[THEHILL] It sounds like a story lifted from the pages of a spy novel. U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... led a cyberespionage scheme designed to help 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... win the presidential election. Dastardly. Simply dastardly.
What's even worse is that Putin's plan worked and Trump now seems to be siding with Russia against U.S. intelligence agencies. They're Russians. They can't be right. Moose and Squirrel -- right. Boris and Natasha -- wrong.
It's hard to know how to respond to this because it is unprecedented. But it is essential to take whatever action is necessary to make this right, as difficult, complicated and even uncomfortable as that may be. ... he said virtuously. Catch the signal?
The hard reality is that the presidential election we just held was delegitimized by foreign interference. This is not some conspiracy theory or fevered fantasy; No, no! Certainly not!
it is a conclusion that flows directly from the unanimous assessments of the U.S. intelligence community. They're the ones who had the story about the hookers peeing on the Obamabed, remember?
It would be an enormous mistake to ignore this, as Trump has suggested we should. Enormous! (Not the same thing as "Yuuuge")
In fact, if we can confirm the intelligence report's conclusion that Putin intervened with the goal of electing Trump, there must be a new election in the United States. Whoa! I am like, toadally blind-sided. But if the Dems win the new election they're trying to call, can we go for two out of three?
This sounds extraordinary, and of course it is. Sounds pretty stupid, too. Ask the Supreme Court to set it aside. See what they tell you.
But it can be done, Don't count on it.
and indeed must be done Nope.
in order to uphold the fundamental democratic principle of free and fair elections, a principle undermined by the Russian efforts. Wikileaks being a Russian tool, except for when it's releasing stuff exposing Republicans?
How would this take place? The first step should be to conduct further investigations aimed at determining whether the intelligence agencies' conclusions are correct. Those kinda fell apart, dissolved in the rain from Goldenshowergate.
It is dangerous for Trump to suggest, without a shred of evidence, that the intelligence report is wrong. It's starting to look stoopid for the lefties to keep maintaining that it's right. Bring on the leaky hookers!
But it would also be a mistake to accept the intelligence report without asking questions and getting more information. So, really, the inauguration should be put off for another year or two...
Last week, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee chaired by Sen. John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... (R-Ariz.) began holding hearings about Russian interference in the election. The McCain hearings are a good start, but more action is needed, including most importantly the establishment of an independent, nonpartisan body along the lines of the 9/11 commission. McCain's involvement in procuring sullied information would seem to discredit his hearings, wouldn't? Will he be calling himself as a witness? Is he willing to testify before himself under oath? By the way, the 9-11 commission wound up in August 2004, so the current McCain hoe-down could logically be expected to run for another three years, through 2019.
If such a commission confirmed the intelligence conclusions (while also exploring other questions), it would then seek to determine whether Russian interference affected the election outcome and gave Trump a victory.
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Did the Russians put a open server in Hillary's lair to snatch incriminating intel? /rhet question
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Darth, those few blue counties contain a majority of the US population. Just not a majority of the food or energy production. Or military servicemen.
Linda Bean on calls for L.L. Bean boycott: It's bullying
L.L. Bean Board Member and Co-Owner Linda Bean on calls for a boycott of the company because of her support for President-elect Donald Trump and the state of the U.S. economy.
Linda Bean, the granddaughter and co-owner of L.L. Bean, on Thursday said U.S. businesses are under attack and being bullied by anti-Trump groups.
A group, Grabyourwallet.org, called for a boycott of L.L. Bean after Linda Bean, one of 50 family members that own the outdoor apparel maker, contributed $60,000 to a political action committee supporting President-elect Donald Trump. The Federal Election Commission said the donation exceeded the PAC’s individual donor limit of $5,000.
"It’s bullying," Bean told the FOX Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo. "They want to control how we spend our money, what we buy, where we buy it. That’s wrong, it’s un-American."
Shortly after her appearance on Fox Business, Trump tweeted a thank you to Linda Bean and urged customers to buy L.L. Bean. Link to order free L.L. Bean catalog.
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..their online site for Sales. Buying last season's stuff for next year can indeed save money. Caught items that were cheaper than Wallysmart, but far better quality.
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I'm conflicted here: one the one hand LLB supports ( or at least one of the owners do) DJT, but a the same time LLB sponsors through apparel 'Product Placement,' The Weather Channel, a big proponent of Climate Change. (All the weatherguessers sport the blue LLB jacket) If DJT is opposed to CC, then where does that leave LLB? Just another capitalist whore?
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I'm conflicted here: one the one hand LLB supports ( or at least one of the owners do) DJT, but a the same time LLB sponsors through apparel 'Product Placement,' The Weather Channel, a big proponent of Climate Change
Should the Russian scientists (and increasing numbers of others) be right about the coming little ice age resulting from the sun hitting the cool side of its multi-century cycle, L.L. Bean will benefit equally from the Weather Channel placement. I don't think it implies support for hypothesis of human-driven global warming as such. What they benefit from is people thinking about and dressing for the weather, regardless what it might happen to be.
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My solid-ox unit won't work on fiber... Actually, seems like the new modem they installed is no longer compatible with my old receiver, so a tech is (supposedly) coming tomorrow, probably to replace my receiver and take away all my DVR's stuff.
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And they kept charging me the previous rate for two extra months. Spousal unit is much more patient than I - I was telling her to have the tech just pick up their equipment tomorrow and cancel my account.
[ConstitutionalRightsPac] Remington Christopher Steele, who wrote reports on compromising material Russian operatives allegedly had collected on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, is a former officer in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, according to people familiar with his career.
Steele was initially hired by FusionGPS, a Washington, DC-based political research firm, to investigate Trump on behalf of unidentified Republicans who wanted to stop Trump's bid for the GOP nomination. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that Steele was initially hired by Jeb Bush, one of Trump's 16 opponents in the 2016 Republican primary. It was not immediately possible to verify the BBC's report. Fusion GPS was hired by Planned Parenthood to prove the baby parts tapes were edited. Despite reporting they could not prove the tapes were edited they reported they were. Sleeze indeed.
He was kept on assignment by FusionGPS after Trump won the nomination and his information was circulated to Democratic Party figures and members of the media.
Steele's dealings with the FBI on Trump, initially with the senior agent who had started the FIFA probe and then moved to a post in Europe, began in July. However, Steele cut off contact with the FBI about a month before the Nov. 8 election because he was frustrated by the bureau's slow progress.
The FBI opened preliminary investigations into Trump and his entourage's dealings with Russians that were based in part on Steele's reports, according to people familiar with the inquiries.
However, they said the Bureau shifted into low gear in the weeks before the election to avoid interfering in the vote. They said Steele grew frustrated and stopped dealing with the FBI after concluding it was not seriously investigating the material he had provided.
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Kinda hard to seriously investigate stuff that makes you want to burst out laughing.
I mean if that report had been printed in the Onion, it would have been really funny stuff...wait a minute you don't suppose this was SUPPOSED to be in the onion and some how the brief cases got switched with Steele???
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that Steele was initially hired by Jeb Bush, one of Trump's 16 opponents in the 2016 Republican primary. It was not immediately possible to verify the BBC's report.
Fails to pass the 'so what test.'
Clearly passes the 'BBC mouthpiece for the Ministry of Defense (MOD), MI6, and squirrel deflection test.
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Jeb is a member of the unified beltway party of which DJT is not a member. Any outsider is considered a threat to be dealt with. The bigger the threat the bigger the reaction.
Ted Cruz was only a minor threat since he was seen as still working on gaining true beltway status. DJT is a real outworld threat.
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I STILL say this would have been funny if it was in the Onion.
Imagine a story in National Lampoon about Trump tracking down Michelle Obumble's bed in a Moscow hotel and having two skanky prostitutes pee on it...I mean that would be funny.
In an intelligence report from an agency with a budget larger than many countries, it is NOT funny, it is sad, pathetic, and above all FRIGHTENING.
Do those clowns at Langley EVER do any serious work or do they sit around and wait from some blog to post something really silly? Or do they read all of those check out line expose papers for new intel?
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Using the good old A to F 1 to 6 rating system of intelligence sources, anyone with two brain cells to rub together would have classified this entire thing as a F-6 and it should never have seen the light of day.
I would propose that Trump is going to go through the CIA after this one like Sherman went through Atlanta.
Unintended consequence of Obama's gun-sales program - more folks are forgetting to remove their firearm from their briefcase before going to the airport. 3,391 firearms were discovered in carry-on bags at checkpoints across the country, averaging more than nine firearms per day. Of those, 2,815 (83 percent) were loaded. Firearms were intercepted at a total of 238 airports; 2 more airports than last year. There was a 28 percent increase in firearm discoveries from 2015's total of 2,653. That Dallas, Austin, and Houston were in the top ten should surprise no one, but number one caught me off guard: Atlanta.
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Correlate with the election map. Blue cities and progs who rush out and buy guns, not knowing how and when to properly transport. You expect to buy them in NYC?
WASHINGTON (Ay-Pee)... The Obama administration is ending the "wet foot, dry foot" policy that granted residency to Cubans who arrived in the United States without visas. Caught my attention when I heard it on the radio yesterday.
The official said the U.S. and Cuba have spent several months negotiating the change, including an agreement from Cuba to allow those turned away from the U.S. to return. What about Mexico, Champ? Not Marxist enough for ya?
The move comes about a week before President Barack Obama leaves office and is likely the last major change he will make to his overhaul of the U.S. relationship with Cuba. Somebody please tell me this change is making the policy with Cuba the same as it already is with every other country. And that it won't be enforced any more than any other country.
Yet another executive order that can be reversed on January 21st...
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It is what Obumble's butt buddy wants and it fuc*s Americans and the US in the process.
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Well because the Cubans come to the US and invariably vote Republican, it makes sense in his little twisted monosynapsed brain to do this.
Now if the Cubans would behave themselves and vote Democratic like good slaves on the plantation this wouldn't have happened. You don't see him writing this order on the Mexicans do you???
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And the Cubans that paddle on over anyway, would Obama support their extradition and execution via firing squad? Must be his evil white side coming out.
The ink was hardly dry on the Secretarial Order from Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell blaming California’s drought on global warming when rain and snow swept across the state. San Francisco International Airport was forced to cancel flights and there were blizzard warnings for Lake Tahoe. Face it. He is not happy with you.
The Los Angeles Times warned breathlessly of a winter war footing. San Francisco, the home of a million companies cashing in on environmental panics, received 130% of average rainfall. Sacramento, where terrible ideas from San Francisco go to become law under a Democratic supermajority, is at 160%.
Governor Jerry Brown had signed an executive order last year making temporary drought restrictions all but permanent. "Drought is becoming a regular occurrence," Executive Order B-37-16 stated. Then the proposal to "Make Conservation a California Way of Life" had made a big splash among bureaucrats. When the ruling class becomes that detached from reality...
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another big rain/snow storm expected by middle of next week in Calf.
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As Victor David Hanson has often said, if California had concentrated on building reservoirs, rather than dumping water into the ocean to save the delta smelt, they would not be in this situation.
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California really hasn't done much at all for infrastructure since the 1960s. Just look at how jammed the freeways are. But it ins't just the freeways. If you're really brave go to a hospital emergency room. And if you're really really brave wander through the hallways of one of our high schools. Water is but one example.
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The El Nino, La Nina pattern of dumping tons of water for 3-7 years and then leaving us in drought for 3-7 years was known when I was a kid. I have to imagine this was intentionally forgotten for 'religious' reasons.
If we had proper government we would have built cisterns to hold extra water so it didn't just run off into the Pacific when things were dry, and reinforced the levees and such against the big rains that we now are gonna come. Instead we have clowns who take advantage of the voters short memory and gullibility.
[Free Beacon] Amazon announced on Thursday that it plans to add over 100,000 full-time jobs with benefits across the United States over the next 18 months.
The company said in a statement that it will increase its current U.S.-based workforce of 180,000 people to 280,000 by mid-2018.
"We plan to add another 100,000 new Amazonians across the company over the next 18 months as we open new fulfillment centers, and continue to invent in areas like cloud technology, machine learning, and advanced logistics," Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said of the announcement.
Over the past five years, Amazon has created 150,000 jobs in the U.S. from its 30,000 employees in 2011.
The positions are being created for "people all across the country and with all types of experience, education and skill levels‐from engineers and software developers to those seeking entry-level positions and on-the-job training," according to the company.
Fulfillment centers are currently being constructed to house much of these jobs in Texas, California, Florida, New Jersey, and other states.
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Just like the big box stores closed corner groceries, Amazon and its new competitor from China will start closing Sears, Macy's and etc. this is already happening.
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What closed Sears, et al., is lack of customer service and not having what I need/want in the store.
I'd rather be able to go pick up something I need from the store, but so often it's not available locally, even though I've looked in several stores. What choice to I have?
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Sears blew it. With their catalog sales history they had everything in place to pre-empt Amazon, but failed to recognize the opportunity/threat, and continued to charge extra for catalog sales.
[Free Beacon] Russian state-owned media companies were declared in a new government list to be of "essential significance" to Moscow’s national security and defense.
The list, published to Russia’s legal information site on Wednesday, places Kremlin-run outlets on equal footing to the nation’s security services "in protecting the rights and lawful interests of Russian citizens, as well as defense potential and security of the state," the Moscow Times reported.
