Ay-Pee
The Trump administration will move forward with the sale of high-tech aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists despite concerns over abuses committed by the African nation's security forces, according to U.S. officials. Handwringing in the first paragraph?
Congress is expected to receive formal notification within weeks, setting in motion a deal with Nigeria that the Obama administration had planned to approve at the very end of Barack Obama's presidency. The arrangement will call for Nigeria to purchase up to 12 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft with sophisticated targeting gear for nearly $600 million, one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to discuss the terms of the sale publicly and requested anonymity to speak about internal diplomatic conversations. "I can say no more"
Though President Donald Trump has made clear his intention to approve the sale of the aircraft, the National Security Council is still working on the issue. Military sales to several other countries are also expected to be approved but are caught up in an ongoing White House review. Nigeria has been trying to buy the aircraft since 2015. #SellUsthedamnplanes
The Nigerian air force has been accused of bombing civilian targets at least three times in recent years. In the worst incident, a fighter jet on Jan. 17 repeatedly bombed a camp at Rann, near the border with Cameroon, where civilians had fled from Boko Haram. Between 100 and 236 civilians and aid workers were killed, according to official and community leaders' counts
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/10/2017
15:13 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[14 views]
Top|| File under: Boko Haram (ISIS)
h/t Jerry Pournelle
...Here are 14 questions that proponents of war in Syria must answer before anyone considers whether military intervention to remove Assad is the best course of action for the American people.
1) What national security interest, rather than pure humanitarian interest, is served by the use of American military power to depose Assad’s regime?
2) How will deposing Assad make America safer?
3) What does final political victory in Syria look like (be specific), and how long will it take for that political victory to be achieved? Do you consider victory to be destabilization of Assad, the removal of Assad, the creation of a stable government that can protect itself and its people without additional assistance from the United States, etc.?
4) What military resources (e.g., ground troops), diplomatic resources, and financial resources will be required to achieve this political victory?
5) How long will it take to achieve political victory?
6) What costs, in terms of lives (both military and civilian), dollars, and forgone options elsewhere as a result of resource deployment in Syria, will be required to achieve political victory?
7) What other countries will join the United States in deposing Assad, in terms of military, monetary, or diplomatic resources?
8) Should explicit congressional authorization for the use of military force in Syria be required, or should the president take action without congressional approval?
9) What is the risk of wider conflict with Russia, given that nation’s presence and stake in Syria, if the United States chooses to invade and depose Assad, a key Russian ally in the Middle East?
10) If U.S. intervention in Syria does spark a larger war with Russia, what does political victory in that scenario look like, and what costs will it entail?
11) Given that Assad has already demonstrated a willingness to use chemical weapons, how should the United States respond if the Assad regime deploys chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons against the United States?
12) Assuming the Assad regime is successfully removed from power, what type of government structure will be used to replace Assad, who will select that government, and how will that government establish and maintain stability going forward?
13) Given that a change in political power in the United States radically altered the American position in Iraq in 2009, how will you mitigate or address the risk of a similar political dynamic upending your preferred strategy in Syria, either in 2018, 2020, or beyond?
14) What lessons did you learn from America’s failure to achieve and maintain political victory following the removal of governments in Iraq and Libya, and how will you apply those lessons to a potential war in Syria? I might add that the implicit view espoused in most western publications on the subject is bullshit. There are no Syrian people rebelling against bloody handed tyrant* and his handful of henchmen (if only because there is no such thing as Syrian People). It's Sunni against Shia$, and if the Sunni win - they'll massacre all the Alawites & Christians, and start on the Shia in Lebanon (I wouldn't mind, but I'm not you).
*You wanted to see a bloody-handed tyrant, you should review Assad senior - of course, on his watch rebellions didn't last long. $ Yea, I know, Alawites are not really Shia, but for the Sunnis they're the same thing.
#1
Russia stake in Syria? What is Russia's stake in Russia? What is the U.S. stake in Syria? What is Iran's stake? Who are our enemies in Syria? Who are our friends and who are we allied with?
Tucker Carlson interviewed Lindsay Graham (the ready warrior) the other night and Graham was inarticulate and muddled on the above questions--he sounded like he was drunk. McCain was interviewed by someone (can't remember who now) and he seemed ready to go to war with Syria but presented few good reasons.
Posted by: Frank G ||
04/10/2017 11:32
Comments ||
Top||
#3
Ground station for Russian Space Program? Boondoggle project for someone high in the Russian military-industrial complex? ELINT synthesis node for Central America? None, some or all of the above?
#4
Does it take that long for a serious Congress to strip state and local officials of immunity of office if they openly act or declared themselves in direct violation of federal immigration laws? When an illegal commits a felony against any member of the community, said citizen should have standing in federal courts to sue for damages. Tort lawyers rev up your TV spots!
[Zero Hedge] For months now we've warned, as have many prominent Republican legislators, that Obamacare is on the verge of collapse (see "Obamacare On "Verge Of Collapse" As Premiums Set To Soar Again In 2017").
It's not that shocking really as the fundamental concept behind the legislation made it doomed from the start. The idea was that, out of an abundance of compassion for their elders, young, healthy millennial families would fork up $10s of thousands of dollars each year to purchase health insurance they didn't really need. Those premiums would then be used to subsidize care for the elderly who consume more than their "fair share," to quote Obama.
Unfortunately, the basic math skills of our young millennials turned out to be better than the Obama administration had planned for and they figured out they were better off just paying the Obamacare tax to the IRS than paying the larger Obamacare 'tax' associated with buying a service they never use. This "adverse selection bias" left risk pools way worse than insurers planned, which drove premiums even higher, which forced even more young people to ditch their insurance and the cycle will continue until the system ultimately fails.
In fact, as we pointed out last week, Knoxville, TN could be ground zero for the Obamacare explosion as it's 40,000 residents live in a county that has been left with no healthcare options for the 2018 plan year after Humana pulled out of exchanges there.
And, with the fate of Obamacare all but sealed, you can imagine our shock to learn that several House Republicans are now apparently warming up to the legislation.
One such person is Patrick McHenry of North Carolina who says that any efforts of the Trump administration to lure votes from the Freedom Caucus by relaxing rules to allow insurance providers to charge people with pre-existing conditions higher premiums would be a "bridge too far" for some more moderate Republicans. Per The Hill:
#4
The idea was that, out of an abundance of compassion for their elders, young, healthy millennial families would fork up $10s of thousands of dollars each year to purchase health insurance they didn't really need.
Originally, SS and Medicare were supposed to be in a lockbox. These were put into the mainstream budget and the Beltway Party has continued to rob from these funds for a long time to fund other pet projects. It is no surprise these Ponzi schemes didn't work--they never do for very long.
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said House Republicans should not have started with Obamacare as the first major issue to tackle in the new Congress, emphasizing that an infrastructure package and curing the opioid addition crisis would get more bipartisan support.
"I’ve told President Trump this, I’ve said you need some wins in the column and the bottom line is infrastructure. I don’t know a Democrat or Republican that doesn’t have an infrastructure problem ‐ that’s some commonality. I don’t know a Democrat or Republican that doesn’t have an addiction or an opioid problem; that’s something we could cure," Manchin said during the discussion "From the State Capitol to the Senate Floor" at The Atlantic’s recent Renewal Summit in D.C.
"It’s a silent killer. It doesn’t pick Democrats or Republicans or liberals or conservatives so once you find that and get a start ‐ we’ve been so far apart for so long we’ve got to find something that brings us together. Healthcare is not it. We know that, and why they went down that rat hole I have no idea," he added.
#3
Isn't it funny how everyone suddenly wants to talk about Opoid addiction, which wasn't (to the powers that be) a noteworthy problem until the working class in the Northeast voted the wrong way?
#5
TSM, lots and lots of people noted the opioid addiction problem this past decade. Just that no one bothered to listen until now. Don't know if the election has anything to do with it or whether it's just reached critical mass.
Posted by: Steve White ||
04/10/2017 15:10
Comments ||
Top||
#6
Probably both Steve. Recently, I heard or read (maybe here) that opiate overdose has surpassed automotive deaths. When you mention this to people, most mention someone they know who has died of an overdose or someone who has a serious drug problem.
[PJ] Among the more disturbing questions emerging from the renewed use of gas by Bashar Assad is whether Barack Obama and his loyal minions (Kerry, Rhodes, Rice, etc.) actually knew the Syrian leader still had chemical weapons, even though they trumpeted the opposite to the American public on numerous occasions. Either they lied or were so extraordinarily credulous they believed -- apparently without verification -- the Syrians had truly rid themselves of those WMDs, in which case Obama -- not Trump -- was Vladimir Putin's personal "useful idiot."
(It may even be time to take a second look at the contention of some that Saddam transferred his chemical weapons to Syria way back when, which would be a surprise vindication of Bush 43.)
Whatever the case, it's "heavy water" under the bridge at this point, but should alert us even more to the absolute necessity of revealing everything known about the also Obama-instigated Iran Deal, all its myriad hidden codicils and clauses that remain mysterious to the citizens of this country in whose name they were allegedly signed. That agreement too could be the product of useful idiocy, a sucker punch from the mullahs. The devil, in this case, is very much in the details, few of which we know, except that the Iranians refused to give a baseline development level for their nuclear weapons program in this first place. In a sense, that made everything else moot.
