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Europe
The voters are revolting!
[SenseOfEvents] ...The presidential election was really what we Americans refer to as a primary, with mostly right-wing Marine Le Pen coming in second and left-wing Emmanuel Macron coming in first by two points. Macron had never run for any elective office before and began his campaign only a year ago.

The runoff is in only two weeks and the rest of the European establishment is already getting ready to eat Macron for lunch if he wins.

Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, and the German government congratulated Mr Macron, wishing him luck. He was also swiftly endorsed by Mr Fillon and Mr Hamon and is favourite to make it to the Élysée Palace. A poll last night suggested that he would beat Ms Le Pen by 62 per cent to 38 per cent.

...Very amusing. People want a change from the establishment so . . . Dress a pro EU, pro multiculture, socialist, pro German, former investment banker candidate as ’anti establishment’ and hope the voters are stupid enough to go for it. They will be!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 14:16 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336089 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They always were revolting.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 14:29 Comments || Top||

#2  You bet! They stink on ice.....................PULL
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2017 16:11 Comments || Top||

#3  If those polls are as reliable as the ones that predicted Hillary would win and Brexit would be defeated then congratulations will be in order for Ms. Le Pen.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/24/2017 19:26 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
UC Berkeley students threaten to sue if Ann Coulter isn't allowed to speak
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 11:19 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336087 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. Hit when with whatever does most damage.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 15:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Good for the remaining sane students at Bezerkley. There ought to be both civil and criminal charges against whomever created this climate for the denial of basic Constitutional rights.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 16:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Attorney Ms. Harmeet Dillhon, a Sihk Indian California Republican Party leader, once a member of the ACLU is going after Berkeley U, and the city. This will put her on the national political landscape. In the picture of her over at Breitbart she looks wicked with a blue Sikh towel over her head, kinda like a Talibun or Kurdish female fighter.

That image would definitely melt the hearts of snowflakes, even in their safe spaces.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 04/24/2017 18:56 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
How 'Settled Science' Helped Create A Massive Public Health Crisis
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 10:32 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336093 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Exhibit #4,325,545 of why I don't trust any health or environmental issue the government tells me about.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 10:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Key point from the source article (not this one):
To reliably identify causes, as opposed to correlations, a higher standard of evidence is required: the controlled trial. In its simplest form: recruit a group of subjects, and assign half of them a diet for, say, 15 years. At the end of the trial, assess the health of those in the intervention group, versus the control group. This method is also problematic: it is virtually impossible to closely supervise the diets of large groups of people. But a properly conducted trial is the only way to conclude with any confidence that X is responsible for Y.

To my knowledge, this has NEVER been done for various diet compositions. It probably never will be done.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2017 10:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Words of wisdom from the source quoted in #2:
...scientific inquiry prone to the eternal rules of human social life: deference to the charismatic, herding towards majority opinion, punishment for deviance, and intense discomfort with admitting to error. Of course, such tendencies are precisely what the scientific method was invented to correct for, and over the long run, it does a good job of it. In the long run, however, we’re all dead, quite possibly sooner than we would be if we hadn’t been following a diet based on poor advice.

This old saw is also relevant "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2017 10:47 Comments || Top||

#4  haha love the quote

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2017 10:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Executive summary:
"The experts ... aren't"
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2017 11:09 Comments || Top||

#6  A prominent scientist in a health related area, told me about 20 years ago that 90% of published papers in his field were worthless crap.

The reality is that a lot of bad science gets published. And then people tenaciously cling to their conclusions whatever the new evidence says, because being wrong is usually a career killer.
Posted by: phil_b || 04/24/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||

#7  The reality is that a lot of bad science gets published.

And the proportion is accelerating, unfortunately, especially in politicized fields.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 19:20 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Assad's militia commander: 'Israel is attacking the Syrian army in the south of the country'
A commander of the Golan unit in the Homeland Security Forces, a militia of Syrian President Bashar Assad, claimed that Israel had been attacking the Syrian army's defense lines in the south for the last three days. Majed Haimoud, who was interviewed by the Iranian news agency Fars, added that Israel is using guided missiles, drones and artillery to help the rebels.

Militia officials accused Israel on Sunday of attacking a Syrian army camp in northern Kuneitra and liquidating three of their men.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 09:45 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336084 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Juice attacks and only kills 3? That's not an attack, that's pest control
Posted by: Frank G || 04/24/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#2  If they wanted you gone, you would be gone!
Posted by: chris || 04/24/2017 19:14 Comments || Top||

#3  This is just Israel's gentle reminder that Emir Haimoud's people should make sure they colour inside the lines. Should Israel seriously attack they'd all be casualties, whether wounded or dead -- and the secondaries would be awesome.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 19:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Those 'Snowflakes' Have Chilling Effects Even Beyond the Campus
[Manhattan Institute] Academic intolerance is the product of ideological aggression, not a psychological disorder.

Student thuggery against non-leftist viewpoints is in the news again. Agitators at Claremont McKenna College, Middlebury College, and the University of California’s Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses have used threats, brute force and sometimes criminal violence over the past two months in efforts to prevent Milo Yiannopoulos, Charles Murray, Ann Coulter and me from speaking. As commencement season approaches, expect "traumatized" students to try to disinvite any remotely conservative speaker, an effort already under way at Notre Dame with regard to Vice President Mike Pence.

This soft totalitarianism is routinely misdiagnosed as primarily a psychological disorder. Young "snowflakes," the thinking goes, have been overprotected by helicopter parents, and now are unprepared for the trivial conflicts of ordinary life.

"The Coddling of the American Mind," a 2015 article in the Atlantic, was the most influential treatment of the psychological explanation. The movement to penalize certain ideas is "largely about emotional well-being," argued Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Jonathan Haidt of New York University. The authors took activists’ claims of psychological injury at face value and proposed that freshmen orientations teach students cognitive behavioral therapy so as to preserve their mental health in the face of differing opinions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 09:29 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336113 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Think Khmer Rouge or RedGuards
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  A master of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) would/should have more sense than to attend, patronize, donate to, or even speak at, such mis-behaving destroyers of human cognition as these "academies".
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2017 9:59 Comments || Top||

#3  The Coddling of the American Mind

Interesting, as if erasure or denial of facts manifests in a tangibly altered environment.

Welcome to generation Eloi.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Sometimes, Skidmark, I think that maybe the Morlocks were actually the good guys.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2017 12:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe Police Departments need to know that any battery from "Antifa" personnel will be answered with force up to and including deadly.

Maybe the Berkeley-style "stand down" BS will go away?

Maybe I ask too many questions?
Posted by: Pliny Hatfield8470 || 04/24/2017 13:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Think unarmed Khmer Rouge or RedGuards living behind the shield of their university. When they leave the university setting and try similar tactics they will find they are unemployed and possible beaten.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/24/2017 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  So did nobody notice this article requires a paid subscription to read? Or did the original poster just assume everyone pays for the WSJ?
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 || 04/24/2017 15:05 Comments || Top||

#8  a non-pay link
Posted by: Frank G || 04/24/2017 15:28 Comments || Top||

#9  "Academic intolerance is the product of ideological aggression not a and psychological disorder[s]. FIFY
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 16:34 Comments || Top||

#10  IMO, it's just people who secretly know they're second rate acting out.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 16:37 Comments || Top||

#11  "When fascism comes to America it will be called anti-fascism", Huey Long (assassinated) referring to similar quotes by journalists in the 1930's.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 04/24/2017 17:37 Comments || Top||

#12  “intersectionality”—the campus-spawned notion that individuals who can check off multiple victim boxes experience exponentially higher and more complex levels of life-threatening oppression than lower-status single-category victims.

You just can't make this stuff up.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2017 19:11 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Heinrich Himmler Nov 2, 1943 message to al Husseini is discovered
[JCPA.org] On March 29, 2017, the blog of the National Library of Israel announced the discovery of SS Commander Heinrich Himmler's telegram to Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem.1 Although the telegram was not dated, there is conclusive evidence that it was sent on November 2, 1943, the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration...

Himmler's telegram may be appreciated on several levels: 1) as a primary source which represents a statement of Nazi-German policy; 2) as an important part of the context of a major political rally against the Balfour Declaration at which an alliance with the Arab cause, and particularly with the Palestinian Arabs, was ceremoniously celebrated; and, 3) as an address by Amin al-Husseini, an unconditional Nazi-collaborator who pledged the support of the Palestinian Arabs and the Muslim world for Nazi cause.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/24/2017 07:56 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336080 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let me guess: delivered via US Postal Service, and just arrived. Postage due.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/24/2017 10:29 Comments || Top||

#2  People always scoff when I point out the Arab ideology is an offspring of Nazism. Then they see the evidence. Most are horrified, a few blame it as Jewish propaganda.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 10:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Recommend people go read the telegraph, it is interesting. It is in the article.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/24/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  NATIONAL SOCIALIST MOVEMENT OF GREATER GERMANY

How many of our academic progs and democrats would even acknowledge the 2nd word? (emph added)


The Nazis told it as they meant it, just as the Monslems do today. The arrogant western libs just keep whistling past the grave yard or are too afraid to admit that they're on board with it.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2017 12:24 Comments || Top||

#5  It Has Been Wrote Down

The Heinrich Maneuver came
Mooselimbs shrieked in orcasm
Toodleloo you Joo
Posted by: JHH || 04/24/2017 15:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Palestinian Arabs? In 1942? What happened to the idea that Arafat coined that himself in the 60s to lend legitimacy to his bowel movement?
Posted by: gorb || 04/24/2017 16:33 Comments || Top||

#7  In 1942 it was the Jews who were called Palestinians. The local and migrant Arabs, the latter come for the jobs the Jews provided, were simply called Arabs, a point they insisted on until the mid-1960s.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 16:55 Comments || Top||

#8  It is strange how the Left, the fascists and the Arabs have a mutual attraction for each other. Jerusalem Post article on The Grand Mufti's Nazi Connection.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 17:18 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
The Tragic Fate of Otto Warmbier
[US Defense Watch] University of Virginia student, Otto Warmbier, is a prisoner somewhere in the Orwellian hell hole known as North Korea. Otto Warmbier may be suffering a fate tantamount to an inmate of Dachau. At this very moment, Otto Warmbier may be starving, performing slave labor, being beaten or in fact, he may very well be dead.