Kremlin propaganda news agency Rossiya Segodnya is among the 64 state-run companies on the list. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched Rossiya Segodnya in December 2013 to promote Moscow’s image abroad.
The head of the media company, Dmitry Kiselyov, has threatened to turn the U.S. into "radioactive ash" and called on Russian troops to shoot down American bombers that target the Syrian regime.
The list, first approved by Russia on Dec. 31, also names VGTRK, which runs a number of state channels, the Federal Guard Service, and the Federal Security Service as vital operators in keeping Moscow safe. US Kremlin surrogates MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and CBS not mentioned in this article.
[Wash Times] At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham confronted the president of the NAACP with accusations that the civil rights group has an anti-Republican bias.
NAACP President Cornell Brooks was testifying in opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general when Mr. Graham challenged his and the organization’s political motives.
Earlier, Mr. Brooks said that Mr. Sessions’ record "evinces a clear disregard, disrespect, and even disdain for the civil and human rights of racial and ethnic minorities, women, the disabled, and others who suffer from discrimination in this country."
"Based on his record and his statements, the NAACP strongly believes that confirmation of Senator Sessions as attorney general would be bad for America and could exacerbate already deepening racial divisions in this country," he told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Graham, South Carolina Republican, later asked what was Mr. Sessions’ score on the NAACP legislative score card.
"The senator has received a low grade, a failing grade, for years on end," Mr. Brooks said.
[Wash Times] For those stunned to see Tuesday’s Senate confirmation hearing disrupted by shouts, chants and protesters dressed as Ku Klux Klan members: Get used to it.
President-elect Donald Trump won’t take office for another week, but Democrats and left-wing groups have already laid the groundwork for a relentless four-year assault on his presidency, vowing to disrupt and discredit his administration long before he signs his first bill.
Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have a name for it: the permanent opposition. Short title - the PO'd
"You’re going to have a permanent opposition, sort of a combination of the news media and the Elizabeth Warren hard left, and they’re going to attack every single day and they’re going to find something to attack all the time," Mr. Gingrich said on Fox’s "Sunday Morning Futures."
"And Trump’s got to get used to the idea. ’That’s OK, that’s just noise,’" Mr. Gingrich said.
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In my experience, modern western left are, first and foremost, cowards (as well as intellectual paupers) who only attack people who can't fight back. Now, does the last sounds as a description of the Don?
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Permanent opposition as opposed to loyal opposition.
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Permanent opposition states an expectation of never winning the legislature or White House again.
Given the performance of the Democratic Party at the local and state levels across the country, this seems a realistic description of the situation, even if the Democrats should manage to take back both Congress and the White House at some point.
The United Nations Security Council may push for an additional resolution targeting Israel before President Obama leaves office next Friday, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said on Thursday.
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It's about time for us to withdraw from the UN and evict its headquarters from American territory. Let them set up a new HQ in some third-world Shitholistan where they belong.
It's also about time we started LOUDLY rebuking the asinine notion that six million Jews (roughly the population of my city of Philadelphia) living on a tiny parcel of land barely the size of New Jersey are the cause of all the Arab world's many problems, and start severely punishing those who promote that stupid fiction.
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Agree with the thought. I think DJT has already started the last point.
We gave that spot to the UN so we probably can't get it back but we could get out and make their lives much less pleasant for those that choose to remain.
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If Obama doesn't veto it is absolute proof that he is in the camp of America's enemies.
It puts his supporters in a worse light than those who supported Jeff Davis who was not a foreign agent.
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If the UN members are smart---big presumptuous assumption---they will let this go. If they insist on adding insult to injury, Trump will put the hammer down and they will be told to leave, my prediction.
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The Clarity of the order of how to treat Israel has been known for millennia. You are no exception now.\
For those not familiar with Australian vernacular, a "dummy" is a baby’s pacifier. "Spitting the dummy" refers to throwing the kind of tantrum where said pacifier exits the baby’s mouth at speed, usually achieving an impressive arc before coming to ground somewhere hard to reach. Chances of the parents convincing the baby to put the thing in its mouth after it’s been located and cleaned are... minimal.
Winning the World Championship Dummy Spit is a rather Australian way to say "You can quit the tantrum now. The adults don’t care."
Seriously, I don’t care how disappointed you are. I don’t care if you think the President-Elect is Literally Hitler (he’s not. The last person who was shot himself in a bunker over seventy years ago) and is going to herd you all into extermination camps (he’s not. Even the most useless of you are capable of spending money, and he’s a savvy enough businessman to know a good business needs people to buy what it sells). I don’t care if you think I’m the biggest ___ist ever to walk the planet (I’m not. At least, not since I lost weight).
Life is not fair. It will not always do what you want. To go all Australian on you, shut yer gobs and rattle yer dags because you drongos are going to help clean up the fucking balls up you’ve created even though collectively you might be about as much use as a two-bob watch. Maybe. It’s a fucking tough world out there and Mother Nature’s a stone bitch. I’m from the land of everything trying to kill you: I know this shit.
You’ve wasted years using every lurk and perk you and your slimy pollies could dig up, and you think you can sit back and whinge while the rest of us work our arses off then enjoy the bennies? You’ve got yours and Buckley’s mate: it ain’t happening. Quit trying to beat your best dummy spit, and pitch in or bugger off.
You galahs claim to be for a fair go, but a fair go’s the last thing you want because deep down you know bloody well you haven’t got a leg to stand on. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be chucking a wobbly like this: you’d be in with the rest of us to help clean up.
Oh, right. You think a bit of hard yakka’s gonna make you kark it.
[IsraelTimes] Israel is set to expand aid access to the Gazoo Strip due to the relative quiet in the region lately, Ynet reports.
Among steps to be taken are allowing access of fuel and building material also through the Erez crossing in the north of the Strip, Ynet reports, quoting Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman.
Liberman reportedly told Israeli regional heads near the Gazoo border that he would allow "substantial additional humanitarian aid," in a bid to maintain the quiet.
TONOPAH, Ariz. (KABC) -- An Arizona trooper trying to help a motorist in a rollover crash was shot in an ambush-style attack by a random suspect, who was then fatally shot by a Good Samaritan driving by.
The trooper with the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) was at a traffic stop when he received a report about a driver whose car was shot at near a median at milepost 81 on Interstate 10, reported ABC15, an ABC affiliate in Arizona.
The trooper left the traffic stop to investigate this call when he came across a rollover crash and saw that a woman had been ejected from the wreckage.
When the trooper began working to block lanes, a suspect came from an unknown direction and "ambushed" him, according to DPS.
The suspect shot him at least once in the chest-shoulder area and fought the trooper to the ground.
A passerby saw the fight unfolding and stopped to render aid to the trooper, who asked for help.
However, the suspect ignored the Good Samaritan's orders to stop attacking the trooper.
That's when the passerby went to his car, grabbed a gun and fatally shot the suspect, reported ABC15.
Brazilian police have unveiled a plot led by a Ukrainian armed movement to recruit Brazilian neo-Nazis with combat experience to fight pro-Russian rebels in the European country’s civil war.
A series of raids took place last month in seven cities on the homes of neo-Nazis in order to prevent possible attacks against Jews and gays in Porto Alegre, according to Brazilian police, who seized vast amounts of Nazi propaganda material and also illegal ammunition, reported the Zero Hora news portal.
The Brazilian Israelite Confederation, the country’s umbrella Jewish organization, said Monday in a statement on its website that it is "following the investigation," but preferred not to address journalists. It re-published news articles about the case from Brazilian newspapers on its site.
"Brazil’s simmering neo-Nazi movement, with its secret world of swastikas, hate propaganda and street violence, was being recruited by right-wing extremists in Ukraine," reported the Financial Times on Tuesday.
In Brasil????? Not exactly a revolutionary concept.
A German regional court in the city of Wuppertal affirmed a lower court decision last Friday stating that a violent attempt to burn the city's synagogue by three men in 2014 was a justified expression of criticism of Israel’s policies. How unexpected
[News 11, Atlanta] MABLETON, Ga ‐ A surveillance video has been released that shows the owner of a gun store defending his life and the life of a fellow employee and customers as he opened fire on robbers.
One of the would be thieves died right there in the store.
The video shows just how quickly it happened, when, on Dec. 26, 2016, two armed robbers came in and the owner had to make a life and death situation.
"I had no other choice," said Jimmy Groover. "I hate that I had insufficient time to reload my 1911." "I hate that it happened."
Groover said he was protecting his fellow employee and two customers in the store when he shot and killed one of those robbers.
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SPoD and Ship, criminals and slackers in general work at LOT harder at not working than I ever have at any of the actual jobs I've had. I'm just to lazy too be a criminal or a slacker.
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DOMESTIC. Originally there were seven Arab men incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for kidnapping a woman at gunpoint and raped her in the basement of a cafe in Helsingborg. Now sentenced two of them, both stateless. One of them already had a deportation order - but still allowed to stay in Sweden as "paperless refugee".
28-year-old Khaled Azez Hegrs and 23-year-old Tareq Bakkar, who both have an interpreter needs in Arabic, convicted of gross rape of a woman in the cafe basement water pipe in Helsingborg. The woman was kept in the basement for several hours during the night.
The woman was forced into a car by four men in Malmö and was then driven to the café on South Street in Helsingborg where more waiting to rape her.
When the car arrived the woman was taken to the basement of violence. There ripped Khaled woman by the hair, pulled her down on a couch and held her arms and legs with her body weight before he pulled off her clothes. By also threaten that he or others would hurt her with a weapon like objects, he forced her to oral, vaginal and anal intercourse.
He then explained the woman to the six other Arabs would also rape her, the victim said in interrogation.
Then they raped although Tareq woman by grabbing her arms, pulling her down on her back and pushing her legs apart.
The woman told that six of the seven men in turn raped her. On one occasion she was raped by two people simultaneously.
But according to the prosecutor lacked "sufficient supporting evidence that the correct application requires for a conviction" for five of the men who originally were in jug in the case of detainees were prosecuted by only the other two: Khaled and Tareq.
According to data from the Prison and Probation Free Times noted the Khaled stateless and claims to have fled Kuwait because of the country's government and security forces who did not accept his love relationship with a woman. He came to Sweden in 2010 and has been denied his asylum application in all instances. Despite this, he was allowed to stay in Sweden because he was "paperless"
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Large troop reinforcements arrived on early Thursday in western Mosul preparing for a new phase of operations by pro-Iraqi government militias against Islamic State militants.
A statement by the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said the reinforcements arrived late Wednesday preparing for the “sixth phase” of operations in western Mosul.
Last November, al-Hashd al-Shaabi ended a fifth phase of their operations by retaking a military airbase and besieging the strategic IS stronghold town of Tal Afar. But news concerning the militias’ intention to invade the town were conflicting. Fears have been voiced by regional Sunni powers, such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia, that the involvement of the Shia-predominated al-Hashd in Tal Afar’s liberation could result into sectarian consequences with the Sunni residents of the town.
Since operations to retake Mosul launched in October, Iraqi forces, backed by an aerial cover from a US-led military coalition, have become in control over nearly 50 out of 84 districts in eastern Mosul, and commanders declared earlier this week they had reached the eastern bank of the Tigris River, which bisects the city. IS still maintains strongholds in the west.
Iraqi military media have put the number of IS militants killed since the launch of operations in October at at least 1757.
The conflict in Mosul has forced more than 173.000 civilians to flee homes in the city.
Nineveh (Iraqinews.com) A senior Islamic State leader was killed on Thursday along with companions when their camp was hit in an Iraqi army airstrike in central Mosul.
The strike on al-Amel district was carried out based on an intelligence tip-off, according to the defense ministry’s War Media Cell.
Federal Police also reported they have killed five IS suiciders after an attempted attack on the forces in Sumer district, which police recaptured earlier on Thursday.
Since operations to retake Mosul launched in October, Iraqi forces, backed by an aerial cover from a US-led military coalition, have become in control over nearly 50 out of 84 districts in eastern Mosul, and commanders declared earlier this week they had reached the eastern bank of the Tigris River, which bisects the city. IS still maintains strongholds in the west.
Iraqi generals said recently they had reached the eastern bank of the Tigris River which separates the city’s east and west, and hope to recapture the east soon to move towards IS western hideouts.
Iraqi military media have put the number of IS militants killed since the launch of operations in October at at least 1757.
The conflict in Mosul has forced more than 173.000 civilians to flee homes in the city.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) recaptured a village in western Mosul from Islamic State militants on Thursday, the commander of joint security operations in Nineveh said.
Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Yarallah said PMU recaptured the village of Hajaf, south of Tal Abta, and raised the Iraqi flag at its buildings.
His announcement came hours after al-Hashd al-Shaai’s media reported the arrival of large military reinforcements to western Mosul as the troops announced starting a 6th phase of operations against Islamic State strongholds in western Mosul.
Last November, al-Hashd al-Shaabi ended a fifth phase of their operations by retaking a military airbase and besieging the strategic IS stronghold town of Tal Afar. But news concerning the militias’ intention to invade the town were conflicting.
Since operations to retake Mosul launched in October, Iraqi forces, backed by an aerial cover from a US-led military coalition, have become in control over nearly 50 out of 84 districts in eastern Mosul, and commanders declared earlier this week they had reached the eastern bank of the Tigris River, which bisects the city. IS still maintains strongholds in the west.