#2
Among the more disturbing questions emerging from the renewed use of gas by Bashar Assad is whether Barack Obama and his loyal minions (Kerry, Rhodes, Rice, {Hillary] etc.) actually knew the Syrian leader still had chemical weapons, even though they trumpeted the opposite to the American public on numerous occasions. Either they lied or were so extraordinarily credulous [and stupid] they believed -- apparently without verification -- the Syrians had truly rid themselves of those WMDs, in which case Obama -- not Trump -- was Vladimir Putin's personal "useful idiot."
[Washington Examiner] Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that President Trump might not have defeated Hillary Clinton in November had the Supreme Court not been a major issue in the 2016 campaign.
In hindsight, the Kentucky Republican said, his decision to block former President Barack Obama from appointing a successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia was probably the decisive factor in Trump's victory, given GOP voters' strong reservations about him.
McConnell spoke to the Washington Examiner just after Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to fill a vacant seat on the high court.
#1
Well damn that came back to bite the Pubs in the ass. If they'd have let Obama do it, they'd have Hillary in the White House and they'd be happily into a war with Russia right now. Unintended consequences.
#3
McConnell just living in his own self-centered universe where if there's any credit to be had it is his and any blame goes elsewhere........gee sounds like some Demoshrill.
#3
Well, at least the Chinese leadership is more pragmatic and far less concerned about 'feelings' rather than security. Thus in a very state censored society, you can glean something from the fact they're not suppressing it.
#4
Upon reading fan translated Chinese web-novels there is a common thread of xenophobia in the Chinese psyche. And they have reason considering the number of foreign invaders they have experiences...
#5
Phobia def.--"an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something." Islamophobia, well, you get it from above def. Suppose the fear is not irrational but well-founded? Or suppose you just have an aversion to that "Islam?"
Can we just get rid of this useless concept invented by CAIR to smooth over acceptance of Islam by the rest of the world; in light of all the terrible, destructive terrorism unleashed on the rest of the world by Islam?
#1
Palm Sunday. 4 hours later in Dallas, thousands of Christians marched at the same downtown area to commemorate the Christian holiday, with zero news coverage.
Brace Belden had been reading about Rojava, a large swath of northern Syria that had been carved out by a Kurdish political party and its military wing, the YPG (or People's Protection Units). The YPG had become one of the most effective bulwarks against ISIS and Western volunteers, many of them military veterans, had started enlisting. But Belden was less interested in the YPG's battlefield victories than in what it was trying to build: a semi-autonomous region operating under a more or less socialist system. To Belden, who’d identified as a Marxist since he was a teen, Rojava looked like Spain in 1936: Capitalism reigned supreme, and fascism was on the march, but here was an opportunity to halt the latter and foment revolution against the former. After several months of wondering whether he was truly prepared to kill for his political beliefs, and several more figuring out how to actually join a Kurdish militia, Belden told his girlfriend that he was going to Syria to do humanitarian work and got on a plane.
[DAWN] Imam-e-Ka’aba Sheikh Saleh Mohammad bin Talib on Saturday held separate meetings with President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and discussed with them relations between Pakistain and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and challenges facing Moslems across the globe.
Both the president and the prime minister welcomed the Imam-e-Ka’aba and said Pakistain and Saudi Arabia were brotherly countries and their people had great religious and cultural relations. Relations between the two countries had become closer and stronger, they added.
They said Islam is the religion of peace and called for making concerted efforts to remove misconceptions about it.
President Hussain called for establishing an international group, comprising Ulema and religious scholars who should present the true picture of Islam in order to arrest the trend of extremism, said a blurb.
He said the people and the government of Pakistain had great regard for Saudi Arabia which had always supported Pakistain on all important issues at regional and international forums, including the kingdom’s support to Pakistain on the Kashmire dispute.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia
#1
the 'Islam is the religion of peace and terrorists misunderstand' speech is seen as a cruel joke in much of the world now but evidently some people can mouth the words while keeping a straight face
Posted by: lord garth ||
04/10/2017 7:24
Comments ||
Top||
#2
What he should have said is that Soddies need a few million morons who are willing to do their bidding (for a price) and Paks need the money.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/10/2017 11:13
Comments ||
Top||
#3
The Pirates Code Hijackedku
The Holy Crayon
Is more what you call guidelines
Than actual rules
#4
evidently some people can mouth the words while keeping a straight face
A short, quick jab to the nose should fix that.
Personally, I'm all for removing misconceptions about Islam. I'll believe Islam is "the religion of peace" when Muslims are the people tackling suicide bombers and ratting out the radicals in the mosques.
#7
Islam isn't a "religion" nor do its adherents belong to any single "race". Its an *ideology*, and a poisonous one at that. Its more peaceful ones deserve mockery, and its more violent ones extermination.
[Iraq News] A Counter-Terrorism officer revealed, on Sunday, that security forces stormed a building that was used by jacket wallahs 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.... as a stronghold, west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Colonel Hashim Fadel said in a press statement that forces from the elite Counter-Terrorism Service stormed a building that was used by dozens of the Islamic State’s suicide bombers as a stronghold in Souq al-Maash, west of Mosul.
The confrontations so far resulted in the killing of more than 30 suicide bombers belonging to the Islamic State, Fadel added.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[DAWN] Secretary General Antonio Guterres has selected Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She is esteemed as an ambassador of international good will, even though she can't go home lest some fellow in a turban shoots her in the head again... to be a UN messenger of peace, the highest honour bestowed by the UN chief on a global citizen.
UN front man Stephane Dujarric announced on Friday that the 19-year-old education advocate would focus worldwide attention on the need for all girls to go to school. She will be officially designated at a ceremony on Monday.
Ms Yousafzai became the youngest-ever Nobel laureate in 2014.
"Now as our youngest-ever UN Messenger of Peace, Malala can do even more to help create a more just and peaceful world," Mr Guterres said in a statement.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
[Iraq News] Thirty-two 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.... members have been killed by the US-led coalition in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Iraq’s Military Intelligence Directorate declared on Sunday.
"The international coalition jets targeted IS leaders in Islah al-Zeraie district, in western Mosul," the directorate said in a statement adding that "the strikes left 32 IS members killed."
Among the killed members were " Adnan al-Jabouri, the military leader of the so-called Jaish al-Usra, a subdivision of IS, Abu Assaf, Saudi national, in charge of security and intelligence of Jaish al-Usra and Abu Iyas, Moroccan, in charge of chemical weapons."
On Saturday, the directorate declared that Arclight airstrikes killed three IS officials, including the communications official Abu Huzaifa, Russian national, defense detachments official Abu Tamara, Chechen national and commando official, known as al-Matuni as number of IS foreign leaders were on board of a vehicle in the intersection of 17 Tammuz and Mesherfa districts in west of Mosul.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[ALMASDARNEWS] Huge reinforcements have poured into the northern Hama countryside as the Syrian Army vowed to recapture all territories lost to jihadi groups recently.
The reinforcements include tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, MLRD rocket launchers, as well as a significant number of the Army’s elite troops who have been fighting 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.... in east Aleppo countryside.
According to a military source, the military campaign against the jihadi groups in northern Hama aims at not only restoring the villages and towns recently seized by the Islamic snuffies during their latest offensive, but also recapturing new areas under the holy warriors’ control in order to prevent potential attacks in the future.
An alliance of ultraconservative groups ‐ led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhet al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... ) ‐ launched a massive assault on government positions in northern Hama, taking over large swathes of land.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
#1
I seem to remember a phrase from the days of pencil -neck's father's regime, Hama Rules.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The predominantly-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have repelled 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 Safsafeh village, located nearly 6 kilometers to the east of Tabqa (Al-Thawrah).
ISIS turbans launched the assault from their stronghold of Tabqa city in a desperate attempt to lift the siege imposed by the Kurdish forces.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the attack ended in fiasco as the US-backed fighters held their positions, killing scores of the jihadists.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[SHABELLENEWS] The newly appointed Somalia’s military chief Gen Mohammed Ahmed Jimale Irfid has narrowly escaped a suicide car kaboom in Mogadishu on Sunday, April 9.
Witnesses said a bomber drove his explosives-laden vehicle a convoy that General Irfid was traveling in the vicinity of the country’s defense ministry headquarters in the capital.
The blast destroyed a bus ferrying civilians after missing the General’s convoy.
Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , the Al Qaeda-linked holy warrior group grabbed credit for the attack.
The passenger bus was completely destroyed by the powerful bomb, killing all on-board. So far, at least 15 people were reported to have been killed in the blast.
Pictures taken from the scene showed a pool of blood under the vehicle and burning debris littered on the ground following the suicide kaboom.
The army chief was returning from a handover ceremony held at the defense ministry compound, where to took power from his predecessor at the time of the attack.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] As promised, immigration police have expanded their campaign to deport illegals with criminal records, announcing the seizure of 368 illegals in seven states and Washington, D.C.
That nearly a 250 percent increase over the 106 announced a week earlier.
The biggest seizures by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in Texas, but they made arrests as far north as Wyoming.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
[SHABELLENEWS] A boom-mobile has killed at least 15 people in Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday.
The blast happened near Somalia’s defense ministry compound in Mogadishu’s Deynile district after an exploding car rammed into a convoy carrying military chief.
The new Somali army chief Ahmed Mohammed Irfiid has survived from the boom-mobile. Police. Several bodyguards are said to be among the dead.
Those killed in deadly car kaboom were mostly civilians, according to witnesses.
More than 18 people, including five soldiers were killed by the boom-mobilekaboom.
No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)
#1
Where do they keep getting these cars from - they cost money.
