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China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: Primed and Ready
Hat tip: 38 North. Excellent report of goings on at the NORK nuke site. Complete with detail satellite imagery. You won't see this on the MSM.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/14/2017 16:11 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Target coordinates verified and locked in.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/14/2017 16:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/14/2017 22:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

Heh. At first, I thought you were snarking about Pudge running out of suction with the Chinese. Never mind!
Posted by: SteveS || 04/14/2017 22:18 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
One killed in terror attack on Jerusalem light rail

A woman killed after being stabbed in a terror attack on the Jerusalem light rail Friday, Magen David Adom reported.

The woman, about 25 years old, suffered multiple stab wounds to her upper body and was transferred to Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem for treatment before succumbing to her wounds.

According to Israel Police, the woman is reportedly a student tourist from Britain.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2017 15:36 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
When the paper roll is empty: Korans found in toilets at University of Texas at Dallas
[BBC] Police are trying to identify one of six people seen entering the toilet on the evening of the incident, 28 March.

A reflection room where multi-faith prayer books are kept on the building's ground floor was not touched, according to investigators.

Police Chief Larry Zacharias told the Dallas Morning News: "No one knows who owns the books, so that makes it difficult."
In summary: someone -- probably one of the six seen entering the bathroom that night -- dropped his own books in the toilet. Sadly, the odds are above 50% that it was a Muslim who dunnit, but until the culprit is found the mainstream news media and Muslim organizations will get all the mileage they can from the incident.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2017 11:29 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And why should anyone, especially police, other than the plumber care?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/14/2017 12:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Er this is not a crime...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/14/2017 12:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I call "cultural appropriation"! Paper was invented by the Chinese and the printing press and bookbinding was invented by the Europeans! Reading and writing was invented before the moon god.
So, take that SJWs!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/14/2017 13:58 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I should have used more exclamation marks !!!!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/14/2017 13:59 Comments || Top||

#5  An infidel rushed to the toilet.
Now, flush... a Koran! "Did I soil it?"
She mumbled, offended,
"This wrong must be mended!"
And scooped out her turd to go boil it.
Posted by: Gerthudion Thaiter2455 || 04/14/2017 15:02 Comments || Top||

#6  If they found two bibles instead in the toilet, would anybody care?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 04/14/2017 15:45 Comments || Top||

#7  1st world problems...courtesy of 3rd world invaders.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/14/2017 16:38 Comments || Top||

#8  When the paper roll is empty

Why wait until then?
Posted by: gorb || 04/14/2017 18:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Perhaps it's like turning the water on to piss. Few verses makes ya wanna push outta deuce.Makes perfect sense.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 04/14/2017 22:37 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Release of Melania Official Portrait Triggers Global Warming
The East Wishbone Center for Climate Research and Kickback Receipt labelled the unveiling of Mrs. Trump's official portrait as "an unprecedented act of climate aggression", likely to raise the temperature of the planet by 5 degrees centigrade. "Our models accurately account for carbon dioxide, except when they don't, but not an event like this. We all require a large grant to, uh. study this development in great detail."
Posted by: Matt || 04/14/2017 11:29 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ooohhh...I feel some warming!
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2017 12:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Compared to this, M. Obama looks like a guy in drag.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/14/2017 12:53 Comments || Top||

#3  just catching on, Iblis?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 14:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Mrs. Obama has always looked like a dude in drag.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/14/2017 15:08 Comments || Top||

#5  In order words she is DAMN hot!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/14/2017 15:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Professor Proton: Is the, is the blonde girl really your, your girlfriend?
Leonard Hofstadter: Yes, sir.
Professor Proton: You're the genius.
- BBT




Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2017 16:42 Comments || Top||


Government
Detroit: Iraqi ex-con, veteran, Christian, fears for life if deported
[DetroitNews] After spending 33 years, six months and 21 days in prison, Mahid Shaou faces another debt some say is too steep: Deportation back to Iraq, a country where he knows no one, doesn’t speak the language and fears being killed by Islamic State militants because he is Christian.

Shaou is among hundreds of local Iraqi Christians facing deportation in the wake of the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Activists call the looming deportations an “egregious human rights violation” because of the genocide against Iraqi Christians by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

After Shaou was paroled from prison six months ago for robbing a restaurant and wounding a police officer, he was never freed -- he immediately was transferred into federal custody. This week, immigration officials moved Shaou to a detention facility in Louisiana, where he’s been told he will be deported any day to Iraq.
I imagine the Kurds would be delighted to have him...

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Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/14/2017 10:47 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  BYE!
Shaou told the workers that if they had no idea what it is like to be taken advantage of, he would show them. He pulled out his gun and told them to give him the money from the register.

The employees gave him money and Shaou said he remembers walking outside. But as he was pulling out of the McDonald’s parking lot, he was stopped by a police car.

He claims he doesn’t recall police lights on the car, and all he remembers seeing was a uniform and a weapon – not the person’s face. But it was a police officer.

Shaou — who claims he blacked out during parts of the incident — grabbed his gun and shot at the officer’s upper arm. As the officer spun around from the velocity of the bullet, Shaou shot again, hitting his shoulder.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 14:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Shaou said he tried to become a citizen when he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1980 at age 17.

He could have naturalized at the age of 18, with or without enlistment. Trump should cut this guy a break. Democrats defend their felons. We should defend ours.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 04/14/2017 15:55 Comments || Top||

#3  It appears that he committed at least two separate armed robberies on two successive dates in February 1983: http://mdocweb.state.mi.us/OTIS2/otis2profile.aspx?mdocNumber=173835

I have mixed feelings here. I assume that he was honorably discharged from the Army. He served his sentence, and was released - so he presumably paid his debt to society.

I guess I support his deportation, as long as every Arab refugee who is WORSE than this guy gets booted as well.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 04/14/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||

#4  From the change.org petition referenced in the article:

His father died while he was overseas in Korea. When Nahidh returned to America for his father's funeral, he suffered from depression, guilt, anxiety and PTSD. He received an honorable discharge and returned back to Michigan to take care of his mother and siblings. His mother was then diagnosed with cancer in her early 40's and Nahidh stuggled to provide for the family.

It is not clear to me why the gentleman would be suffering from PTSD after serving in Korea about 35 years ago. It is clear to me why a young man feeling the weight of care for his family might be a bit edgy after the death of one parent and facing the expensive care and possible death of the other parent.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2017 18:12 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
MOAB: 'It felt like the heavens were falling'
After his evening prayers, Mohammad Shahzadah closed the house gates and sat down for dinner. Then the blast came, engulfing the sky in flames and sending tremors through the ground.

"The earth felt like a boat in a storm," Shahzadah said. "I thought my house was being bombed. Last year a drone strike targeted a house next to mine, but this time it felt like the heavens were falling. The children and women were very scared."
Look on the bright side, Mo. The women and children didn't have to jump out of 60th floor windows to avoid being burned to death. (And don't think for a second we've forgotten about that.)
Also, if a drone hit the house next door last year and this year a MOAB was dropped less than two miles away, just whose side are you on?

The bomb was dropped in the mountains close to Moman village in an area called Asadkhel. About 1.5 miles away, in Shaddle Bazar where Shahzadah lives, the impact was palpable.

"My ears were deaf for a while. My windows and doors are broken. There are cracks in the walls," he said.
Don't worry -- the Delta Force Claim Adjustment Detachment will be there around 4 AM.
The following morning around 9am, fighter jets strafed the area, a local police commander, Baaz Jan, said.

"We don't know who was killed yesterday or this morning. But there is confusion and fear in the radio chats we are intercepting. There is limited communication among Isis fighters," he said.
Fighter 1: "Ouchies."
Fighter 2: "Humminahumminahummina."
Fighter 3: "Holy Shit!"
Fighter 4: (Rosebud)

Some observers, however, questioned the necessity of deploying a weapon of that scale against a group whose estimated 600 to 800 fighters pose only a limited threat to the Afghan state.
Outstanding. Let's mobilize the First Fightin' Observer Battalion and have them go clear a cave complex in hand-to-hand fighting.
Update at 12:15 p.m. EDT: CNN reports that Afghan officials say 36 ISIS fighters died, while Al Ahram reports that ISIS says no one was killed at all. It seems to me this kind of thing, widely reported as it has been, will make Afghanistan less attractive to ISIS fighters looking for their next battlefield after Iraq/Syria.
Posted by: Matt || 04/14/2017 09:13 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Better to deploy 1,000 MOABs than to needlessly risk American lives.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/14/2017 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Mattis to World:
"We have more, and they're reaching their 'Use By' dates. Just sayin'"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Other observers, however, question the necessity of resisting jihad.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/14/2017 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  More Afghan comments:
Another Achin resident, Mohammad Hakim, voiced his approval for the strike, saying “We are very happy and these kinds of bombs should be used in future as well, so Daesh is rooted out from here,” using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.

“They killed our women, youths and elders sitting them on mines. We also ask the Kabul government to use even stronger weapons against them,” Hakim added.

The U.S. estimates 600 to 800 IS fighters are present in Afghanistan, mostly in Nangarhar. The U.S. has concentrated heavily on combatting them while also supporting Afghan forces battling the Taliban. President Donald Trump called Thursday’s operation a “very, very successful mission.”

“I want a hundred times more bombings on this group,” said Hakim Khan, 50, a resident of Achin district, the site of the blast.

Inamullah Meyakhil, spokesman for the central hospital in eastern Nangarhar province, said the facility had received no dead or wounded from the attack.

District Gov. Ismail Shinwari said there is no civilian property near the airstrike location.

There was no immediate comment from the Islamic State group on the attack.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/14/2017 10:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Our former Caped Crusader isn't happy. Between this and the destruction of the heroin factories, he's butthurt:

Former President Hamid Karzai condemned the strike, saying it “is not the war on terror but inhuman, and (the) most brutal misuse of our country as (a) testing ground for new and dangeorus weapons. It is upon us, Afghans, to stop the USA.”

Karzi said, “I vehemently and in strongest words condemn the dropping of the latest weapon.”

Since news of the strike broke, most social media users in Afghanistan criticized both the Afghan government and U.S. One user called it “our generation’s “Hiroshima,” adding, “I’m still in shock.”
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 11:08 Comments || Top||

#6  One user called it “our generation’s “Hiroshima”

Dude, you don't know "Hiroshima".
Posted by: Pappy || 04/14/2017 11:33 Comments || Top||

#7  Here's the video. I wonder if we could drop enough of these to spell K-I-M.
Posted by: Matt || 04/14/2017 11:41 Comments || Top||

#8  "My ears were deaf for a while. "

Same thing happened to me, pal. Van Halen, summer tour of 1981 at the old Boston Garden. Couldn't hear right for two or three days. Helluva show!
Posted by: Raj || 04/14/2017 11:43 Comments || Top||

#9  T.E. "Lawrence of Arabia" Lawrence once asked for Turkish mountain guns because he felt the morale effect of "Big badda boom" on Arab irregulars was more important than any measurable effect...
Posted by: magpie || 04/14/2017 12:03 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/14/2017 12:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Such an explosion has a much greater effect in a valley area rather than flat terrain. The mountains around offer little escape for the blast causing considerable compression.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 04/14/2017 14:09 Comments || Top||

#12  I heard a report on NPR on the subject as I drove between hither and yon earlier today: they quoted an Afghan official as saying not only were 36 ISIS fighters killed, but no civilians whatsoever.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2017 15:10 Comments || Top||

#13  (And don't think for a second we've forgotten about that.)