Iraqi military media have put the number of IS militants killed since the launch of operations in October at at least 1757.
The conflict in Mosul has forced more than 173.000 civilians to flee homes in the city.
Nineveh (Islamic State) 93 Islamic State militants were killed in airstrikes that targeted areas in eastern and western Mosul on Tuesday, security and local sources told Alsumaria News.
A security source said Iraqi army fighter jets killed 90 militants when they bombed the district of eastern Yaramja. They said two cannon-supplied trucks were destroyed in the strike.
In western Mosul, a local source said a drone pounded a vehicle driven by Islamic State militants, killing three, including a senior member in charge of the extremist group’s prison in the western region: a Mosul resident who became in charge just two weeks earlier.
Iraqi joint government forces, backed by fighter jets and advisers from a US-led military coalition, have been carrying out a major campaign since October to retake Mosul, IS’s last urban stronghold in Iraq which fell to the group in 2014.
Forces have recently reached the eastern bank of the Tigris River which bisects the city, becoming in control over more than 70 percent of that area, and hope to move forward to the west, were militants still control several strongholds.
Conflict in the city has forced 173.000 civilians to flee to refugee camps, and the existence of civilians has proved to be a remarkable hindrance to a faster pace of operations.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) We Are Coming, Nineveh Operations Command announced on Thursday liberating al-Salam District in the eastern side of the city of Mosul.
Lieutenant General Abdel Amir Yarallah, Commander of Operations, said in a press statement, “Federal Police’s Rapid Intervention Forces liberated al-Salam District in the eastern side of Mosul, and raised Iraqi flag over its buildings.”
“The security forces inflicted heavy material and human losses on the enemy,” Yarallah added.
Earlier today, We Are Coming Nineveh Operations Command announced liberating the areas of Somer and Saheroun, in the eastern side of Mosul.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A security source in Nineveh Province revealed that the forces from al-Hashd al-Shaabi managed to liberate three villages in Tal Abta, in western Mosul, and kill several terrorists, Alsumaria News reported on Thursday.
The source said, “Forces from al-Hashd al-Shaabi managed, today, to liberate the villages of al-Hayaniyah, al-Tal al-Janoubi and al-Hajaf in Tal Abta area, in western Mosul.”
“Security forces also managed to remove improvised explosive devices from the villages and kill several terrorists,” the source further added.
Earlier today, security forces liberated al-Salam District in eastern Mosul, and raised Iraqi flag over its buildings.
BAGHDAD/IRBIL, Iraq: Iraqi forces joined flanks in northern Mosul and drove back Daesh militants in the southeast on Thursday in a renewed push that has brought them closer to controlling the eastern half of the city.
Forces from the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) took control of 7th Nissan and Sadeeq districts, linking up with army troops that had pushed through Al-Hadba neighborhood, CTS spokesman Sabah Al-Numan told Reuters.
“This is considered contact between the troops of the northern front and CTS. This... will prevent any gap between the axes which the enemy could use,” he said by phone. “The enemy is now located only in front of the troops, not at their sides.”
Al-Numan said more than 85 percent of eastern Mosul was now under control of pro-government forces, up from nearly 75 percent a week ago.
Brett McGurk, Washington’s envoy to the US-led coalition backing the Iraqi offensive with air strikes, training and advice, called the link-up a “milestone” and said in a tweet that Islamic State’s defenses were weakening.
The campaign to recapture Mosul, Islamic State’s last major stronghold in Iraq and the largest urban center anywhere in the sprawling territory it once controlled, has pushed ahead with renewed vigor since the turn of the year after troops got bogged down inside the city in late November and December.
New tactics, including a night raid, better defenses against suicide car bomb attacks and improved coordination between the army and security forces operating on different fronts, have helped forge momentum, US and Iraqi officers say.
When it launched the offensive in October, the Iraqi government hoped to have retaken the city by the end of 2016, but Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said in December it could now take another three months to drive the militants out.
[al-Manar] The Iraqi army and security forces, backed by the mobilization forces and allies, managed on Thursday to liberate Hajaf, Hayane and Tal Janobi villages in western Mosul from ISIL takfiri group, inflicting heavy losses upon its terrorists.
Command of “Nineveh, We’re Coming” operations had earlier announced on Thursday the liberation of two other neighborhoods in the eastern side of Mosul.
The operations commander lieutenant general Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah said in a statement that the Iraqi federal police managed on Thursday to liberate Somar and Saheroun neighborhoods.
Heavy losses were inflicted upon ISIL Takfiri terrorists, Yarallah said, adding that the Iraqi flag was raised on several building in the two liberated neighborhoods.
Tens of thousands of troops launched a huge offensive to retake Mosul, ISIL’s last major bastion in Iraq, and areas around it on October 17.
Over the past two weeks, Iraqi forces have overran several districts and reached the Tigris River that runs through the heart of the city for the first time.
Mosul is split by the Tigris River, with the east side referred to as the left bank and the west as the right.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Conspiracy charges have been pressed against a Saudi citizen for having links with Hezbollah, which has been designated a terrorist organization by several countries.
Saudi daily newspaper Okaz has reported that the suspect initiated contacts with al-Manar News Channel, owned by Hezbollah, with the intention to join and fight for the Lebanese murderous Moslem group.
Al-Manar assigned a woman to recruit the unnamed suspect to carry out tasks in return for a monthly payment of $2,000 (SAR 7,500) the report said. The Public Prosecutor demanded the suspect be indicted in accordance with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s Cybercrime Prevention Act.
The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) labelled Hezbollah a "terrorist" organization last year, effectively banning the group in the region.
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Not gonna get much of a Saud with that cabbage.
[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] An Army officer was killed while four other soldiers were maimed when government troops clashed with Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... bandidos in Sumisip, Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... , on Thursday.
Major Filemon Tan Jr., the spokesperson of the Western Mindanao Command, said the clash started past 7 a.m.
He said the military used its air assets against the bandidos.
Residents of Barangay Cabcaban, where the clash took place, have evacuated, a report stated.
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[Iran Press TV] Incoming US President 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 warned that the CNN news network "is in a total meltdown with their fake news" that would soon lead to its demise.
Trump made the comment on Thursday in a tweet following CNN's decision to publish a report on Tuesday which included allegations that Russian operatives claimed to possess compromising personal and financial information about Trump.
".@CNN is in a total meltdown with their FAKE NEWS because their ratings are tanking since election and their credibility will soon be gone!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
Trump has long been a critic of CNN, which he believes has been biased against him both during his presidential campaign and since his election victory.
Trump’s frustration with CNN was clearly visible during a presser on Wednesday at the Trump Tower in New York City, where he refused to take questions from a CNN correspondent, blasting the news network for spreading "fake news."
During the contentious exchange, CNN’s Jim Acosta pressed Trump to take a follow-up question after the president-elect assailed CNN for publishing a report Tuesday which included allegations that Russian operatives claimed to possess compromising information about Trump.
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Trump is right. CNN is a gasbag of methane.
What kind of Professional Journalists would air the UN-substantiated sort of garbage they purvey. The answer is they are not professionals, they are baloney artists.
No Credibility. Nada, Zip, fart noises in the News department.
They are not News and their word is worthless. They are NOT News. Why bother with them. BS on the air.
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That little act of allowing Saddam to edit their stuff out of Baghdad was an indication of who they really were. They sold their souls a long time ago.
The confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the CIA was abruptly halted by a power outage just as it was getting under way Thursday morning on Capitol Hill.
The lights went out about 10:15 a.m. in a hearing room at the Hart Senate Office Building, where the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was opening proceedings to consider the nomination of Rep. Mike Pompeo, Kansas Republican, to lead the spy agency.
The outage came just as Sen. Mark Warner, the committee’s ranking Democrat, was making opening remarks. He was commenting on how he and the committee’s chairman, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, are committed to examining the intelligence community’s recent assessment of Russian meddling in the U.S election.
“Chairman Burr and I have committed to conduct a review of the intelligence supporting the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, sought to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election in order to undermine public faith in our democratic process,” Mr. Warner was saying. The lights went out just before he uttered the word “Russia.”
It was unclear what had caused the power outage. Moments later, lawmakers moved to hold a recess and then relocate the hearing to another building on Capitol Hill.
Some in the hearing room could be heard wondering aloud and joking about whether it was “the Russians” who’d made the power go out.
Dammam – Security man, wearing plain clothes, was shot in Dammam by unknown assailants as the Eastern Region’s police announced the opening of investigations in the incident, which is considered the third of its kind during less than four months.
Is that the oil-rich strip populated by Shiites? Hmmm...
Security agencies started an investigation to find out reasons behind this incident and evidences, especially after the occurrence of two terrorist incidents in the city’s neighborhoods during the past period.
The police said that at 9.30 pm local time on Tuesday, Dammam police opened a case of shooting a security man, who was riding his own vehicle wearing plain clothes in Faiha neighborhood in Dammam.
However, neither the security man nor any of the pedestrians in the area were hurt.
Notably, the Saudi Ministry of Interior announced a list of nine wanted in Qatif for being involved in terrorist acts.
Investigations showed that they were involved in targeting security men as they were behind the martyrdom of six security men and the injury of three others in one of the companies.
In October 25, 2016, two Saudi security personnel were shot dead after they came under heavy gunfire from an unknown source while returning from their workplace in Ras Tanura province.
[NTKNETWORK] #DisruptJ20 organizer Legba Carrefour said Thursday that #DisruptJ20 members were "not in favor of the peaceful transition of power."
This is called "treason"...
The left-wing protest organization, #DisruptJ20, met Thursday to announce its intentions and plans to obstruct the presidential inauguration 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... on January 20. The group’s website reads: "We call on all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies. If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors, showing the true face of the security state Trump will preside over."
"We need to stop the peaceful transition of power," Carrefour said at a presser at St. Stephen’s Church in Washington, DC. "We need to stop this kind of fascist government from coming to power."
Carrefour also rejected the calls of Democratic leaders to calm the anti-Trump protests.
"You saw Democratic luminaries from Obama to 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... say, ’Tamp this down, please stop this. The peaceful transition of power is of the upmost importance to the core element of democracy.'"
Fellow #DisruptJ20 organizer Lacy MacAuley backed up Carrefour, saying: "We absolutely are opposed to the transition" of power to Trump.
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The phrase "Be careful what you wish for" comes to mind.
Rantburgers: Doing the work the FBI and the rest of the "intelligence conmunity" ought to have done. And if we are, so are others on the right side of the blogosphere. It could be amusing to issue brief reports on occasion.
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"We need to stop the peaceful transition of power,"
by all means, go ahead and try. I hope your ass gets beaten to a pulp. Shampoo of the day? Hickory
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I think DC should announce that each jail cell will have a "chaparone" (aka Larry, Bruce, etc.), convicts from maximum security prisons, just to supervise protesters arrested. The arrangement would serve as a change of pace for the inmates.
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Once Trump takes that oath Sessions can go after these people.
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Sure Bright Pebbles -
Maltegro is a web crawler. It allows you to track all of the communique surrounding a particular keyword, hashtag, account, anything. Facebook, twitter, anything and it builds you a map - allows for further investigation.
I guess it officially belongs to "Social engineering tools"
What i'm saying is you can know who the actors are going into this thing before it begins and use information they publicly put on the internet to track where they are going, watch their plans, and contain your risks.
Big brother is here, we just all have access to it.
[INUTH] Pakistain is not a country known to be kind toward its minorities. A US state department report in 2014 noted that mob violence against minority groups, and police torture of religious dissidents was prevalent across Pakistain. The country’s strict blasphemy law, which puts Pakistain’s minorities at the receiving end of fundamentalist violence, has a history of causing liquidations and provoking terrorist attacks by hardline groups.
While it does have a terrible record in protecting its minorities, the current Pakistain Moslem League (PML-N) government of Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... is trying to turn the tables on the country’s critics.
"The day is not far when Pakistain will be recognised as a minorities-friendly country due to steps being undertaken to better the lives of minority groups," Nawaz Sharif said during a recent visit to an old Hindu temple.
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[AlAhram] An offshoot of the murderous Moslem Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has grabbed credit for last week's car kaboom on a checkpoint in western The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , a news agency which regularly releases news from the PKK said on Wednesday.
Militants clashed with police and detonated a boom-mobile in Izmir last week after their vehicle was stopped at a checkpoint, killing a police officer and a court employee.
The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) group issued a statement saying two of its bully boyz carried out the attack and warning of more attacks, the Firat news agency said.
TAK previously grabbed credit for two attacks in December, one outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul that killed more than 40 people, and one in central Turkey that killed at least 13 soldiers.
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[IBTIMES] The Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... bully boy group released a video threatening to behead a German hostage if Germany does not pay a $10 million ransom, SITE Intelligence Group reported Wednesday. Jurgen Kantner was captured last November along with his lover companion, who was rubbed out after she tried to escape.
"We are giving you an ultimatum to fulfill our demands. Failure to pay the ransom will cause the beheading of this German citizen," one of the three masked kidnappers dressed in black reportedly said in the video, which was released late Wednesday night. "To the German government, it seems that you are not paying attention to our demands because of your arrogance. Have you not learnt anything?"