#2
Since Muslims won't steal or charge interest,
Somalis are wonderfully generous:
"Mahmoud, we must borrow
Your motor tomorrow.
By merciful Allah, don't hinder us."
[Reuters] Six Islamic militants killed in a standoff with police were planning to attack police officers in Indonesia's East Java province to seek revenge for the arrest of a radical leader. Authorities said on Sunday the men were cornered in a village in Tuban district on Saturday after attempting to shoot a traffic cop who was approaching them when he saw their car stopped at the roadside, said national police spokesman Rikwanto.
The six refused appeals to surrender during a standoff that lasted several hours and were slain by police, said Rikwanto.
On Friday, counterterrorism police arrested three militants who were allegedly plotting to attack a police station in East Java. Among those arrested was Zainal Anshori, a top figure of Jemaah Anshorut Daulah, an umbrella group of Indonesian extremists that claims allegiance to ISIS.
Rikwanto said that Anshori had orchestrated Saturday's planned attack. He said, "They had acted on Anshori's order as a revenge of his arrest," citing police interrogation of other arrested militants.
Posted by: ryuge ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[8 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[DAWN] LAHORE: Banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... al-Alami on Saturday grabbed credit for killing a retired professor belonging to the Ahamdi community.
Dr Ashfaq Ahmad, 68, a nutritionist by profession and a retired professor of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, was going along with his grandson and another relative by a car when near Shah Fareed Chowk, the attacker shot him in the head and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. Dr Ahmad was taken to the Mayo Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead He's dead, Jim! Sabzazar police registered a murder case on the complaint of victim’s heirs and did not add terrorism charges in the case.
A news release issued by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al-Alami claimed that Riaz Basra brigade’s special commando had killed the retired professor.
Investigating Officer Naseem Ahmed said police handed over the body to the heirs after completing legal formalities.
He said initial investigation revealed that the man was targeted while adding he did not know about any statement of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al-Alami.
He said they were working on the case and would arrest the suspect involved in the killing.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11 views]
Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Jhangvi
[DAILYCALLER] A history professor at California State University, Fresno, appears to have advocated for the death of President Donald Trump on Twitter.
Tweets from an account purportedly operated by Professor Lars Maischak call for Trump to “hang” in order to “save American democracy,” and say the only “cure” for racist people is a bullet to their head. The account is not verified, although the bio and interactions between the user and other Twitter users indicate it belongs to the professor.
“To save American democracy, Trump must hang,” Professor Lars Maischak appears to have tweeted in February. “The sooner and the higher, the better. #TheResistance #DeathToFascism.”
“Has anyone started soliciting money and design drafts for a monument honoring the Trump assassin, yet?” the user wrote in another tweet a few days later, along with the hashtag “TheResistance.”
And in another: “#TheResistance #ethniccleansing Justice = The execution of two Republicans for each deported immigrant.”
The user has also said “mercy towards racists” is a “fatal weakness” of Americans.
“#TheResistance Mercy towards racists was always the fatal weakness of good Americans,” he tweeted. “1865, 1965, they left too many of them alive.”
Other tweets include thoughts on “fascist” Trump supporters and the GOP.
“#WhenCaliforniaSecedes, You Fascist Trump-voting white trash scum can wallow in your filthy hell-holes of flyover states,” he tweeted. “Enjoy.”
“#TheResistance A democracy must not be tolerant of those who want to abolish democracy. It must vigorously defend itself. Ban the @GOP.”
The user also compared Trump to Hitler in other tweets.
The account has existed since June, 2013.
Maischak did not reply to multiple requests for comment.
A spokeswoman for CSU Fresno told The Daily Caller News Foundation Maischak’s comments on social media do not represent the university.
“Lars Maischak is employed as a lecturer at Fresno State,” Kathleen Schock told TheDCNF. “Statements made on his personal social media accounts are his alone and are not endorsed by or reflect the position of the University.”
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
“Statements made on his personal social media accounts are his alone and are not endorsed by or reflect the position of the University.”
Though pictures of a bare-breasted lecturer, or opinionated content from a pro-lifer will likely lead to their dismissal.
Posted by: Matt ||
04/10/2017 9:38
Comments ||
Top||
#6
Real history (not to mention cause and effect) is hard for the Left. How'd the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand work out for Europe (and the World)? /rhet question
#7
appears to have advocated for the death of President Donald Trump on Twitter.
Advocated? I hope this nutjob has had a visit from the Secret Service to explain things to him such as what are 1st Amendment rights and what is over the line.
[snip]
Earlier, we reported that Lars Maischak, a history teacher at Fresno State, issued a tweet in which he said that President Trump must be hanged to “save American democracy.” The Fresno Bee published a puff piece on Saturday wringing its collective hands that Breitbart.com published a report on his offensive tweet, which prompted Maishak to declare that he really doesn’t want Trump harmed or assassinated. But he wasn’t finished, suggesting that a death sentence against Trump is “inevitable” if “democracy prevails.”
[snip]
#13
Clown doesn't' even teach modern history so clearly he has minimal grasp. Found his professor page super-easily. I bet his inbox and phone are full of entertaining messages right about now.
[DAWN] Some may kill two birds with one stone but Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... has the quality of killing many birds with one stone.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[8 views]
Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami
[RT] A middle-aged man steered his car into the town hall in Verden, northern Germany on Sunday. A fire broke out and severely damaged the building. The cause of the incident is under investigation, but authorities have ruled out a terrorist attack.
It’s believed that the incident, which involved a 47-year-old male, was directed against the government in Lower Saxony, DPA reported.
"A terrorist attack has been ruled out," police said. It took firefighters about an hour and a half to put out the blaze.
And thus we see that terror has now been redefined to mean What a Muslim did this time to advance the conquest of any particular corner of Dar al Harb.
"The flames spread to adjacent rooms on the ground floor [of the town hall]," police reported.
No one was injured in the incident, which took place early on Sunday. The man was placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! at the scene.
Police said that while his "motives are still unclear, they most likely seem to be related to personal matters."
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[5 views]
Top|| File under:
[Iraq News] 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, on Sunday, released another statement via its website Amaq, revealing the details of the suicide kabooms that hit the Coptic Church of Mar Girguis in the city of Tanta and Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria, as well as disclosing the identities of the jacket wallahs who carried out the attacks.
The group said in the statement that its member ’Abu al-Bara’ al-Masry’ blew up his boom belt in front of Saint Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria Province, while another member, known as ’Abu Ishak al-Masry’ detonated his explosive vest "amid a gathering of crusaders’’ in Mar Girguis Church in the Egyptian city of Tanta.
Furthermore, in the statement, the terrorist group threatened, who it described as "crusaders and apostates" with more attacks.
The statement released by the Islamic State, revealing the identities of the suicide bombers who attacked the Egyptian churches.
Earlier today, during Palm Sunday celebrations, a suicide attack hit the Coptic Church of Mar Girguis, in the Egyptian city of Tanta, killing 30 persons and injuring more than 70 others.
Nearly four hours later, another suicide attack hit Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria Province, killing 17 persons, including the church security members, and wounding 35 others.
Following the attacks, the Islamic State group released a statement via its website ’Amaq’ claiming responsibility for the attacks on the Egyptian churches.
[AlAhram] The total number of casualties in the two attacks climbed to 47 dead and 126 injured, in the deadliest murderous Moslem attack against civilians in decades.
Egypt’s president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi declared a state of emergency nationwide on Sunday after attacks by suspected jacket wallahs on two different Egyptian churches killed dozens and injured scores, in the deadliest recent attack against the country’s Christians.
On Palm Sunday morning, a bomb went kaboom! inside Mar Girgis Church in the Delta city of Tanta, killing at least 27 and injuring 78 others, according to health ministry figures.
Continued on Page 49
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan defense officials reacted at the allegations of a Pak official regarding the alleged destructive role of India, calling it as baseless.
General Dawlat Waziri, front man for the Ministry of Defense in response to the allegations of the Pak official, said that New Delhi has no military presence in Afghanistan, rejecting the misunderstanding of Islamabad claiming that the country is fuelling anti-Pakistain feelings with its presence in Afghanistan.
He said India is only providing training and study opportunities to the Afghan army cadets and that New Delhi has military presence in Afghanistan.
Pakistain’s Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif, on Thursday, said that the state was serious about improving relations between Pakistain and Afghanistan.
Speaking to a private news channel, the minister claimed the strained relations between the two countries was due to Indian influence on Afghanistan’s side, according to The Express Tribune newspaper.
India has played a major role in the reconstruction of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime and has invested over $2 billion in various reconstruction and infrastructure projects.
The construction of the major Salma Dam, the new Afghan parliament building, Zaranj-Delaram highway, and some other projects are among the key investments India has done so far in the country.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty five bandidosbandidos holy warriors 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 ongoing Hamza counter-terrorism operations in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, the bandidosbandidos holy warriors were killed in a series of ground operations and Arclight airstrikes.
The operations were conducted in the vicinity of Achin district during the past 24 hours.
The officials are saying that the majority of those killed during the operations are foreigners and their dead bodies are left in the area.
The Afghan forces also confiscated a heavy machine and some other types of light weapons during the operations.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A deadly boom-mobileing plot was foiled by the Afghan cops 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 government in a statement said a Vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) was discovered from a house in Ghani Khel district.
The statement further added that the VBIED was prepared for an attack.
The potential target of the attack has not been ascertained so far and the VBIED has been seized amid growing pressures on anti-government armed bully boy groups in this province.
