president and CEO Sharon percy Rockefeller wrote in an email to staff at the public TV station Monday. "I spent an hour with her this morning and she was resting comfortably, surrounded by loving family and friends... Earlier today, I conveyed to Gwen the devoted love and affection of all of us at WETA/NewsHour. Let us hold Gwen and her family even closer now in our hearts and prayers."
Ifill had been absent from PBS’s election coverage last week due to ongoing health issues. She also took a leave of absence from the public broadcaster in May to get medical treatment.
[Political Insider] It’s important to remember, just because Donald Trump finally defeated Hillary Clinton and effectively ended her political career, her past criminality hasn’t changed in any way, shape, or form.
Her private email scandal, mishandling of classified material, and pay-to-play schemed through the Clinton Foundation still happened, and she should be dealt with accordingly.
Thankfully, Congressman Jason Chaffetz agrees, vowing to continue his probe into the former presidential candidate’s actions!
Hillary Clinton may have lost the 2016 election, but she will still face investigations into her use of a private email server and an alleged "pay-to-play" scam at the Clinton Foundation, according to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).
"This is the largest breach of security, perhaps, in the history of the State Department," Chaffetz said of Clinton’s alleged mishandling of state secrets.
He added that the committee is still looking into dozens of people in Clinton’s inner circle.
"We have perjury issues that we still want the Department of Justice to look at," he explained.
He noted that the questions about a pay-to-play scandal involving the Clinton Foundation and Clinton’s State Department is a completely separate ‐ and also ongoing ‐ investigation.
When asked about his dogged pursuit of the truth behind Clinton’s actions, Chaffetz declared that it was his obligation and duty to continue the investigations.
"It’s this huge, massive mess that has to be cleaned up. So we would be remiss if we just dismissed it and moved on," Chaffetz claimed. "We have a lot of things that we have to fix, so it never ever happens again."
Meanwhile, Donald Trump hasn’t given up on Clinton, either.
Trump told 60 Minutes that he’s "going to think about it" when asked about appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton, but added "I don’t want to hurt" her.
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Order the buses to leave immediately and return to Wisconsin empty. Protesters hoofing it home via leather cadillacs should send a pretty good message.
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I'm not too sure that these were specifically 'Protester' busses. Lots of tour and 'route transport' buses park in the same area because there is room to do so and no parking fees. In the rest of the downtown Chicago area, not so much.
Less than a mile from McCormick Place or Chinatown and only a couple miles from the Field Museum, Art Institute, State Street, Michigan Avenue, Shedd Aquarium, Opera House, etc.
These folks might just be parked, waiting for prearranged tour pickup times. Badger Coaches haul a lot of school kids and senior tour groups around to venues in the upper Midwest, so could be that.
Then again, I do believe that a LOT the Chi-Town Protesters (there's a band name in there somewhere) came from outside the area.
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[Breitbart] President-elect Donald Trump stood by his promise to reject the presidential salary, during an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes.
"The answer is no," he said, when asked about his campaign trail promise by CBS interviewer Lesley Stahl. "I think I have to take by law one dollar so I’ll take one dollar a year."
He admitted that he didn’t even know what the salary was, but when he was told it was $400,000 salary he declined it.
"I’m not taking it," he said.
He added that he would not be taking too many vacations either.
"There’s so much work to be done and I want to get it done for the people," he said. "I want to get it done. We’re lowering taxes, we’re taking care of health care."
Trump signaled that he wanted to bring the people together, urging both the protesters and his supporters to stop abusing each other.
Stahl pointed to the recent violence around the country after the election
"I am so saddened to hear that. And I say, ’Stop it," he said. "If it helps. I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it."
He suggested that many of the protesters were "professional" and that his supporters would have been excoriated by the media if they refused to accept the election results.
"There is a different attitude. You know, there is a double standard here," he said.
Stahl specifically told Trump that the gay, Muslim, African-American, and Latino communities were frightened after he was elected.
He replied that the incidents were probably amplified by the press, but he urged Americans to come together.
"Don’t be afraid," Trump said. "We are going to bring our country back. But certainly, don’t be afraid."
Speaking to the entire family, Stahl asked Ivanka Trump if the campaign had hurt the family’s business brand.
Ivanka Trump replied that she didn’t think it mattered.
"Who cares? Who cares?" Trump added earnestly. "This is big league stuff. This is our country. Our country is going bad. We’re going to save our country. I don’t care about hotel occupancy. It’s peanuts compared to what we’re doing."
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True. And as Besoeker said, it's symbolic. But it will sorta negate the "rich bastid collecting a $400K/year salary he doesn't need" trash talk that would eventually crop up.
The 'good president' part is something we'll have to wait for, 'kay?
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...BTW, CBS got in their first shot - they had that clip where Trump says 'stop it' last Friday, but somehow after a weekend of instigated anti-Trump violence, they didn't see fit to release it until Sunday night.
Almost as if they wanted the President-elect to seem as if he didn't care.
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A likely violation of the federal minimum wage law, but whatever.
[France24] Mexico is scrambling to ready its diplomats in the United States to handle millions of undocumented migrants' potential needs following Donald Trump's election, its foreign ministry said. good... arrange transport home, right?
The ministry's North American team huddled with Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu Saturday to "analyze the results of the US election and discuss concrete actions concerning the future of the bilateral relationship" between the two countries, according to a statement.
The meeting follows the Republican billionaire's victory last Tuesday in a campaign which saw him call illegal Mexican migrants "rapists" and pledge to build a wall along the southern US border. of course that's not all he said. Nice cherrypicking
Not only has Trump vowed to make Mexico pay for the wall, but he has also threatened to renegotiate the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, the United States and Canada
The United States has an estimated 11-12 million undocumented migrants, mostly of Mexican origin.
"The rights of Mexicans, inside and outside their country, are not negotiable," the Foreign Ministry stressed. How about a nice cup of STFU? Your invaders don't have rights except to return home.
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Go read your own Article 33 in your own Constitution.
Second, shut the human pipeline down transiting your country otherwise we take it you have absolutely no interest in being our 'friend'.
[Unz Review] It is not hard to think of reasons why Hillary Clinton should not be President. Yesterday Wikileaks founder Julian Assange cited one of the best: Libya.
In an interview with John Pilger, a noted Australian-born documentary maker and veteran critic of American military adventurism, he commented: "Libya more that anyone else’s war was Hillary Clinton’s war. Barack Obama initially opposed it. Who was the person who was championing it? Hillary Clinton. That’s documented throughout her emails. There’s more than 1,700 emails out of the 33,000 of Hillary Clinton’s emails we published just about Libya.
"She perceived the removal of Gaddafi and the overthrow of the Libyan state as something that she would use to run in the general election for president. So late 2011, there’s an internal document called the ’Libya Tick Tock’ that is produced for Hillary Clinton, and... it’s a chronological description of how Hillary Clinton was the central figure in the destruction of the Libyan state."
Things did not quite follow the script, however. For a start, U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and several other U.S. citizens were massacred when U.S. facilities in Benghazi were ransacked. The attacks were facilitated by security lapses for which Clinton was forced to take responsibility. Con't.
[Unz Review] The Iraqi armed forces are becoming bogged down in the battle for Mosul. Its elite special forces and an armoured division are fighting to hold districts in the eastern outskirts of the city against counter-attacks by Isis fighters using networks of tunnels to move about unseen.
"In one day we lost 37 dead and 70 wounded," said a former senior Iraqi official, adding that the Iraqi forces had been caught by surprise by the extent of the tunnel system built by Isis, said to be 45 miles long.
The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) and the Ninth Armoured Division have been trying for two weeks to fight their way into that part of Mosul city, east of the Tigris River.
Isis is sending waves of suicide bombers either as individuals who blow themselves up or in vehicles packed with explosives, snipers and mortar teams, to restart the fighting in a dozen districts that the Iraqi Army had said were already captured.
"At first I was optimistic that we might capture Mosul in two or three weeks, but I now believe it will take months," said Khasro Goran, a senior Kurdish leader familiar with conditions in Mosul, in an exclusive interview with The Independent.
He said he had changed his mind about the likely length of the siege when he witnessed the ferocity of the fighting in the outer defences of Mosul. He added that "if they [Isis] continue fighting like this then a lot of Mosul will be destroyed. I hope it will not be like Aleppo."
A prolonged siege of Mosul with heavy civilian casualties and the possibility of Turkish military intervention is likely to be the first international crisis to be faced by the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. The slow and heavily-contested advance of the Iraqi armed forces into the city means that the attack will still be going on when he is inaugurated in Washington on 20 January. Con't.
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Historically this situation would have been met by a siege.
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Why? Just because you say so? It's a ongoing crisis for the Iraqis who elected a corrupted pol who made appointments based on loyalty not competency. Sounds like a self inflicted wound to me. Maybe if you really fought a war to win rather than an exercise to placate NGOs and their whining, it might not be as difficult as you make it.
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I believe I came to understand Arab militaries in 1980, when - while stationed on Israeli Egyptian border - I've seen an officer hit a senior enlisted on the face with a riding crop. Several times. The NCO didn't even try to cover his face, or anything.
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I'm with Frank G on this. Let them handle their own messes.
And just for the record, we need to make it a rule to shoot out of hand any and all who bring up reconstruction of a defeated enemy. And if they don't feel 'quite defeated yet', well okay then, keep shelling until they get the message.
Don't get me started on NGO's.
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Doesn't help that the western side of Mosul was left unsecured.
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Remember the period before the 2006 Mid-Term Election? The local rag newspaper had a Page 1 Above-the-Fold story every day, often with gory pictures, about the horrors unfolding in Iraq. With Democratic Majority achieved the next issue prioritized stories about a pink llama in the county fair (!?!) and local corruption.
The MSM will make it a Republican problem because that is what they do.
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Tunnels are susceptible to gas and those compression bomb thingies. Think of this as an opportunity to acquire new skills, Mr. Goran. Consult the Israelis.
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#11 Flame throwers and Jerry cans of gasoline worked wonders for my grandfather and uncles in the Pacific.
Yes, they did, Knuckles! Here is a pic of my dad's amphibian tractor hosing a cave on Peleliu in WW2. Dad drove an LVT with a Canadian Ronson flamethrower module placed in the bed. Flame worked wonders on neutralizing caves and pillboxes. However, one had to watch out for a pillbox and some serious ammunition and artillery round cookoffs.
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Fuel air munitions, TW
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[Unz Review] Did Donald Trump unite the American Silent Majority behind things true and shared?
These are economic prosperity, national pride and unity, recognizable neighborhoods--a yen that demands an end to the transformation of neighborhoods through centrally planned, mass immigration--and an end to gratuitous wars.
Those were the questions asked in "The Trump Revolution The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed" (June 29, 2016), and answered in the affirmative.
Unlike America’s self-anointed cognoscenti, some of us saw this coming. The former recognize truth only once card-carrying members arrive at it independently, grasp and broadcast it, sometimes years too late. Not so America’s marginalized writers. Not in 2012, but in 2002 did we pinpoint the wrongness of the Iraq War. And not in 2016, but in July of 2015 did some of us, not fortuitously, finger Trump as "a candidate to ’kick the crap out of all the politicians’" and "send the system’s sycophants scattering" (August 14, 2015). His appeal, as this writer has contended since late in 2015, transcended left and right.
Conversely, vaunted statistician Nate Silver "calculated, last November, that Trump’s support was ’about the same share of people who think the Apollo moon landings were faked.’" (Professor Tyler Cowen of George Mason University properly downgraded wonder boy Silver’s intellectual prowess. His prose, wrote the good teacher, was a sprawl that "evinces a greater affiliation to rigor with data analysis than to rigor with philosophy of science or, for that matter, rigor with rhetoric.")
Given the disparate groups that rooted for Mr. Trump’s candidacy, it would appear that he did in fact awaken a historic majority. You could say Mr. Trump was an "omnibus candidate," a concept floated by historian David Hackett Fischer. An omnibus campaign is one that appeals in all cultural regions. Back in the 1840 and 1848 elections, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, respectively, proved to be "omnibus candidates," popular across cultural regions. In his ability to run strongly in almost every cultural region, Trump is the closest the country has come in a long time to an "omnibus candidate."
President-elect Trump answered the many prayers of very many people. Con't.
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It was the Dems who tried to drive wedges between various groups by saying such things as "bitter clingers" and "basket of deplorables/irredeemables." That tends to piss people off.
[AlAhram] Several children were maimed after a man allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at a church during a Sunday service in Indonesia, police said.