Oh, the non-American globalist have. They show it everyday in their words and deeds.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2017 15:30 Comments || Top||

#14  Worse than that #13, MSM is intent on finding out who ordered the strike as in their leftist, pro-Islamic, anti-WOT role.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 04/14/2017 15:47 Comments || Top||

#15  Oh, the non-American globalist have. They show it everyday in their words and deeds.

Half of Congress for all intents and purposes *forgot* about it within a few weeks of 9/11. Half the American people took their cue from Congress and promptly forgot about it shortly thereafter.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/14/2017 17:11 Comments || Top||

#16  "There was no immediate comment from the Islamic State group on the attack"

Maybe because it's hard to comment when you're DEAD?
Posted by: Barbara || 04/14/2017 17:22 Comments || Top||

#17  Now that's a barrel bomb.
Posted by: Grailing Snort3782 || 04/14/2017 18:06 Comments || Top||

#18  Some observers, however, questioned the necessity of deploying a weapon of that scale against a group whose estimated 600 to 800 fighters pose only a limited threat to the Afghan state.


How about they [jihadists] have just been p!$$ing us off for too long. We are just helping them get their 72 raisins.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 22:25 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Lerner now a victim, demands secrecy, blames death threats over IRS tea party targeting
[Wash Times] Former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court this week that she faces the possibility of death threats if her role in the tax agency’s tea party-targeting becomes public, and asked a judge to forever seal her upcoming deposition in a class-action lawsuit brought by hundreds of groups that were targeted.

Mr. Lerner and Holly Paz, another figure from the IRS tea party targeting, told the judge they’ve already faced "harassment and death threats" before, and said they fear another media firestorm if their version of events from the tea party targeting were to become public.

The two women said they are willing to testify, but said they could be putting "their lives in serious jeopardy."

"Mss. Lerner and Paz have demonstrated that the public dissemination of their deposition testimony would expose them and their families to harassment and a credible risk of violence and physical harm," they said in documents submitted by their lawyer to Judge Michael R. Barrett.

The two women submitted secret evidence to the judge that they said backed up the death threat claim. They said the threats they’ve already gotten contained "graphic, profane and disturbing language" that they said has caused them embarrassment.

The groups suing the IRS in the class action lawsuit have objected to the secrecy order, leaving the matter to Judge Barrett to decide.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 08:28 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...and asked a judge to forever seal her upcoming deposition in a class-action lawsuit brought by hundreds of groups that were targeted.

Yes, same vault as the FBI investigation of MLK and Barry Soetoro's passport and college transcripts.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 8:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Lois Lerner faces the possibility of death threats if her role in the tax agency’s tea party-targeting becomes public

So then she admits a significant role in targeting conservative groups? What was Obama's role? Death threats to her from whom? The left? Death threats are not the MO of the Tea Party. IMO, she should either roll over and tell all, or she should get her a$$ thrown in jail for a long time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Mr. Trump gets death threats too. Can he seal all the Executive office records too?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm for sealing up her records if we can seal her up with them.

Preferably in concrete.

Then dumped in the deepest part of the ocean.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/14/2017 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Alternative headline:
"Arrogant lying criminal partisan bitch receives feedback"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 10:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Another alternative headline: "Un-indicted co-conspirators try to change subject."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/14/2017 10:42 Comments || Top||

#7  JQC, embrace the power of AND.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/14/2017 11:21 Comments || Top||

#8  It really sucks when the harassment shoe's on the other foot, eh bitch?
Posted by: Raj || 04/14/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||

#9  IF (Lois Lerner) .AND. (Fifth Amendment)
THEN (Victim) := False;
See, that was simple, wasn't it?
Posted by: magpie || 04/14/2017 12:00 Comments || Top||

#10  I wish her no greater punishment than the same treatment she handed out to her political opponents.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/14/2017 12:57 Comments || Top||

#11  ..you mean like a in depth 10 year audit of her past filings and an intimate audit every year hence?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2017 16:44 Comments || Top||

#12  I say we protect her behind bars
Posted by: Jan || 04/14/2017 16:53 Comments || Top||

#13  Lock her up, no deals. I don't care of Barry walks I think we need the petty bureaucrats to get the message.

Barry will likely be tarred by the spying-gate thing anyway.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/14/2017 17:13 Comments || Top||


Government
New Klingon Chancellor: WikiLeaks a 'non-state hostile intelligence service'
[The Hill] CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday hammered WikiLeaks, calling the organization a "non-state hostile intelligence service."

Certainly 'hostile' to the Deep State. Sadly, the agency 'Obama hold-over' assimilation program appears to be working.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 05:20 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pay no mind to our appalling Operational Security (OPSEC) profile or the endless queue of whistleblowers. We will tell you what to believe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 5:39 Comments || Top||

#2  All they told was the truth. No wonder they're pissed.

The democrats never denied anything that came out of them. Telling.
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 04/14/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Had Assange not spilled the beans and released Podesta's emails, we would have ended up with Hillary as POTUS. What would that be like about now? IMO, we'd all be seeking shelter somewhere. Soros' crazy progressive notions would be making huge inroads into gnawing away at our culture and society. We'd be flooded with illegals from everywhere. The Clinton Foundation and its corruption would be on steroids.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 9:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Huffpoo Blog Suggests Taking Away White Men's Right to Vote
[Free Beacon] A blog post published Thursday on the Huffington Post's South African version of the site advocated stripping white men of their right to vote.

Shelley Garland is an activist and feminist completing a Master of Arts degree in philosophy and "working on ways to smash the patriarchy."

"Could It Be Time to Deny White Men the Franchise?" she asked Thursday in the title of her blog post.

"It is time to wrestle control of the world back from white males, and the first step will be a temporary restriction of the franchise to them," according to Garland.

"If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened," she explained. "It would not be necessary to deny white men indefinitely‐the denial of the vote to white men for 20 years (just less than a generation) would go some way to seeing a decline in the influence of reactionary and neo-liberal ideology in the world."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 04:52 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Most are keenly aware it is not simply the white man's vote that they wish to take away.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 5:07 Comments || Top||

#2  If white men no longer had the vote, the progressive cause would be strengthened,"

Well, Ms. Garland, you might consider moving to South Africa; it might be more to your liking. File under racist, sexist, white hater, misguided, misanthropic twit.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  The sexism, racism and hatred have really been exposed for progressives.

She should be careful who she pushes. Some men do not respond diplomatically to threats.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/14/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  In South Africa this is a real possibility, another step in the devolution of the country and a sign for the white folk to sell out for what they can get and take themselves elsewhere. But when the same thing is written in America, it is click bait and wishful thinking.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2017 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  As long as they take away the obligation for white males to be taxed...
Posted by: Pappy || 04/14/2017 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  And to serve in the military...
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/14/2017 13:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, Ms. Garland, you might consider moving to South Africa; it might be more to your liking.

She is South African.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 04/14/2017 16:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Google images of Shelley Garland Huffington Post

Notice anything strange about "her"?
Posted by: Short Bluetooth4383 || 04/14/2017 16:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Google images of Shelley Garland Huffington Post

Don't do it - its a trap!

anyone have any eye bleach?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/14/2017 17:03 Comments || Top||

#10  That's a man...
Posted by: Crusader || 04/14/2017 17:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Dumbest article I've read in a long time.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/14/2017 17:14 Comments || Top||


Hollywood Celebrity Sends Voters to Georgia Polls on Wrong Day
[Free Beacon] Hollywood celebrity Chelsea Handler has helped Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff reach record fundraising levels with her contributions, but she doesn't even know when the election is.

Handler demonstrated this Tuesday when she invited her nearly seven million Twitter followers to get out and vote for Ossoff--even though the election isn't taking place until next week on April 18.

The errant message likely didn't cause too much confusion for southern voters in Georgia, who appear less energized about next week's election than residents of liberal bastions like Hollywood. Ninety-five percent of contributions to Ossoff's campaign--including $2,700 from Handler--have come from sources outside of Georgia.

Handler's sudden interest in the Southern election comes a year after she revealed in an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer that she associates racism with "really like dumb ... people from the South."

Handler is far from the only Hollywood celebrity who has taken an interest in the 30-year-old former congressional staffer and investigative filmmaker for Al Jazeera.

Other celebrities contributing to Ossoff's effort include Ashton Kutcher's Two and a Half Men costar Jon Cryer, Rosie O'Donnell, Debra Messing, George Takei, John Leguizamo, Sam Waterston, and Kristen Bell.

Ossoff has received financial support from less-well-known members of the Hollywood scene such as Shannon Fitzgerald, a reality television producer who claims to have "discovered the Kardashian family." Fitzgerald held a fundraiser for Ossoff last month in Los Angeles.

Fitzgerald cohosted the fundraiser with Rose McGowan, who made her film debut in Encino Man before starring in Jawbreaker and the television show Charmed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 04:39 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hollyweird and the dems have flooded local Atlanta teevee with Ossoff adds. I don't believe the little 30 year old rodent has a snowball's chance in hell. He does however, bear a striking, younger brother resemblance to Carlos Danger.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 5:48 Comments || Top||

#2  From his website: "Today, I lead a company that investigates corrupt politicians and organized crime." I wonder if he will turn his sights on the corruption in his own party? What was I thinking? Color me naïve.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Chelsea Handler has helped Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff reach record fundraising levels with her contributions, but she doesn't even know when the election is.

Thank God these Hollywood celebs would have trouble organizing a one-person parade.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Hollywood celebrity Chelsea Handler has helped Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff reach record fundraising levels with her contributions, but she doesn't even know when the election is.

Reasonably attractive lady, and on rare occasion even vaguely amusing, but she doesn't have the brains the Good Lord gave a softball.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/14/2017 10:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember she called the FLOTUS an ignorant immigrant.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/14/2017 13:15 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran is trying to provoke a Russia-US hot war in Syria
An interesting take on the events
When you boil Syria down to its principal players, there are only three: Russia, the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. With Assad’s chemical attack, people have been misdirected from the reality by blaming the powerless Assad. But Assad doesn’t mvoe without direct Iranian permission. So, the real question is why did Iran launch a chemical weapons attack?

The answer is simple: Iran desperately needs Russia and the United States to get into a hot war in Syria so as to enable Iran to pick up the shattered pieces. In contrast, the United States and Russia desperately need each other to defeat Iran’s waxing neo-Safavidic Empire from stretching from Iran to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Not sure I'm going with this - if there's a hot war between Russia and USA in Syria,
there will be no pieces to pick up
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2017 02:57 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I think this is entirely plausible. Iran's desire to control topography from Tehran to Med is well-known. Also well-known: Arab hostility to that happening. USA and Russia have at least equal reason to defeat Salafi Jihad and Iranian Jihad. Russia even more than USA, perhaps, considering Europe is now Salafi, mirroring Salafi threat to Russia's east.

So this man's analysis, which I read through, makes sense to me. It also calls to my mind the Three Brothers Doctrine I have mentioned in these precincts once or twice before: http://theological-geography.net/?s=three+brothers
Posted by: TopRev || 04/14/2017 14:26 Comments || Top||

#2  I think this is entirely plausible

More like possible, as in "anything is possible".
Posted by: Pappy || 04/14/2017 15:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Two Christian nations fighting it out, possibly one to the death and the "survivor" with extreme casualties.