Both the Afghan and US forces based in Afghanistan conduct counter-terrorism operations against the ISIS gunnies and other murderous Moslem groups in a bid to suppress their attempts to expand foothold in this province.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A US soldier was killed during the counter-terrorism operations 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.
A front man for the US Forces in Afghanistan Captain Bill Salvin said "A US soldier was killed in action while conducting operations against ISIS-Khorasan in Afghanistan."
He said the soldier was mortally maimed late Saturday during an operation in Nangarhar province.
No further details were given regarding the identity of the dear departed soldier, saying "More information will be released as appropriate."
This comes as at least three US soldiers were maimed in an kaboom in Jalalabad city, the thriving provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar province last month.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
#1
By God, the femilies had better been notified before the news release.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey ||
04/10/2017 0:20
Comments ||
Top||
[Gulf Today] Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte again ordered the military to wipe out the Abu Sayyaf which he said has remained one of the nation's major threats. Duterte issued the order during his visit to a military camp in the capital town of Jolo, Sulu to award medals to the 28 soldiers injured in a recent clash with the Abu Sayyaf.
In his order, Duterte pointed out the campaign against the terrorist group should be treated equally with the war on illegal drugs which he launched after he became president in June 1016. He said, "We will not let up in the war on drugs and the Abu Sayyaf. They would not honor their word. If they like to kill, then, we’lll kill them up to the last men," in his speech before local officials and ranking military officers.
In a briefing, the military informed Duterte that the Abu Sayyaf has divided their 19 remaining foreign and Filipino hostages into five groups to elude pursuing security forces.
Earlier Duterte ordered the military to use all available resources including recently-acquired Philippine Air Force attack helicopters to launch a search and destroy operation against the terrorist group.
Posted by: ryuge ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf (ISIS)
[DAILYWIRE] There were several other unresolved audit matters, which restricted our ability to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to express an opinion. These unresolved audit matters relate to (1) the Office of General Counsel’s refusal to sign the management representation letter, (2) HUD’s improper use of cumulative and first-in, first-out budgetary accounting methods of disbursing community planning and development program funds, (3) the $4.2 billion in nonpooled loan assets from Ginnie Mae’s stand-alone financial statements that we could not audit due to inadequate support, (4) the improper accounting for certain HUD assets and liabilities, and (5) material differences between HUD’s subledger and general ledger accounts. This audit report contains 11 material weaknesses, 7 significant deficiencies, and 5 instances of noncompliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[6 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Financial malfeasance and graft are much easier when dodgy accounting is used. When finished here, perhaps the doctor's audit team could visit other agencies within the giverment as well.
I recommend a modest financial incentive be extended the audit team when gross "eorrors" such as this are validated.
#8
1/2 trillion? Where did the money go. Check out the Federal Reserve, they seem to have accounting problems also--something about dynamic bookkeeping. They also have money missing to the tune of several billions. State lost something like $6 billion under Hillary. Check out a few more agencies and who knows, our debt problems might diminish.
[RT] Germany has launched an investigation into 275 cases of suspected right-wing myrmidon activity among its service personnel, including racist comments on the Internet and saying "Heil Hitler," Germany’s Defense Ministry told parliament in a letter, according to local media.
Germany’s Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) is looking into 53 extremism cases among Bundeswehr soldiers from 2017, 143 cases from 2016 and 79 cases from before 2016, the Defense Ministry said in a letter to the Bundestag, DPA news agency reported, citing Funke Mediengruppe newspapers.
The 15-page letter expands on the cases that involve soldiers making gestures used in Nazi Germany along with the "Heil Hitler" phrase, and verbally abusing fellow servicemen with a migrant background, Rooters reported, citing the document.
A number of implicated soldiers have already been laid off or punished with a fine, but the measures seem inadequate to the offense, the Defense Ministry said.
Specifically, Case 29 deals with a soldier who was heard distinctively saying "Heil Hitler,""Heil our leader" and "Sieg Heil, comrades."
"The case was passed on to the military prosecutor and the public prosecutor’s office, but neither an early dismissal nor a service ban took place," the ministry said.
In another case a soldier who used a Facebook page associated with the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) left racist comments and call to introduce the death penalty for "typical foreigners." As a consequence, the soldier was "disciplined," the minister noted.
In a third case, another already "disciplined" serviceman was allowed to keep his weapon after he extended his hand in a Nazi salute while on a trip to Riga, Latvia.
Today in Germany, Nazi salutes in all forms ‐ written, uttered or even performed as a gesture ‐ are outlawed and are punishable by up to three years in prison as stated in the German Criminal Code.
In August 2016, the German Cabinet has approved an amendment to the German military law that allowed the MAD intelligence service to thoroughly check each applicant for possible connections to terrorist or myrmidon groups. The amendment is supposed to come into force on July 1, 2017.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
#2
This isn't exactly a news flash. I visited Germany in early 1987 and the cops did not like the Turk 'immigrants' that hung out in the subways, looking like completely useless fucks. Lots of them, I might add. "Fickende Aüslander' was the phrase of choice for the local constabulary.
#4
The left-wing extremists are only slightly more popular - seeing as that's the govt.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
04/10/2017 9:01
Comments ||
Top||
#5
I hope Germany’s Defense Ministry is not like our Southern Poverty Law Center where anyone too close to the middle or are conservative are identified as extremists.
"Heil Hitler?" Hitler did not fare too well, he has been dead since 1945.
[AFP] Two traffic policemen were killed on Saturday after their vehicle came under fire in Russia'S north Caucasus region.
The local branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee said "unidentified people fired multiple shots from an automatic weapon" at two traffic cops riding in their patrol vehicle in the town of Malgobek in Ingushetia at around 1:30 a.m. One of the policemen was killed at the scene, while the second officer died in hospital from his injuries, police said.
Attacks against police are not uncommon in the north Caucasus, which faces an active Islamist insurgency.
The latest incident came days after the ISIS Takfiri group claimed the killing of two other traffic policemen in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan this week. ISIS also claimed a separate attack that injured three National Guard officers on Thursday in an incident in which the assailant thought to be involved in the death of the Astrakhan traffic policemen was gunned down.
Astrakhan lies several hundred kilometers northeast of the restive north Caucasus, and attacks against law enforcement are less common there.
[DAWN] Six people were killed and more than two dozen injured on Sunday when police clashed with protesters during a by-election in Srinagar in India-held Kashmire region, a senior police official said.
Suspected separatist factions in Kashmire had called for a boycott of the vote, resulting in heightened security and low voter turnout when the polling began.
In Budgam district, police initially used tear gas against protesters who were throwing stones, but then opened fire, killing six people, the senior police official told Rooters.
More than two dozen people were maimed during the festivities across central Kashmire on Sunday, the official said.
At least 70 polling stations were shut due to the violence, while at some stations voting machines were set ablaze by the protesters.
The by-election in Srinagar is being held to fill a vacant seat in the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of parliament. A second by-election in the state for a separate Lok Sabha seat is set to take place on April 12 in Anantnag. The results of both polls are expected to be announced on April 15.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[11 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistain Proxies
[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman said on Sunday that peace and stability in the world could only be established by strictly adhering to Islamic ideology.
Accompanied by Imam-e-Kaaba Sheikh Saleh Bin Muhammad Ibrahim on stage, Fazl said that Islam was the religion of peace and love and peace could only be established in world by strictly following the teaching of Holy Koran and Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (PTUI!) in a true spirit.
He was addressing a public gathering at the concluding ceremony of the JUI-F-sponsored three-day centenary celebrations in Azakhel, Nowshera.
He said that this historic congregation had passed the message of hope and peace in world and would remove a sense of deprivation among masses.
JUI-F chief addresses a gathering in Nowshera. ─PPI
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[9 views]
Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami
#1
And we're supposed to believe a group that calls itself 'Islamic State' has nothing to do with Islam. Seems this guy is saying that if everyone strictly adhered to Islamic ideology there would be no terrorism. I guess if EVERYONE adhered to it... nah, then they'd just terrorize each other.
[DAWN] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Sunday executed three Pak nationals convicted of smuggling heroin, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom to 26 this year.
Saudi Arabia has a strict legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
The state-run SPA news agency said the three had been found guilty of "smuggling quantities of heroin in their stomachs".
It named the three men as Mohammed Ashraf Shafi Mohammed, Mohammed Aref Mohammed Anayt and Mohammed Afdal Asghar Ali. All three were Pak citizens.
SPA reported 153 people being executed in the ultra-conservative kingdom last year, a number confirmed by London-based rights group Amnesia Amnesty International.
Among those executed was Shiite holy man Nimr al-Nimr, a high-profile figure behind a string of Shiite protests in 2011 demanding reform in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.
Amnesty reported 158 death penalties in the country for 2015, the highest annual rate in the past two decades.
Saudi Arabia has a strict legal code under which murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, rape and apostasy are all punishable by death.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[8 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia
#1
named the three men as Mohammed Ashraf Shafi Mohammed, Mohammed Aref Mohammed Anayt and Mohammed Afdal Asghar Ali
Aha! I see a pattern. They could expedite the process by executing everybody named Mohammed!
[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: A private girls school in Bara subdivision was targeted with a bomb, causing minor damage to the building.
Officials said explosives were planted inside a classroom which went off at midnight causing minor damage to a wall of the room. They said no one was present at the time of the incident, adding at least 19 suspected persons had been rounded up during a search operation conducted following the incident.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... no one grabbed credit for the blast.