They were playing in the parking area of the church on Indonesia's Borneo island when the man threw the bombs from his cycle of violence.
It was the latest attack in the world's most populous Moslem-majority country against a minority group in Indonesia, which is home to significant numbers of Christians, Hindus and Buddhists.
"The man passed by the church and threw what we suspected was low-explosive cocktail bombs, causing light injuries on four children who were playing there," local police front man Fajar Setiawan told AFP.
The attacker, who was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the word "jihad", has been captured and an investigation is underway, police said.
The motive of the attack was still unclear,
...though the t-shirt was a very, very strong hint for those with eyes to see...
Setiawan said, but the church as well as a mosque where the man went before the incident had been cordoned off for the investigation.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... suspended from duty 168 officers and 123 non-commissioned officers from its navy over alleged links to a coup attempt in July, the defence ministry said on Sunday, as the government continues its purge.
It also dismissed 15 officers and 4 non-commissioned officers from the navy, the statement said.
Since the failed coup attempt, more than 110,000 judges, teachers, police and civil servants have been suspended or dismissed and 36,000 formally incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in a crackdown that President Tayyip Erdogan's critics say is quashing legitimate opposition.
[AnNahar] A French news website says one of its journalists has been detained in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , and it is demanding his immediate release.
Les Jours website says Olivier Bertrand was detained Friday, along with a Turkish photographer, while conducting an interview in the city of Gaziantep, near the border with Syria. The photographer was subsequently released.
No reason was given for Bertrand's detention, Les Jours said, and Turkish officials could not immediately be reached for confirmation.
The website says Bertrand was working on a series about the aftermath of Turkey's failed coup in July, which resulted in a massive crackdown on the followers of an Islamic movement blamed for the attempt.
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President-elect Donald Trump is seeking quick ways to withdraw the United States from a global accord to combat climate change, a source on his transition team said, defying broad international backing for the plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Since Trump's election victory on Tuesday, governments ranging from China to small island states have reaffirmed support for the 2015 Paris agreement during climate talks involving 200 nations set to run until Friday in Marrakesh, Morocco.
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But no one in the MSM is prepared to stand up and say the the UN is running a gigantic scam.
Of course not phil_b. The MSM is collectively too stupid to understand any of it and individually many of them are in on it. Let's not forget Al "the media mogul" Gore, huh?
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C'mon, phil_b, it's settled science; get with the program.
This scientist believes fossil fuel combustion affects climate - but suspects the models are not very good at predicting how or how much. I am also quite sure that the 'solutions' being pushed are economic action by our enemies, abetted by useful idiots and scam artists. That does not mean we should stop investigating the science it could even be worse than modelled. Nor that we should waste fossil fuel.
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The models are awful. They keep finding new factors to add to the mix, and discovering that old factors have impacts other than what was previously assumed. Not to mention that some things are self regulating to at least some extent, like increased CO2 causing plants to grow faster, absorbing in the process more CO2. But as far as I can tell at the moment, solar activity, volcanic activity, and -- in the very long run -- tectonic plate movement causing continental wandering and oceanic current changes are the big ones.
I love this quote referenced in an American Thinker piece by S.Fred Singer two years ago:
In the words of physicist Prof Howard "Cork" Hayden:
"If the science were as certain as climate activists pretend, then there would be precisely one climate model, and it would be in agreement with measured data. As it happens, climate modelers have constructed literally dozens of climate models. What they all have in common is a failure to represent reality, and a failure to agree with the other models. As the models have increasingly diverged from the data, the climate clique have nevertheless grown increasingly confident -- from cocky in 2001 (66% certainty in IPCC's Third Assessment Report) to downright arrogant in 2013 (95% certainty in the Fifth Assessment Report)."
At least one soldier was killed, and two others were injured in an attack at army checkpoint in Somali capital, Mogadishu on Sunday, a witness said.
Confirming the incident, an eyewitness said gunmen in a moving vehicle sprayed an army checkpoint run by Intelligence officers in Wardhigley district. A passerby civilian is among the two persons wounded in the ambush attack, which was the latest in string of assaults in Mogadishu by Al shabaab militants.
The gunmen sped off in their car, after the shoot-out, the witness said.
In a separate incident, unidentified gunmen shot and killed a Soldier, and seized his gun in Mogadishu’s Bakaro market. The gunmen who carried out the attack are reportedly fled the scene.
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[DAWN] SHARBAT Gula became the world’s most famous refugee after a photograph of her appeared on the cover of a 1985 issue of the National Geographic. She made headlines again recently when she was jugged You have the right to remain silent... by the FIA for living in Pakistain illegally on forged papers. She was charged under Section 14 of the Foreigner’s Act and for violating the Pakistain Penal Code, the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Nadra Ordinance. She was slapped with a fine of Rs110,000 and was ’fortunate’ enough to be jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! for only 15 days and not for years, as provided for under the law.
What is highly disconcerting, however, is that she was deported as soon as she was released. Sharbat Gula suffers from hepatitis C. She is also a widow and a mother of four children; she deserved to remain in Pakistain on health and humanitarian grounds.
Desperation, abject poverty and the lack of better opportunities have driven many Afghan refugees to take residence in Pakistain illegally. In other words, they have no other choice, and it goes against the core norms of international human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... for Pakistain to punish these individuals for violating its immigration laws. Amnesia Amnesty International also recently voiced this sentiment in a blurb that further tarnished Pakistain’s reputation for its recent treatment of refugees.
Following the APS attacks, Pakistain has hardened its stance on Afghan refugees. Scores have been subjected to harassment and torture in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women. These conventions, which Pakistain has ratified, make no distinctions between the treatment of citizens, refugees or those who are illegally present in a country.
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See, you can learn something even from Pakistan.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS is increasing its presence in Pakistain, recruiting Uzbek turbans, attracting disgruntled Taliban fighters and partnering with one of Pakistain’s most violent sectarian groups, according to coppers, Taliban officials and analysts.
Its latest atrocity was an attack Saturday on a Sufi shrine in southwestern Pakistain that killed at least 50 people and maimed 100 others. The group said in a statement that a jacket wallah attacked the shrine with the intent of killing Shiite Moslems and issued a picture of the attacker.
When ISIS circulated a photograph of one of the attackers in last month’s deadly assault on a police academy in southwestern Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province, two Taliban officials told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the attacker was an Uzbek, most likely a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
The Taliban officials, both of whom are familiar with the IMU, spoke on condition of anonymity because their leadership has banned them from talking to the media.
Authorities initially said the police academy attack was orchestrated by bully boyz hiding out in Afghanistan and blamed Pakistain’s virulently anti-Shiite group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... . But ISIS later grabbed credit and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi front man Ali Bin Sufyan said they partnered with ISIS to carry out the assault.
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No doubt someone at the UN will express Official Concern before going in search of afternoon tea,
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Eleven Arab countries have sent a letter of complaint to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... voicing their concerns of Iran’s continuous expansion of their policies in the region, Al Arabiya News channel reported.
The letter condemned Iran's role in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and their support and training of Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias, as well as the smuggling of arms to them.
The Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and Yemen sent the letter to Peter Thomson, the president of the UN General Assembly 71st session, and was distributed to UN state members.
The letter comes in response to the false allegations which the Iranian delegation made on September 26 during the general debate of the UN General Assembly.
The letter voiced concerns of Iran’s calls for a revolution, adding that Iran sponsors terrorism in Leb, Syria and Yemen and supports terrorist cells and groups in Bahrain, Iraq, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Kuwait and other countries.
It also said that the operation Decisive Storm was launched upon the request of the legitimate government in Yemen and slammed Iran's attempts to stir sectarian strife in the region.
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All you really need to know is in the headline, dear Reader, but I've included much of the article for those who prefer their schadenfreude detailed. I'm so glad we don't have to wait until the oil runs out to kick sand in their collective faces.
[AnNahar] Candidates in Kuwait's parliamentary elections have focused their campaigns on unpopular government austerity measures as the oil-dependent Gulf country faces financial stress due to low crude prices.
Kuwait, which sits on around seven percent of the world's proven crude reserves, has resorted to a series of measures to cut spending and boost non-oil revenues in a bid to diversify its economy.
But measures including raising power and water charges and hiking petrol prices have triggered a political crisis, leading to the parliament being dissolved last month and snap polls being called for November 26.
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[ChicagoSunTimes] Trump back-pedaled on his promise to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton over her emails. "I’m going to think about it," Trump said.
"...She did some bad things, I mean she did some bad things," Trump said, prompting Stahl to ask, "I know, but a special prosecutor? You think you might...
To which Trump replied, making a reference to Bill and Hillary Clinton, "I don’t want to hurt them, I don’t want to hurt them. They’re, they’re good people. I don’t want to hurt them. And I will give you a very, very good and definitive answer the next time we do 60 Minutes together."
Did he say anything about discouraging his new attorney general, the NYPD, the IRS, or the various Congressional committee investigations? With this man one must listen as carefully to what he didn't say as to what he did, so if someone could get hold of the entire tape, that would be a very good idea.
Briefing Call: Dentons' US Public Policy and Regulation team held a moderated briefing call on November 10 to analyze the impact of the historic US election. Dentons senior advisor Newt Gingrich, former US Speaker of the House, discussed his insights on the November 8 election results.
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Hillary is not a good person. Trump better rethink this and not get carried away in the excitement of a great victory. Best to keep that ace in the hole. The people voted for law and order and justice.
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I need no revenge, simply justice. I trust the Trump people to make the correct decision.
Is it not enough that these evil Clinton people will be retiring from public service and are probably ruined? Above all else, we can give thanks that she and the donks will have nothing to do with the upcoming Supreme Court picks.
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The problem he has with NOT prosecuting is that it damages the 'legitimacy' of his election - it could appear to support claims that she did nothing wrong and that the accusations were strictly political creations. Of course prosecuting when you cannot convict (even if the charges are true) is even more damaging.
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I've said it before, Special Prosecutor Elizabeth Warren.
Let the Democrats determine if they are the corrupt/cover-up party (either way it can be hung around Warren's neck later) and let the Republicans come off as bending over backwards to be fair while striving for rule of law. Win/win.
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A pardon is as a good as an admission of guilt for criminal activities. She'll never be jailed. Their profits from selling favors should be stripped from them and the companies that paid them publicly exposed and embarrassed. You can bet all those uncollected quos will be painful
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Tax Evasion. It was good enough for Al Capone.
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Translation: I'm president-elect now, ask me when I'm president.
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You go after enemies.
HRC is not an enemy anymore.
Best to let it go.
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HRC is not an enemy anymore.
As long as the Clintons and Obamas continue to maintain a high profile with their constituencies, the country will be vulnerable to any manner of Soros mischief. Why hasn't she condemned the violent protests? Why the co-ordinated purple outfits at her concession speech? Purple Revolution.
She will remain a danger.
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Hope that Guilani will become A/G. Then he takes his time and starts looking up and down the food chain. Rudy knows how prosecutions under RICO work. Seizing assets would be a good start. All under the radar while the case builds.
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – Two civilians were killed and seven others were injured when an IED exploded northwest of Kirkuk, targeting convoys of families escaping the Islamic State-controlled precinct of Hawija, Alsumaria News reported.
The bomb exploded on the Debka road, northwest of Kirkuk, a source told the network. “IEDs routinely explode at civilians fleeing everyday from ISIS-held regions,” he stated.
Hawija, along with several other neighborhoods in southwest of Kirkuk, have been under ISIS control since June 2014.
Iraqi forces and US-led coalition aircrafts continue with nation-wide campaigns to liberate ISIS-held cities, most significantly the city of Mosul, the last ISIS stronghold in the country.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Security forces of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government have unlawfully destroyed large numbers of Arab homes, and sometimes entire villages, in areas retaken from ISIS, Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... has reported.
HRW reported the atrocities in an 80-page report titled "Marked with an ’X’: Iraqi Kurdish Forces’ destruction of villages, homes in conflict with ISIS," and looked at destruction of homes between September 2014 and May 2016 in disputed areas of Kirkuk and Nineveh governorates.
"Forcing families out of their homes and into the streets or to unsafe parts of the country is a serious violation of their rights and does nothing to strengthen Iraq’s political cohesion," said Lama Fakih, HRW’s deputy Middle East director.
A video embedded below obtained by HRW shows homes of Arabs that were evicted from the June First neighborhood of Kirkuk and demolished between October 23 and 25.
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Perhaps they were collaborators or ISIS members of supporters.