Cui bono?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/14/2017 16:52 Comments || Top||


Economy
US to launch probe into Argentina, Indonesia biodiesel imports
The US Commerce Department said on Thursday it was starting an investigation into imports of biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia for possible dumping and subsidization.

The department said in a statement that the US International Trade Commission was scheduled to make a preliminary decision by May 8 on whether such imports injured US producers.

Biodiesel is a renewable fuel made from vegetable or animal fats, is typically blended with petroleum-based diesel and is produced in more than 30 US states, the statement said.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2017 00:55 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...TRANSLATION: "The stuff wasn't made here in the States, where the proper people gotta get their tax breaks and other subsidies first."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/14/2017 5:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Mike, I believe that the proper people did get all their tax breaks and subsidies, but the proper people are no longer so proper.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/14/2017 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Biodiesel is a renewable fuel made from vegetable or animal fats

So THATS where political opponents go!

Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2017 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Some other countires taxpayers are subsidising Americans and you want to STOP this?!?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/14/2017 12:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Some other countires taxpayers are subsidising Americans and you want to STOP this?!?

Indeed. Just slap am import tariff on it.
Posted by: phil_b || 04/14/2017 19:24 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Prosecutor seeks 15 years in jail for former prosecutor of MIT trucks case
[Hurriyet Daily News] The Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office on April 13 demanded 15 years in jail for the former prosecutor of a controversial National Intelligence Agency (MIT) trucks case on charges of "membership to a terrorist organization," state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The indictment into the prosecutor, Aziz Takci, was prepared by Prosecutor Veyzi Kacmaz and delivered to the 18th Ankara Penal Court.

The indictment demanded 7.5 years to 15 years in jail for the prosecutor of being a member of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization/Parallel State Structure (FETÖ/PDY).

Takci was also accused of revealing state secrets.

Last year, a crisis erupted after MIT trucks bound for Syria were stopped and searched by authorities on Jan. 1, 2014. The trucks were allegedly carrying weapons and ammunition to hard boyz fighting in Syria.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth had turned a paler shade of blue. Star-A-Star had struck again...
Takci was also accused of using ByLock, an encrypted messaging application that is said to have been used by members of FETÖ.

The Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), the top judiciary body in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, on Jan. 14 dismissed Takci as well as prosecutors Suleyman Bagriyanik, Ahmet Karaca, Özcan Sisman and Yasar Kavalciklioglu, who had ordered the MIT trucks to be stopped in southern Turkey.

HSYK stated the prosecutors had committed acts that violated the dignity and honor of their profession as well as the reputation of a public officer.

In January 2014, Hatay Police Department Counter-terrorism and Organized Crime unit officers stopped a truck which had embarked from the southern town of Reyhanli, a district in Hatay province that borders Syria, on a tipoff that it was carrying arms to Syria. The truck was stopped near a gendarmerie outpost on the Reyhanli ‐ Kirikhan road. The driver and two other men in the truck did not allow the police to conduct a search of the cargo as the venue was beyond the police’s area of authority.
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Africa Subsaharan
Rise in Boko Haram Child Suicide Bombers 'Alarming', Says UNICEF
[AnNahar] An "alarming" number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
as jacket wallahs in the first months of 2017, UNICEF said Wednesday.

The Islamists have increasingly been using children to attack crowded markets, mosques and camps for internally displaced people in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
and the broader Lake Chad region.

Experts said the number of children used in suicide kabooms by Boko Haram surged to 27 in the first quarter of this year, compared to nine over the same period in 2016.

Since 2014, 117 children -- the "vast majority" of them girls -- have been used to carry out attacks in public places across Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, said the report by the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
children's agency UNICEF.

Four children were used to carry out kabooms in 2014, 56 in 2015, 30 in 2016 and 27 in the first three months of 2017, reported UNICEF.

"The increase reflects an alarming tactic by the Lion of Islams," said the report.

"This is the worst possible use of children in conflict," said Marie-Pierre Poirier, UNICEF's regional director for West and Central Africa.

In a separate statement, UNICEF said it was concerned that children were being held by the Nigerian military for alleged association with Boko Haram myrmidons.

"They are held in military barracks, separated from their parents, without medical follow-up, without psychological support, without education, under conditions and for durations that are unknown", said Patrick Rose, a UNICEF regional coordinator.

Last year, Amnesia Amnesty International warned in a May report that children were dying in the Giwa barracks detention center in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria.

"Babies and young children have died in appalling conditions in military detention," said the rights organization.

On Monday, the Nigerian army released nearly 600 children, women and elderly from Giwa barracks described as a "major step" by aid agencies toward the protection and reintegration of the children back into society.

Boko Haram has been largely weakened since Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari came into power in 2015, but the Lake Chad region remains unstable with some areas still completely inaccessible.
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#1  LTC(R) Ralph Peters was asked earlier in the week on Fox; "why has the U.S. not engaged Boko Haram more aggressively?"

Peters immediately responded, "because they are black."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 6:04 Comments || Top||

#2 
boko h is probably running out of adult suicide bombers
Posted by: lord garth || 04/14/2017 11:56 Comments || Top||

#3  UNICEF is alarmed because the 'fluffy bunny donate for the children' pitch is losing appeal.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2017 12:24 Comments || Top||


Europe
Is Dortmund attacker still on the run? Police admit they have no evidence linking sole suspect to bus bombing but claim he WAS an ISIS commander
[DailyMail] German police have admitted they have no evidence linking the sole suspect in the Borussia Dortmund football team bus bombing with the attack - but believe he was an ISIS commander while in his home country of Iraq.

A 26-year-old Iraqi, identified only as Abdul Baset al-O, was placed in durance vile
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
yesterday in connection with the attack.

Chilling 'confession' letters found close to the scene of Tuesday's bombing, which injured Spanish international Marc Bartra, blamed German involvement in Syria - but made no mention of support for ISIS.

Now prosecutors have cast doubt over whether the suspect was responsible, meaning the real terrorist could still be on the lam.

However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
they have detained him over allegations he led a terror cell of 10 fighters in Iraq, which aimed to 'prepare kidnappings, abductions, extortion and killings'. A German judge on Thursday approved an arrest warrant against him, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.

The letters warned Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom...
to withdraw troops from Syria, it has emerged. Three 15 line 'confessions', written in German, were found near the scene, addressed the German Chancellor, with one stating: 'Your Tornadoes are still flying over the land of the Caliphate to murder Moslems.'
ISIS operatives do not usually claim responsibility in this way, and the terror group was not referenced in the letters.

Prosecutors said today that the arrested man crossed the border from Iraq into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
in March 2015 and continued on in early 2016 to Germany 'where the suspect maintained contact with Isis members'.

It is the first time such confession letters have been left. Terror expert Peter Neumann, from King's College, London, told Bild: 'Three identical confessions were found at the scene of the crime. This has never happened before in Islamist attacks.'

Abdul Baset al-O was seized in the city of Wuppertal. Media reports said he had been on the radar of police and intelligence agencies for some time after intercepted telephone calls alerted authorities to his Jihadist leanings. It was suspected he had explosives or bomb parts in his apartment but nothing was found.

A second suspect is a 28-year-old German with Lebanese roots, named as Abdullah al-Z, who comes from the town of Fröndenberg.

His home was searched after a domestic spat involving his parents resulted in police being called. Once there they discovered an umbrella from the hotel where the Borussia Dortmund team had been quartered before the kaboom. But he was questioned and released and it is unclear what further role he may play in the investigation.

Puzzling to authorities is the technical know how that was required to build the three sophisticated pipe bombs used in the attack that spewed shrapnel over a 300 feet radius. The attacker or attackers knew how to detonate the devices at the exact time the bus was passing - and placed them out of view of the hotel's CCTV cameras. Experts said they could have been detonated with a phone or an electric garage door opener.

Morons-N-The-Hood: Armed police arrest three rappers with fake guns in a Lamborghini as they cruise Dortmund filming a music video hours after the bus bombing

[DailyMail]
  • The three rappers were filming a music video in a Lamborghini in Dortmund

  • Their fake guns were 'deceptively real-looking', Dortmund police said

  • Police said onlookers were concerned that some of the men had 'longer beards'

  • It came just a day after a bomb the Borussia Dortmund football team's bus

Dortmund's Bartra faces month out after bus bomb attack

[AlAhram] Borussia Dortmund's Spanish international defender Marc Bartra will be out for around four weeks after injuring his wrist in Tuesday's kaboom on the team's bus, coach Thomas Tuchel said.

"Marc would prefer to play again on Saturday, but he will need around four weeks," said Tuchel, whose side entertain Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

Bartra, 26, underwent emergency surgery for a broken radius bone and to remove glass that became planted in his arm after the blasts shattered windows on the team's bus.

On Wednesday he said on Twitter that he was "doing much better" but he played no part in Dortmund's 3-2 defeat at home to Monaco in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.
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The Grand Turk
Istanbul municipality worker suspended after calling wives, daughters of naysayers ‘halal’ as ‘spoils of war’
[Hurriyet Daily News] An employee with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality was suspended from duty on April 13 after sharing a post on social media saying that the wives and daughters of naysayers in the charter referendum were "halal" for "yes" voters as "spoils of war."

Ömer A., who works in the Vegetable Market Directorate, shared the controversial post on his Facebook account, informing "yes" voters that women from the "no" side could be claimed by them as "spoils of war" in the event of victory in the April 16 referendum.

"Dear friends, CHP [Republican People’s Party] is doing its best on the issue [referendum] by overtly declaring war. They have displayed the aggression that they began in parliament toward yea-sayers with all their actions and rhetoric. The wives and daughters of those people are halal for the ’yes’ voters as spoils of war when we win the battle on April 17," the post read.

The municipality later suspended Ömer A. from his duty and launched an administrative investigation.
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Africa Horn
Police issue alert on Al shabaab attack in Kenya
[SHABELLENEWS] Kenyan Security agents have been put on alert following reports that at least nine Kenyan terrorists who joined Al-Shabaab in Somalia could be headed back to the country to launch attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab (AQ)


Africa North
Libya Coast Guard: 147 immigrants died at sea
[Libya Observer] 147 African immigrants colonists have drowned after their inflatable boat capsized off Libya’s western shores on Thursday, Libyan Coast Guard has reported.

The Coast Guard said the victims included 77 men, 55 women and 15 children.

"23 immigrants colonists were rescued and provided with medical care," it added. The tragedy happened 17 miles off Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
coast.

The boat was reported missing early in the day.

Human smuggling has become a flourishing business in Libya due to the political and security chaos ongoing in the country.

Early this month, Libyan Coast Guard exchanged fire with human smugglers at sea, killing four and arresting two others.
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Home Front: Culture Wars
Suspect arrested in swastika attack on Jewish center near DC
[IsraelTimes] Dylan Mahone, 20, charged for spray-painting Virginia JCC and nearby church on Tuesday, also accused of posting anti-Semitic fliers on campus at the Northern Virginia Community College in March.
Genuine Jew hater or trolling yoot? His name suggests these probably aren't pretend hate crimes by a member of the putative target group.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Looks like a wanna-be bad ass over on Twitter. Misguided 20-yr. old trying to be cute.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 10:24 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Diarrhoea kills 28 in Somalia in 10 days, says Red Cross
[SHABELLENEWS] The International Federation of Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy (IFRC) warned Wednesday of a health crisis in Somaliland after 28 people died of acute diarrhoea in the past 10 days.

More than 411 cases, believed to be caused by cholera, have been reported since the start of the month with 167 people hospitalised in the drought-ravaged region of northern Somalia.