Recently, hard boyz affiliated with banned Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... had also targeted a government girls school in a similar fashion in Shalobar area.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Lashkar-e-Islam (TTP)
[Bangkok Post] Three more bombs, two of them unexploded, were found attached to high-voltage power poles on Saturday morning following a series of blasts and arson attacks that rocked Thailand's far South.
A team of explosive ordnance disposal officers rushed to the paddy field in Bacho district after local residents alerted police to their discovery. The EOD officers found a high-voltage power pole that had been uprooted by a bomb explosion. Metal and explosive materials were scattered around the area. A box containing a clock and wires attached to an electrical circuit was also found. About 200 meters away, the team found two unexploded bombs attached to another power pole.
Authorities on Saturday continued to survey other areas throughout the far South following a series of blasts in the four southernmost provinces from late Thursday night to early Friday. No casualties were reported in the bombings that damaged 52 power poles in 19 districts and caused widespread blackouts. During the same period, suspected insurgents also set fire to car tires at several locations and laid spikes on roads.
[Iraq News] Some 484 Yezidi members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have left the party and joined Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga forces, said a Peshmerga commander.
During an interview with the Turkish Anadolu agency on Sunday, Luqman Gli, a commander of Peshmerga, said these new recruits have been receiving training since March.
According to the official, they left PKK following the events in Khanasor parish of Sinjar.
On March 3, 2017, festivities erupted between Peshmerga and PKK affiliated guerrillas in Sinjar which ended with some causalities.
Since the restoration of a relative security in Sinjar and its surroundings, KRG has been calling on PKK to withdraw from the area but the Kurdish party from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... is buttressing its stance by recruiting locals in its newly founded units.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
[Iraq News] Nouri al-Maliki, leader of the Iraqi Shi’ite political party of Dawa, said they will endorse the outcome of the Kurdistan Region independence referendum provided that the referendum does not include Kirkuk province, according to Iraqi media.
Iraqi local news outlets have reported that Maliki, who is also the Iraqi VP, has stated that they will approve the result of the referendum for the Kurdistan Region independence if the process is held only in the three Kurdish provinces of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok.
He has stated that the referendum cannot be conducted in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... claiming that it is an Arabic city.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... Salah Dalo, a Kurdish official from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), told BasNews that Maliki does not have the right to intervene in the Kurdistan Region’s affairs.
He stated that the referendum will include all the disputed areas within the Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution, stressing that the referendum will be held this year.
The Kurdish official described Maliki’s remarks as an attempt to cover his failures and gain Arab public support.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq
#1
The only thing Iran, Turkey, Iraq and Syria agree on is that there shall be no independent Kurdistan.
[Iraq News] Hundreds of Christians flocked to the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh on Sunday to celebrate Palm Sunday for the first time in three years, packing into a church torched by 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.... to take communion at its ruined altar.
In October, Iraqi forces expelled the Sunni Moslemforces of Evil from Qaraqosh as part of a campaign to retake nearby djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the country’s second-largest city seized by the group in June 2014.
Iraq’s biggest Christian settlement until the forces of Evil arrived, Qaraqosh has been a ghost town as most residents are still too afraid to come back with the battle for Mosul, located 20 kilometres away, still raging.
But on Sunday church bells rang again across the town.
Hundreds arrived in cars from Erbil, the main city in autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan where most Christian had fled when Islamic State gave them an ultimatum to pay special taxes, convert or die.
"We need reconciliation," Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul Butrus Moshe told worshippers in the Immaculate Conception Church guarded by army jeeps.
Islamic State has targeted minority communities in both Iraq and Syria, setting churches on fire.
Scribbled "Islamic State" slogans could be still seen on the church’s walls while torn-up prayer books littered the floor.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
[DAWN] Ceasefire violations by Indian troops on Saturday left two civilians injured in Samahni sector of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK), police said.
"Indian troops resorted to firing from across the Line of Control [LoC] without any provocation, targeting Tandarr village in the afternoon, leaving two people maimed," an official of the Samahni cop shoppe told Dawn by telephone.
The Samahni sector is located in AJK’s southernmost Bhimber district.
The official said the names of the injured were Nasir Ayub, 25, and Samiya Kousar, 22.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan
[RT] The prime suspect in an international $300 million telefraud scam that targeted American taxpayers has been tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by police at Mumbai International Airport. Sagar Thakkar, 24, was taken into custody in the early hours of Saturday morning as he stepped off a flight from Dubai, where he had been on the hiding out from Indian authorities for several months, Rooters reported, citing local police sources.
Thakkar is the suspected leader of a major international telefraud syndicate that operated in the US and India.
Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh told a news conference that Thakkar, who was charged as part of the ongoing DOJ investigation, had fled to Dubai following raids in October related to the case, Rooters reported.
When asked about his interrogation of the suspect, Singh told news hounds that he was "impressed with his knowledge of the US and Indian system" while also confirming that Thakkar had confessed to the crime.
The DOJ’s indictment alleges that the suspected conspirators posed as federal officials working for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... ) or other agencies and threatened victims with arrest, fines, imprisonment or even deportation if they did not pay the fake taxes or penalties.
The Justice Department claims that over 15,000 people have been targeted in the telephonic scam which has taken place for over a year.
A major breakthrough in the case came in October, when Indian authorities raided call centers in the Mumbai suburb of Thane and the western city of Ahmedabad, detaining over 700 suspects in the process.
The US Justice Department charged more than 60 people in India and the United States in connection with the case as a direct result of the raids.
Some 400 suspects have been officially charged by Thane police as part of their own investigation with roughly a dozen already in jug.
A video of one such scam posted online by the Eau Claire Police Department in the US has been shared over 190,000 times.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[3 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
When asked about his interrogation of the suspect, Singh told news hounds that he was "impressed with his knowledge of the US and Indian system" while also confirming that Thakkar had confessed to the crime.
Singh has his head up his ass - these clowns don't know a god damned thing about how the IRS operates. I got three of these assholes to confess to me they were scam artists when they tried to pull this shit on me and when I called them back just to pick a fight with them.
[Iraq News] 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.... bandidossnuffies launched two suicide kabooms on U.S.-backed Syrian rebels near the border with Iraq, leaving at least 12 dead in the fighting and many maimed, rebels sources said on Sunday.
They said eight Islamic State fighters and four of their own men died.
An attack at midnight on a heavily defended base near the al Tanf border crossing involved at least one explosive-laden vehicle that rammed an entrance to the base. At least two U.S.-backed rebels were killed and scores maimed, a rebel source said.
The bandidossnuffies also staged a suicide attack on a convoy of rebel fighters from the Western-backed Osoud al Sharqiya rebel group, who had sent reinforcements from their outpost near the Rukban refugee camp further south-west. Two of the fighters in the convoy were killed in the ambush.
Islamic State "staged a suicide attack and there were festivities inside Tanf. Two were killed and several injured. They also attacked our convoy but it’s over and matters are under control," said a senior rebel source from Osoud al Sharqiya who requested anonymity.
Islamic State-affiliated Amaq news agency said two suicide attacks were conducted by its fighters near Tanf on "positions of Syrian groups supported by America." It gave no details.
U.S.-led coalition planes were involved in the operation to track down the bandidossnuffies who staged the hit-and-run attack and apparently fled, a rebel commander involved in the operation said.
Both Tanf and Rukban are near the joint Syria-Iraq-Jordan border. Osoud al Sharqiya, one of the main groups in that area fighting Islamic State, is part of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... of rebels financed and equipped by a Western coalition.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[5 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[RT] The Red Cross has characterized the current situation in Syria as an “international armed conflict” after the US missile strike on Syrian Shayrat airfield near Homs, the ICRC regional spokesperson told RT. Before, it was... something else.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[6 views]
Top|| File under: Govt of Syria
[Iraq News] A security source informed that joint security forces launched a military operation, under the title al-Sayl al-Jaref (The Torrent), in al-Tarmia District, north of Baghdad, while revealed that the forces also started to close entrances and exits to and from the district, ikhnews reported on Sunday.
The source said that joint security forces from the army, police, Federal Police and Army Aviation launched, today, a military operation to search for wanted persons in Tarmia District, north of Baghdad.
The military operation launched codenamed al-Sayl al-Jaref (The Torrent), the source further explained.
Furthermore, security forces closed, at dawn today, all entrances and exits to and from al-Tarmia District, and imposed their control on a bridge, as well as conducting search operations in the areas of al-Hawra and al-Khan, the source added on condition of anonymity.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[Iraq News] An official in Diyala Province revealed, on Sunday, that two mortar shells fell, while two improvised bombs went kaboom! in a village, northeast of Baqubah.
Head of al-Abbara area Adnan Mulla Jawad said in a press statement that two mortar shells fell in the vicinity of Zaghiniyah al-Shaghira village (5 km north of al-Abbara area), without causing any casualties.
Also, two improvised bombs went kaboom! in the same village, resulting in the loss of a herd of cattle near the area of the kaboom, Jawad added.
Jawad also revealed that security forces opened an investigation into the two incidents.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
#3
A hungry young Jumbo of Woburn
Just noshed in Revere on a Reuben
Constructed of "lobster"
With parts of a mobster
And squashed on the grill like a Cuban.
[Iraq News] Conflicts among 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.... fighters have been reported after nominating Abu Hafsa al-Mawsely, the group’s deputy commander of the "Nineveh State", to succeed His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , intelligence sources in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... said.
