Just a shout-out to our Canadian brethren.
More than 20,000 Canadians have travelled to Europe to mark the centenary of one of the country's defining moments - the Battle of Vimy Ridge during World War One.
About 3,600 Canadians died in the battle in northern France, that began on Easter Sunday, 9 April 1917. It was the first time different Canadian military divisions had fought together under one command.
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paid tribute to those who fought.
"The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a turning point in the First World War and for Canada, when Canadians acted - and fought - as one," he said.
Having laid flowers at the site of the battle earlier on Sunday, Mr deleted attended a commemorative ceremony with French President Francois Hollande, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
The Queen also sent a message to Canadians in French and English commending their soldiers for the sacrifice they made.
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PHOENIX - A 17-year-old is recovering from a gunshot wound after reportedly committing two armed robberies. Dindu Nuffin?
Court records show that a male teen robbed one store and tried to rob another when he was confronted by an armed clerk who shot him in the arm.
Police report that on December 28, the 17-year-old suspect entered a QT store near 35th Avenue and Baseline Road with a handgun and demanded money, along with Swisher Sweet Cigars and a pack of Marlboro Reds. The clerk reported to police that the suspect fired three shots, from what sounded like a pellet gun, into the ceiling as he left. Other witnesses told police that he left the store on a 'cruiser bicycle with white walled tires.'
Police say two days later the suspect struck again, this time at a Chevron store near 51st and Southern avenues. This time he demanded money from the cash registers and when he motioned toward them with the gun a store clerk pulled his gun and fired at the suspect.
The suspect ran and tried to get on his bike but realized, "his arm didn't work." He went to a nearby restaurant to ask for help.
Police contacted him there and the suspect was taken to the hospital for a gunshot wound to his arm. It was there, police say, that he admitted to the robberies. He allegedly told police that he targeted gas stations because "they are supposed to just hand over the money and not try to stop anyone." Whoops
He's been charged with armed robbery and attempted armed robbery.
If he's old enough to rob a gas station, he's old enough to name in the newspaper...
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"they are supposed to just hand over the money and not try to stop anyone."
In general, he's right. The clerk may well lose his job. In many places the clerk might be arrested, but probably not Phoenix.
[Business Insider] In the gray half-light of dawn, eight figures creep through the dry pine forest near Quincy, California. Seven of them wear camo uniforms bearing the logos of various government agencies: U.S. Forest Service, National Guard, California Fish & Wildlife, Plumas County Sheriff. Most have blackened faces and assault rifles at the ready. An 11-year-old Belgian Malinois named Phebe and her K9 handler lead the way.
Number eight is tall and dressed in black, with a rumpled bush hat and a Springfield Armory 9mm pistol in a hip holster. With a kaffiyeh wrapped under a dark beard, and eyebrows (in his words) "like two caterpillars about to mate," Dr. Mourad Gabriel could pass as a local interpreter on a Special Forces raid if this were Iraq or Afghanistan. Instead, he’s a wildlife biologist accompanying law-enforcement agents on an illegal marijuana farm bust.
The group traverses hillsides, fords streams, tiptoes through thickets of fern and willow, trying not to snap twigs or shake saplings. Radios crackle with whispers. Tiptoeing through rough terrain is slow going: It takes almost four hours to go three miles.
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A war, huh? Then fight it like a war. Clearing these growing sites certainly doesn't sound like a job for civilians. How about sending platoons of Army Rangers to do it? Surround the sites before the growers can escape and then deal with them as the enemy combatants they are.
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Its California. If its "war", I can almost guess which side the governing bodies of California will side with.
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I can almost guess which side the governing bodies of California will side with
In this case, hopefully the side that puts money in their coffers (i.e. taxes).
Sometimes it's just about the money.
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Something tells me Round-up Ready marijuana isn't popular in California. So these operations should be easy enough to eliminate once found.
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The Federal government has a couple of bills in the House which provide for taxing marijuana. Essentially, oversight of weed would be transferred out of the DEA to the BATF and handled similar to alcohol.
[Daily Caller] A Colgate University program is advertising courses for the fall semester with a poster depicting a uniformed Vladimir Putin holding an illustration of President Donald Trump as a small child.
"Say what?" asks the advertisement posted by Colgate’s Russian and Eurasian Studies program. "For greater understanding, take a course in Russian & Eurasian Studies."
A student photographed the poster hanging on a bulletin board of Lawrence Hall at the private university in Hamilton, N.Y.
"I believe that this is yet another example of people, who are angered by the Trump victory, trying to further delegitimize him," the student, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "It’s a shame that these professors, making six-figure salaries, have to result to such better jabs in order to feel that they are accomplishing something."
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Taking a course in Russian & Eurasian Studies is a good idea (assuming - probably wrongly - it is an honest class); using a common current perception as a promotional tool is fine - assuming (again probably wrongly) it is considered a tool and not a given truth.
[Detroit Free Press] A pair of activists who wrote a piece for the Detroit Free Press prove they haven’t learned the lessons of ESPN, and recently penned a piece urging athletes to use their sport as a platform for left-wing political activism.
Excuse me, but I thought most of them already were.
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When I was a kid I was a big sports fan. I kept following it as I grew up, but bit by bit (strike World Series, lost me; basketball became thug ball, lost me; football endorsed Kapernik, lost me; hockey doesn't work on tv and my minor league team closed down) I quit. Now I read Rantburg.
[Armstrong Economics] With all the attacks upon Trump as having some covert connection with Putin to defeat Hillary when nothing hacked from the DNC was ever said to have been faked or altered, just released, one must wonder has this suddenly influenced Trump to attack Syria to prove he is not in league with Putin? If the military advisors are telling him it is Syria who has launched a chemical attack, he really should tread very lightly. This 180 degree turn for Trump may indeed be a trap.
Back in December 2015, I explained what Syria was all about and why the Obama Administration wanted to invade to help Qatar get a pipeline through Syria to compete with Russia selling gas to Europe. I explained there were two pipelines one approved by Russia from Iran through Syria and the other Obama agreed to with Qatar also through Syria. The American press supported Obama by trying to make everyone believe Obama cared about innocent civilians being gassed. Nothing was further from the truth and the US was supplying the weapons to rebels who were slaughtering people and throwing them in mass graves. Obama turned a blind eye because the pipeline was more important than people in Syria.
Finally, after more than one year from when I reported the real truth behind Syria, the Australian Press has now broke the story. The question is why now? It seems the media will now switch the focus and claim Trump is the one doing this for the pipeline now that their favorite son, Obama, is out of the picture. Mainstream media is out to defeat Trump. That is what they are directed to do from their big corporate owners who Dan Rather exposed in 2008, but now defends the press as being honest and real and the devil is Trump claiming they are fake.
Interesting how they can hide the story to help Obama and then flip the same story to attack Trump. It looks like Trump is falling prey to being set up to think this is really about chemical weapons and saving people. Sorry ‐ that was all BS. The evidence came out that it was the rebels supported by Obama who were using the chemical weapons. Investigations revealed that back in 2013, they used sarin gas ‐ not the Syrian government.
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Ah, the pipeline thing... if it were about a pipeline, they'd have paid a fucking bribe and been done with it ten years ago.
There's nothing magic about Syria and pipelines. They could have run one across Jordan to Egypt and then met up with the pipelines the Egyptians will be making for their big new natural gas finds, and the ones for the Tamar field...
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It all about the oil stupid, Russia will never risk being bypassed thus the reasons it supports the Iran/Syria Axis. If all that Syria grew were carrots it'd be a civil war that no one talked about.
[WarZone] To the casual observer, the scene might’ve looked like an odd cross between a reenactment of a past war and a demonstration of a future conflict. Elite special operators, some of whom were speaking foreign languages, were roving around the hills of West Virginia on foot, horseback, all-terrain vehicles, and by helicopter, while practicing specialized tactics, some of which are nearly a century old.
But this wasn’t another remake of the movie Red Dawn or a weird time-traveling short story. It was a real life, routine exercise called Ridge Runner 2017 that occurred in February 2017. The particular group of participants ‐ including special operators from the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, all of whom are NATO members ‐ and certain practice sessions suggested the event had a lot to do with Russia’s increasingly revanchist polices in Europe.
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Mr. B - was there an older version of this run by SAD? I remember reading about a large scale E n E exercise where runners had to get from NoVa to Florida on there own by social engineering, hitchhiking, or shall we say other unconventional means. Does this ring a bell?? Might have been training for a SMU.
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Yes, can't recall the names... if there were any. Some of these were culminations of A&S events, NV Test Site, etc. I suspect that is what you may be referring to. No foreigners in any of those as I recall.
Close coordination with Local Law Enforcement (LE) is key. There have been a few, let's just say embarrassing moments over the years.
[AP] A bomb exploded in a church north of Cairo that was packed with Palm Sunday worshippers, killing at least 26 people and wounding 71 others, officials said.
The attack in the Nile Delta town of Tanta was the latest in a series of assaults on Egypt's Christian minority, which makes up around 10 percent of the population and has been repeatedly targeted by Islamic extremists. It comes just weeks before Pope Francis is due to visit the Arab world's most populous country.
CBC TV showed footage from inside the Mar Girgis church, where a large number of people gathered around what appeared to be lifeless, bloody bodies covered with papers. Regional Deputy Health Minister Mohammed Sharshar confirmed the toll.
No one immediately claimed the attack, which comes a week before Easter.
Pope Francis decried the bombing, expressing "deep condolences to my brother, Pope Tawadros II, the Coptic church and all of the dear Egyptian nation." Word of the bombing came as Francis himself was marking Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square.
Grand Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, head of Egypt's Al-Azhar -- the leading center of learning in Sunni Islam -- likewise condemned the attack, calling it a "despicable terrorist bombing that targeted the lives of innocents."
The attack adds to fears that Islamic extremists who have long been b
Interior ministry says jacket wallah carried out Alexandria attack in attempt to target Coptic Pope Tawadros II.
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.... terror group grabbed credit for bombing two Egyptian churches on Sunday in the deadliest attacks on the country’s Christian minority in recent memory.
"Islamic State squads carried out the attacks on two churches in Tanta and Alexandria," said the group’s Amaq News Agency in a statement published on social media accounts.