"This outbreak is frightening, as the people of Somaliland are already weakened by the drought and by lack of food," said Abdirasaq Ali Duran, a Somali Red Islamic Thingy Society official based in the town of Buhdole near the border with Æthiopia.

Many of those affected were herdsmen who live in remote areas, the statement said.

"Drought doesn’t just cause thirst, hunger and death--it causes diseases like acute diarrhoea, because people are so desperate for water that they’ll drink from heavily contaminated streams or puddles," said Duran.

Somaliland declared independence from Somalia after the Horn of Africa nation’s central government collapsed in 1991, but it remains unrecognised by the international community.

Nearby 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...
, a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, has also been hit by the outbreak, recording more than 1,600 cases of cholera and 57 deaths since the start of the year, according to the IFRC.

The Horn of Africa region including parts of Æthiopia and Kenya are suffering from drought, and Somalia’s president warned last month that his country could slip into its third famine in 25 years if the international community did not send more aid.

Posted by: Fred || 04/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somalia’s president warned last month that his country could slip into its third famine in 25 years if the international community did not send more aid.

"Then who will wash my palace carpets?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2017 12:35 Comments || Top||


Somali court hands alleged Al Shabaab men 10-year jail
[SHABELLENEWS] A military court in Somali capital Mogadishu has sentenced two men accused for being members of al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
to 10 year in jail on Thursday, April 13.

According to Col Hassan Ali Nur Shuure, the chairman of the military tribunal, the 2 men were sentenced to jail terms after they were convicted of collaborating with Al shabaab.

The defendants are Mohammed Ali Kediye, and Hussein Hashi Abdullahi.

Shuute added that Galmudug
...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth...
forces tossed in the slammer
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
both men in Godinlabe village in central Somalia as they were driving an exploding car in 19th March, 2017.

The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
(EU), the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
(UN) and human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
campaigners have all urged Somalia authorities to reinstate the moratorium.
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Southeast Asia
Philippine troops kill militant leader blamed for hostage beheadings
[SCMP] Philippine troops battling bully boyz in a central province killed a key Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
commander who had been blamed for the beheadings of two Canadians and a German hostage and was apparently attempting another kidnapping mission, the military chief said Wednesday.

Military chief of staff General Eduardo Ano said that troops have recovered and identified the remains of Muammar Askali, who used the nom de guerre Abu Rami, in the scene of the battle in a far-flung coastal village on Bohol island, where five other Abu Sayyaf gunnies were killed in the fighting Tuesday, along with four soldiers and coppers.

Ano said troops took the picture of Askali after his death and that captured Abu Sayyaf bully boyz identified the young myrmidon leader.

"This is a major blow to the Abu Sayyaf," Ano said.
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#1  should post his head on a pike at Duterte's Palace
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 9:46 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkish police detain 9 suspected ISIL militants for ‘planning attacks on referendum ballot boxes’
Why would ISIS attack the ballot boxes? Since their goal is to overthrow Turkey altogether, making it into another of their caliphates, what difference does it make whether or not the citizenry wants to give President Erdogan more or less power? I could see them attacking the voters, but that is not the accusation.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Police in the southern province of Mersin have detained nine suspected bandidos bandidos myrmidons 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 the Levant (ISIS) after receiving intelligence that the jihadist group ordered its followers to carry out attacks on ballot boxes set for the April 16 referendum, which will decide whether the current parliamentary system should be shifted into an executive presidency.

The Mersin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office released a statement regarding the operation carried out on April 12, saying that the efforts to reveal ISIS’s acts were launched by the provincial police’s counter-terrorism bureau in coordination with the prosecutor’s office.
Continued on Page 49
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Turkey detains 412 suspected Kurdish militants
It was a busy day.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's Interior Ministry says police have detained 412 suspected Kurdish gunnies in a security sweep.
The ministry said in a statement Thursday that the suspects were rounded up in police operations in 21 provinces late on Wednesday.

The operations came a day after the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, claimed an attack against a cop shoppe in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, which was carried out with a ton of explosives planted inside a tunnel dug by rebels.
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Home Front: Culture Wars
Detroit emergency room doctor charged with child genital mutilation
A Henry Ford Hospital emergency room doctor has been arrested and charged in connection to performing female genital mutilation on young girls.

Jumana Nagarwala, 44, of Northville Michigan is accused of performing female genital mutilation on underage girls.

According to a criminal complaint, Nagarwala performed the procedure on girls ages six to eight years old at a medical clinic in Livonia.

Some of the children were brought from out of state for the illegal procedure. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is considered the complete removal or partial removal of the clitoris, known as a clitoridectomy. FGM is internationally recognized as a violation of the human rights of women and girls.

Some consider FGM as a religious and cultural practice. The purpose of this illegal practice is to suppress female sexuality in order to reduce sexual pleasure.

In the criminal affidavit, Nagarwala performed FGM on girls who were approximately 7 years old at the time at a clinic in Livonia.

The investigation revealed that in one particular case, a 7-year-old was brought by her family from Minnesota. An investigation into phone records revealed their location. The child was interviewed on April 10. She stated that she was brought to Detroit for "special girls trip."

The child victim also stated that she said she had to go to the doctor "to get the germs out." Upon a medical exam on April 11, a doctor determined that the child's genitals had been altered or removed. The child identified Dr. Nagarwala as the doctor who performed the procedure.

The affidavit also alleges that there are Michigan victims as well.

“According to the complaint, despite her oath to care for her patients, Dr. Nagarwala is alleged to have performed horrifying acts of brutality on the most vulnerable victims,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Blanco. “The Department of Justice is committed to stopping female genital mutilation in this country, and will use the full power of the law to ensure that no girls suffer such physical and emotional abuse.”
Posted by: Shager Shiper8072 || 04/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Somebody once said the only difference between Detroit and the Third World is "Detroit ain't got no goats in the street." They were talking about corruption but apparently that isn't the only axis of similarity.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/14/2017 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  SteveS, I've read that there have been plans broached to use goats to help keep the vacant lots under control so they may even lose that difference.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/14/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Just wait. The demoncrats are working to bring California there as fast as they can. The interior already looks like a 3rd world country.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/14/2017 8:46 Comments || Top||

#4  "Diversity is our strength"

[do I need to put a /sarc on that?]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2017 9:00 Comments || Top||

#5  She stated that she was brought to Detroit for "special girls trip."

That may not work out so well after the kid grows up.
Posted by: gorb || 04/14/2017 9:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Multiculturalism at it's finest. I'll wager Jumana Nagarwala is also an advocate of ritual sati.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 9:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Livonia is close to Dearborn, MI, enclave for many Muslims. She must be a Sharia Law practitioner.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 9:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Thepurpose of this illegal practice is to suppress female sexuality in order to reduce sexual pleasure.

They'll just have to stick to marriage and raising kids, like everyone else. No need for cutting...
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 10:18 Comments || Top||

#9  They'll just have to stick to marriage and raising kids, like everyone else.

Snarky!
Posted by: SteveS || 04/14/2017 12:25 Comments || Top||

#10  Sorry that was posted by me.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/14/2017 12:54 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Qaddafi’s People’s Hall again set on fire
[Libya Herald] The former People’s Hall between Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
’s Suq al-Thalath roundabout and Hay al-Andalus was again set on fire today. It is the fourth time since 2011 it has happened, the last time being just eight weeks ago.

The reasons are as yet unknown. Some locals have accused Haithem Tajouri
...Commander of the pro-(Islamist) government First Support Brigade...
’s Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade of setting alight the building which once housed Qadaffy’s General People’s Congress. Others have accused the Mobile Forces which supports Khalifa Ghwell and is firmly opposed to Tajouri.

Yet others give a more prosaic explanation. They point out that the building, taken over by Tajouri just over a year ago, was then abandoned and is used by gangs as a drinking and drugs den. Now full of rubbish, it has been the scene of frequent fights.

It is suggested these fights may the real cause for the latest blaze.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurds make game changing exchange in northern Aleppo to help rebel forces
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are reportedly handing over several villages to the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
(FSA) in northern Aleppo.

According to local activists in northern Aleppo, the Syrian Democratic Forces will hand-over the villages of Tal Rifa’at, Mennagh, Kafr Karmeen, Deir Jammal, Harbek, ’Ayn Daqnah, and Mur’anez to the Free Syrian Army.

Initially, the Syrian Democratic Forces seized these villages from the Turkish-backed rebels; however, in some strange agreement recently, these sites will be handed back over.
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US denies Syrian claim of targeting chemical depot in Deir Ezor
[ALMASDARNEWS] Spokesman of the US-led coalition, Colonel John Dorrian, denied a claim made by the Syrian government that coalition Arclight airstrikes bombed a chemical depot for 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 the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor.
Coincidentally...
"The Syrian claim is incorrect and likely intentional misinformation," Colonel Dorrian told Rooters.

In a related context, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it has dispatched drones to probe on the incident.

"We have no information of so far about victims killed in an Arclight airstrike near Deir Ezzor. Three Russian drones have been sent to follow up the situation, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, front man of the Russian MoD, said.

The Syrian Defense Ministry has issued an official statement earlier today accusing the US coalition of targeting a chemical depot for the terror group which resulted in the death of hundreds of snuffies as well as civilian.
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Hezbollah recovers body of fallen commander killed 2 years ago in Syria’s Idlib
[ALMASDARNEWS] The body of a senior Hezbollah commander who was killed in Syria two years ago has been retrieved as per an agreement between the Syrian government and rebel groups.

Jamil al-Faqih, commander of the military operations of Hezbollah in al-Fu’ah and Kafriyah towns (located to the north and northeast of Idlib) was killed fighting jihadi groups in July 2015.

An agreement has been recently concluded between the Syrian government and rebel forces in which both sides pledged to release detainees and hand over bodies of killed fighters.
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#1  "Is that him?"
"Ewwww"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 10:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Pretty gamey by now.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/14/2017 11:45 Comments || Top||

#3  How was this done, blotting paper, vacuum, chop sticks?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/14/2017 12:31 Comments || Top||


Scores of ISIL terrorists killed in Syrian Army attack in Deir Ezzor
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) carried out a vicious series of attacks in the Deir Ezzor Governorate on Thursday, targeting 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....
’s (ISIS) in-and-around the pronvincial capital.

Units from the Syrian Arab Army’s Elite Republican Guard led the way on Thursday, striking the Islamic State Lions of Islam at the al-Huwiqah, al-Arfi, and al-Baghiliyah districts of Deir Ezzor City.

While their Elite Republican Guard units attacked the aforementioned districts, the Syrian Arab Army’s 137th Artillery Brigade carried out their own assault on the Islamic State’s positions around the military airport and Saqr Island.
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ISIS, rebel forces clash in southern Syria
[ALMASDARNEWS] A jihadi group affiliated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
has thwarted an attempt by rebel force to advance in the northwestern countryside of Daraa.

Khalid Ibn al-Waleed Army ‐ an ultraconservative group linked to ISIS ‐ claimed that 7 rebels were killed, 9 others injured in the failed offensive on the villages of Jillen, Adwan and al-Jumou’ hilltop.

Earlier on Sunday, ISIS launched a surprise attack on the Tanaf Border Crossing with Iraq using a VBIED which have killed at least 3 FSA fighters in the Crossing’s outpost.

According to unconfirmed news, the US and Jordanian troops have intervened to repel the attack.
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Female bomber attempts to blow up children’s school in Homs
[ALMASDARNEWS] A woman attempted to place explosives near a local children’s school in the Akrama Neighborhood of Homs on Thursday, a Syrian security source reported this afternoon.