Or too full of bombs and boobytraps to be safely dismantled. The text of the article does not say that people were forced out of the buildings in order to destroy them.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 23 loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in Achin district of Nangarhar.
No further details were given regarding the Arclight airstrike and it is yet not clear if the raid was conducted by the Afghan Air Force or the US forces based in Afghanistan.
The loyalists of ISIS terrorist group have not commented regarding the report so far.
This comes as at least 13 loyalists of the terror group were killed in a similar Arclight airstrike carried out by the US forces in Nangarhar on Friday.
The Afghan forces and US forces based in Afghanistan are regularly targeting the ISIS loyalists and other Lion of Islam groups.
The US forces based in Afghanistan have increased Arclight airstrikes against the murderous Moslems after the B.O. regime granted broader role to them amid deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan.
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"I think she's a little too pretty...
And more than a little too witty."
"Oh, Mom, it's a movie!
I'm sure she'll be groovy
In 'Don't Cry for Me, New York City!'"
[Dhaka Tribune] Six people were maimed as a vehicle allegedly a part of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal’s motorcade ploughed into a crowd in Nurbagh area under Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore district.
The minister was on his way to Dublar Char to attend Rasmela, a Hindu religious festival.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... Jessore Superintendent of police, Anisur Rahman said: "A public transport may have knocked people down ."
When contacted, Kamal’s Personal Secretary Harun-Ur-Rashid said: "I heard about the incident. An unaffiliated car that had trailed behind our motorcade may have hit some people when taking a turn."
Of the injured, four were identified as Sonia Begum, 24, Asma Begum, 35, Anjira Begum, 45 and Birendranath Datta, 48.
Witnesses said a car in the VIP motorcade rammed people who were waiting at a bus stop around 10:20am on Sunday.
The injured were admitted at Abhaynagar Upazila Health Complex.
Three were reported to be critically injured and later shifted to Khulna Medical College Hospital.
Locals could not identify who the motorcade was escorting. But some locals gathered on Jessore-Khulna highway protesting the incident. Later, Nawapara Municipality Mayor Sushanta Kumar Das went to calm the protesters.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Hundreds of buildings in Rohingya villages in western Myanmar have been torched, according to new satellite images released on Sunday as fresh fighting flared in the strife-torn region.
Northern Rakhine, which is home to the Moslem Rohingya minority and borders Bangladesh, has been under military lockdown ever since surprise raids on border posts left nine police dead last month.
Soldiers have killed several dozen people and arrested scores in their hunt for the attackers, who the government says are radicalised Rohingya forces of Evil with links to overseas Islamists.
Fresh fighting flared on Saturday with two soldiers and six attackers killed, according to the military who said they brought in helicopter gunships to repel an ambush.
The crisis and reports of grave rights abuses being carried out in tandem with the security crackdown have piled international pressure on Myanmar’s new civilian government and raised questions about its ability to control its military.
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I don't understand the problem. Did not Allah say the spoils must be divided among the warriors of Islam, and are not the Houthis those warrriors? Sheep may not protest being sheared -- it is their purpose.
Taiz, Aden- Yemeni cities are undergoing a national rage due to delayed salaries in the past three months by the Houthis, which are accused by the Yemeni government of robbing billions from the Central Bank of Yemen before being transferred into the temporary capital Aden.
Local sources and witnesses in Sana’a told Asharq al-Awsat that Houthis suppressed the protests sparked to demand the delivery of delayed salaries. Moreover, Houthis and pro-coup academics assaulted members in the Yemeni Teaching Union Coordinating Council in Sanaa University.
The assault coincided with intensive meetings held by academics in Sanaa University to consider protests escalation due to collapsing economic conditions since months. Academics accused the University President Fawzi al-Sagher, appointed by the Houthis, of reaching the meeting hall accompanied with armed people.
However, Sanaa University’s Vice President Dr. Mohammed Shoukri resigned after Houthi militias assaulted his colleagues in the Yemeni Teaching Union Coordinating Council.
Abdullah Abu al-Ghaith, representative of academics in Sanaa University, told Asharq al-Awsat that the assault took place in the presence of the university president who stood still and did not give orders to his accompanying armed people to arrest the offender.
Ghaith added that this is a proof that Houthis reached a deadlock in districts ruled by them—their actions mean that they failed to face these protests with reasonable excuses.
Teaching unions in the nine public universities started on Thursday a unified protest to demand their delayed salaries.
Since rebelling over the authority, Houthis militias and supporters of Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh have been intimidating parties and organizations in Sana’a and other districts.
Countdown to the next Ansar Bayt al Maqdis terror attack commences... unless rhe purpose is to flush out the next round of targets.
[AlAhram] The Rafah border crossing with the Gazoo Strip will open for four days, starting from Monday till Friday, state owned MENA agency reported on Sunday.
According to the agency, the opening of the crossing comes based on orders by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
The crossing will be open on both sides to allow humanitarian cases to cross.
Last month, the border crossing was also opened fon orders by El-Sisi to allow the entry of similar cases.
The Rafah border crossing between Gazoo and Sinai is the only way for the 1.8 million Paleostinians in Gazoo who have been living under Israeli siege since 2006 to enter and exit the strip.
The border with Egypt has been kept closed for most of the time by Egyptian authorities on security grounds for three years. Cairo periodically opens the border for short periods to allow civilians with foreign passports, Paleostinian students and those with medical needs to travel back and forth.
...that sounds so much better than "President-elect Hillary Clinton"...
is reportedly looking at ways for the U.S. to back out of a landmark climate pact, which would defy an agreement to cut carbon emissions across the globe.
A source on Trump’s transition team told Reuters that the team was looking for ways to bypass the procedure to leave the Paris accord, which was agreed upon last December.
Did the Senate ratify this treaty? If not, then we never were party to it anyway, despite President Obama's artistic signature, just as, as I recall, the Senate never ratified the thing Vice President Al Gore was involved in way back when.
Trump has previously stated his disbelief in global warming. Other global governments, including China, have expressed their reaffirming support for the deal.
"It was reckless for the Paris agreement to enter into force before the election,” the source told Reuters on Tuesday.
Obama has been working to cement his legacy. In cement shoes...
One of the alternatives he said was to withdraw from the 1992 Convention that was a parent to the 2015 Paris accord. It would void U.S. participation in the deal in a year’s time. Trump could also “delete” the U.S. signature from the deal.
Other nations still hope Trump comes around on the climate deal. However, one Moroccan official said that even if the U.S. does pull out it won’t hurt the deal.
"If one party decides to withdraw that it doesn't call the agreement into question," Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar said.
U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa was still hoping to build a solid relationship with Trump.
"The Paris Agreement carries an enormous amount of weight and credibility," she added.
Among all the elites who are now discredited, she means...
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Until ALL those computer models and the data input into them are made completely public and, therefore, fully audited I don't buy any of it.
The "climategate" e-mails (there's that word again) show that the subject of honesty is not of great moment to the folks involved.
I have dealt with computer modelling for 30+ years including auditing and know what to look for and this stuff stinks to high heaven.
[AlAhram] Egypt’s military launched a new campaign two weeks ago against Islamist hard boyz in North Sinai in response to a deadly attack against security forces.
Egypt’s army announced on Sunday that it had killed 14 armed hard boyz during a raid in several areas of North Sinai, bringing the total number of holy warrior deaths during the past week to 40.
In an official statement by the army, a front man said army and police forces were able to kill 14 terrorist hard boyz through a series of raids targeting hideouts in several villages in the vicinity of Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai.
The front man added that the security confrontations witnessed heavy gunfire between the forces and the terrorist elements who took shelter in buildings and farming areas.
He said that the forces were able to destroy areas that the elements were using to hide and prepare their operations, as well as detonating 10 improvised bombs (IEDs) and a four wheeled armoured van and other vehicles used by them.
According to the statement, the law enforcement forces were bolstering their control through enforcing a tight security cordon to stop the infiltration of the trapped terrorist elements in the vicinity of the areas.
This is the latest statement that the army has released on their ongoing new operations in North Sinai.
Egypt’s army launched a new security campaign two weeks ago against Islamist hard boyz in the governorate, killing over 50 in response to a holy warrior attack three weeks ago that killed 12 soldiers and injured six others.
Over the past week, the army announced it has killed an overall number of 26 hard boyz leading up to Sunday during raids on different weekdays..
Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he backed a bill limiting the volume of calls to prayer from mosques, a proposal government watchdogs have called a threat to religious freedom.
Netanyahu, speaking before a ministerial committee adopted the draft bill, said he would support such a move that some have labeled unnecessarily divisive.
The bill now faces three readings in parliament before becoming law.
Israeli media reported that the bill would stop the use of public address systems for calls to prayer.
"I cannot count the times -- they are simply too numerous -- that citizens have turned to me from all parts of Israeli society, from all religions, with complaints about the noise and suffering caused them by the excessive noise coming to them from the public address systems of houses of prayer," Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting.
While the draft bill applies to all houses of worship, it is seen as specifically targeting mosques.
Israel's population is roughly 17.5 percent Arab, most of them Muslim, and they accuse the Jewish majority of badly discriminating against them.
East Jerusalem is also mainly Palestinian and traditional calls to prayer by muezzins through PA systems can be heard in the city.
The Israel Democracy Institute, a non-partisan think tank, has spoken out against the proposal.
On Sunday, one of the watchdog's officials accused Israel's right-wing politicians of dangerously using the issue to gain political points under the guise of improving quality of life.
Nasreen Hadad Haj-Yahya wrote in Israeli newspaper Maariv that "the real aim" of the bill "is not to prevent noise, but rather to create noise that will hurt all of society and the efforts to establish a sane reality between Jews and Arabs".
Netanyahu heads what is seen as the most right-wing government in Israeli history.
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Nah. Being obtuse, braying, violent jackasses is part and parcel to the Mooselimb schtick. Ya see, first ya pull all kinds of offensive crepe until somebody complains. Then, obtusely, ya call the complainer a racist.
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Meanwhile the FEDS are mandating all electric and hybrid car makers to make those vehicles noisier to reduce 'stealth-related' deaths and injuries. Sept 1, 2019 is the deadline.
card. clothes pin. spokes. some assembly required.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – The so-called “governor of Diyala” at the self-proclaimed Islamic State militant group was killed in an IED blast on Saturday in Salahuddin, Alsumaria News reported.
He was killed along with one of his aids in a booby-trapped car explosion north of the province, a security source told the network.
“An IED placed by unknown individuals inside the car of the so-called ‘governor of Diyala’, nicknamed Abi Talha al-Ansari, went off this evening at the Hamrin mountains….leading to his death along with one of his aids,” the source stated. The pair was moving from Hawijah to the northern areas of Salahuddin, he added, on condition of anonymity.
ISIS have lost many of their leaderships in targeted attacks and ambushes at their locations, the source explained
Iraqi government forces, US-led aircrafts and popular militias are in continuous campaigns to clear Iraqi provinces of ISIS who took over large areas of the country since 2014 to establish their proclaimed “Islamic Caliphate”. The most decisive battle is now in Mosul, ISiS’s last stronghold on Iraq where forces continue operations that kicked off mid October.
(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – Three people were killed and two others were wounded, including women and children, when Islamic State fighters shelled a village in Sharqat, Salahuddin, Alsumaria News reported.
ISIS bombed the liberated village of Khanouka on Saturday evening with more than 15 bombs, some of which contained toxic chlorine, according to a security source who asked not to be named.
ISIS, currently sustaining severe losses due to continuing, nation-wide security operations, occasionally wage suicide bombings and shellings targeting areas they had lost in battles.
The most notable battle is now in Mosul, Nineveh, where the group continues to labour in defense of its last stronghold in Iraq but only to lose more ground, according to security officials and news reports.
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An IED placed by unknown individuals inside the car of the so-called ‘governor of Diyala’, nicknamed Abi Talha al-Ansari, went off this evening at the Hamrin mountains…
I believe the correct term in this case is 'bomb'.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Iraqi security forces managed to dismantle 11 booby-trapped houses, in eastern Mosul (405 km north of Baghdad), Al Mada press reported on Sunday.
Al Mada press stated, “Forces from the Anti-Terrorism Directorate managed, this morning, to dismantle 11 booby-trapped houses in Hayy al-Quds, in eastern Mosul.”
“Members of the Islamic State planted explosives inside houses in Hayy al-Quds, to hinder the advance of security forces toward the group’s defense lines,” Al Mada explained. “Security forces managed to dismantle the explosives completely,” Al Mada added.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Commander of operation “We Are Coming, Nineveh” Major General Abdel Amir Yarallah announced liberating Karkojli neighborhood in the western coast of the city of Mosul.