The bully boy group captured 70-year-old Kantner from Malaysian waters, near Sabah state close to southern Philippines. The two were taken at gunpoint from a yacht. Kantner’s deceased companion was identified as Sabine Merz.
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[AlAhram] Belgian authorities have charged two people with supplying fake documents to an 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.... Death Eater involved in the November 2015 attacks in Gay Paree and who later carried out a suicide kaboom on the Brussels metro, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Belgian police detained a man and a woman in a house search on Wednesday, prosecutors said. The woman, identified as Meryem E. B., was released under strict conditions. The man, named as Farid K., remained in jug. He is also charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist organization.
"They are suspected of having provided Khalid El Bakraoui with the false documents later used in preparation for the Gay Paree attacks," prosecutors said in a statement.
Khalid El Bakraoui was involved in planning the attacks in Gay Paree on the evening of Nov. 13 2015 in which 130 people were killed. He then went kaboom! in the Brussels metro last March, as part of coordinated attacks that killed 32 people.
Bakraoui rented, under a false name, an apartment in the city's Forest borough where police hunting Gay Paree suspect Salah Abdeslam killed another suspected Death Eater in a raid weeks before the attacks in Brussels. He is also believed to have rented a safe house in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi used in preparation for the Gay Paree attacks.
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[REUTERS] A powerful blast caused by a jacket wallah hit a heavily policed district of the Syrian capital on Thursday with at least seven killed, a police source told state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
The source was quoted by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
as saying a suicide bomber blew himself in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood where some of Syria's main security installations are located.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which tracks violence across the country said the corpse count was expected to rise with several of the maimed in a critical condition.
Footage on state media showed splattered blood and wreckage of several cars with dozens of heavily armed security personnel at the site of the kaboom.
Last July a boom-mobile also hit Kafr Sousa near an Iranian school in an attack that killed several people in the area, close to the main Umayyad Square that connects the city with several highways.
Insurgents fighting to topple President Bashar al Assad say the district houses many recruits from Iranian-backed militias fighting alongside the army.
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] The Syrian army managed to repel a ISIS attack on Palmyra, regaining full control over the embattled city, a source in militia reported.
Earlier, it was reported that the Syrian armed forces together with local militias were engaged in fierce fights against the ISISholy warriors on the outskirts of the ancient city. Prior to that, media reports emerged alleging that ISIS has reentered Palmyra after being ousted from the city by Syrian troops with air support from Russia earlier in the year. "Let me repeat that Palmyra is under control of the army and militia. ISISholy warriors are carrying out intense attacks, but they have been repulsed," the military source told RIA Novosti. According to Al Masdar news agency, the ISISforces of Evil that entered the city were forced to flee after the Syrian Air Force's jets supported by Russian aviation bombed them. The Syrian Army with militias regained control over all slopes of the Tar Mountain near Palmyra. A number of the ISISholy warriors have also been reported eliminated.
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) ‐ Venezuela’s former defense minister, retired general Raul Isaias Baduel has been detained for failing to comply with his house arrest, Interior Minister Nestor Reverol has announced.
"We will continue to monitor all threats to internal order and social peace," Reverol stressed on Thursday, as quoted by Venezolana de Television, saying that "criminal information has been collected in the raid of his [Baduel’s] residence" that points to alleged conspiratorial activities.
Baduel served as Venezuela’s Defense Minister under the presidency of Hugo Chavez. It was Baduel who helped Chavez return to power after the 2002 coup attempt. In 2007 Baduel became an opposition leader and in 2009 he was jugged. Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
The former defense minister was sentenced to over seven years in prison for corruption in 2010. In 2015, he was allowed to serve his sentence at home.
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[FoxNews] Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced on "Fox and Friends" Thursday that he will be heading up a new cyber security committee for President-elect 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... The committee is set to meet with Trump on a regular basis to bring together leaders of the private sector to share their thoughts on the best cyber security methods.
"It's his belief, which I share, that a lot of the solutions are out there. We're just not sharing them. ... My belief is, as always, that the answer to cyber security is gonna be found in the private sector," Giuliani said.
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I'm kind of surprised he accepted the position. Pleased though. Actually a positive for Trump that he could find a way to get Giuliani into the administration without giving him what he wanted. Do wonder if it's a holding position for eventual FBI Director....
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Yesterday, I see a twitter post with a picture of his security companies router ports open. It looked like a nightmare I could create some time ago. Needless to say, his security company is under scrutiny.
However, with someone like Rudy, you may task and get results so will see.
The view from Egypt, where they know the Moslim Brotherhood intimately.
[AlAhram] Will Donald Trump’s administration resort to purging the American system of those connected to the Moslem Brüderbund, asks an article in Bloomberg.
Prefacing this article with a couple of points of clarification is essential. This article has very little to do with President-elect 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... , his choice of advisers, and his intentions. Also, in no way am I siding with Trump’s notions on Islam, and his sweeping statements regarding banning Moslems from entering the US. But this article has everything to do with the disputable argument in Bloomberg’s, "Trump’s coming witch hunt against political Islam."
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[FREEBEACON] Terrorist bully boyz affiliated with the Taliban in Afghanistan have been purchasing U.S.-supplied weapons and ammunition from Afghan army and police forces, which receive their funding from American taxpayers, according to a new government report.
The disclosure comes amid an increase in violence in the war-torn country, where the Taliban continues to grow and regain territory once held by U.S.-allied Afghan forces. Just 63 percent of Afghanistan is under allied control, despite a four-billion dollar investment from the United States in 2016.
With the country facing some of the highest levels of corruption worldwide, U.S. government inspectors have discovered evidence that the U.S.-funded Afghan cops are selling their American-supplied weapons to Taliban terrorists.
These U.S.-aligned security forces also have been stealing American-bought fuel and selling it to Afghan Lion of Islams, according to new findings by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR.
"The theft of fuel not only robs U.S. taxpayers and damages the reconstruction effort, but stolen fuel and profits from selling it can wind up in the hands of Lion of Islams," according to a new SIGAR report authored to inform the new Congress and incoming Trump administration.
"SIGAR has been told that a high percentage of fuel has been stolen and that Taliban capos give instructions to their forces to buy weapons, ammunition, and fuel from the Afghan army and police," inspectors found.
"A significant portion--perhaps as much as half--of U.S. purchased fuel is siphoned off at various stages of this compromised system, wasting U.S. taxpayer dollars and handicapping Afghan cops," according to SIGAR.
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Time for us to leave. So far nothing real has been accomplished, except to show that we're gullible!
If we're going to fight a war, let's fight a real war, this "winning minds and hearts" thing is apparently a total failure!
[Deutsche Welle ] Vendors are a common sight on the streets of Harare. They sell all manner of goods including fruit, vegetables, fresh meat and fish. But the sale of perishable food on the streets is not being properly monitored, and officials say this is a threat to public health, encouraging the spread of diseases like typhoid.
A total of 2,225 cases of typhoid and 9 deaths from the disease were recorded in 2016 and around three quarters of all cases were from Harare. In a response to the typhoid outbreak, Zimbabwe's Health Minister David Parirenyatwa has banned the sale of food on the streets of Harare.
Parirenyatwa stressed the need for controls and their implementation. But vendors in Harare have reacted angrily to the ban on the sale of food, saying it is threatening their livelihood. Unemployment is high in Zimbabwe and many people are dependent on street vending in order to make ends meet.
Ronald Mureverwi from the National Vendors Union Zimbabwe told DW the ban was a shocking move that could only have have come from an irresponsible government.
Mbare, the Harare suburb hardest hit by the typhoid outbreak, is in a sorry state. There are piles of uncollected garbage and drainage is poor. Mbare is also home to Harare's biggest vegetable market. Harare council officials say the city is failing to provide services because some residents are not paying rates.
Health Minister Parirenyatwa conceded that their biggest fear was cholera. "We can manage more or less with typhoid, but cholera will just be a nightmare for us."
In 2008, cholera claimed at least 4,000 lives in Zimbabwe. It happened at the height of the country's economic crisis when most of the public hospitals were closed due to a shortage of medicines and the flight of health workers abroad.
[Ynet] Israeli intelligence officials fear that top-secret information that has been exposed to the United States will be leaked to Russia--and from Russia to its close ally, Iran.
During the meeting, according to the Israelis who participated in it, their American colleagues voiced despair over Trump’s election, as he often lashes out at the American intelligence community.
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... ’s upcoming inauguration as the next president of the United States is causing Israeli intelligence officials to lose sleep as well. Discussions held in closed forums recently raised fears of a leakage of Israeli intelligence top-classified information, clandestine modus oprandi and sources, which have been exposed to the American intelligence community over the past 15 years, to Russia ‐ and from there to Iran.
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A potential scenario: Israeli intelligence who rightly trusts no one, has had concerns for 15 years about leaks and recently voiced concerns about Trump to US Intelligence.
US Intelligence takes bait and immediately seizes the opportunity to begin eating cheese on Trump, using the BuzzFeed unsubstantiated data.
Then comes the warning; 'You know, we know, you (Israeli Intelligence) shut us off years ago.... so don't give Trump anything either.' Followed by Israel passing the entire episode to Ynet for dissemination. Little wonder Trump has a case of the arse.
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I would venture the Mossad and their black operative companion organizations in the Shen Bet are fully aware of DJT and what he is and who he is and can probably tell you what he had for breakfast when he was 12.
I'm pretty sure the Israelis called BS on all of this because they already consider Trump a known quantity.
Heck they probably know more about Trump and his family than Trump does.
[FOXNEWS] Tareck El Aissami, one of the most powerful men in Venezuela, just acquired more power. Last week the self-proclaimed "radically Chavista" became the country’s second in command after President Nicolas Maduro appointed him as vice president.
The son of a Lebanese mother and a Syrian father, the 42-year-old El Aissami is also one of the most obscure figures in government circles -- he is suspected of having ties to the Islamist bully boy group Hezbollah and is reportedly being investigated by U.S. prosecutors for possible involvement in drug trafficking.
"It’s very concerning," said Joseph Humire, executive director of Secure Free Society and an expert on radical Islam’s presence in Latin America.
"I’m worried that his power will only grow stronger. Iran, in particular, benefits greatly from having El Aissami as VP as he has been their man in Venezuela."
According to Humire, El Aissami allegedly controls a criminal and terrorist network across at least six countries that operates with several companies, accounts and assets.
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] WASHINGTON (Sputnik) -- Two US military Arclight airstrikes carried out 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... on December 29 and January 8, killed three operatives of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... , US Central Command front man Michael Meyer said in a statement. "Strikes against al-Qa'ida operatives in Yemen put consistent pressure on the terrorist network and prevent them from plotting and executing attacks against the U.S. and our allies," Meyer stated on Thursday. Both strikes took place in al-Baydah Governorate of Yemen, according to the Central Command. al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemeni and 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... n branch of al-Qaeda, was established in 2009 and is a designated terrorist organization in the United States, Russia and many other nations.
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[SPUTNIKNEWS] UAE delegates submitted a formal request to establish a defense base in the region, Somaliland foreign minister Sa’ad Ali Shire said Wednesday.
The base in the Horn of Africa is thought to be a strategic geopolitical asset in the UAE’s fight against Yemen’s 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 ... armed political opposition faction. "The UAE has been building influence in the Horn since the mid-2000s," according to security analyst Alex Mello, who said the naval bases are "just the latest phase."
"For years, the UAE has invested in the Horn of Africa, East Africa and the Indian Ocean islands supporting tourism, port infrastructure, natural gas, food security and development aid," Mello noted. But the base could unsettle Somaliland’s regional partners, including Djibouti and Æthiopia.
"We don’t want to lose relations" with regional partners such as Djibouti, Shire said, adding that the approval process would be decided by the president and parliament. Some reports indicate that Djibouti’s government has expressed disapproval of Somaliland’s pivot to collaborate with the UAE as a stronger ally. Further, "the move would likely enrage Æthiopia, a major ally for Somaliland which is the only country that opened an embassy in Somaliland," Hiiraan reported.
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[REUTERS] Authorities in Mali have tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! a man believed to be linked to an al Qaeda attack on a beach resort town in neighboring Ivory Coast that killed 19 people early last year, Malian security officials said on Thursday.
The attack took place on March 13th; Ansar Dine/AQIM was suspected. Our first report on the subject was published the next day.
Gunmen shot swimmers and sunbathers in the town of Grand Bassam, 40 km (25 miles) from the commercial capital Abidjan, last March before storming into several hotels.
The suspect was arrested in the town of Gossi in northern Mali by French soldiers involved in a regional operation against Islamist Lion of Islam groups and was then handed over to Malian authorities.
Defence ministry front man Colonel Aboudoulaye Sidibe gave the suspect's name as Mimi Ould Baba Ould Cheick.
"He was arrested by the French forces and transferred to the gendarmerie, which is carrying out investigation to determine the degree of his implication in the attack. He's being brought to (the capital) Bamako now," he said.
The arrest was confirmed to Rooters by Security Minister Salif Traore.
Both Ivory Coast and Mali have arrested suspects in the wake of the attack. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Islamist group's North African branch, grabbed credit and said it was Dire Revenge for La Belle France's military intervention in Mali.