The two bombing attacks, in which at least 37 people were killed, appeared to be coordinated, with the first going off at a Coptic church north of Cairo Sunday morning, followed by a second kaboom at a church in the coastal city of Alexandria in the afternoon.
According to the Health Ministry, at least 11 people were killed and 33 maimed when a boom-mobile detonated outside the St. Mark’s Church in the coastal city of Alexandria.
Egypt’s interior ministry said that a suicide bomber was behind the second blast. The bomber tried to storm the church where Coptic Pope Tawadros II was leading a Palm Sunday service but went kaboom! when police prevented him from entering, the ministry said in a statement.
Update at 3:00 p.m. EDT: Al Ahram liveblogged the events of the day. Key bits: 3 police were killed blocking the St. Mark's Cathedral suicide bomber entry; total casualties from the Tanta attack are 29 dead and 71 wounded, for St. Mark's 18 dead while an earlier toll had 66 wounded for a total of 47 dead today.
[Daily Caller] An undergraduate researcher at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison has gained national acclaim for her research showing, she says, that members of minority groups feel oppressed by standard, grammatical English.
The researcher is Erika Gallagher, reports The Daily Cardinal, the student newspaper on the taxpayer-funded campus.
Gallagher’s research was chosen to be presented at the Collegiate Conference on Composition and Communication in Portland, Oregon earlier this semester.
The focus of the junior’s research is a theory called "code switching." Basically, adherents of "code switching" say that individuals will seek to alter their speech patterns to fit the group of people with which they are communicating. (RELATED: ’Ma Lips Ah Sealed!’ Hillary Uses Black Accent In Chat With Sharpton)
Members of minority groups feel especially marginalized because of "code switching," Gallagher’s research found.
To avoid any hurt feelings some people may feel by attempting to speak standard, correct English, Gallagher wants to eradicate the stigma associated with Ebonics -- or African‐American Vernacular English, a nonstandard dialect of English spoken by some black people.
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I am told in our local prison systems corrections officers must learn to communicate or understand Ebonics. Inmates many of whom cannot read or write most likely speak the language of their home world (yea, like a restroom :)). Repeat offenders going back to their world only to return later. Locals fear families will move to this area to be close but I suspect most do not have conventional family units. Prisons are located in rural areas because locals need jobs. Real reason is land development. You wouldn't build a $600,000 dollar home next to prison systems (yes, escapes do occur even Alcatraz had three escapes who lived).
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So the researcher is saying n*ggers are to stupid to speak English
Too stupid to be bilingual, unlike Hispanics -- the other special group.
When presented as two different languages/dialects instead of correct and incorrect -- the proper linguistic approach -- and giving the advantage of being able to move between social groups while fitting in with each, the skill becomes a matter of pride rather than an insult -- a thought that clearly has not occurred to our ignorant, bigotted researcher. I've successfully sold the idea of mastering two different ways of speaking, dressing, and table manners in this way -- and my young friends have successfully applied the skills they acquired, while quietly pitying me for having only one set.
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The entire research is pandering for a grant. I have been in South Africa and was shocked to hear 10 year old blacks speak perfect "Kings English". Everyone of them paid attention in school and it really set me back and made me think. When I was in high school most of the blacks would never bring a book or a pen or a pencil. They sat in the back, never turned in homework or took tests. They were given a complimentary D- or a 1.0. In 1963 Johnson signed Kennedy's civil rights bill which gave blacks priority over all other races in college admissions. The professions were flooded with blacks and were allowed to go to medical school under the 1.0 program. All they had to do was attend 80% of the classes to get passed on every year. They did their pre-med with a 1.0 and went to medical school with a 1,0 and white students with an A- to A+ average were unable to attend the schools because the 1.0 blacks had a large number of seats in the classes. They didn't have to take state boards, they were given licenses. It wasn't until about ten years later a white student named Bakke who had been discriminated against finally got to the Supreme Court of the United States who ruled in his favor in that he had been discriminated against (reverse discrimination). Since the blacks had no knowledge to heal, fix teeth, argue law, take care of pets or any other thing based upon the courses they attended most became Dr. Feel Goods and had their licenses pulled with a few years.
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The entire research is pandering for a grant. I have been in South Africa and was shocked to hear 10 year old blacks speak perfect "Kings English".
Yes, in addition to English, many speak their native dialect (Zulu, Zhosa, etc), and Afrikaans. Kaap (Cape) blacks and mixed folks speak a local tribal variant of English and Afrikaans.
[Surber] There was fallout this weekend from the pending criminal investigation of Susan Rice for her role in Barack Obama's illegal espionage of President Trump.
Just a few hours before her scheduled appearance on Saturday before the Greater Rochester Area Branch of American Association of University Women, Rice canceled her speech.
Cheryl McKeiver, a financial adviser and developmental vice president of the club, explained to the press:
"GRAB of AAUW was very much looking forward to hosting Ambassador Susan E. Rice in Rochester to inspire young women who are soon to embark on their chosen careers. Unfortunately, we regret that we must cancel the conference originally scheduled for Saturday, April 8, due to a ticketing error. We apologize to the many young people and members of the Rochester community who were planning to attend tomorrow, and we look forward to welcoming Ambassador Rice, who has graciously offered to speak to our organization in the coming months."
McKeiver forgot to add: if she is not indicted.
The chapter scrubbed any mention of Rice from its web site.
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"the pending criminal investigation of Susan Rice for her role in Barack Obama's illegal espionage of President Trump."
Didn't know there was a pending criminal investigation that involved Rice and Obama. If true, it's about time. If that's the case, I'd say Susan Rice is most likely heading for Peru or French Polynesia.
[SHABELLENEWS] The Honorary Consulate of Somalia in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s Clifton area was robbed late on Friday night, police said.
Senior Superintendent Police District South Saqib Ismail Memon told Dawn that six or seven men entered the premises of the consulate late night.
The men took away two laptops, three mobile phones and Rs 7,000 in cash, Memon said.
The police are investigating the matter further.
The African country’s honorary consulate was inaugurated in Karachi last month on March 16, to celebrate 57 years of diplomatic relations between Pakistain and Somalia.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty four bandidosturbans affiliated 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 Syria (ISIS) terrorist group 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 provincial police commandment in a statement said the bandidosturbans were killed in the restive Achin and Haska Mina districts.
The statement further added at least nine of the bandidosturbans were killed during an operation conducted by the Special Forces in the vicinity of Mazdaki area of Achin.
At least eight others were killed after they were targeted in an Arclight airstrikes in Batan and Shadal areas of Achin.
The police commandment also added that an Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Gorgori area of Haska Mina district which left at least seven bandidosturbans dead.
Some weapons, ammunition, and explosives belonging to the terror group were also destroyed, the statement said, adding that the security forces and the local residents did not suffer any casualties during the ground attacks and Arclight airstrikes.
Both the Afghan and US forces conducted regular strikes against the loyalists of the terror group in this province.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) Special Forces and the Air Forces continue strikes against the safe havens of the murderous Moslems across the country, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) front man Dawlat Waziri said. (Photo: 438th Air Expeditionary Wing)
According to a statement quoting Gen. Waziri, at least 32 snuffies including 13 loyalists of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed during the operations conducted by the Special Forces and the Afghan Air Forces in the past 24 hours in various locations of the country.
The statement further added that five turbans affiliated with the al-Qaeda terrorist network were also among those killed during the operations.
Gen. Waziri said at least eight foreign snuffies were also killed and four others were maimed during the operations.
He said at least eight Tajjik snuffies and the deputy shadow governor of the Taliban group identified as Mullah Asadullah were kille during the Special Forces operations in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz.
Gen. Waziri said at least 13 ISIS loyalists out of dozens killed in the past 24 hours were eliminated during the Special Forces operations in Deh Bala and Achin districts of 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.. He also added that five al-Qaeda terrorist network affiliates were killed during the operations in Geru district of Ghani.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The shadow deputy provincial governor of the Taliban group for the northern Kunduz province has been killed along with dozens of other holy warriors in northern Kunduz province.
According to the local government officials, the Death Eaters were killed in the vicinity of Dasht-e-Archi district.
Provincial police chief General Abdul Hamid Hamidi confirmed that Mullah Assadullah Mazlumyar, the shadow deputy provincial chief of the group for Kunduz was killed in Arclight airstrikes conducted in Mullah Quli area of Dasht-e-Archi.
Gen. Hamidi further added at least fourteen Taliban holy warriors were also killed in the Arclight airstrikes.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... the 209th Corps of the Afghan National Army in the north, in a statement said at least 17 holy warriors including Mullah Mazlumyar and six Tajikistanis were killed.
In the meantime, another official in the north put the number of the Death Eaters killed in the Arclight airstrikes to 24 hard boys.
The 209th Shaheen Corps also added that 11 holy warriors were killed and six others were maimed during a separate operation in Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... province.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Dozens of jihadist forces of Evil were neutralized on Friday evening as the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) conducted a tactical withdrawal from a number of points, only to retake them hours later.
After the arrival of new Tiger Forces reinforcements earlier in the day, the SAA quickly recaptured Maardes Silos, al-Tarabia checkpoint, the Maardes army base and cemented its control over the nearby village of Iskandariya ... named after Alexander the Great, today it's a mostly Sunni-inhabited slum ... h after attacking the area from two flanks.
Now, the Tiger Forces are once again gearing up for a looming assault on Maardes and will look to capture Souran in the following days. If succesful, they will have reversed all jihadist gains since rebel forces began a large-scale offensive on March 21.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, the primary faction fighting in rural Hama, is outnumbered by the pro-government forces but is nevertheless putting up a defiant effort to stop the SAA from pushing into the Idlib governorate, considered Islamist heartland.
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Letting the big boys figure it out among themselves.
[ARA News] The Belgian government on Saturday temporarily suspended air strikes in Syria after Russia stopped its coordination with the US-led coalition. However, a coalition official told ARA News the international coalition continues its air strikes.
“The international coalition looks day by day how the situation evolves,” Belgian Defense Minister Steven Vandeput told VRT news. “If the coalition says it’s safe enough and asks us to continue the missions, we will do that,” he said.