Yarallah said in a press statement, “Forces from the Anti-Terrorism Directorate liberated Karkojli neighborhood completely, and advanced toward the neighborhoods of al-Bakr and Adan in the western coast of the city of Mosul.”
Iraqi security forces, backed by Army Aviation and international coalition continue the battle to liberate the city of Mosul from the ISIS control, after Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced launching the operation in 17 October 2016.
[ARA News] Duhok – General Command of the Iraqi Army said on Sunday that their forces have regained control of several neighbourhoods in the city of Mosul subsequent to heavy fighting with Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants.
“Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Units liberated the neighbourhoods of al-Orbajiyah and al-Qadisiya al-Thaniya in eastern Mosul after killing dozens of ISIS terrorists and destroying nine ISIS vehicles,” Commander of the Mosul Campaign Abdulamir Rashid Yarallah said in a statement.
The Iraqi forces also imposed a siege on the ISIS-held Adan district in Mosul.
In the meantime, the Islamic State’s Nineveh Media Office reported that ISIS fighters carried out three car bomb attacks, targeting headquarters of the Iraqi Army.
The attacks killed at least 38 Iraqi forces and led to the destruction of eight military vehicles.
Last week, the Iraqi forces were reportedly able to capture six neighbourhoods in Mosul City after hitting ISIS’ key positions there, forcing the group to retreat towards the city centre.
“Subsequent to clashes with Daesh [ISIS] terrorists, our [Iraqi] Counter-Terrorism Units liberated the neighbourhoods of Malayan, al-Samah, al-Khadraa, Karkukli, al-Quds and Karama.”
According to the Iraqi Army General Command, more than 2,000 Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists have been killed since the start of the battle for Mosul on October 17th.
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Beirut- As the humanitarian state worsens in the neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo, Syria’s northern capital, incidents are reported of Kurdish parties members breaking through the regime-imposed siege and successfully smuggling both medical and food aid.
Russia, a long-term ally of Syrian regime head Bashar al-Assad launched a vicious air campaign supporting regime ground forces in September last year. The incessant bombardment of both opposition-held and regime-signed areas had received international condemnation.
Many opposition-held areas in eastern Aleppo now face not only fire and bombardment but also a dire case of starvation and insufficient sustenance.
Russia held a 10-hour pause in fighting on November 4 and a three-day truce in late October.
Sheikh Maqsood, a Kurdish-majority Aleppo region, had been home to many distant and close relatives of families held under siege in eastern Aleppo neighborhoods. Many of the family members and Kurdish shopkeepers established a backdoor route to opposition-held neighborhoods as to deliver whatever is possible in humanitarian relief.
Social integration and sense of humanity, in addition to sideline trade opportunity, had been the chief drive behind Kurdish activists, businessmen and civilians embarking on the quest to cast of a life to Aleppo’s east, Kurdish sources said.
Despite Sheikh Maqsood being on the receiving end of rebel-fire every now and then, the desperate situation in areas facing deadlock had served as a crossover bridge to overcome any tensions, sources added.
Russia’s defense ministry had earlier dismissed as “counterproductive” a request from the United Nations to extend future pauses in fighting to allow aid into rebel-held eastern Aleppo as winter comes.
The ministry said it received a request from the head of a UN-backed humanitarian task-force for Syria, Jan Egeland, to make future breaks in fighting longer to allow in aid supplies.
Egeland earlier warned that the “last food rations” were being distributed in eastern Aleppo after four months of deadlock.
On the other hand, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday it would need the U.N. mission in Syria to formally confirm its ability to deliver aid to eastern Aleppo before Moscow agreed to any new humanitarian pauses in fighting in the shattered Syrian city.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – One person was killed and nine others were wounded when three explosions rocked different areas of Baghdad, according to security officials.
Saad Maan, a speaker for the Baghdad Operations, said, “An IED placed on the side of a road at Sadr City, east of Baghdad, exploded on Sunday, leaving three civilians wounded.”
“Another bomb planted inside a minibus exploded on the Mohamed al-Qassem road east of Baghdad, leaving one dead and two others injured,” he said.
“A third one went off inside another bus in Shaab neighborhood, causing the injury of four people,” said Qassem.
The United Nations said last week that 58000 people died due to violence since the self-proclaimed Islamic State took over large areas of Iraq in mid-2014.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – Baghdad Operations Command announced on Sunday, that five persons were wounded in a blast that targeted a Husseiniyah March, in eastern the capital, Baghdad.
Spokesman for Baghdad Operations Command, Brigadier General Saad Moen, said in a press statement, “An improvised explosive device exploded, today, near a Husseiniyah March in Geish Canal road, in eastern the capital, injuring five persons with several wounds.”
“Security forces cordoned off the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital,” Moen added.
Earlier today, a boob-trapped vehicle explosion hit al-Obeidi area, in eastern Baghdad, killing one person and wounding three others, while another explosion hit al-Sadr city, wounding three civilians.
Also, a third IED emplaced inside a minibus on Mohamed al-Qassim road, killing one person and injuring two others, in addition to a fourth IED explosion in al-Shaab area.
[Libya Herald] Militants in Benghazi fired six shells at Benina air base today in reprisal for an air raid in Ganfouda by Libyan National Army aircraft in which a family home was hit, killing the one man and seriously injuring the rest of the family. Two foreign workers, an Egyptian and a Chadian are also said to have been killed in the Ganfouda raid.
There are no reports of any casualties in the Benina attack which did not penetrate the airbase. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... according to Benghazi Defence Brigade which is linked to the holy warriors in Ganfouda, the man’s daughter was badly burned in the raid, and other members of the family were buried in the ruins of the house.
No further details about them have been provided but the girl was reported to be being treated at the bully boys’ field hospital in the besieged district.
Yesterday also saw air raids on Ganfouda and a shell landing near Benina while another also fell in Laithi. In both latter cases, there was again no damage done.
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[Libya Herald] The head of Suluq’s passport department died late this afternoon in a hail of gunfire when assassins targeted him as he was leaving his office.
Eye witnesses said that Abdel Halim Sherif was attacked by gunnies in a black Nissan Maxima outside his workplace near the al-Jouda Alfaika flour company. Sherif was a major in the Interior ministry’s immigration department.
The murder in the town, 54 kilometres south-west of Benghazi, is reminiscent of the spate of 2012/13 killings of officials that finally triggered Operation Dignity.
However this killing may have been more targeted. The Libya Herald has been told that the murdered man’s brother is journalist Malik Sherif, who heads the information office of army chief-of-staff and Cyrenaica military governor Major-General Abdul Razzak al-Nazhuri.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, the advisor to the Iranian foreign affairs minister, said Iranian missiles are not only manufactured in Syria but in other countries in the region as well.
He said Iran expanded its missiles’ production outside its borders due to the "increasing Israeli threats in the region."
Although he did not reveal much about the production Iranian missiles, he said Iraq is one of the countries where ballistic missiles are produced.
His statements come two days after the Iranian chief of staff said that manufacturing ballistic missiles has been carried out in Aleppo during the past years.
An agency affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has recently acknowledged that Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias have used Iranian missiles. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, however, has denied the statements.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had a cup of coffee. Even instant would do... the Iranian opposition outside Iran called on the UN Security Council to impose strict sanctions on Mahan Air and confirmed it’s owned by the Revolutionary Guards.
The opposition also said that the airliner transfers of weapons, equipment and Revolutionary Guards’ members to Syria adding that this was a flagrant violation of the UN Security Council resolutions.
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Remind me again why Mr. Obama wanted to lift sanctions against Iran.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2009 – Iranian-made explosives and rockets were among a cache of weapons uncovered in Afghanistan last month, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
The stockpile, which Afghan National Security Forces seized Aug. 29 in the western city of Herat, consisted of Iranian rockets, improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, and other bomb-making materials, Bryan Whitman told Pentagon reporters today. Afghan forces also arrested two people affiliated with the weapons, he said.
“Iran continues to play a destabilizing role in the region,” Whitman said.
The discovery of the IEDs -- the biggest single cause of American casualties in Afghanistan -- and other weapons marks the first discovery of such Iranian-manufactured weapons in the country in about two years, Whitman said. Troops last uncovered Iranian explosives in Farah province in October 2007.
Whitman acknowledged the difficulty in determining when the weapons arrived and said the most recent discovery does not constitute a trend.
[Libya Observer] The team tasked by the Municipality of Sabratha to gather bodies of illegal immigrants colonists from the local shores succeeded in removing 300 bodies from the sea over the last four months, the last being 15 bodies last week alone, the Mayor said.
Mayor Hussein Dawadi said he is continuing his efforts to stem this flow and refuses to stand by helpless, pointing at the fact he had met with the Sheiks of Mosques that give Friday sermons and asked them to highlight this issue to the general public and to explain where the proceeds of such business stand Islamically.
Dawadi placed full responsibility on the UN proposed GNA and the Interior Ministry "For not addressing or giving the subject any thought".
The Municipality of Sabratha said on its Facebook page on Sunday "We have raised this worrying issue many times as the numbers of immigrants colonists and smugglers continues to rise and ruin the coastline by turning it into a main smuggler route".
It explained that those mainly responsible are the smugglers, their guardians, the civil societies and the general public by not participating in active demonstrations.
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[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Joe Minchin delivered a sharp rebuke Friday to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, finally retiring ... for denouncing Americans who elected Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... "Senator Harry Reid’s statement today attacking President-elect Trump is wrong! It is an absolute embarrassment to the Senate as an institution, our Democratic party, and the nation," Mr. Manchin, West Virginia Democrat, said in a statement released late Friday.
"I want to be very clear, he does not speak for me," said Mr. Manchin, one of the most conservative Democrats in the upper chamber of the U.S. Congress.
Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat, lashed out at Americans who backed Mr. Trump, saying they confirmed the ascendance of "hate and bigotry in America."
"Watching white nationalists celebrate while innocent Americans cry tears of fear does not feel like America," said Mr. Reid, who is retiring from the Senate this year.
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And all it took was a Trump victory to make the obvious . . . obvious.
Erbil – The Turkey-backed Syrian rebels of the Euphrates Shield Brigades on Sunday got much closer to taking the town of al-Bab. Only 2km separates the rebels from the ISIS-hedl town.
“Turkey-backed [rebel] forces is only 2km away from liberating al-Bab. Land mines and IEDs planted around al-Bab by Daesh [ISIS] terrorists were defused,” leadership of the Euphrates Shield operation said on Sunday.
Ali Özkök, a Turkish Middle East Analyst, told ARA News that the Turkey-backed rebels could take al-Bab soon.“The Turkish air force has been striking ISIS positions in al-Bab for weeks, in support of the allied ground troops. Within two weeks al-Bab should fall.”
“1,500 rebels plus special forces, 40 tanks and 15+ apc’s are involved in a-Bab operation,” Özkök said.
However, the operation could lead to more tensions between the Kurds and Turkish-backed rebels.
Özkök said that after the operation the Turkey-backed rebels could either attack the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ISIS-held Tabqa to go towards Raqqa, or Til Rifaat to cut of the Kurds from al-Bab.
“One thing is definite, offensive will not stop in al-Bab or Manbij. [The Euphrates Shield Brigades] started huge training programs. Erdogan speaks about a safe zone that reaches 5,000 km²,” he told ARA News.
According to Michael Stephens, director of the Royal United Services Institute–Qatar, the fight for al-Bab could endanger the recently launched Raqqa operation by the SDF forces.
“Northern Aleppo has been a very serious area of contention where it’s not clear what agreements have been made or what arrangements. There doesn’t appear to be a mechanism to stopping the Kurds or Turks to fight over it,” Stephens told ARA News.
“While al-Bab opens up options for Turkey, it shuts off options for the Kurds and puts Raqqa operation in jeopardy until there is a firmer framework for understanding how this operation is going to work. The fight for al-Bab by Turkey-backed rebels poses risk to the whole Raqqa operation that may fall apart,” he concluded.
In the meantime, the SDF spokesman Sharvan Darwish accused the Turkey-backed rebels of ethnically cleansing Kurdish and Arab villages around al-Bab, “which is a clear sign of that the Turkish operation is ultimately aimed at preventing Syrian Kurds from uniting their canton administrations in Kobane and Afrin.”