IS leaders and fighters are witnessing conflicts and divisions after the group’s shura council nominated ِAbu Hafsa to succeed Baghdadi, the sources said on Sunday.
Abu Hafsa is known to be one of the violent members and a senior politician of the group. He occupied several important military and administrative positions within the group.
The leaders, according to the sources, were divided between supporters and opponents to nomination of abu Hafsa.
Chief of staff at the Kurdistan Region Presidency (KRP) Fuad Hussein previously revealed information about the way through which Baghdadi could have beat feet from Mosul.
In an interview earlier this month with the Independent, Hussein said Baghdadi beat feet from Mosul two months ago when the road to the west was opened in the wake of a fierce attack launched by the Lion of Islams. IS "used 17 suicide boom-mobiles from Mosul and some of their units from Syria to clear the road leading out of Mosul for a few hours."
Baghdadi addressed his supporters at areas that IS controls, a local source from the province said in February. Baghdadi urged fighters to flee urban areas and resort to mountains after admitting defeat to U.S.-backed Iraqi forces and militias fighting to retake the city of Mosul in his ’farewell speech’.
Baghdadi’s exact whereabouts have been unknown for long time. In June 2014, Baghdadi was declared "the caliph" and "leader for Moslems everywhere".
Iraqi forces have made remarkable gains after a new offensive started in February to retake western Mosul. The eastern side was recaptured from IS in January.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[SHABELLENEWS] Agoonyar, the sub-clan of Harti Abgaal said in a statement that it has withdrawn confidence from the new Somali Federal Government led by Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo.
The Abgaal sub-clan of Aqoonyar blamed the current government for negligence and discrimination from the power-share system of the new Federal government of Somalia.
According to the statement, the clan’s serving soldiers in the Somali National Army (SNA) will abandon the frontlines and they were summoned for urgent consultations.
Aqoonyar claimed it has been the frontrunner for unity of the people, previous reconciliations in Abudwak, Bosaso and towns in Gedo region, to unite and reconcile Somali people.
"We sacrificed the blood of our brave soldiers for sake of the country and the protection of the government, and today we are being ignored and lacked our rights," read the statement.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[2 views]
Top|| File under:
Kay Burley, Fiona Bruce and Huw Edwards named on ISIS 'kill list' of high-profile news presenters
09/04/17
Huw Edwards, Fiona Bruce, Dermot Murnaghan and Kay Burley (pictured) are among a list of high-profile British news presenters on a 'kill list' found on an Islamist website.
Mother-of-three who Tweeted an ISIS speech is spared jail as the judge says she doesn't seem to present any danger to the public
01/04/17
Mary Kaya, 57, from Batley in Leeds was convicted of encouraging terrorism by retweeting a speech by the leader of Islamic State but has been spared jail. Judge Peter Collier said she did not present any danger.
Romanian driver, 33, who tried to smuggle nine illegal immigrants into the UK then told border officials his van doors were broken when they asked to search it is jailed for two years
05/04/17
Ion Nicolae Gita, 33, was arrested when the six adults and three children from Afghanistan were discovered in the back of his van at Poole Port, Dorset. He has been jailed for 27 months
Cut students from migrant total to hit goal, Cabinet tells May: PM facing revolt over refusal to accept change that would slash figures by a third
03/04/17
The Tory pledge to cut net immigration to the ‘tens of thousands’ will never be met unless foreign students are removed from the numbers, a string of Cabinet Ministers have warned Theresa May.
Prince Charles funds Christian support groups in the Middle East and invites religious refugees into his home
02/04/17
The Mail on Sunday understands the Prince has given a generous donation to charity Aid to the Church in Need, which helps those fleeing the Middle East.
Flights are delayed as a dozen activists break through security at Stansted Airport and chain themselves together on runway to stop failed asylum seekers being deported
29/03/17
The left-wing activists were trying to stop a flight taking up to 100 immigrants back to Nigeria and Ghana. The runway was closed at about 10pm, resulting in eight flights being diverted to other London airports
Refugee who became a British citizen after sneaking into the UK turned people-smuggler himself to bring in Syrian woman in the boot of his BMW
22/03/17
Karwan Osman, 29, who was granted British citizenship and became a restaurateur, kept her hidden for 15 hours as he took a ferry from the Netherlands to Hull, a court heard.
#1
Karwan Osman, 29, who was granted British citizenship and became a restaurateur, kept her hidden for 15 hours as he took a ferry from the Netherlands to Hull, a court heard.
[Inquirer] Three people were arrested for allegedly setting off an improvised explosive device that targeted soldiers in Cateel, Davao Oriental, on Saturday. Two of the suspects — Joedel Nunez and Tantan Bacquiao – were caught by soldiers after detonating the explosives, said Andrea dela Cerna, regional spokesperson for the Southern Mindanao police.
Dela Cerna said the blast happened around 1 a.m. as soldiers were passing Sitio Magong-ong, San Rafael village, on their way to Sitio Yapsay, Talaytay village.
Another suspect identified as Glen Enijada was nabbed as he was about to escape on a motorcycle without license plates.
Dela Cerna said an alleged accomplice and financier, identified as Simeon Pamugas, was able to escape and is now being sought by authorities.
More background on this story from a few days ago because we wondered who he was.
[DailyMail]
Ahmad Abousamra, 35, was killed in early January when a missile struck a house where he was staying north of the Syrian city of Tabqa
Abousamra, born in Gay Paree, reared in an exclusive Boston suburb, set up publications including magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah
He travelled to Yemen, Pakistain and Iraq before returning to the US but fled after his plans for an armed attack with two accomplices on US soil were uncovered
In Syria he joined Al Nusra before transferring allegience to ISIS
Posted by: trailing wife ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[0 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[IsraelTimes] Officials unsure if 17-year-old planned to use defused device to carry out attack.
A 17-year-old asylum-seeker from Russia was placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Sunday in connection with an bomb found near a busy subway station in Norway’s capital that police defused before it detonated, authorities said.
The youth was detained on suspicion of handling explosives, but Sherlocks do not know if he planned to carry out an attack with the homemade device, Signe Aaling, chief prosecutor for Norway’s PST security service, said.
Aaling described the explosive as "a primitive improvised bomb with limited damage potential."
"PST is now working on finding his intentions and find out whether others are involved," she said.
The youth was not identified, but security service head Benedicte Bjornland said Norwegian intelligence was aware of him. He is an asylum-seeker from Russia who arrived in Norway with his family in 2010, Bjornland said.
Bjornland also alleged that the youth was part of "extreme Islamism" circles in Norway. He was arrested based on a tip from the public, Bjornland said without elaborating.
"It is likely that that attacks in La Belle France, German, Great Britannia, Russia and Sweden can create a copycat effect in Norway with people with Islamic sympathies," Bjornland said, listing the locations of holy warrior attacks that have devastated Europe in the last year.
"The attacks demonstrate how easy such attacks can be carried out, and prove to others that it is possible to make something similar," she added.
The teenage suspect’s lawyer, Aase Karine Sigmond, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that her client denies wrongdoing and had distanced himself from 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.
"We are talking about boyish stupidities," Sigmond told NRK.
The teen, who lives in Oslo, is scheduled for a pre-trial custody hearing on Monday.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The Prime Minister of Sweden has vowed his country will 'never go back' to recent levels of mass immigration after it emerged the terrorist who killed four people in a truck attack was a failed asylum seeker. A nation of dumbasses. It doesn't matter what your intentions are. What matters is whether the other bastard hates you.
Stefan Löfven pledged to change his country's liberal attitude, insisting the massive influx allowed during the 2015 migrant crisis would never happen again. You can betcher booty the dumbasses will be up in arms over his "intolerance."
Rakhmat Akilov, from Uzbekistan, hijacked the lorry and deliberately drove into pedestrians on central Stockholm's main shopping street on Friday afternoon.
It was a copycat of the attack carried out in London last month, when Khalid Masood killed four pedestrians and injured dozens more with a Hyundai 4x4. Swedish police said there were clear similarities.
Akilov is thought to have carried out reconnaissance along his route days earlier.
Four were killed and 15 injured when he drove a 30-ton truck down a pedestrianised area and smashed into a department store. Chris Bevington, a 41-year-old father-of-two from Britannia, was killed close to his office.
But it emerged yesterday Swedish authorities had given Akilov four weeks to leave Sweden after his final asylum appeal failed in December.
He was being sought by police and immigration officials for deportation ‐ but evaded them simply by giving a false address.
'Sweden will never go back to the [mass migration] we had in autumn 2015, never,' Mr Löfven said yesterday.
'Everyone who has been denied a permit should return home.
'This makes me feel enormously frustrated. If you have been denied a visa you are supposed to leave the country.'
He added: 'Terrorists want us to be afraid, want us to change our behaviour, want us to not live our lives normally, but that is what we're going to do.
'Terrorists can never defeat Sweden, never.'
There are more than 3,000 migrants colonists living unlawfully in Stockholm alone, police said.
Akilov, 39, had expressed support for 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.... and world-wide holy warrior group Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... , whose UK members included tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! hate preacher Anjem Choudary ...Self-proclaimed holy man who used to work for Omar Mohammed Bakdri as spokesman for al-Muhajiroun. Anjem is a loathesome little attention prostitute who is to be heard cheering for the home team anytime anybody with a turban manages to slaughter a group of unarmed infidels. Anjem was born in the UK in 1967 and is, as you would expect, of Pakistaini descent. The Ghost of Dante is of the opinion that when he goes to hell his knees will be broken once a month... Akilov reportedly told police that he carried out the attack on the orders of Islamic State.
