[FOX] White House blasts media coverage of terror attacks
The U.S. and European terror forecast for 2017 'looks alarming,' in part because of increased pressure on ISIS and other terror groups on their home turf, according to a monthly assessment by House lawmakers.
The House Homeland Security Committee’s February "Terror Threat Snapshot" report cited two homegrown terror attacks in January and officials predicted efforts to crush foreign terror groups, while laudable, could spur more attacks to American soil.
"At this rate, the forecast for 2017 looks alarming," warns the report, citing an "unprecedented spike in the homegrown terror threat, primarily driven by the rise of ISIS."
Officials predicted necessary efforts to crush foreign terror groups could actually spur more attacks on Western soil. Coming attacks in the U.S. and Europe could be carried out by so-called lone wolves as well as homegrown terrorists who return from fighting in such places as Iraq, Syria and Somalia.
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Your medua is censored so you won'tknow about the jihad terror attacks. You will be told only of the large ones that are impossible to hide and then you will not be told anything that would identify the attackers as islamist.
This will disarm the natural immune response of society to demand our leaders limit muslim migration and you will get the farce that is going on right now
Ignorant left protesters runing around in hijabs saying "i stand with muslims"
[FOX] Defense and intelligence officials have reportedly expressed concern over the possiblity that the Trump administration will at some point designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization.
Officials said the designation could put U.S. troops in danger in Iraq and hurt the overall fight against the Islamic State, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The White House is weighing whether to designate the Muslim Brotherhood-- along with the revolutionary guard-- as terrorist organizations.
A senior White House official told The Post was still being mulled over. The White House has sought to take a hard stance against Iran and has even threatened fresh sanctions over Iran’s recent missile tests.
"There are so many second, third and fifth order of facts with every decision, as we see it, and so I think that this is an area where, rightly so, we have to be very smart... This all has to do with [Iran’s] behavior. What we have to do is figure out what are the right things to consider. We consider a lot of things. What we actually decide to do is different," the White House official said.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer declined to say whether the White House would take steps against either the Muslim Brotherhood or the IRGC, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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[Center for Security Policy] The next, necessary step in the national security course-correction President Donald Trump has promised requires the designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as what it is ‐ a terrorist organization.
For years, presidents of both parties have labored under the illusion that the Brothers were actually useful and reliable "partners" in countering what was euphemistically known as "violent extremism." Among other things, that epic strategic mistake prompted President Obama to work with the Muslim Brotherhood to supplant friendly governments across the Middle East.
President Trump’s predecessors also legitimated and enabled the Brotherhood’s operatives here. Yet, they are Sharia-supremacists, who share completely the ideology and agenda of terrorist organizations like al Qaeda, the Islamic State and Boko Haram.
Mr. Trump’s oath of office requires him to defend our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. To do so, he must designate the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood.
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epic strategic mistake prompted President Obama
I hate to keep saying this but it was only a mistake from one view point. If you're on the other side it was the proper strategy but not fulfilled properly.
h/t Instapundit
Pay is flowing so generously at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that hundreds of bureaucrats there receive more than most members of Congress.
The Senate majority and minority leaders are paid $193,000 annually. Two hundred and one CFPB employees outdo Sens. Mitch McConnell and Charles Schumer in pay.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan of Wisconsin receives $223,000 per year, but that’s less than what 54 CFPB employees are paid.
Another 170 CFPB employees earn more than the secretaries of defense and state, the attorney general and the director of national intelligence. All cabinet salaries are capped at $199,700, but not at the bureau. Thirty-nine CFPB employees earn more than the $230,000 paid to Vice President Mike Pence.
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OK, that's a lot of money, but I'm sure they're all welcoming Syrian refugees into their homes and giving generously to minimum wage workers. It's a Robin Hood thing.
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[Jpost] Two people were reportedly killed and five were hurt in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday in an "Israeli attack" on an underground tunnel along the border between Gaza and Egypt, according to Hamas's Health Ministry.
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This is the "black voter suppression" case that Jeff Sessions was prosecuting. The allegations of racism stem from a 1985 voter fraud prosecution that then-U.S. Attorney Sessions brought at the behest of African Americans who feared other African Americans’ votes were being stolen to elect one set of African-American candidates over another. Several African Americans, including Albert Turner who was an aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., were the defendants.
There wasn’t much dispute on the facts of the case: Albert Turner forged, voted for, requested and/or redelivered absentee ballots for almost 500 voters – almost entirely African Americans –against his African-American political opponents. There are two interpretations of what happened here: was the conduct proxy voting or voter assistance?
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Well, if the Europeans want it, then maybe our liberals ought to want it too. I guess that puts them into some kind of ban since they've been frothing at the mouth about this for so long.
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I'll bet a lot of US muslims are also in favor of such an action as they see their nice life of life style freedom in jeopardy if the ISIS, Al Q, Shabab, boko haram types come in
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From the Brits lips to God's and the 9th circuit courts ears.
[Breitbart] Jim Jordan: Further delay is ’not what we told the voters.'
Congress must hurry up and repeal Obamacare this spring to avoid the wrath of voters who expected Republicans to ease the anxiety about soaring rates and dwindling insurance options in their home states, conservative lawmakers said Wednesday.
Replacing the Affordable Care Act’s heavy mandates with free market reforms is crucial, they said, but it can wait. What can’t wait is a flat repeal, which the conservatives said needs to happen "within the next two or three months."
"I think repeal becomes a lot more difficult if you load it down with all the heavy details involving what comes next, where we don’t have a whole lot of consensus," Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican, said at a roundtable meeting hosted by the conservative Heritage Foundation.
He is at odds with Republican leaders, who have said they want to have a replacement in hand when they repeal the 2010 law. They say insurance markets need the certainty of knowing what comes next.
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So they only pass repeal legislation when they know the president won't sign it. Given a once in a lifetime opportunity to actually do something, they all wet the bed. Nice.
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Don't try to do it all at once. You'll just pooch it up. Baby steps.
1) Repeal the mandate
2) Make it possible to by a plan the customer wants
3) Make it legal to sell insurance across state lines
There! Was that so hard?
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Democrats didn't wait to enact this piece of crap, Republicans should not hesitate to repeal it.
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If the freaking congress would repeal McCarran Ferguson it would all start to work well enough that repealing the mandate would solve the most painful parts of Obumblecare(?) until a careful crafted series of repeals were inacted.
McCarran Ferguson was passed in 1941 giving regulatory control of Insurance to the states. If McCarran Ferguson were repealed, insurance would come under interstate commerce and insurance could be sold across state lines and change the dynamic on rate setting.
[Reuters] Singapore Airlines (SIA) (SIAL.SI) announced a $13.8 billion order to buy 39 Boeing (BA.N) wide-body aircraft as it pursues expansion opportunities, a setback for the U.S. planemaker's rival Airbus Group (AIR.PA) in the fight for long-term orders.
Airbus Group has flagged its intention to build a bigger version of its A350, although these plans have been placed on hold amid uncertainty over demand for wide-body jets.
In a statement on Thursday, SIA said it agreed to place firm orders with Boeing for 20 777-9s and 19 787-10s to tap additional growth and for fleet modernization through the next decade.
[Breitbart] Online journalist Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report criticized Republicans on Twitter for their sluggish momentum in Washington D.C., suggesting that they be "sued for fraud" after promising immediate action on repealing Obamacare and important tax policy.
Drudge also questioned the Trump administration’s committment to an "executive order targeting ’conflict minerals'" but not getting rid of the Obamacare tax penalty.
"I think it’s hardly stalling," Spicer said, after Breitbart News asked him to react to Drudge’s assessment. Would it be too much to ask to see a copy of an outline, a preliminary plan ?
He defended the Republican party’s pace on important issues like Obamacare.
"I think it’s a mammoth thing to repeal and replace," Spicer said, reassuring supporters that the president was still committed to his promise.
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"I think it’s a mammoth thing to repeal and replace,"
If you repeal it, it doesn't matter how big it is. What will it be replaced by? Something equally mammoth? Hardly sounds like something the feds should get involved with, especially since the Constitution is only four pages long.
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I fail to see the point in replacing ObummerCare with anything at all. Let the insurance companies compete with each other in the most dog eat dog manner and that will benefit the consumer more than anything the government can possibly do. The constitution does not guarantee health care. The government can only muck it up.
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ACA is a beast containing everything from loans and incentives for physicians to convert to electronic health records to how doctors are reimbursed under Medicare.
After studying ACA ad nauseum working on my doctorate in health administration, I REALLY want to see this abortion of legislation thrown on the dust bin of history with its namesake. BUT I have to say the legislation is insidious with its "tendrils everywhere". An abrupt swinging of the axe could cause chaos in our health care system.
We need to repeal it but we should do it in a more reasoned, logical, deliberate method than the approach used by Pelosi and Reid to pass it which was to just jamb the thing out without careful regard for its contents. The bill is a mess but repealing it will take months...1100 pages, 15000 employees hired to enforce it, thousands of regulations written to enable it...it is a mess...and you don't clean up a mess without getting some on your hands.
The Pubs need to step up and do some dirty work and leave their standing Thursday lunch reservations at Sans Souci alone.
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I don't think the ACA was 'jammed out' but carefully crafted to have tendrails everywhere just as SPOD said. Just so it cannot be easily removed without killing the patient.
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So, they're seriously thinking about 'replacing' a massively unpopular, expensive and complete fucking failure of a 100% partisan law with... something else?
What's that they say about insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? It won't fucking work.
Repeal it now, worry about anything later, and leave the Democrats out of it.
[Right Scoop] The Trump White House is nearing completion of an order that would direct the Pentagon to bring future Islamic State detainees to the Guantánamo Bay prison, despite warnings from national security officials and legal scholars that doing so risks undermining the effort to combat the group, according to administration officials and a draft executive order obtained by The New York Times.
White House officials have detailed their thinking about a new detainee policy in an evolving series of drafts of an executive order being circulated among national security officials for comment. While previous versions have shown that the draft has undergone many changes ‐ including dropping language about reviving C.I.A. prisons ‐ the plan to add Islamic State detainees to the Guantánamo population has remained constant.
The latest version of the draft, which circulated this week, would direct Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to use Guantánamo to detain suspected members of "Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces, including individuals and networks associated with the Islamic State."
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More raids similar to the recent undertaking in Yemen are likely coming. The return of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection and exploitation is gaining ground.
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If they are not in uniform and following other rules of the Geneva Conventions, they are illegal combatants,not POWS. According to the GC, they can be given a drum head court martial and then executed. After we've wrung them dry of any useful intelligence.
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Hopefully 0bean is finding relief by banging his head on the corner of a filing cabinet about now.
Sounds like he'd be in an office; that's too much work for him.
At mealtimes the lads grew irascible,
Debating which choice was more rational,
To wit, which was cleaner,
Your normal pork wiener,
Or huge, juicy, fat Hebrew National.
[Wash Times] The Pentagon has been stripped of almost all of its political appointees from the Obama administration, but an uncertain Senate future awaits the candidates whom President Trump will nominate to remake the armed forces in his image.