The tragic fate of Otto Warmbier, is the tragic fate of the millions of North Koreans living in the Gulag Archipelago of Kim Jong-un’s totalitarian nightmare world.

Warmbier, 23, was convicted of conducting "hostile acts against the DPRK".

Mr. Warmbier was not an intelligence officer working for the CIA and his ’hostile act’ was not sabotage or espionage.

The so-called hostile act against North Korea committed by college student Warmbier, (who was travelling with a tour group called Young Pioneer Tours), was purloining a propaganda poster off the wall of the Yanggakdo Hotel in Pyongyang with the inscription, "Let’s arm ourselves strongly with Kim Jong-il’s patriotism!"

Stealing or harming a poster or other items with the name or image of one of North Korea’s past or present lunatic asylum leaders is considered a serious crime against the state.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 07:43 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336096 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mr. Warmbier was not an intelligence officer working for the CIA and his ’hostile act’ was not sabotage or espionage.

Obviously not! They buy in bulk and pay cash. Palletized USD and Swiss francs shipped via unmarked aircraft in the middle of the night.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Stupidity is not a crime, but does carry a death penalty.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/24/2017 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Young Pioneer Tours

The fate of young, unstifled idealists.
A victim of negligent parenting, a progressive education and promiscuous world view.

There should be a class action lawsuit in there somewhere.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Young Pioneer Tours is an adventure travel company formed in 2008 and based in mainland China. Specialising in North Korea tours, we provide “budget travel to destinations your mother would rather you stayed away from”.

Otto chose the Young Pioneer non-refundable, extended immersion tour.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 8:57 Comments || Top||

#5  For some reason, I don't feel any sympathy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  You just cannot fix stupid. Hostage taking of stupid people won't pay unless you have stupid leaders. Welcome to the pitcher plant.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/24/2017 10:04 Comments || Top||

#7  "Otto chose the Young Pioneer non-refundable, extended immersion tour." From Besoeker's comment.
Completely agree.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/24/2017 11:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Oooops.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2017 12:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Send the Berkley progressives to protest Otto's hateful act of defacing progressive posters.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2017 12:49 Comments || Top||

#10  This reminds me of the movie Midnight Express(1978) where as a viewer I was supposed to feel sympathy with the idiot...
Posted by: magpie || 04/24/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#11  The TripAdvisor 'Certificate of Excellence' was a dead giveaway for the untold quality of the journey.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/24/2017 17:17 Comments || Top||

#12  Hope he enjoyed his Air Koryo 'Mystery Burger'.

Idiot.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/24/2017 17:19 Comments || Top||

#13  Maybe the Brits can help him.

They like warm beer, right?
Posted by: charger || 04/24/2017 21:15 Comments || Top||

#14  Trump don't play that game. Say "Hi" to Kim Sr for us, Otto.
Posted by: Harry Panda9076 || 04/24/2017 23:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 04:54 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336089 views] Top|| File under:

#1  About the author: Cathleen O'Grady is Ars Technica's contributing science reporter. She has a background in cognitive science and evolutionary linguistics.

Great detective work and quite interesting fields of study. Love to sip a pint or two with her. Thanks g(r)om.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 8:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Other publications by O'Grady found at this Ars link.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Thinking constantly about the evolution of language has caused her to forget how to look at humans as anything other than another species of ape.

Or as my father often injected:
"Monkey see, monkey do!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  You may also look up

Fanelli, D. (2009). How many scientists fabricate and falsify research? A systematic
review and meta-analysis of survey data. PloS one, 4(5), e5738.

Fanelli, D. (2010). Do pressures to publish increase scientists' bias? An empirical
support from US States Data. PloS one, 5(4), e10271.

Fang, F. C., Steen, R. G., & Casadevall, A. (2012). Misconduct accounts for the
majority of retracted scientific publications. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, 109(42), 17028-17033.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 9:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Science, she is not what she used to be.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 9:35 Comments || Top||

#6  I generally see it now as taxpayer grant extraction in exchange for state narrative support.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Seems most "scientific" papers of the last 20 years are suspect.

Gee, what changed about then?
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 10:15 Comments || Top||

#8  G. W. Bush destroyed science by ... lessseee ... restricting nearly-human parts for stem-cell research?

Or was he one of those science-settled-skeptics, too?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2017 12:54 Comments || Top||

#9  I've come to be suspect of projects funded by government dollars. A few year ago, I headed up a project funded by the feds. The project involved the evaluation of several competing designs. The government had a "favored design." Our research did not support their favored design and was reported as such. We did not get the follow-on research.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 17:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Our research did not support their favored design and was reported as such. We did not get the follow-on research.
Posted by JohnQC


I seem to recall a team of microbiologists dispatched to Baghdad some years ago to examine potential WMD trailers belonging to Saddam. Their findings did not support the gov't WMD narrative either. The team lead, a contractor, was quietly dismissed a few months later.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 17:10 Comments || Top||

#11  Whatever his ethics, GWB hugely advanced the field of immunology and human repair by constraining the stem cell lines to those already existing. His action forced the research community to seek other sources than cannibalized dead infants.

Now, autoimmune cures exist for cancer, vision degeneration, organ failure, joint repair and heart regeneration. Spinal damage is on the way.

Abuse him and his intellect as you will. The decision process worked.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 23:15 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Jerusalem archive yields Armenian genocide ‘smoking gun’
[IsraelTimes] Newly discovered telegram from 1919 military tribunals proves official Turkish coverup of mass killings.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336071 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More grit for the grist mill of history deniers.
I hope the Louisiana statues go to a museum or at lease a storage warehouse.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:17 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope the Louisiana statues go to a museum or at lease a storage warehouse.

Don't worry, they'll be replaced with the statues of V. I. Lenin & Mao Tze Tung.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 9:36 Comments || Top||


Iraq
In East Mosul Iraqis experience the joys of freedom from ISIS
Posted by: Frozen Al || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336075 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Mosul Offensive News


ISIS education official dies in Mosul airstrike

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State’s education official was killed in an airstrike launched by the U.S-led coalition in west of Mosul, Kurdistan Region’s Directorate of Counter-Terrorism (CTD) declared on Sunday.

In a statement posted on its Facebook page, CTD said, “Islamic State’s education department official Ali Reda Mahmoud was killed on Saturday in an airstrike by the international coalition jets in Tal Afar town, western Mosul.”

The group has sustained severe losses in personnel and ground since an offensive was launched in mid October to retake Mosul, the second-largest Iraqi city and the militants’ last urban stronghold in the country. The U.S.-led coalition had estimated the number of remaining IS militants in Mosul by less than 1000.

On Saturday, news websites quoted sources as saying that new plan was drawn to liberate the city of Mosul before mid-May.

A major offensive was launched in February by Iraqi troops, backed by the international coalition and paramilitary troops, to retake western Mosul from IS. Eastern Mosul was recaptured in January after three months of battles.

Iraqi troops currently control 4000 kilometers of the city, the U.S. State Department tweeted on Friday.

Over four million persons were displaced inside the country since emergence of IS in 2014.

4 ISIS suicide bombers die in western Mosul

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Federal Police have declared killing four suicide bombers after thwarting an attack by Islamic State militants, north of Hamam al-Alil neighborhood.

“Troops in al-Areej region, north of Hamam al-Alil confronted an attack by IS militants against our units there,” Lt. Gen. Shaker Jawdat, Federal Police chief, said in statements on Sunday.

“Four suicide bombers were killed, while the rest, who fled toward villages and hills, are still being followed,” he added.

Some Iraqi policemen were reportedly killed during the attack, news reports mentioned.

The group has sustained severe losses in personnel and ground since an offensive was launched in mid October to retake Mosul, the second-largest Iraqi city and the militants’ last urban stronghold in the country. The U.S.-led coalition had estimated the number of remaining IS militants in Mosul by less than 1000.

In related news, military reinforcements were sent from eastern to western Mosul to take part in liberating the remaining districts still held by IS.

Al-Tahreer News quoted a military source as saying that the Joint Operations Command sent troops to Halila village to participate in liberating of northwestern districts in Mosul including Hawi al-Kanisah, al-Hermat, and Tammuz 17 and Mesherfa.