The Turkey-backed rebels taking al-Bab could also lead to more tensions between the Syrian government and Turkey. The Syrian government fears the Turkey-backed rebels could open up a new front in Aleppo city to save besieged rebels in eastern Aleppo from joint Syrian-Russian operations.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A group of three Pak Death Eaters were placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! before they join the loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan.
The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), said the three individuals were arrested from eastern Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... NDS further added that the detained individuals were identified as Sher Wali famous as Hanifa son of Fatah, Hamza son of Adul Rahim, and Noor Hamid Jan son of Hazrat Ali.
According to NDS, the three suspects are originally residents of Jandul village in Bajaur and were arrested from Asadabad city, the lovely provincial capital of Kunar.
This comes as the local officials in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province earlier said the majority of the ISIS fighters in Afghanistan are coming from outside the country.
The officials further added that the residents of Orakzai Agency ... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers... in Pakistain are forming the majority of the imported muscle comprising the ISIS loyalists in Afghanistan.
Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani in July said the documents obtained from the dead bodies and those arrested during the operations in Achin, Kot, Haska Mina and other parts of Nangarhar, reveal that they are originally residents of Orakzai Agency.
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Sher Wali famous as Hanifa son of Fatah
not that famous
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You would - if you were a resident of the lovely Jandul village in scenic Bajaur.
A flotilla of Russian warships is ready in the eastern Mediterranean off the Syrian coast after being sent to reinforce Russia’s military in the area, a naval commander said on state television.
State television said the army swept the suburban area for land mines after regaining full control.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said the army and its allies made several advances on the divided city’s western edge this week, hampering the rebel offensive to break the siege on opposition-held districts. Syrian government forces took Minian village and nearby positions, which were captured by rebels last month, the Observatory said.
Zakaria Malahifji, head of the political office of the Fastaqim rebel group fighting in Aleppo, confirmed the army’s advances.
“Of course, when the regime takes control, it has a negative effect, but there is persistence” among the factions, he said. “And hopefully there will be change in the coming days.”
Syrian government forces launched a major Russian-backed assault on eastern Aleppo in September after besieging the area, which the United Nations says is home to 275,000 people.
The commander of Russia’s flagship Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, Sergei Artamonov, said via videolink that the warships are now in the “designated zone... in the eastern Mediterranean” and “are now jointly carrying out tasks, manoeuvering to the west of the Syrian coast.”
The battle group has traveled to Syria from the North Sea through the English Channel in the biggest such naval deployment in recent years as part of Russia’s military intervention in Syria.
Russia has been flying a bombing campaign in Syria for the past year in support of President Bashar Assad and has deployed a naval contingent to back up its operation.
The naval task force has been monitored closely by NATO, whose chief Jens Stoltenberg voiced concern the ships would be used to support the Russian military operation in Syria and “increase human and civilian suffering.”
The ship’s commander was speaking to a presenter on Russia-1 television from inside the Defense Ministry for a news show that will air this evening in Moscow. He confirmed that aircraft are already taking off from the ship’s deck to view the conflict zone.
“The flights have been going on practically every day for the last four days,” he added.
Russia’s Interfax news agency on Friday had cited a Russian military and diplomatic source as saying that Russian MiG and Sukhoi jets have been regularly flying into Syrian airspace from the Kuznetsov to “determine combat missions.” The Russian television channel also spoke to the commander of the Pyotr Veliky nuclear-powered battle cruiser, which is part of the same flotilla.
Asked whether foreign aircraft were flying over the ships, the commander, Vladislav Malakhovsky, said “they are afraid to come closer than 50 kms away, realizing very well how powerful the nuclear cruiser is.”
[Libya Herald] A Benghazi Islamist myrmidon has accused the army and Khalifa Hafter of shelling areas of the city that are already under their control. In the last 48 hours, shells and rockets have been falling in and around Benina.
In a clear reference to army attacks on Ganfouda, Wissam Ben Hamid said that Hafter did not mind shelling civilian neighbourhoods. Ben Hamid, the head of Libya Shield ...a conglomerate of pro-Islamist militias deployed across Libya. It reports to the Libyan defense ministry and is organized like a real army unit. Its commander used to head a Benghazi brigade called Free Libya Martyrs... No. 1 and a major figure in the Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council has told Al Jazeera that if his men had wanted to attack other areas of Benghazi, they would have done so long ago and their shelling would have been deadly and accurate.
The BRSC along with its IS and Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... allies, both UN-designated terrorist groups, have been holding out in Ganfouda despite being surrounded and apparently blockaded by sea.
Ben Hamid said that the army had attacked parts of Benghazi to cover up its own air attacks on Ganfouda as well as the murders of detainees. He cited the two massacres of bound and tortured detainees, apparently of suspected myrmidon sympathisers last month and in July.
His denial that the BRSC has anything to do with the shelling and rocketing of the last 48 hours, does not square with a statement a year ago, when Ben Hamid vowed that his forces would continue to shell Benina as long as the Libyan air force were using the airbase for offensive operations.
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Nudderwords, he's gonna keep doing what he's been doing and expect different results.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Frankly, I had no problem with unbalanced coverage during the 2016 cycle. Our job first and foremost is to educate the public and help them make informed decisions. Trump was and is a dangerous man ideologically, and so many in the media abandoned any concerns about bias in order to portray him as the threat he is.
All of this culminated on Election Day, where despite the media's best efforts, Trump emerged victorious. A lot of people vilified the media, saying they missed the Trump phenomenon or didn't act soon enough to stop him.
So where does this leave journalism? In a world where cold hard facts and truths were rejected by a plurality of Americans, and many Americans actively detest journalists, what role does the media have in our electoral process and society on the lam?
But then I remembered the now-famous words of Michelle Obama: "When they go low, we go high."
America went low, so in response, journalists need to let their aspirations to objectivity go. We need to recognize that our role has fundamentally, permanently changed. We failed over the last two years to educate the electorate largely because we were afraid of disobeying our "fair and balanced" oath.
Boy howdy, we watched youse guys struggle with that fear of being unbalanced the entire campaign...
American press did neither candidate any favors. They should have been much harder on Hillary and more objective on Trump. Instead of doing their jobs, they took dictation from the left and hammered the right. And they hammered Trump much the way they were hammering white voters. It is hard even for dumb white guys not to notice, but easy to remedy at the voting booth. It is being said that now that a Republican is in the White House, journalists will go back to reporting the news and publishing facts. But with this crowd of stenographers, I doubt they would know an objective fact if it was spray painted on their desks.
Have you read how military news is reported these days? Can they tell an armored personnel carrier from a tank? An air superiority aircraft from a ground interdiction aircraft? They ignore what they are told to ignore in exchange for access. It is hard to break a bad habit like that, but I have every faith they won't, even unto their very demise.
Adapt or die, Darwin says.
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And then when it looked like he had a legitimate shot at the presidency, many of us did everything in our power to warn the American people to reject his message.
More blather from the echo chamber of the MSM. Spare me, you had your chance. What gives you the right to try to destroy a candidate at every turn--to the extent of making up stories? What gives you the right to elevate another candidate and hide all their flaws. You never vetted Obama, you never vetted Hillary. Your job is to report fairly on a candidate and let people decide whether or not they want to vote for that candidate. I've never seen such a pile-on. The NYTs says they are trying to atone, but who believes them? So I say to you "GF-Yourselves." Enjoy the grave you have dug for yourselves.
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The current big media goal is to establish 'professional media' as a government backed and protected position. Kinda like working for the IRS. Everyone else is fair game.
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I had no problem with unbalanced coverage during the 2016 cycle. Our job first and foremost is to educate the public and help them make informed decisions.
No, you've taken upon yourself to bury, distort, fabricate, and promote lies and hate. There is no 'informed' in these deeds. If the 'media' were held to the same quality and purity standards demanded of manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, food distributors, et al, you would have been put out of business long ago.
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Trump was and is a dangerous man ideologically,
And who died and made you God?
The arrogance of these people is truly mind blowing. They think that their judgements are infallible and they can pronounce on any person's worth at will.
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I don't trust Trump. I didn't/don't trust Clinton either. Or any politician (for that matter, I'm kind of in the Fox Muldur 'trust no one' camp.)
The media would never have tried to shine a light on Clinton, but I am confident they will on Trump. I guess I prefer they be right half the time to never being right.
They never explain how they reach these conclusions, they just keep repeating them as if that will make them true. It doesn't and Trump won the election because people are beginning to figure it out.
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My opinion is the MSM is even more dangerous than the Bush/Clinton/Obama elites because they no longer compete with each other. Instead these so called journalists appear to have some mechanism, some list of talking points that they all use to present the same stories with the same spin each and every night. It's like Orwell's Ministry of Truth. That's way in the heck scarier than any politician. That's extremely dangerous. If a politician gets out of line you should expect the media to all start digging and trying to scoop (that's a word you never hear anymore) each other with the latest and most illuminating details on the scandal. Instead these treasonous bastards all agree to bury the scandals that involve their pet politicians and hammer away at little transgression committed by the likes of Trump. Truly chilling.
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This fuck is the elitist I vote against when I voted Trump. How dare he say or imply he should educate us into what to think. He is THE problem. Journalists are hated because they are condescending and elitist. The only person Trump's ideology is dangerous toward are those that don't believe in American exceptionalism and the elite. They still don't get it. I wonder if they ever will.
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America knows Hillary is a crook, and the majority took the moral high ground and rejected her.
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What's changed?
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Where'd this guy come from? Doesn't really sound like the Examiner. Lines crossed with Huffpost?
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so called journalists appear to have some mechanism, some list of talking points that they all use to present the same stories with the same spin each and every night.
It's because it's so. Media Matters for America is funded by George Soros and a number of interlocking progressive organizations. John Podesta (Hillary's 2016 campaign chairman) has been very active in creating many of these progressive organizations.
[Dhaka Tribune] One Rafsan Hossain, alias Rubel, arrested for raping a Garo woman, escaped from custody in the court on Sunday afternoon.
Rubel, 30, was arrested on Friday from Airport railway station by a RAB team.
Rubel was taken to court where he was due for his confessional statement.
He escaped from the judge’s chambers where he was supposed to deliver his statement. "I gotta go to the baffroom!"
"Okay, but don't take long. You gotta make your confessional statement!"
Badda police station officer in-charge (OC) Abdul Jalil confirmed the matter to the Dhaka Tribune. "Whoa! What did you eat? How about a courtesy flush? I'll be waitin' when you come out!"
OC Jalil said: “We will try to arrest him again.” "Honest, chief! I'll get right on it!"
“Rubel has been accused in nine cases including rape, extortion, possession of drugs and illegal firearms,” said RAB-1 Commanding Officer Lt Col Tuhin Mohammad Masud. "Sure hope he don't go to Chuadanga! We'd never find him there!"
"Heh heh!"
Rubel allegedly raped an 18-year-old Garo girl October 25. "I'd like a ticket for Chuadanga, please!"
"Hokay."
"Can I get a Bangla Chhatra League discount?"
DMP Deputy Commissionar (Media) Masudur Rahman said: “Sub-Inspector Imranul Hasan and Constable Dipok Chandra Poddar of Badda police have been temporarily suspended for their negligence.” "But, chief! The stench..."
"Out!"
According to the case statement, the victim was raped in Badda on October 25 while visiting her betrothed, one Ripon Mrong, at a mess in Misritola located in North Badda.
The manager of the mess asked Ripon to leave the mess since he had violated rules by bringing a woman there.
A mess resident Salauddin, intimidated the couple with local goons – Rubel, Rony, Sumon, Nazmul and some others who were called to come over.
They threatened Ripon and stole his smartphone and TK 17,000 in cash.
Rubel, Salauddin and Al Amin tried to rape the he girl in a nearby rickshaw garage but as it was full of people they dragged her to an abandoned house near the garage and raped her there instead.
After four days, the victim filed a case with Badda Police Station accusing the two including Rubel.
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I don't think I'd want RAB pissed off at me. Might just end up on The Spot™
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[Dhaka Tribune] A mob smashed the testicles Aaaiiieee! I am unmanned! No, I think it's something more like, "AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! AAAAAAAIIUIUUEEEEE!!!! again!!! And again, I do say! AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!
Oh dear. There's no holding back now. Hold tight, dear Reader, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
of a Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... leader in Chuadanga as punishment after he was caught raping a middle-aged woman on late Friday night. Here, you! Cease inflicting unwanted carnal knowledge on that lady of mature years! Bugger off! Take that, coward, bully, cad, and thief! Owwwowwwowww!