He allegedly said: 'The bombings in Syria must stop,' a Swedish newspaper reported.
Akilov has allegedly confessed to the attack and told Sherlocks he was 'pleased with what he had done' and had 'accomplished what he set out to do', it was claimed.
Police sources said a bomb, found in the truck but which failed to detonate, contained gas canisters, chemicals and nails.
#7
Got to give credit to Sweden for learning albeit a bit too late. Now for the problem at hand of sending them back to wherever they came from--call it "late term extreme vetting."
[DailyMail] o A liberal country renowned for its generosity now paying the price for tolerance
o Many migrants, such as terror suspect Rakhmat Akilov, are not assimilating
o Instead forming parallel society where hatred of police is commonplace
[DW] The European Court of Justice has granted Germany the right to refuse a visa to an Iranian national on the grounds of security concerns. Sahar Fahimian had applied to pursue her doctorate in IT security in Darmstadt.
Police Report: Migrant Crime Drastically Increased in 2016
9 April
The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has released a new report which claims that crimes committed by migrants rapidly increased in 2016 compared to the previous year. The new report from the BKA states that in 2016 there was
Oxfam Accuses Police Along Balkan Route of Abusing Migrants
7 April
NGO Oxfam has accused police in the Balkans and Eastern Europe of abusing migrants saying migrants were beaten by officers and left in the cold.
Police Hunt ‘African’ Male Who Raped Girl on Camping Trip in Front of Her Boyfriend
6 April
Police in Bonn are searching for a machete-wielding African who raped a 23-year-old in a meadow while threatening to kill her boyfriend if he intervened.
Six Iranian Migrants Pulled from Sinking Boat in Channel
4 April
French maritime authorities have rescued six Iranian migrants whose fishing boat was sinking in the English Channel as they sought to reach Britain.
EU Accuses Migrant Helper Charities of Leaving Boats For Smugglers to Use in Mediterranean
4 April
The European Union border agency Frontex has accused NGOs of leaving migrant boats for smugglers to recover while the head of one NGO has defended against accusations of cooperation between them and the smugglers.
Fearing Radicalisation, Turkish Migrants Foresee ‘Civil War’ in Europe
2 April
Turkish migrants opposed to the Erdogan regime in their homeland and now living in Europe are increasingly concerned about the radicalisation of their fellow migrants, and the potential for a “civil war” in Europe. Speaking to best-selling Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung,
Small Town Attack: ‘African, Arab’ Men Use Stolen Tools to Terrorise Locals
2 April
Police in the small German town of Bad Sobernheim have reported a group of men described as being “African or Arabic origin” who broke into a construction site, stole tools, and used them to attack locals. The attack, which was reported
Merkel: Migrants and Germans Can Learn from Each Other
1 April
Chancellor Angela Merkel says newcomers to Germany must learn the country’s values and customs, but that Germans can also learn from them.
Aid Group Denies Supporting Migrant Smugglers
1 April
An aid group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean is denouncing suggestions it’s in cahoots with smugglers, saying its mission is to simply save lives.
Hungary Completes Border Container Camps for Asylum-Seekers
1 April
The Hungarian interior ministry says the expansion of two border container camps where asylum-seekers have to wait until their cases are decided has been completed.
Libya Says EU Naval Operation ‘Encourages’ Migrants
1 April
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamad Taher Siala on Friday urged the EU to rethink its naval operation in the Mediterranean, saying it comes with the side effect of encouraging migrants to attempt the perilous crossing to Europe.
Boyfriend forced to watch as refugee rapes his girlfriend at knifepoint during camping trip in Germany
10/04/17
The young couple were on a camping trip in the Siegaue Nature Reserve (pictured), north of the former German capital of Bonn, when they were approached by a machete-wielding Ghanaian man at about 12.30am on Sunday last week. The boyfriend was forced to watch as the attacker violated his 23-year-old lover. The boyfriend, 26, who had also been threatened by the man, contacted police and medical responders took her to hospital.
Horses move into the Calais Jungle: International equestrian centre is to be built on the site where Europe's biggest refugee camp was razed
09/04/17
Natacha Bouchart, mayor of the port town in northern France, said she was keen to see it set up as soon as possible, and that it should be of ‘competition standard
Gone (but not forgotten): Site of Calais jungle is pictured completely cleared after 8,000 migrants camped there were evicted… but they're not far away
06/04/17
Aerial pictures show how the site, once a squalid network of huts and tents housing thousands of refugees on the outskirts of Calais, France, has been flattened by bulldozers.
Somalian asylum seeker 'rapes two elderly disabled men in a care home before murdering one of the victims' wives' in Germany
03/04/17
The 18-year-old broke into the sheltered housing in Neuenhaus in Betheim and sneaked into two rooms including that of a paralyzed 59-year-old man to rape him and another victim, police say.
Four-day-old baby girl is among 500 migrants rescued from drifting rubber boat 22 miles off the coast of Libya
03/04/17
This is a four-day-old baby girl who was rescued from the sea off the coast of Libya by a Spanish NGO. The girl was taken along with the other migrants to Sicily for processing.
[RT] British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has backed the Putin-done-it conspiracy theorists in an article published by The Sunday Times.
"By proxy, Russia is responsible for every civilian death last week," he wrote in reference to the alleged gas attack in Idlib which killed at least 58 people.
Fallon’s argument rests on one of the two competing conspiracy theories promulgated by MSM outlets about the attack.
The first theory is that Trump was baited by a false flag attack into a foreign war, while the second alleges that Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... himself ordered a chemical weapons attack in Syria to distract from the investigation into Russian ties with the Trump cabinet.
Commentators claim that calls for evidence to support such theories is actually part of some intricate geopolitical chess game.
Conspiracy theories used to be relegated to tinfoil hat-wearing basement dwellers, but now everyone from politicians of some of the world’s most powerful nations to MSM outlets have drunk the Kool-Aid, it seems.
MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell took to Twitter Friday to offer his own unique take on the Syria attack before elaborating further on his network television show later that night.
"Wouldn't it be nice, if it was just completely, totally, absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week -- so that his friend in the White House could have a big night with missiles and all the praises he's picked up over the past 24 hours?" O’Donnell asked the audience of The Last Word Friday.
O’Donnell then drew comparisons with a similar false flag narrative that was spun by Republicans during Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... ’s presidency which alleged that the embattled president launched missile attacks in Afghanistan and Sudan in August 1998 to distract from the ongoing Monica Lewinski sex scandal.
Obvious compairsons were drawn with the newly released film Wag the dog in which a White House advisor creates a fictitious war with Albania to distract the American people from an ongoing scandal.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... in the absence of any evidence to back up his claims, O’Donnell instead deftly retreated to one of two possible logical fallacies: an argument from ignorance or shifting the burden of proof. "You won't hear ... proof that the scenario I've just outlined is impossible," the host proudly stated, without a hint of self-awareness.
"It changes the conventional wisdom about the dynamic between President Trump and Vladimir Putin," O'Donnell added.
The blame game also extends to alternative media sources, in a further attempt to muddy the waters rather than focus on fact and evidence when covering or responding to a story.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[3 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
I believe I've a better one: "There was no chemical attack, or a Tomahawk attack either - it's all just videos on YouTube, to distract the American People for election hacking."
#2
"Ah, but the strawberries, that's, that's where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist, and I've had produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out of action."
#3
"There was no chemical attack, or a Tomahawk attack either - it's all just videos on YouTube, to distract the American People for election hacking."
Yes. That way nobody gets hurt and the US government can get on with its business. I like it. I especially like the part where Scott Pelley and his MSM colleagues are no longer blathering every damn night about the Russians hacking our election in favor of Trump. It's such a relief. Now we have a new SCOTUS justice, we can pass a budget with tax relief, we can build a wall, etc. Good job, Vlad.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/10/2017 10:43
Comments ||
Top||
#4
O’Donnell then drew comparisons with a similar false flag narrative that was spun by Republicans during Bill Clinton’s presidency which alleged that the embattled president launched missile attacks in Afghanistan and Sudan in August 1998 to distract from the ongoing Monica Lewinski sex scandal.
Well, Clinton was having an affair with Monica just down the hall from Hillary while in the WH at the time. These apparatchiks (read as Donk Party water carriers or hacks) just can't let go of this meme that "The Russians did it," despite a complete lack of evidence to support the meme. I'm gonna support the meme that the Donks have a lot to hide during the "O" and Hillary administration regarding links with Russia. I'll go with write-off as dissembling and distraction by the Donks.
#5
Clinton was having an affair with Monica just down the hall from Hillary
An abuse of power, but under the circumstances (Hillary) I could overlook it. (Not the assaults or the lying, though.)
[DAWN] The Moslem world must form an ’Islamic United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... ’ to counter the proxy war thrust on the Islamic states by the colonial powers and the enemies of Islam, says Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Emir Senator Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... Commenting on the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the subsequent US missile attack there, he said the tyranny of Bashar al Asad on the Syrians was not something new as his father had also killed hundreds of thousands of Syrian Moslems and had set numerous habitations on fire.
Sirajul Haq said the arms and ammunition being manufactured in the West were being tested on the Moslem countries. The US, he said, had ransacked Iraq after accusing Saddam Husain of having WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) and put to death thousands of Iraqis Moslems. Subsequently, the US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... forces attacked Afghanistan and killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans.