Iraqi troops currently control 4000 kilometers of the city, the U.S. State Department tweeted on Friday.

ISIS Top Dawg dies in Iraqi militia attack

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Public Mobilization Units) have announced killing an Islamic State leader, abu Omar al-Aafari, west of Mosul.

“In light of the crackdown on IS militants and as the launch of military operations to liberate Tel Afar near, received information indicated moves by IS toward Baaj, the only exit linking Syrian borders to Al-Jazeera desert,” Qassim Musleh, commander of al-Tufuf brigade said.

Earlier on Sunday, Kurdistan Region’s Directorate of Counter-Terrorism (CTD) declared killing of Islamic State’s education department official Ali Reda Mahmoud on Saturday in an airstrike by the international coalition jets in Tal Afar.

The group has sustained severe losses in personnel and ground since an offensive was launched in mid October to retake Mosul, the second-largest Iraqi city and the militants’ last urban stronghold in the country. The U.S.-led coalition had estimated the number of remaining IS militants in Mosul by less than 1000.

In February, an offensive was launched by Iraqi troops, backed by the international coalition and PMUs, to retake western Mosul from IS. Eastern Mosul was recaptured in January after three months of battles.

Iraqi troops currently control 4000 kilometers of the city, the U.S. State Department tweeted on Friday.
Posted by: badanov || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336077 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa Subsaharan
Nigerian army arrests three Chadian Boko Haram insurgents
[THECABLE.NG] The Nigerian army has tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
three Chadians in connection with terrorism in the north-east.

A statement by Akinloye Badare, the army spokesperson of the 28 Task Force Brigade, Mubi, noted that the Chadians were arrested in a foiled terrorist attack between Borno and Adamawa states’ border.

He noted that the troops foiled the attacks of gunnies on Madagali town in Adamawa; and Limankara village in Borno state.

"The arrested three were Chadian 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...
terrorists", he said.

Badare said that there was an exchange of gunshots for about two hours before the attacks could be prevented.

He also said in the statement that before the attempted attacks, "troops of 192 Battalion 26 Task Force killed six Boko Haram bandidos gunnies in clearance operations at Dissa and Patawe villages of Borno state".

Limankara is a border village with Camero and 151 kilometres south of Maiduguri, the state capital.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IRGC Navy Gets New Cruise Missiles
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy on Saturday took delivery of a large cargo of Nasir, a cruise missile developed by local experts for naval battles.

The IRGC Navy was officially equipped with the new homegrown missile in large quantities in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Brigadier General Hussein Dehqan and IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi.

Speaking to news hounds, Dehqan said Nasir can be fired as a coast-to-sea or sea-to-sea cruise missile, and can hit various naval targets, including military vessels or piers.

The cruise missile can be rapidly prepared for launch, enjoys high navigation precision, has great destructive power, can be fired from speedboats, and has anti-jamming features due to an advanced radar system, the minister added.

The homegrown cruise missile was unveiled by President Hassan Rouhani on April 15.

Iranian military experts and technicians have in recent years made great headways in manufacturing a broad range of indigenous equipment, making the armed forces self-sufficient in the defense sphere.

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336077 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Can they make indigenous F-14 spare parts yet?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2017 8:01 Comments || Top||

#2  can be fired from speedboats

That's an interesting development.

Nasir
"The Nasir missile was first test fired during the “Valayat 95” Iranian military drills in the Persian Gulf in February 2017."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#3  From the same article, the Heidar .50 sniper rifle; 35 lbs, 3000 meters.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:46 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Anbar Antix: 66 die


21 ISIS Turbans die in airstrikes near Rawa

Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Twenty-one militants of Islamic State were killed as three rest houses of the group were destroyed, west of Anbar province, a military source said.

“The U.S.-led coalition jets shelled three rest houses of IS in the town of Rawa, 230 KM west of Ramadi,” the source told AlSumaria News on Sunday.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said, “21 members of IS, including leaders, were killed, while the rest houses were destroyed as a result of the shelling.”

Several military operations were launched over the past few days to comb desert regions in the province, killing dozens of militants.

Last week, additional U.S. forces reportedly arrived to a military base in Anbar to take part in the security campaign against IS militants.

In March, reports indicated possible joint operations by the Iraqi and U.S. forces to clear IS-held towns of Annah, Rawa and Qaim near the borders with Syria .

Rawa is an IS stronghold that has been held by the militants along with Annah and Qaim since 2014, when the group proclaimed its self-styled ‘Islamic State’.

Islamic State is believed to be holding thousands in some western regions in Anbar to use them as human shields against any future security offensive.

Fighter jets from the Iraqi army and the international coalition have also regularly pounded IS locations in the province.
Google Map at the link
35 ISIS Bad Guys die in airstrikes near Kabisa

Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Ministry of Defense’s War Media Cell announced, on Sunday, killing 35 terrorists, in addition to destroying a cache of weapons and two hideouts, west of Anbar.

The cell said in a statement that Jazeera and Anbar Operations Commands started to search the areas of Haditha Warehouses and Wadi Houran, southwest of Kabisa.

The operation resulted in the killing of 14 terrorists of the Islamic State, the statement added. Also, an international coalition air strike destroyed two hideouts and killed 21 terrorists in Rawa District.

Noteworthy, Iraqi Army Aviation and international coalition air force are intensifying air strikes on important targets and headquarters, belonging to the Islamic State, west of Anbar, in preparation to liberate the area from the terrorist group’s control.

10 Iraqi security elements die in fighting with ISIS

Rutba (IraqiNews.com) A security source informed that ten security members and 20 others were wounded in an attack launched by the Islamic State group on east of Rutba, Alsumaria News reported on Sunday.

The source said that members of the Islamic State group attacked a convoy of security forces, this evening, in al-Sakkar area, east of Rutba, killing ten security members and wounding 20 others.

Earlier today, Iraqi Ministry of Defense’s War Media Cell announced killing 35 terrorists, in addition to destroying a cache of weapons and two hideouts, west of Anbar.

9 Iraqi soldiers die, 7 kidnapped by ISIS

Anbar (BasNews) Islamic State (IS) militants attacked on Sunday the Iraqi troops in Rutba town located in western Anbar province near the Syrian border, killing and injuring 18 soldiers, and abducting 7 others.

A security source stated an Iraqi force of 60 border guards was ambushed by IS militants on their way to their base in Rutba town.

The attack was resulted in the death of 9 Iraqi troops and injuring 18 others with 7 other troops being captured by the militants.

According to the source, the extremists took advantage of the bad weather to conduct the offensive.
Posted by: badanov || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336076 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  jets shelled three rest houses of IS

Cultivating local intel?
Or just finally acting on it?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:28 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Signs Your Anti-Oppression Space Isn't as Welcoming as You Think It Is (With 3 Steps to Make It Better)
Do you believe your communities are safe and welcoming for all? This comic shows some of the ways you can tell if not everyone feels that way. This practical information is vital to our understanding of why intersectionality is a priority.

It’s not about you being a good or bad person, but having better tools ‐ so here are the tools you need to create safer spaces.

With Love,
The Editors at Everyday Feminism
*snork*

Click through for the comic...you have been warned...
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336100 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wow! Thanks, Loving Everyday Feminists, now I know how to keep all those "other" people out of my group. Like "antifa" groups, I only want like-minded people to agree with me.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/24/2017 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  AA, those aren't antifa groups, those are Democrats as per Tom Perez.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2017 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Some old Jewish guy said it much more efficiently - something like, "love your neighbor as yourself."

Mk 12:31
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2017 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  so here are the tools...

The Editors at Everyday Feminism
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 04/24/2017 12:42 Comments || Top||

#5  so here are the tools...

The Editors at Everyday Feminism


I bet they thoughtfully included the batteries for the "tools".
Posted by: Crusader || 04/24/2017 14:09 Comments || Top||

#6  "Tools to create a safe space?" Your space might be a safe space until some f$ckers decide to bring guns and shoot up your safe space just because they are crazy, have a religious beef with you or just hate you or all of the previous. You might need some different tools to protect your safe space at that time.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 18:14 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Teen accused of JCC bomb threats also tried to extort US senator
[IsraelTimes] Israeli-American youth threatened Republican politician, sent drugs to his house in effort to incriminate him, Israeli indictment reads.

The Israeli-American teenager accused of making hundreds of bomb threats against mainly Jewish institutions in recent months reportedly also tried to extort a Republican US senator, going so far as delivering drugs to his house in an effort to incriminate him.