The Belgian government temporarily suspended its missions in Syria after the US hit a Syrian regime airbase in response to chemical attacks on Syrian civilians. Following the strike, the Russian government suspended its coordination with the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS.
“The Coalition is maintaining its flight operations in support of our partner forces’ defeat of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. We refer you to the Belgian government in regards to your query,” Col. Joe Scrocca, United States Army and Director of Public Affairs for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) told ARA News.
A quarter of the missions of Belgian F-16 jets are carried out in Syria, while the rest is carried in Iraq since October 2014. The Belgian fighter jets are based in the al-Azraq base in east Jordan.
“Coalition contributors want to minimize the risk to their militaries,” Washington-based analyst Nicholas A. Heras, Bacevich Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), told ARA News.
“U.S.-Russian deconfliction in Syria is essential to allowing the U.S. Coalition partners to have the peace of mind that they will not be unwillingly thrust into a shooting war between the Americans and the Russians,” Heras said.
“America’s Coalition partners signed up to fight ISIS, not go to war with Russia. The United States and Russia are at a tense standoff in Syria,” he concluded.
The Fuel Crisis Committee, originally established by Tripoli municipal council in 2015 to find solutions to the shortage of fuel in the capital, yesterday launched what is being called “Operation Mediterranean Storm” to counter the smuggling of Libya’s subsidised fuel by sea.
It is being undertaken in collaboration with air force and navy units backing to the PC.
The committee since reports that, at as result, six vessels believed to have been involved in smuggling sped off near Zuwara fearing they would be attacked.
The same committee, which also operates in conjunction with the National Oil Corporation, has already been working to try to block fuel smuggling by land to Tunisia. In January, this led to angry protests at the Ras Jedir border crossing and the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdane in January.
In an indication of a growing antagonism in Libya to the international community as well as to the press, the committee has meanwhile decided to restrict news about its activities. It will appear only on its Facebook page. The move, it says, is to prevent the media having access to the operation, describing it as hostile, especially the foreign press.
Meanwhile in a separate development, the Libyan coastguard supported by the UN-backed government shot at a boat allegedly belonging to migrant smugglers yesterday.
Spokesman Ayoub Qassem told Reuters that four suspected smugglers were killed in an exchange of fire with the Libyan coastguard off western Libya. A German journalist embedded with the coastguard was also said to have been hurt, although a colleague described the wounds as not severe.
(Initially, we reported that the Fuel Crisis Committee has been set up by the Presidency Council. This was a mistake and we apologise for the error: Ed)
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham launched another powerful assault on the al-Manishiyah District of Dara’a City, capturing large chunks of this area after a fierce battle.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham originally began their assault at the al-Manishiyah District on Wednesday, but were later repelled by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) by nightfall.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... on Friday, the jihadist assault finally made significant headway, as they broke-through the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses around the western perimeter of the al-Manishiyah District, giving them the upper-hand in the battle.
According to a military source from the 5th Armored Division, the jihadist rebels have captured more points inside the district today, putting them in position to seize al-Manishiyah in the coming days if the Syrian Arab Army does not receive the necessary reinforcements to hold their positions.
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Pakistani police killed 10 Taliban gunmen in an early morning shootout Saturday in Lahore, officials said, with several militants tied to a February bombing in the eastern city dying in the skirmish.
The gunfight erupted as authorities were escorting five members from the Pakistani Taliban to an arms cache when they were ambushed by gunmen aiming to free the group, said a spokesman with Punjab’s Counter Terrorism Department.
“Ten terrorists from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar were killed during an operation with the Counter Terrorism Department in Punjab including the accused handler of the February 13 Lahore blast,” said the official, referring to a Pakistani Taliban faction.
According to the spokesman the fire fight ensued for half an hour with at least 10 gunmen killed.
The skirmish comes days after seven people were killed and 19 wounded during a Taliban suicide attack targeting a census team in the city.
Lahore has been on edge since a wave of violent attacks across Pakistan in February killed 130 people and shook citizens emboldened by growing security.
The attacks included a bomb blast in the eastern city on February 13 which killed 14 people in an assault claimed by Pakistani Taliban faction.
Ten days later a fresh blast sent panic through the city when it killed eight people, though officials later said it was a gas leak, not an attack as initially feared.
The renewed violence has dented optimism after the country appeared to be making strong gains in its decade-and-a-half long war on militancy, with analysts speaking of a militant resurgence.
[Iraq News] The US missile attack on a military base of Syrian regime suggests that Washington "uses force" to deal with the leaders in the Middle East, said Iraqi VP Nouri al-Maliki. Maliki has turned into a greater Iranian toe sucker than al-Sadr.
On his Facebook account, former Iraqi premier published a media statement on Saturday, decrying US’ missile attack against the Shayrat airfield.
Earlier Muwafaq al- Rubai’i, a politician from Maliki’s Shi’ite State of Law Coalition, described the US assault as "a violation of Syria’s illusory sovereignty."
Also Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari questioned the possibility of using chemical weapons by Bashir al-Assad’s regime.
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It did take out 1/2 of Syria's Sukhoi fighter planes of that model and hardly hurt folks on the ground. I think that is a fairly benign making of a strong point of order.
[SHABELLENEWS] The Kenyan military Saturday said it had foiled an attack by al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... Lions of Islam on a military base in neighboring Somalia, in the process killing Bashe Nure Hassan, a top al-Shabaab commander.
Kenya Defense Forces front man Col. Joseph Owuoth Saturday said in a statement that Kenyan soldiers rushed to the aid of Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers who were being attacked by al-Shabaab at around 3.05 East African time (0005GMT).
"In the subsequent engagement AMISOM [African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia forces from Kenya] supported the SNA allies using mortars and machine gun fire to scuttle the terrorist attack," Owuoth said, adding that the attack happened at Kulday, Somalia.
"Following the failed terrorist attack, two al-Shabaab holy warriors were neutralized and scores injured, and one of the holy warriors killed was an al-Shabaab commander, Bashe Nure Hassan," he added.
According to the Kenyan military, Bashe Nure Hassan was a Kuday resident who was born and raised in the area before joining the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab Lion of Islam group several years back.
Kenyan soldiers also said that they recovered an assortment of weapons including three AK-47 rifles, 11 magazines, a satellite phone, and 290 rounds of ammunition. The Kenyan military said that there were no casualties from the Somali army side or Kenyan side. "The report did not indicate what type of weapons the detained civilians weren't carrying."
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[SHABELLENEWS] The Ugandan contingent serving under the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has deployed a new battle group to support ongoing peace and security operations in the country.
The newly deployed troops under Battle Group XXI, replaces Battle Group XVIII which has completed the mandatory one-year tour of duty.
The group arrived in Mogadishu Saturday morning and will secure key installations in Somalia which include the Mogadishu Sea Port, the Federal Parliament, Presidential Palace, Mogadishu Airport, and the AMISOM Base camp in Halane.
The new battle group will also occupy and secure AMISOM forward bases in the liberated areas of Leego, Arbiska, Afgoye as well as Jazeera, all located in the Lower Shabelle region.
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[SHABELLENEWS] The tribunal court of Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... has executed five alleged Al shabaab members by firing squad in Bosaso town on Saturday.
The military court of Puntland state said the executed men were found guilty of carrying out several liquidations in the coastal and commercial town of Bosaso in the past.
"All of them have been found guilty of being members of Al shabaab and killing senior Puntland officails in Bosaso early this year," said Puntland military court chairman.
Abdiftitah Hajji Aden, the Puntland court chairman has added two others were sentenced to life imprisonment, for being members of the Al Qaeda-linked Al shabaab turbans.
The court said the executed five men were found guilty of killing former Puntland Presidency director Aden Gaas Huruse and Puntland deputy police commander Jamac Sahardiid.
In recent months, Puntland has launched crackdown on Al shabaab as its military court sentenced individuals linked to Al shabaab tough punishments such as death penalty.
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[Iraq News] A local official in Diyala Province declared, on Saturday, that al-Hashd al-Ashaeri foiled an attack launched by 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.... on a security checkpoint, east of Baqubah.
Head of Mansuriya Council, Ragheb al-Anbaki, said in a press statement that the Islamic State group launched an attack on a checkpoint belonging to al-Hashd al-Ashaeri, on the outskirts of Sharwain area, in the vicinity of al- Mansuriya area.
Al-Hashd forces managed to foil the attack, and forced the Islamic State members to flee, Anbaki added.
Noteworthy, security checkpoints in the villages of al- Mansuriya are frequently attacked by the Islamic State bad boys, and sometimes resulting in casualties.
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JEDDAH: The government of Yemen announced that work is underway to reopen Al-Mokha port on the country’s Red Sea coast, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday.
Yemen’s Deputy Minister of Transport Nasser Sharif told his country’s news agency, “The ministry is working to take the necessary measures to conduct work in the ports of Al-Hodeidah and Al-Mokha" after their liberation from Houthis and that it is assessing procedures to “transfer the presidency of the Red Sea Ports to Al-Mokha after the government's approval.”
Sharif said the port of Al-Hodeidah has been stopped, noting that it has become an outlet for smuggling of weapons and money, which the militia are benefiting from by controlling the port’s trade activities.
The restoration of the port of Al-Hodeidah by the Yemeni government and their coalition partners will be a major blow to the Houthis who use the port as a channel to transport weapons and as well as disrupt maritime navigation.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), alongside the Paleostine Liberation Army (PLA) and National Defense Forces (NDF), carried out a new assault in the East Ghouta region of Damascus on Saturday, targeting the defenses of the Salafist tough guys east of Douma.
Led by their 105th Brigade of the Elite Republican Guard, the Syrian Arab Army and their allies attacked Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... ’s (Army of Islam) positions at the small village of Hawsh al-Dawahirah, resulting in a series of intense festivities on Saturday afternoon.
According to local activists, the Syrian Arab Army and their allies managed to capture local grammar school that was turned into a bad boy base and a nearby checkpoint.
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Seems to be an uptick today regarding the Syrian Army.
Why the h-e-double hockey sticks were the runways at Shayrat Air Base not destroyed? We seem to have aircraft armed with precision bombs in the area, right?