The woman was seen placing bombs alongside the school in Akrama before she was apprehended by Syrian security personnel.

The Syrian security personnel managed to safely remove the bombs and foil the attempted terrorist attack before it could harm the people inside the school.

In 2014, the same school was targeted by a jacket wallah, who managed to infiltrate security and kill over 50 people, mostly children.
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#1  Very Islamic™. Mo would be proud
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 9:47 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Four brothers confess to killing sister for ‘hanging around with men’ in Turkish capital
[Hurriyet Daily News] Four brothers have been tossed in the calaboose
You have the right to remain silent...
in the Turkish capital Ankara for killing their sister "because she was socializing with men."

Özlem Aykutlug, 35, was found rubbed out in Ankara on Feb. 28 and homicide department coppers focused their investigation on her family in the eastern province of Kars.

Aykutlug, a mother of two children, was killed with six bullets on the road between Istanbul and Ankara.

Police determined that the act was an "honor killing" and said she was brought to Ankara two days before the incident. They concluded that the decision to kill was made by her family.

The police detained Aykutlug’s four brothers ‐ identified as Ersin, 37, Erol, 32, Ferhat, 25 and Yasin, 29 ‐ and they confessed to the murder during cross examination.

It was determined that the brothers told Aykutlug they were going to Istanbul by car, and they killed her while on the road to Istanbul from Ankara.

According to their testimonies, Aykutlug understood that she was about to be murdered and told her brothers to protect her children.

"I know you are going to kill me. I beg you to protect my children and not abandon them," she reportedly said.

In their testimonies, the brothers said Aykutlug was "hanging around with men and everyone in the village was talking about it."

"She put a slur on our family’s honor. We cleaned our honor and we don’t regret it," they reportedly added.

The investigation into the murder also revealed that her husband, Yildirim Aykutlug, was using violence against her and had previously beat feet from the jail where he was serving time for a separate crime.
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Afghanistan
Panic among Taliban in Kunduz after the death of Mullah Abdul Salam
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A panic has erupted among the Taliban bandidos myrmidons in northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan following the death of the group’s most big shot Mullah Abdul Salam.

The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), said the majority of the Taliban bandidos myrmidons are seeking different ways to escape from the battlefield after the killing of Mullah Salam.

A statement by NDS said Karimullah son of Sarwar and brother of Mullah Salam was tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
before he manage to disguise as another individual and escape from the province.

The statement further added that Karimullah was arrested along with another individual after they were identified by the intelligence operatives.

The Taliban confirmed the death of Mullah Salam, one of the most senior and a notorious leader, in northern Kunduz province late in February.

The group in a statement said Mullah Abdul Salam has been killed, insisting that the group’s activities will not be affected with his loss.

The statement further added that Mullah Salam’s main dream was to seize control of Kunduz and vowed that hundreds of more youths will follow his steps.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Man Arrested in Aley for Raping Four Syrian Children
[An Nahar] A 45-year-old Syrian man has been tossed in the clink
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
in the city of Aley on charges of molesting and raping four Syrian children, the Internal Security Forces said on Thursday.

"After obtaining information about the presence of an individual who molested and raped a number of Syrian children, an ISF Intelligence Branch patrol raided the suspect's residence in the city of Aley and arrested him in the Ain Hala area," an ISF statement said.

"During interrogation, he confessed to luring and raping four Syrian children born in the years 2010, 2008, 2006 and 2001 and that he had repeated his crime several times with some of them," the statement added.

The ISF said "pornographic footage showing two of the children" was found on the man's cellphone.

The detainee was eventually referred to the ISF's Human Trafficking and Moral Protection Bureau for further investigations.
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General Security Arrests 'Terrorist' Brother of Slain Militant Mansour
[An Nahar] General Security on Thursday announced the arrest of the "dangerous terrorist runaway" Jalal Mansour, who is the brother of slain Islamist krazed killer Osama Mansour who was killed in a confrontation with security forces in 2015.

"After obtaining information about the presence of a dangerous terrorist wanted on charges related to murder, terrorism and fighting against the Lebanese army, and after identifying the aforementioned person as the terrorist Jalal Mansour, a brother of the terrorist Osama Mansour, a General Security special force raided his hideout in the North and nabbed
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
him," a General Security statement said.

It said the man, who was wanted on more than 40 arrest warrants, had changed his appearance and chosen a fake name with the aim of concealing his real identity.

"During interrogation, he confessed to belonging to a group previously led by runaway terrorist Shadi al-Mawlawi and slain terrorist Osama Mansour and that he had pledged allegiance to the terrorist 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 .. ...
Front group and fought alongside it in a military battle against the Lebanese army with the aim of declaring an Islamic emirate in the North," the statement added.

"He also confessed to kidnapping a soldier in the city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, trading in arms and transporting arms to the terrorist al-Nusra Front group, and recruiting holy warriors on behalf of the aforementioned group and sending them to Syria for military training," General Security added.

The detainee was referred to the judiciary after interrogation.

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Iraq
Iraqi command says controls 60% of western Mosul
[Iraq News] The Iraqi Joint Operations Command said Thursday its forces had recaptured 60% of the western flank of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
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....
turbans as operations approach a third month to retake that region.

JOC’s spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasoul, said in a press statement that only 40 percent of districts in western Mosul await liberation. He again reiterated the difficulty of battles targeting the IS-held Old City.

"Troops are advancing accurately and cautiously in Old Mosul due to its geographical nature and its dense population. Our main goal is to liberate human before territory," he stated.

"The narrowness of alleyways in Old Mosul prevents the use of armored vehicles, hence the on-foot advances. Snipers are being used to locate holy warriors and keep them away from civilians," according to Rasoul.
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India-Pakistan
Sargodha man planned to take children to Norway to film porn
[DAWN] A man who was locked away
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
on Tuesday in a child pornography bust in Sargodha had planned on travelling to Norway with children from his town to produce pornographic content, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) told Dawn.com on Thursday.

Saadat Amin had asked one James Lindstorm, his main client in Norway, to arrange for travel documents for visas for him and the children to travel to Norway, the FIA said. The children are between the ages of 8 and 14 years old.

The FIA was able to trace down Amin three months after being informed by Norwegian Embassy through a letter that the country’s police had arrested a man in connection with the child pornographic content and that Amin was one of his accomplices in Pakistain.

Amin had told Lindstorm that the children would be available for "proper acts in porn videos," the FIA told Dawn.com.

The FIA's cyber crime wing on Tuesday arrested Amin, who had lured some 25 local children into child pornography on the pretext of providing them with computer education.

Amin later confessed that he had been "introduced to the child pornography industry" by Lindstorm, who became his main client.

"Lindstorm is a member of the international racket of child pornography business," the FIA said.

Amin had remained in contact with Lindstorm via Whatsapp, Skype and Facebook over the "past few years", the FIA said.

The suspect produced videos of the children "performing sexual acts", the FIA said.
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Home Front: Politix
POTUS Revokes Obama's Parting Gift to Planned Parenthood
[Free Beacon] States will once again be able to defund Planned Parenthood after President Trump overturned an 11th-hour Obama administration regulation protecting funding for the nation's biggest abortion provider.

Trump signed into law on Thursday a bill reversing a Department of Health and Human Services regulation signed in December that prevented states from blocking funding for Planned Parenthood. Obama's regulation reversed the policies of more than a dozen states that had prevented federal Medicaid dollars or other federal reimbursements from going to clinics that perform abortions.

Trump signed the legislation one month after he said that he would continue to direct taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood if it stopped performing abortions. The organization performs more than 300,000 abortions each year--about one-third of the national total.

"There is an opportunity for organizations to continue the important work they do in support of women’s health, while not providing abortion services," Trump said.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards rejected that offer in March. Planned Parenthood Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens said on Thursday that the law would hinder access to health care.
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#1  Trump signed the legislation one month after he said that he would continue to direct taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood if it stopped performing abortions.

Somehow, methinks that if PP stopped providing abortions, they wouldn't be doing much of anything after that.
Posted by: gorb || 04/14/2017 9:08 Comments || Top||

#2  if PP stopped providing abortions, they wouldn't be doing much of anything after that.

They'd still be contributing to Democrats...just less $
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 10:36 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
European court rules against Russia over 2004 school siege
File under egregious fiddling while Rome burns.
[Ynet] Russia said Thursday it would appeal a European Court of Human Rights ruling that Moscow failed to adequately protect victims of a 2004 school siege in the city of Beslan that left more than 300 people dead.

The La Belle France-based court said authorities did not take necessary preventive measures to save lives. It said the security forces' use of tank cannon, grenade launchers and flame-throwers contributed to casualties among the hostages. It also noted failures to increase security before the attack despite imminent threats against schools in the area.

Armed radical Islamic assailants seized the school on the first day of class, prompting a long standoff that ended in kabooms and gunfire two days later.

The court ordered that Russia pay nearly 3 million euros ($3.2 million) in total compensation to the 409 Russians who brought the case to the ECHR; they include people who were taken hostage, or injured or are relatives of the hostages or those killed and injured.
September 1-3, 2004. Check the archives for the details and discussions as events unfolded, dear Reader. We also had a retrospective article here.
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#1  What's Russian for "Bite me!"?

Beslan was doomed to a bad outcome from the moment it started. These were jihadis intent on massacre, not petty criminals you might negotiate with.

Yeah, there is an argument the Russians could have done more before hand, but it would mean going all Genghis Khan in the 'stans, which would have the ECHR bugwits in a tizzy over that.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/14/2017 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Cause the Euros did it so well at the Munich Olympics. Pot, kettle.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/14/2017 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  So glad we in the UK have left the EUSSR and can kick this "court" into touch.

Wonder when they'll get onto the gimmigrant invasion forces.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/14/2017 10:09 Comments || Top||

#4  IIRC the gas use was pretty FUBAR'd but as AOS sez, it was gonna end badly whatever they did...
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 10:58 Comments || Top||

#5  What's Russian for "Bite me!"?

укуси меня

English pronunciation: ukusi menya

Above courtesy of Google Translate.

You're welcome!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 04/14/2017 15:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Thank you, Seeking Cure. Rantburg is where I come to find out what I didn't know -- someone always has the answer. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/14/2017 18:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Given that the Russian language consists entirely of curse words, I was expecting something a bit more... colorful.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/14/2017 21:33 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF again raids Palestinian car-rammer’s hometown
[IsraelTimes] Army confiscates stolen cars, ’terror funds’ in Silwad; soldiers find improvised submachine gun in Sanur.

The IDF returned to Silwad in the West Bank, the hometown of a Paleostinian man who killed a soldier last week, seizing alleged "terror funds" and stolen cars early Thursday morning, the army said.

According to the military, some NIS 85,000 ($23,000) was confiscated in the overnight operation in the Paleostinian town outside Ramallah. Three stolen cars were also seized, the army said.

The IDF carried out a similar operation in Silwad last week.

It is "part of the ’concept of expanded prevention’ for taking action against all the circles of support for the terrorist and his family," the army said in a statement.

In Sanur, southwest of Jenin, the army uncovered an improvised, Carlo-style submachine gun, the army said.

