Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won't prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. In the end, researchers say, the only way to save the world's coral from heat-induced bleaching is with a war on global warming. I was in the Bahamas last year and a lot of those islands looked like old coral reefs - when the ocean was 150' deeper.
Across the world, scores of brilliantly colored coral reefs once teeming with life have in recent years become desolate, white graveyards. Their deaths due to coral bleaching have grown more frequent as ocean temperatures rise, mainly due to increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. So remind me again - what caused the global warming 56 and 58 million years ago? Preserving coral reefs is crucial, given we depend on them for everything from food to medical research to protection from damaging coastal storms. Scientists and policymakers have thus been scrambling to find ways to prevent bleaching. Last year, for example, Hawaiian officials proposed several measures they hoped would fight bleaching on the state's reefs, such as limiting fishing, establishing new marine protected areas and controlling polluted runoff from land. Shirley, there must be other tax-funded ways to control nature?
Ultimately, the study concluded, saving reefs from the ravages of bleaching requires urgent action to reduce global warming.
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It's actually quite easy to rebuild bleached coral reefs -- marine biologists have been doing it off Belize for over a decade, and no doubt elsewhere as well. Link
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Across the world, scores of brilliantly colored coral reefs once teeming with life have in recent years become desolate, white graveyards
"GAH! White privilege even kills coral reefs! When will it stopppp :-( "
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#5 Across the world, scores of brilliantly colored coral reefs once teeming with life have in recent years become desolate, white graveyards
Fishing with explosives tends to do that.
Agricultural runoff is the main problem with the Great Barrier Reef. The Ningaloo Reef (the longest continous coral reef in the world) on my side of Australia has no bleaching, as there is no agriculture on the adjacent land. A lot of feral sheep and goats though.
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As I understand it "coral" is naturally white, and is incapable of making (or extracting) its own food. The color comes from external organisms that "colonize" it, and which can make their own food - mostly by photosynthesis. The coral is parasitic, and draws nutrients from the colonizing organisms. But - the organisms pose some hazard to the coral, if they "get out of control". If the environment gets TOO friendly to the organisms, they flourish to the point where the coral "loses control" - and the coral the EXPELS the organisms to protect itself, This expulsion does not kill the coral - nor do local environmental conditions - but without resident organisms, the coral slowly starves to death.
So - coral likes depleted conditions, which are just barely bountiful enough for resident organisms to barely survive - in weakened state - so that the coral can exploit them. When local conditions IMPROVE sufficiently to make the organisms strong and comfortable, they overpower the coral, and the coral is forced to kick them out This does not "bleach" the coral - it just results in the coral returning to its natural color, sans "external" inhabitants.
[CNN] Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has warned Syria that Israel would destroy its aerial defense system if Syria fired an anti-aircraft missile at Israeli aircraft again.
Speaking on Israel public radio Sunday morning, Liberman said, "The next time the Syrians use their air defense systems against our airplanes, we will destroy all of them without thinking twice."
His threat comes after Syria fired anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli military jets overnight Friday.
The Syrian military said the jets struck a military site near Palmyra, while Israel says they targeted a weapons shipment to Iran-backed Hezbollah. Syria claims their missiles downed one Israeli jet and hit another, which Israel rejected as "absolutely untrue."
"Our central problem, and this above and beyond all of the other issues, is the transfer of advanced weapons from Syria to Lebanon," Liberman said.
"Every time we identify a transfer like this, we will work to prevent the transfer of game-changing weapons. On this issue there will not be any compromise."
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"The next time the Syrians use their air defense systems against our airplanes, we will destroy all of them without thinking twice."
RoE: "Do not fire unless fired upon."
"Well, maybe a couple of times, then shoot."
I can ONLY IMAGINE the intent of the lack-of-engagement was to collect data on the Syrian fire control command stream and missile guidance telemetry, for the next run.
[Wash Times] PHOENIX (AP) -- About a dozen people protesting the U.S. Women’s Open being played at a course President Donald Trump owns left peacefully Saturday after security officials asked them to leave the front entrance of the LPGA Tour’s Bank of Hope Founders Cup.
Members of the group UltraViolet protested for less than 30 minutes before they were asked to leave the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa. UltraViolet said a plane was set to fly over the course later with a banner reading "LPGA: TAKE A MULLIGAN. DUMP SEXIST TRUMP."
The U.S. Golf Association-run U.S. Women’s Open is July 13-16 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, a few miles from the USGA’s headquarters in Far Hills.
[Breitbart] Women should be able to abort their babies simply because they are the "wrong" sex, a leading ethicist at Britain’s doctors’ union has said.
Professor Wendy Savage, a member of the ethics committee of the British Medical Association, said women should be able to have an abortion at any stage of pregnancy for whatever reason, even when the child would be able to survive outside of the womb.
She also said that abortion pills should be available online without the need to see a doctor or nurse. There has been growing concern in Britain that an increasing number of women are seeking abortions simply because they do not want girls, leading to some hospitals refusing to tell parents the sex of their babies.
However, Professor Savage told the Mail on Sunday: "Because of this sort of anxiety some places won’t tell the woman the sex of the foetus, which is outrageous.
"It’s her body and her foetus, so she should have that information... If a woman does not want to have a foetus who is one sex or the other, forcing her [to go through with the pregnancy] is not going to be good for the eventual child, and it’s not going to be good for [the mother’s] mental health."
She previously caused outrage after signing a letter claiming sex-selective abortion is not "gender discrimination" because that only applies to "living people".
She then doubled down on those views, claiming the unborn child is not really a person.
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An aptly named professor named Savage
Set about the gender balance to ravage
Said she in a tone so mild
M'dears, it's not really a child
And it's death causes us no damage.
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Old age had done Savage some damage.
"Oh, daughter, please fetch me a sandwich.
I'm frightened of falling...
Wait, who am I calling?
I had you hacked up like a cabbage."
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Gender based abortion is the reason for the wildly skewed sex ratios in China under the old One Child Policy.
Maybe instead of the traditional grow-your-own method, we could grow embryos in vats. Then, when you need a new kid, you just go down and pick one out. Like going to the pound for a puppy.
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A running joke in Houston was "What day is Cinco de Mayo on?" Since it wasn't a real holiday, the actual celebration got pushed towards the weekend.
As mentioned, margaritas, tequila and the French getting their butts kicked. What's not to like?
[DennisMichaelLynch.com] On "Fox & Friends" Wednesday morning, featured guest and CEO of Silent Partner Marketing, Kyle Reyes detailed a new method in choosing applicants for his company. He calls it the "snowflake survey."
In his interview, Reyes explained that he wants the right people with the right attitude to work for him.
This includes people who are dedicated employees, people who are not predisposed to entitlement, and people who are willing to "work for everything that they have."
To acquire such "outside the box" thinkers and workers, Reyes has designed a survey within his company’s work application to essentially weed out people who are too sensitive, or are intoxicated with ultra-liberal ideologies that do not fit his company’s intended culture and goal, which is "getting the job done, and getting it done correctly."
[Free Beacon] When a worker's after-tax income declines due to higher taxes, that person has a reduced incentive to work, a Congressional Budget Office analyst explained. Aye lads, could this fellow Shinon Mok be'on to something ?
"When workers' earnings rise but their after-tax income rises less--because of increases in their income and payroll taxes or declines in their benefits from government programs--their incentive to work typically declines," said Shannon Mok, an analyst for the budget office in the tax analysis division.
When individuals begin to earn higher salaries, they may fall into a higher tax bracket, resulting in a lower after-tax salary. The amount of tax an individual pays for an additional dollar of income is known as the marginal tax rate.
The budget office said that in 2016 low- and moderate-income workers faced a marginal tax rate of 31 percent, taking into account federal and state individual income taxes, federal payroll taxes, refundable tax credits, and the phaseout of government programs such as food stamps and subsidies for Obamacare.
"When deciding how much to work, people consider not only the higher earnings from working more hours but also the resulting difference in after-tax income--which is market income plus government transfers minus taxes," Mok says.
"Increases in marginal tax rates, on net, decrease the supply of labor by causing people already in the labor force to work less," she says.
In addition to taxes, government benefits such as food stamps can discourage work.
[WAPO] A congressional plan to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for federal funding would leave many women without services to help them avoid pregnancy, resulting in thousands of additional births, according to a new federal budget analysis.
The prediction came Monday as part of a much-awaited analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which assesses the fiscal impact of major legislative bills. It was part of a more sweeping look at a congressional health care bill that would repeal and replace the law known as Obamacare.
Who said the CBO never gets anything right ?