According to witnesses, Tanim Hasan Tarek, general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Chuadanga Govt College unit, raped a woman at gunpoint on the college campus. "Drop yer drawers, lady! I'm a big shot and you ain't!"
A cry for help from the 40-year-old woman’s son attracted people who mobbed up and caught Tarek. "Mother! Help!"
The mob gave Tarek a heavy beating and smashed his testicles, leaving him critically injured. "Aaaarrr!! Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb! Who's got a brick?"
"I got a brick!"
"I got another brick!"
[SMASH!]
"Mpf?"
Later, some of Tarek’s cohorts rescued him at death's door and rushed him to Chuadanga General Hospital on early Saturday morning. He was moved to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location by the same cohorts on Saturday morning. "There, there, Tarek! They won't get you here!"
"Mpf?" Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... the BCL Central Committee permanently expelled Tarek from the organization, according to a blurb signed by BCL President Saifur Rahman Sohag and General Secretary SM Jakir Hossain on Sunday, after pictures and video of the incident surfaced on social media. "Tell 'im he's fired!"
"That's the least of his troubles right now, chief!"
The Chuadanga Govt College unit of BCL was dissolved as well, the release says. "Tell 'em they're all fired!"
On Saturday, the rape victim filed a case with Chuadanga Sadar cop shoppe accusing Tarek, said Tozammel Haque, officer-in-charge. "He's the one, officer! He dunnit! The guy with the hamburgered snarglies!"
Locals alleged that Tarek and some BCL men often take some college girls to a nearby hotel and rape them. "Nope. 'Tain't the first time!"
"It'll be the last time for him!"
Rape by the BCL men at the college is a regular incident, said a few sources at the college who preferred to be unnamed. They also demanded exemplary punishment for the rapists. Getting nut-crunched isn't exemplary?
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Islamic State militants are evacuating their families from the western areas of Mosul to the eastern side as the group continues to lose ground at its last foothold in Iraq to the successfully advancing Iraqi government and popular forces, Alsumaria News reported.
A local source in Nineveh told the network that ISIS “has suddenly given a greenlight to the evacuation of the families of its local fighters immediately from all neighborhoods in western Mosul to the east.” He added, on condition of anonymity, that evacuations were previously limited to the families of foreign fighters, the largest portion of whom moved to Baaj in Nineveh and Raqqa in Syria.
The move denotes a severe collapse in the group’s defenses at the western front, according to the source.
It, however, comes despite significant advances made by the Iraqi forces in the eastern side too. Scores of ISIS militants were killed on Saturday as the forces managed to liberate several neighborhoods on the eastern side of the city. Preparations are reportedly underway also to liberate the Mosul airport.
Earlier reports had revealed that ISIS blocked the Iraqi-Syrian borders in order to prevent its fighters from escaping battles to Syria. The group had also executed several fighters for delinquency on the battlefield.
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Female vigilantes for the self-proclaimed Islamic State are collectively escaping the city of Mosul after leaderships ordered them to ready up for suicide bombings, Alsumaria News reported, adding that the group executed one of those women.
The so-called “biters”
biters??
are collectively fleeing to other unknown destinations inside Mosul, and the group is searching for them in its strongholds at the eastern coast of the city to punish them for escaping recruitment for the planned suicide squads. The suicide teams are designed to hold off the advancing Iraqi government and popular forces, a local source told the network.
“ISIS has executed one of its biters in Dawasa, west of Mosul, for violating the declaration of allegiance to supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” said the source, who added that the incident was unprecedented.
The ISIS “biters” force was formed to levy punishments on women who fail to commit to the group’s strict rules on public modesty. Vigilantes would bite the hands of violating women, hence the name.
Ick. What a humiliating thing to have to do.
ISIS is struggling to defend Mosul, its last bastion in Iraq, against the advancing Iraqi forces which launched a campaign in Mid October to retake the city.
[ARA News] Qamishli – The Islamic State (ISIS) radical group executed on Sunday three of its own jihadists on charges of attempting dissidence in Syria’s northeastern Deir ez-Zor Governorate.
Local activists confirmed that ISIS has beheaded its own militant fighters for trying to desert the group’s ranks.
“The ISIS-led al-Hisba Police arrested the three jihadists near Margada town on Deir ez-Zor’s northern administrative border with Hasakah Governorate,” an informed source told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The Sharia Court ordered their execution in public on charges of committing ‘high treason‘.
“The three ISIS members were beheaded in front of hundreds of people in central Deir ez-Zor on Sunday evening,” media activist G. Jarbouh told ARA News.
ISIS has reportedly raised its security measures in Deir ez-Zor for fear of similar dissidence attempts among its militants.
“The group has deployed dozens of its security forces at the exists of Deir ez-Zor to prevent any suspicious movements,” Jarbouh reported, citing an ISIS official.
ISIS considers any of its jihadis who leaves his post without a permission as a traitor and enemy of its alleged Caliphate.
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So the punishment for not being a suicide bomber is death? How's that work?
[Libya Observer] The military official at the Benghazi Shura Council, Wissam Ben Hamid, described the Skhirat agreement that was brokered by the UN to resolve the Libyan political crisis as an implied occupation, adding that they ‐ like all honorable Libyans ‐ reject this implied occupation that is not only clear for grownups but also for little children.
In a an interview with AL Jazeera Net, Hamid said Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... was brought to light to be the western countries’ tool as they have clear intentions of occupying Libya, indicating that Egypt, the UAE, and La Belle France are the biggest supporters of Haftar alongside former regime loyalists and Chadian mercenaries as well as Justice and Equality gangs.
"There many shreds of evidence to prove those facts." Ben Hamid explained.
He also refuted the accusations of the council being responsible for bombing residential areas in Benghazi, saying though were in full control of those areas, we left them to save the lives and properties of the people since Haftar would never mind ransacking entire blocks to attain his malicious aims.
"If we wanted to shell neighborhoods, we could have done so long ago and Haftar’s forces know we are capable of it just by remembering the time when targeted them with our rockets in the airport." He told AL Jazeera Net.
He also accused Haftar’s militias of kidnap, torture, murder, and tossing of bodies on the roads, pointing out the confessions made by their brass hats like Mohammed al-Hijazi, Fraj Aqaim and other Dignity Operation leaders.
"Benghazi Shura Council fighters’ morale is stepped up and they are keeping tight grip on their positions, though the Arclight airstrikes of the French and UAE warplanes hindered their advance." Ben Hamid added.
He concluded by saying that the forthcoming days shall reveal to Benghazi residents some joyful news so that they can enjoy a stable secure life in their city once again.
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[IsraelTimes] Government and parliamentary committee launch investigations amid accusations of discrimination against women.
For more than 30 years, sharia courts enforcing Islamic law have been operating quietly across Britannia. But two official inquiries have put them in the spotlight amid accusations that they discriminate against women.
Very little is known about them, even their number, which one study by the University of Reading puts at 30, while the British think tank Civitas estimates there are 85.
Sharia courts or councils, as they prefer to be called, mainly pronounce on Islamic divorces, which today constitute 90 percent of the cases they handle.
They range from groups of Moslem scholars attached to a mosque, to informal organizations or even a single imam.
But while they are aimed at helping resolve family and sometimes commercial conflicts within the Moslem community, some stand accused of undermining women’s rights.
Campaigners cite instances where courts have refused to grant religious divorces to women who are victims of domestic abuse, and accuse them of legitimizing violence, including marital rape.
The government and MPs on parliament’s home affairs committee both opened inquiries this year into whether the councils are actually compatible with British law.
They are looking into the function and possible discriminatory practices of the courts.
’Rise of the Islamist movement’
The first sharia court appeared in London in 1982 under the government of Margaret Thatcher, who rolled back state intervention in many areas, including mediation in family conflicts, which was delegated to faith groups.
But religious courts have existed for hundreds of years in Britannia, whether in the Catholic Church or in the Jewish community -- the Beth Din -- notes Amin al-Astewani, lecturer in law at Lancaster University.
As with sharia councils, the decisions of those bodies are not legally binding, but they represent a strong moral and social constraint for those who use them, he wrote in a submission to the parliamentary inquiry.
For Shaista Gohir, the chairwoman of Moslem Women’s Network UK who gave evidence to the parliamentary inquiry, sharia councils are useful for Moslems but should be framed by a "strong code of conduct."
She also urged the government to make civil marriage obligatory for couples marrying under Islamic law, to ensure women are legally protected, saying that 40% of women who contact her organization only had religious marriages.
But for other Moslem feminists, the courts constitute a "parallel legal system" and should be banned altogether.
An open letter to this effect was signed by more than 200 national and international women’s organizations, while legislation which would limit the scope of sharia councils has been put forward by a member of the House of Lords.
"They are discriminatory, they are abusive, they endorse and legitimize violence," in particular marital rape, Maryam Namazie, spokeswoman for the One Law for All campaign, told AFP.
She added: "These courts are linked to the rise of the Islamist movement. They are now saying that to be a good Moslem you have to go to these courts to get a divorce. It’s not the case."
Swiss political commentator Elham Manea, the author of "Women and Sharia Law" who has studied the phenomenon for four years, said the first councils were set up by Islamist groups.
"They have been working with a kind of a tacit approval of British establishment," she told AFP.
"There is a certain kind of hesitancy from British institutions to interfere in what they consider is internal affair to the Moslem community."
It remains to be seen whether the inquiries will change that situation, but they are already having some effect.
The London Central Mosque is attempting to organize the tribunals by bringing them under an umbrella group, the UK Board of Sharia Councils, which currently has 15 members.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian government forces clashed with rebels on the outskirts of eastern Aleppo city Sunday, a monitor said, after residents received messages from the army giving opposition fighters 24 hours to leave.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitor, and an AFP correspondent in rebel-held east Aleppo reported festivities in the Karam al-Turab neighborhood and the village of al-Aziza just outside the city.
The AFP correspondent said the fighting could be heard in much of the rebel-held east, which is surrounded by government forces and has come under repeated assault since the army announced an operation to recapture it in September.
The fighting came as residents in east Aleppo received text messages warning rebels to leave within 24 hours.
"Gunmen in east Aleppo, you have 24 hours only to take the decision to leave," the message said.
"Those who want to save their lives must put down their weapons and their safety will be guaranteed. After the end of this period, the planned strategic offensive will begin," it added.
Syria’s government and army have regularly sent rebels and residents in eastern Aleppo text messages warning them to leave the besieged sector.
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[Libya Herald] The upsurge in fighting around Ganfouda has seen the reported death of the son of a leading Death Eater and the overnight launching of ten Grad missiles toward Benina.
Shahin al-Sharksi, the son of Mustafa Sharksi, leader of the Benghazi Defence Brigade, is said to have been killed in fighting in Ganfouda in the last two days. His father, who commanded a revolutionary force in Misrata in 2011, led an abortive attack from Ajdabiya toward Benghazi in July.
The army claimed to have destroyed that BDB column when it reached Magroun and killed Mustafa Sharksi, which the militia later denied publishing a picture of their leader sitting with his men. The group has since pledged its allegiance to Sheikh Sadek Ghariani head of the Dar al-Islam in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... In the overnight Grad attacks on Benina, some 20 kilometres from Ganfouda, a number of residential building was hit but there are no reports of any deaths. The armed forces have struck back with Arclight airstrikes throughout today.
It was a earlier Arclight airstrike, in which a man was killed and members of his family, including children, injured that was given as the cause of heavy shelling yesterday from Ganfouda again onto civilian positions, mostly in Benina.
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EU members plan to discuss how far they believe Trump will go to live up to his pledges to turn U.S. foreign policy upside down on issues including Syria, Iran, Russia and NATO, The Guardian reported.
"We do not see the need for an additional meeting on Sunday because the U.S. election timetable is long established," a spokesman for Johnson said. "An act of democracy has taken place, there is a transition and we will work with the current and future administrations to ensure the best outcomes for Britain."
Hear, hear!
But really, the international panic after the rest virtue-signalled their horror at a Trump candidacy is utterly delicious. I'm trying to be properly ashamed, though.
[DAWN] GUJRAT: Police have tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! some people after a married woman, who had set herself on fire after being raped on the order of a panchayat (village council) in Dhillu Gharbi village of Gujrat district, died in Lahore’s Mayo Hospital about two weeks ago.
According to sources, the woman was about five-month pregnant when she set herself on fire in the house of her in-laws in a village of the Bhimber district of Azad Jammu and Kashmire on Oct 18.