Of Mr. Obama’s 163 political appointees at election time, who included Senate-confirmed service secretaries, undersecretaries and assistant secretaries, only 16 remain at the Defense Department, according to a Pentagon statement to The Washington Times.
The exodus might be considered normal in the transfer of power: Political appointees are required to turn in their resignations in December.
But Washington’s bitter political climate is far different today from the last transfer of power in 2009. Senate Democrats are resisting Mr. Trump and his agenda via the confirmation process. There is a chance that some of the Defense Department’s 53 appointed positions requiring Senate confirmation will be vacant for a long time.
The vacancies give Mr. Trump an opportunity to select men and women who will provide the leadership, policies and catalyst for his two main priorities: rebuilding the military and defeating the Islamic State terrorist group.
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All this goes away if the Senate leadership adjourns for a couple of weeks to permit appoints in recess. The Donks can then have a whole year in dragging their feet for no effect.
[Daily Caller] Weekly Standard editor-at-large Bill Kristol said Tuesday afternoon that the white working class should be replaced by immigrants as they have become "decadent, lazy" and "spoiled."
"Look, to be totally honest, if things are so bad as you say with the white working class, don’t you want to get new Americans in?" Kristol told author Charles Murray during an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute titled "It Came Apart: What’s Next for a Fractured Culture." Murray recently wrote a book, entitled "Coming Apart," which focuses on the cultural separation between the wealthiest and most educated white Americans and the poorest and least educated white Americans.
Before delving into his theory about replacing the white working class, Kristol said that he hopes "this thing isn’t being videotaped or ever shown anywhere. Whatever tiny, pathetic future I have is going to totally collapse." The event was filmed by AEI, but as of press time is marked "unlisted" on the think tank’s YouTube channel, so that it doesn’t come up in search results.
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While the culture at large has become decadent and spoiled, singling out small business owners and working class people really, really misses the mark.
Importing more people from cultures that value work and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" even less than we currently do isn't the answer.
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While the culture at large has become decadent and spoiled,
In the defense of young people, they have been told for decades that 'higher education' is the goal, not LABOR.
Process has overtaken production, and our educational system is not the only one stricken with the affliction.
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One thing I do see in the "White, working class" is a lack of respect for education on the part of some of its members. There is still a lingering distrust, or even disparging of education. Note I said some, not all. I think some of this comes from the fact that political elites on both sides and other educated professionals who largely associate with their own see the working poor, the working class and even trades people as knuckle dragging, wife beating, "hold my beer" rednecks.
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since disgraced princeling and #nevertrumper Bill Kristol inherited and didn't earn any prestige, he should STFU and continue slinking away with that mirthless smirk. F&ck him in the earhole. Loser
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Can we get rid of the Kristol elites and replace them?
I've never been a believer in confiscatory taxes on the rich but the likes of Soros, Steyr and the #NeverTrumpers have thinking about the benefits of draining all assets from these vipers.
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In the early 20th century Western nations had not yet instituted the massive internal redistribution systems known today as the welfare state.
Back then emigration/immigration was a sink-or-swim proposition. Where immigration made no economic sense it did not happen.
Immigration that amounts to immigrants tapping into domestic redistribution systems, perhaps even transferring part of the welfare payments to their home countries as remittances isn't viable.
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Anyone of reasonable intelligence and who paid attention in high school science classes can educate themselves on any area they choose thru the internet.
Formal tertiary qualifications are an anachronism unless you have a future career as an academic.
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President shuts down coal. Coal country workers are unemployed in large numbers. Bill Kristol calls them "decadent, lazy, and spoiled"
Seems to be something missing in this picture.
He also doesn't say what to do with the folks being replaced? Welfare until they die? Pretty heartless. I bet he would never say such a thing about African Americans for fear of being torn apart.
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Hearkening back to the 1970s, when the steel and auto manufacturing unions had connived with management to have things so hamstrung by rules that the workers only worked about 60% of their shift, the rest of the time being spent waiting for the person allowed to do the thing that needed to be done to get there and do it. My father-in-law worked in a Bethleham Steel plant that closed because of that, directly throwing 10,000 out of work, plus as I recall another 20,000 or so of outside support jobs -- suppliers and pubs, etc.
But the 1970s are now half a century in the past, and for the most part that arrangement between powerful unions and their company management is, too.
He also doesn't say what to do with the folks being replaced? Welfare until they die? Pretty heartless.
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waitingfor the person allowed to do the thing that needed to be done to get there and do it. Been there. Back in '82 I was working at a construction site when there was a thunderstorm just before noon. Several of us in a trailer set up to make changes to drawings. A circuit breaker tripped and we had to sit in the dark for 3 hours because we weren't allowed to re-set the breaker. That was an electricians job.
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The Khmer Rouge said this about all adults in Cambodia and we all know how that ended. These folks are full blown an facist or stupid.
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Darth nailed it. He is the problem; Not the lazy white working class.
re #19, been there done that also. There had to be a licensed electrician on site first thing in the morning to turn the sump pump on and again at 4:00 to turn it off.
Guess what he did in between.
[Guardian] Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s nominee to the supreme court, called the president’s tweet attacking the federal district court judge James Robart "disheartening and demoralizing", his spokesman has confirmed.
Gorsuch criticized Trump in a private meeting with Senator Richard Blumenthal on Wednesday.
Gorsuch’s spokesman, Ron Bonjean, confirmed to the Guardian that the supreme court nominee called Trump’s tweet attacking Robart "disheartening and demoralizing".
Trump right or wrong, we don't need this brand of loyalty. Send the bugger on down the road and bring up the next candidate.
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How about issuing a NO COMMENT based on the potential likelihood of having to render a future high court decision ?
Must he one day recuse himself from decision making due to previous comments about the administration? If so, what then will we have gained from his participation on the court ?
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Gorsuch already said he's issued finding he disliked because they followed the law. He can separate the law from his personal views, unlike the Progs. Remember the source - Blumenthal.
Any body of government that sits for life and is 'de facto' above accountability is an aristocracy. That is fundamentally counter to a republic. An 'independent' judiciary is an aristocracy. Checks and balances means you get checked and called out every now and then. I don't care how you feel. Maybe you need to make an assessment that you should be running for office rather than sitting on the bench if you want to exercise some forms of power. That is the overall problem that needs to be addressed. Term limits for everyone.
There are numerous qualities sought for a SC justice - loyalty to the Executive ain't one of them. President Trump would be wise to blow off the comments and stick with his original nomination.
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There are numerous qualities sought for a SC justice - loyalty to the Executive ain't one of them. President Trump would be wise to blow off the comments and stick with his original nomination. Posted by DepotGuy
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He is a good judge. He rules according to what the law says. No making shit up on the fly like the libtards.
I don't care if he is loyal or not to teh Donald as long as he does his fucking job.
He is also going to be grilled over Trump's tweets about judges during his conformation as well and not agreeing with them, but stating Trump is well within his rights to do so (Heck, even Lincoln scolded a supreme court judge during his inauguration speech)should keep the senators from going squishy and not voting for him.
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I think what he said might be a prearranged ploy to dampen not a few of the Dems' belief in the rhetoric being spewed by the Kirsten Gillibrand crowd.
Insert the 'he's not that bad' meme into a few minds and voila.
You gets 60.
Folks at this level usually don't do/say anything without some deeper purpose.
If that isn't the case, and he was stating unfiltered real-time emotion, then he's not the player I had hoped for.
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That and his actual private meeting with Blumenthal, who he knew would divulge everything he said, complete with the liberal spin.
Jeez I hope I'm correct.
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If that isn't the case, and he was stating unfiltered real-time emotion, then he's not the player I had hoped for.
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Ditto! We already have enough activist bloviation coming from the odious Ginsberg.
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Bad judgement, judge. Robart deserved to be attacked. He was clearly way in the heck out of line. He should be impeached for making political decisions.
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There is a fairly easy way for judges to avoid being criticized...namely apply the law in plain English the way it is written...
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Small town gossip survival...
If the story begins,
So and so said so and so said...
#17
Maybe the needle is stuck, but my angular velocity sensor is reading SPIN. Yeah, Gorsuch likely said the words 'disheartening and demoralizing'. But I'd like to see the exact quote, not some unreliable hearsay version from someone who stands to gain from the misrepresentation.
I, too, find it disheartening and demoralizing that a federal judge would 'interpret' what seems to this non-lawyer to be a simple and clear statute. It may be my personal confirmation bias, but it seems Robart has done this for spiteful and petty purposes.
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Matt House, a spokesman for Schumer, expressed continued skepticism about Gorsuch’s remarks. “Given the president’s comments, that’s a very milquetoast response,” House said. “Anyone can be disheartened, but the judge has refused to condemn the comments privately or publicly.”
If Chucky's not cheering, it can't be all bad.
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I'm with SteveS #17 on this. This was a private conversation and as far as anyone know,
Gorsuch just said that Trumps comment was disheartening and demoralizing. I don't see any criticism. I'll bet that Gorsuch will never speak 'off the record' again. Welcome to the world of polices Gorsuch!
Blumenthal is also a known liar, he made statements implying that he served in Vietnam when in fact he never did, his entire combat experience is apparently fighting with toddlers during a "toys for tots" drive.
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No, Nero White, this is what Blumenthal is trying to do, since they cannot delay/refuse to appoint Gorsuch, he's trying to force him to withdraw.
This is called "politics" and they'll do any dirty tricks to get their ways.
Best thing to do is ignore Blumenthal and let Gorsuch take his seat. Hopefully, Gorsuch learned from this and will be careful what he says from now on.
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Nero White. you're playing right into the Dems hands. Try removing your emotions from this and think it through. Yes I said 'hopefully', because I don't know Gorsuch personally, but I do know he's an intelligent person and he can figure this out.
I have had something like this done to me, i said something in private and discovered later that the other person took my statement and twisted it out of shape. As a result, I can understand Gorsuch position and can only sympathize with Gorsuch. On the bright side, this will come back to haunt the Dems in later years. Justices tend to have long memories.
...a known wolf, the former Decarus Lowell Thomas, having given up crime and drugs, kept busy planning the attack and supplying guns for the attack on the Draw Mohammed contest in Garland, TX, also attempting to seduce several neighbourhood yoots to radical Islam while running an insurance scam to fund ISIS and researching explosives and travel to the new caliphate...
to 30 years in prison for conspiracy to support ISIS in Garland, Texas shooting attack.
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Firing squads are being considered in Mississippi as capital punishment.
[AnNahar] The EU warned Wednesday that it will consider punishing member states next month if they fail to share the burden of asylum seekers stranded in Greece and Italy. European Commission vice president Frans Timmermans criticized the bloc for having so far admitted only 12,000 of the 160,000 Syrian and other refugees required to be relocated from Greece and Italy to other EU countries by September this year.
He said Brussels still hoped "peer pressure" would convince recalcitrant countries, but that it would consider penalties if there had been no progress by the time its next report on the issue comes out in March.
EU countries can be hit with large financial penalties by the commission, the executive arm of the 28-nation bloc, if they break the union's rules.