Many of the most head-snapping comments I heard came from Obama’s own top advisers, who had long pushed him to confront Assad more aggressively and viewed his 2013 refusal to take military action against Syria after drawing a “red line” on chemical weapons use as a major American foreign policy debacle. There’s no love lost for Trump in this group, whose members found themselves in the uncomfortable position of cheering a leader they still both loathe and fear.
“Our administration never would have gotten this done in 48 hours,” one former senior official of the Obama administration told me. “It’s a complete indictment of Obama.”
“I feel like finally we have done the right thing,” Anne-Marie Slaughter, who served as Obama’s first-term chief of policy planning at the State Department and long publicly urged a more forceful response to Assad’s horrific attacks on civilians during the six years of war that have wracked Syria, told me. “The years of hypocrisy just hurt us all. It undermined the U.S., it undermined the world order.”
Slaughter, now the head of the New America Foundation and a major backer of Trump’s defeated opponent Hillary Clinton last November, tweeted, “Donald Trump has done the right thing on Syria. Finally!! After years of useless handwringing in the face of atrocities.” I later asked her if it was awkward to be cheering for Trump now. “I’m just glad to see it,” she said. “It was the right thing.”
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It undermined the U.S., it undermined the world order.”
And will any of them ever admit that those were the ultimate goals for which he was striving?
[Iraq News] A Counter-Terrorism Officer informed, on Saturday, that Iraqi army forces killed seven leaders 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.... group, while emphasized that security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi militia are significantly advancing in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Major Ali Mohsen, in a press statement, said that Iraqi security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi militia advanced toward al-Mzawya, west of Mosul.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... Iraqi army forces killed seven Arab leaders of the Islamic State group, and locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three others during the confrontations, Mohsen added.
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[NYSUN] The Senate’s confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as the 113th justice of the Supreme Court is certainly the occasion for congratulations. They’re in order not only for the cautious Coloradan but for President Trump and for Senator McConnell and Republican colleagues and to the three Democrats -- Senators Donnelly of Indiana, Heidtkamp of the more northern of the two Dakotas, and Manchin of West Virginia -- who eschewed the politics and voted on the merits.
Much is being made at the moment of the decision of the Senate to dispense with the filibuster. The Democrats are retailing this as the end of bipartisanship and moderation in respect of the justices. What, though, would have been done in respect of bipartisanship and moderation had the filibuster been allowed to stand? The fact is that the rules of the Senate have nothing at all to do, one way or another, with the bitterness that obtains in our politics today.
This obtains because of the fury of a Democratic Party that has lost what it had come to think of in the wake of the New Deal and World War II as its rightful inheritance of moral leadership. It turned out that the party wasn’t up to it. There’s a lot of blame. It really started to come apart, though, with the Clintons, him with his scandalous behavior and her with the sale of her office, and President B.O.’s years of scandal and retreat (and slow growth).
Yet we are in a reserved frame of mind in respect of the new justice. We can see how smart he is, and are no less impressed than any other editorial column with, say, his skepticism of administrative power and his grasp of the religious freedom issues in, say, Hobby Lobby. We didn’t like it, though, when the Justice huffed that he’d have stood up and walked out the door if President Trump had asked him to overturn Roe v. Wade. There was just something off about that answer.
For one thing, we doubt Judge Gorsuch, or any well-brought-up person, would have walked out on the president, even in the face of such a poser. The judge could have said simply that he was uncomfortable with the query, lest he say something that might smack of ex parte deal making. Or he could have said, "Mr. President, I can’t tell you how I’d rule -- for who knows how this question may be presented to the court? -- but I agree with Justice Ruth Ginsburg that court decisions on abortions are in tension."
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[AlAhram] Two turbans were killed in a shootout with security forces at a farm in the Nile Delta's Beheira governorate,
...the Beheira governate has a history of bombings, generally linked to the Muslim Brotherhood demonstrating their unhappiness with the government. Politically it is a stronghold of the Salafist Nour party...
following a tip-off to police that the premises were being used to manufacture explosives, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday.
After they received the tip, National Security in Beheira verified the information and received clearance to raid the farm.
The myrmidons, according to MENA, fired at security forces when they detected them on the property, prompting the forces to fire back.
Security forces found three automatic rifles at the farm as well as a number of explosives and ammunitions.
In August 2015, three police personnel were killed and 27 others injured in a bombing that targeted their bus in Beheira. Five individuals were tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! and tried for the attack.
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President Donald Trump is preparing to issue an executive order with the goal of giving oil companies more opportunities to drill offshore, reversing Obama-era policies that restricted the activity.
The offshore drilling directive is set to be issued soon, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told an industry conference in Washington on Thursday, according to three attendees who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a session closed to the press. Zinke did not provide specific details on the executive order during his presentation to the National Ocean Industries Association.
The coming order is set to push the Interior Department to schedule sales of new offshore oil and natural gas rights in U.S. Atlantic and Arctic waters, amending a five-year Obama administration leasing plan that left out auctions there, according to an industry representative who has discussed it with officials.
The order is also expected to begin the process of revoking former President Barack Obama’s decision to indefinitely withdraw most U.S. Arctic waters and some Atlantic Ocean acreage from future leasing. Environmentalists say it would be unprecedented for any president to rescind such a designation, and the reversal would almost certainly be challenged in court.
Spokesmen for the Interior Department and White House did not respond to emailed requests seeking comment.
Although Trump can set those policy changes in motion with an executive order, the real work falls to bureaucrats in the Interior Department and could span years. Wedging new Arctic and Atlantic lease sales into the government’s five-year plan would require environmental analysis and public comment periods -- perhaps consuming a year for seas north of Alaska and even longer for parcels along the U.S. East Coast.
The Obama administration previously had considered selling leases in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas as well as 104 million acres of the mid- and south-Atlantic before ultimately foregoing those potential auctions. Though time consuming, restoring Arctic and Atlantic lease sales would be relatively straightforward.
But the Trump administration faces a bigger challenge in attempting to undo Obama’s decision to remove roughly 125 million Arctic acres and nearly 4 million acres in the Atlantic Ocean from future oil and gas leasing. Obama formalized those withdrawals by invoking an obscure provision in a 1953 law that does not explicitly give presidents the power to reverse previous designations.
Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, has stressed that the maneuver must be done carefully so it can survive legal challenges.
Environmentalists said that is precisely why the Trump administration would not be successful.
"The administration can stare all day at the statute Obama used to protect large parts of the Arctic and Atlantic, but they won’t find a syllable allowing Trump to revoke those protections. Neither will the courts," said Niel Lawrence, Alaska director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
"It’s hard to imagine riskier, more expensive or time-consuming places to look for oil," Lawrence said by email. "It would be an extraordinary misuse of public dollars and agency resources to try to open them up now."
The U.S. Arctic is estimated to hold 27 billion barrels of oil and 132 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Energy companies have struggled to tap those resources, given high exploration costs and sparse infrastructure to support the activity, but there has been a surge of interest in Beaufort Sea waters hugging Alaska’s coastline, after recent announcements of discoveries by Repsol SA and Caelus Energy Corp. Eni SpA also asked U.S. regulators to consider its plan for oil exploration in previously leased Beaufort Sea tracts.
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This should provide a windfall for the U.S. Treasury.
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Putin ordered Trump to increase US oil production because that will keep down the price of oil because a high oil price is good for the Russian economy because... wait a minute, I lost my train of thought -- let me go watch MSNBC for a while.
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Hey, I gave up and offloaded my offshore drilling stock 2 months ago.... How long does this "preparing" take? Lots of those offshore drillers are bankrupt or racing there.
The times, they are a-changing. Bereft of a sponsor and [hopefully] realizing greater threats face their society, a native terror group rejoins society.
[AlAhram] Around 3.5 tonnes of arms, explosives and other materiel have been found in eight arms dumps identified by ETA, French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday, following the Basque separatist group's vow to disarm.
"The French government welcomes this operation, carried out calmly and without violence," Cazeneuve said in a statement.
"It's a decisive step towards the end of Basque separatist terrorism."
ETA said in 2011 that it was abandoning its armed struggle for independence in the Basque region straddling the Spanish-French border and announced its "total disarmament" on Saturday.
The group provided La Belle France with a list of locations for its arms caches -- a move welcomed by Gay Paree but deemed insufficient by Spain, which called on ETA to disband completely.
"The dangerous products will be destroyed," Cazeneuve said.
"Arms and equipment will be evaluated by justice authorities who will work, as always, in close collaboration with Spanish justice authorities to verify if the material gathered can help to resolve cases underway."
He added: "Whether the disarmament is, effectively, total will also be established."
The French premier said he hoped ETA's vow to disarm would mark "the end of five decades of violence" and herald "an era of lasting peace which the Basque Country should never have gone without",
The next round of elections across Europe is going to be very interesting. This isn't just something that happens in bad neighbourhoods anymore.
[IsraelTimes] Police in the Norwegian capital of Oslo said they neutralized an bomb found in a busy area of downtown Oslo late Saturday night and said they had tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! a suspect.
Police Chief Vidar Pedersen confirmed that the device, initially described as "bomb-like," was an explosive. The police Twitter account said it had been defused or neutralized.
Police would not give any details about the suspect, or further information about the device.
Pedersen said the device was found on the street just outside the Groenland underground station, and police swept through the area to remove people from bars and restaurants.
"Every restaurant was being closed," said 23-year-old Malin Myrvold, who witnessed the scene from a fourth-story window. "You could see cops in heavy armor going in every store and restaurant.
"We were trying to see what was going on. The police were screaming at us to get back inside and stay where we were," she added by telephone.
Norway was put on high alert after neighboring Sweden suffered a truck attack in the capital that killed four people and injured 15.
The Norwegian incident happened less than a mile from the government buildings that were damaged in a deadly kaboom carried out by right wing krazed killer Anders Breivik in 2011. That bomb and a subsequent gun massacre killed a total of 77 people.
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police swept through the area to remove people from bars and restaurants.
"Every restaurant was being closed," said 23-year-old Malin Myrvold, who witnessed the scene from a fourth-story window. "You could see cops in heavy armor going in every store and restaurant.