In a statement to police at the Mayo Hospital a few days before her death, the woman said she had got pregnant after the rape and that she set herself on fire because she did not want to face her husband who had just returned from abroad.
The sources said the ordeal of the poor woman began a few months ago when her father was caught attempting to molest a minor girl in Dhillu Gharbi village. She was living at her parents’ home at the time because her husband worked abroad. She was sent to her in-laws’ house after she had been raped on the order of the panchayat.
Police booked her father for the attempted rape of the minor girl and arrested him on March 30. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... he was released after sometime and the matter was brought to the panchayat.
The panchayat decided that the father of the minor girl would rape the woman in punishment for her father’s attempt to molest the girl.
The sources said the woman was brought to the Mayo Hospital in a critical condition. Before her death she gave birth to a stillborn baby at the hospital.
Gujrat District Police Officer Sohail Zafar Chattha told Dawn that the superintendent of police in Bhimber sent a letter to the Gujrat police on Nov 7, informing them that a woman had attempted suicide by setting herself on fire at her in-laws’ house in Bhimber district on Oct 18 and she later died in a hospital in Lahore.
He said the woman’s father, the minor girl’s father and some members of the panchayat had been taken into custody after registration of a case against them on Nov 10.
However, ... and this is really gonna come as a surprise... he added, the matter took a new turn when parents of the dear departed woman, all the suspects in the case and some people in the village denied that any meeting of the Panchayat had been held and that the woman was raped by the minor girl’s father.
The sources said the police were in search of body of the stillborn baby, who had either been buried somewhere in Lahore or thrown away somewhere after the premature delivery, in order to get a DNA report to establish whether or not the minor girl’s father was the biological father of the baby.
They said it was not clear who had removed the body from the Mayo Hospital.
The husband of the woman had produced a piece of cloth from the garbage dump at the hospital in which, he claimed, the stillborn baby had been kept after the premature delivery.
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[DAWN] Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... will keep his vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants colonists from the United States, he said in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday, saying as many as three million could be removed after he takes office.
"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug pushers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million -- we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate," Trump said in an excerpt released ahead of broadcast by CBS's 60 Minutes programme.
That would be a good start. His base would be pleased and -- I'll predict -- a number of Democrats would go along.
The billionaire real estate baron made security at the US-Mexico border a central plank of his holy warrior presidential campaign, which resulted in last Tuesday's election victory against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... Trump added that the barrier to be erected on the US border with Mexico may not consist entirely of brick and mortar, but that fencing could be used in some areas.
"There could be some fencing," Trump says in his first primetime interview since being elected president last week.
"But (for) certain areas, a wall is more appropriate. I'm very good at this, it's called construction," he tells CBS.
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I'd say restrict housing to citizens and legal residents. If illegals are found renting or owning property, be it a house or car, the property and half of any money they have is forfeited to the US government, it's auctioned off, and the proceeds go towards building the wall. The residents are free to go wherever they choose. Eventually, they'll all head to the sanctuary cities on airplanes, buses and trains, whereupon they will quickly wear out their welcome. Problem solved.
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Hold the officials of sainctuary cities personally responsible for the conduct of their 'wards' after they refuse to turn over said wards. Start charging mayors and city council members as acessories to federal crimes and this crap will stop.
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Anytime an illegal commits a violent crime, charge those giving them sanctuary for depriving the victims of their civil rights under color of law.
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Once deported, strip them of any legal standing if they return. Congress can restrict what the courts can review.
In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make.
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Be sure to get photo, fingerprints, DNA, photos of tattoos and any other useful information during processing, to make things easier should they try to sneak back. Also giving copies of that information to Mexico for the criminals among them would be a gesture of goodwill.
A powerful earthquake and series of aftershocks shook New Zealand early on Monday, killing at least two people and prompting a tsunami warning that sent thousands fleeing to higher ground.
Emergency response teams were dispatched by helicopter to the region at the epicentre of the 7.8 magnitude quake, some 91 km (57 miles) north-northeast of Christchurch in the South Island, amid reports of injuries and collapsed buildings.
Prime Minister John Key told a dawn news conference in the capital of Wellington, where the quake was also felt strongly, that two people had been killed. Police said one of the victims was found in a house in the coastal tourist town of Kaikoura.
"It was the most significant shock I can remember in Wellington," Key told reporters, although he stopped short of calling a national emergency. "There will be quite major costs around roads and infrastructure."
Emergency officials were meeting later on Monday morning, added Key.
Power was out and phone lines down in many areas of the country, while roads were blocked by landslips. But a tsunami warning that led to mass evacuations was downgraded after large swells hit Wellington, in the North Island, and Christchurch, the South Island's largest city.
The first tremor, just 23 km (14 miles) deep, struck the Pacific island nation just after midnight, jolting many from their sleep and raising memories of the 6.3 magnitude Christchurch quake in 2011, which killed 185 people. New Zealand's Geonet measured Monday's quake at magnitude 7.5, while the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.8.
New Zealand lies in the seismically active "Ring of Fire", a 40,000 km arc of volcanoes and oceanic trenches that partly encircles the Pacific Ocean. Around 90 percent of the world's earthquakes occur within this region.
St. John Ambulance said it was sending helicopters carrying medical and rescue personnel to Kaikoura, where at least one of the casualties was located. The South Island town, a popular destination for whale watching, was completely cut off and officials said there were reports of a collapsed building.
In Wellington, where frequent aftershocks continued to be felt hours after the first quake, residents heading for higher ground caused gridlock on the roads to Mount Victoria, a hill with a lookout over the low-lying coastal city. Richard Maclean, a spokesman for Wellington City Council, said there was structural damage to several buildings.
Residents were advised to stay away from the central business district on Monday and the train network was closed for checks. Wellington International airport, however, was expected to open as usual on Monday.
In Christchurch, where tsunami sirens continued intermittently, three evacuation centres were accepting residents. Police set up roadblocks to prevent people from returning to lower-lying coastal areas.
Pictures shared on social media showed buckled roads, smashed glass and goods toppled from shelves in shops in Wellington and the upper South Island.
There was initial confusion when emergency services first said there was no tsunami threat. Christchurch Civil Defence Controller John Mackie said that while the earthquake was centred inland, the fault line extended offshore for a considerable distance. That meant that seismic activity could cause movement out at sea, leading to a tsunami.
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[AlAhram] Suspects detained by Russian authorities were plotting simultaneous "Gay Paree-style" attacks on Moscow and Saint Petersburg, local media reported on Sunday, the first anniversary of the massacre in the French capital.
The FSB security service, the KGB's successor, announced Saturday it had detained 10 citizens of Central Asian states who planned "high-profile acts of sabotage and terror" in the two Russian cities.
Saint Petersburg's Fontanka.ru news site reported Sunday that the seven people taken into custody in the city were suspected of planning attacks on two large shopping centres, citing official sources.
Government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported late Saturday, citing security service sources, that the detainees "were planning terror attacks according to the Gay Paree scenario" referring to 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 attacks a year ago that killed 130 people.
"Several bombs were supposed to trigger simultaneously in busy places. At the same time in different parts of the cities some of the terrorists... were going to open fire with machine guns on crowds," the paper reported, referring to the Russian plot.
Rossiiskaya Gazeta called the attackers "a professional terrorist group."
The FSB said it confiscated four homemade bombs as well as trigger devices, guns, ammunition and communications equipment.
Authorities did not say when the attack plot was to take place.
The security service released video footage of its black-clad officers in balaclavas holding two suspects facedown on the street.
Another video shows a stash of Kalashnikovs in a flat and detainees lying facedown on mattresses on the floor.
The FSB said the raids were carried out in cooperation with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan's law enforcement authorities.
Impoverished majority-Moslem Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan both say they are battling Islamist extremism. Tajikistan says that up to 1,000 of its nationals are fighting with radical groups in Syria and Iraq, while Kyrgyzstan says that some 500 of its citizens have gone to fight alongside jihadists.
The Tajik interior ministry said it learned of the planned attacks from an alleged local accomplice of the group and passed the information to Russia.
The FSB released footage of a handcuffed suspect -- apparently a teenager -- who says he is a Tajik citizen. He says he wanted to commit a "terrorist attack" in Moscow and that his brother is taking part in "jihad" in Syria.
Fontanka reported those detained in Saint Petersburg "devotedly follow the ideology of Islamic State group" and one said he had fought in Syria.
"The majority are admitting guilt," Fontanka reported.
Membership of a "terrorist organization" is punishable by up to 20 years in prison under Russian law while leading one is punishable by up to life in jail.
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Despite a raging war in many parts of Somalia, many Somali refugees are choosing to return home, Somali and UN officials told Xinhua, while urging international support for this trend. Mariam Yassin Hagi Yussuf, a senior official in Somalia’s Office of the Prime Minister, told Xinhua in an interview in Kampala that many Somalis in the diaspora are choosing to return due to enhanced security back in Somalia.
“People miss home. If you feel you are stuck in your life, you are not moving, then it is better that you go back home,” said Yussuf, who is also in charge of children and migrants’ rights.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) over 200,000 of the 600,000 Somali refugees in Yemen have expressed willingness to return home. Another 200 Somali refugees in Djibouti are also willing to go home, while thousands are set to be voluntarily repatriated from Kenya.
How many have returned from Minneapolis?
To be fair, some have tried, but we arrested them for supporting terrorism.
They can always do 12 to 20 in a Federal pen, after which we can send them back to Mogadishu...
In anticipation of the increasing number of returnees, the Somali Government has established a national co-ordination mechanism where migration issues will be handled both at the federal and regional Government level.
Yussuf said the Government is also waiting for Parliament to enact a law on anti-trafficking and smuggling of migrants. According to the Somali Government, many local youths are being trafficked out of the country. Many end up being abused and some die on the Mediterranean Sea as they try to access Europe.
“We are tackling the root causes of migration starting from insecurity, insufficient education, and lack of job opportunities. By tackling the root causes, we believe we will reduce the risk of people leaving the country,” she added.
Mohamed Abdi Affey, UNHCR Special Envoy for the Somalia Refugee Situation, told Xinhua in an interview that the country is in a critical state and needs all the international support as many Somalis are willing to return home. He argued that the Somali crisis seems to have gone off the international agenda, which is now occupied by other emerging crises.
It would help if you guys could reach a political accord, stop the fighting, kill the Shaboobs, and spend the aid money a little more wisely...
“This return means there should be focus on facilities inside the country so that the conditions are bearable for those who are coming back,” he said on the sides of a regional meeting on migrants in eastern Africa.
Affey called for continued support of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), which, he said, had helped to bring relative peace in Somalia. He said the possible pull-out of some peacekeeping troops as some countries have suggested would be disastrous.
“AMISOM’s presence has contributed substantially to peace and stability of Somalia. I would request that any pull-out would be reconsidered before Somalia has a sufficient security force that can be able to protect its population,” he said.
Uganda, the largest troop contributor to the 22,000-strong African Union force, said it would pull out its troops by 2018 since it first deployed them in 2007. Kenya, another troop contributing country, also planned a withdrawal.
The AU Peace and Security Council in June said it planned to withdraw the entire contingent by October 2018, and by December 2020, the mission will have been fully transferred to the Mighty Somali National Army.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi soldiers have captured Nimrud, the site of an ancient Assyrian city overrun by ISIS murderous Moslems two years ago, a military statement said on Sunday.
"Troops from the Ninth Armoured Division liberated Nimrud town completely and raised the Iraqi flag above its buildings," the statement said. The town of Nimrud lies 1 km (less than 1 mile) west of the ruins of the old city.
Fierce battles
Iraqi forces fought fierce battles against ISIS murderous Moslems on Saturday, east of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , after three weeks of fighting in an operation to liberate the ISIS-held area, Al Arabiya.Net reported.
Forces stormed the al-Salam neighborhood after heavy fighting with ISIS, during which dozens of murderous Moslems were killed, in addition to the destruction of boom-mobiles and heavy weapons that were found.
Special operations commander Major General Maan al-Saadi also revealed that the anti-terrorism unit advanced east into Mosul, with the aid of air raids by the international coalition.
Saadi also reported that have been able to evacuate civilians for a number of neighborhoods.
South invasion Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start on his third quart... in the southern, Federal Police captain Raed Shakir confirmed that his fighters advanced to the outskirts of Albu Saif area, and awaited orders to attack ISIS turbans.
Governor of Nineveh province also stated that the government has begun to look at relocating displaced civilians back into regained Mosul areas.