Eleven Ivorians, including three special forces' soldiers, died in the attack. Four French citizens were killed and other foreign victims included citizens of Germany, Leb, Macedonia and Nigeria.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) A local source in Anbar Province revealed that four members of the Islamic State were killed in an air strike that was targeting an anti-aircraft weapon, west of Ramadi, Alsumaria News reported on Thursday.
According to the source, the international coalition air force bombarded, at noon today, a vehicle belonging to the Islamic State carrying an anti-aircraft weapon in al-Jamiyah area, in Central Qaim (350 km west of Ramadi.
The air strike destroyed the vehicle and weapon completely, as well as killing four members of the Islamic State, the source added.
The US-led international coalition is conducting several air strikes on headquarters, hideouts and strongholds belonging to the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq for more than two years now.
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[Iran Press TV] US President-elect 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... 's nominee to lead the Defense Department, retired Marine General James Mattis, has told Congress that Iran is the "biggest destabilizing force in the Middle East."
During his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday, "Mad Dog" Mattis said the United States needs to forge a strategy to "checkmate Iran’s goal for regional hegemony."
"Iran is the biggest destabilizing force in the Middle East and its policies are contrary to our interests," Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Mattis provided members of the committee a 56-page document that is intended to serve as a guide to politicians who will be questioning him, and it will become part of the permanent hearing record.
"Iranian malign influence in the region is growing," he wrote in the document.
The Senate on Thursday passed a waiver to a law, which bars military officers to serve as the civilian head of the Pentagon within seven years of their military service, for Mattis to become secretary of defense by a vote of 81 to 17. He retired from the Marine Corps in 2013.
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[Iran Press TV] Nigerian politicians have voted to offer Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... n President Yahya Jammeh asylum if he hands over power to opposition leader Adama Barrow, who was declared the winner of the country's December presidential election.
The House of Representatives, Nigeria’s lower house, on Thursday approved a motion to authorize President Muhammadu Buhari to offer Jammeh asylum if he steps down when his five-year mandate ends on January 19.
Jammeh has a constitutional right to remain in office until his term ends.
The Nigerian president is due to travel with other West African leaders to Gambia on Friday to persuade Jammeh to accept the election results.
Jammeh had initially accepted the results of the December 1 election, in which Barrow was declared the winner, but reversed his position more than a week later and called for a revote.
Barrow says Jammeh lacks the constitutional authority to call for a new vote or to invalidate the election.
Leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have already traveled to the Gambia in an attempt to strike a deal with the president to make him to leave power. ECOWAS has said that Jammeh must step down and vowed "to take all necessary action to enforce the results" of the election.
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That worked out so well for Charles Taylor--how can Jammeh pass up the opportunity?
Short-sighted idiots.
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[DAWN] The family of a Pak inmate on death-row in China has requested the governments of both Pakistain and China to intervene and halt the execution of Shah Hussain, 50, who is set to be executed on Friday (today).
Shah Hussain had been reportedly convicted of smuggling narcotics in China, his elder son Saddam Hussain told DawnNews, claiming that his father was sentenced to death in a baseless and false case of smuggling.
He said that the family received a telephone call on January 6 from China and the caller, who introduced himself as Mohammad Akhtar, a Pakistain embassy official in China, told the family about the sentence handed over to Shah Hussain.
The official informed that "Hussain was set to be hanged on January 13". He also told the family that if they intend to visit China to receive the body after execution, they would have to come and reside on their own.
Saddam further said that the family has not been in contact with Shah Hussain for almost last three years now.
He added that his father, a driver by profession, had left for Iran three years ago. He initially remained in contact with the family over telephone for a month or so and then suddenly he stopped calling. "Since then we have had no direct with him.
After two years of Shah Hussain's suspected disappearance, the family received a call from a Pak official in China telling them that their father had been "incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in a case pertaining to smuggling of narcotics".
"We were told that our father has been kept at some Guangzhou detention centre," Saddam said.
Since then the family has repeatedly tried to approach the Chinese authorities and also contacted the foreign office, requesting them to intervene in the matter.
Shahid Hussain, the brother of detained convict Shah, went to the Foreign Office and submitted an application before the director (China), requesting the authorities to change the punishment from death row to life imprisonment.
But according to the family, they have not received any response from the Chinese authorities till date.
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They are calling in a death squad from North Korea they are using anti aircraft guns!
[DAWN] A Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court bench on Thursday stayed the execution of another krazed killer sentenced to death by a military court on different counts of terrorism and suspended his death sentences.
A divisional bench of the high court heard a judicial review of the petition filed by family members of the convicted TTP krazed killer Syed Qasim Shah.
The accused was awarded death sentenced over charges of attack on a non-governmental organization World Vision in Manshera, in which its six Pak employees were killed.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), media wing of Pakistain Army, had issued a blurb on December 16, 2016, wherein it was mentioned that the Chief of Army Staff had confirmed death sentences awarded to 13 "hard core krazed killers", including Qasim Shah.
Earlier in December, the Peshawar High Court had halted the death sentences of five Death Eaters convicted by a military court.
The high court has normally been conducting in-camera proceedings of final arguments in cases of military courts convicts.
Several of the military court convicts approached the high court but failed to get relief against their convictions.
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There are unconfirmed reports tonight that one of capital’s leading militias, the Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigade of Haitham Tajouri, has declared a state of emergency following today’s apparent seizure of three ministries.
While Presidency Council head Faiez Serraj was in Cairo meeting Egyptian president Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi, militiamen backing Khalifa Ghwell and his resurrected Government of National Salvation attacked the ministries of Defence, Labour and Martyrs’ Families, Wounded and the Missing.
PC spokesmen Ashraf Al-Tulty insisted that attempts to occupy the ministries had been seen off. Another PC source said that at least two of the buildings had been re-taken.
Nevertheless Ghwell broadcast this afternoon from what seemed to be the defence ministry. He said that the PC and the Government of National Accord had failed. Conditions had gone from bad to worse since they arrived. The Skhirat agreement was dead. The Libyan Political Agreement which had been imposed by foreigners was over. It was now time for a Libyan Libyan agreement.
“The National Salvation Government is open for cooperation with all military formations in establishing the state authority” he said, adding that what Libya needed was an end to armed militias.
It is also reported that Ghwell went to the labour ministry where all the employees had been gathered According to one of the people there, he told them to sit down and began speaking to them as if he were the prime minister. He asked about administrative problems and what the main issues were that they were facing.
Even if his militia followers have not held on to any of the ministries, Ghwell’s action today has further underlined the ineffectiveness of Faiez Serraj’s administration. Unpaid salaries, lack of cash at the banks, icy weather, floods, water shortages, power cuts, failing communications and collapsing security would seem to make the PC’s position increasingly desperate.
[Iran Press TV] A huge kaboom has rocked a Syrian Air Force installation southwest of the capital Damascus, after the Israeli regime launched a rocket attack against a designated target at the site.
The Israeli rockets struck the Mezzeh Military Airport, less than eight kilometers southwest of Damascus, early on Friday, and caused a large fire, but there has been no immediate report of casualties.
Syrian state TV quoted the army command as saying that the rockets, which it said were fired from an area close to the Sea of Galilee in the north of the Israeli-occupied Paleostinian territories, hit the airport’s compound.
Earlier reports said the rockets had targeted an arms depot at the military installation.
Several loud kabooms were reportedly heard after the attack against the major facility for the elite Elite Republican Guards.
The Syrian army also vowed to take Dire Revenge for the "flagrant" attack and "amputate the arms of the perpetrators."
"The Syrian army command and armed forces warn Israel of the repercussions of the flagrant attack and stresses its continued fight against (this) terrorism," it said in a statement.
The development came more than a month after the Israeli military fired missiles from within the occupied Paleostinian territory at the same Syrian army airbase outside Damascus.
"At 3:00 a.m., the Israeli enemy fired several surface-to-surface missiles from inside occupied territory," Syria’s official news agency SANA reported in December, citing a military source. The report said the Israeli missiles set off a blaze at the targeted site.
The Syrian military source called the missile attack against the Mezzeh airbase part of "desperate attempts by the Israeli enemy to support terrorist groups and raise their low morale."
The Mezzeh airbase reportedly hosts the headquarters of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The body of a British former chef killed fighting Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... alongside a Kurdish militia in Syria has been recovered, according to Kurdish activists.
Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, west Sussex, died last month in battle near the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... ’s (Isil) self-declared caliphate.
After his death his body had been in the hands of Islamic State turbans.
The BBC reported that his body has now been recovered and taken to north-east Syria for an official autopsy.
Mr Lock, who had no military background, left to fight with the Kurdish People’s Defence Units (YPG) military force last August after telling his family he was going to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on holiday.
In a message on Facebook on 31 August, he wrote: "I’m on my way to Rojava. I lied about going to Turkey. I’m sorry I didn’t tell anyone. I love all of you and I will be back in six months."
He became the third British man to die fighting with the Kurds against so-called Islamic State.
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[OANN] The city of Baltimore will enact a series of police reforms including changes in how officers use force and transport prisoners under an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department filed in federal court on Thursday.
The agreement comes almost two years after the death of a black man, Freddie Gray, of injuries sustained while in police custody sparked a day of rioting and arson in the majority-black city. It also led to an investigation that found the city’s police routinely violated residents’ civil rights.
Outgoing U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the deal, which is subject to a judge’s approval, would be binding even after President-elect 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... is sworn in on Jan. 20.
"The reforms in this consent decree will help ensure effective and constitutional policing, restore the community’s trust in law enforcement, and advance public and officer safety," Lynch told news hounds, flanked by recently elected Mayor Catherine Pugh.
The 227-page consent decree agreement is the result of months of negotiations after a federal report released in August found that the city’s 2,600-member police department routinely violated black residents’ civil rights with strip searches, by excessively using force and other means.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s parliament approved three more articles from an 18-article constitutional amendment package to shift the current parliamentary system to an executive presidency amid a fierce brawl in parliament that left deputies injured and damaged the hall.
The third, fourth and fifth articles of the constitutional amendment package, which include moves to reduce the age of candidacy in presidential elections, passed with over 341 votes in late night sessions on Jan. 11 and 12, while main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) politicians’ staunch criticism and their attempt to occupy the parliamentary chair led to fury among politicians.
The vote to reduce the age of candidacy from 25 to 18 was the first motion that was passed, with the attendance of 485 politicians, of which 341 approved and 139 opposed the motion.
The fourth article, which increases the parliament’s term from four years to five and regulates the presidential election procedure, according to which members of parliament and the president will be elected on the same day, was passed with 343 affirmations and 139 rejections. The fifth article regulating the duties and authorities of the parliament was accepted by 343 votes with seven rejections.
’Secret ballot’ arguments
Tension in parliament mounted once again after opposition politicians criticized ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies for violating the principles of a "secret ballot," which was seen as an effort to exert pressure on other politicians who might be considering voting against the package during the third motion.
During the row, CHP politicians, who were trying to video AKP politicians casting their ballots, faced fury from AKP politicians, who blocked opposition members from watching the process. The two sides’ altercation eventually led to a fistfight.
CHP Kocaeli politician Fatma Kaplan said she was physically injured by an AKP politician as he tried to confiscate her recording devices to stop her from videoing the sessions.
The voting had to be repeated due to the fight.
CHP occupies parliament chair
During discussions on the fifth article of the constitutional amendment, which permits the regulation of duties and responsibilities of the parliament, the ruling party and opposition party’s politicians engaged in another brawl, leading to injuries after CHP politicians occupied the parliament’s chair in protest at the article.
"The authority you permit today will bring about the end of this country. You [politicians] are trying to destroy yourself [parliament] without anyone seeing. We will not allow this," Özgur Özel, CHP’s group deputy chairperson, said early Jan. 12, repeating the CHP’s early criticisms that the vote on such an important article be cast late at night when the public cannot be informed.
"We are taking the chair under our protection in order to ensure the fulfillment of the duty of defending the people’s chair, in order to tell the people and ensure that this article will be discussed in parliament, while looking into the eyes of the people. We are protecting the people’s chair from you," Özel said.
Following Özel’s statement, CHP politicians approached the chair with applause from the crowd and surrounded the chair arm-in-arm. The CHP’s attempt to occupy the chair caused outrage among AKP politicians, who also walked to the chair in attempt to oust the CHP politicians from the podium. The sides’ altercation transformed into a fistfight, which resulted in injuries to politicians while damaging the parliament’s furniture.
Following the physical brawl, the parliament’s speaker rushed the process by refusing to permit questions and rejected proposals from politicians, which prompted more criticism from CHP politicians.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Three refugees were killed Thursday in a twin blast carried out by Islamic State militants north of Mosul, an Iraqi military source told Anadolu Agency.
Ahmed al-Mosawi, a brigadier general at the army’s 16th division, said two suiciders wearing explosive belts sneaked in the middle of refugees from Hadbaa area, and were heading towards security forces but blew themselves up once discovered by the officers.
The deaths included two men and a woman, while an eight-year-old child was wounded.
Military operations by the Iraqi government running since October to drive out Islamic State from Mosul have forced 173.000 people to flee their residences in the city. Hundred thousands others remain stranded into battlefields and are reportedly used as human shields. Many are also targeted upon attempting to flee Islamic State-held regions.
On Wednesday, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, Lise Grande, said civilians represent 47 percent of casualties resulting from Mosul encounters.