Timmermans added that it was "highly unfair" to leave overstretched Greece and Italy to try to persuade other countries, particularly Eastern European states where there is resistance to Muslim immigration.
[AlAhram] German authorities searched homes and other properties in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia and Britain on Wednesday to gather evidence about two suspects believed to have supported the Islamist group "Jabhat al-Nusra," the chief federal prosecutor's office said.
"The two suspects are believed to have supported the foreign terrorist group JAN for several years," the office said in a statement.
They allegedly collected donations for the Islamist group and supplied ambulances, medical equipment and medication through groups called "Medicine with Heart" and "Medicine without Borders," it said. There was no mention of any specific attack preparations in the case.
[AlAhram] German police on Tuesday arrested a Syrian man on suspicion of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) militant group and of raping a woman as she attempted to flee an IS-held area in Syria with her children, officials said. The 31-year-old suspect, named as Akram A., was detained in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomeria, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Prosecutors allege that he manned a checkpoint in Syria that sought to prevent citizens from escaping IS-controlled territory. In early 2016, he stopped a woman who was trying to flee with her children, they said.
"Under the pretext of obtaining the necessary 'exit permit', the accused lured her to a house and raped her," prosecutors said in the statement.
[Ynet] Spain's Interior Ministry says two Moroccan who are accused of indoctrination in Islamist extremism and recruiting others have been detained in Barcelona. The ministry said in a statement that the men, aged 25 and 27, allegedly raised money through drug trafficking and theft to support the Islamic State group. Agents of Spain's Guardia Civil police were searching the men's apartment on Tuesday morning in Badalona, a city next to Barcelona, for further evidence.
[Ynet] Hungary plans to detain migrants while their asylum requests are assessed, a ruling party lawmaker said on Wednesday, a proposal that human rights campaigners said could be illegal. The plan will be part of the spring legislative agenda of the Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose popular hardline stance on immigration may help him retain power at an election early next year.
Under the plan, migrants whose asylum applications are not immediately rejected would no longer be allowed to move freely while their requests are processed, Fidesz parliamentary group leader Lajos Kosa told a news conference.
Cologne Police Apologise after Suggesting Migrants Stay Away from Carnival
7 Feb 2017
Police in northern Germany have been forced to apologise after a draft email suggesting migrants should be kept away from carnival celebrations was leaked to migrant organisations, prompting accusations of racism.
Angela Merkel Rules Out Migrant Cap
7 Feb 2017
As pressure mounts on German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of this year’s election, the chancellor has flat out refused to place a limit on the number of asylum seekers coming into the country.
German Regions Refuse To Deport Afghan Migrants
7 Feb 2017
Despite the German federal government’s plan to deport thousands of failed Afghan asylum seekers, German regions are not cooperating and claim Afghanistan has become far too dangerous.
Migrant Protesters Confront Greek Minister
6 Feb 2017
Greek and refugee protesters have confronted the country’s migration minister at the entrance of a sprawling migrant camp in the south of Athens, trying to stop him from entering the site.
Italian Rescuers Pick Up 1,500 Migrants in Mediterranean in Two Days
6 Feb 2017
Some 1,500 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean this weekend, an unusually high number for winter when crossings tend to slow because of difficult sea conditions, the Italian coastguard said Sunday.
Islamic State Paying Migrants’ Smuggling Fees if They Join Jihad
5 Feb 2017
Islamic State (IS) has targeted hundreds of ‘refugees’ and migrants heading towards Europe, calling on them to wage Jihad on the West and offering to their pay people smugglers if they join.
Police Officer: Almost All Serious Crime Committed By Migrants
5 Feb 2017
Migrants are to blame for the vast majority of serious crime in Sweden causing the police force to become overloaded, a detective has said. In an exasperated rant in Swedish on Facebook the officer, Peter Springare, conceded it was not
Cyprus Official Says 700 Migrants Could Land in Next Week
5 Feb 2017
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Up to 700 migrants could arrive on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus next week on smuggling trips from Turkey, a top Cypriot official said Saturday, hours after 93 migrants landed in the dark on the island’s northwestern shore.
Berlin Senate To Investigate Why Migrant Crime Stats So High
5 Feb 2017
The Berlin Senate has launched a formal inquiry as to why migrants are disproportionally mentioned in the city’s police crime reports in comparison to Germans. Berlin police say that migrants are more and more frequently recorded in their crime statistics
Father of Paris Louvre ‘Allahu Akbar’ Attacker: My Son Is Not Radicalised
4 Feb 2017
CAIRO (AFP) – The father of an Egyptian suspected of being the machete attacker in Paris’s Louvre museum said Saturday his son showed no sign of radicalisation and he believed in his innocence. Reda El-Hamahmy, a retired police general, told AFP he
Sweden To Ban Gender-Segregated Classrooms
4 Feb 2017
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s education minister wants to ban gender-segregated classes after last year’s public outcry after a Muslim school was allowed to separate boys and girls for gym classes. Gustav Fridolin says “if there are problems by having
‘Anti-Migrant’ Gun Shop Shut Down, Database of Customers Handed to Cops
3 Feb 2017
An anti-migrant website called “Migrant Fear” has been shut down and its customers investigated by German authorities for purchasing pistols and rifles that fire rubber bullets.
Historian: European Civil War Within 30 Years
3 Feb 2017
Belgian historian David Engels claims a civil war in the next 20 years is inevitable as he sees parallels between Europe and the fall of the Roman Republic.
[PJ] At least two House IT staffers are reportedly under active criminal investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police for stealing equipment and data and remain employed Tuesday, amid mounting questions regarding how they were able to pass their background checks.
On Saturday, The Daily Caller reported that three brothers -- Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan -- were "abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission." However, some are still working because, according to a report in Politico Monday, the brothers are "shared employees" -- employees hired by multiple offices which use them as needed for IT services. Each office would need to fire them, and "multiple Democrat lawmakers" have not yet terminated the employment of each staffer.
The three brothers were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives last Thursday, according to the Daily Caller.
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To give you another example of why the House operates differently:
According to a congressional source on the Hill, the House passed a rule last year requiring all employees with access to IT to pass background checks in order to flag potential problems such as the credit and legal issues... FBI background checks were applied to all IT employees retroactively. The only way around a background check would have been if a "hiring authority" in a congressional office had signed a waiver attesting to the "trustworthiness and judgment" of the privileged user.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Syrian Red Islamic Thingy said on its Twitter account four volunteers were maimed, one critically, by shellfire as they distributed aid in Aleppo Wednesday.
The International Committee of the Red Thingy said in a separate tweet three people were killed and seven injured, including Red Islamic Thingy staff, in the Hamdaniya district of the northern city.
Syrian state media earlier reported at least two people had been killed by rebel shelling of the area.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Belgium's terror monitoring centre has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s about the spread of Saudi- and Gulf-backed fundamentalist Islam in the country's mosques, according to an official report published in local media Wednesday.
The OCAM national crisis centre said the austere Sunni doctrine of Wahhabism preached in an increasing number of Belgian mosques was getting financial support from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the Gulf states, according to the report quoted in Phlegmish-language daily De Standaard.
Belgium has been on high alert since three jacket wallahs attacked Zaventem Airport and the Brussels metro system in March 2016, killing 32 people.
"We believe that a growing number of mosques and Islamic centres in Belgium, like the rest of Europe, are under the influence of Wahhabism, the Salafist missionary apparatus," the centre said.
"We also note that the imams of these mosques are regularly being 'salafised' or are already 'salafised'," it added.
Saudi Arabia is the cradle of Wahhabism, which has been accused of inspiring holy warrior ideologies across the Moslem world.
The Belgian official report said Saudi authorities had set up a "generous" bursary scheme for Moslem students from other countries.
"They are strongly encouraged to become imams in their Belgian mosques or be active in proselytising in Belgium or more widely in French-speaking or Dutch-speaking areas," it said, as cited by De Standaard daily.
"The Saudi authorities and the Wahhabist establishment have clearly settled on this method to reinforce the influence of the doctrine and practice of Wahhabism in Moslem communities in Europe," it said.
Belgium has a long-running problem with radicalisation, producing what officials say is the highest number of jihadists going to fight in Syria and Iraq in proportion to its population of any EU country.
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Iranian forces in a fast-attack boat had their guns pointed right at a U.S. destroyer as it sped directly towards the ship, in a dangerous encounter in January, a U.S. Navy captain said.
Fearing collision, U.S. Navy Cmdr. Marc Davis was eventually forced to fire three warning shots from the ship’s .50 caliber guns, he said in a recent one-on-one interview with Breitbart News, where he shared new details about the incident.
The contact began early Sunday morning on January 8 when one of four Iranian boats harassing the Mahan began speeding straight towards the destroyer and its 330 sailors onboard, forcing a series of attempts to get it to stop.
"On that day, we were transiting into the Arabian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz," Davis recalled, referring to the narrow waterway, which is in international waters, but which Iran considers its territory.
The interaction with the Iranian vessels started very late the night before on Saturday, and occurred all evening and early morning. There were six interactions -- all what he would deem in Navy terms "safe and professional."
He said, "it was finally sunrise, so it was early in the morning the following day" when the last interaction occurred.
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Hopefully, our new chain of command will not allow threats within range of the .50 cals. I'm ok with engaging as soon as the Fire Controlman determines the CIWS or the 5" deck gun can reach them.
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...The fact that the Mahan's skipper was doing this brief is a sign - under the Obama Administration, some 07 at the Pentagon would be giving a 'summary', but this time we heard it from the man on the scene.
Blow the lead boat into fish chum, and then tell the Iranians that anything even remotely resembling a military response anywhere on the planet will be met with overwhelming force.
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A few bursts from a duel 50 or one hit from a 20mm is all that is needed against a speed boat.
[CBSNEWS] Nigerian soldiers on Tuesday disarmed two jacket wallahs who were strapped with explosives killing one and saving the others life. Police said they were believed to be prepared by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... turbans to attack the northeastern city of Maiduguri.
After being ordered to halt by two soldiers who were on guard duty, the two females whom witnesses believe to be as young as 18 years old continued to move towards a gas station. Soldiers then shot and killed one of the women, while the second then surrendered.
Both were wearing explosive jackets but were disarmed by the soldiers according to police front man Victor Isuku.
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[Ynet] Greek police say two more Turkish families have illegally entered the country across a border river and plan to request asylum, claiming they face persecution in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.....
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[DAWN] The return of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , perhaps, the most notorious Afghan warlord, may significantly influence power dynamics in war-torn Afghanistan, initiating a new alignment of political forces and provoking old rivalries. Once declared a ’global terrorist’, the myrmidon leader was pardoned by the Afghan government as part of a peace deal formalised last September. The UN last week lifted the sanctions on him paving the way for his return to public life.
You liked him as Captain Apollo in the original series, you'll love him as the heavy Tom Zarek in the reboot series.
RIP, Tom Zarek
Tributes are being paid to actor Richard Hatch, who has died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 71.
He was the only actor to appear in both the original series of Battlestar Galactica and its more recent reboot.
Hatch played Captain Apollo in the original sci-fi series and a different character - Tom Zarek - in the reboot from 2004 to 2009.