This year, over 100 guns have been confiscated by the IDF, as part of its crackdown on the illegal weapons trade.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, the army jugged
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
six Paleostinian suspects for throwing rocks or taking part in violent protests, the army said. One person was arrested in Ramallah; another in nearby Hizme; two people were picked up in Bethlehem; the fifth was arrested in the nearby al-Ayda refugee camp; and the last suspect was arrested in Khirbet al-Tabka, outside Hebron.
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Home Front: Politix
UK's GCHQ spooks were first to spot Trump team's links with Russia
[Guardian] Britain’s spy agencies played a crucial role in alerting their counterparts in Washington to contacts between members of Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, the Guardian has been told.
'Played Crucial role?' I could have sworn less than a month ago, the Guardian printed a categorical denial of such monitoring activities. Yes, here it is, "Utterly Ridiculous" you say. Bloodly hell! I'll put 5 quid on 'Crucial Role' in the fourth at Fakenham.
Note the very passive voice. Who, pray tell, said or wrote the words about this thing that the Guardian is now reporting?
GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious "interactions" between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.
Yes, 'routine', nothing special here. We always collect and disseminate the mundane and routine. Move along please.
Over the next six months, until summer 2016, a number of western agencies shared further information on contacts between Trump’s inner circle and Russians, sources said.
A 'high five' to our perfidious cousins. Please keep up the effort and by the way, we may have some Requests For Information (RFI) coming your way.
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#1  Please ignore the smoke. There is no fire, you'll see.

Appears Judge Nap wasn't far off the mark after all.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Note the very passive voice. Who, pray tell, said or wrote the words about this thing that the Guardian is now reporting?

Someone who knows they may soon be discovered and needs to install a bit of historical fact spiced with braggadocious smuggery as cover. 'First' I tell you, first, FIRST !
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  GCHQ first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious "interactions" between figures connected to Trump and known or suspected Russian agents, a source close to UK intelligence said. This intelligence was passed to the US as part of a routine exchange of information, they added.

Could you please flesh this out for the American people? You know answers to usual simple questions such as "Who? What? Where? When? Why? Impacts?" If this is not done, it is just innuendo, hearsay, and political smear.

We still haven't heard anything about any investigations into Hillary's relationships with Russia such as the selling to them of 20% of our uranium.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Guardian, BBC, MOD, GCHQ and MI6, thanks for coming. Obviously introductions are unnecessary, so let's get right to work shall we ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Grauniad is a fakenews specialist
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/14/2017 10:12 Comments || Top||

#6  I still want to know why we're all pretending that what Hillary did to GIVE AWAY national security secrets isn't worth a trial and then followed by a sentence commensurate with the crimes committed?
Posted by: Crusader || 04/14/2017 17:28 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
If Erdogan proves coup night claim, I’ll resign: Main opposition CHP leader
[Hurriyet Daily News] Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has said he is ready to quit politics if President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
proves his claims that he met with the plotters on the night of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, widely believed to have been criminal masterminded by the followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
Erdogan on April 10 accused Kilicdaroglu of being in contact with coup plotters on the night of the thwarted coup, adding that he would not have invited Kilicdaroglu to the "unity rally" in Istanbul’s Yenikapi on Aug. 7 in the aftermath of the coup attempt if he had known about the CHP’s "agreement with coup plotters."
Continued on Page 49
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Home Front: Politix
John C. Velisek USN Ret: The Trump-Russian Collusion Lie
[Intellectual Conservative] It has been an interesting couple of weeks to say the least. The collusion being endlessly touted by the progressive/socialists and the media between the Trump administration and the Russians has been blown out of the water. CNN, NBC, ABC, and the New York Times are all showing righteous indignation about the collusion that never was. Yet they are unsurprisingly quiet about the information that Nunes may have. They will be vocal about how he got the information, in the hope to drown out what that information may say.

In the lead is Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat that shills from California and ranking member of the House Intelligence committee. He declared to all that there Circumstantial evidence of collusion and direct evidence of deception. After the release of the papers that Rep. Nunes was given, Schiff now says there is no definitive proof. Of course, the media played tape constantly of Schiff in the beginning, but have strangely gone silent now. Even members of the entire Intelligence committee have said that they doubt they will find a smoking gun. Perhaps that is because there isn’t one.

The White House invited members of both the House and Senate Intelligence Committees to view the documents. There has been no word from Congressman shill Adam Schiff on whether it was the "more than circumstantial evidence" that he claimed to have.

And then there is Evelyn Farkas, a former member of the Obama administration and a Clinton campaign adviser who admitted to urging the Obama administration to gather intelligence on the Trump administration it could find. It appears that the past administration had already started before this, but this is just another example out in the open of the crimes committed by the Obama administration. In her own words-

"I was urging my former colleagues and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill, to get as much information as you can, before President Obama leaves office, Because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior Obama people who left so it would be hidden away. That the Trump folks-if they found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff dealing with the Russians they would try to compromise these sources and methods"

Now why would someone such as Ms. Farkas, who was no longer in government have any information pertaining to intelligence gathering, and have the ability to send such a message to those in intelligence communities and those on "the Hill"?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There has been no word from Congressman shill Adam Schiff

If I were never to see or hear from him again, I'd consider it a rich blessing.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/14/2017 4:32 Comments || Top||

#2  The progressive/socialists are adept at spin and lying to achieve their ends. Once they put the lie in the echo chamber of the left-controlled MSM, some begin to fall for the lie--It's right out of Goebbel's playbook.

Besoeker, ditto your comment about Shill Schiff.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/14/2017 8:21 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian arrested with knife in West Bank on Passover eve
[IsraelTimes] Qalandiya resident stopped at checkpoint into Jerusalem was planning attack, police say; accomplice turns himself in.

Border Police and IDF forces on Monday locked away
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
a Paleostinian man armed with a knife and a stun grenade who tried to cross from the West Bank into Jerusalem on the eve of the Passover festival, police said in a statement Thursday.
During the holidays routine paperwork isn't as high a priority.
The suspect, a resident of Qalandiya village in his twenties, was stopped by security forces as he approached the nearby Qalandiya checkpoint, a major crossing point from the West Bank located north of Jerusalem.

A search of his person uncovered the weapons.

The checkpoint has seen a series of security incidents over the past year.

"During an initial investigation, Border Police discovered he apparently intended to carry out an attack," the statement said.

The Paleostinian man also told Sherlocks that he had an accomplice who had not turned up for the planned attack in the capital.

Police said the second suspect, also from Qalandiya, turned himself in to security forces on Thursday.

"Since the arrest of the first suspect, a number of operations were carried out during the course of the investigation that led this morning to the second suspect, also a resident of Qalandiya, turning himself in, and his arrest for further investigation," police said.

The detention of the first suspect was extended until April 18, police said.

Police added that thousands of officers would continue to be deployed nationwide until the end of the Passover holiday.

Tens of thousands of people were expected to visit Jerusalem and its Old City during the week-long Passover festival, which began on Monday night. Ahead of the holiday police announced increased deployment of forces as a precaution against attacks since Jewish festivals are favored times for attacks by terror groups.

As it does for almost all major Jewish holidays, the IDF announced last week that it would be shutting down the crossings in the West Bank and Gazoo for the duration of the Passover holiday.
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Afghanistan
Taliban leader in charge of group of 80 insurgents arrested
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key Taliban leader in charge of a group of at least 80 gunnies was nabbed
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
by the Afghan intelligence operatives in north of Afghanistan.

The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), said the detained Taliban leader has been identified as Akhtar Mohammad who was also famous as Belal.

A statement by NDS said Akhtar was arrested by the intelligence operatives from the vicinity of the Jawzjan province.

The statement further added that Akhtar was involved in major terrorist attacks including attacks on convoys, government officials and civilians, roadside kaboomings, and kidnappings.

Akhtar confessed that he was looking to join 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 offshoot in Jawzjan under the leadership of Mullah Hekmatullah.

NDS said the attempt by Akhtar was reflecting the latest move by the Taliban gunnies to infiltrate the ISIS terrorist group and further expand their insurgency in the country.

Both the Taliban gunnies and turbans loyal to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are active in some parts of Jawzjan province.

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4 large heroin factories destroyed by Afghan forces in Nangarhar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel destroyed four large heroin factories 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 Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the factories were destroyed during a special military operation conducted late on Tuesday night in the vicinity of Ghani Khel district.

The statement further added that the Afghan forces also discovered 7,500 kgs of morphine, 810 kgs of ammonium chloride, 500 liters of liquid opium, and some other types of chemicals and equipment used to produce heroin.

The chemicals and equipment were all destroyed on the spot, the Ministry of Interior added.

This comes as the Afghan forces are busy conducting operations to eradicate the fields from poppy cultivation as there has been a sharp rise in opium cultivation, production and smuggling across the country during the recent months.

According to the last survey report, there has been a 43 per cent rise in opium cultivation in Afghanistan.

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Home Front: Politix
Salon: 5 reasons Maxine Waters should be our next president
Salon: The way Republicans gloat about the new president is disgusting­­: It’s the lowest form of groveling I’ve ever seen. And the historically low standards set for this administration only make matters worse. Trump still receives praise, even after the string of failures he’s collected during his first 100 days.

What’s funny to me is that right-wing pundits like Fox News host Bill O’Reilly never challenge Trump on real issues, like his failed travel ban and his squad of Russia-connected minions. But O’Reilly does find the time to disrespect a legend like Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who has a history of fighting for women, children and minorities living in poverty. Instead of being a coward for attacking a woman and trying to embarrass her on air, O’Reilly should be praising Waters and telling his viewers that she would make a better president than Donald Trump.

Unlike Trump, Waters is a champion of the people. She started working in segregated restaurants at age 13 and fought her way out of poverty while Trump was living in the lap of luxury, attending private schools and enjoying the life of privileged millionaire. The work ethic that Waters picked up as a teenager pushed her to have the heart to fight against the apartheid regime in South Africa and the courage to be one of the few to speak out against the war in Iraq. Meanwhile, I’ve yet to see Trump take a stand on an issue that wasn’t directly connected to his ego.

Today on Salon 5 we will discuss Waters, her amazing political talents, and why we millennials love her so much. Watch the video to learn more about why Maxine Waters should be our next president.
Jane Goodall's 'termite fishing' at it's best.
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#1  Waters has a long history of petty corruption

one of the many oddities about her is that she lives in a part of LA (Hancock Park) that has a very high population (about 25-50%) of orthodox Jews.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/14/2017 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Sorry, gloating is not a form of groveling on any planet I know of. Yeah, English be hard. We won't even attempt "Shadenboner".

I do like the idea of the Dems running Maxine for Prez though. Serious comedy potential there. And she *does* have James Brown hair.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/14/2017 0:30 Comments || Top||

#3  This is the publication that defended pedophilia, right? I'm pretty sure you don't need to know anything else about their 'angle'.
Posted by: Raj || 04/14/2017 1:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Not one comment on that Salon site in her or the "professor's" favor.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/14/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||

#5  I stopped reading when I hit "Salon".
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/14/2017 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Apparently some are not enamored with Maxine. She does have quite the political machine, no? Not quite the Clintons, but 'effective'.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/14/2017 12:05 Comments || Top||

#7  April 1st article that was posted late?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/14/2017 17:12 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
EU consider death penalty in Puntland ‘inhuman’
[SHABELLENEWS] The EU Delegation regrets the execution of five suspected Al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
members by the 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...
authorities on Saturday 8th April 2017.

While the EU condemns in the strongest terms all acts of terror and supports the application of robust sentences that follow due process, the EU also opposes on principle the death penalty in all circumstances.