There are more than 3 million internally-displaced people in Iraq, the UN says.
Iraqi officials and US generals backing government forces in their battles say IS could be defeated out of the city within 2-3 months. The number of militants killed since the launch of operations stands at more than 1800.
ISIS radio net hacked by anonymous "Is this the party to whom I am speaking?"
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) An anonymous individual succeeded to hack the radio frequency of the Islamic State group, west of Mosul, and send a message to the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a local source told Alsumaria News on Thursday.
The source said, “An anonymous individual hacked, at noon today, the radio frequency of the Islamic State, west of Mosul, and sent a message to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that ‘Mosul will be liberated’.”
“The hacking is the first of its kind in areas west of Mosul that are considered a key headquarters for the extremist group. Members of the Islamic State suffered confusion due to the hacking,” the source added on condition of anonymity.
Noteworthy, the Islamic State is using a wireless communication system to launch attacks and give orders to its members.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A security source in Nineveh Province revealed that a 23 civilians were either killed or wounded by an Islamic State’s shelling, while trying to leave a residential district in eastern Mosul, Alsumaria News reported on Thursday.
The source said, “Today, members of the Islamic State group shelled al-Maliyah neighborhood, which was liberated earlier by the joint security forces, in eastern Mosul, killing 19 civilians and wounding four others.”
“Security forces rushed to the area of incident to evacuate bodies and provide treatment to the wounded.” The source explained. “The Islamic State’s members bombed the displaced amilies with mortar shells,” he added.
The Islamic State usually bombs the areas that were liberated by the joint security forces in Mosul, to target residents of these areas who refused to stand by it against security forces.
[ARA News] Shaddadi – Extremists of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Thursday executed two men in northeastern Syria after accusing them of supporting the Kurdish YPG forces and the US-led coalition, activists and eyewitnesses reported.
The ISIS-led al-Hisba Police arrested the two men in the village of Tel Jaer in the southern countryside of Hasakah Governorate earlier this week.
Muhammad al-Kankoul, 32, was accused by ISIS of joining the ranks of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). And Mazin al-Hussein, 29, was accused of leaking security information about ISIS movements in Margada town to the YPG and the US-led coalition.
“The Sharia Court in Margada order their execution on charges of apostasy and treason,” a local media activist told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity.
ISIS jihadists publicly executed al-Kankoul and al-Hussein in Margada town in the evening on Thursday, and their dead bodies were crucified on electricity poles, eyewitnesses said.
Margada is the Islamic State’s last stronghold in Hasakah Governorate. It is located on the administrative border between Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor Governorates. On December 4, the Kurdish YPG forces launched a major offensive to liberate Margada town.
Backed by the US-led coalition, the People’s Protection Units and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian militias, are reportedly pushing south along the Khabur River.
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United States Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) said on Thursday an investigation into an allegation that civilian casualties were caused by U.S and Afghan forces during a joint military operation in Boz Village in Kunduz last year determined that 33 civilians had been killed and 27 wounded in the incident.
According to the statement, U.S and Afghan troops were forced to return fire in self-defence during the operation against Taliban. At the time, Taliban were using civilian houses as firing positions.
"Regardless of the circumstances, I deeply regret the loss of innocent lives," said Gen. John Nicholson, commander of U.S. Forces – Afghanistan.
“On this occasion the Taliban chose to hide amongst civilians and then attacked Afghan and U.S. forces. I wish to assure President (Ashraf) Ghani and the people of Afghanistan that we will take all possible measures to protect Afghan civilians. We will continue to assist the Afghan security forces in their efforts to defend their country."
The operation had been carried out to capture Taliban leaders responsible for October’s violence in Kunduz.
It was carried out by Afghan special forces with a smaller U.S element to provide advice and assistance.
“Upon arrival at the village, friendly forces were soon engaged by the Taliban from multiple civilian buildings. As the engagement progressed and friendly forces began to take casualties from Taliban fire coming from civilian buildings, U.S and Afghan forces were forced to request aerial fire support from U.S platforms in self-defense.
“Aerial fires were also used to suppress Taliban who were firing on U.S medical evacuation assets as the dead and wounded were evacuated.
“The investigation concluded that U.S air assets used the minimum amount of force required to neutralize the various threats from the civilian buildings and protect friendly forces.
“The investigation further concluded that no civilians were seen or identified in the course of the battle. The civilians who were wounded or killed were likely inside the buildings from which the Taliban were firing. In addition, a Taliban ammunition cache was struck and exploded which also destroyed multiple civilian buildings and may also have killed civilians,” the statement read.
According to USFOR-A “the investigation concluded that U.S forces acted in self-defense, in accordance with the Law of Armed Conflict, and in accordance with all applicable regulations and policy.”
It went on to state that as an indication of the ferocity of the fire faced by friendly forces from the Taliban-occupied houses, two U.S soldiers and three Afghan Army Commandos were killed.
“In addition, four U.S soldiers and 11 commandos were wounded. The investigation concluded that approximately 26 Taliban, including three leaders, were also killed, along with approximately 26 wounded.”
The statement ended off saying “It has been determined that no further action will be taken because U.S. forces acted in self-defense and followed all applicable law and policy.”
[al-Manar] The Yemeni army and popular forces’ artillery on Thursday hit gatherings of enemy Saudi soldiers in al-Montazah military base in Jizan province, a military official told Saba. The artillery also hit a military site of Saudi troops in Malhamah Mountain.
Moreover, the national forces bombed a Saudi military vehicle in al-Faraidha military base in the nearby the area, the official added.
The Yemeni army and popular committees also struck the Saudi-led mercenaries in different areas, frustrating their operations.
[OANN] A New Jersey judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a citizen’s criminal complaint against Governor Chris Christie over the "Bridgegate" scandal but ordered a lower court to review it to determine whether the case should continue.
Bergen County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Mizdol rejected Christie’s request to toss the complaint outright. But she agreed with both Christie’s lawyers and county prosecutors that a lower court judge erroneously denied the governor’s attorney an opportunity to participate in a prior hearing in October.
The complaint was filed in September by Bill Brennan, a retired firefighter and activist who recently announced he would run for governor this year.
Brennan accused Christie of knowing about a plot to close lanes at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 in order to punish a local mayor for failing to endorse Christie’s re-election bid.
Two former Christie allies were convicted last year of orchestrating the plot, and U.S. prosecutors introduced evidence at trial suggesting the governor was at least aware of the scheme. Christie, who has not been charged by prosecutors, has steadfastly denied that he knew about the closures at the time.
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[FORWARD] A U.S. court ruled that Iran and Syria must pay a total of $178.5 million in damages to the family of an infant with dual American-Israeli citizenship who was killed in a terrorist attack by a member of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",.
Chaya Zissel Braun was 3 months old when she was thrown from her stroller and killed in October 2014 in a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem.
The Washington, D.C., District Court ruled Tuesday that Iran and Syria must provide compensation to the family because the two countries financially back the terrorist Hamas organization.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an attorney who heads the Shurat HaDin Israeli Law Center, represented the family.
"The criminal regimes in Tehran and Damascus are the biggest state sponsors of terrorism in the world," Darshan-Leitner said in a statement. "This judgment sends a clear message that there is a very heavy price to be paid for financing terrorism and spilling innocent blood in the streets of Jerusalem."
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[Dhaka Tribune] Formed after the 2012 riot, Harakah al-Yaqin (Faith Movement, HaY) is led by a committee of Rohingyas living in 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... and is commanded on the ground by Rohingyas, according to Brussels-based group International Crisis Group (ICG).
HaY is represented by Ata Ullah, who was born in 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... to a Rohingya father and grew up in Mecca. He is also identified as Hafiz Tohar by the Myanmar government, presumably an alias, according to ICG.
He is part of a group of 20 Rohingyas who have international experience in modern guerrilla warfare and are leading operations on the ground. After the military crackdown began, the Myanmar president’s office issued a statement claiming that some 400 members of Aqa Mul Mujahideen, a little-known Islamist krazed killer group linked to al-Qaeda and Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), had conducted the attack.
Aqa Mul Mujahideen or HuJI-Arakan Founded in 1984 by Fazlur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Aktar. The Bangla branch was established in 1992 with assistance from Osama bin Laden. Recruits come mostly from Deobandi madrassahs. HuJI and Fazlur Rehman Khalil are signators of bin Laden's declaration of war on the west. is another Rohingya-backed krazed killer group. It is not clear whether HaY and Aqa Mul Mujahideen are the same. Some of the HaY leaders have repeatedly claimed to the Dhaka Tribune that they have no connection with RSO or any other terrorist groups.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... al-Qaeda’s Bangladesh offshoot Ansar al-Islam as well as banned krazed killer outfit Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... have extended their support to HaY and urged Moslems around the world to fight the Myanmar government’s oppression in Rakhine.
International terrorist group 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.... revealed its plan to attack Buddhist-majority Myanmar establishments through a statement published in Dabiq magazine in April 2016.
In late November last year, a pro-Islamic State Telegram channel suggested that Moslems in the UK who can not go to Myanmar can attack the country’s embassy and ambassador at home.
The Afghan Taliban on November 30 reiterated its call to Moslems as well as Islamic charitable organizations to take action in support of their brethren in Myanmar.
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[Ynet] Austrian police are investigating six Afghan refugees rapefugees over sexual attacks on 18 women during New Year's Eve celebrations in the western province of Tyrol, a police officer involved with the case said on Monday. One man has confessed and apologised but the other five deny the accusations, Ernst Kranebitter of the Tyrol police force said, adding that police had made no arrests yet pending the end of their investigation.
The women reported that assailants had groped and tried to kiss them that evening as they stood in or near a crowded central square in the city of Innsbruck for a concert and fireworks display. Some women said they had been clasped by a man from behind while others groped their breasts and genitals.
[Ynet] Europe's court of human rights has rejected an appeal by a Turkish-born couple who were fined in Switzerland for keeping their daughters out of mixed-gender, mandatory public-school swimming lessons for reasons linked to their Muslim faith. The European Court of Human Rights decision upholds a Swiss federal court ruling that education officials had not violated the family's rights of freedom of conscience and religion in the case in Basel dating to 2008.
That's eight years ago. No doubt the girls never took a single class, but at least other little boys and girls won't have that option.
In a summary of the ruling announced Tuesday, the European court based in Strasbourg, France, acknowledged "interference" in freedom of religion but that public school had a "special role" in integration, particularly of children of foreign origin. Such issues of compulsory public education and religious belief have prompted similar cases in neighboring Germany and Liechtenstein in recent years.
[AlAhram] Dozens of migrants are at risk of freezing to death in Europe after heavy snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures hit Greece and the Balkans, aid agencies said on Wednesday. Central and southeastern Europe have been gripped by freezing weather and snowstorms for days, with night-time temperatures dropping below minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 Fahrenheit) in some areas.
The Missing Migrants Project, set up by the U.N. migration agency (IOM), has recorded 11 migrants deaths in the Mediterranean since the start of the year, including four who died of hypothermia at Europe's land borders with Turkey. In the past 10 days a Somali woman was found dead from suspected hypothermia in Bulgaria and an Afghan man died in northern Greece, while last Friday two Iraqi men were found frozen to death near the Turkish-Bulgarian border, according to local media reports compiled by the project.
[AlAhram] Some 800 migrants were plucked from flimsy rubber boats on Thursday, Italy's coast guard said, as Libya-based people smugglers took advantage of a window of good mid-winter weather to send them to sea. Italian coast guard vessel Diciotti and two ships run by humanitarian groups, the Aquarius and the Golfo Azzurro, went to the rescue of a total of six rubber boats in international waters off the coast of Libya, the coast guard said.
Mathilde Auvillain, a spokeswoman for SOS Mediterranee which co-runs the Aquarius, said they aided a small wooden boat carrying 26 people, mostly Nigerians, on Wednesday, while 123 were taken off a rubber dinghy on Thursday. After several days of rough seas, weather conditions improved on Wednesday evening and were expected to remain calm until Friday evening, she told Reuters by telephone. Among the 149 rescued by the Aquarius were people from Nigeria, Sudan, Guinea, and Bangladesh, Auvillain said.
"We are expecting another long year. There's no sign that things are going to improve. So far this winter we have had no rest. We have not gone a full week without a rescue."
Last year a record 181,000 boat migrants, mostly from Africa, reached Italy. The majority paid Libyan people traffickers to make the journey.
[Ynet] France's government has quietly backtracked on a policy that allowed children to leave the country without their parents' permission, after years of complaints from families of radicalized teens who left to join extremist groups.
The new rules requiring parental permission go into effect Sunday, five years after the government lifted the restriction with little fanfare, citing a need to streamline bureaucracy.
At the time, the war in Syria was picking up and France became Europe's largest source of recruits in the war zone, notably for the Islamic State group. Families said they were blindsided when their teenage sons and daughters were allowed to pass through border control no questions asked and even leave Europe's passport-free zone for Turkey.
[TODAYONLINE] Women’s roles in terrorist networks in Indonesia have until now been dictated by their kinship ties through marriage, involving facilitating logistics and finance for terrorist acts. But there is a growing trend of women taking on combat roles.