These allegations were part of an indictment being filed against the 18-year-old, whose identity in Israel remains under a gag order, in an Israeli court on Monday, according to reports in the Hebrew-language media.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336077 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is what people in congress are for , right? Extorting them over questionable or illegal behavior?
They're certainly not there to work.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/24/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Thieving from thieves? A very dangerous undertaking I'd say.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Pathetic little amateur.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 9:39 Comments || Top||


Europe
German foreign minister hails French results, 'sure' Macron will be president
Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Sunday hailed projected results in France's first-round presidential vote putting centrist Emmanuel Macron ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen. The Social Democrat said he was "sure" Macron would be elected president in the run-off on May 7.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336077 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If not, the Wehrmacht will march?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 4:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Now, now, G(rom), tsk tsk.
Sudetenland first.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/24/2017 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Marine Le Pen stepped down on Monday as head of France’s National Front Party, a move experts say is one meant to position her so as to embrace a wider framework of voters, per Fox News.
The move comes after a split election result over the weekend, which means Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will face one another in a runoff in May.
“Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front. I am the presidential candidate,” she said on French public television news.
Le Pen has said in the past that she is not a candidate of her party, and made that point when she rolled out her platform in February, saying the measures she was espousing were not her party’s, but her own.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/24/2017 16:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Hildebeest Makes Surprise Appearance at Tribeca Fest
[AyPee] Clinton was an unannounced panelist, there to discuss the scourge of elephant poaching - the subject of Bigelow's eight-minute film "The Protectors: Walk in the Rangers' Shoes," about park rangers trying to save elephants in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

She spoke about her work to save elephants from poachers slaughtering them for their ivory tusks, both as secretary of state in the Obama administration [Oh, yeah, I remember 'dat], and later with her family foundation ['dat too], the Clinton Global Initiative.

"We've got to bust this market so it can't come back," she said of the illegal ivory market.
OK, now she's got a lock on this years "Protector of the Universe - Al Gore Division" Major Award.
Before Clinton and the three other panelists were interviewed by Bigelow, the audience donned
Certified 100% Elephant Free
virtual reality headsets at their seats and experienced - in 360 degrees - what it's like to be one of the 200 rangers fighting well-armed poachers in the park the size of Delaware.
Oh to have been one of Bill Clinton's brain cells during this.
The film gives the viewer both the experience of being in the grass and searching for poachers, and up in the air looking down. A wrenching scene shows the rangers arriving at the carcass of a slaughtered elephant.
The Missus also supports the cause, but I can't help but wonder if the New, Improved and More Intimate Clinton Foundation was paid in ivory carvings. But I'm a cynic.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336103 views] Top|| File under:

#1  of course killing symbolic elephants - well that's different
Posted by: lord garth || 04/24/2017 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  How have the mighty fallen.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 2:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Hope she falls until she is ground to dust.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 2:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Self-preservation hardly counts as altruism.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/24/2017 7:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Animals as a comeback prop. Poor helpless old crow. She could live into the next millennium and she would approach the contributions and legacy of die Afrika Olifant Konigin (the Afrikan Elephant Queen) Dame Daphne Sheldrick.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 8:08 Comments || Top||

#6  This is like the opening scene from the third in a series of zombie movies, where you find out the plague carrier isn't dead after all...
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/24/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||

#7  This is like the opening scene from the third in a series of zombie movies, where you find out the plague carrier isn't dead after all...
Posted by ed in texas


Damn! I think you've nailed it Ed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 8:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Hildebeast making surprise inspection of culture farm?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2017 10:55 Comments || Top||

#9  "We've got to bust this market so it can't come back," she said of the illegal ivory market.

Are we sure she wasn't referencing coal?
Posted by: Crusader || 04/24/2017 12:24 Comments || Top||

#10  The Hildebeest is just enjoying her freedom a bit longer before she gets locked up.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 16:23 Comments || Top||

#11  So who paid the $250,000 appearance fee? Or has she gone down market since Nov 8th and working for autograph tips?
Posted by: Harry Panda9076 || 04/24/2017 18:28 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Tel Aviv stabber was in Israel on one-day ‘peace’ pass, official says
[IsraelTimes] Israel freezes some permits for Paleostinians after 4 hurt in attack; teen was here with group that works to improve Israeli-Paleostinian ties.

The Defense Ministry suspended single-day work permits for Paleostinians to enter Israel Sunday, hours after a Paleostinian teen injured four in a stabbing attack on Tel Aviv’s beachfront.

The attacker, identified as an 18-year-old from the Nablus area of the West Bank, apparently entered Israel with one such pass, as part of a group known as "Natural Peace Tours," which is supposed to forge relationships between Paleostinians and Israelis, a defense official said. He was not named.

The ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories said the one-day permits granted to different organizations and groups will be "frozen" until an investigation of the matter can be conducted, the official said.

Four people were hospitalized with light injuries after the attacker, who has not been named, went on a stabbing spree in the Leonardo Beach hotel on Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Street, near the city’s famous beach, on Sunday afternoon.

He was apprehended by police, but has not yet been charged. After initially saying the motivation of the attack was unclear, police later determined that it appeared to be a terror attack.

The victims were identified as a man in his 70s, as well as two men and a woman in their 50s.

Israel gives out some 100,000 work permits to Paleostinian to work in Israel. Holders of work permits and their relatives are heavily vetted by the Shin Bet security service for any links to terror organizations.

In addition, one-day permits are occasionally given out for special cases, such as tourism or for NGOs to hold meetings. A COGAT spokesperson said "many" of those types of permits were normally given out, but could not give an exact number.

Officials say tens of thousands more Paleostinians are in Israel illegally, most of them for work.

While in the past Israeli defense officials have frozen work permits wholesale in response to terror attacks, former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon maintained a stated policy during a terror wave a year ago of keeping work permits in place in order to avoid collective punishment and lower tensions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336077 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess this 18-yr. old was not peaceful. Maybe the peace-pass program effectiveness ought to be reviewed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 17:06 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
The Beatings Will Continue: Iraqi Edition


Gunmen kill ISIS Top Turban's son in Tal Afar

Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) A local source in Nineveh Province revealed that the elder son of the Islamic State Mufti (jurist) in Tal Afar was killed by an armed attack, west of Mosul, Alsumaria News reported on Sunday.

The source said that unidentified gunmen attacked, today, a vehicle occupied by the son of the Islamic State Mufti in Tal Afar District, west of Mosul, along with one of his aides, killing them both.

The Islamic State imposed strict procedures in the area of incident, and started search operations, the source added on condition of anonymity.

Several elite leaders of the Islamic State were assassinated in different areas of Tal Afar District, which is still controlled by the terrorist group.
Google Map at the link

ISIS shells village near Baqubah

Baqubah (IraqiNews.com) Four mortar shells fell on an agricultural village, northeast of Baqubah, Head of the security committee of Abu Saida area, Awad al-Rabei said on Sunday.

Rabei said in a statement that four mortar shells fell, today, on Abu Karma Village, north of Abu Saida area, northeast of Baqubah, without causing any casualties.

The mortar shells were fired by the Islamic State members, who are stationed in al-Mukhaisa gardens area, he added. Army detachments started to clear the area from the terrorist members, he further explained.

Rabei also called on security forces to find an ultimate solution for al-Karma village, which is frequently attacked by the Islamic State members, due to its strategic location near Baqubah.
Posted by: badanov || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336076 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa North
2 die in Benghazi mortar attack
Benghazi, 22 April 2017:

Two people were killed and one injured today by a mortar round which landed in the Benghazi district of Guiliana.

Jalaa hospital said that the wounded individual had been treated for shrapnel wounds and was in a stable condition.

Libyan National Army sources described the round as random. However, it seems possible it was aimed at the naval headquarters beside the Guiliana bridge and fired from the militant enclave of Suq Al-Hout or from a mobile position.

Three weeks ago a sniper shot and killed a woman in a car and then a sailor who ran to help the family. The car had been approaching the Guiliana bridge when it was attacked. It was not physically possible to fire on the bridge from within the two districts, Suq Al-Hout and Sabri, still held by the militants.

Therefore it seems clear that the gunman had been operating within an area controlled by the security forces. No arrest was made and the Benghazi Security Directorate has not said if it discovered the sniper’s firing position.

Posted by: badanov || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336074 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


India-Pakistan
Tracking extremism
[DAWN] THERE is apparently no direct link between the brutal lynching of Mashal Khan, the arrest of Naureen Leghari, a convert to the so-called krazed killer 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....
(IS) group, and the surrender of Jamaatul Ahrar
...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough...
(JuA) leader Ehsanullah Ehsan
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336083 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  THERE is apparently no direct link between the brutal lynching of Mashal Khan, the arrest of Naureen Leghari, a (IS) group, and the surrender of Jamaatul Ahrar(JuA) leader Ehsanullah Ehsan

Koran reading?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2017 11:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Schumer says U.S. budget deal doable if Trump stays out of it
[Al Ahram] Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer
Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower. Senate minority leader as of 2017.
said on Sunday he believes politicians could reach a short-term U.S. budget deal by Friday if President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
did not meddle in their talks with "poison pill" demands like funding for a border wall.

"I am hopeful that we can get a budget done," Schumer said at a news conference. "The only fly in the ointment is that the president is being a little heavy-handed, and mixing in and asking for things such as the (border) wall."

"So we'd ask him to let us do our work, not throw in some last-minute poison pills that could undo it and we could get this done."