Norway was put on high alert after neighboring Sweden suffered a truck attack in the capital that killed four people and injured 15.
Kinda hard to downplay that
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[RT] An airborne brigade combat team stationed at a base near Anchorage, Alaska was scheduled to be deactivated. Instead, some 1,500 soldiers will be sent to Afghanistan as part of a regular troop rotation, the US Army has announced.
Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) will be sent to Afghanistan later this year as part of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel. The "Spartan Brigade" is the only US Army Airborne unit in the Pacific, currently stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, outside of Anchorage, Alaska.
The deployment does not signal an increase in troop levels, Army spokeswoman Maria Njoku told Stars and Stripes on Friday. The number of US forces in Afghanistan is currently capped at 8,400.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The fourth batch of jihadist rebels and their families departed from the al-Wa’er District of Homs City, today, en route for the northern Aleppo town of Jarabulus near the Turkish border-crossing.
According to local news hounds, the jihadist rebels and their families loaded the buses in al-Wa’er this morning after the government provided the agreed upon buses to make the long trip from Homs to Jarabulus.
Today’s transport was considered one of the smallest group’s to depart from al-Wa’er; however, another batch of jihadist rebels and their families are expected to leave the district in the coming days, as part of the agreement with government.
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[ARA News] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday continued their military operations against Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants in the vicinity of Tabqa, in Syria’s northeastern Raqqa province.
The SDF media office told ARA News that their forces shelled ISIS security headquarters to the east of Tabqa town.
At least 16 ISIS militants were killed and dozens were wounded under SDF fire on Saturday.
“We were able to destroy five ISIS vehicles and seize light weapons and a large deal of ammunition after the group evacuated the targeted area,” SDF officer Habun Osman told ARA News.
In the meantime, clashes broke out between the Syrian Democratic Forces and ISIS in the village of Hadaj west of Tabqa.
“The clashes took place after ISIS targeted an SDF checkpoint with mortar shells,” a local media activist reported. “The SDF was eventually able to repel the attack and prevent ISIS’ progress,” he confirmed to ARA News.
Noteworthy, hundreds of ISIS jihadists have escaped Raqqa since the US-backed SDF troops launched a major operation to isolate and eventually liberate Raqqa city from the radical group last November.
This comes as part of the third phase of the Euphrates Wrath Operation, aimed at liberating Eastern Raqqa from ISIS jihadists, launched by the SDF on 4 February.
During the first phase of Euphrates Wrath, which began on November 6, 2016, the SDF liberated roughly 560 km² in Northern Raqqa.
On 10 December, the SDF launched the second phase of the Euphrates Wrath, during which it captured over 2500 km² in Western Raqqa.
The campaign is ultimately aimed at isolating the ISIS radical group in its de facto capital.
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Casualties were reported as fierce fighting erupted on Friday in Ain Al-Hilweh refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, after extremist militants opened fire on the joint Palestinian security force.
Al-Manar correspondent in Sidon reported that Bilal Badr group, affiliated with Al-Qaeda, opened fire on the joint security force which was deploying in one of the three posts agreed upon following the last battle which lasted for days in the refugee camp last February.
Our correspondent said that the 100-member-force led by Brig. Gen. Bassam al-Saad managed on Saturday morning to get into Al-Tireh area, the stronghold of Badr group, forcing the Takfiri group to retreat to Al-Safsaf area.
The newly formed Palestinian joint security force includes members of Fatah Movement, Hamas, Osbat al-Ansar and other Palestinian factions.
RPGs (Rocket-propelled grenade) and gunfire have been heard across the camp till Saturday morning, our correspondent said, putting the toll of the clashes so far at two killed and 13 injured.
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I didn’t realize that our military knows what every aircraft in Syria is doing at all times. That’s impressive, bordering on hard-to-believe.
Tracking flying aircraft is child's play. We do it all the time in the US on a daily basis, believe it or not. Otherwise commercial airlines might bump into each other.
Easy to track a plane with all the military radar over their, see its flight path and where it lands so a, "Gee, that plane attacked a town with gas and landed at this airport so this airport is most likely its base of operations" isn't that much of an intel leap.
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"Gee,that plane attacked a town with gas and landed at this airport so this airport is most likely its base of operations" isn't that much of an intel leap.
1. A Syrian government aircraft left its base, flew over an inhabited area, and returned to its base. Not much of a leap.
2. A Syrian government aircraft left its base, flew over an inhabited area, dropped ordnance and returned to its base. Plausible given past actions; barring disclosure of BDAs and verifiable intel from the area, it's a bit of a leap.
3. A Syrian aircraft left its base, flew over an inhabited area, dropped ordnance containing a chemical agent and returned to its base. Possible, but the requirement for proof is much higher.
4. The Syrian airbase that the Syrian government aircraft flew from was struck by missiles launched from US naval vessels. Proven. The Russians were notified is plausible. However, the motivation for the missile strike is not necessarily proven.
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Why would you doubt BDAs and verifiable intel from the area aren't available to POTUS? The Pentagon and NGA have to be at least that competent. Perhaps it is not in the interests of the deep state to leak it.
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Ya'll have it all wrong. According to some far left stuff on Facebook, the ultimate go-to for real information, Outin ordered Trump to do this. Trump is too stupid to do this on his own.
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How would Trump coordinate with Putin without having the coordination revealed by Dem operatives in the intel agencies?
[ALMASDARNEWS] A massive kaboom was reported at the Jordanian border-crossing in Dara’a tonight, as a boom-mobileexploded at local checkpoint near the al-Rukban Refugee Camp.
According to local activists, at least 10 people were reportedly killed or maimed by this boom-mobileing tonight.
Following the boom-mobileing, intense festivities broke-out between the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) and unknown Death Eater group that is suspected to be comprised of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members in southern Syria.
The Jordanian Air Force is now flying over this camp and monitoring the area for any potential terrorist activity.
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[SHABELLENEWS] The new Minister of Internal security for the Somalia’s Federal Government Mohamed Abukar Islow (Dualle) has fired the Police commissioner of Hamarweyne district over incompetence.
The sudden dismissal came after the minister has paid an expected visit to the Police station in Hamarweyne on Friday evening and failed to spot the Police boss at his office.
The security minister of Somalia has appointed an interim officer for the post.
The new leaders of the Federal government are making efforts aimed to improve the overall security of the country’s capital, and deal with the sporadic attacks from Al shabaab.
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[EXPRESS.CO.UK] SIX suspected jihadis have been rubbed out by police in Indonesia. The group were killed after a failed drive-by targeting coppers. The incident took place at around 5pm local time (11am GMT) in East Java.
Police front man Frans Barung Mangera said officers had been monitoring a vehicle which had links to snuffies in the area.
He said: "We tried to stop that vehicle, but the vehicle did not stop." Mr Mangera said those in the vehicle then "took out weapons and shot at officers".
The men then fled into a plantation before a shoot-out ensued. The front man said: "By around 5pm we had immobilised all of them."
Police had been monitoring the vehicle in connection after three suspected members of Islamic bully boy group Jemaah Anshorut Daulah were tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! yesterday.
The incident took place in East Java, Indonesia this afternoon
Indonesia has been on high alert over a recent resurgence in radicalism inspired by the bully boy group Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... .
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[Iraq News] A Police Officer in Nineveh, on Saturday, revealed that Iraqi forces seized large quantities of weapons inside a tunnel belonging to 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.... , south of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Captain Jassim Mohammed, in a press statement, said that security forces discovered a tunnel belonging to the Islamic State in al-Koliyat area, south of Mosul, containing large quantities of weapons and rockets.
The security forces started to search and cleanse the area of al-Koliyat from the remnants of the Islamic State group, after discovering the tunnel, Mohammed added.
[Iraq News] Military Intelligence Directorate announced, on Saturday, killing 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.... officials of communications, defense detachments and commando, in an air strike carried out by the international coalition aircraft, in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The directorate released a statement saying that based on information obtained from the Military Intelligence Directorate, US-led international coalition targeted via an air strike a vehicle carrying a number of the Islamic State foreign leaders in the intersection of 17 Tammuz and Mushayrafa, in western Mosul.
The air strike resulted in the killing of three Islamic State officials including the communications official Abu Huzaifa, Russian nationl, defense detachments official Abu Tamara, Chechen national and commando official, known as al-Matuni, the statement added.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Turkish Army enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! two Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) officers in the northern Aleppo town of ’Azaz on Saturday, local activits reported via social media.
General Sabri al-Awad and Colonel ’Abdullah Zeno were apprehended by the Turkish Army for refusing to raise the Turkish flag over their security base in ’Azaz.
The two FSA officers were also charged with refusing to promote Turkish-sponsored officers in their rebel group; this was due to the fact most of these men had little-to-no military experience.
The Turkish Army initially transported the two FSA officers to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for further questioning; however, they were later transferred to a prison in ’Azaz.
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"Aleppo? What is Aleppo?"
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According to Wikipedia, the frigate Admiral Grigorovich has been in commission only since last year. She is the Russian Navy's latest.
[ARA News] Russia on Saturday sent a warship armed with cruise missiles to join its battlegroup off the Syrian coast.
The step comes as part of Russia’s response to the US cruise missile strikes on the Syrian regime’s airbase of Shayrat in Homs province.
The frigate Admiral Grigorovich, reached the group of at least six warships off the coast of Syria, Russia state media reported.
The warship carried Kalibr cruise missiles, the Russian equivalent to the US Tomahawk missiles fired at Shayrat, and has previously fired them at targets in the war-torn country, according to reports.
“There’s a bad scenario with this flexing of muscles,” Fyodor Lukyanov, a leading foreign policy analyst in Moscow, told The Guardian on Saturday.
“The danger of a clash between the US and Russia in Syria is not pleasant, and it could have bad consequences.”
“But there’s also a positive scenario. For Trump, discussion with Russia about co-operation in Syria was impossible before because it was a discussion from a position of weakness,” Lukyanov said.
“Now we can say that America has shown its abilities, has returned to the picture, and the conversation won’t be one-sided, neither side will dominate, and this creates possibilities and preconditions for dialogue.”