Star Trek actor George Takei wrote on Twitter: "Rest with the galactic stars, Richard Hatch."
Ronald D Moore, who created the rebooted version of Battlestar Galactica, described Hatch as "a good man, a gracious man, and a consummate professional".
"His passing is a heavy blow to the entire BSG family," Moore added.
Hatch's son Paul confirmed his father's death in a message posted on the actor's website: "He died peacefully with his family and friends at his side after a battle with pancreatic cancer."
They should keep their kommanders on the front line where they'll be safer.
The guy was a popular, charismatic and swaggering tank troops commander
According to Donetsk news agency, the commander of "Somalia" division Mikhail Tolstoy killed in Donetsk.
"Today, 06.12 MSK in the terrorist act killed the hero of the DNI, the commander of the battalion" Somalia ", Colonel Mikhail Tolstoy, known as "Givi", "This is a continuation of the terrorist war launched by the Kiev authorities against the residents of Donbas investigation team is working at Ground Zero.." - said the representative of the defense Ministry.
A source close to the authorities of the DNI, said Givi was killed in an explosion at the base unit in the vicinity of Donetsk. The explosion at the headquarters of "Somalia" has started a large fire in the explosion Givi was in his office.
[IsraelTimes] The Shin Bet security service said Wednesday that it had uncovered a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... operation to transfer cash from the Gazoo Strip to operatives in the West Bank.
The Gazoo-based terror organizations would send debit cards loaded with funds, either via the mail or smuggled by couriers through the Erez Crossing from Gazoo into Israel.
West Bank members then withdrew the money from ATMs for use to fund terror attacks, the Shin Bet said.
Two suspects from Gazoo and the West Bank were detained by Israeli security forces for questioning during November and December, according to a Shin Bet statement.
Gazoo City resident Salim Tutah, 26, received a permit to enter Israel to work as a tractor driver for a Paleostinian contractor doing projects for the american government aid agency USAID in the West Bank.
Tutah confessed during interrogation to handing over a debit card loaded with thousands of shekels designated for the Islamic Jihad group. He had received the card from Hamas operatives on the Paleostinian side of the Erez Crossing.
Ismail Huamda, 26, a Hamas member from the village of al-Samu near Hebron, received another debit card through a courier and was ordered to withdraw funds, the agency said.
The Shin Bet said this was another example of the terror group "cynically exploiting" the fact that Israel allows thousands of Gazoo residents to enter Israel for humanitarian needs.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Syrian government and rebel groups swapped dozens of women prisoners and hostages, some of them with their children, in Hama province Tuesday evening, pro-opposition activists said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based opposition-aligned group, said government representatives and rebel officials exchanged 112 women in the rebel-held Qalaat al-Madiq town in rural Hama. Many were tossed into the calaboose for years.
About half were released from government prisons and then taken to opposition-held areas, the Observatory said.
In return, the others were set free by various rebel groups and shuttled to government-controlled areas along the coast.
Such exchanges were rare in the nearly six-year-old war, but had been occuring more often in recent months, the Observatory said.
The war pits Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... 's government, backed by Russia and Iran, against an array of mostly Sunni rebel groups, including some backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , the United States and Gulf monarchies.
The conflict has killed hundreds of thousands of people, made more than half of Syrian homeless and created the world's worst refugee crisis.
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"Last night, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders squared off in a public debate on the future of Obamacare.
Only problem? It was hosted by CNN ‐ and supporters of President Donald Trump on social media claim they found evidence the network rigged the debate... again!
"Cruz, a Texas Republican and Affordable Care Act opponent, wants to lower health care costs by increasing competition in the health insurance industry. Sanders, a Vermont independent and one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, wants a government-run, single-payer system to compete with insurance companies to lower costs," the Boston Herald reported on the showdown.
But accusations have surfaced that the intellectual square-off wasn’t on neutral ground, as was promised.
Conservative viewers claim they found proof CNN was planting audience questions.
Eagle-eyed internet users on the president’s Reddit discussion forum caught a glimpse of a strange email one woman was seen holding. The following picture quickly spread --
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Against Cruz, it doesn't matter. He laid waste to them. That said, nuke the CNN HQ in Atlanta. It's the only way to be sure.
[IsraelTimes] Iran has reportedly test-fired another missile on Wednesday, just days after a series of warnings from the Trump administration that it was "on notice" for previous ballistic missile tests and that a military response to such actions was under consideration.
According to a Fox News report, a US official said the test on Wednesday was of a short-range surface-to-air missile, called Mersad, which impacted 56-kilometer (35 miles) away.
The test came on the same day US officials told Rooters that the White House was considering a proposal that could lead to naming Iran’s most powerful military and political institution, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, as a terrorist organization.
The proposal is reportedly one of many being weighed as part of an overall Iran policy review, amid a tougher line on Tehran since the Trump administration came into office.
On Friday, Washington slapped sanctions on more than two dozen people and companies from the Persian Gulf to China, in response to Iran test-firing late last month a 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, as well as a home-made cruise missile with the same capabilities, acts which prompted an emergency UN Security Council session and an Israeli demand by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reimpose sanctions.
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I keep saying... launch the fircking "Rods from God". I am sure a Falcon Heavy could loft quite a few dispensers. If that requires muzzling the EPA and FAA do it.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak authorities have claimed the security forces tossed in the clink Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! four ISIS loyalists as they were receiving treatment in a hospital in 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. city.
The officials have said the arrested ISIS loyalists were handed over to the Afghan authorities.
A local official in Pakistain’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province Niaz Muhammad has said the turbans had crossed to Pakistain after they were maimed during the festivities with the security forces in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The suspected turbans were identified as Javed Khan, Niamtullah, Safiullah and Taaliman, according to the local newspaper, Dawn.
The report further added that All the turbans belonged to Afghanistan’s Nangarhar district and had illegally crossed into Pakistain.
"Pakistain will never let its soil be used against Afghanistan and today’s move is a gesture toward peaceful Afghanistan," he said.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Wednesday took three villages from ISIS north of Raqqa city, spokeswoman told Zaman al-Wasl.
Jihan Ahmed, spokeswoman of the operation room of Euphrates Wrath said that their forces at the axis of Makman have reached to the village of Abo Wahel, 26 km to the North-Eastern of Raqqa, mentioning that festivities were still ongoing till the time of the announcement.
The spokeswoman added in her statement to Zaman al-Wasl that SDF has controlled villages of al-Wash, Abo Hussein and Ghazal, beside controlling to hills, 11 km away from northern of Raqqa, beside besieging the village of Mlihan, northern-East of Raqqa.
Ahmed confirmed that US-led alliance warplanes are actively participating and cooperating with them in the operation , as the Arclight airstrikes have the most important effect in the battle against 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.... .
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[OMANTRIBUNE] French police have tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a dozen people in a fourth straight night of confrontation with youths in suburbs, north of Gay Paree, with tension sparked by accusations of police violence spreading to new areas, a police representative said.
Yves Lefebvre told franceinfo public radio that about 10 vehicles were torched as young people hurled petrol bombs in standoffs with law-enforcement officers in a region north of the capital where more serious rioting drew world-wide attention in 2005.
"There were further violent showdowns overnight," Lefebvre said.
While much more limited than 12 years ago, the unrest served as a reminder of the simmering tension in neighbourhoods with higher than average unemployment and large immigrant populations.
La Belle Franceinfo said a bus driver was treated for minor injuries after his vehicle was hit by a petrol bomb.
"Sadly these neighbourhoods have been turned into ghettos," Lefebvre of the SGP police union said, saying police were not sufficiently trained or equipped to deal with life in the gritty high-rise housing sprawls in the region ringing Gay Paree.
The trouble began in Aulnay-sous-Bois several days ago after four coppers were suspended pending an inquiry into accusations they had used excessive force while arresting a 22-year-old man there.
One of the coppers involved in the man’s arrest on February 2 has been placed under formal investigation for suspected rape and three others for unnecessary violence.
President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... visited the victim on Tuesday at the Aulnay hospital where he is being treated for injuries.
Lefebvre said the skirmishes on Tuesday night were mainly in towns around Aulnay-sous-Bois, which itself was relatively calm.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Belgian police detained 11 people after a series of raids across Brussels overnight as part of an investigation into possible returning fighters from Syria.
The federal prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday that police had carried out searches at nine addresses in various districts of the Belgian capital and one district outside. No weapons are explosives were found.
A judge will determine later on Wednesday whether those detained would have to remain in jug.
Prosecutors said the case was not related to its investigations into the Gay Paree attacks of November 2015 and the Brussels bombings in March 2016.
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[DAWN] YOU might think that being a press officer of the murderous MoslemIslamic 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 at the moment would be a distinctly demoralising experience. The days of rapid territorial advances winning shocked headlines around the globe are over. And with the Iraqi and Syrian government forces advancing in both djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and northern Syria, there is from IS’s point of view, lots of bad news. But the jihadists who fight by the keyboard rather than the sword might see things rather differently. Because, even if they are on the back foot in key battlegrounds, each week brings news from all over the world that they can disseminate.
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Lone wolf attacks that "may or may not have been inspired by IS"
I would have thought we would have won that point in late 2001.
Instead, roughly half of our country has consistently demonstrated that they have been so thoroughly indoctrinated that allegiance to our country first and foremost is no longer something they believe in.
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I would have thought we would have won that point in late 2001.
If you can believe that there are no psychological differences between men and women, or what 20 point IQ differences don't matter - you can believe in anything.
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The saudi bought influence and educated islamist intellectuals made alliance with the left and have successfully controlled the universities and media using our own pressure points of "muh religious freedom" and "multicultural respect"
The politicians have bought into this.
The enemy is academia and the media
The enemy is collecting false statistics of islamofauxbia and is hiding and censoring islamist attacks (melbourne car attack, louvre knife attack) by reporting only the nationality of the attacker and deleting the part where witnesses say they heard him yell "allahu akhbar" and that it was a jihad attack
[An Nahar] British MPs overwhelmingly backed a bill on Wednesday empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to start negotiations on leaving the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , bringing Brexit a significant step closer.
Members of the House of Commons voted by 494 votes to 122 for a law enabling May to trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, which begins two years of talks on pulling out of the 28-nation bloc.
The unamended two-clause bill now moves to the House of Lords, where there may be more opposition from unelected peers -- and where May's Conservative party does not have a majority.
But its passage through the Commons, where two-thirds of MPs had campaigned against Brexit ahead of the June referendum, puts May on course to begin the withdrawal process by the end of March, as she has vowed.
"This, elementally, is a straightforward bill which serves only to give the prime minister the power to trigger Article 50 and thereby respect the result of the referendum," said Brexit minister David Jones.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) An army officer and a lower rank soldier were killed on Wednesday when a roadside bomb exploded on a highway wast of Anbar, according to a security source.
The explosive device exploded when an army patrol was passing on a highway west of Ramadi, a security source in the province told Alsumaria News.
Islamic State has stepped attacks across Iraq coinciding with defeats it has been sustaining in Mosul, its largest stronghold in Iraq of which Iraqi government troops have recaptured a half since October.