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336099 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "If you [Pub]surrender unconditionally, we'll have Peace", sorta thing?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 2:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump was elected to build a wall. If Schumer gets in the way then shut the government down and let everybody know that he is the reason why. Call his bluff.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/24/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||

#3  So this ass says that if the president stays out of the budget, they can work a deal. Like robing banks is easy if the police stay away. This is the presidents budget, like him or not. Schumer is an ass.
Posted by: 49 pan || 04/24/2017 12:50 Comments || Top||

#4  The Nowhere Man struggling to be the Somewhere Man.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/24/2017 14:39 Comments || Top||

#5  If Schumer gets in the way then shut the government down and let everybody know that he is the reason why. Maybe Trump will consider giving him a Jimmy Hoffa concrete sarcophagus in the Wall. Schumer is an obstructionist putz who is every bit as bad as Harry Reid; maybe worse.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 16:29 Comments || Top||

#6  tell Schumer every goddam CBP agent in the US will descend on NYC and his district and the IRS will audit every contributor on his donor list, twice.....demorats understand muscle just fine, they just never expect it!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/24/2017 19:20 Comments || Top||

#7  We should believe anything he says, why?
Posted by: magpie || 04/24/2017 19:40 Comments || Top||


Iraq
IS ambush kills 10 Iraqi forces
[Al Ahram] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group fighters disguised as soldiers ambushed a government convoy in a remote desert region of western Iraq Sunday, killing 10 members of the security forces, commanders said.

"ISIS (IS) members armed with assault rifles and rocket launchers attacked civilian and military vehicles carrying soldiers near Rutba," an army lieutenant colonel said.

"They killed at least 10 and maimed 20," he told AFP. Other officials confirmed the attack and the casualty toll.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336076 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  fighters disguised as soldiers

Disguised, or turned?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  IMO, both sides were disguised as soldiers.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Touche, g(r)om.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/24/2017 11:27 Comments || Top||


Europe
Outsiders Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen sweep to victory as France kicks out old guard: Europhile newcomer narrowly wins first vote to take on far-Right's Madame Frexit for the presidency
[DailyMail]
  • Far-right leader Marine Le Pen and independent centrist Emmanuel Macron have made it to the second round

  • Republican candidate Francois Fillon conceded after initial results showed he achieved 19.5 per cent

  • Far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon refused to concede until final results of first-round vote announced

  • France's Prime Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, has called on voters to support Macron instead of Le Pen

  • This is the first time in 60 years none of France's mainstream parties have entered the second round

  • Riots have broken out in Nantes and Paris' Place de la Bastille - the birthplace of the French Revolution
According to La Belle France's Interior Ministry, 46 million people voted in the first stage of the elections which knocked the traditional Right and Left parties out of the running for the first time in 60 years.

Macron achieved 23.8 per cent of the votes, followed by Le Pen with 21.5 per cent.

But it is thought that Le Pen's chances of winning the second round are limited as supporters for Republican candidate Francois Fillon, who conceded but has gained 19.9 per cent of the votes, will support Macron.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336086 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "independent centrist" = establishment stooge in the Cameron mould/mold.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2017 10:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Marine Le Pen stepped down on Monday as head of France’s National Front Party, a move experts say is one meant to position her so as to embrace a wider framework of voters, per Fox News.
The move comes after a split election result over the weekend, which means Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will face one another in a runoff in May.

Check it out:

"





“Tonight, I am no longer the president of the National Front. I am the presidential candidate,” she said on French public television news.

Le Pen has said in the past that she is not a candidate of her party, and made that point when she rolled out her platform in February, saying the measures she was espousing were not her party’s, but her own.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/24/2017 16:20 Comments || Top||

#3  "independent centrist"

My bullshit meter went off too.
Posted by: Raj || 04/24/2017 18:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Macron; cheesy.
Posted by: charger || 04/24/2017 20:19 Comments || Top||


Britain
One in seven Labour voters turning to Tories as Corbyn scares off supporters
Good. He is a vile man who has consorted with Jew haters and other horrid people since he entered politics. By stacking the intra-party election in his favour, Hillary-style, Labour showed what it has agreed to become.
[EXPRESS.CO.UK] ONE in seven of those who voted Labour at the last General Election will switch to the Conservatives because of Jeremy Corbyn, a Sunday Express poll reveals.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336075 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and the 2015 General Election wasn't particularly good for Labour. They got about 30% of the vote but lost seats in the H of Commons.
Posted by: lord garth || 04/24/2017 7:56 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Drone strike kills 5 Qaeda suspects in Yemen
A presumed US dronezap in south Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
on Sunday killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda and three civilians, a security official said.

Earlier, a local official gave a toll of three suspects killed in the strike in the al-Said area of Shabwa province.

The vehicle targeted was carrying five suspected al-Qaeda members, all of whom were killed by a missile, the security official said.

Three civilians who went to their aid were killed when a second missile struck, the official said.

Washington has sharply intensified its air war against the forces of Evil since President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
took office in January.

The Pentagon said on April 3 that it had carried out more than 70 strikes against targets in Yemen since February 28.

Before Sunday's attack, two strikes overnight on Tuesday killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
Washington regards AQAP to be the most dangerous branch of the hard boy group.

Last month, US media reports said Trump's administration had given new powers to the CIA to conduct dronezaps against hard boy targets in the Middle East.

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336100 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula


Iraq
2 ISIS Bad Guys die in Salahuddin
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Pro-Iraqi government paramilitary forces have killed Islamic State militants after targeting their havens in Makhoul mountains, north of Salahuddin province.

“The 25th brigade of Al-Hashd al-Shaabi troops [Public Mobilization Units] targeted IS pockets in Makhoul mountains, killing two militants and burnt their vehicle,” the media service said on Sunday.

“The brigade’s artillery targeted IS sites in al-Sheikh Ali village, leaving two members killed and their vehicle destroyed,” it added.

IS has escalated violent attacks against security members and civilians across Iraqi provinces over the months that followed the launch of a security campaign to retake its biggest stronghold in Mosul last October. Observers believe the attacks aim at making up for losses the group has been sustaining in Mosul.

Salahuddin has witnessed an escalation in IS attacks on deployments by Iraqi government forces and PMUs.

IS militants still pose a security threat in Salahuddin though security forces had recaptured large areas of the province since the group emerged in 2014 to proclaim an “Islamic Caliphate”.

PMUs are considered one of the largest militias in Iraq. It was established in 2014 by a fatwa (religious edict) to fight the Islamic State. In late 2016, the Iraqi parliament recognized the militia as a national armed force.
Posted by: badanov || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336077 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Europe
From Le Pen to la panique: Left-wing rioters hit Paris streets after Marine triggers political earthquake
[DailyMail] Protesters burned cars, danced around bonfires and clashed with police in violent demonstrations in La Belle France against Marine Le Pen's National Front.

Anti-fascist activists clashed with riot police in Gay Paree' Place de la Bastille - the birthplace of the French Revolution, where anarchists lit flares and chanted anti-National Front songs.

Three people were detained in election night scuffles across the country, but no serious injuries have been reported.

Protesters waved red flags and sang 'No Marine and No Macron!' in anger at the results of Sunday's first-round presidential election.

The crowds of young people, some from anarchist and anti-fascist groups, gathered in eastern Gay Paree as results were coming in from Sunday's first-round vote.

Police fired tear gas to disperse an increasingly rowdy crowd. Riot police surrounded the area.

More than 50,000 police and gendarmes were deployed to the 66,000 polling stations today, just a few days after the attack in Gay Paree on Thursday.

Le Pen, 48, came second in the national poll behind Emmanuel Macron, with 22 per cent of the vote in the tense election, which saw 11 candidates vying for the role.

After winning today, Le Pen and Macron will go head to head on May 7 and one of them will become President.

According to exit polls last night in La Belle France, which usually accurately reflect the result, Macron won 24 per cent of the vote, according to Belgian broadcaster RTBF.

He is widely expected to win the contest against Le Pen.

Up to 80 per cent of the French population went to polling stations, which was slightly down on the last general election in 2012, won by Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
, according to French cable netowork BFMTV.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336076 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's a hint: if your reaction to election disappointment is to riot, you're not "anti-fascist".
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/24/2017 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't this exactly what we want to happen leading up to the second vote?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 2:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Actual anti-fascists wouldn't become an intimidatory terror group because an election didn't go their way.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2017 7:06 Comments || Top||

#4  "Whiff of grape" for the ancien régime

*they don't grasp the irony that they are now the ancien régime.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/24/2017 7:31 Comments || Top||

#5  The grass in France is looking pretty dry.

Just sayin'
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 10:17 Comments || Top||

#6  I love how the left developed big-government anarchists. They live newspeak.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/24/2017 14:33 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
8 killed as airstrikes, artillery fire pound ISIS-K hideouts in East of Afghanistan
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A series of Arclight airstrikes and artillery fire pounded the hideouts 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 Khurasan (ISIS-K) hideouts 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 security sources said Sunday.

The operations were conducted in the past 24 hours in the vicinity of Tangi Mamand area in the restive Achin district, the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army said.

The source further added that at least eight bully boyz belonging to the terrorist group were eliminated during the operations and their dead bodies were left in the area.

This come as the local officials said Saturday at least 28 ISIS-K faceless myrmidons were killed in a series of Arclight airstrikes conducted in Haska Mina and Achin districts since Friday.

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Twitter suspends Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid’s account
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The twitter account of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group front man Zabiullah has been suspended as the group widely used the online news and social networking service to spread its propaganda.

Mujahid’s account was apparently closed earlier today and days after the group launched a coordinated attack on the 209th Shaheen Corps in northern Afghanistan.