The JI chief said the colonial powers were repeating the same story in Kashmire, Burma, Paleostine and Syria, "but unfortunately the attitude of the Moslem rulers is deplorable."
Haq said in the prevailing situation, it was the duty of the Moslem rulers to sit together and chalk out a common line of action to foil the enemy designs and for the security of each and every Moslem. He said in Arakan (Burma), the Moslems’ habitations and mosques and madressahs were being torched. Hundreds of Rohingya Moslems were being killed in Arakan every day but the United Nations and human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... bodies were silent.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[7 views]
Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami
#1
well there already is an OAS (organization of Arab States) which is an embarrassing waste of oxygen
and then there is the organization of Islamic cooperation which is less known but equally embarrassing
so per DAWN, the solution is another org
Posted by: lord garth ||
04/10/2017 0:24
Comments ||
Top||
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three al-Qaeda network members were killed during an Arclight airstrike in southeastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) front man Dawlat Waziri said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Jani Khel district.
This comes as the US Department of Defense confirmed the death of a high level al-Qaeda network leader who was killed in Paktika province last month.
The al-Qaeda leader killed in the Arclight airstrike was identified as Qari Yasin with the Department of Defense saying he was a senior terrorist figure from Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , Pakistain, had ties to Tehrik-e Taliban and had plotted multiple al Qaeda terror attacks, including the Sept. 20, 2008, bombing on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that killed dozens of innocent people, among them U.S. Air Force Maj. Rodolfo I. Rodriguez and Navy Cryptologic Technician Third Class Petty Officer Matthew J. O’Bryant.
In the meantime, Gen. Waziri said at least eight ISIS snuffies were killed in another Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province while eight Taliban forces of Evil were killed in a similar operation in northern Kunduz province.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[4 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda
[Iraq News] Civilians who attempted escaping from 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.... -held regions before and during battles between Iraqi troops and IS hard boyz cannot find safe passageways as they always face attacks by the IS bad boys, according to the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights (IOHR)
At least 25 civilians have been killed since beginning of April on Abu Zaayan street, which is considered as one of the "safe routes" opened by Iraqi troops, IOHR said in a report on Sunday.
The report quoted Abu Omar al-Hayali, a displaced resident from western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... who took to Abu Zaayan street, along with his and other families, to escape toward the troops, as saying "once we attempted escaping the IS-held regions, the snipers started targeting civilians."
"I saw a man and a woman in their twenties as they were rubbed out by a sniper," he said. "My family and I took shelter for twenty minutes behind a concrete wall to hide from the sniper. We were then able to pass the dangerous area with the help of Iraqi troops."
A journalist from Mosul, identifying himself with the pen-name Safaa Omar, told IOHR that the "safe passageways, that are still exposed to IS fires, are Nineveh public hospital route on al-Mahatta street and abu Zaayan street."
Meanwhile IOHR said that "Iraqi security troops make huge efforts to help civilians escape the battlefields, but they face the IS snipers. The troops assist dozens of families daily to reach safe places, however, some get killed or injured by bombs, mortar missiles or snipers."
A medical source, who offer urgent treatment for families displaced from the western side, said "treatment is offered daily to more than fifty maimed persons who were maimed during the displacement."
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[1 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
[SHABELLENEWS] Suspected Somali pirates have again hijacked a vessel on one of the world’s crucial trade routes, authorities said Saturday night, the latest in a string of attacks after several years of silence.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations piracy watchdog said on its website it had received a report from a vessel under attack and possibly boarded off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen. It gave no further details.
Somali pirates in recent weeks have hijacked at least two vessels with foreign crews in the waters off Somalia and Yemen, marking a return of the threat after half a decade.
A source with the ports ministry in Somalia’s northeastern semiautonomous state 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... said armed pirates hijacked a ship flying under the Tuvalu flag and were steering it toward Somalia’s northern coast. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to news hounds.
Graeme Gibbon Brooks, the CEO of the British firm Dryad Maritime, said security officials believed the vessel to be a bulk carrier.
A Somali pirate, Bile Hussein, said he was aware that pirates had managed to board a ship near Yemen’s Socotra island despite resistance from the crew.
Commander Jacqui Sherriff, a spokeswoman for the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... anti-piracy mission off Somalia, said the mission was liaising with other authorities to investigate and, if the attack was confirmed, "our thoughts go out to the crew." The U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, which oversees regional anti-piracy efforts from Bahrain, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The former director of the anti-piracy agency in Puntland, Abdirizak Mohammed Ahmed, said he had received information about the hijacking of a ship but could not give further details.
Earlier this month, officials said Somali pirates had seized a small boat and its 11 Indian crew members as the vessel passed through the narrow channel between Socotra Island and Somalia’s coast.
In March, Somali pirates hijacked a Comoros-flagged oil tanker, marking the first such seizure of a large commercial vessel since 2012. They later released the vessel and its Sri Lankan crew without conditions.
Pirates later seized a fishing trawler, which Somali authorities warned could be used for further piracy.
Piracy off Somalia’s coast was once a serious threat to the global shipping industry. It has lessened in recent years after an international effort to patrol near the country, whose weak central government has been trying to assert itself after a quarter-century of conflict. In December, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... ended its anti-piracy mission off Somalia’s waters.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Pirates
#1
Tuvalu - a nation comprised of a few coral islets in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, so presumably that flag is one of very convenient convenience (no inspections, etc)
[Iraq News] Iraqi army forces killed two 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.... area governors during operations in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Sunday, an officer reported as operations continue to recapture the region from Lion of Islams.
BasNews quoted Maj. Ali Mohsen, from the Iraqi army, saying the elite Counter-Terrorism Forces killed Kanaan Breis, IS’s governor for Tal Afar, and Ghanem al-Jeheishi, IS’s governor of al-Baaj region. Mohsen said the pair was killed in separate offensives. He did not mention their nationality, but numerous foreign members of the group have been killed since operations launched for western Mosul in February.
Mohsen also added that the forces invaded IS havens in Wadi Akab region and destroyed five booby-trapped vehicles.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/10/2017
00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
E-Mail||
[3 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic State
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.
[Zero Hedge] For months now we've warned, as have many prominent Republican legislators, that Obamacare is on the verge of collapse (see "Obamacare On "Verge Of Collapse" As Premiums Set To Soar Again In 2017"). 
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said House Republicans should not have started with Obamacare as the first major issue to tackle in the new Congress, emphasizing that an infrastructure package and curing the opioid addition crisis would get more bipartisan support.
Please don't forget what you've got on the stove. 
[NY Mag] By Reeves Wiedeman 
[DAWN] Imam-e-Ka’aba Sheikh Saleh Mohammad bin Talib on Saturday held separate meetings with President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister 
[DAWN] Secretary General Antonio Guterres has selected Nobel Peace Prize laureate 
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[DAWN] LAHORE: Banned outfit 
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
[Iraq News] The 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty five 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A deadly 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A US soldier was killed during the counter-terrorism operations in eastern 
[Gulf Today] Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte again ordered the military to wipe out the Abu Sayyaf which he said has remained one of the nation's major threats. Duterte issued the order during his visit to a military camp in the capital town of Jolo, Sulu to award medals to the 28 soldiers injured in a recent clash with the Abu Sayyaf.
[DAILYWIRE] There were several other unresolved audit matters, which restricted our ability to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to express an opinion. These unresolved audit matters relate to (1) the Office of General Counsel’s refusal to sign the management representation letter, (2) HUD’s improper use of cumulative and first-in, first-out budgetary accounting methods of disbursing community planning and development program funds, (3) the $4.2 billion in nonpooled loan assets from Ginnie Mae’s stand-alone financial statements that we could not audit due to inadequate support, (4) the improper accounting for certain HUD assets and liabilities, and (5) material differences between HUD’s subledger and general ledger accounts. This audit report contains 11 material weaknesses, 7 significant deficiencies, and 5 instances of noncompliance with applicable laws and regulations.
[AFP] Two traffic policemen were killed on Saturday after their vehicle came under fire in Russia'S north Caucasus region..jpg)
[DAWN] Six people were killed and more than two dozen injured on Sunday when police clashed with protesters during a by-election in Srinagar in India-held 
[Bangkok Post] Three more bombs, two of them unexploded, were found attached to high-voltage power poles on Saturday morning following a series of blasts and arson attacks that rocked Thailand's far South.
[Iraq News] A security source informed that joint security forces launched a military operation, under the title al-Sayl al-Jaref (The Torrent), in al-Tarmia District, north of Baghdad, while revealed that the forces also started to close entrances and exits to and from the district, ikhnews reported on Sunday.
[Iraq News] Conflicts among 
[Inquirer] Three people were arrested for allegedly setting off an improvised explosive device that targeted soldiers in Cateel, Davao Oriental, on Saturday. Two of the suspects — Joedel Nunez and Tantan Bacquiao – were caught by soldiers after detonating the explosives, said Andrea dela Cerna, regional spokesperson for the Southern Mindanao police.
...Self-proclaimed holy man who used to work for Omar Mohammed Bakdri as spokesman for al-Muhajiroun. Anjem is a loathesome little attention prostitute who is to be heard cheering for the home team anytime anybody with a turban manages to slaughter a group of unarmed infidels. Anjem was born in the UK in 1967 and is, as you would expect, of Pakistaini descent. The Ghost of Dante is of the opinion that when he goes to hell his knees will be broken once a month...
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[DAWN] The 
[Iraq News] Civilians who attempted escaping from 
Somali pirates
[Iraq News] Iraqi army forces killed two 