The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
considers the death penalty to be a cruel and inhuman punishment, which fails to provide deterrence to criminal behaviour and represents an unacceptable denial of human dignity and integrity.

Any miscarriage of justice ‐ which can occur in any legal system ‐ is irreversible. The EU also notes with growing concern the recurrent use of military courts in Somalia.

The EU Delegation calls upon the authorities of Puntland and the Federal Government of Somalia to instate a moratorium on the death penalty and to ensure that civilians are tried before civilian courts.

The EU is committed to strengthening the Somali judicial system and the promotion of rule of law and justice for the Somali citizens.

We look forward to supporting the Somali authorities in adopting legislation to abolish the use of the death penalty.

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#1  Well, there was no terror attacks in EU for two days.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/14/2017 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Stuff like this is why the EU must be disbanded.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 04/14/2017 15:57 Comments || Top||

#3  "Any miscarriage of justice ‐ which can occur in any legal system ‐ is irreversible."

If anyone would be familiar with this, it would be the Europeans. Haven't been able to admit any errors since the first Pope was crowned, and still runnin' strong.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/14/2017 20:10 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Palestinian Force Deploys in Ain el-Hilweh after Clashes
[AnNahar] A local Paleostinian security force deployed across southern Leb's Ein el-Hellhole Paleostinian refugee camp on Thursday, a commander said, ending a week of sporadic festivities with an Death Eater group.

The fighting, which left nine dead and more than 50 maimed, had prompted many to flee their homes and forced schools and shops in and around the camp to close.

The commander, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the local security force, which includes 100 fighters from several Paleostinian factions, was able to deploy throughout the camp after a ceasefire late Wednesday night.

The Lebanese army does not enter the camp by long-standing convention.

"Security forces deployed in the al-Tiri neighborhood, which had been the focal point of the festivities," the commander said.

He added that "extremist Islamist groups" had withdrawn from some areas to avoid further festivities.

Fighting erupted late Friday after Paleostinian factions deployed throughout Ein el-Hellhole as part of an operation aimed at combating the influence of a local Islamist group linked to Bilal Badr, a wanted Lion of Islam.

The commander said Badr had refused to give himself up to Paleostinian security forces to be handed over to the Lebanese authorities.

Badr is wanted on suspicion of "terrorism", firearms offenses and belonging to an gang, according to a Lebanese security official.

An AFP correspondent said the camp had suffered major damage and that some residents had been trapped inside their homes throughout the fighting.

Local activist Asef Moussa told AFP that "dozens of young people will volunteer on Friday to clean the streets and clear up the damage and rubble left by the fighting."

The United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Paleostinian refugee agency UNRWA said it welcomed the return to calm.

"UNRWA... is working to restore its services in the camp as quickly as possible," said its local affairs director Claudio Cordone, adding that UNRWA would resume its activities on Friday morning.

Ein el-Hellhole is the most densely populated Paleostinian camp in Leb.

Home to multiple armed factions including Death Eater groups, it has been plagued by intermittent festivities.

Lebanese security forces do not enter Paleostinian refugee camps, where security is managed by joint committees of Paleostinian factions.

Ein el-Hellhole is home to some 61,000 Paleostinians, including 6,000 who have fled the war in Syria.
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#1  Badr is wanted on suspicion of "terrorism", firearms offenses and belonging to an gang, according to a Lebanese security official.

well, in his defense, he IS a Paleostinian
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Afghanistan
89 insurgents killed in Afghan forces operations in past 24 hours
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least eighty nine bully boyz belonging to the various turban groups including the Taliban bully boyz group were killed during the counter-terrorism operations in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Thursday.

A statement by MoD said the operations were conducted in the various parts of the country and as a result at least 47 bully boyz were also maimed and at least 8 others including local commanders of the Taliban group were locked away
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
The statement further added that the operations were conducted with the support of the Afghan Air Force and the artillery units of the Afghan army.

According to MoD, at least 37 of the Lions of Islam comprising the ISIS loyalists were killed in the vicinity of Achin district of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, including the brother of the former top ISIS leader Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
At least five Taliban capo identified as Shahwali, Malang Jan, Ata-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Akbar, and Toran Ismail were arrested in the vicinity of Nari district of Kunar, MoD said, adding that at least 7 Taliban bully boyz were killed and 14 others were maimed in the vicinity of Nawa district of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
MoD also added that 11 Lions of Islam were killed and around 10 others were maimed in the vicinity of Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
, and 9 Lions of Islam were eliminated along with their 2 vehicles in Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz.

The Ministry of Defense said at least 12 bully boyz were killed and 8 others were maimed while 3 others were arrested in Maidan Wardak province, and 6 Lions of Islam were killed while 8 others were wouned in Arghandab district of Zabul.

At least 7 bully boyz were killed and 7 others were maimed during the operations in Pashtun-infested Logar, Uruzgan, and Farah provinces of Afghanistan.
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Africa North
LNA resumes airstrikes on Tamenhint as Misratans target Brak Al-Shatti
[Libya Herald] The Libyan National Army (LNA) has resumed its aerial assault of the Third Force-held Tamenhint airbase, north-east of Sebha. There was an attack yesterday and locals in Sebha today told the Libya Herald that they again heard aircraft over the town heading toward the base.

In what is said to have been a reprisal, Misratan forces late last night were reported to have attacked the LNA-controlled airbase in Brak al-Shatti with Soviet-era aircraft, killing five.

Yesterday, there were also reports that a unit belong to the Mohammed Ben Nayel’s 12th Brigade, part of the Libyan National Army, had surrounded the village of Samnu, east of Tamenhint, which Misrata’s Third Force said it recaptured on Monday. At the time, the Presidency Council’s defence ministry the front man, Mohammed al-Ghasri, said that Nayel’s men had been "forced to flee to the mountains".

The latest Samnu siege followed allegations that the Third Force had killed four young Salafist supporters of the LNA at a checkpoint near the village. All are said to have been from the same family.

Forces under the control of Ben Nayel now controls much of the south. One Sehba resident who travelled from Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
to Sebha today by road told the Libya Herald that south of Gharyan, all the numerous checkpoints were controlled by the 12th Brigade, or Ben Nayel’s Magarha tribe.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow...
Ali Kana, a prominent military figure in the region who leads a pro-Qadaffy Tuareg force, has demanded an end to fighting throughout Fezzan. He called for an immediate ceasefire, asking officials and tribal figures to facilitate it.

He previously attempted to set up a ’Fezzan Army’, but this was brushed aside by Ben Nayel.

Kana now says he supports the National Dialogue and insistes his forces will work with any army operating under a unified politicianship accepted by the Libyan people.

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Egyptian authorities identify Tanta cathedral suicide bomber
[AlAhram] Egypt’s Ministry of Interior identified in a statement on Thursday Mamdouh Mohammed Baghdadi as the jacket wallah responsible for Sunday’s attack on Tanta’s Mar Girgis Cathedral that killed 29 people.

The ministry said that Baghdadi, who is from Upper Egypt’s Qena, was identified using CCTV footage and DNA testing.

Baghdadi was a member of a terrorist cell led by a runaway bully boy named Amr Saad Abbas, who also trained the suicide bomber who attacked Alexandria’s St. Mark’s Cathedral on the same day of the Tanta bombing, according to the statement.

The ministry said that Abbas also orchestrated the December bombing of Cairo's St Peter and St Paul's Church, which killed 29 worshipers, mostly women and kiddies.

The ministry also raised a reward from EGP 100,000 to EGP 500,000 for information on 19 individuals it identified a day earlier who are suspected of involvement in the two church bombings.

The ministry’s statement added that Baghdadi was also involved in an attack in January on a police checkpoint in the New Valley that killed eight coppers.

At the time, authorities attributed the New Valley attack to 12 forces of Evil from Sinai-based bully boy group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis.

The interior ministry’s Thursday statement also said that three people involved in terrorism-related crimes have been jugged
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in Qena, without elaborating.

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....
bully boy group has grabbed credit for the suicide kabooms of the Alexandria and Tanta churches, which killed 46 people and injured dozens more.
Update from The Times of Israel at 11:15 a.m. EDT:
“DNA tests carried out on the family of a runaway member and the remains of the jacket wallah... made it possible to identify him as Mamduh Amin Mohammed Baghdadi, born in 1977 in Qena province, where he lived," it said.

The ministry said he was a member of a "terrorist" cell, and also announced the arrest of three other members of the group.
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#1  "...The ministry also raised a reward from EGP 100,000 to EGP 500,000..."

100,000 Egyptian pounds is about $5500

500,000 Egyptian pounds is about $27,500.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/14/2017 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Annual income of the average Egyptian is?
Posted by: Pappy || 04/14/2017 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Per The Tubes: (no, not them)

What is the average income in Egypt?

The average per person income in Egypt (in current US dollars) is $5,680 per year (about $16 per day), but in China it is $6,890. So, Egypt has fewer desperately poor people (as a percentage of the population) than China, but the average income in China is higher than in Egypt.Feb 5, 2011
Posted by: JHH || 04/14/2017 14:33 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
3 Pakistanis arrested in Nangarhar amid ongoing anti-ISIS operations
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three Paks were tossed in the slammer
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
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 o fAfghanistan.

The provincial police commandment said the three individuals were arrested as they were travelling without any valid document.

The source further added that the individuals were handed over to the relevant institutions for further investigations and actions.

The arrest of the Pak nationals in Nangarhar comes as the Afghan forces are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations against the offshoot 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 in this province.

The local officials had earlier said that the majority of the ISIS bully boyz fighting in this province are foreign nationals, mainly from the tribal regions of Pakistain.

Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani last year that the documents obtained from the dead bodies and those arrested during the operations in Achin, Kot, Haska Mina and other parts of Nangarhar, reveal that they are originally residents of Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
Khogyani further added that the intelligence information gathered by the government also reveal that the ISIS loyalists are mostly comprised of Pak nationals.

According to Khogyani, the residents of Tajikistan are also fighting alongside the Pak nationals for ISIS terrorist group who are mainly deployed after completing training in Pakistain.

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Home Front: WoT
US charges 2 Palestinian terrorists for 2010 murder of American tourist in Israel
Erasing yet another Obama legacy.
[IsraelTimes] Arrest warrants issued for Paleostinian stabbers, currently tossed in the calaboose in Israel, who killed Kristine Luken and seriously maimed another.

Charges were filed in the United States Thursday against two Paleostinian Death Eaters tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
in Israel for the 2010 murder of a US citizen who was visiting the Jewish state.

Ayad Fatafta and Kifah Ghanimat
...the ringleader of a criminal gang in the Jerusalem-area city of Beit Shemesh that since 1997 had been involved in the usual murder, robbery, rape, etc. But in 2010 they turned serious, vowing to avenge the killing of Hamas Number 3 Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, widely believed to have been done by Mossad. So they all ended up in jail, many not for the first time...
face federal charges for murdering Kristine Luken on December 18, 2010, in a stabbing attack in the Jerusalem Forest that also seriously maimed Kay Wilson, a UK citizen who lives in Israel.

The two terrorists, both residents of Bethlehem -- which is under the control of the Paleostinian Authority -- are currently serving prison sentences in Israel. Arrest warrants were issued against them in the US on Thursday.

In 2012, Fatafta was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 20 years, and Ghanimat was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment and a further 60 years, for the lethal stabbing attack as well as another crime.

According to the US affidavit, Fatafta and Ghanimat stabbed Luken -- a 44-year-old US national -- to death while she was hiking near an archaeological site on a visit to Israel. She died at the scene.