The Afghan government declared a national day of mourning to pay tribute to dozens of Afghan soldiers killed in a deadly attack on the main army base.

The national flag will be at half mast across the country and in the diplomatic missions of Afghanistan outside the country as President Ghani issued a decree to organize special prayers in the presidential palace and other mosques across the country for the deaders of the attack for one day.

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#1  Because he keeps posting nudies?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  The Muslim killer from Cleveland ruined it for the rest.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/24/2017 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  He probably wasn't respecting the preferred gender pronouns for other Twitter account holders.
Posted by: Crusader || 04/24/2017 12:22 Comments || Top||


Afghan forces to take revenge of the attack on Shaheen Corps: Atmar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The National Security Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar has said the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel are committed to take Dire Revenge of the deadly attack on 209th Shaheen Corps base in Balkh province.

Atmar made the remarks during a telephone conversation with the secretary of the National Security Council of Iran Ali Shamkhani.

According to a statement by the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), the Iranian National Security Council secretary made a telephone call to Mr. Atmar following the deadly attack on army base in northern Balkh province.

The statement further added that Mr. Shakhani strongly condemned the attack on the 209th Shaheen Corps base that led to the martyrdom of scores of soldiers during the Friday prayers.

He also conveyed the condolences of the Iranian government and nation regarding the incident to the Afghan government leadership and the Afghan nation.

In his turn, Mr. Atmar thanked the Iranian government for the message of condolences and emphasized on the need to joint regional efforts to root out terrorism.

Regarding the attack on Shaheen Corps base, Atmar said the Afghan forces will take Dire Revenge from the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
for the barbaric attack.

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Bangladesh
Islami Andolon demands removal of SC ‘idol’ before Eid
[Dhaka Tribune] Members of Islami Andolon gathered at Baitul Mukarram Mosque following the Jumma prayers Friday, renewing demands for removal of the Lady Justice ’idol’ from the Supreme Court premises.

On April 20, the Islami Andolon had given an ultimatum to the Supreme Court regarding removal of the statue, saying that half measures were not enough.

Thousands joined the protest, causing traffic in the Paltan area to be stopped. The party’s Publicity Secretary Ahmad Abdul Qayyum said that activists had come to Dhaka from across the country to join the rally.

Representatives of the party demanded that the Themis sculpture be removed before the end of the month of Ramadan, threatening to blockade the Supreme Court premises after Eid if the demand was not met.

Islami Andolon Bangladesh’s Ameer and Charmonai Pir Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim was present at the rally, among others.
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Africa Horn
Al-Shabab suspects nabbed in Qoryoley sweep
[SHABELLENEWS] A Police officer says several Al shabaab suspects were detained during a security sweep by Somali forces in Qoryoley town located in the Southern Lower Shabelle region on Sunday.

Speaking with Radio Shabelle, Qoryoley district Police boss Abdulkadir Mohammed Ali said the suspects are in jug in connection with murder of an elder Hajji Hassan over night.

Late Hassan was bumped off by two pistol-wielding men outside a mosque after the evening prayers. The killers have managed to escape the scene before the arrival of Police.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the liquidation of the local elder, however, Al shabaab has carried out similar attacks in the town in the past.
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Puntland soldiers killed in bomb attack in Galgala
[SHABELLENEWS] A Somali police official says a roadside kaboom in a remote town in Somalia’s semiautonomous state of Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
has killed eight soldiers and injured three others.

Ahmed Mohammed tells The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Sunday’s blast targeted a military convoy in Galgala. Security forces have been battling 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....
-linked fighters in the region.

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, but the IS-linked bandidos turbans have carried out such attacks in the past.

Fighters affiliated with the Islamic State are a relatively new and growing threat in Somalia, where the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
murderous Moslem group has been entrenched for years.
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Al shabaab ambushes Govt military convoy near Afgoye
[SHABELLENEWS] Heavily armed Al shabaab fighters have launched an ambush attack on Somali Military convoy near Afgoye district in Lower Shabelle region on Sunday, residents said.

The gun attack has sparked a fierce shootout between the faceless myrmidons and the Somali national Army (SNA) forces. The exact number of the casualties still remain unclear.

The convoy which left Afgoye early in the morning came under Al shabaab attack at Marerey area. The military officials in the region were unreachable for comment on the incident.

Al shabaab has intensified its ambush attacks on SNA and AMISOM troops’ convoy and bases in the southern Lower Shabelle region over the past few years.
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India-Pakistan
Militants attack border post
[DAWN] PARACHINAR: Suspected turbans attacked a border post from the Afghan side in Kurram Agency
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
on Saturday, officials said. They said that the attack was carried out in Shabak area in lower subdivision of Kurram Agency. The turbans fired rockets at the post and also used heavy machine guns. The security forces retaliated and repulsed the attack. No casualty has been reported from either side.
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#1  No casualty has been reported from either side.

Rockets and heavy machine guns?
I'm assuming smugglers had already paid off the border guards and this was simply a compensatory diversion.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:31 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Public belcher feels relief after fine overturned
[RT] A Vienna man can breathe a sigh of relief after a fine he was issued for belching in public was overturned when a court ruled that his allegedly turbulent exhale could not be proven.

Edin Mehic was fined €70 ($75) in February of last year after a police officer wasn’t amused by a belch, credited to too many onions on a kebab, which he allegedly let out at a fun park in Vienna.

The officer’s claim didn’t carry enough weight in court, however, as it ruled on Friday that there was "never proof" that Mehic had burped next to the officer, according to a document sent to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named by the alleged belcher.

The belch in question made a martyr of Mehic after he made the details of the fine public last year.

Taking to Facebook in February, he expressed disgust with the police, who he said should top wasting their time and work on picking up "real criminals." He also wondered if he was being fined for "CO2 emissions."
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#1 
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder what they'd do if he farted.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/24/2017 14:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Politicians must enact such ordinances because they want to have a monopoly on expelling gas?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 16:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Good thing the guy didn't try to belch the alphabet!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 04/24/2017 19:42 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
N. Korea ready to sink US aircraft carrier with a ‘single strike’ -- official paper
[RT] North Korea has vowed to sink the USS Carl Vinson, which is scheduled to arrive in the waters around the Korean peninsula "within days." Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon...
Japan said two of its ships have joined the aircraft carrier group for a "joint exercise."

"Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a US nuclear powered aircraft carrier with a single strike," according to Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party, as cited by Rooters.

The newspaper reportedly called the vessel a "gross animal," while saying that sinking it would be "an actual example to show our military’s force."

The aircraft carrier group should arrive in waters along the Korean Peninsula "within days," US Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday, without giving any specific details.
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#1  Somebody will take Fatboy at his word get nervous and strike first.
Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352 || 04/24/2017 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  The major irony blast came in with this newspaper sabre rattling with "gross animal" commentary being on page 3 of Rodung Sinmun, and pages 1 & 2 being devoted to breathless coverage of Kimmie's inspection of a pig farm.
Sounds like somebody got stuck in rut, but I'm not sure who or which one.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/24/2017 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Is this the "super-mighty" strike previously threatened ? Does it cause sea of fire effects and destroy running dog Yankee imperialists like the older stuff?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/24/2017 12:38 Comments || Top||

#4  What happened to those once-a-week missile tests?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/24/2017 13:11 Comments || Top||

#5  New North Korean stealth missiles have tested weekly for some time without anybody being able to spot them proving they are a great success.

Or so Great Leader was no doubt informed.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/24/2017 14:26 Comments || Top||

#6  He wouldn't try and nuke a carrier would he?
Posted by: phil_b || 04/24/2017 20:51 Comments || Top||

#7  3-5000 dead in a single strike on the greatest seagoing technological marvel in the world? That will give all the little nibblers more than a little hope of success.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 23:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Seems he'll put a nuke in a sub.
Posted by: gorb || 04/24/2017 23:58 Comments || Top||


Economy
Sears to close 50 auto centers, 92 Kmart pharmacies
[UPI] Retail giant Sears said it will close 50 Sears Auto Centers and 92 pharmacies inside Kmart stores in a bid to reduce operating expenses by $1.25 billion. The cuts come four months after the company announced 150 Sears and Kmart department stores would close across the country.
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#1  Sears, established in 1886, which means the before Playboy there was the popular Sears Catalog Lingerie section.
Posted by: Vinegar Bonaparte1756 || 04/24/2017 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Things seem to go in cycles. Perhaps a return to smaller shops and enterprises like Nelson's Gingerbread in Grasmere. Who knows.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2017 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  There was a time when Sears was the Amazon.com and even more. You could buy a complete house from their catalog and have it delivered. At one time people bought their guns from the Sears catalog. Ah, those were the days.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 16:42 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemeni missile wounds photographer in Mokha
ADEN: A local photographer who works with AFP was seriously wounded in a missile strike on Sunday in southwest Yemen, his colleagues said.

Saleh Al-Obeidi was in an armored car with a pro-government officer when their vehicle was struck by a heat-guided missile near the government-held Red Sea town of Mokha, a journalist said.

The two wounded men were evacuated by helicopter for medical treatment, he added.

Another journalist said Al-Obeidi suffered severe burns to his face and hands.

It was not immediately possible to identify the source of the missile.
Posted by: badanov || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336076 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It was not immediately possible to identify the source of the missile.