Also, Putin’s spokesman said that the Russian president viewed the strikes as “aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international law, and under a false pretext”, but the rebuke seemed a bit rote and lacking in vinegar.
Russian troops, that support Assad regime in Syria, had been evacuated from the Shayrat airbase after the US reportedly warned Russia about its attack.
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry cancelled a “deconfliction” agreement, designed to prevent mid-air collisions, under which the US and Russia informed each other about their military operations.
[DAWN] LAHORE: Ten suspected turbans of the Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... , including Anwarul Haq, the handler of Feb 13 kaboom on The Mall, were killed in an operation by the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday night.
According to a front man for the CTD, a team from Lahore was taking five tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! suspects, including Haq, to Manawan for seizing weapons and explosives when they were attacked at about 1.15am near Ring Road by nine "terrorists".
The attackers got the arrested suspects freed and fled towards the Ravi river in the Manawan area.
The CTD officials called for more force and chased the suspects. At about 1.45am, they located the suspects and ordered them to surrender, but the turbans shot up them and an encounter ensued. When the firing stopped, 10 men were found dead.
Five of the killed turbans were identified as Haq, Abdullah, Attaur Rehman, Imam Shah and Irfan Khan.
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[DAWN] THE 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... (JUI) is one of the oldest religio-political parties in the subcontinent. It has rendered a valuable contribution towards shaping the contemporary Moslem identity in India and Pakistain, besides influencing religious and political behaviour in other parts of the wider region.
In Pakistain, the faction of the JUI that is led by Maulana Fazlur Rehman
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Army units killed a number of terrorists including leaders of al-Nusra Front terrorist organization in Bosra al-Sham and Daraa al-Balad area in Daraa southern province.
A military source told SANA that an army unit on Saturday morning carried out concentrated bombardments against a command center belonging to al-Nusra terrorist organization in the eastern countryside.
The source added that the center was destroyed and all terrorists inside it were killed.
An army unit also killed all members of a terrorist group on the road of al-Sad in Daraa al-Balad area.
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[AlAhram] Two suspected al-Qaeda turbans were killed in a dronezap in war-torn Yemen, local security sources said Saturday amid a surge in US raids against Islamist bully boys.
The sources said the drone, apparently American, hit the fighters on Friday evening as they rode a cycle of violence through the Sawmaa area of central Baida province.
The region is a stronghold of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP), which has taken advantage of the chaos caused by more than two years of civil war to expand its presence in Yemen.
Baida was the site of the first raid ordered by 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... after he took office in January.
The US has since escalated its drone war in Yemen, where security officials have reported dozens of suspected Islamist turbans killed in strikes on Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... , Baida and the neighbouring province of Shabwa.
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[RT] The EU Parliament’s biggest group, the European People’s Party, has expressed support for a Europe-wide ban of the Moslem veil citing both cultural and security concerns.
"The EPP calls for... A ban on full-face veils (i.e. the burqa or niqab) in public places, both for reasons of security and because seeing one another’s faces is an integral part of human interaction in Europe," the EPP’s resolution stated, as cited by The Independent.
The party, which currently holds 216 seats of the 751-member European Parliament, has adopted such a measure as official policy under a resolution entitled, "For a cohesive society: Countering Islamic extremism."
The EPP adopted the measure at its congress in Malta this week.
"We want a total ban of face covering in the EU" said Manfred Weber, the group’s leader in the European Parliament, as cited by the The Express. Weber is a member of Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... ’s CDU/CSU alliance in Germany with whom the EPP is affiliated.
Other provisions contained include "the avoidance of concentrating thousands of third-country nationals in any one location" and "mandatory integration requirements" for welfare recipients.
While the resolution is nonbinding, an EPP spokesperson called for an EU-level discussion on the matter but admitted that it doesn’t align with current EU policy objectives, reports The Independent.
The EPP boasts both President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Hungarian PM Viktor Orban as members.
The issue of Moslem veils is being hotly debated elsewhere in Europe, with La Belle France passing a contentious ban on Moslem face coverings in 2010, while several areas of Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... have adopted similar measures.
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The reported numbers continue to grow by an order of magnitude each month.
When reality can be changed at any moment by Allah's unconstrained whim, why bother actually counting?
Aden – A large number of Yemenis live in dangerous humanitarian and psychological situations in light of the increasing violating acts Houthi and Saleh militias have been committing since the beginning of the war which passed its second year in several cities in Yemen.
Thousands of civilians have been subjected to arbitrary arrests and detentions, some of which – over time – have become cases of enforced disappearance in isolation from the outside world, which further complicated the psychological situation and the suffering of the families of those abducted.
Many people were released, others spoke about their sufferings and what Houthi militias requested from their parents in return of their release, while some others are still out of their parent’s reach in unknown places.
Meanwhile, thousands of civilians were subjected to similar acts of kidnapping and enforced disappearance, according to statistics issued by local humanitarian organizations.
Local Yemeni reports revealed that Houthi and Saleh militias have committed 4,841 arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances in 2016.
A report issued by Yemeni Coalition to Monitor Human Rights Violations (YCMHRV) stated that field monitoring teams recorded around 5,092 documented violations with 4,882 are of arbitrary detentions and 210 of enforced disappearances.
This is the total number of violations of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and the International Human Rights Law, which the YCMHRV could document.
The violations documented in the report are distributed among provinces in Yemen.
According to the indicators and statistical data, Sana’a which is under the control of Houthi-Saleh militia topped the list at (693) violations. Baidha province, which witnesses armed conflicts between Houthi-Saleh militia and the armed forces of the legitimate internationally recognized Yemeni government backed by the popular resistance, was second at (655) violations followed by Ibb province that is under the control of Houthi-Saleh militia at (539) violations.
Then Hodeida, which is under the control of Houthi-Saleh militia, located in Sahal Tihama whose people are extremely poor at (506) violations.
Spokeswoman of the National Human Rights Committee in Yemen Ishraq al-Maqtari said that the committee was keen from the beginning of its work in January 2016 to reach all victims in Yemen, those whose civil, political, economic and social rights were violated, especially their right to live with dignity and wellness.
The committee has been keen to monitor and document all cases of illegal arrest and enforced disappearance, which are considered violations for the IHL, national law articles and international law principles.
Ankara – Turkish police forces arrested on Friday 29 ISIS suspects during major anti-terror raids in a number of neighborhoods in Istanbul and other Turkish cities.
The campaign was launched in the framework of a series of operations carried out by security forces throughout Turkey, exceeding 12,500 operation during which thousands of wanted and suspected members of terrorist organizations were arrested.
The Istanbul Security General Directorate launched campaigns to reveal ISIS activities in the country and prevent any terrorist attack, according to security sources.
Sources added that in addition to the security plans in Istanbul, the directorate carried out near-simultaneous raids on 51 houses in three Turkish cities.
Turkish authorities continue their operations to carry out pre-emptive strikes against terrorist elements ahead of a referendum on the constitutional amendment in Turkey, which is scheduled to be held on April 16.
Turkey received warnings from Australia and New Zealand regarding possible terrorist attacks on the commemoration of a World War I campaign that is being held this month.
ANZAC Day is an annual holiday commemorating the April 25, 1915 landings in Gallipoli — the first major military action fought by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I.
Holland, Germany, USA, Israel and Iran warned their citizens in Turkey of terrorist threats and urged them to be cautious and not to go to Turkey, especially in the south and south-east areas of the country. Meanwhile ISIS called on its militants in Turkey to carry out attacks at all voting sites on referendum day.
“Choosing a lawmaker other than God is a curse,” ISIS said on its monthly magazine Rumiyah’s April issue.
“Like the ones who say “yes” in referendum are heretic, “no” voters are also heretic. Muslims must not go to ballot boxes – they must stay away from it and must declare their hostility to ones who go to vote.”
In a common matter, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on April 7 at an opening ceremony in the southeastern province of Şırnak that terrorist organizations will be erased from Turkey.
“Who has been harmed by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) the most until today? It was you. It was Şırnak, Cizre, Idil and Silopi. They had dug trenches, burned down buildings, laid explosives, and martyred our police and our soldiers. These traitors will pay the price,” Yildirim said.
Following an 82-day long curfew, which was first imposed on March 14, 2016, many districts of Şırnak were destroyed due to the clashes between security forces and PKK militants.
Slamming the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) for “acting along the PKK during the clashes,” Yildirim said the criticisms from European countries and institutions were biased.
“Now these HDP members go to Europe and complain about Turkey. They don’t mention terror, the pits and their politics of ditches. They say that the state had burned Cizre and Şırnak. The Netherlands, Switzerland or Austria may act as if they have believed it, but my citizens in Şırnak; Kurds, Arabs and Zazas know who did what,” he said.
“We have halted this atrocity and their terror politics,” he said.
Yildirim stated that the destroyed districts will be renewed by the state.
“We will reconstruct all the buildings that were destructed in the most beautiful way,” he added.
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[DAWN] A Pak man associated with Axact in a senior capacity pleaded guilty on Friday in the US to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with an international "diploma mill" scheme, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ).
Umair Hamid, 30, admitted to the charges before US District Judge Ronnie Abrams, the US DOJ reported on its website.
"Operating from Pakistain, Umair Hamid helped fraudulently rake in millions of dollars from unwitting American consumers who paid to enroll in, and get degrees from, high schools and colleges that did not exist," Acting US Attorney Joon H. Kim was quoted as saying in the US justice department blurb.
Kim added: "As a result of his fraud, people who thought they were investing in an education received nothing more than worthless diplomas and a harsh lesson in the worldwide reach of deceit."
"Together with our partners at the FBI and the Postal Service, we will continue to work to protect consumers from scams that victimise our citizens," he said.
Hamid, an executive at software firm Axact, was jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! on Dec 19, 2016, according to a statement by former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara. He was produced in a federal court in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, the following day.
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I would be certain that most of the people that signed up knew it was a fraud.
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And this is different than American 'higher learning' awarding useless paper degrees in 'studies' for good attendance and timely paying indenturing student loan money into the institution's coffers? It's all about presentation and 'who you know'.