[Hot Air] The Free Beacon has another scoop today with a report about a Washington, D.C. cell network that has apparently been compromised in a way that would allow someone to monitor the location of phones or clone them:
A large spike in suspicious activity on a major U.S. cellular carrier has raised red flags in the Department of Homeland Security and prompted concerns that cellphones in the region are being tracked. Such activity could allow pernicious actors to clone devices and other mobile equipment used by civilians and government insiders, according to information obtained by the Free Beacon...
Cell phone information gathered by the program shows major anomalies in the D.C.-area indicating that a third-party is tracking en-masse a large number of cellphones. Such a tactic could be used to clone phones, introduce malware to facilitate spying, and track government phones being used by officials in the area.
"The attack was first seen in D.C. but was later seen on other sensors across the USA," according to one source familiar with the situation. "A sensor located close to the White House and another over near the Pentagon have been part of those that have seen this tracking."
The story goes on to say the attack on the network is ongoing. The identity of the group behind the attack is unknown but the Free Beacon notes the scale of the attack could indicate a foreign nation is involved. Buzzfeed has a follow-up report identifying the network in question as T-Mobile and offering a bit more detail on the type of attack:
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Counter Surveillance sensors or 'bug detectors' would surely be part to the Secret Service kit bag. Perhaps POTUS' (wire tap) concern stemmed from an alert from his security personnel about potential monitoring at the WH or Trump Towers. Just a thought.
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Or a genuine FBI investigation into a social network coordinating seditious behavior by government and former government employees who are trying to undermine and thwart the Trump administration.
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Or a genuine FBI investigation into a social network coordinating seditious behavior by government and former government employees who are trying to undermine and thwart the Trump administration.
Unlikely that DHS would report on an ongoing FBI investigation. It is unlikely that DHS would report it period; wouldn't that tip the perps off that the government is on to them? Aren't all cell calls recorded by the NSA? If you wanted to investigate just get a FISA warrant and cull the history.
Turkey shares Jerusalem’s concern about Iran’s regional ambitions and nuclear potential but differ when it comes to strategy, the country’s new ambassador to Israel, Kemal Okem, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
Iran’s “nuclear file is a concern for everyone,” said Okem, speaking briefly to the Post after delivering a wide ranging policy speech at Tel Aviv University that was followed by a question and answer session.
Ankara, he said, believes the best way forward is through containment not isolation.
“We have had a common border [with Iran] for hundreds of years which remains unchanged. They see us as a strategic competitor... We saw the need for engaging and containing their ambitions,” he said.
With regard to Iran in Syria, he said he sees a “little bit” of progress in that Iran had assumed some kind of responsibility, while on the topic of Russia in Syria, he said to the Israelis in the room: “Good luck, you have a new neighbor.”
The ambassador said the threat from terrorism and Islamic State can be found in Berlin and Istanbul and that Turkey is part of the international battle against extremism and ISIS. Both Muslims and Jews should be fighting this battle, he said.
“Terrorism is a global phenomenon it is always there and it won’t go away without a global fight,” which is one of the reasons, he said, Turkey must continue its cooperation with Europe.
“There are some misperceptions about Turkey’s role and policies and this should be corrected,” Okem said, explaining that his country was not shifting away form the Western World.
On the issue of Gaza, he said Turkey supported its people but not Hamas.
“We do not accept the linear analogy that is trying to be established that every one living in Gaza belongs to Hamas and is a terrorist. We do not accept this. We have to distinguish between people who are suffering and people who happen to be members of Hamas as a political party,” he said.
It is important for Turkey, he said, that it is providing financial assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza as part of its return to normalized diplomatic ties with Israel following a five-year freeze, and is thankful to Israel for the help and cooperation it has shown in helping Ankara with this mission, which includes support for an industrial park in Jenin and a hospital in Gaza.
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I thought the Caliphate of Sultan Erdogan bin bullshit was the future? Why doesn't HE step up?
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Yep, let you & him fight: and we'll chear from sidelines - whomever is loosing.
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If the Turks shade toward Israel, it is because they are very wise. Once various Jihad groups, Syria & Hezbollah exhaust themselves killing one another, they can roll them up in a mutually beneficial exercise. Iran is too far away to help and US is no longer in their corner.
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"..Iran's Regional Ambitions Must Be Contained.."
Which is one reason why Turkey has troops in Iraq even though the Iraqis say it is a violation of sovereignty.
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Which is one reason why Turkey has troops in Iraq
That and keeping an eye on the Kurds.
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Kurds also a big reason why Iran has their folks in Iraq.
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yes the Kurds are a second reason for Turkey's interest
the third reason is history - Ottoman empire occupied Iraq for three hundred years (in two separate occupations interrupted by a Mamluk occupation) and it was sometimes pretty brutal and always favored the Sunni - a fair number of Iraqis speak turkish
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The Turks are crazy but not stupid, the Mullahs are just flat crazy.
The Turks know a nuclear strike on Israel will pollute large areas of southeast Turkey with radioactive fallout...the Mullahs don't seem to give a shit if the prevailing winds blow fallout all over Jordan, Iraq and Southwestern Iran.
I guess all of those genius nuke scientists in Soddy and Iran didn't study the effects of nuclear weapons quite as thoroughly as US educated physicists.
For a given value of nice.... Here illegally, enrolled in junior high at eighteen, lots of DNA and they admitted to the deed? Find 'em guilty and castrate 'em -- and not chemically, either.
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one of the most left friendly counties in Maryland
a few weeks ago there was a public meeting to consider whether the city of Rockville should be a sanctuary city - lots of virtue signaling, lots of 'think of the children', etc.
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to consider whether the city of Rockville should be a sanctuary city
Wasn't there an announcement that sanctuary cities would lose federal funding? That kind of thing of thing strongly focusses the attention among the thoughtful...
Mere days before Gen. Michael Flynn was sacked as national security advisor, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe gathered more than a dozen of his top FBI disciples to plot how to ruin Flynn’s aspiring political career and manufacture evidence to derail President Donald Trump, according to FBI sources.
McCabe, the second highest ranking FBI official, emphatically declared at the invite-only gathering with raised voice: "Fuck Flynn and then we Fuck Trump," according to direct sources. Many of his top lieutenants applauded and cheered such rhetoric. A scattered few did not. 'A few did not'.... hence this reporting.
This was one of several such meetings held in seclusion among key FBI leaders since Trump was elected president, FBI sources confirm. At the congregation where McCabe went off the political rails and vowed to destroy Flynn and Trump, there were as many as 16 top FBI officials, inside intelligence sources said. No lower-level agents or support personnel were present.
If you are among the millions of Americans who have pondered in recent months whether the Obama-era "Deep State" intelligence apparatus and FBI are working for or against Trump, this is the first definitive proof that the country’s once-premiere law enforcement agency has gone rogue.
The non-elected Deep State hierarchy that steer the FBI have declared war on President Trump and his White House inner circle. Make no mistake.
Days after the McCabe tirade, Flynn was forced to resign. That was no coincidence. This is how secret coups waged by the top law enforcement personnel in the top law enforcement agency in any country operate. Efficiently. If the FBI wants you silenced or out of a job, you’ll be unemployed. Ask Michael Flynn and countless others.
Part of the plan hatched at that gathering was to make sure Flynn’s wiretapped conversations were leaked to the media, FBI and intelligence sources said. They were. Did the FBI leak this classified intelligence to the news media? Isn’t that a question President Trump and Congress should be posing? If nothing else, McCabe and his FBI secret council are certainly now suspects of who possibly leaked the intelligence. Seems that a number of polygraphs should be in order.
Embattled FBI Director James Comey did not attend these private meetings of his interoffice revolutionaries, sources said, though he was aware of the gatherings yet did not discourage them or McCabe’s inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric. Some FBI agents have questioned if the Anti-Trump attitude shared in the secret sit downs with the bureau’s top brass is now the official platform of the FBI. The FBI, many agents quietly agree, has proven no friend to the newly minted US president. And they are beginning to understand why.
As far as waging political coups go: So far, so good. The FBI’s secret plan to ruin Flynn worked. And fast. Flynn is long gone. Now they can focus on ruining President Trump. After all, Isn’t that the role of the FBI? Tampering with the president of the United States and his inner circle, neither of whom have broken any laws? Pre-regime change ?
It turns out, however, the FBI isn’t very good at the spy game. McCabe’s dictatorial tone ruffled a number of agents at FBI headquarters who still believe the mission of the bureau is not to wage clandestine warfare against the sitting president and his administration.
McCabe and Comey did not respond to requests for comment. Flynn could not be reached for comment.
This isn’t McCabe’s first rodeo in the cross-hairs of controversy at the FBI where he is outranked only by Comey. In fact, McCabe garnered problematic headlines during the 2016 presidential election.
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... this is the first definitive proof that the country’s once-premiere law enforcement agency has gone rogue.