Well, who...ahem...has invisible assets that deliver heat seekers?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/24/2017 9:25 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Another video appears as Mashal murder suspect confesses to his role in lynching
[DAWN] As a new video footage showing a mob vowing to trace Abdul Wali Khan University student Mashal Khan and kill him surfaced on Saturday, another suspect confessed to his involvement in the lynching of Mr Khan over blasphemy charges.

The two-minute video shared on social media and WhatsApp groups shows the mob of angry youths pledging to search everywhere to find Mashal Khan.

The mobsters are also heard shouting "Allah-o-Akbar".

A youth says that a teacher has helped Mashal Khan to hide. Another youth with long hair, who has blood stains on his clothes and a piece of rope in his hands, asks the mob to kill the student even if they find him in a mosque.

Another one among the mob says that Mashal Khan is an apostate and has committed blasphemy.

In the cacophony of voices, one of the mobsters declares that they will even go to jail to hunt the student.

The long-haired boy uses strong language for Mashal Khan saying that they would not care about him since he has disgraced Islam. Another youth adds, "God, we are ready and present".

The mob also discusses blocking roads.

At the end of the video, one of the mobsters tells some others to stop filming the scene.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
a suspect confessed to his involvement in lynching Mashal Khan before first class judicial magistrate Muhib-ur-Rehman.

Police officials told news hounds that they presented four suspects in the court of the judicial magistrate -- two employees and as many students of the university.

They claimed that one of the suspects, Ashraf Ali, recorded his confessional statement before the judge. He told the court that he was involved in torturing Mashal Khan.

With his confession, the number of the suspects who have confessed to their involvement in the shocking incident has reached three.

The court remanded the three other accused in four-day police custody.

The officials said that the number of suspects tossed in the calaboose
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
in the lynching case had reached 34.

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Four FC personnel lay down lives in roadside blast in Kech district
[DAWN] At least four personnel of the Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations....
laid their lives and three others were maimed when a remote-controlled bomb hit their vehicle in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
's Kech district on Sunday evening, DawnNews reported.

A security official told DawnNews that unidentified miscreants targeted the convoy of Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force, in Mand tehsil of Kech district.

The vehicle was destroyed due to the intensity of the blast, the official said.

The intensity of blast completely destroyed the vehicle of FC personnel.

The FC convoy was on routine patrolling when it was targeted by unidentified miscreants, he said.

The injured FC personnel were rushed to Turbat hospital for medical treatment.

The FC and Levies personnel reached the spot following the incident as the investigation into the incident went underway. Security was tightened in the area following the terrorist attack.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible...
Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri was quick to condemn the incident soon after it occurred. He reportedly directed the law enforcement agencies to bring the perpetrators of the terror attack to book.

FC personnel sacrificed their lives for guarding the motherland and innocent citizens, the chief minister said in a statement issued to the press.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian regulars gain yardage in Hama
BEIRUT: The Syrian army and allied forces advanced against opposition groups in western Syria near Hama city on Sunday, building on recent strategic gains in the area, a military source and a monitoring group said.

Government forces captured the town of Halfaya and nearby villages, they said, taking back territory that the opposition fighters seized last year from forces loyal to Bashar Assad.

“We gained control of Halfaya and several hills in the area,” the Syrian regime source said. “The army will of course continue its fight.”

Boosted by Russian airstrikes and Iranian-backed militias, the regime has pushed into opposition areas north of Hama, expanding its control this week along the western highway that links Damascus and Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitoring group, said the regime began advancing into areas near Halfaya when opposition fighters withdrew on Sunday, following intense battles and airstrikes.

Sources on the opposition side could not immediately be reached for comment.

Warplanes have pounded Halfaya and swathes of territory near the highway in a region vitally important to Assad regime, which has shored up its rule in the populated west of the country.

Opposition factions, including Free Syrian Army groups, have been fighting fiercely to defend the towns in recent days.

The regime’s earlier capture of Soran, its northern gateway to Hama city, meant it had reversed most of the territorial gains made by opposition fighters in their major offensive last month.

With the help of its allies, the regime has gained an upper hand in the six-year war against the wide array of opposition fighters.

An official in Damascus, meanwhile, said an Israeli attack on a Syrian training camp near the Golan Heights killed three members of a pro-regime militia on Sunday.

The Al-Fawwar camp in Syria’s southwestern Quneitra province is used by the National Defense Forces (NDF), which command some 90,000 fighters across Syria.

The NDF official said that two fighters were also wounded in the Israeli attack, but said it was unclear whether the damage was inflicted by an airstrike or shelling.

Another Syrian source inside the training camp told AFP that around 6:00 am local time (0300 GMT), “security guards at the camp saw what looked like three fireballs coming toward the camp.”

“Then there were several consecutive blasts because of the explosion of ammunition warehouses” that firefighters worked hard to extinguish, the source said.

The source also said that they were “Israeli rockets” but could not specify what kind of missiles may have been used.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the attack had targeted a “weapons warehouse” in the camp.

Israel’s army declined to comment on Sunday on the attack.

On Friday, the Israeli army said it targeted positions inside Syria in retaliation for mortar fire that hit the northern part of the Golan Heights.

At the time, Syria’s official news agency SANA said Israel had struck a Syrian army position in the province of Quneitra on the Golan plateau, “causing damage.”

The Syrian government labels rebel groups and jihadists fighting the regime as “terrorists” and accuses Israel of backing them.

Syria and Israel are still technically at war, although the border remained largely quiet for decades until 2011, when the Syrian conflict broke out.

The Israeli side is hit sporadically by what are usually deemed to be stray rounds, and Israel has recently taken to opening fire in retaliation.

Syrian Army lists war booty and ISIS equipment damaged

The Syrian army seized 7 mortar launchers, two machinegun-equipped vehicles and a huge amount of varied ammunition, the source said noting that the engineering units in the Syrian army were dismantling the mines and the explosive devices planted by the terrorists at the streets and in the citizens’ houses.

“58 vehicles, 3 ammunition caches, 3 tanks and a booby-trapped vehicle were also destroyed in the operations,” SANA quoted the source as saying.

Source: SANA
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Afghanistan
Karzai says can no longer call Taliban brothers after army base attack
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...One of the more egregious mistakes of the post 9-11 era...
said he can no longer call the Talibs as brothers after the barbaric attack on the Shaheen army corps in Balkh province.

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....
, Karzai called on Taliban
...the Pashtun equiovalent of men...
to stop committing atrocities against the Afghan nation.

He said each move and each bullet fired by the Taliban Death Eaters serve the interests of the outsiders who are pursuing their specific goals and interests in the instability of the country.

The former President also warned that the specific circles are working in the country to spark ethnic tensions among the Afghan people as he insisted that the Afghan people should get closer than any other time to maintain unity.

Karzai once again raised his voice against the use of the Mother of All Bombs in 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..
and said he has taken his votes back which he had casted for the government of national unity, protesting against the government for allowing the use of the massive bomb.

However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
Karzai said he attended the funeral ceremony in ARG Palace to show solidarity with the Afghan nation and pay respect to the victims of the base attack in Balkh.

Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336082 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "but still comrades"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/24/2017 7:31 Comments || Top||

#2  He calls them his Daddy.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2017 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder what they call him?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/24/2017 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  So he can't work with us because of mommy, but he can't work with the taliwackers because they do what they do.

Seems to me he is a man that goes with the prevailing wind to me.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2017 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder what they call him?

What's Pashto for 'idiot'?
Posted by: Pappy || 04/24/2017 11:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Man in Black: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Vizzini
Karzai: Wait til I get going! Now, where was I?
Man in Black: Australia
Afghanistan.
Posted by: magpie || 04/24/2017 14:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Seems to me he is a man that goes with the prevailing wind to me. And the prevailing boodle as well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/24/2017 17:27 Comments || Top||

#8  He has a habit to support.
Posted by: gorb || 04/24/2017 23:54 Comments || Top||


Europe
Suspected Stockholm truck attacker involved in 'extensive IDs trade' in Sweden
[RT] An Uzbek citizen who is the suspect in the recent Stockholm terrorist attack has allegedly come to Sweden with a purchased visa, local media reports, adding that "an extensive trade" of documents is happening in the country.
That would be Rakhmat Akilov, the failed asylum seeker who stole a 30 ton delivery truck and drove it through a crowded pedestrian zone in downtown Stockholm on April 7th, killing four and injuring 15. This was considerably fewer than he'd planned, but his bomb didn't explode, demonstrating that Allah did not approve.
Fake ID cards, employment papers, marriage certificates and driving licenses can be bought in Sweden "right in the open," according to a report by radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio.

The Ekot show conducted their journalistic investigation in the wake of the truck attack in Stockholm, the alleged perpetrator in which has been identified by the Swedish police as a rejected asylum seeker and 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....
(IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) sympathizer.

According to the report, citing its sources, the suspected attacker "came to Sweden with a purchased Polish visa and offered others to buy fake documents." The man also allegedly used a fake address in the country.