Detachment 88, Indonesia’s police counter-terrorism unit, recently locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three women who were allegedly involved in plotting to bomb the Indonesian State Palace. The women -- Dian Yulia Novi, Arida Putri Maharani and Tutin Sugiarti -- were a part of a Solo-based terrorist network under the coordination of Bahrun Naim, the man allegedly behind the 2016 Jakarta attacks.
A few days after their arrest, Detachment 88 also arrested Ika Puspitasari in a mosque near her home in Purworejo, Central Java.
Novi and Maharani are the wives of Muhammad Nur Solihin, who is believed to be the leader of the terror cell. Novi was responsible for preparing the planned suicide kaboom at the Indonesian State Palace.
Maharani was aware of these preparations for the attack and had facilitated its funding. Sugiarti, interestingly, played a key role in radicalising Novi despite Novi being married to the group’s head. The last woman, Puspitasari, had prepared to conduct a suicide kaboom in Bali on New Year’s Eve.
Within Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Indonesia’s most infamous terrorist group, women previously played only intermediary and childbearing roles, with the purpose of boosting ties and nurturing future jihadists in a bid to expand the group’s numbers. JI also relied on women to raise funds for violent jihad.
For example, Noralwizah Lee Binti Abdullah, a Sabah-Chinese woman who was the wife of JI’s former operational commander Hambali ...real name Riduan Isamuddin, close personal friend of Osama bin Laden, one of the founders of Jemaah Islamiyah and the planner of the 2002 Bali bombings. He was captured with the help of a mid-Eastern intel service, shipped to Guantanamo to rot but he'll likely be released eventually because that was a long time ago and we were all so much younger then... , was believed to be JI’s chief accountant.
Classical Islam does not favour women taking on combative roles. But, with the rise of the so-called 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.... (IS), the role of women in violent terrorist acts is evolving.
With the goal of establishing an Islamic state at all costs, IS has had to extend the kinds of roles available to women in their organization, involving them to a greater degree in armed combat and suicide missions. IS has established the al-Khansaa Brigade, a women-only unit that patrols around cities such as Raqqa and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to enforce IS’ fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic values. Women also fought on the frontlines for IS in Libya.
Increased combat and planning roles for women in Indonesian terror cells reflects the influence and growing network of IS allies in South-east Asia. The East Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) terror group, which pledges allegiance to IS, has conducted weapons training for its women including the wife of MIT’s commander. We should expect more women to be direct participants in terrorism in the future.
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Indonesia military full time: about 500,000 troops, another 500,000 part time. So that's a 1 million man army
equipment includes many amphibious tanks, sukhoi jets on order, submarines too.
they have plenty of gunna and plenty of men
and plenty of Islam - lots of Islamisation pouring in from saudi arabia
[DAWN] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's front man lashed out at the US military on Thursday after it re-tweeted a statement by a Kurdish-dominated alliance it backs in Syria saying it had no links to Kurdish faceless myrmidons fighting the Turkish state.
The Syrian Democratic Forces, the main US partner on the ground in Syria in the fight against the holy warriorIslamic 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.... (IS) group, includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... views the YPG as an extension of the PKK holy warrior group, which has waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey and is considered a terrorist organization by Ankara, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... "SDF confirms that it has no affiliation or ties to PKK," US Central Command said on Twitter, re-tweeting a statement by the SDF in which it said it was not part of the PKK and wanted a strong relationship with neighbours including Turkey.
"Is this a joke or @CENTCOM has lost its senses?," Erdogan's front man, Ibrahim Kalin, replied.
"Do you believe anyone will buy this? The US must stop trying to legitimize a terrorist group." US support for the YPG has been a major sticking point between Washington and Turkey, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ally and a member of the US-led coalition against IS.
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[OANN] Republican politicians will begin voiding dozens of new U.S. regulations at the end of the month to fulfill their promise to undo Democratic President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... ’s legacy, focusing on environmental and labor rules, the House of Representatives’ second most powerful Republican said on Thursday.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy ...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's... said the Republicans who will shortly control both Congress and the White House for the first time in 10 years have made reforming federal regulation a top priority alongside repealing the Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... healthcare program and rewriting the tax code.
Republicans are on a blitz to radically reform the vast federal bureaucracy, where they say appointed officials create costly, burdensome red tape that stifles economic growth. Once Republican President-elect 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... is inaugurated on Jan. 20, they will have a like-minded ally in the Oval Office to sign their measures into law.
On the chopping block are dozens of new rules that the outgoing B.O. regime has finalized since the end of May on energy, the environment, transportation, banking, finance, education and media ownership.
Republicans will ax them using the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to void a single regulation for a brief window of time after it is issued.
Congress will begin a two-week marathon of voting to disapprove them on Jan. 30, according to McCarthy, who House aides say will lead the process. Disapproval resolutions can pass on simple majorities, giving Senate Democrats no power to block votes with filibusters.
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This is they key to reversing the effects of the Great Recession.
Small business formation is at its lowest level since the Republic was founded. The major obstacle is the regulatory leviathan. Every time the Obama administration deigned to even mention helping small business (maybe three times in eight years) it was always in the context of making it easier for them to borrow money. In other words, in the context of making more money for his Wall Street donors and making small businesses dependent on them.
Easy credit is nice. Regulatory reform infinitely better. As a small business guy, who associates with many others, I can tell you to a person that at this point in history, basically 100% of us want the latter, not the former.
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..also a little truth in labeling, as in minimum wage plus what the employer pays in workers comp, social security, etc. Suddenly, the reported price per hour balloons!
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) An informed source revealed that one person was killed and four others were wounded in the explosion of an improvised explosive device, south of Baghdad, Alsumaria News reported on Thursday.
The source said that an improvised explosive device, emplaced near shops in al-M’alef area south of Baghdad, exploded at afternoon today, killing one person and wounding four others.
Security forces cordoned off the area of explosion, and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the body to the forensic medicine department, the source added on condition of anonymity.
The capital, Baghdad, is witnessing several attacks using booby-trapped vehicles and explosive vest, as well as separate attacks against civilians and security forces.
[ECONOMIST] THE accused, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a diminutive, clean-shaven Saudi aged 52, looks innocuous as he shuffles into court between two burly guards, a blue-gloved hand on each of his shoulders. A young paralegal in his defence team embraces him. If found guilty by a jury of handpicked uniformed officers, he faces the death penalty.
Mr Nashiri is one of Guantánamo’s 15 most "high-value" prisoners, kept in a special jail known as Camp Seven whose location has never been made public. He is charged with criminal masterminding an attack by two suicide-bombers who steered an explosives-laden skiff into the side of an American naval destroyer, the USS Cole, in Aden harbour in 2000, killing 17 American sailors and wounding many more.
Nowadays he is what officials at Guantánamo call "highly compliant". He politely declines an offer made by the judge, an air-force colonel, of prayer-breaks. He sits patiently, often looking bored, sometimes quizzical, occasionally adjusting the headphones through which he listens to simultaneous translation into Arabic, as arguments are batted laboriously back and forth between prosecution and defence. What evidence may be admissible when the trial proper begins? How much secret intelligence may be divulged? What medical details may be aired? Who may be called as witnesses, seeing that most of the key ones were interviewed about 15 years ago 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... by the FBI, under a brutal government long since tossed?
Was he truly the criminal mastermind or just a foot soldier within al-Qaeda? Above all, may the fact that he was tortured, admitted by the CIA, be used in his defence? What about the videos of his interrogation, which may have been destroyed? "You need to hear from the torturers themselves," says Richard Kammen, Mr Nashiri’s chief lawyer, who for decades has defended, with notable success, Americans facing the death penalty.
The court feels not at all martial, more like a conference room in a dreary hotel. The six rows of desks allocated to the accused are furnished with computer screens; the five defendants in the September 11th case are being charged together in the same room. The only clue that this is no ordinary forum are the shackles, unused in Mr Nashiri’s case, screwed into the grey carpet beside each of the defendants’ seats. Behind a window is a soundproofed gallery for 50-odd visitors, including family members of the victims of the accused. There are curtains they may draw, should they wish to weep. The audio transmission has a 40-second lag so that the judge can switch off any mention of classified information. Mr Nashiri’s lawyers repeatedly ask for information to be aired that the prosecution claims would jeopardise national security.
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[REUTERS] The leaflet dropped from the skies over djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... urged 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.... snuffies to give themselves up. "Who will look after your families if you are killed?" read the message, found on the ground in an apartment complex on the city's northern edge.
Sent by the Iraqi government, it appears to have been ignored.
At the bottom of a stairwell in one of the apartment blocks lay the corpses of three snuffies who must have known they would lose against the overwhelming numbers and firepower of their opponents.
Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition took the Hadba apartment complex several days ago as the campaign to drive Islamic State out of Mosul gains momentum in the city's east.
A tour arranged for Rooters to show Islamic State fights losing battle in eastern Mosuloff the government forces' latest gains showed how the Lion of Islams, though vastly outnumbered and overpowered, are still putting up a fight for their largest urban stronghold.
Beneath blankets thrown over their remains, the snuffies appear to have fought on even after being gravely maimed.
One had a makeshift splint on his leg, and a big skidmark of blood indicated a Lion of Islam may have dragged himself into cover, or been pulled by the others.
The lower half of one bully boy's body was blown off before he had a chance to detonate the suicide belt still tied around his waist.
"We came from here and hit him with a rocket," said an Iraqi soldier, retracing his steps through the outdoor passage they used to come up on the snuffies from behind.
The complex is made up of more than 160 blocks -- the three-storey buildings now giving Iraqi forces an added advantage over the enemy, which is being pushed back towards the Tigris river bisecting Mosul from north to south.
Some Iraqi units further south reached the banks of the Tigris over the weekend -- a milestone in the offensive that began when the elite counterterrorism service (CTS) pushed into Mosul from the east in October.
The western half of the city remains fully under Islamic State control and retaking it from Islamic State is likely to be complicated by narrow alleys.
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[IsraelTimes] Security forces raid workshop in the city of Hebron, seize lathes in ongoing crackdown.
Israeli forces raided and shut down an arms workshop in the West Bank town of Hebron
...Hamas Central in the West Bank...
overnight Wednesday, with the military calling it the biggest illegal weapons manufacturer found in the past year.
Forces uncovered two metal lathes in the workshop as part of what the army said is an ongoing effort to clamp down on weapons manufacturers and illegally held weapons in Paleostinian areas.
Forces have uncovered several arms workshops in Hebron and other West Bank cities as part of a bolstered effort to shut down arms manufacturing and running over the past year. A number of terror attacks have been carried out with makeshift rifles manufactured in underground workshops in the West Bank.
In other overnight operations in the West Bank forces incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! eight suspects, most of whom were sought for violent rioting against Israeli civilians and security forces, the army said.
The suspects were taken in for questioning.
The army said it also seized a vehicle in the town of Beit Ummar, southwest of Jerusalem, that had been used to transport rioters.
[TRUTH-OUT.ORG] 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... 's pick for Secretary of State hit out at the Moslem Brüderbund in the opening statement that he delivered on Wednesday to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
At the onset of his confirmation hearing, Rex Tillerson called the group "an agent for radical Islam like al-Qaeda...and certain elements within Iran."
The assessment raises the possibility that the Trump administration will not eschew the sort of Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... and authoritarianism that Trump himself promoted during the presidential campaign.
Republican advisers and politicians have, in recent years, pushed bizarre theories about the Islamist Moslem Brüderbund, calling, at times, for crackdowns on the organization, modeled after dictatorial governments abroad.
In Feb. 2016, for example, Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved of legislation that would have forced the State Department to label the Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
In a report on the proposal, GOP politicians positively cited the Syrian government's decision in 1980 to ban the Brotherhood‐a decree that preceded the massacre of tens of thousands of civilians in Hama. The document also praised anti-Brotherhood decrees by the Egyptian, 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... n and Bahraini governments.
"I fear that this bill appeals to our base fears," John Conyers (D-Mich.), the committee's ranking Democrat said, at the time, of the measure. "Islamophobia may be good politics -- time will tell -- but it certainly is not good policy."
Conyers noted then that the Brotherhood has, since the 1950's, been "predominately a non-violent religious political and social service organization." Neither 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... nor John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... mentioned the group in opening statements delivered during their confirmation hearings.
The Moslem Brüderbund has also featured in unfounded theories peddled by high-ranking Republican campaign advisers.
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At least four Taliban insurgents were killed in north-eastern Kapisa province in an ongoing operation on Wednesday, local officials said.
In addition, three other insurgents were injured.
The operation was launched under name of “Ghubar 7” in the province a week ago and is still ongoing in Tagab district to clear all insurgents, a police security official, Mohammad Massoud Chardara, said.
“On Wednesday, Peruzkhil and Sarkandeyan villages which were insecure were cleared of insurgents,” he said adding that “one policeman was killed and another injured during the operation after a roadside mine went-off.”
In the meantime, the residents of Tagab said that more than a thousand families have been displaced due the ongoing operation and they need emergency assistance.
[CHANNELNEWSASIA] Eight Indonesians held at Singapore's Woodlands Checkpoint said they were preachers from the Tabligh Jamaat Islamic group, a senior Malaysian counter-terrorism official told Channel NewsAsia on Thursday (Jan 12).
One of the eight, identified as Ridce Elfi Hendra, was found with one image of a shoe bomb and two images of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS), said Ayub Khan Mydin Pitchay, principal assistant director of Special Branch’s counter-terrorism division.