The group has maintained smaller strongholds in western Anbar towns since 2014, but no official campaign has been declared yet by the government to drive militants out of those regions as the Iraqi government invests most of its military effort in Mosul. Anbar’s security command, backed by tribal troops, launched early January a brief onslaught against the Islamic State in western Anbar, and managed retake a few villages before halting again.
Iraqi and U.S-led coalition air forces regularly carry out airstrikes targeting IS hideouts in western Anbar, killing several militants and destroying defensive facilities belonging to the extremist group.
On Tuesday, a roadside bomb planted at al-Sakkar region, west of the province, killed two army personnel.
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Have they looked in Avignon?
[An Nahar] Italian police were on the hunt Monday for the authors of anti-pope posters which have been slapped around Rome, amid suspicions the campaign may be linked to an arch-conservative wing of the Catholic Church.
Dozens of the illegal fliers appeared mysteriously around the Italian capital Saturday picturing a stern-looking Pope Francis, a list of accusations against him, and the words "Where's your mercy?" -- turning the pontiff's call for a more merciful church back on him.
Police were trawling through security camera footage to track down the culprits as Rome city council said it had pulled down 200 posters while those remaining had been covered up.
No group took credit for the stunt, but Vatican watchers said the fact the main complaint referred to the "decapitation" of the Knights of Malta made it likely they came from conservative quarters.
The posters appeared on the same day that Francis appointed his own special delegate to the ancient aristocratic order, after stepping in to stop the firing of its Grand Chancellor, in a move that left traditionalists spitting.
The move publicly sidelined prominent U.S. conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke, who has been outspoken in his disapproval of Francis' efforts to reform Church teaching on questions related to the family, marriage and divorce.
"Ah Francis, you've taken over congregations, removed priests, decapitated the Order of Malta and the Franciscans of the Immaculate, ignored Cardinals... but where's your mercy?" it reads.
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Four persons were killed and three others were injured in a terrorist attack with rocket shells on Daraa city in the southern province of Daraa.
SANA reporter in the province said the terrorist organizations fired a number of rocket shells on al-Manshiyeh neighborhood in Daraa al-Balad, claiming the lives of 4 persons and injuring 3 others and causing material damage to citizens’ houses and properties.
Meanwhile, two persons were killed in a terrorist rocket attack on al-Hamdaniyeh neighborhood in Aleppo city.
A source at Aleppo Police Command told SANA that terrorist groups targeted citizens’ houses in al-Hamdaniyeh neighborhood with a number of rocket shells.
The source added that due to the attack, two persons were killed, 14 others were injured and significant material damage was caused to the locals’ properties.
Later, the source said that 5 children were killed when a mine of those left behind byterrorist organizations in Bustan al-Qassr in Aleppo went off.
In Sweida, two people were killed by terrorist’s gunfire in Ku’a Hadar area in the northern countryside of Sweida province.
A source in the province told SANA that a terrorist group opened fire on a passing car on the road between Shahba and al-Liwa in Ku’a Hadar area, killing two people who were inside it.
ADEN, Yemen: Thirty-two combatants were killed Wednesday in the battle for a key coastal town in western Yemen between government forces and Shiite Houthi insurgents, officials said.
The deaths occurred as forces loyal to President Abedrabbo Masnour Hadi advanced into neighborhoods of Mokha and Houthis retreated to northern and western parts of the town, military sources said.
Loyalists backed by the firepower of a Saudi-led Arab coalition entered the strategic port town in late January as part of their efforts to drive the rebels away from the Red Sea coast.
The clashes on Wednesday left dead 24 Houthi insurgents, including 12 whose bodies were taken a hospital in Mokha, medical officials said.
The other 12 were rebels whose remains were found by advancing troops and later buried in Mokha, a loyalist military official said.
Eight soldiers were killed, military and medical officials said.
Mokha was Yemen’s main port serving as its export hub for coffee until it was overtaken by Aden and Hodeida in the 19th century.
Forces supporting Hadi, backed by the coalition, began a major offensive on January 7 to recapture the coastline overlooking the strategic Bab Al-Mandab Strait.
More than 400 combatants have been killed since government forces launched their drive up the Red Sea coastline.
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by a lawyer challenging detention of Jamatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... Justice Erum Sajjad Gull heard the petition of Advocate Sarfraz Hussain as objection case and upheld an objection put by the registrar office on its maintainability. The office had stated that the petitioner had not furnished the impugned notification of Saeed’s detention.
During the hearing, Advocate A.K Dogar appeared before the court and stated that a separate petition would be filed soon on behalf of Hafiz Saeed challenging his detention.
Advocate Hussain had contended that Hafiz Saeed was detained in the light of the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... ’ resolution of 2008. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... he said, the resolution of the UN Security Council passed in 1948 for holding a plebiscite in India-held Kashmire had not been implemented so far.
The lawyer stated that the JuD chief were tossed into the calaboose for keeping the Kashmire issue alive and the move was liable to be declared void as there was no nexus with anti-terrorism laws, which had been manoeuvered by the government to curtail the liberty of a Pak citizen at the behest of a foreign mission.
He asked the court to get the JuD chief recovered from the illegal and improper detention and set him at liberty in the interest of justice.
The government had placed Hafiz Saeed and four other members of his organization under house arrest last week for a period of three months.
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Syrian Army and Armed Forces units, in cooperation with supporting forces and covered by the Air Force, destroyed on Wednesday gatherings for ISIL terrorists in the surrounding of Deir Ezzor city.
SANA’s reporter in the province said that the army units, backed by supporting forces, engaged in fierce clashes with ISIL terrorists in the surroundings of the graveyards area at the southern outskirts of Deir Ezzor city, which resulted in achieving new advance in the area and inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorists in personnel and weaponry.
The reporter added that the Air Force targeted with concentrated strikes the movements, vehicles, and gatherings of ISIL terrorists in the intersection of al-Tharda area south of the airport, destroying many of their vehicles, a mortar launcher, and a heavy machinegun.
The reporter also said that airstrikes were carried out against ISIL positions and movements in the areas of factories, al-Makabbat, Seriet Jnied, and the Electricity company south of Deir Ezzor city, inflicting heavy losses upon the terrorists.
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Army units carried an expanded operation against positions for ISIL terrorists in the eastern countryside of Homs, killing 12 of them.
SANA reporter said an army unit achieved new advance in hunting down ISIS terrorists on the southern axis of al-Bayarat area to the west of Palmyra city, killing and injuring many of the terrorists.
The reporter confirmed that a gathering of vehicles and terrorists’ equipment in air raids on their dens and movements in the area.
Another air raid was carried out on an ISIL position in Palmyra city, leaving 12 terrorists dead and three vehicles destroyed.
In the northern countryside of Homs, the source said the Syrian Air Force carried out a sortie on movements and sites of al-Nusra Front terrorists in Deir Foul and Izz Eddin, destroying a vehicle equipped with machine gun and killing a number of terrorists.
The reporter added that the terrorists Khaled Abdul Rahman al-Shami, Manhal al-Rajab, Abbas al-Rais, Abdul Rahman al-Shahoud and Ibrahim al-Jazzar were identified among the dead.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Florida man pleaded no contest and was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison for setting fire last year to the mosque where Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen ... the Afghan-"American" who decided he was a soldier of the Caliphate and shot fifty unarmed people to death in a Florida gay bar he used to frequent... once worshipped, court officials said.
Joseph Schreiber, 32, caused more than $100,000 in damage to the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, which he set ablaze on Sept. 11, 2016, the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, authorities said.
The crime also coincided with the Moslem holy day of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice.
No one was hurt, but the fire forced the congregation to relocate prayer services as it seeks a new home.
Schreiber told police after his arrest in September that his attack on the mosque had nothing to do with Mateen, Assistant State Attorney Steve Gosnell said in an interview on Monday.
A lawyer for Schreiber could not be immediately reached after Monday’s court hearing in St. Lucie County.
The mosque was close to the apartment Mateen shared with his wife before he killed 49 people and maimed dozens more at a gay nightclub in Orlando last June, the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
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If they keep letting the leftards keep getting away scot free with rioting, this guy then deserves a full pardon.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A local leader of the Taliban group was killed along with his fighters during an operation in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... province.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the local Taliban leader Rahim Gul was killed with his two fighters in Surobi district.
The hard boyz were killed during a joint military operation which was conducted in the past 24 hours, MoD added.
According to the Ministry of Defense, at least eight hard boyz were killed during a separate operation in Garamser district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... A heavy machine and vehicle used by the hard boyz were also destroyed during the operation, MoD said, adding that the operations were conducted with the support of the artillery unit of the Afghan army and the Afghan Air Force.
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"None of this 'Leading from beh...." (ind for me)
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A statement issued by the first lawful judge in Damascus encouraging second marriage to lessen the war losses and to reduce spinsterhood has sparked anger amid regime supporters on Tuesday.
Judge Mahmoud Marawi told state-run Tishreen Newspaper that second marriage is one of the proposed solutions to spinsterhood phenomenon and that war led to increase in female numbers rating 65% in relation to males.
Marawi talked about Syrian personal status and Sharia system facilitating second marriage and now, the judge is not required to check economic means to run two households.
Pro-regime activists who condemned the judge statement, said the support should be for the first family to overcome difficult living conditions before any talk about two families."
The activists have also demanded the wealthy endowment ministry and traders to support Syrian families instead of such calls.
Some men who liked the proposition of second marriage launched a campaign called "Together in support of the legislative judge". On the other hand, some women reacted with complaints and called for supporting families who lost their sons instead of proposing meaningless ideas.
Marawi confirmed that the proposition will be well-received by people, but he saw that second and third marriage will be facilitated by judiciary since it is the best solution to the spinsterhood.
A woman responded to the judge saying, "you can go marry Mr.judge". The responses come after the spread of undeclared marriage and brothels in some provinces especially the ones controlled by regime militias and what is left of regime army under threat and accusation of treason. In some cases, women accepted emergency marriages fearing rape which was committed by these forces against women and populations.
It is noted that it is not the first time that Marawi’s statement spark controversy especially in relation to the women whose husbands were killed and some statements regarding adultery and civil marriage.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Democrat Chris Kennedy, 53, has said he will run for Illinois governor in 2018
Kennedy sent an email and video to his supporters to announce his running
He brings name recognition as son of Senator Robert Kennedy and nephew of former President John F Kennedy
Announced he is running because Illinois is heading 'in the wrong direction'
And with the election of Chris Kennedy, Illinois will be rocketing in the wrong direction. Yeah. We need more Kennedys in govt. And more dynasties, too.
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As an Illinoisian I am just plain tired of being "saved" by people whose worst experience in life was a late limo driver. YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS BEFORE YOU DECLARE AN ANSWER. Kennedy has no concept of what the problems in Illinois are and their root causes. Maybe the Donks should run Bruno from Danville instead. Oh that's right he voted for Rauner and Trump instead.
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As a member of a neighboring state, let me just say I welcome all crackheads and gang members fleeing to more profitable ground.