...according to FBI sources...according to direct sources...FBI sources confirm...inside intelligence sources said...sources said...Some FBI agents have questioned...many agents quietly agree...a number of agents at FBI headquarters who still believe...Colleagues who have blown the whistle...
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... this is the first definitive proof that the country’s once-premiere law enforcement agency has gone rogue.
...according to FBI sources...according to direct sources...FBI sources confirm...inside intelligence sources said...sources said...Some FBI agents have questioned...many agents quietly agree...a number of agents at FBI headquarters who still believe...Colleagues who have blown the whistle...
Too many A&M, Tech, Auburn, and VMI graduates signing on. It was only a matter of time until the culture began to change.
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Obama politicized our entire Federal law enforcement organization from DOJ to FBI to ICE, you name a Federal agency with law enforcement responsibilities and Obama crammed them full of true believers and leftists.
I don't understand why Trump hasn't put this clown in handcuffs and sent him to some cozy room with iron bars and a stainless steel bucket.
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"More questions have arisen over the large donations by Clinton operative Terry McAuliffe to the State Senate campaign of the wife of of the FBI director responsible for investigating Hillary Clinton’s illicit email scandal.
Not only was it revealed that a political action group tied to the Clintons had donated $500,000 to a first-time candidate for office, but it has been found that Hillary Clinton herself headlined an event to raise money for the PAC that gave the rich donation to the candidate."
"McCabe, as it happens, is the wife of FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, the official in charge of investigating the emails found on Hillary Clinton’s private server when she was Obama’s Secretary of State."
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Depot Guy - the facts in #8 are FACTS. Your skepticism is warranted but overdone. Apologist soon?
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Depot Guy goes around "correcting" everyone else on this site daily hoping it will elevate and legitimize his ignorance. Which only reinforces his image of ignorance.
Security forces on Saturday foiled a terror bid by seizing a significant quantity of arms and explosives in Balochistan’s Kohlu district.
“The Frontier Corps (FC) and personnel of a intelligence agency conducted a raid and recovered 28 kilograms of explosives, six rockets and other weapons,” said a security official.
The official added that the compound which was raided belonged to “miscreants of an outlawed militant organisation”.
No arrest was made during the raid.
In a separate incident, FC forces and personnel of an intelligence agency arrested four suspected militants during a raid in Quetta’s Smungli area.
Security forces claimed to have recovered five SMGs, three rockets and other weapons from their possession.
And all it cost was one (1) each MiG-21 fighter jet
After a siege lasting almost eight weeks, the militants in Ganfouda’s 12 Apartment complex were finally overwhelmed this morning in an all-out assault by the Libyan National Army during which a Mig-21 crashed.
A senior military source said 31 bodies were found in the buildings while a number of women was brought out alive. It is not known how many soldiers were killed or wounded in the final stages of the battle. At least 12 LNA men are known to have died and some 30 been wounded in the course of the siege.
During the intense fighting eight militants tried to escape and were caught.
On 25 March the LNA had declared the complete capture of the Ganfouda enclave into which the Benghazi Revolutionaries’ Shoura Council (BRSC) and their IS and Ansar Al-Sharia terrorist allies had been pushed in a campaign that properly began with a long and hard fight for the Leithi district in July 2015.
Yet it quickly emerged that that surviving militants had retreated to the 12 Apartments complex which they had fortified and apparently stocked with food and ammunition.
The Mig-21 crashed on a house in Buzira after delivering the last of a series of airstrikes to hit the 12 Apartments over two months. It is not known why it came down. The pilot ejected and it is understood no one was hurt on the ground.
I wonder if this guy is looking to win the 2017 "General Dostum" award...
The head of the Libyan National Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter, has ordered all militias in Tripoli to lay down their arms or face attack from his forces. In a statement just hours after pro-Hafter demonstrators were fired on in Tripoli, he annoucned he would will liberate the capital, and attacked what he said were the criminal actions of “tyrants and terrorists” who had shattered the right to peaceful protest.
In a stirring telephone interview at 2.30am localtime with Al-Hadath Al-Libya TV channel, Hafter insisted his forces would force the gangs who had killed innocent civilians out of the capital. He accused the “oppressors” of humiliating Tripolitans and destroying state institutions. They had to leave now and hand over their weapon, he insited.
For its part, the LNA would restore peace and stability soon enough, he added, with Tripoli once again becoming “a symbol of culture” and freedom.
With the capital in turmoil, he said, the world stood by as peaceful protestors were shot at while they demanded that the militias leave. But it was proof of the importance of the LNA and its role in obliterating terrorism, he declared. That could not longer be argued about.
Turkish border guards opened fire on Syrian Kurdish civilians in Afrin district in northwestern Aleppo, killing at least one civilian, local sources reported on Saturday.
Arif Brimo, 17, was shot dead by Turkish border police in Shera area of Afrin.
“The victim was trying to cross the border with his family when the Turkish guards opened fire,” local media activist Fadwa Hamo told ARA News.
The would-be refugees had reportedly approached the Syrian-Turkish border when they were fired upon in a bid to keep them in Northern Syria–Rojava (NSR).
“Brimo’s family was trying to escape the deteriorating security conditions in the Ikdama village in Shera area. However, the 17-year old Arif was killed and at least two others were wounded by the border guards,” she reported.
According to local sources, the Turkish Army and allied Syrian rebels continued to attack Kurdish villages in Afrin district.
“Civilians in Afrin are either being killed inside their homes or at the borderline when they try to escape the Turkish-led bombardment,” human rights activist Firas Tahlo told ARA News.
Turkey has closed all its border gates with the Kurdish-populated NSR, forcing desperate civilians to seek alternative routes across the border.
Hundreds of Syrians, mostly Kurds, have been killed by the Turkish border guards over the past five years.
Reporting by: Hozan Mamo | Source: ARA News
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) A local source in Salahuddin Province informed that the Islamic State’s detachments official was killed, along with one of his aides, by an air strike, east of the province, Alsumaria News reported on Saturday.
The source said that the Islamic State’s detachments official of Mutaibija, also known as Abu al- Qaqaa, was killed, along with one of his aides, by an air strike that targeted his vehicle, east of Salahuddin.
Abu al-Qaqaa is one of the Islamic State leaders in Wilayat Salahuddin, and was based in Hawija, before moving to al-Mutaibija to handle the detachments file, the source added on condition of anonymity.
The area of Mutaibija, located on the borders between Diyala and Salahuddin, is one of the most unstable areas that includes many of the Islamic State sleeper cells.
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Definitely detached now.
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The source said that the Islamic State’s detachments official of Mutaibija, also known as Abu al-Qaqaa,
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A local source in Diyala Province revealed that five persons, including a police officer, were either killed or wounded in a bomb blast, east of the province, Alsumaria News reported on Saturday.
An improvised explosive device, planted on a roadside exploded, while a vehicle was passing in al-Dainiyah area, east of Baqubah, killing two of the vehicle’s occupants, including a police officer, and wounding three others, the source said.
Security forces rushed to the area of incident, the source added. Ambulances evacuated the bodies to the forensic medicine department, and the wounded to nearby hospitals.
The province of Diyala is frequently attacked, using explosive devices, leaving dozens of civilian casualties.
The Washington Post doesn’t want you to know that illegal aliens are receiving food stamps, or at least it doesn’t want that information in their headlines.
On Thursday, readers noticed a subtle shift in headlines under its ’Wonkblog’ column. What initially read as "Immigrants are now canceling their food stamps for fear that Trump will deport them," was quickly changed to "Immigrants are going hungry so Trump won’t deport them".
Contributing writer to the Daily Caller noticed the subtle shift. He tweeted:
Riyadh – Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces intercepted a missile that was launched by Houthis militia rebels, targeting Jizan city, Command of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition to back legitimate and internationally recognized Yemeni government of President Mansur Hadi, announced in a statement on Friday.
The Coalition statement said that a missile launched from inside the Yemeni territories was intercepted and destroyed by the Saudi forces.
In addition, the Coalition Air Force pinpointed the launching ground of the missile and hit back by airstrikes.
In a common matter, Saudi-led coalition has also intercepted three Houthi-affiliated sailboats near Midi port in Yemen trying to attack the coalition’s vessels.
The incident was reported on Thursday night, in which the coalition destroyed one boat and arrested the crew of the second while the third boat managed to escape.
[VOA] Daesh released a video earlier this month explicitly threatening China with attacks on its soil. Analysts say that as China seeks to expand influence its nationals are being exposed to a greater terror threat — and Beijing is having to adapt. The video purports to show Chinese ethnic Uighurs fighting for Daesh in Iraq who threaten to return home and shed "rivers of blood."