ISIS ’chemical’ attack
Amid the progress of the Iraqi forces and stationed in the south ready to storm, there have been several warnings of a possible chemical attack by ISIS. The warning comes after reports have emerged of ISIS using chemical weapons on civilians, south of Mosul.
Residents in Qayyara suffered from recent chemical attacks shortly before the current offensive began in on Oct. 17, Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... confirmed in a report on Friday.
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Only two countries in the world are operating the Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV), among them Saudi Arabia who have been using the military vehicle near the borders against Yemen where Houthi militia threats are constant.
The Bradley is designed to transport infantry or scouts with armor protection, while providing covering fire to suppress enemy troops and armored vehicles. It was designed and manufactured by the United States’ BAE Systems.
Globally, the United States army has nearly 6,230 units of the Bradley while Saudi Arabia owns 400.
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As far as I have seen, a decent system, and it can kill tanks. WAAAY better that the 113. Will be interesting to see if the Soddy's can keep them maintained.
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[DAWN] The unexplained visits of two big shots of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) to the United Arab Emirates in a short span of time have fuelled speculation that Dubai-based retired Gen Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... has intensified efforts for the unification of different factions of the party.
The city on Saturday was abuzz with reports that senior MQM leader Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui flew to Dubai on Friday where he met the former military dictator who is more than willing to unite the Dr Farooq Sattar-led MQM and the Pak Sarzameen Party led by former Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... mayor Mustafa Kamal.
Dr Siddiqui returned home on Saturday morning.
While those representing Mr Musharraf on the social media remained tight-lipped about his political engagements in the UAE, the MQM promptly denied the meeting.
A spokesperson for the MQM, Aminul Haq, rejected reports of the meeting and said Dr Siddiqui was in Pakistain. "He did not meet any politician, including Gen Pervez Musharraf."
He, however, confirmed that Dr Siddiqui, MQM’s deputy parliamentary party leader in the National Assembly, visited Dubai for "less than 24 hours", but said his trip was strictly personal in nature.
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[Libya Herald] A senior security adviser to Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has said that the president-elect is going to make the destruction of IS including in Libya a priority.
That's wonderfully vague. It does not say whether it will be a high priority, a middle priority, or on the list to be got to after the dogcatchers union thingy is straightened out. Still, until he can trust his daily briefings aren't biased, how is Mr. Trump to properly order his priorities?
Former CIA director James Woolsey told the Italian newspaper La Stampa that the new administration would be committed to eradicating IS. He also said that Washington’s relations with Russia would be reordered.
US media are reporting that the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) which has sent in some 360 air strikes against IS positions in Sirte, is now analysing intelligence on bully boyz who had escaped the town. The Washington Post said that US commanders were concerned that IS would increase their attacks to the rear of Bunyan Marsous forces and elsewhere in the country. The intention was to be striking terrorist groups outside of Sirte but there was an overarching concern to avoid civilian casualties.
Trump’s victory was welcomed on both sides of the Libyan divide. Presidency Council chairman Faiez Serraj said that he hoped that the military and political support already given by the US to his Government of National Accord would continue and that the Libyan-US partnership would grow stronger.
There was no public comment from House of Representatives president Ageela Saleh. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... parliament put out a statement requesting Trump’s support and asking for the lifting of the international arms embargo and the arming of the Libyan army in its fight against terrorism.
Nor has there been any public reaction from armed forces commander-in-chief Khalifa Hafter. Rooters quoted HoR member and Hafter loyalist Tariq Geroushi saying that he believed US Republicans understood the realities of terrorism in the country and would support the Libyan army. Geroushi’s father is Major-General Saqr Adam Geroushi, the air force commander whom Hafter is thought to be about to replace.
It is said that one of Hafter’s strongest backers, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, managed to be the very first international leader to get through to Trump on election night to congratulate him on his victory.
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Trump will make IS in Libya a priority says security adviser
[BUSINESSINSIDER] Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... , a vocal critic of Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... throughout the election cycle, slammed the president-elect's views on foreign policy in a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider last week.
He called Trump a "fool" when it comes to Russia, said the billionaire businessman has "zero idea" about how to defeat the terrorist group ISIS (also known as 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.... or ISIS), called his views on the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... alliance "dangerous," and said Trump "doesn't know anything" about foreign policy writ large.
"To put 'Donald Trump' and 'foreign policy' in the same sentence is a stretch," Graham said. "This is not his area. He doesn't know anything about it. He doesn't seem to be curious."
Barack Obama claimed foreign policy expertise based in spending a few years of his childhood in Indonesia and a winter break with his roommate's family in Pakistan. Donald Trump owns properties in at least seven countries around the world (I counted the named international properties on his business website without exploring the ones that weren't given locations.) plus his golf clubs in the UAE and Scotland. And he wasn't even a child when he built them.
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so who dies in todays environment? He understands negotiation from a position of strength, it is a business principle. He also knows you cant buy loyalty, which Mr Graham, Obama, and the entire DC crowd have still failed to realize.
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Also his full experience in international finance supplemented with the clinton tutorials in international graft.
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SC: Trump 55% Clinton 41%.Looking forward to the Silence of the NeverTrumps: A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
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...And as it turns out, Lindsey Graham doesn't know anything about being a Republican.
Mike
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Graham needs to hurry up and finish
his transition---to being a Democrat.
[NatlPost] The nightmare interpretation of Tuesday’s U.S. election result is that half of America decided to inaugurate a regressive, sexist white nationalist empire. The more generous and more likely interpretation is that this was a protest vote -- a protest vote of such force and intensity that American voters were even willing to register it with a candidate with such obvious character flaws.
But against what were they rebelling? Plenty of American liberals are wondering this weekend whether they themselves played a role in making the Trump presidency possible. Below, the National Post’s Tristin Hopper sums up the main arguments. Looking past the attitude, pretty much spot on.
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Maybe if the Democrats didn't use the line, "You're all a bunch of bitter clinger irredeemable deplorables, vote for us!" they would be in better standing with regular, productive Americans.
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How does the left feel about Obama while they are in a self-incriminating mood? Worst POTUS in history.
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McCain wasn't Hitler. Romney wasn't Hitler. Trump isn't Hitler. However if Trump just does a decent job*, some of your zombies will start thinking, 'hey maybe Hitler isn't too bad'.
* given how badly you've managed the economy for the past 8 years, stuck them with a 5K tax to fund your failing Obamacare and suppress employment, and kept them in 5 (or is it now 7) wars, it doesn't seem to be too hard for a decent manager to turn around.
[DAWN] QUETTA: Discrepancy in remarks by the Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... chief minister, the government spokesperson and the Quetta DIG had only damaged proceedings on the attack on Sandeman Civil Hospital in Quetta, Justice Qazi Faez Isa, who is heading the Supreme Court judicial commission’s inquiry into the attack, noted during Saturday’s hearing.
He remarked that it appeared as if the provincial government was deliberately trying to impede the court’s proceedings. "Controversies and difference in statements...have created the impression that the provincial government is deliberately trying to damage court proceedings."
He said that the chief minister had claimed that the criminal mastermind behind the attack had been incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! while the Quetta DIG had denied any knowledge of the development. The judge also raised questions about a statement of a government spokesperson in this regard.
"The judicial commission will not allow the government to play politics. We will call the chief minister to appear before the commission to record his statement regarding the arrest of the man behind the attack," Justice Isa said.
Sandeman Civil Hospital Resident Medical Officer Dr Javed Akhtar submitted that the kaboom had occurred while he was entering the X-ray room. "Then I saw people bathed in blood," he said.
He told the commission that doctors, paramedics and nurses had not moved to provide emergency first aid. He said that routine patients had been registered in the hospital register, but, the people injured in the blast could not be registered. He submitted an X-ray of Advocate Bilal Anwar Kasi showing a bullet lodged in the body.
The DIG told the commission that police personnel had taken into custody Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! the mobile phones of the dear departed and injured lawyers to obtain data. He said the government had made it seem as if the coppers had stolen their mobile phones.
Advocate Masoom Kakar, a witness, submitted that law enforcement personnel had arrived at the hospital almost half an hour after the attack had occurred. During that time, media people were busy shooting footage of the dear departed and injured lawyers instead of helping them, he said.
"Lawyers conducted the rescue operation as neither law enforcement personnel nor media persons present there had helped us," he said. Later, the law enforcement officials arrived at the hospital and ordered the lawyers to vacate the hospital saying that the army chief and other VVIPs were arriving, Mr Kakar said. Scores of lawyers were killed and injured in the suicide kaboom at the Sandeman Civil Hospital in Quetta on Aug 8.
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That'll show him. Tell me again about the current 'smart' people in charge of lower primate territorial displays to make friends and influence people.
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Ah...advancing perimeter defense before the moat.
That will put at threat operations and comm channels as well as security teams while offering spot targets. Sounds like one of Badenough's simulations.
A former member of the Nation of Islam who claims to never have known about the NOI's anti semitism and anti gay past - as he now freely associates with Jews and gays and supports gay marriage
...only the Progressive ones, one imagines...
is slowly raking up support from some key figures within the party, such as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Sen. Charles Schumer, who want him to be the next leader, following the party's humbling presidential loss earlier this week.
Citing more than 250,000 signatures in support of Ellison on a petition posted to his website, Sanders said the congressman is the future of the party.
I think it's a marvelous idea. Let the Democratic party sharpen its brand image even further, and watch the voters choose.
Superbly qualified, an absolutely excellent choice. I recommend a lifetime appointment.
With no possibility of parole...
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They've lost because the white working class turned away from them. So, they pick a candidate for their party's chairman who is as far as they get from the white working class. Makes sense.
At that point the truth of corrupting Saudi money will be absolutely out in the open.
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A former member of the Nation of Islam who claims to never have known about the NOI's anti semitism and anti gay past - as he now freely associates with Jews and gays and supports gay marriage
Taqiya.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A largely symbolic decision, but bigly effective signal to the Amity Shlaes' 'Forgotten Man.' 
[France24] Mexico is scrambling to ready its diplomats in the United States to handle millions of undocumented migrants' potential needs following Donald Trump's election, its foreign ministry said.
[Unz Review] It is not hard to think of reasons why Hillary Clinton should not be President. Yesterday Wikileaks founder Julian Assange cited one of the best: Libya.
[Dhaka Tribune] Hundreds of buildings in Rohingya villages in western Myanmar have been torched, according to new satellite images released on Sunday as fresh fighting flared in the strife-torn region.
President-elect Donald Trump 
[AlAhram] Egypt’s military launched a new campaign two weeks ago against Islamist 
Jerusalem (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he backed a bill limiting the volume of calls to prayer from mosques, a proposal government watchdogs have called a threat to religious freedom.
[Libya Observer] The team tasked by the Municipality of Sabratha to gather bodies of illegal im
Harry Reid
[Dhaka Tribune] One Rafsan Hossain, alias Rubel, arrested for raping a Garo woman, escaped from custody in the court on Sunday afternoon.
[Dhaka Tribune] A mob smashed the testicles 
[Libya Observer] The military official at the Benghazi Shura Council, Wissam Ben Hamid, described the Skhirat agreement that was brokered by the UN to resolve the Libyan political crisis as an implied occupation, adding that they ‐ like all honorable Libyans ‐ reject this implied occupation that is not only clear for grownups but also for little children.
[IsraelTimes] Government and parliamentary committee launch investigations amid accusations of discrimination against women.
[Libya Herald] The upsurge in fighting around Ganfouda has seen the reported death of the son of a leading
EU members plan to discuss how far they believe Trump will go to live up to his pledges to turn U.S. foreign policy upside down on issues including Syria, Iran, Russia and NATO, The Guardian reported.
[DAWN] GUJRAT: Police have 
Hillary Clinton
A powerful earthquake and series of aftershocks shook New Zealand early on Monday, killing at least two people and prompting a tsunami warning that sent thousands fleeing to higher ground.
Despite a raging war in many parts of Somalia, many Somali refugees are choosing to return home, Somali and UN officials told Xinhua, while urging international support for this trend. Mariam Yassin Hagi Yussuf, a senior official in Somalia’s Office of the Prime Minister, told Xinhua in an interview in Kampala that many Somalis in the diaspora are choosing to return due to enhanced security back in Somalia.
Pervez 
Lindsey Graham
[NatlPost] The nightmare interpretation of Tuesday’s U.S. election result is that half of America decided to inaugurate a regressive, sexist white nationalist empire. The more generous and more likely interpretation is that this was a protest vote -- a protest vote of such force and intensity that American voters were even willing to register it with a candidate with such obvious character flaws.
First time since the Cold War 