Author Michelle R. McPhee's Maximum Harm. Excerpt from page 22:
Something was clearly going on in Cambridge that night that the feds did not want to share with local law enforcement officials. All week there had been whispers about arguments at the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal evidence center. There ten separate viewing stations with computer terminals had been set up along three rows to review the 655 videos that the FBI would later say had been collected as part of the investigation. Cops and agents sat side by side looking for anyone in the footage who looked out of place or nervous, or who was carrying a black backpack - the pieces of which had been the flesh of some of the marathon bombing victims and collected by FBI forensic examiners at hospitals all over the city. Off to one side, remembered one BPD homicide investigator, two FBI agents sat alone. They didn't introduce themselves. They didn't mingle. Instead they compared photos in their lap with photos on their computer screen, a detail cooborated by other witnesses who requested anonymity. The FBI had sent an expert from its Forensics Audio, Video, and Image Analysis Unit, Special Agent Anthony Imel, from his lab at Quantico, Virginia, to Boston to oversee the data collection. Imel did not appear to have any oversight of the FBI agents sitting by themselves, the witness said. A local FBI agent, Kevin Swindon, who supervised the Boston division's Computer Analysis Response Team, didn't either. He was too busy analyzing a security tape taken from inside the Forum restaurant, which in a clear and horrifying way showed the second blast. "We had numerous amounts of employees watching this video over and over and over again," he would later tell ABC News. "We couldn't see anything that stuck out."
One man from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) finally could not take it any longer. He stood up and confronted the duo: "What are you guys looking at?" There was no response. A retired investigator who was there recalled in an interview conducted on background that the DEA agent said "Fuck you guys. You know who these mutts are and you're not sharing!" The agent stormed out. But his words stuck with the other officers and agents still looking at the videos. Those FBI agents were not seen at the evidence center again.
Multiple police officers assigned to work at the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal but not authorized to speak on the record told me: "They knew. They held it [the information] for days. They knew."
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Two big shots of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network were killed in an Arclight airstrike in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the two big shots were among at least six turbans killed in the Arclight airstrike on Friday.
According to a statement by MoI, the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Parcha area of Geru district.
The statement further added that six turbans were killed in total in the Arclight airstrike and the Haqqani network leaders killed in the raid have been identified as Mohammad Gul Nafiz and Mawlavi Rashid.
The two leaders were reportedly having key role in organizing suicide kabooms and other insurgency in this province, MoI said, adding that some weapons and a vehicle belonging to the murderous Moslems were also destroyed.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Nearly two months after the deadly blast at the shrine of Sufi saint Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, the Counter-Terrorism Department of police on Friday claimed to have made headway in its investigation by spotting two more suspects related to the attack.
To review the progress of the suicide kaboom case, the director general of Pakistain Rangers, Sindh, chaired a joint meeting of the law-enforcement agencies which chalked out a strategy to bring the findings before the public. The meeting, which was held at the Rangers’ headquarters, also reviewed the overall security situation.
Sharing details of the ’important progress’ in the investigation, additional inspector general of police Dr Sanaullah Abbasi, who heads the CTD in Sindh, told the media at his office that two controllers of the suicide kaboom had visited the Qalandar’s shrine in Sehwan just a day before the blast and took several photographs of the place.
The CTD chief said the two controllers of the suicide kaboom, which claimed the life of around 80 devotees on Feb 16, had finally been spotted in footage obtained with the help of 38 cameras installed at the shrine. The suspected jacket wallah and the two controllers could be seen conducting reconnaissance during their one-hour stay at the shrine on Feb 15, the additional IG said.
The controllers also took several photos of the suspected bomber, perhaps in an attempt to hide their intention to photograph different portions of the shrine, the officer said. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... their activity indicated that all the three suspects who had entered the shrine separately knew each other or were linked, it emerged during the investigation.
Sharing contents of the videos, the CTD chief said one of the controllers was seen wearing blue shalwar kameez while the other controller was clad in black shalwar kameez. The purported suicide bomber was also wearing blue-coloured clothes, he added.
Prior to carrying out suicide kaboom, the bomber tried to enter the premises of the Sufi shrine through two other doors but he could not succeed.
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[National Review] Donald Trump’s many detractors tend to forget something important: The power of his office is such that simply by deploying the military might of the United States, he can change the national conversation in an instant. By ordering a missile strike on the Syrian airfield from which the Assad government -- and, perhaps, its Russian enablers -- attacked civilians with chemical weapons, Trump did just that. It isn’t clear yet whether this is the beginning of a more muscular, sensible approach to foreign policy in general and to Syria, Russia, and Iran in particular.
But what we do know is that Trump has just demonstrated a capacity to rethink his previously held positions and to act decisively in response to an outrageous crime -- in other words, the capacity to act like a commander-in-chief. This is something few of his critics thought he possessed. Last night’s strike forced Trump’s media tormentors to stop speculating for the moment about unproven collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. It might also have begun the process of changing the way we think about Trump. We’ve lived through two months of what looked like a presidency in crisis, replete with West Wing palace intrigue and a disastrously failed effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. Trump’s trademark lack of discipline and belligerent disregard for the truth had cratered his favorability ratings, and his failure to break through Washington’s gridlock had created a narrative of incompetence.
[ALMASDARNEWS] North Korea said on Saturday that the U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian airfield on Friday were "an unforgivable act of aggression" that showed its decision to develop nuclear weapons was "the right choice a million times over."
North Korea continually states that its nuclear weapon aspirations is for deterrent reasons against US aggression, as Syria has experienced.
The United States launched missile attacks against the Shayrat Airbase in rural Homs after an alleged chemical weapons attack in Idlib countryside by supposedly the Syrian government. The United States has not put forward any evidence that the Syrian government perpetrated a chemical weapon attack.
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Tahweee, your Rotundaty.
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The capture of the Pueblo was pretty unforgivable. Just saying.
[DAWN] IT is a debate that eventually must be held if the historical record is to be set right. And if Pakistain is to prevail in the fight against militancy, there must be a consistent, historically accurate narrative. Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... has spoken correctly: creating a culture of jihad and a generation of jihadis to fight the Russians in Afghanistan was a historic blunder. Until and unless Pakistain debates the history of armed jihad in the region, acknowledges the state’s role in fomenting militancy, and formally renounces the idea of jihad as ever again being a part of state policy, the country’s fight against militancy, terrorism and extremism will meander on. Indeed, the caveat offered by Mr Khan -- that just as the jihad against Russia was wrong, it was wrong of Pakistain to participate in the US-led war in Afghanistan against the Taliban and Al Qaeda after 9/11 -- illustrates the difficulty of maintaining a consistent narrative. The war in Afghanistan after 9/11 was sanctioned by the UN and triggered by Al Qaeda’s transnational war on the US.
In a welcome complement to Mr Khan’s candid remarks, army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa has been quoted by the ISPR as having told the Afghan defence attaché in London that he feels the pain of every victim of terrorism in Afghanistan as much as he does that of Pak victims. The general’s comments are important because it signals a shift away from the acrimony earlier this year, especially after the Sehwan carnage and the closure of the Pak-Afghan border. As Gen Bajwa appears to be recognising, language and tone matter; the disputes between Afghanistan and Pakistain are too serious and complex to allow emotionalism, however understandable, to further complicate relations. Pakistain has rightful concerns about anti-Pakistain krazed killer sanctuaries in Afghanistan and the significant gains in the fight against militancy domestically cannot be allowed to be compromised or reversed because of Afghan inaction. Yet, there is a sensible way for Pakistain to press its concerns and a mutually beneficial, cooperative framework can be established. After all, Afghanistan has long-standing concerns and demands of Pakistain and the dictates of geography, history and populations all point to cooperation as the only path to sustainable regional peace.
First, though, an internal reckoning must take place in Pakistain. Between Mr Khan’s candour and Gen Bajwa’s empathy lies a possible response: a combination of reassessing history in light of what are now clear policy mistakes and a people-centric view of security in the region. Afghanistan has been wracked by war almost continuously for nearly four decades now; Pakistain shaken by more militancy and terrorism since the turn of the century. The reasons can be debated, but the connection between peace and stability in Pakistain and peace and stability in Afghanistan is undeniable. All policies of both countries must recognise and positively act on the interconnectedness.
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[Iraq News] Sadr Movement leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, on Saturday issued a statement whereby he called on the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to resign and on the US administration to stop “exaggerating” its positions and decisions.
In an official statement, Sadr urges both the US and Russia to stop their interventions in Syria while he also called on Assad to step down from power for the sake of Syria and to avoid further conflicts and “dominance of terrorists.”
Regarding the US missile offensive on Friday morning against Shayrat Airbase of Homs, Syria, Sadr thought “the US president should not exaggerate his reckless statements, positions and decisions.”
He accused the US President Donald Trump of having double standards by “bombing defenseless civilians in Mosul while denouncing the chemical bombardment of civilians in Syria.”
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Now when is IRB going to come out with a statement? I waiting for that one.
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[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] We might need a new category, labeled "Cranks" or maybe "Dipshits."
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In my opinion I would hope some contact had occurred. Putin or any Russian leader will never give up on Syria. The radical mussy is the enemy of both countries. I believe the faith is organized terrorism myself as the Democrats have become.
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It strikes me as odd that a commercial designed to encourage the purchase of a product would choose to alienate the higher financial end of a consumer demographic to make a possible impact on a another consumer demographic section by the vilification of the former as an oppressive stereotype. Selling product, not virtue signaling, is the aim of effective advertising....so I'm both disappointed and offended as a former consumer of that beverage.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A Syrian Special Forces unit targeted a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft flying over their positions in northeastern Syria , a military source confirmed to al-Masdar this evening.
The U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was reportedly hovering over the Syrian Army’s Regiment 54 Base in al-Qamishli, when the personnel at the installation opened fire on the plane.
The aircraft fled the area around the base after it came in contact with the Syrian Arab Army on Saturday evening, the military source added.
Today’s confrontation in the al-Qamishli District of the al-Hasakah Governorate marks the first time since Friday that the U.S. and Syrian forces have confronted one another.
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At least 57 insurgents, including Daesh militants, have been killed in the past 24 hours across the country in Afghan security forces joint operations, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
According to the statement among the 57 insurgents killed, 18 were Daesh militants.