"They claimed to be preachers from the Tablighi Jamaat A group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms... movement, which is also sometimes known as Tabligh. They said they have been preaching in madrasahs (religious boarding schools) in Pattani, southern Thailand and then travelled down to Malaysia’s state of Perlis. They later came to Malacca to meet with a preacher there," said Ayub.
Tabligh Jamaat is a global Sunni Moslem missionary group.
"We will be investigating the madrasahs and the preacher whom they met with," Ayub added.
The men were in Malaysia from Jan 3 to 10 and claimed they were from Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
A senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official told Channel NewsAsia that "initial interrogation showed they were not IS members".
"They are just preachers. This is the result of our initial investigation," said the Indonesian official.
Ayub said the men tried to enter Singapore at 1.30am on Jan 10 and were detained by Singapore’s immigration authorities and deported to Malaysia. They were held by Malaysia’s Special Branch counter-terrorism officers at 2am.
They were deported to Indonesia’s island of Batam at 9am that same day and handed over to Indonesian police counter-terrorism taskforce Densus 88.
DEPORTEE HAD IMAGES OF SHOE BOMB, IS FIGHTERS
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) confirmed on Thursday evening that the eight Indonesians - aged between 16 and 37 - were deported to Malaysia on Jan 10.
"One of them was found in possession of images of security concern, including that of a shoe-bomb as well as fighters from the terrorist group that calls itself the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria," MHA said.
"The Singapore authorities informed their Malaysian counterparts before the deportation," added a spokesperson for MHA.
According to Ayub, the Tabligh movement's teachings in Malaysia have been mostly peaceful and moderate.
"There have been only one or two cases at the most where its followers were found to be radical. They joined Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and the Malaysian Mujahidin Movement (KMM)," said Ayub.
JI is the regional terror group behind the devastating 2002 Bali bombings. KMM, which is also known as the Malaysian Militant Movement, is a turban group with links to JI, which believes in overthrowing the secular Malaysian government and replacing it with an Islamic state.
Tabligh has been described by Moslem scholars as apolitical and somewhat secretive. It was founded in 1927.
Its biggest annual event is a three-day prayer and fast held in Bangladesh that attracts millions and is believed to be one of the largest gatherings of Moslems in the world after the Haj pilgrimage.
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Donia Al-Watan A Paleo e-news source
Deputy head of Energy Authority Fathi Shik-Khalil announces a Turkey delegation to arrive Gaza soon to solve the power crisis that hits Gaza strip.
"A Turkey delegation will arrive during the upcoming months to start project in order to enforce the power issues," he said.
He refers that the crisis occurs due to the new facilities and streets that supplied with power meanwhile the sources remain as it is.
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[JANTAKAREPORTER] Ina significant boost to India’s stand on Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... , Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... and Hizbul Mujahideen, French foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, echoed India’s sentiments advocating the ban on Pakistain based terror outfits. He also vowed to work with New Delhi to get terrorist Masood Azhar proscribed by the UN Security Council.
Without naming China which has blocked a proposal at the UNSC to sanction JeM chief Azhar, Ayrault said, "The international community’s determination to combat terrorism must be the same everywhere, regardless of the threat."
On the cross-LoC surgical strikes carried out by India in September last year after an attack on Uri army camp, Ayrault said a country has a "right to defend itself" in the wake of such threats.
"La Belle France has very firmly condemned the terrorist attacks against India, including the recent one in Uri, and reiterated its full solidarity with India in its combat against terrorism," the French Minister, who was on a visit here, told PTI in an interview.
Clearly referring to Pakistain without naming it, he emphasised that all countries should fight effectively against terrorism "originating from their territory or territories under their control".
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[AnNahar] Germany took in 280,000 asylum seekers in 2016, about one third of the previous year's record figure, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday.
At the height of the huge refugee and migrant influx to Europe in 2015, a total of 890,000 people came seeking safe haven in the EU's top economy.
The migration office said that it received about 745,000 asylum requests in 2016 from people who had arrived that year or the year before. Of these, 36 percent were from refugees from war-torn Syria, 17 percent from Afghans and 13 percent from Iraqis, it said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... , who faces an election expected in September, has been harshly criticized for the mass inflow, and her government has taken a series of measures to reduce arrivals.
The reduced numbers for 2016 "show that the measures which the German government and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... have taken are working," said de Maiziere at a presser. "We have managed to bring order to the migrant situation."
The mass influx eased off sharply in early 2016 after several Balkans transit countries shuttered their borders.
The EU also reached a controversial deal with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , spearheaded by Germany, to stop the influx to the Greek islands.
In further measures, Berlin declared some western Balkans states "safe countries of origin", making it harder for their citizens to obtain refugee status in Germany. It is seeking similar designations for Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, and also plans to pressure the Maghreb countries, possibly by denying foreign aid, if they drag their feet on taking back rejected asylum seekers.
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, which has been beefed up in the course of Europe's migrant crisis, decided last year on more than 695,000 asylum applications, more than twice as many as in 2015. Nearly 60 percent of applicants were granted either full refugee status or a lesser form of protection.
De Maiziere said that about 55,000 migrants colonists returned home voluntarily last year, compared with the previous year's 35,000. Another 25,000 were forcibly deported.
[Dhaka Tribune] Harakah al-Yaqin (HaY) was formed to revolt against the Myanmar government and establish the rights of Rohingyas as citizens of the country, claimed a top leader of the holy warrior group.
And, according to his claim, they had full support of the locals of northern Rakhine, home to Rohingya Moslems.
HaY’s name popped up shortly after a series of attacks on several outposts of Myanmar Border Guard Police near Bangladesh border on October 9, 2016, in which nine coppers were killed.
The leader, who claims to be the second-in-command of self-proclaimed HaY chief Ata Ullah, claimed that this premeditated attack was aimed at acquiring arms and ammunition for the members who had been trained in guerrilla war tactics.
"The big shots, including Ata Ullah, started speaking with villagers [in Rohingya-dominated areas] in Rakhine four months before the attack and received astonishing response," he told the Dhaka Tribune.
"We had the support of all ‐ from school-going children to the elderly," he claimed.
A number of the members are the frustrated students of madrasas and employees of mosques which were shut down by the Myanmar government following the 2012 riot. They were never reopened.
The second-in-command said: "We attacked Dumci cop shoppe around midnight; it was the most successful attack of the night."
In their second attempt, they attacked Hawar Bill police outpost around 2am.
The third one was around 4am on Naffura police outpost. "That one was the least successful."
The second-in-command claimed that they had managed to rob more than 90 firearms that night.
With the newly "acquired" weapons, HaY found themselves on a stronger ground to face the Myanmar authorities.
But what they had not considered was the possibility of an aerial attack.
"They [Myanmar Army] brought helicopters to shoot at us," said the second-in-command. "They knew they would not be able to overcome us on the ground."
Unable to defend themselves, the forces of Evil retreated.
By then the army had also launched its raid in the Rohingya villages that led to mass murders and gang rapes of the Rohingyas, as told by those who fled to Bangladesh.
"People saw the army killing their family members right in front of them. They saw their loved ones being raped by the army. Their will to fight crumbled and they fled Arakan [Rakhine]."
The fighters witnessed as many as 250 Rohingya houses being burnt to the ground, he claimed.
The army attack turned local Rohingyas against HaY, whom they started to blame for the crackdown.
In the meantime, fighters of the group scattered around to hide, waiting for instructions from the high command.
But the instructions never came.
Many HaY members lost their faith in the group’s goal to establish their rights.
Rohingya community also started despising the holy warriors.
"The army attack cost us the support of Rohingyas," said the second-in-command.
Having lost followers, territory and ammunition, the HaY leaders have yet to decide on the next course of action.
"We do not have any plans yet to further our movement. The situation in Rakhine is too risky for us, and some of our fighters were maimed during the crackdown," said the second-in-command.
Their leader, Ata Ullah, is currently hiding to escape military prosecution. When this correspondent asked to meet him, the second-in-command rejected the request instantaneously.
"It is absolutely impossible. Three of our members were recently kidnapped. Since then, Ata Ullah has gone deep in hiding."
When asked where they were keeping their firearms, he said most of them were buried underground.
The leaders have no idea how to proceed with their movement, but they are still determined to finish what they started.
"We will fight until the end. This is a revolution against the oppression of Rohingyas by the Myanmar government," said the second-in-command.
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Tornados targeted a lorry bomb and armoured truck operated by ISIS on Monday
The next day, a Reaper eliminated a mortar team and a group of ISIS fighters
The confusion caused ISIS forces to shoot each other, during Battle for djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
Recapturing Mosul after more than two years of ISIS rule would probably spell the end of the Iraqi side of the group's self-declared caliphate
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Visualizing Obumble handing out the aforesaid medals; and somehow I keep seeing right in the medal of the big ol' sprocket the word 'ACME' in high definition embossing......
[AnNahar] Britannia on Wednesday set out the legal basis for dronezaps against terror suspects overseas, saying new technology meant some terror attacks were developing too quickly for traditional law enforcement to react.
Oh look -- banging your heads against the wall actually worked. Our congratulations.
Attorney General Jeremy Wright, the government's top legal officer, said international law must adapt to "changing times" where social media was used to inspire and train Lions of Islam within a short space of time.
The government's policy has come under scrutiny since an unprecedented RAF drone attack killed two Britons fighting with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Syria in August 2015.
In a major speech, Wright will set out how decisions are taken when Britannia can act in "self-defense", including assessments of the immediacy, nature and probability of the suspected attack.
"The situation we face today does not always allow for the possibility of using criminal law enforcement measures to stop attacks," he will say, according to extracts of the speech obtained by AFP.
"We are a long way from being able to see troops massing on the horizon. Technology has made it easier for faceless myrmidons to carry out attacks. The law has to keep up with the changing times."
The likelihood that there will be other opportunities to act that might "cause less serious collateral injury, loss or damage" is also a factor -- an acknowledgment of potential civilian deaths from dronezaps.
Other issues to be considered include whether the anticipated attack is part of a concerted pattern of continuing armed activity, and its likely scale.
The government must also consider the loss or damage likely to result from failing to act, Wright will tell the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
Former prime minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... revealed the 2015 RAF dronezaps in a speech to parliament, saying it was Britannia's first such action in a country where it was not involved in military operations.
He said that one of the targets, 21-year-old Reyaad Khan, had been planning "barbaric" attacks in Britannia on high-profile public events that summer.
British security services and counter-terrorism forces say they have foiled at least 10 attacks in Britannia in the past two years.
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If Mexicans loose jobs that were scheduled to move to Mexico from the US , then doesn't this prove Trump is right? If the Mexican elite would stop putting their money in overseas bank accounts and invest in their own country/people....Never mind, that's crazy talk.
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Can they also run sob stories about Americans whose jobs moved to Mexico thanks to our pols who were willing to repeatedly shi+ in the economic bathtub here for pennies on the dollar?
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.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
John 
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3,391 firearms were discovered in carry-on bags at checkpoints across the country, averaging more than nine firearms per day. Of those, 2,815 (83 percent) were loaded. Firearms were intercepted at a total of 238 airports; 2 more airports than last year. There was a 28 percent increase in firearm discoveries from 2015's total of 2,653. 
WASHINGTON (Ay-Pee)... The Obama administration is ending the "wet foot, dry foot" policy that granted residency to Cubans who arrived in the United States without visas.
[Wash Times] At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham confronted the president of the NAACP with accusations that the civil rights group has an anti-Republican bias.
Brazilian police have unveiled a plot led by a Ukrainian armed movement to recruit Brazilian neo-Nazis with combat experience to fight pro-Russian rebels in the European country’s civil war.
[News 11, Atlanta] MABLETON, Ga ‐ A surveillance video has been released that shows the owner of a gun store defending his life and the life of a fellow employee and customers as he opened fire on robbers.
DOMESTIC. Originally there were seven Arab men 
[Iran Press TV] Incoming US President 
Hillary Clinton
[AlAhram] Will Donald Trump’s administration resort to purging the American system of those connected to the 
[Iran Press TV] Nigerian 
[OANN] The city of Baltimore will enact a series of police reforms including changes in how officers use force and transport prisoners under an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department filed in federal court on Thursday.
[Hurriyet Daily News] 
The fourth article, which increases the parliament’s term from four years to five and regulates the presidential election procedure, according to which members of parliament and the president will be elected on the same day, was passed with 343 affirmations and 139 rejections. The fifth article regulating the duties and authorities of the parliament was accepted by 343 votes with seven rejections. 
[OANN] A New Jersey judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a citizen’s criminal complaint against Governor Chris Christie over the "Bridgegate" scandal but ordered a lower court to review it to determine whether the case should continue.
[Dhaka Tribune] Formed after the 2012 riot, Harakah al-Yaqin (Faith Movement, HaY) is led by a committee of Rohingyas living in 
[ECONOMIST] THE accused, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a diminutive, clean-shaven Saudi aged 52, looks innocuous as he shuffles into court between two burly guards, a blue-gloved hand on each of his shoulders. A young paralegal in his defence team embraces him. If found guilty by a jury of handpicked uniformed officers, he faces the death penalty.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces raid workshop in the city of Hebron, seize lathes in ongoing crackdown.
[AnNahar] 
David Cameron