The video invokes the persecution by Beijing of majority-Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang. China tightly controls access to the region and verifying reports of attacks there is difficult.
Analyst Raffaello Pantucci of Britain's Royal United Services Institute said, "This year at least two potential attacks so far and a number of other odd incidents taking place. And we've seen the governor in Xinjiang province actually having a very heavy clampdown and a very visible escalation of the security presence in the region, all of which suggests that China is increasingly concerned about the problems related to terrorism and extremism, and clearly IS is part of that picture."
Daesh may be a common enemy, but there has been little coordination between China and the global coalition fighting the group, says Mathieu Duchatel of the European Council on Foreign Relations. He said, "China wants support from Western states on its policies in Xinjiang. China considers that the anti-terror efforts that it is leading in Xinjiang are not being endorsed by countries in the West and the response in Europe at least is that there is a lack of transparency."
"China has a category which it calls the three evils. Terrorism, extremism and separatism are put together in the same basket," Duchatel said.
China adopted a law in 2015 allowing military deployment overseas on anti-terror missions. But Duchatel says working alongside Western or Russian forces against Daesh remains unlikely. He said, "The long-standing approach to terrorist risks for China has been to avoid attracting too much attention and becoming a target."
Less than two months in, Republicans have emerged as one of the biggest obstacles to Trump's young administration, imperiling his early efforts to pass his agenda and make good on some of his biggest campaign promises.
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Draining the swamp includes flushing out of the legislative process all of those phony-baloney RINOs who have polluted the gene poll on the Republican side of the aisle.
As these clowns get exposed for their obstruction, the same people that voted in Trump will have a say in the primaries...it will be very interesting to say the least.
[DW] Nationalism is on the rise in many places in the world, including the Netherlands. On the first trip for the series #NewNationalism, DW's Fanny Facsar tries to find out what people mean when they speak of their "nation."
[IsraelTimes] A German court on Wednesday sentences members of a neo-Nazi group to up to five years in prison for forming a “terror organization” that planned to attack a home for asylum seekers. The four — three men and a 24-year-old woman identified as Denise Vanessa G. — were arrested in May 2015, two days before they planned to strike at the migrant shelter in the eastern state of Saxony.
Known as the “Old School Society,” their choice of weapon was modified “pyrotechnic explosives, particularly in the form of fire and nail bombs,” which they were planning to hurl into a refugee home, the prosecutor had said.
The ringleader Andreas H., 58, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison while his second-in-command Marcus W., 41, got five years. The group’s “spokesman” Olaf G., 31, was given three years while the only woman obtained three years and 10 months.
[Ynet] Federal prosecutors say they have charged a 23-year-old German man with membership in a terrorist organization for joining the Islamic State group in Syria. In a statement Thursday, prosecutors said Anil O. traveled to Syria in August 2015 with the intention of working as a medic for the group.
Prosecutors said O., whose last name wasn't published due to German privacy law, soon became disillusioned with IS after seeing how it treated fellow Muslims. They said he tried several times to flee IS-held territory, succeeding in January. He returned to Germany in September last year and was arrested at Duesseldorf airport.
Swedish Minister: Country Needs to Integrate Returning Islamic State Fighters
Madness.
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Swedish Minister of Culture and Democracy Alice Bah Kuhnke has suggested that Swedes who left to fight for radical Islamist groups in the Middle East should be welcomed back and helped to integrate into society.
Germany to test software that can tell if asylum seekers are genuine by analysing their VOICE to find out if they are really from the country they claim to be from
17/03/17
Authorities have expressed concern that some asylum-seekers from Arab countries are claiming to be from Syria in hopes of increasing their chances of staying in Germany
Asylum seeker who lied to authorities that he was a child before 'raping and murdering EU official's daughter' in Germany attempts suicide in prison
16/03/17
Hussein Khavari, from Afghanistan, who is accused of killing Maria Ladenburger, 19, in Freiburg, Germany, tried to strangle himself in a maximum security prison, according to authorities.
Teenage migrant 'raped and strangled 90-year-old German woman as she left church after he demanded money from her and she said she didn't have any'
16/03/17
A Spanish-Moroccan migrant, aged 19, is accused of rape, bodily harm and theft following the attack on October 2 in Dusseldorf.
Hundreds of thousands of life jackets piled 15 feet high lie discarded by refugees arriving in Greek tourist hotspot a year after EU deal sought to stem the flow of migrants
16/03/17
The piles of jackets were left by refugees who arrived on the island of Lesbos. The pictures were taken almost a year after the signing of a EU-Turkey deal that sought to stem the flow of migrants.
EU Border Control Accuses NGOs of Providing Shuttle Service for African Migrants
18 March
In a remarkably blunt analysis of the massive migration from North Africa to Italy in 2016, the European Frontex agency has denounced human traffickers’ exploitation of NGOs to efficiently transport African migrants from Libya to Italy.
Turkish Minister: ‘Send 15,000 Migrants a Month to Europe to Shock Them’
17 March
Turkey’s Foreign Minister has suggested directing tens of thousands of migrants to the European Union (EU) as a form of retaliation for European leaders blocking his government holding Islamism rallies in their countries.
That sure sounds like an act of war to me...
Turkey’s Erdogan Tells EU to ‘Forget About’ Migrant Deal After Dutch Row
16 March
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Thursday to scrap a deal with the European Union to readmit migrants who have crossed illegally into Europe, amid a standoff with European nations over their reluctance to allow Turkish ministers to hold campaign rallies in their countries.
EU Says 1.2 Million Sought Asylum in Bloc Last Year
16 March
The European Union’s statistical agency says more than 1.2 million people applied for asylum in the bloc last year, mostly Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis.
Migrant Crime and Violence Soars in German States
14 March
Authorities in two German states have expressed concern over official figures showing a huge rise in migrant crime, with the number of violent attacks having almost doubled in 2016.
Merkel Warned Support Being ‘Destroyed’ by Failure to Deport 500,000 Asylum Seekers
14 March
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been warned public support is being “destroyed” by the fact her government has so far failed to deport half a million rejected asylum seekers.
Claim: Merkel Let Migrants in Only to Avoid Televised Border Clashes
13 March
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on the brink of closing the border at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015, but changed her mind because she feared clashes with border police would look bad on television, a book has claimed.
Hungary: 94 Migrants in Detention Launch Hunger Strike
13 March
Hungary’s immigration and asylum office says 94 of 102 asylum-seekers detained in a closed reception center have launched a hunger strike, demanding to be set free.
Report: Who Is Profiting from the Multi-$Billion Business of European Immigration?
13 March
A new report suggests that huge economic interests lurk behind a number of NGOs and cooperatives dedicated to bringing as many immigrants as possible into Europe.
Fewer than One in Five Foreign Rapists Deported from Sweden
13 March
Only 19 per cent of foreign rapists registered as Swedish residents were deported from the troubled Scandinavian country between 2010 and 2014, according to government figures.
Investigation Opened Into Possible New Human Trafficking Route
12 March
Police in eastern Spain opened an investigation into a suspected human trafficking route after discovering two trucks carrying Iraqi migrants in less than a month. A civil guard spokeswoman told The Associated Press Sunday that an
Austrian Chancellor Calls for EU Countries Who Refuse to Take Migrants to Have Funding Cut
12 March
The Austrian Chancellor has called for European Union (EU) countries who refuse to take in migrants to have their funding cut as punishment – despite his own country being one of three to refuse its migrant quota.
[AnNahar]. Bangladesh police rubbed out a suspected holy warrior in the capital Dhaka on Saturday, a day after a jacket wallahwent kaboom! at a security forces camp.
The man was killed as he tried to cross a security roadblock on a cycle of violence carrying a bag with improvised bombs, according to Mufti Mahmud Khan, front man for the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
"As he was carrying explosives we primarily suspect him of being a holy warrior," Khan told AFP, adding further investigation was needed to ascertain his identity.
A bomb disposal unit was rushed to the spot where it recovered the biker's bag containing multiple small improvised bombs, which were later diffused, Khan said.
According to local RAB commander Tuhin Mohammad Masud, the suspected attacker was in his early twenties.
The latest incident comes a day after a man went kaboom! at a RAB camp near Dhaka's international airport, wounding two coppers, in an apparent botched suicide kaboom.
Dhaka beefed up security at all airports after Friday's attack, one of the first in recent years against the elite RAB force which is tasked with tackling militancy.
Bangladesh has seen a spate of deadly attacks recently on foreigners, writers and activists.
The country's security forces launched a nationwide crackdown on Islamist snuffies following a siege at a cafe in Dhaka last year, arresting scores of suspects.
The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group grabbed credit for that attack, in which 22 people including 18 foreign hostages were killed.