During the operation 22 other insurgents were wounded, the statement said.
The operations were conducted in Laghman, Uruzgan, Helmand, Nangarhar, Paktiya, Kunduz, Ghazni and Sar-e-Pul provinces, the statement added.
During the operation security forces seiized weapons and destroyed two vehicles.
No information was provided about civilian or military casualties.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Police officers responding to the Stockholm terror atrocity were attacked by a gang of youths who pelted them with stones last night, Swedish coppers have said.
The attack happened last night near Rinkeby, part of the 'immigrant no-go zone' that gained notoriety when President Trump referred to it in a controversial speech in February.
It is thought that the officers were taking part in an operation to arrest a 17-year-old and his mother at an address linked to the 39-year-old prime suspect.
Both have since been released without charge.
'During the night my colleagues were exposed to stone throwing in [the suburb of] Tensta, in the middle of an ongoing terror operation.
'Some people will never learn,' Abdallah Ahmed, a police officer, said in a social media post.
'To terror I want to say one thing, in pure Swedish: go to hell. My thoughts go to those affected in every way.'
And then there was one...
Herewith a summary of another lengthy Daily Mail article reporting on the official press conference about the status of the Stockholm truck ramming attack:
The unnamed 39 year old Uzbek man from Uzbekistan
...I know, but sometimes these people settle elsewhere before coming West...
who was arrested early Saturday morning in Marsta confessed in a mixture of Swedish and Russian to being the driver responsible for the Stockholm truck ramming.
An unexploded IED was later found in a suitcase inside the truck.
It is not known how long the man, described in Swedish media as a father of four with ISIS propaganda on his laptop, has been in Sweden. Nor is is known if he had accomplices, but to the police the IED suggests a planned terror attack rather than a sudden impulse.
Police revealed an Uzbek man living at the same address as our miscreant ran a cleaning company investigated by police in 2015 for funding ISIS as part of an Uzbek crime ring. But the police were unable to prove terror financing, so of the five charged only three were convicted of financial impropriety. Our miscreant's address was also that of a key member of the group.
One has to wonder if all these people were actually a single person, perhaps under several names...
A 17 year old boy and his mother, arrested Friday night because our miscreant had been registered as living at their north Stockholm address, were released Saturday morning. The woman said our miscreant had never actually lived there.
A pack of heroes, not a herd
"Hero" appears to be the Swedish police terminology. I quite agree.
A hero security driver saved pedestrians' lives by driving behind the terrorist's truck honking his horn to alert bystanders, a police source has said.
The mystery driver, who works for a security company but has not been named, was making his way along Drottninggatan high street yesterday afternoon when he became suspicious about the hijacked beer lorry. When the terrorist passed him, the driver followed close behind, honking his horn to warn people to get out of the way.
The driver is the third 'hero' that have been praised by Swedish police investigating yesterday's attack.
In the minutes after the atrocity, two anonymous 'hero witnesses' alerted police after spotting the suspect on foot. One woman saw the man on a commuter train in the minutes after the attack and immediately alerted police, but the man bravely ran away before she could pursue him. Later, an unnamed man spotted the suspect at a nearby petrol station in Marsta, a suburb of Stockholm. The witness recognised the man from pictures released in the media and followed him in his car.
A nearby patrol was alerted and officers were scrambled to intercept the suspect who was arrested close to nearby Arlanda airport.
One Brit, one Belgian and two Swedes, one an 11 year old schoolgirl, are the four dead. Their families have been informed.
The 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan should have been deported from Sweden after his application for a work permit in 2014 was denied. In June 2016 the Swedish migration board made the decision to deport him.
The 39-year-old man from Uzbekistan should have been deported from Sweden after his application for a work permit in 2014 was denied. His case was in limbo for two years, but in June 2016 the Swedish migration board made the decision to deport him. He went underground, however, evading police and picking up work in the construction industry.
Police have said that there are more than 3,000 migrants like him living in Stockholm unlawfully and escaping deportation.
A person who was arrested at 9am today has become the first alleged accomplice to be formally charged with terror offences by Stockholm's prosecutor. Five other suspects also taken into custody yesterday are still being questioned in custody.
The 39-year-old fanatic, who has been charged with terror offences, came to the attention of police 'a long time ago' due to his online glorification of ISIS. But investigators assessed him as simply a jihadi sympathiser and did not believe him to be dangerous.
According to a woman living at an address in the suburb of Hjulsta where the terrorist received his letters, he showed no outward signs of religious observance and enjoyed a liberal lifestyle.
The woman told Swedish media, 'It's horrible. I have never seen any signs that he was an extremist or cared about religion. On the contrary, he partied and drank alcohol like many other Uzbeks in Sweden.'
Described as a conscientious worker, the 39-year-old Uzbek was employed as a construction worker specialising in asbestos disposal and is understood to have used his salary to support his wife and four children in his native Uzbekistan. He was trained in handling bombs, and had a certificate showing he had knowledge of explosives.
The suspect had longtime connections to Uzbek criminals who were suspected of having links to radical Islamic groups. One of his former flat-mates ran a cleaning company that was accused of funding ISIS in 2015. According to neighbours, three or four Uzbek labourers were living at the one-bedroom property in Vällingby, a suburb of Stockholm, which 'reeked of cigarette smoke and spicy cooking'.
Ten of the 15 injured are still being treated in hospital, with four suffering 'severe' injuries.
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Why weren't the rock throwers pelted with bullets?
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attacked by a gang of youths who pelted them with stones last night
Subsequently a number of stone-throwing arms were broken by Police.
[IsraelTimes] Islamist preacher Hani Ramadan, brother of intellectual Tariq Ramadan, tossed in the calaboose as part of bid to stem ’radicalization,’ authorities say.
La Belle France on Saturday expelled controversial Swiss Islamist preacher Hani Ramadan who posed "a serious threat to public order," the interior ministry said.
Ramadan, whose brother is the intellectual Tariq Ramadan and whose grandfather founded Egypt’s radical Moslem Brüderbund, was placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! in Colmar, eastern La Belle France, while attending a conference.
He was "known in the past to have adopted behavior and made remarks which pose a serious threat on French soil," the ministry said in a statement.
"The interior ministry and the forces of law and order are fully mobilized and will continue to fight ceaselessly against extremism and radicalization," Interior Minister Matthias Fekl said in the statement.
In 2002 Hani Ramadan was sacked from his teaching post in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... after writing an article in French newspaper Le Monde in support of the stoning of adulterers and suggesting that AIDS was a divine punishment.
Six years later he won 345,000 Swiss francs compensation over the sacking.
Ramadan’s brother Tariq is banned from entering the United States.
Two weeks before the French cast their first presidential ballots, the spectre of victory for the far-right leader who promises to crack down on immigration and outlaw gay marriage sends shivers down many a spine.
Pollsters say the anti-EU firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... can count on the unwavering support of about one in four voters to get her past the first round of voting on April 23.
Although they also say the National Front (FN) leader cannot win in the decisive May 7 runoff whoever she faces, a great many pundits were wrong about Brexit and 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... after failing to feel the populist pulse.
And with one in three voters still undecided at this late stage, pollsters would be wise to hedge their bets.
Predictions of a "nightmare" Le Pen presidency abound in bookstores and the media.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian Authority employees in coastal enclave call for Abbas to sack his government, as anger builds over pay reduction.
Things are tough all over Gaza:
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which hired more than 40,000 people to fill the gaps left by the absence of the Paleostinian Authority workers, also struggles to pay its employees.
After repeated efforts to reconcile with Fatah failed, Hamas is increasingly relying on hefty taxes on imports, utility fees and customs to pay its employees just half of their regular salaries.
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.
[Daily Caller] A Colgate University program is advertising courses for the fall semester with a poster depicting a uniformed Vladimir Putin holding an illustration of President Donald Trump as a small child.
[AP] A bomb exploded in a church north of Cairo that was packed with Palm Sunday worshippers, killing at least 26 people and wounding 71 others, officials said.
[Daily Caller] An undergraduate researcher at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison has gained national acclaim for her research showing, she says, that members of minority groups feel oppressed by standard, grammatical English.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty four 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The shadow deputy provincial governor of the Taliban group for the northern Kunduz province has been killed along with dozens of other 
[Iraq News] The US missile attack on a military base of Syrian regime suggests that Washington "uses force" to deal with the leaders in the Middle East, said Iraqi VP Nouri al-Maliki.
the personification of Somali state failure...
[SHABELLENEWS] The tribunal court of Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous region of 
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
[Iraq News] A Counter-Terrorism Officer informed, on Saturday, that Iraqi army forces killed seven leaders of the 
President Donald Trump is preparing to issue an executive order with the goal of giving oil companies more opportunities to drill offshore, reversing Obama-era policies that restricted the activity. 
[ALMASDARNEWS] The fourth batch of jihadist rebels and their families departed from the al-Wa’er District of Homs City, today, en route for the northern Aleppo town of Jarabulus near the Turkish border-crossing.
[ARA News] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday continued their military operations against Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants in the vicinity of Tabqa, in Syria’s northeastern Raqqa province.
Casualties were reported as fierce fighting erupted on Friday in Ain Al-Hilweh refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, after extremist militants opened fire on the joint Palestinian security force.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A massive 
[SHABELLENEWS] The new Minister of Internal security for the Somalia’s Federal Government Mohamed Abukar Islow (Dualle) has fired the Police commissioner of Hamarweyne district over incompetence.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
[AlAhram] Two suspected al-Qaeda 
[RT] The EU Parliament’s biggest group, the European People’s Party, has expressed support for a Europe-wide ban of the 
Ankara – Turkish police forces arrested on Friday 29 ISIS suspects during major anti-terror raids in a number of neighborhoods in Istanbul and other Turkish cities.
[DAWN] A Pak man associated with Axact in a senior capacity pleaded guilty on Friday in the US to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with an international "diploma mill" scheme, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ).
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Two 
[Iraq News] Sadr Movement leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, on Saturday issued a statement whereby he called on the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to resign and on the US administration to stop “exaggerating” its positions and decisions.
[IsraelTimes] Islamist preacher Hani Ramadan, brother of intellectual Tariq Ramadan, 