According to the US Justice Department, "the maximum penalty for a person convicted of murdering a US national outside the US is a lifetime term of incarceration or death."

Wilson described her injuries in a Times of Israel blog post.

"I sustained 13 machete wounds in my lungs and diaphragm, six compound fractures in my ribs, 30 additional fractures, a dislocated shoulder, a crushed sternum and a broken shoulder blade," she wrote.

Upon receiving the news of the charges against the two terrorists, Wilson posted on Facebook that it was "the best news I’ve had in six years."

She described the emotional nature of the arrest warrants, writing, "I’m so relieved, I’m near to tears."
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#1  Given the reality of Israeli prisoner exchanges, it would be nice if Israel could hand these scumbags over today, so we can put them on Death Row chop chop.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 04/14/2017 0:16 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Afghan Ulemas once again slam Pakistan’s Maulana Fazal for his remarks
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Ulemas once again slammed the Pak politician and religious figure Maulana Fazl ur-Rehman for his controversial remarks regarding Afghanistan, emphasizing that he is not having a religious and academic status.

Speaking during a presser in Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
, the Afghan Ulemas said Maulana Fazal has always changed his stances similar as a cheap politician for his own interests.

They said Maulana Fazal encourages the Pak Taliban to political negotiations but encourages the Afghan Taliban to Jihad, holy war.

According to the Ulemas, Pakistain has received billions from the United States to eliminate the Lion of Islam groups fighting under the umbrella of Jihad but Maulana Fazal endorses Jihad in Afghanistan, raising questions regarding his justifications and asking why he is not declaring Jihad in Pakistain if remaining an ally of the United States is not justified as per the Islamic teachings.

This comes as Maulana Fazal had earlier said that the peace would not be achievable in Afghanistan as long as the foreign forces have a presence in the country.

Fazal is a pro-Taliban Pak political leader who had endorsed the Taliban extremism in Afghanistan, calling it a legitimate war against the foreign forces.

The remarks by Fazal-ur-Rehman earlier in 2015 followed after a meeting with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
who visited Pakistain on a two-day state visit shortly after taking office as the new President of Afghanistan.

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#1  I got a kitchen towel just like that. Hey, hold on, it's missing.
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Iraq
France carries out 62 airstrikes, artillery shelling against IS in Iraq
[Iraq News] French Ministry of Defense announced, via a tweet, that the French troops conducted four air strikes and 58 artillery shelling on the headquarters of the Islamic State group in Iraq, during this week.

The tweet posted by the French Ministry of Defence.
According to the ministry, French warplanes carried out 27 sorties in Iraq, this week, including 4 air strikes, destroying 4 targets, while it also pointed out that artillery troops conducted 58 shelling, all in the vicinity of Mosul.
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Africa North
Moroccan authorities say IS-linked cell dismantled
[IsraelTimes] Moroccan authorities said on Wednesday they dismantled a "terrorist cell" that was recruiting volunteers for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terror group.

The IS-affiliated cell, which was active in the northern city of Fez and nearby town of Moulay Yacoub, had seven members, an interior ministry statement said.

They "recruited and sent Moroccan volunteers to Iraq and Syria" where the jihadist group holds territory, it said.

Police seized bladed weapons, military uniforms, money and electronic equipment during the raid.

The authorities have regularly announced the dismantling of IS cells and arrest of suspected jihadist recruiters in recent months.
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Iraq
Iraqi forces partially retake western Mosul’s Tenek, 15 militants, one officer killed
[Iraq News] Iraqi government forces on Thursday took partial control over an area in western djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
after 13 hours of fighting with 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....
hard boyz as operations enter a tenth week to clear the region from the Lion of Islam group

Cap. Saeed al-Alousi, from the Interior Ministry’s Rapid Response forces, told Anadolu Agency that forces from the army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service took over seven alleyways at al-Tenek, a district that is considered one of IS’s most remarkable havens. CTS forces killed 15 hard boyz from the group and locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
three others, while losing one officer, he said.

Bad weather at that area prompted the U.S.-led coalition to reduce Arclight airstrikes against IS there, according to al-Alousi.

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti...
Cap. Ali Mohsen, from the CTS, told BasNews that the forces also freed 30 families previously kidnapped by IS to use them as human shields. He also put the number of hard boyz killed at 31, including five foreign jacket wallahs.

Earlier on Thursday, the Federal Police command said its troops killed 13 hard boyz and advanced closer to the Nuri al-Kabir Mosque, a much-coveted target for the Iraqi troops being the place where Islamic State declared the establishment of its "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria.

Iraqi government forces, backed by the coalition and paramilitary groups, recaptured eastern Mosul in January, and launched another offensive in February to retake the western region. Iraqi commanders said earlier this week that IS hard boyz were in control over less than seven percent of Iraqi territory.

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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Nuke videos a blast
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International-UN-NGOs
PA suspends ties with UNRWA over planned curriculum reform
Sufficient unto the day the evil thereof. After all, they already have all the textbooks and classroom maps they need for the current school year. And -- Inshallah -- perhaps by next autumn President Trump will change his mind about Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Proposed changes to textbooks by UN agency, welcomed by Israel, reportedly include revised maps, a ’balanced representation of Jerusalem,’ and excision of messages seen as incitement.

The Paleostinian Authority Education Ministry on Thursday announced it was suspending ties with the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) over plans by the international agency to reform its curriculum.

The Paleostinian ministry, in a statement published on its official website, called the possible revisions to the curriculum an "affront to the Paleostinian people, its history and struggles," and said the suspension would continue until the UN agency’s "positions are corrected."

UNRWA has over 312,000 students in its schools across the West Bank and East Jerusalem (together, 50,000) and the Gazoo Strip (262,000).

The UN agency has not formally published any plans to alter its curriculum, but leaks to the Arab press of possible changes have led to outrage over recent weeks in Gazoo and the West Bank.

The changes, according to Arab media reports, include revisions to maps of Paleostine to exclude references to cities inside Israel as Paleostinian cities, a practice that numerous studies of Paleostinian textbooks have labeled as "incitement." Other changes were reportedly planned to tone down praise for Paleostinian prisoners and improve Israel’s image.

According to a March report by COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry agency responsible for civilian affairs in the West Bank and Gazoo, part of the reform to the UNRWA curriculum "is a balanced representation of Jerusalem as having religious significance to the three major monotheistic religions (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism), and mentioning that Moslem believers have access to the holy sites."

"UNRWA additionally sought to amend textbooks in cases where the content showed gender bias, lacked objectivity, and incited violence against Israel," COGAT added.

The Israeli government, US State Department, and independent organizations have for many years accused the Paleostinian education system, including UNRWA schools, of educating Paleostinian children to hate Israel and support violence.

COGAT praised the proposed changes as an effort "to create a balanced, positive curriculum with universal values free from violence and incitement."

A representative of the Paleostinian Authority Education Ministry refused to speak with The Times of Israel.

"Any distortion of the Paleostinian curriculum is a flagrant violation of the laws of the host country, and any change to any letter to appease any party is a betrayal of the Paleostinian narrative and the right of the Paleostinian people under occupation to preserve its identity and struggle," the PA ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Chris Gunness, the spokesperson for UNRWA, wrote in a statement to The Times of Israel that the UN agency "has worked with the PA for years and has a long track record as a partner teaching children in a highly complex environment."

"UNRWA schools follow the curriculum of the host authority, a practice agreed in 1954 with the support of UNESCO and reaffirmed following the Oslo Accords. It is UNRWA policy to review and where appropriate enrich the official PA textbooks, curricula and other learning materials used in UNRWA schools to ensure compliance with UN values and principles," the statement added.

A report published earlier this month by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se), said that the 2016-2017 elementary school curriculum in the PA "teaches students to be deaders, demonizes and denies the existence of Israel, and focuses on a ’return’ to an exclusively Paleostinian homeland."

The Israeli government has long argued that incitement in Paleostinian textbooks is a main contributor to terrorism against Israelis. The issue has taken on increasing significance of late, as members of the United States Congress have threatened to decrease aid to Paleostinians if incitement is not curbed.
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#1  "We should suspend ties with someone else, first, for once"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/14/2017 1:54 Comments || Top||

#2  They'd be tampering with the Paleo version of 'Common Core'.
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Afghanistan
ISIS terror group’s main shadow judge killed in East of Afghanistan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The main shadow judge 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 was killed during an operation 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 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army in a statement said Mullah Salah was killed along with scores of other forces of Evil during the ongoing Hamza military operations.

The statement further added that Mullah Salah was among the 4 key ISIS leaders and 44 snuffies killed during the operations.

The three other ISIS leaders killed during the operations have been identified as Yar Habib the brother of Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
, and Sediqyar and Ahmad, the two key leaders in charge of the training of the terror group in Nangarhar.

The provincial police commandment in Nangarhar in a statement said at least 44 ISIS forces of Evil including four key leaders of the group were killed during the air and ground operations conducted in the framework of Hamza operations.

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Iraq
Islamic State arrests workers at western Mosul blood banks
[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....
members have closed down blood banks and medical stores at western djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and enjugged
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
a number of workers, according to local sources in Nineveh.

Alsumaria News quoted sources at the western side of Mosul saying the group shut down blood banks and medical stores near Mesherfa region. "ISIS (Islamic State) gangs arrested a number of workers at those stores and drove them to unknown destinations after they refused to provide enough blood and medicine to their maimed members," according to the source.

Earlier reports a few weeks ago said IS had set fire to some blood banks in the western region, with some locals and security officials saying the tactic aimed to create smoke screens and blur vision for fighter jets pounding their locations.

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India-Pakistan
Mardan university student lynched by mob over alleged blasphemy
It's the lynch mobs that give life in Pakistan that special piquancy -- until one catches the mob's attention, at any rate.
[DAWN] A 23-year-old student of Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan was killed and another seriously injured by a vigilante mob for allegedly "publishing blasphemous content online", local police said Thursday.

The incident occurred within the university premises. The campus was shut down following the incident until further notice and its hostels vacated to avoid a further escalation of violence.

At least 45 people had been jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
in connection with the incident by Thursday evening, according to Mardan District Police Officer Dr Mian Saeed.

No case had been filed against the two students prior to the incident and police had not been investigating the two on blasphemy charges.

The mob instead seems to have been incited by rumours circulating among the university's student body.

Mardan's Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Mohammad Alam Shinwari said the dear departed student, Mashal, had been accused of running Facebook pages "which allegedly published blasphemous content".

He was attacked by a large group of students and appears to have succumbed to a gunshot wound, the DIG said.

"The charged students then wanted to burn his body," Shinwari said, before police intervened.
Update from Ynet at 11:20 a.m. EDT quantifies the fog of violent emotion:
A mob beat a Pak student to death at his university campus on Thursday after he was accused of sharing blasphemous content on social media, university and police officials said.

A group of about 10 students shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack on fellow student Mashal Khan, who was stripped naked and beaten with planks until his skull caved in as other students looked on, video obtained by Rooters showed.
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#1  Was it Bees pee upon him or piss be upon him? Enquiring minds want to know.
Posted by: Black Charlie Bumble1556 || 04/14/2017 6:51 Comments || Top||

#2  A group of about 10 students shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack...

Their motives may never be known.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/14/2017 12:33 Comments || Top||

#3  A 23-year-old student of Abdul Wali Khan University

"When hazing goes bad."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/14/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||



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