The government has denied the presence of IS in the country and blames local bad boys.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A police officer in Nineveh announced on Saturday, that 12 civilians were wounded in a chemical attack, using toxic gases, launched by the Islamic State group on the liberated areas and neighborhoods in Mosul.
Captain Yunis Mohammed said in a press statement, “12 civilians, including women and children, suffered severe suffocation, after being shelled by the Islamic State group.”
The Islamic State shelled the liberated areas of al-Adala, Bab al-Saray and Shaer Ninewa with missiles containing toxic gasses, Mohammed added.
The casualties were transferred to hospitals and medical centers immediately, Mohammed further explained.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A civilian was killed and two others including a policeman were maimed in an attack by gunnies in capital 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.... .
According to the Kabul police officials, the incident took place late on Friday night in the vicinity of 17th police district of the city.
The officials are saying that a number of gunnies who are believed to be members of a robbers’ gang opened fire on a check post as they were being chased by the security forces.
The gunnies managed to flee the area leaving their vehicle behind, the officials said, adding that an investigation and search operation is underway regarding the incident and to apprehend the gunnies.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A suicide kaboom took place inside the provincial Hajj and Religious Affairs Chief’s house 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.
According to the local security officials, the incident took place this afternoon after a jacket wallah detonated his explosives inside the house of Mawlavi Abdul Zahir Haqqani.
The provincial police commandment confirmed that Mawlavi Haqqani’s brother Shahwali was killed in the attack and that no one else was killed or maimed.
The incident took place in Surkh Rod district after a suicide bomber attempted to target Mawlavi Haqqani but was identified by his brother who stopped him and eventually led to an kaboom.
The local security officials are saying that the suicide bomber had reached to the residence of Mawlavi Haqqani by travelling in a vehicle.
The officials further added that four people have been incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! in connection to the alleged transfer of the bomber.
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[The New Observer] Illegal invaders pretending to be refugees from 13 Third World states who cross into Canada from the U.S. cannot be deported, no matter how flimsy their "asylum" claims might be.
According to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), invaders claiming to be from Somalia, the Gaza Strip, Syria, Mali, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Burundi, Haiti, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Iraq, will not be deported from Canada no matter what their personal circumstances might be.
The CBSA has two categories of non-deportation countries. The first, "Administrative deferral of removals" (ADR), is "meant to be a temporary measure when immediate action is needed to temporarily defer removals in situations of humanitarian crisis."
According to the CBSA, once the "situation in a country stabilizes the ADR is lifted and the CBSA resumes removals for individuals who are inadmissible to Canada and have a removal order in effect. "
However, as most invaders already know, once they have been granted any sort of legal status in Canada, it becomes almost impossible to remove them once again.
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Is Canada asking for the same kind of trouble that Europe countries are having? Humanitarian cause for whom--not the citizens of Canada? Are mid-East Muslim majority countries such as SA or UAE taking refugees?
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Lena has been losing weight lately according to NYPost. Note: a smug smarmy tapered turd that curves to the left is still a piece of shit
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Don't fall for the usual news type thinking. When all the legal paths have been exhausted there are deportations for sure . . . . . . and quite a few of them are not nice at all, sometimes involving blindfolds, handcuffs and more. It just takes time, but when it had been done, it is final.
A fighter jet of forces loyal to a Libyan military strongman was shot down on Saturday as it attacked terrorist positions in Benghazi, a military source said.
“A MiG-21 was shot down by a heat-seeking missile,” said Mohammad Ghunem, spokesman for the forces of strongman Khalifa Haftar, who is battling to oust terrorists from Libya’s second city.
“The plane, targeted by terrorist groups, crashed in the district of Suq al-Hut but its pilot survived.”
He said the jet was hit as it carried out a raid on the last bastion of “extremists” in the city’s Mediterranean seafront district of Al-Saberi.
The pilot, Adel Abdullah Bushisha, was able to eject and landed by parachute in the east of the city, he said.
Ghunem said the whole of eastern Libya was now under the control of Haftar’s self-declared Libyan National Army (LNA).
“The terrorist groups fled their last stronghold in the western sector of Benghazi,” a source in the LNA’s special forces told AFP.
The source said 17 terrorists were killed in clashes and “many” captured, and that LNA fighters also died in the operation.
A news agency run close to a parallel government in eastern Libya said LNA forces had “intensified their raids against the last bastions of the terrorist groups in Benghazi, some of whom tried to flee during the night”.
Benghazi, which fell to extremist groups in 2014, has been the scene of deadly fighting between them and forces loyal to Haftar, who controls much of eastern Libya in defiance of the UN-backed unity government in Tripoli.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent Afghan politician representing the southern Kandahar province in the Lower House of the Parliament, WolesiJirga, has been accused of conducting gun sex 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.... city while being under the influence of alcohol.
The Kabul Police has confirmed that the incident took place late on Thursday night in the West of Kabul city, involving MP Lalai Hamidzai.
The incident has reportedly taken place in the vicinity of Karte Se area of the city, involving Lalai and many of his bodyguards.
Kabul Police Chief Hassan Shah Farogh confirmed that the gun sex continued for at least half an hour, erupting discomfort among the city residents.
The police officials further added that Lalai is also accused of disrupting the local residents by hitting at the door of their houses.
Lalai and his bodyguards reportedly fled the area after the security forces were deployed to stop the firing.
According t the Kabul Police, investigations show the politician was not under any kind of threat, promising that necessary steps will be taken to address the irresponsible firing under the alcohol influence.
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The Kabul Police has confirmed that the incident took place late on Thursday night in the West of Kabul city, involving MP Lalai "Curly Bill" Hamidzai.
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The Kabul Police has confirmed that the incident took place late on Thursday night in the West of Kabul city, involving MP Lalai Hamidzai.
Now if it happened in the 'West of Phoenix', it'd be commonplace.
[GMA News] The Philippine miliatary on Saturday said it is verifying reports that a suspected foreign terrorist was killed in a series of assaults against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters early this week in Maguindanao.
Westmincom spokesperson Capt. Jo-Ann Petinglay said in a statement that there are persistent reports that Indian-Singaporean terrorist Mohammad Ali bin Abdulrahman, alias Muawiyah, were among 21 terrorists slain in air and ground assaults launched against targets in Barangay Tee in Datu Salibo town from March 13 to 16.
Abdulrahman had reportedly acted as a negotiator for the Abu Sayyaf and is known as a 'dangerous' Jemaah Islamiyah operative.
Petinglay said that also reported killed in the attacks were Salahuddin Hassan, a local terrorist and bomber trained by Abdulrahman and Esmael Abdulmalik, alias Abu Toraype, a brigade commander in the BIFF.
She said that Abdulrahman and the two local terrorists were associates of terror suspect Marwan, who had been confirmed killed by elite troopers in Mamasapano town on January 2016.
Recovered during the operations were bomb-making manuals, five improvised explosive devices and several IED components. Petinglay said, "The recovery from the area of manuals of IED-making indicates that the slain terrorists were giving instructions on how to assemble explosive devices and launch bombing attacks."
Petinglay said that Abulrahman's group had also provided training for new recruits, including members of local terror Maute group based in Lanao.
At least sixteen militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during an operation conducted by the commando forces of the Afghan National Army in eastern Nangarhar province.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in a statement said a special operation was conducted by ANA commando forces in the vicinity of Kot district.
The statement further added that the operation was conducted with the support of the air power and several villages were cleared as a result of the operation.
At least four Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were also confiscated during the operations, the 201st Silban Corps said.
The Afghan security forces and the local residents did not suffer any casualties during the operation, the source said.
This comes as both the Afghan and US forces conducted regular strikes against the loyalists of the terror group in this province.
The increased raids, usually involving drone strikes, by the US forces followed a broader role granted by the Obama administration earlier last year.
The broader role was granted amid concerns that the loyalists of the terror group are attempting to expand foothold in the country and turn the eastern Nangarhar province into a regional operational hub for its fighters.
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At least nineteen militants were killed in an airstrike conducted in Baghlan province in North of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Baghlan-e-Markazi district.
MoD further added that twenty two militants also sustained injuries in the airstrikes.
The security situation in northern Baghlan province has sharply deteriorated during the recent years as the anti-government armed militant groups attempt to expand their insurgency in northern provinces of the country.
Taliban insurgents frequently carry out coordinated attacks on some key districts of Baghlan since they expanded their foothold in this province over a year ago.
The Taliban insurgents briefly took control of the strategic Tala Barfak district from the security forces few weeks ago.
However, the Afghan forces managed to retake its control with the defense officials saying the forces made a tactical retreat to prevent casualties to the local residents and members of the security forces.
The growing activities by the Taliban insurgents forced the Afghan government to launch a large scale operation in the key Dahana-e-Ghor area last year amid concerns that the group was preparing to equip for the fighting season.