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because of Union extorted pensions, cities and counties and various agencies in Illinois are all headed for bankruptcy (although perhaps not the State itself)
Electing a leftist for gov will simply accelerate this situation
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A 29-year-old Egyptian tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... after a machete attack at the Louvre in Gay Paree last week has said he acted on his own and was not under orders from ISIS, a source close to the probe said Wednesday.
Police have confirmed him as Abdallah El-Hamahmy, a sales manager resident in Dubai, who has denied being guided by the murderous Moslem group during interrogations.
He said that he "acted on his own will" and planned only to damage artworks as a symbolic assault on La Belle France, the source said, asking not to be named.
Although his backpack contained spray paint which could have been used to deface artwork, Sherlocks believe he appears to have "a certain sympathy for the ideas of IS," the source said, referring to ISIS using a different acronym.
In Friday’s attack at the world’s busiest museum, Hamahmy was shot after lunging at four soldiers with machetes in the underground ticketing area while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest).
Hamahmy, who is recovering in hospital, is likely be charged once medical staff say he is well enough to appear before a judge.
The son of a retired policeman entered La Belle France legally on January 26 on a flight from Dubai and was staying in an apartment rented by the week in an expensive Gay Paree district near the Champs-Elysees, sources say.
Investigators are examining a Twitter account thought to his which sent out a dozen messages in Arabic between 9:27 am and 9:34 am, just minutes before the attack.
"In the name of Allah... for our brothers in Syria and fighters across the world," one said.
Another post asked: "Why are they afraid of the creation of a state for Islam? Because the state of Islam defends its resources and the honor of Moslems."
Hamahmy’s father Reda El-Hamahmy, a retired police officer, had previously given media interviews ‐ including with Al Arabiya ‐ saying his son was innocent.
But speaking in Cairo he told AFP that his son had shown no sign of having been radicalized.
He said the family was relatively well off, with Abdallah earning a law degree in the Nile delta city of Mansoura in 2010 before moving to Dubai to become a sales manager.
The father said the suspect’s wife was pregnant with the couple’s second child and was currently 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... The Louvre assault revived fears of violence in La Belle France, which suffered a string of attacks that killed 238 people between January 2015 and July 2016.
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[Iraq Sun] Terrorists 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.... of Iraq and the Levant in the western part of Iraq's second-largest city face two options: surrender or die, the front man for Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve told Pentagon news hounds today. An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Fighting Swordsmen of Strike Fighter Squadron 32 makes an tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf, Aug. 27, 2016. Ike and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard Eisenhower Deployment An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Fighting Swordsmen of Strike Fighter Squadron 32 makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Persian Gulf, Aug. 27, 2016. Ike and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard Download Image Image details page
"The enemy is completely surrounded in West djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , and those who do not surrender to the Iraqi security forces will be killed there," Air Force Col. John Dorrian said in a news briefing from Baghdad.
As Iraqi security forces prepare to liberate West Mosul, coalition strikes are pounding ISIS targets, including bully boyz and their weapons caches and ISIS command-and-control sites, Dorrian said.
With eastern Mosul liberated, the 16th Iraqi Army Division is serving as a "hold force" there to maintain pressure on any remaining ISIS sleeper cells and prevent the bully boyz from infiltrating the city again, the colonel explained. VIDEO | 01:00 | Inherent Resolve Spokesman Provides West Mosul Update
Terrorists are targeting eastern Mosul with indirect fire, mortars and artillery fires, Dorrian said, causing damage and civilian casualties. They are also using commercially available drones to observe and drop explosives on Iraqi security force and civilian positions, he added.
"Although dangerous and effective as a propaganda tactic, this has limited operational effect on the battlefield and will not change the outcome or significantly delay the inevitable," he said.
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Yea, but they can reasonably expect "surrender AND die".
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"Does this burqa make me look fat?"
Wow! Sing of the burka that launches
A thousand one dhows with its haunches!
This tentmaker's dummy's
Caboose was so Rumi,
Its princes all pulled in their paunches.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants have burned a number of civilians to death for collaborating with security forces, while executing members for escaping the city, a military source said Wednesday.
DPA quoted Col. Khaled al-Jawari as saying that the group burned 20 civilians to death over charges of providing information about the group to security forces via cell phones. The execution was carried out before a watching crowd in Wadi Hajar, south of Mosul, according to the military officer.
Meanwhile, the agency also quoted locals in Mosul’s western region as saying that Islamic State executed seven of its fighters after they attempted to flee one of its secret camps in the region.
Since it occupied large areas of Iraq in 2014, Islamic State has posted videos of heinous executions of civilians, security personnel, and foreign workers over multiple charges. Some of the executions were even carried out by little children.
Since encounters with Iraqi security forces began in mid October, there have been several reports about the group executing members for fleeing battlefields and civilians for collaboration with police and army troops.
Iraqi government forces recaptured eastern Mosul on January 24th after three months of battles, and are preparing to invade the western region to consummate the liberation of Mosul which fell in IS grip in 2014.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants in western Mosul have begun to give out children medicines to paint a picture of a stable life, but local sources say the drugs turned out to be expired.
A local source told Alsumaria news said IS-run clinics have begun to distribute children medicines as part of a media campaign run by the extremist group to give an impression of stability while the group braces for a major offensive by government forces.
But the group is actually handing out the medicines “though knowing they are expired,” according to the source.
Islamic State is still in control over most of western Mosul, where 750.000 civilians have been trapped under the extremist group’s bloody reign for more than two years.
Mid October, Iraqi government forces, backed by international coalition troops led by the United States, launched a major offensive to retake Mosul, IS’s largest base in Iraq. Operations since then have managed to retake the eastern section of the city, and the government says it is close to giving a green light to its troops to invade the west.
The U.S. Department of Defense said Tuesday the group has become effectively stuck in western Mosul, with no choice other than fighting to death.
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[LibyaHerald] This afternoon clashes erupted in Abu Sleem and Salahedeen districts in Tripoli between the Abu Sleem Central Security Force belonging to Abdul Ghani Al-Kikli (a.k.a. Ghneiwa) and gunmen loyal to Salah Al-Burki, most of them from Misrata. Reports tonight indicate tanks and heavy mortar are being used. There was shooting in Ain Zara and Tajoura.
Residents in Abu Sleem are staying at home and the streets are empty.
“The shooting hasn’t stopped since the early afternoon. We don’t dare go out to see what’s happening,” a local resident told the Libya Herald.
He added he had heard the Burki unit had destroyed a Ghneiwa position in retaliation for a similar action by it.
Both the Ghneiwa and Burki militias have fought each other in the past. The former are linked to the Presidency Council. Those of Birki support Khalifa Ghwell, the former “prime minister” of the so-called national salvation government.
The reason for the clashes are not immediately clear, although on its Facebook page belonging to the Ghneiwa forces it said it was dealing with an armed gang that had stolen nine cars in the area.
The militia also posted a couple of days ago the apparent confessions of two men accused of kidnapping and robbery and said to belong to the “Libyan National Guards”.
The latter unit also supports Khalifa Ghwell.
It has been using the Rixos complex and the forest surrounding as its headquarters. Eyewitnesses report the increasing spread of checkpoints the Rixos area. As part of a military building in the area, the Misratan Marsa brigade announced today the arrival of 300 armoured vehicles to Tripoli, belonging to LNG.
Meanwhile, Ghwell chaired a meeting this morning at the General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) to follow up on the general power cuts that have crippled Libya in the past month. It was reported foreign representatives attended.
In contrast, calm returned to Janzour as schools reopened following a two-day hiatus. Representatives from the ministry of education visited two of them today to check on their situation and inspect examination procedures.
Intense fighting erupted six days ago in the area and continued despite a ceasefire being agreed between Janzour militias and the neighbouring Wirshefana, mediated by local elders.
However, further complicating the situation, social media images today appeared to show Ghwell greeting fighters at Bridge 17 in Janzour, where the fighting initially erupted. It is also claimed he visited the checkpoint at Camp 27, further west. It is in Wirshefana territory.
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Nineveh/ Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said Wednesday they killed 20 Islamic State militants in western Mosul, while two of its fighters were killed hours earlier in an attack by the extremist group in Salahuddin.
The force’s media service said in a statement it killed 20 Islamic State militants, including four wearing explosive belts, after a failed attack by the militants on al-Hajaf, in the town of Tal Abta, west of Mosul. It said three vehicles used by IS were destroyed in the encounters.
Al-Hashd launched recently a new phase of operations against IS around the group’s strategic stronghold town of Tal Afar.
Also on Wednesday, DPA reported that two PMU fighters were killed and five others were wounded in attacks by IS late Tuesday at al-Dour, Salahuddin province. It quoted a security source saying that combat reinforcements forced the militants back to their launching point at Mutaibija region, 30 km east of Samarra, after fierce battles.
The source said the attack at al-Dour began with an explosion of a booby-trapped car driven by an IS suicide bomber before a mortar shell landed on a residential compound in the area. The situation prompted a brief curfew at al-Dour, said the source.
Al-Hashd al-Shaabi, an alliance of dozens of Shia militias, which won government recognition as a national force, has been actively fighting Islamic State since its formation in 2014. It made remarkable victories in western Mosul late 2016 when it recaptured major Islamic State bastions near Tal Afar.
Late January, PMUs launched an operation to clear roads linking Mosul with Salahuddin and Baghdad.
Since its inception, al-Hashd grappled with accusations by international human rights groups and Sunni powers of committing abuses against Sunni civilians. The Iraqi government has eagerly defended the force against the claims.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) A security source in Salahuddin revealed that army forces killed a suicide bomber, after trying to attack the headquarters of the army’s 9th brigade, north of the province, Alsumaria News reported on Wednesday.
The source said, “A member of the Islamic State group, wearing a suicide vest, was trying to storm into the headquarters of the army’s 9th brigade in al-Daur District, north of Salahuddin Province.”
“The army forces shot the suicide bomber before reaching the headquarters, killing him and detonating the explosive vest,” the source added on condition of anonymity.
“The attack did not result in any casualties among the army ranks,” the source further explained.
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[GEO.TV] Fake exorcism led to the death of a woman in Dera Ghazi Khan on Wednesday.
Nazar Hussain, a resident of Sajjadabad took his wife Suriya Begum to Naurangabad for spiritual healing, where two fake pirs identified as, Amaanullah and Abdul Hameed, told him that his wife requires exorcism.
The exorcism was conducted by tying Suriya Begum to a tree, beating her with sticks, then tying her upside-down and throwing smoke at her. According to the husband, he tried to stop the exorcism after watching his wife screaming in agony, but both the fake pirs didn't lend ear to his request.
Suriya Begum was brought to Teaching hospital at death's door, but doctors pronounced her dead on arrival. According to police, case will be lodged after the body undergoes post-mortem, and the suspects will be locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! immediately.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, a US-educated former prime minister, was sworn in as Somalia’s new president on Wednesday after politicians gave him an unassailable lead in the second round of an election in Mogadishu’s secure airport compound.
Celebratory gunfire erupted across the city at his victory. Outgoing President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud conceded defeat as it became clear he could not win a third round.