Claiming that the use of such fake documents is "extremely widespread" in Sweden, the report on the radio, which has been shared by numerous local media, suggested that offers selling such illegal papers can be easily found online, including on "forums for Russian speakers."
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Arabia
Yemeni (Houthi) Army, Popular Committees Kill Scores of Saudi Soldiers in Najran
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Yemeni army and popular committees launched a ballistic missile, branded Qaher 2, onto the gatherings of Saudi soldiers and the mercenaries in al-Khadra exit in Najran, killing scores of them.

According to local sources, the operation followed a process of monitoring the movements and the gatherings.

The sources added that the Yemeni army and popular committees also launched shell and rocket barrages onto the Saudi posts to inflict heavy losses upon the Saudi soldiers and the mercenaries.
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The Grand Turk
Kurd rebels fighting with Turkish troops in Diyarbakir
[ARA News] At least 10 Turkish soldiers were killed in two separate attacks by rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey, military sources reported on Sunday.

The PKK fighters attacked a Turkish army convoy in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir, killing at least eight Turkish soldiers.

In Sirnak, the fighters of the Kurdistan Workers Party attacked a Turkish border post. At least two soldiers were killed and three others were wounded.

In the meantime, the Turkish General Command condemned the attacks in an official statement on Sunday.

On Saturday, Turkey’s military reported the death of 14 PKK fighters in two separate offensives in the Kurdish provinces of Hakkari and Sirnak.

Resuming Peace Process Unlikely
Experts told ARA News that a return to peace talks between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) –that fell apart in July 2015– is unlikely, after rumours that peace talks could re-start in Turkey.

Meral Akşener, a former interior minister and an opponent of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), hinted a couple of times that there are talks going on between PKK leader Ocalan and Ankara.

Moreover, Cevat Öneş, a former Deputy Undersecretary of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT), said there is a need to revive the peace process between the Turkish government and the Kurds.

However, analysts suggest it’s unlikely that there would be a return to the peace process.

“In view of the bitterness of the constitutional fight, the dragnet of Kurdish politicians, academics and activists and especially the effort to erase the gains Kurds made in the last few years along cultural lines, I find it impossible that the peace process will restart,” Dr. Henri J. Barkey, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars told ARA News.

“Erdogan has committed himself to a hardline policy; he will change assuming he stays on as president for sometime to come, but it will not be soon,” he said.

“First of all, we need to define what Erdogan means when he talks about a peace process,” said Amberin Zaman, a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

“Is it about imposing his vision of what that is: cultural and linguistic rights say like private Kurdish language education, publications and allowing Kurdish parties which have no known connections to the PKK to operate freely,” she told ARA News. “Or is it getting back to the table with Ocalan and the PKK and making the sorts of constitutional changes and striking the kinds of deals that would give Turkey’s Kurds confidence that they will henceforth have constitutionally enshrined rights that are no longer hostage to the whims of this or that Turkish leader,” she added.

Therefore, she said it’s hard to imagine a return to the peace process.

“Judging by the developments that have unfolded since the June 2015 election, it is very hard to imagine the latter scenario coming into play. After the referendum Erdogan may well make some gestures to the Kurds but they will be to the strict exclusion of the PKK-inspired groups and organizations,” Zaman said.

“Unless Ocalan agrees to getting his men to unilaterally withdraw from Turkey leaving their weapons behind, and for the YPG (Syrian Kurdish forces) to confine itself strictly to the east of the Euphrates [in northern Syria] it seems unlikely he would be willing to engage with him. But in the end we are talking about a leader who can make U turns when needed as witnessed in relations with Israel and Russia,” she added.

James F. Jeffrey, the former US ambassador in Ankara, suggested during a congressional hearing in Washington that Turkey might be more flexible after the presidential referendum.

“Once that is behind him, he may be more flexible with the PKK and YPG, as he was before summer 2015,” Jeffrey said. “The YPG, in turn, would require assurances that its core Kurdish territory would not be pressured by Turkey.”
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Arabia
Saudi-led military coalition arrests prominent Al Qaeda leaders, members in Yemen
[DAWN] The Saudi-led military coalition on Sunday claimed to have incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
prominent leaders and members of Al Qaeda during raids in support of anti-terrorism forces in Yemen, Saudi Press Agency reported.

Amongst those arrested was Ahmed Saeed Awad Barhamah, alias Zarqawi, a prominent leader of the holy warrior group, the agency said, quoting a statement issued by the coalition.

The arrests were made during the coalition's air operation in the city of Mukalla conducted to support a primitive operation of the Yemeni army against Al Qaeda, the agency reported.

"During the operation, terrorist plots were foiled and a cache of weapons and equipment were seized," SPA added.

Earlier this week, Major General Ahmed Asiri, the adviser to the Saudi minister of defence, told media the alliance is not specific in its objectives to confronting international terror groups like the holy warrior Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and Al Qaeda.

He said that the coalition could take action against rebel groups and militias that pose a threat to member countries.

Asiri added that a "grand meeting" of all countries involved is due to be held in May, during which the alliance will be formally formed.

He said that terms of references discussed in the meeting will be taken up at the parliamentary level.

The armed coalition was initially proposed as a platform for security cooperation among Moslem countries, and included provisions for training, equipment and troops, and the involvement of religious scholars for devising a counter-terrorism narrative.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS ‘essentially moved’ its Syria HQ from Raqqa to Deir ez-Zor province
[RT] In a move that may affect the protracted Raqqa offensive, 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....
(IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) forces of Evil have "essentially moved" their so-called capital in Syria to the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, Fox News reported, citing unnamed US defense officials.

The jihadists and their military command are now centered some 140 kilometers southeast of the city of Raqqa, the US media report claimed.

Saying that the move came in the wake of increased pressure from the US-backed Syrian fighters, the report claimed that the IS "government" is no longer in Raqqa.

In late March, the US coalition told media outlet Newsweek that up to 3,500 IS fighters were estimated to have been present in Raqqa, long described as the terrorist group’s "capital" or stronghold in Syria. The city with the population of some 300,000 people was captured by the forces of Evil in 2013.

But hundreds of IS "babus bureaucrats" left the terrorist stronghold in the past two months for the IS-held city of Mayadin, officials told Fox News, adding that the move has been watched by US military drones. Mayadin is located some 40 kilometers from the surrounded city of Deir ez-Zor, which has been the sole government-controlled area of the province resisting repeated IS offensives.

In mid-April, following a US missile strike at the Syrian Army airbase of Shayrat, the coalition reportedly scaled down their operation in the region, having carried out some 120 Arclight airstrikes around Raqqa. More than 7,800 strikes were conducted in March, according to the Pentagon.

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Europe
Terror charges filed against suspects in French election plot
[IsraelTimes] Police seized weapons and explosives in arrest of two men charged with planning an attack ahead of Sunday’s presidential vote.

The two men suspected of plotting an "imminent" attack ahead of La Belle France’s presidential election were charged Sunday with terror offenses, prosecutors said.

The foiled plot in Marseille sparked fears that the closing days of the campaign could be a target for bully boyz ahead of Sunday’s first round of voting in the country’s most unpredictable election in decades.

Elite police and intelligence agents locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
the two Frenchies -- 23-year-old Clement Baur and Mahiedine Merabet, 29 -- on Tuesday in the Mediterranean port city.

Gay Paree prosecutors said the men are accused of participating in a terrorist conspiracy as well as weapons charges.

After searching the suspects’ shared Marseille apartment, authorities said they uncovered an Uzi sub-machine gun, pistols, seven pounds of TATP explosives and a homemade grenade as well as an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group flag.

Police had been searching for them since April 12, following the interception of a video in which they pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
They found them pretty quickly -- tres bien, guys.
The men had used a number of aliases, switched mobile phones frequently, and used pre-paid bank cards to evade police.

Two days after the arrests, 39-year-old Karim Cheurfi rubbed out a policeman on Gay Paree’s Champs Elysees avenue before being killed by police gunfire.
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Africa North
Gunmen attack Niger Consulate in Sabha
[Libya Observer] Unknown gunnies ransacked the Consulate of Niger in Sabha, south Libya, on Wednesday, the city’s municipal council has reported. Sabha Municipality said it had ordered Police Department to reinforce security measures around the consulate. "It’s the second attack on the consulate," it added. Earlier, local residents attacked Niger Consulate, claiming ownership of the land on which the consulate was built.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Detroit: Unlike 'Seinfeld", bystanders will not be charged
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 04/24/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || E-Mail|| [336070 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Under civilian law, having knowledge of a criminal act and not reporting it is not a crime. The UCMJ is different and makes one a conspirator to the act. Once again way being in the military is different than being a civie and why you can't civilianize the military.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
RU Spetsnaz engage ISIS VIC Palmyra Mar 2017 (Video English Subtitles)
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Afghanistan
Al-Qaeda members among 10 killed in South of Afghanistan airstrikes
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least ten bandidos holy warriors including members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network were killed in a series of Arclight airstrikes in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the Arclight airstrikes were carried out in the past 24 hours in Shahjoi district.

A statement by MoD said five al-Qaeda members and five Taliban
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holy warriors including a local commander of the group identified as Mullah Noor Agha were among those killed.

The statement further added that a vehicle and five cycle of violences belonging to the holy warriors were also eliminated during the Arclight airstrikes.

The anti-government armed hard boy groups have not commented regarding the report so far.

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