A total of three Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another seven were wounded in ongoing fighting in southeastern Ukraine, according to Russian language news accounts.
For most of the past week, fighting between the Russian backed rebels of Donetsk and Lugansk, and Ukrainians have subsided somewhat, but in the last 48 hours artillery attacks for both sides have increased.
According to a news account in lb.ua, quoting the Ukrainian ministry of defense, three Ukrainian soldiers were killed Friday along with four wounded.
The fighting is confined to three specific areas, in southern Donetsk, near Donetsk city and in northwestern Donetsk.
The lb.ua report said that rebel forces fired on Ukrainian positions a total of 112 times in a 24 hour period.
Rebel 82mm, 120mm mortars and 122mm artillery struck Ukrainian positions at Lebedinskoye, Shirokino, Gnutovo and Vodyanovo.
Rebel mortars and artillery, including heavy 152mm artillery struck Ukrainian positions at Marinka and Krasnogorovka.
In Avdievka, near Donetsk city, rebel mortars were reported hitting targets there and in old Avdievka, nearer to the line of contact near Gorlovka.
On Saturday, rebel 82mm and 120mm mortars fired on Ukrainian positions at Avdievka and Peski. Near the Sea of Azov, rebel 120mm mortar fire hit Vodyanovo and 122mm artillery struck Ukrainian positions at Gnutovo.
Rebel media claimed overnight Friday to Saturday that Ukrainian forces fired on rebel positions a total of 307 times using medium and heavy artillery. Among the locations struck by Ukrainian artillery near Mariupol was Novoazovskiy. Ukrainian artillery also struck rebel positions at Yelenovka, near the Donetsk airport, and western districts of Donetsk city, as well as at Zaitsevo, Gorlovka and Yasinovataya.
According to a summary in novorosinform.org, Ukrainian artillery hit the Petrovsky district of Donetsk city, Spartak, Avidevka, Gorlovka and Zaitsevo. In the south, Ukrainian artillery hit Kominternovo and Zaichenko.
Both sides are claiming they struck each others' positions in Yasinovataya, with the Ukrainians claiming that observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation witnessed the artillery strikes. According to rebel media, one civilian was wounded in the artillery attacks.
Rebel media also claimed to have monitored radio traffic that reported eight Ukrainian soldiers were killed in an ammunition handling accident in Opytnoye, where four self propelled 122mm artillery vehicles were parked. Two of the SP vehicles were destroyed in the incident.
Two Hamas positions were struck by Israeli fighter jets and tanks in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the army said.
The strikes were in retaliation for a rocket that landed near the city of Ashkelon on Saturday morning. There was no damage or injuries from the rocket launched from the Gaza Strip toward the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. A second rocket was also reported to have been fired from the town of Beit Lahiya but fell short and struck inside the Hamas-run enclave.
Saturday morning’s rocket comes just two days after another rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck an open field in the Sdot Negev Regional Council. Israeli jets carried out retaliatory strikes against two Hamas targets.
The last two months has seen gunfire targeting IDF troops along the border as well as seven rockets launched at Israel from Gaza as well as several from the Sinai Peninsula fired by Islamic State terrorists.
Most of the rockets have been claimed by small jihadist groups, many times as a means for pressuring Hamas by raising tensions between the terror organization and Israel. Hamas has cracked down on these small groups, recently carrying out a wave of arrests among Salafi, jihadist, pro-Islamic State organizations.
Nevertheless Israel holds Hamas responsible for all fire coming from the Strip.
The incident comes a day after Israel’s Arrow missile defense system intercepted a Syrian surface-to-air missile fired toward Israeli jets who were returning to base after carrying out air strikes against Hezbollah targets. It was the most serious clash between the two enemy countries since Syria’s civil war broke out six years ago.
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You are responsibable for the terror idiots in the land your fake state, Hamas.
You too, Syria.
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Hamas didn't realize that "when you're in charge, you're responsible". Actions have consequences, and they need to feel the pain these "independent" militias initiate
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An elderly woman was killed when Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing along the Line of Control (LoC) on Saturday, a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
According to the ISPR, a 60-year-old female resident of village Thandi Kassi lost her life in the incident.
Pakistan Army troops responded to the fire 'befittingly' , the ISPR said.
A man was also injured in the firing. The incident took place in Kotli district.
Tense relations
Incidents of cross-border firing were reported with frequency in the last months of 2016 as tensions simmered between Pakistan and India over the Kashmir issue.
Exchanges of fire have been reported sporadically since the new year began.
A Pakistani woman had been injured when Indian border troops opened fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Bhimber late on March 10, the ISPR had said.
It said Indian forces resorted to "unprovoked" firing directed at civilian population along the LoC in Baroh village of Bhimber district.
Another incident was reported on March 2, when India resorted to 'unprovoked' firing across the LoC in the Khuiratta and Tender sectors.
[Daily Caller] Approximately 30 countries are refusing to accept the deportations of illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes in the U.S., according to Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar.
While these countries are refusing to accept the deportations of these criminals, the U.S. government is still issuing visas and student visas to citizens of those countries, according to the Texan congressman. There is already a law on the books which allows the U.S. to hold visas from a country that is not taking back its criminals, but according to Cuellar, the U.S. is not enforcing it.
"We’re not enforcing it, which is amazing. So now my intent is to go back to our committee on appropriations and affect their funding until they do that," Cuellar told Sharyl Attkisson, host of Full Measure, in an interview.
Cuellar, a Democratic member of the House Committee on Appropriations, told Attkisson that the Supreme Court has ruled that illegal immigrants arrested for criminal activity can only be held for a certain period of time before they must be released.
If you ever worry about the quality of news on the Internet, consider a recent story at BuzzFeed from reporter Adrian Carrasquillo. The writer notes indignantly that Donald Trump's infamous campaign comments about Mexican immigrants were not unprecedented: Speaking on a radio talk show, in 2011, Trump had anticipated his claim that "Mexico was sending criminals and rapists" to the United States (in Carrasquillo's words) by "appear[ing] to suggest Fidel Castro had hatched a similar gambit."
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Compromise: send them halfway across the ocean.
If their home countries object to them being executed, they can take them back.
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Store them in that country's embassy. If they won't send them home, they can keep them in their embassy here. If they still refuse, don't allow anyone in or out, including any deliveries of food etc. Turn off water, power and sewer as well. I'm done being 'nice' to the world. We need to ask ourselves, "What would the Romans do?"
[AlAhram] Egypt's armed forces have said they were able to prevent the illegal migration of 398 people into Egypt through its southern and western borders in the last couple of weeks, its front man announced on Wednesday.
In an official statement, army front man Tamer El-Refaie relayed the armed forces efforts to "preserve the country on all strategic levels" in the period from 21 February to 13 March.
Those efforts included discovering and destroying smuggling tunnels in North Sinai and confiscating drugs and weapons in several governorates including Ismailia, Suez and others, El-Refai said.
El-Refaie said that during this period, border guards jugged You have the right to remain silent... 369 migrants colonists before they crossed into Egypt at Salloum, a main crossing point on the border with Libya.
Twenty-nine others were arrested by forces at the Shalateen-Halayib border area between Egypt and Sudan.
The front man did not give details on the nationalities of the "illegal migrants colonists."
In addition to combating terrorism, Egypt has been waging a fight against irregular migration in recent years.
Cairo raised its focus on this issue and introduced an illegal migration law following a September 2016 migrant boat disaster off its Mediterranean coast that killed hundreds.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has spoken on multiple occasions about Egypt's ongoing efforts to curb illegal immigration from its shores to Europe -- a key concern for European countries facing a growing migrant crisis.
The president has said Egypt currently hosts 5 million immigrants colonists from different nations who live their lives normally, receive the privileges enjoyed by Egyptian citizens and are not confined to refugee camps.
Egypt has repeatedly rejected proposals to create refugee camps on its soil.
[DailyMail] Canada's border authorities detained more Mexicans in the first 67 days of 2017 than they did annually in any of the three previous years. The spike comes immediately after Canada's federal government lifted its visa requirement for Mexican citizens in December. Canadian border officials can detain foreign nationals if it is believed they pose a danger to the public, if their identity is unclear or if they are deemed unlikely to appear for removal or for a proceeding.
The number of Mexicans turned back at the airport has risen, too - to 313 in January, more than any January since 2012 and more than the annual totals for 2012, 2013 and 2014.
With the visa requirement lifted, all that Mexicans need to come to Canada is an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA), obtainable online in a matter of minutes. But they cannot work without a work permit, and the eTA does not guarantee entry. Canada issued 72,450 travel authorizations to Mexican citizens between Dec. 1, 2016, and March 10, 2017 - a significant increase compared with a similar period when visas were required.