"This is a victory for Somalia and the Somalis," Farmajo told politicians who had gathered in a hall behind the airport’s blast walls to vote. He was sworn in moments earlier.
Ynet adds that not only was the new president educated in America, but he holds dual Somali and American citizenships.
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[Ynet] Iron Dome intercepts 3 rockets from the Egyptian peninsula, 1 falls in open area; IDF retaliates for mortar fire in north by attacking Syrian military post in Quneitra.
Four rockets were fired at the southern city of Eilat on Wednesday night from the Sinai Peninsula, with three intercepted by the Iron Dome missile-defense system and fourth falling in an open area. Earlier in the evening, an errant mortar shell from Syria fell inside Israel, with the IDF attacking a Syrian army post in retaliation.
At 10:54pm, a Code Red rocket alert was sounded in the city, followed by a second siren a minute later.
Israel's air defense system, the Iron Dome, successfully intercepted three of the rockets that were fired from the Egyptian territory, where ISIS-affiliated terrorist fight against the regime. The fourth rocket landed in an open area, causing no damage.
Fragments from the intercepted rockets were discovered in a swimming pool in the city.
The last time rockets were fired at Eilat was during Operation Protective Edge, in July 2014. At the time, two rockets managed to strike at the center of the city, one of them near a hotel.
Syrian war spillover in north
Earlier in the evening, a mortar shell fired from a tank in Syria went kaboom! in open territory in the Golan Heights along Israel's northern border. The IDF attacked a Syrian army post in retaliation.
The IDF believes the shell was not intentionally fired at Israel, but was rather spillover from the fighting near the border between the Syrian army and rebels trying to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... A Syrian official told Lebanese TV network Al Mayadeen that "the Israeli attack was done using a helicopter that launched a missile from Israeli territory towards structures in Madinat al-Baath in Quneitra."
He said the army post that was targeted was facing posts of the al-Qaeda affiliated terror group Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... . No injuries were reported.
[GEO.TV] A taxi driver who has been incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for a minimum of 32 years for murdering two men in Bradford is the first person to have been extradited from Pakistain in more than a decade, prosecutors have said.
Mohammed Zubair, 36, was given a life sentence at Bradford Crown Court on Wednesday for the murders of Ahmedin Khyel and Imran Khan in May 2011.
A jury heard how Zubair lured Mr Khyel, 35, and his friend Mr Khan, 27, to his family home in Heath Terrace, Bradford, after discovering Mr Khyel had been having an affair with his wife.
There they were set upon by Zubair, his friend Sabir Hussain, and possibly one other person, leaving the two men with fatal head injuries.
Zubair then drove his taxi to a quiet and secluded country lane near the village of Tong, where he "dumped" the bodies, the jury was told.
He then fled to Pakistain but, after a long legal battle, he was finally returned to the UK in May 2015 to face trial.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it was the first extradition to the UK from Pakistain since 2005.
Prosecutors said the "ferocious" and "brutal" attack on the two men happened after Zubair found that his wife, Kainaat Bibi, had been having an affair with Afghan electrician Mr Khyel, who lived in the East Ham area of London with his wife and seven children.
The court heard that Mrs Bibi visited Mr Khyel in London during a temporary separation from her husband, and he would visit her in Bradford at their family home while Zubair was out.
Both men suffered fractures to their skulls that drove bone fragments into their brains and resulted in parts of the brain being pushed out of their skulls, the court heard.
Prosecutors said Mr Khyel suffered at least six blows to the head, some after he had been knocked out, and his friend tried to defend himself "while the blows were raining down on him".
The jury was told that a "distinctive" pattern on some of the injuries was similar to that found on a dumb bell bar recovered from Zubair's home.
Detective Superintendent Simon Atkinson, said: "I would firstly like to thank the Pak authorities, who have played a crucial role in this investigation by arresting Zubair and ensuring his extradition back to the UK to face justice.
"His victims were brutally murdered and I hope their families will finally have some comfort knowing that their killer is now facing a life sentence.
"Zubair fled the country shortly after he had killed his victims in the belief that he would also escape justice for these horrendous crimes.
"I hope this case sends out a message that West Yorkshire Police will use all available methods to bring dangerous men like Zubair to justice, wherever in the world they might be."
In 2012, Sabir Hussain was found guilty of manslaughter and Zubair's mother, Arab Sultana, pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.
She had booked and paid for the flights to Pakistain for her son, knowing that he was wanted by the police, the CPS said.
Zubair's then wife, Mrs Bibi, admitted lying to the police and making a false witness statement.
All three were sentenced at Bradford Crown Court in 2012.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl general secretary Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri ...Central Secretary General of JUI-F, member of the Pak senate, formerly provincial minister of Balochistan. He has a master's degree in Islam and runs a madrassah... has said that the federal government is targeting religious seminaries under the garb of National Action Plan (NAP).
Talking to media persons at the 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. Press Club on Tuesday, he warned that no one would be allowed to use NAP as a tool against the religious institutions in the country. He claimed that NAP was not being implemented in its true sense rather it was misused.
Maulana Haideri, who is also deputy chairman of the Senate, said that his party had also supported NAP and establishment of military courts in the larger national interest, but they could not remain silent if anything was done wrong. He alleged that NAP was used as a tool against madressahs and for the arrest of religious scholars under the fourth schedule.
The religious seminaries, he said, were the places of Islamic teaching which had nothing to do with terrorism. He said that such policies would create unrest in the country and its entire responsibility would rest with the government.
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[GEO.TV] LONDON/KARACHI: The man who was nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! from PIA flight PK757, after it was diverted to Stansted Airport in London on Tuesday over security concerns, has been identified as Khalid Baqa, Geo News has learnt.
A Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) plane flying to Heathrow airport was forced to land at London's Stansted Airport on Tuesday evening over security threats. Reports surfaced that a suspect was taken into custody by the British authorities and shifted to a cop shoppe.
Stansted airport front man had said: "The aircraft is likely to continue its journey onwards to Heathrow today pending inquiries that the police are making into the individual on the aircraft."
The UK Ministry of Defence said that Typhoon jets had intercepted the aircraft, which had been en route to London´s Heathrow Airport, and escorted it to Stansted.
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the identity of the suspect has now been confirmed as Khalid Baqa, who was apprehended along with his accomplices in 2012 on charges of terrorism.
In 2013, Baqa was sentenced to two years in prison in the UK. He was charged with having over 300 CDs in his possession, which had holy warrior material.
The CDs seized from him had sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... and beheading scenes. Apart from that, the disks had bomb-making procedures, will of one of the convicts of London blasts and his confessional statement. The CDs also had recorded scenes of the 9/11 attacks.
British police said the plane was diverted over a bomb threat.
The PIA, however, said the response by British authorities was excessive.
Bright Pebbles submitted an article from the Standard on the same story, which it reported very differently:
A man from London who was arrested after a passenger flight was escorted by RAF fighter jets to Stansted Airport has been charged with fraud.
The Ministry of Defence deployed two Typhoon fighter jets to intercept the Pakistan International Airlines flight on Tuesday afternoon after an anonymous phone call sparked a major security alert.
The plane was making its way from Lahore to Heathrow.
Police said Khalid Baqa, of Priory Road, Barking, was due to be arrested on arrival at Heathrow but was instead detained at Stansted.
The 52-year-old, a UK national, has been charged with committing fraud by false representation and has been bailed to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on February 23.
It is not believed he had any involvement in the cause of the diversion.
The plane was accompanied by Typhoons to the Essex airport, with photos posted on Twitter showing several fire engines and a number of ambulances waiting on the ground.
An airline spokesman said UK authorities had "received some vague security threat through an anonymous phone call".
Passenger Naz Amin said the flight landed "in the middle of nowhere" and was quickly surrounded by police.
He told LBC Radio: "I realised it was surrounded by police and the police came on the plane about 45 minutes to an hour later and they took a gentleman off the plane.
"He wasn't being disruptive at all, he was just sitting down... there was no-one being disruptive on the plane."
Essex Police said the incident is "not believed to be a hijack situation or terror matter".
Stansted is a designated airport for dealing with hijacks and major security alerts. Incidents are dealt with in a remote part of the airfield to the north west of the terminal building.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least six employees of the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) were rubbed out in northern Afghanistan.
According to the preliminary reports, the ICRC employees were rubbed out by the loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.
A local government official in Jawzjan confirmed that the ICRC workers were executed in Qoshtapa district.
The official speaking on the condition of anonymity further added that two other ICRC workers were kidnapped and there are no reports regarding their fate.
"Six staff members of the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) have been shot and killed in Afghanistan. Two staff members are unaccounted for," a statement by ICRC said.
The statement further added that the team, composed of three drivers and five field officers, was on its way to deliver much-needed livestock materials in an area south of the town of Shibergan in Jawzan province and their convoy was attacked by unknown gunnies.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is putting its aid activities across Afghanistan "on hold" following the killing of six Afghan staff, a senior ICRC official said on Wednesday.
Islamic State gunmen were suspected of killing at least six Afghan employees of the ICRC on Wednesday as they carried supplies to areas in the north of the country hit by deadly snow storms, government officials said.
Dominik Stillhart, ICRC director of operations worldwide, told Reuters Television in Geneva: "As we speak our operations are on hold indeed, because we need to understand what exactly happened before we can hopefully resume our operations."
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"As we speak our operations are on hold indeed, because we need to understand what exactly happened before we can hopefully resume our operations."
[AlAhram] Egyptian border guards have tossed in the clink ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... over the past 20 days 418 people of different nationalities who were attempting to illegally cross into Libya, the Egyptian Armed Forces announced in a statement on Wednesday.
The statement added the border jumpers were arrested at the border city of Salloum.
Despite a warning by the Egyptian government against travel to Libya, the country is still frequently used as a transit point for migrants colonists from Egypt and other nations seeking to cross the Mediterranean for Europe.
The Armed Forces statement also said that border guards arrested 15 people of different nationalities who were attempting to enter Egypt through its southern border with Sudan.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army generals and media services said Wednesday forces killed 26 Islamic State militants in separate locations in Mosul, while bringing down drones guided by the extremist group.
Col. Adel al-Jubouri, from the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, told Bas News that security forces shot down three Islamic State-guided drones that were heading to bomb civilians in the districts of al-Zohour, al-Masaref, al-Seddiq and al-Sukkar north of Mosul. Government forces had recaptured those districts from IS as part of operations between mid October and January 24th that drove extremists out of eastern Mosul.
In a separate encounter, Jubouri said, troops killed five Islamic State militants who attempted to sneak into Rashidya neighborhood, north of Mosul.
Meanwhile, the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said 21 other militants were killed in an army airstrike in Umm al-Zanabir, south of western Mosul’s strategic city of Tal Afar. Three 4WD vehicles belonging to the group were also destroyed in the strike, according to the media service.
Iraqi forces are awaiting top commanders orders to invade Islamic State strongholds in western Mosul.
The United Nations, American and Iraqi military officials have recently reiterated that Islamic State’s days in Iraq were numbered, given the group’s continuous finance and personnel losses over the past months.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A Counter-Terrorism Officer announced on Wednesday, that violent clashes erupted between security forces and the Islamic State’s militants, during a raid in eastern Mosul.