Canada's Immigration and Refugee Minister Ahmed Hussen has said his department is monitoring the situation.
'It would be premature to draw conclusions or to speculate on future policy at this point,' Hussen's spokeswoman, Camielle Edwards, wrote in an email Friday evening.
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C`est ne pas possible! Trudeau welcomed the tired, the poor, the rejected and perhaps the occasional felon. But Canadian customs was the most gestapo like of any border I ever crossed. Talk is cheap especially if your French.
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If you enjoy humour, watch, as I have done, a Mexican Air Force non-com attempt to perform a pre-flight check on a Hercules transport at night in -40 degree temps at Winnipeg airport.
In the depths of winter the traffic is strictly southbound.
[RFE/RL] Security authorities in the Tatarstan region have detained 15 alleged members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir group.
A spokesman for the Federal Security Service said on March 14 that the suspects were detained after a special operation. The spokesman said thirty homes were searched in Kazan and Tatarstan's two districts, and books with suspected extremist content were confiscated at the searched homes.
Officials in Russia and other former Soviet republics say Hizb ut-Tahrir plays a role in a strategy used by Al-Qaeda and Islamic State militants to radicalize young people and recruit them to fight in Syria and Iraq. Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Russia and Central Asia, says its movement is peaceful.
Hizb ut-Tahrir, a London-based Sunni political organization, seeks to unite all Muslim countries into an Islamic caliphate.
No wonder the locals are fleeing to paradises such as Yemen and Minneapolis...
Mutinous Somali forces demanding salary have captured major streets in Buloburte located in Hiiraan region of central Somalia on Saturday, according to the residents. The Somali military commanders in the town said the newly trained forces were angered after the Somali federal government has failed to pay their regular payments for months.
Skimmed just a little bit too much off the top...
This is the second time that the federal government soldiers staged mutiny since the election of Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo as the president of Somalia last February.
Separately, a government soldier was reported to have shot dead a driver of rickshaw in Beledweyne city, the provincial capital of Hiiraan following a dispute over illegal money.
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[AP] ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Turks living in Europe to have at least five children, saying it would be the best response to Europe's "injustices."
Erdogan made the comments Friday while campaigning in the city of Eskisehir for a referendum that would usher in a presidential system and enhance his powers.
The Turkish leader has unleashed scathing rhetoric toward European nations -- especially the Netherlands -- after Turkish ministers were prevented from carrying out campaign meetings there.
On Friday, Erdogan told Turks in Europe: "Go live in better neighborhoods. Drive the best cars. Live in the best houses. Make not three, but five children. Because you are the future of Europe. That will be the best response to the injustices against you."
Pictured: Moment 15 illegal immigrants including FIVE CHILDREN spill from the back of an HGV at a Kent motorway services
17/03/17
It is thought there were five minors among the three families, thought to be from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. The group (pictured) was discovered in a HGV at Folkestone services on the M20 in Kent.
New rules mean non-EU migrants must provide criminal record checks before they can get jobs in Britain
17/03/17
Newly employed nurses, and will all have to adhere to the new rules when they come into force, which apply to all jobs involving working with vulnerable people, Minister Robert Goodwill (pictured) said.
Give us a pass, Donald! Irish Prime Minister lobbies Trump to let country's 50,000 illegal immigrants in U.S stand in the light' - and president says: 'We love Ireland'
Going in the other direction:
17/03/17
Trump predicted that his administration would have a 'very, very great long-term relationship' with Ireland after meeting with Taoiseach Enda Kenny for the first time.
Syrian refugees move into a £500,000 six-bedroom home in leafy Kent stockbroker belt because the council can’t find a local family
Perhaps it's time for the council to sell the expensive house and buy several smaller, less expensive properties for the colonists?
15/03/17
A Syrian family will be housed in a six-bedroom property in Sevenoaks, Kent, worth at least £500,000 after the district council was unable to find a permanent local family to give it to.
Hundreds of Afghan asylum seekers snuck into the UK using British Sikhs' passports - because turbans on ID photos meant border officials couldn't spot the difference
14/03/17
Border officials are said to have difficulty distinguishing between the illegal immigrants and genuine passport holders.
[Bernama] Thai authorities detained 27 ethnic Rohingyas in Tak Bai district in Narathiwat early today for trying to enter Malaysia. Local immigration chief Noppadol Rakchart said those detained - 22 men, three women and two children - were arrested in a truck at 1:30am local time.
Noppadol said, "The lorry driver disclosed that he drove the Rohingyas from Ban Mod, Thung Krut in Bangkok to Narathiwat, before handing them over to a syndicate which will smuggle them to Malaysia."
[AlAhram]. Two senior 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... rebels survived a Saudi-led coalition air raid on their convoy in the southwestern province of Taez Saturday that killed eight of their guards, military and medical sources said.
The attacked targeted a convoy carrying Abdu al-Jundi, who was appointed as the governor of Taez by the Shia 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 ... rebels, and the military commander of the same region, Abu Ali al-Hakem, they said.
The eight guards were killed when two of vehicles in the convoy were hit in the raid near the town of Burj.
Jundi and Hakem were able to escape and seek shelter in a nearby market, a rebel military source said.
A medical worker in Burj said the "charred" bodies of the guards were taken to a local hospital.
Most of Taez province is controlled by Houthi forces, who are besieging forces allied with UN-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi holed up in the quiet provincial capital of the same name.
In the western province of Hodeida, Saudi-led coalition aircraft carried out a series of strikes on a rebel training camp Saturday, leaving "dozens of dead and maimed," a military official said.
The camp, 70 kilometres (45 miles) east of Hodeida city, is home to young recruits enlisted by the Houthis, who two weeks ago forced each district of Hodeida to send 30 young people there for conscription.
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Jundi and Hakem were able to escape and seek shelter in a nearby market, a rebel military source said. A medical worker in Burj said the "charred" bodies of the guards were taken to a local hospital.
I suspect this is lies for the rubes while the rebels figure out how to explain their deaths. Perhaps, next week, that both catch a severe cold and succumb?
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A police source informed that a member of al-Hashd al-Ashaeri was killed, while two others were wounded in an armed attack, south of Baghdad, Alsumaria News reported on Saturday.
Unidentified gunmen threw a hand grenade on a checkpoint belonging to al-Hashd al-Ashaeri in al-Taqa area in al-Rasheed vicinity, south of Baghdad, killing one of al-Hashd members and wounding two others, the source said.
Security forces arrived immediately in the area of incident, and transferred the body to the forensic medicine department and the wounded to a nearby hospital, the source added on condition of anonymity.
The capital, Baghdad, is frequently witnessing a surge of violence and several suicide attacks, in addition to separate attacks that target civilians and security members. Google Map at the link
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) A Federal Police Officer announced on Saturday, that security forces discovered a prison belonging to the Islamic State in Bab al-Saray area, during a search operation in central Mosul.
Colonel Khodier Saleh said in a press statement that security forces found a tunnel leading to a prison, belonging to the Islamic State group, in Bab al-Saray area, in central Mosul.
There was also a torturing room, Saled added. Security forces also discovered missiles and light weapons, as well as 10 prisoners, Saleh further explained.
The security forces were able to free the prisoners, which include 3 army officers, in addition to finding some important documents.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Federal Police Command announced on Saturday, that security forces are only 600 meters away from al-Hadba Minaret and the Great Mosque of Nuri, in western Mosul.
Federal Police Chief, Raed Shaker Jawdat, said in a press statement that Federal Police troops and Rapid Response forces are only 600 meters away from al-Hadba Minaret and the Great Mosque of Nuri, which witnessed the announcement of the so-called Islamic State caliphate, in western Mosul.
Our drones also continue to monitor the movement of terrorists in the area surrounding the mosque, Jawdat added.
Joint security force, backed by Army Aviation and the US-led international coalition, continue liberating the city of Mosul and drive out the Islamic State from its-held areas. Google Map at the link
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According to the Yeni Safak newspaper, the Turkish Army will train Somalia troops and troops from other African countries at the base, which has been under construction near Somalia’s airport in Mogadishu since March 2015. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and General Staff’s Chief Gen. Hulusi Akar are expected to take part in the official opening ceremony, which is due to take place in April.
The construction costs reportedly make up $50 million. About 500 soldiers will be able to train at the same time, the base occupies 400 hectares and includes three military schools, dormitories and depots.
Somalia has been mired in an armed conflict with Islamist militants for about two decades. The crisis has significantly undermined the positions of the country’s government within the country’s territory and made it rely on foreign assistance, with Turkey being one of the main investors and aid providers.
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First it was Black Hawk down now the second installment in the thrilling Escape from Somalia series Black Turkey Down the opening scene if you can picture this is a bunch of the Oz'z flying monkey soldiers in Turkish military uniforms getting arse raped by pirates with phuck nato fist rings driving donated stretched mercedes benzs with chandeliers on the hoods! Of course the movie will be as realistic and truthful as the Bhenghazi we by weapons by the truck load butt can't defend ourselves scenario! The best advisors from all intel groups are hard at work in HollyWood planning a September 11th release date! The list of stars include monkeys from numerous zoos some gorillas and assorted Nato important types and the Grand OZ of Turkey as himself! The crew from Black Hawk Down gets rescued by the OZ's troops only to find out that they will be sold into servitude to train child armies in Africa or China and their energy companies! Lots of plot twists folks it is a must see!
Only now does the West seem to have worked out what has been going on. Rules about dress can, and indeed must, be imposed when any nation’s social cohesion is threatened. Europe is increasingly reaping the harvest of multicultural policies that have served to divide rather than unite. Not just with the growth of Islamism, either, but by engendering hostility to immigration and refugees — often towards my fellow Muslims. The Islamists thrive on this, the idea of Muslims being a society-within-a-society. If they invent religious grounds to persuade them to dress differently, so much the better. It suits their sectarian agenda.
At long last, the European Court of Justice has moved to restore the bedrock of European identity: secular liberal democracy, where the public space is shared by all, and dominated by no one. It’s just a shame it could not have done so sooner, before so much damage was done.
Rebels and their families began leaving their last bastion in the Syrian city of Homs on Saturday, state media and a Reuters witness said, under a Russian-backed deal with the government expected to be among the largest evacuations of its kind.
The first few buses drove out of al-Waer district in Homs, which was an early centre of the popular uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Between 10,000 and 15,000 rebels and civilians would evacuate in batches over the coming weeks under the deal, according to opposition activists in al-Waer and a war monitor.
The agreement underlines Assad’s upper hand in the war, as more rebel fighters opt to leave areas they have defended for years in deals that amount to negotiated withdrawals to other parts of the country.
The Syrian government has described such deals as a “workable model” that brings the country closer to peace after six years of conflict. But the opposition decries them as a tactic of forcibly displacing people who oppose Assad after years of bombardment and siege.
Homs governor Talal Barazi told Reuters he expected around 1,500 people, including at least 400 fighters, to depart on Saturday for rebel-held areas northeast of Aleppo city.
Along with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), Russian and Syrian forces were overseeing the evacuation, which would take about six weeks, he said.
“The preparations and the reality on the ground indicate that things will go well,” Barazi said.
“We are optimistic that the full exit of armed (fighters) from this district will pave the way for other reconciliations and settlements,” he added.
The government has increasingly tried to press besieged rebel areas to surrender and accept what it calls reconciliation agreements that involve fighters departing for northern Syria.
In an interview with Chinese TV station Phoenix last week, Assad said deals brokered locally with rebels were “the real political solutions”. He added that he had not expected anything from Geneva, where U.N.-led peace talks ended this month with no breakthrough.
Broadcasting live from the al-Waer departure area, Syrian state television spoke to a Russian soldier, who said via an interpreter that security would soon return to the district.
“This agreement was reached only under the patronage of the Russian side … and it will be implemented with Russian guarantees,” he said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the buses would go to the Jarablus area in the north, held by Turkey-backed rebels.
Once completed, it would mark the biggest evacuation during the war out of one Syrian district, which is home to about 40,000 civilians and more than 2,500 fighters, the monitoring group said.
Dozens of buses stood at a crossing waiting to leave al-Waer, accompanied by SARC ambulances, a Reuters witness said.
Police officers searched people before the buses drove out, the Homs police chief told Syrian state television, which said 11 buses had left so far.
In the coming weeks, evacuees could be shuttled to other rebel-held areas in northern Syria, including the insurgent stronghold of Idlib province, state TV said.
Under the agreement, fighters could stay in al-Waer if they settle their affairs with the government, it said.
The deal follows others that were never fully implemented between the government and rebel groups in al-Waer, which has been pounded by air strikes in recent weeks.
A few hundred rebels from the district have previously been allowed safe passage to Idlib in the northwest.
Rebels and civilians who fear Assad’s rule have poured into Idlib at an accelerating rate over the last year, bussed out of other parts of western Syria that the government and allied forces recaptured from rebels.
Rebel groups have been on the back foot in Syria, following Russia’s intervention into the war on Assad’s side, bringing its air power to bear in support of his army and its Iranian and Shi’ite militia allies.
The wide array of mostly Sunni rebel factions includes some militants as well as some groups supported by the United States, Turkey and Gulf monarchies.
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[PhilStar] At least four wanted members of the Daesh-inspired Maute terrorist group were captured during a military operation in Lanao del Sur. The suspects identified as Pao Panganga (alias Pao Faizal), Alex Areg Bagul, Alisata Tumao Maute, and Saadra Macapanton Madayan, were captured early Thursday moring in a village of Lanao del Sur.
Military spokesperson Jo-Ann Petinglay said the troops recovered from the suspects three high-powered firearms, a pistol, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and drug paraphernalia. She said the suspects, known to have rogue personalities, were wanted for illegal activities such as kidnap-for-ransom, gun-for-hire, carnapping, extortion and illegal drugs trade in the provinces of Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte.
Pentinglay said the suspects are also suspected in the ambush of Police Superintendent Abner Wahab Santos, former city police director of Marawi City Police. According to Petinglay, Panganga was involved in a series of kidnappings in Marawi City, specifically the abduction of Omira Lotao, an employee of the Mindanao State University on March 5.
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An alleged financier of the terrorist group Hezbollah was arrested in Morocco Thursday at the behest of US authorities, according to South African online publication News 24. Lebanese businessman Kassim Tajeddine was reportedly detained in Casablanca on Sunday while on his way from Guinea to Beirut, his lawyer said in a brief statement.
“We now know there is an extradition order from the US authorities,” the lawyer added.
According to News 24, US Treasury officials believe Tajeddine is “an important financial contributor to Hezbollah," being listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist since 2009.
The US Treasury Department claims that Tajeddine, through a multinational business venture, used a money laundering scheme to funnel cash to the Shi'te militant organization.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won't prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. In the end, researchers say, the only way to save the world's coral from heat-induced bleaching is with a war on global warming.
Preserving coral reefs is crucial, given we depend on them for everything from food to medical research to protection from damaging coastal storms. Scientists and policymakers have thus been scrambling to find ways to prevent bleaching. Last year, for example, Hawaiian officials proposed several measures they hoped would fight bleaching on the state's reefs, such as limiting fishing, establishing new marine protected areas and controlling polluted runoff from land. 
[Breitbart] Women should be able to abort their babies simply because they are the "wrong" sex, a leading ethicist at Britain’s doctors’ union has said.
[WAPO] A congressional plan to make Planned Parenthood ineligible for federal funding would leave many women without services to help them avoid pregnancy, resulting in thousands of additional births, according to a new federal budget analysis.
The Washington Post doesn’t want you to know that illegal aliens are receiving food stamps, or at least it doesn’t want that information in their headlines.
[VOA] Daesh released a video earlier this month explicitly threatening China with attacks on its soil. Analysts say that as China seeks to expand influence its nationals are being exposed to a greater terror threat — and Beijing is having to adapt. The video purports to show Chinese ethnic Uighurs fighting for Daesh in Iraq who threaten to return home and shed "rivers of blood."
[The New Observer] Illegal invaders pretending to be refugees from 13 Third World states who cross into Canada from the U.S. cannot be deported, no matter how flimsy their "asylum" claims might be.
A fighter jet of forces loyal to a Libyan military strongman was shot down on Saturday as it attacked terrorist positions in Benghazi, a military source said.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A prominent Afghan 
[GMA News] The Philippine miliatary on Saturday said it is verifying reports that a suspected foreign terrorist was killed in a series of assaults against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters early this week in Maguindanao.
Two Hamas positions were struck by Israeli fighter jets and tanks in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the army said.
[Daily Caller] Approximately 30 countries are refusing to accept the deportations of illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes in the U.S., according to Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar.
[RFE/RL] Security authorities in the Tatarstan region have detained 15 alleged members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir group.
[AP] ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Turks living in Europe to have at least five children, saying it would be the best response to Europe's "injustices."
[Spectator] By Qanta Ahmed
[PhilStar] At least four wanted members of the Daesh-inspired Maute terrorist group were captured during a military operation in Lanao del Sur. The suspects identified as Pao Panganga (alias Pao Faizal), Alex Areg Bagul, Alisata Tumao Maute, and Saadra Macapanton Madayan, were captured early Thursday moring in a village of Lanao del Sur.