Colonel Khodier Saleh said in a press statement, “Violent clashes erupted between the Islamic State’s militants and security forces that carried out an extensive search operation in al- Darkazlia area, in eastern the city of Mosul.”
“The clashes resulted in the killing of 16 members of the Islamic State, mostly from foreign nationalities, as well as arresting 17 others, including two suicide bombers,” Saleh added.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Four Islamic State militants were killed on Wednesday when military jets bombed a small boat they were boarding off the western bank of Tigris River in Mosul, Alsumaria News quoted a local source as saying.
Over the past two weeks, Islamic State militants have reportedly made several attempts to cross the river, which bisects the city, to wage attacks against security troops which became in full control over the eastern side since January 24th. Security officials have said they foiled those attacks and killed several militants. The group had lost more than 3000 of its fighters since security operations to retake Mosul launched in October.
The Iraqi government has yet to give directives to the security leaderships to carry on with a ground invasion of Islamic State strongholds in the west. Iraqi and U.S. generals predict more difficult battles there due to the existence of 750.000 civilians in mostly narrow residential areas. Iraqi and international coalition jets have recently bombed militants locations in western Mosul preparing for the next phase of operations.
The conflict in Mosul has forced at least 191.000 civilians to seek shelter at refugee camps, and the United Nations had predicted turmoil to force at least one million people out of home.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) On Wednesday a security source in Nineveh Province declared that a person was killed, while 19 others were wounded by a drone attack carried out by the Islamic State on the liberated areas in the city of Mosul.
The source said, “The Islamic State group’s drones dropped bombs on Jazair neighborhood, east of Mosul, killing a civilian and wounded six others, including five volunteers.”
“The Islamic State also bombed al-Arabi neighborhood and Sayediti al-Jamila area in Mosul, wounding 13 persons, including six members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi.”
In January 25th 2017, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced liberating the eastern side of Mosul from the Islamic State completely.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group grabbed credit for the deadly attack in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... targeting the Supreme Court of Afghanistan.
The loyalists of the terror group operating under the name of Khurasan province, issued a statement earlier this evening, claiming the attack was carried out by the group.
The statement was released in Arabic language along with a picture purportedly showing the jacket wallah who detonated his explosives near the court entrance gate.
According to the Afghan public health officials, at least 21 people were killed and 41 others were maimed in the attack.
The attack was widely condemned in Afghanistan as well as abroad.
"This attack appears to have deliberately targeted civilian judicial staff as they were leaving the office for the day," said Tadamichi Yamamoto, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA. "This attack is nothing short of an atrocity. Those responsible for planning and carrying out this horrendous act must be brought to justice."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian rebel forces supported by Turkish armed forces have seized control of strategically important hills around the ISIS-controlled town of al-Bab, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s military said on Wednesday.
It said in a statement that 58 ISIS snuffies were killed in air strikes, artillery fire and festivities. Two Turkish soldiers had been killed and 15 slightly maimed.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the operations had made important progress and the next target would be the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of ISIS.
The battle for al-Bab has raised the prospect of confrontation between the Turkish military and the Syrian army, which has pushed to within a few kilometres of the city’s southern outskirts.
A Syrian rebel official and a monitoring organization said the advancing forces had captured the western outskirts of al-Bab, some 30 km (20 miles) south of the Turkish border.
"With last night’s assault, ISIS’s defences have been broken through and the advance is now continuing," said the official, speaking from the Turkish city of Gaziantep. Turkish military reinforcements had been sent to the area about a week
ago, the rebel added.
Al-Bab has been a major target of a Turkish offensive launched in northern Syria last August to drive ISIS away from the border and prevent further gains by US-backed Kurdish militia that are also fighting the holy warriorgroup.
Syrian government forces and allied militia have mounted their own rapid advance towards al-Bab in the last few weeks. The city was encircled earlier this week when Syrian government forces cut the last way into the city. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based organization that reports on the war, said the Turkish forces and their Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... rebel allies had captured a hill on the western periphery of the city.
"We don’t know if ISIS (ISIS) will be able to recover it, or if it is in a state of collapse," Observatory Director Rami Abdulrahman said.
In a video sent by the rebel official, three Syrian rebel fighters with the Sultan Murad faction said they were speaking from inside al-Bab. It was not possible to confirm the authenticity of the footage.
"I am in Bab now but not at the centre. We are on the outskirts. Thank God, we have reached this place," said one of the rebels. Blasts were heard in the background.
The Observatory said at least six people had been killed and 12 more maimed in the latest shelling of al-Bab.
Turkish presidency sources said on Wednesday President Tayyip Erdogan and 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... agreed in a phone call overnight to act jointly against ISIS in al-Bab and Raqqa, another Syrian city held by ISIS.
The White House said in a statement that Trump spoke about the two countries’ "shared commitment to combating terrorism in all its forms" and welcomed Turkey’s contributions to the fight against ISIS, but it gave no further details.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Syrian regime on Wednesday has fired 6 Surface-to-surface missiles on al-Waer neighborhood of Homs city, killing 8 civilians, including a child and woman, local activists said.
The missile attack has also left 25 people maimed in the last rebel stronghold in the central city.
Civil Defense volunteer group that tracks regime violations in the northern countryside of Homs said 27 people, including 8 children and 6 women, had been killed in January.
Regime warplanes conducted 56 and the Russian warplanes conducted 12 raids.
In the next door province of Hams, regime’s vacuum missiles killed three people on Tuesday, activists said as regime and rebels swapped dozens of women prisoners and hostages, some of them with their children.
The missile attack targeted the villages of al-Jaberiya, Aydoun and Senjar Farms.
Also, the aerial bombing on Kafr Zeita made the main hospital out of service as most equipment and medical stuff were destroyed, Free Health Directorate in Hama said.
In return, rebel have hit pro-regime villages with mortar rounds and heavy machine guns.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemeni national forces and popular resistance have captured the city of al-Mokha from the hands of Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militiamen, the Arab coalition leadership 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... confirmed.
With the intensive support of coalition fighters and Apache helicopters, Yemeni resistance forces managed to seize control of most of the city’s neighborhoods. The national army and resistance are still fighting remnants of the Houthi militias and President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... ’s forces, that withdrew to the outskirts of the city from the northern and western fronts.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... Arab Coalition military ships and Apache helicopters bombed the regions of Taif, Nakhila and Zabid in the southern city of Hodeida on the Yemeni west coast.
Aircrafts also launched raids on militia sites near the port of Mokha and Khaled camp in the east. According to a military source, intermittent festivities took place in the vicinity of Mokha.
Arab Coalition aircrafts similarly targeted militia sites in Hodeidah, near the south of Hajjah governorate. Military sources reported the death of 26 Houthis, including field commander Mohammed Mahdi al-Barti following battles in the Yemeni highlands overlooking the eastern side of Saada province.
According to the leadership of Taiz, the National Army and popular resistance repelled Houthi and Saleh militias’ attack that targeted the south-eastern city of Taiz, killing two soldiers and injuring others during the festivities. Popular resistance sources have announced that the militia artillery pounded houses in Dhabab, Khamseen and Rabihi areas in the western side of Taiz.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Theresa May slammed the disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner for hounding Iraq veterans today and promised to crack down on others who chase after former soldiers.
She said it was 'absolutely appalling' that the likes of Mr Shiner, who was struck off last week, could 'make a business out of chasing after our brave troops'.
And the PM promised to reduce the number of cases being pursued by the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (Ihat), which has been heavily criticised for leading a 'witch-hunt' and is estimated to have cost £36.3million to date.
It was set up in 2010 to probe claims of abuse of civilians following the 2003 invasion.
Professor Shiner made his name suing the Government at taxpayers' expense but last week a disciplinary tribunal found he acted dishonestly in bringing murder claims against British troops.
Today the PM was pressed by Tory MP Johnny Mercer, who is leading a parliamentary inquiry into Ihat, to 'get a grip' on the process, which led to many more claims than the Government expected, 'so that never again will our servicemen and women be exposed to the likes of Phil Shiner'.
Mrs May responded: 'In relation to Ihat, we are committed to reducing its case load to a small number of credible cases as quickly as possible.
’I recognise that the action that has been taken in relation to the individual that he has referred to.
I think it is absolutely appalling when people try to make a business out of chasing after our brave troops.'
Earlier this week MailOnline revealed that the disgraced lawyer was part of a group of conspiracy theorists that plotted legal action even before the Iraq War started.
Professor Shiner, 60, was a member of the ’Legal Inquiry Steering Group (LISG)’, which was set up in August 2002 to plan court cases and threaten the Government. British troops went into action in March 2003.
A damning report by MPs into Ihat set to be published next week is expected to call for the £60million probe to be scrapped immediately.
Mr Mercer said he believed a 'rotten core' of civil servants had warped the purpose of the process.
The report is set to blame the Ministry of Defence for creating a system that allowed Professor Shiner to bring criminal cases against former soldiers on an 'industrial scale'.
The MoD has said it is obliged to investigate criminal allegations and the existence of Ihat keeps British soldiers from being hauled through international courts.
The Defence Sub-Committee's report on the support given to former and serving personnel who face legal proceedings is due to be published on February 15.
Since its launch there have been 3,392 cases lodged with Ihat, two thirds of which were brought by Shiner and his firm, Public Interest Lawyers (PIL).
The allegations against British military personnel have ranged from low-level mistreatment of civilians to claims of torture and murder.
Mr Shiner was finally struck off last week after a string of misconduct charges against him, including five of dishonesty, were found proven following a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal hearing.
There have been calls for the lawyer to face criminal prosecution and the National Crime Agency is said to be reviewing evidence from the Legal Aid Authority.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] More than 1,000 Pak people applied for Indian citizenship in 2016 according to India’s Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju.
"More than 12,800 applications for long term visa and more than 1,200 applications for grant of citizenship to Pak minorities have been received across the country," the minister said on Wednesday.
Under the Indian Passport and Foreigners Act, Hindus and Sikhs from Bangladesh and Pakistain who have entered India on the basis of religious persecution on or before December 31 were allowed to stay in the country.
According to Rijiju, a number of Pak Hindus and Sikhs who entered India on pilgrimage visas have not returned to Pakistain on the grounds of religious persecution.
The minister added that all citizenship applications have been delegated to the district magistrates at the seven states were the applications were made.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Breitbart] Online journalist Matt Drudge of the Drudge Report criticized Republicans on Twitter for their sluggish momentum in Washington D.C., suggesting that they be "sued for fraud" after promising immediate action on repealing Obamacare and important tax policy. 
[Guardian] Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s nominee to the supreme court, called the president’s tweet attacking the federal district court judge James Robart "disheartening and demoralizing", his spokesman has confirmed.
[Ynet] The US has sentenced 
[PJ] At least two House IT staffers are reportedly under active criminal investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police for stealing equipment and data and remain employed Tuesday, amid mounting questions regarding how they were able to pass their background checks.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Theresa May slammed the disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner for hounding Iraq veterans today and promised to crack down on others who chase after former soldiers. 
