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[Circa.com] While secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made a personal call to pressure Bangladesh’s prime minister to aid a donor to her husband’s charitable foundation despite federal ethics laws that require government officials to recuse themselves from matters that could impact their spouse’s business.
The Office of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina confirmed to Circa that Mrs. Clinton called her office in March 2011 to demand that Dr. Muhammed Yunus, a 2006 Nobel Peace prize winner, be restored to his role as chairman of the country’s most famous microcredit bank, Grameen Bank. The bank’s nonprofit Grameen America, which Yunus chairs, has given between $100,000 and $250,000 to the Clinton Global Initiative. Grameen Research, which is chaired by Yunus, has donated between $25,000 and $50,000, according to the Clinton Foundation website.
"Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton telephoned Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in March 2011 insisting her not to remove Dr. Muhammad Yunus from the post of Managing Director of Grameen Bank," Deputy Press Secretary Md Nazrul Islam told Circa in an email.
Islam said the prime minister informed Mrs. Clinton that according to Grameen Bank rules and regulations, nobody can hold the position of the Managing Director of Grameen Bank after the age of 60. He was 70 at the time of his removal and had wrangled for months to no avail with the prime minister over his removal. More interesting than the (unsurprising) content is that it came out. Hoping it has legs....
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[Ynet] Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh announced Thursday that the individual responsible for the March assassination of Hamas operative Mazan Fukha outside his home in Tel al-Hawa has been arrested, adding that he acted on behalf of the Israeli security forces.
Joined by Fukha’s widowed wife and newly elected leader of the Hamas in Gaza Yahya Sanwar at a press conference, Haniyeh said that the suspect had confessed to the hit. Also confessed to infecting Arafat with HIV, assassinating Julius Caesar, and molesting cockroaches.
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[Circa.com] While secretary of state, Hillary Clinton made a personal call to pressure Bangladesh's prime minister to aid a donor to her husband's charitable foundation despite federal ethics laws that require government officials to recuse themselves from matters that could impact their spouse's business.
The Office of Bangladesh Prime Minister The Odious
Sheikh Hasina confirmed to Circa that Mrs. Clinton called her office in March 2011 to demand that Dr. Muhammed Yunus, a 2006 Nobel Peace prize winner, be restored to his role as chairman of the country's most famous microcredit bank, Grameen Bank. The bank's nonprofit Grameen America, which Yunus chairs, has given between $100,000 and $250,000 to the Clinton Global Initiative. Grameen Research, which is chaired by Yunus, has donated between $25,000 and $50,000, according to the Clinton Foundation website.
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The Trump administration ought to just keep trickling out one thing after another about the corruption of the previous administration and the Clinton administration. Maybe the MSM would report it--maybe not. The left has a stranglehold on the press. The MSM has abdicated its 1st Amendment role in our country.
......the probably Taliban-trained Afghan-American whose various bombs in New York and New Jersey caused havoc last September. His name also appears in our archives as Ahmad Khan Rahmani and Ahmad Khan Rahami...
the terrorist responsible for the New York City bombing in September of 2016, wants a reduced prison sentence for the pain and suffering he has faced.
The bomber’s attorney asked prosecutors to consider his "mental and physical health" as part of a plea agreement, arguing that his pain should be considered equally to the victims he injured and tried to kill.
Federal court documents show that the lawyers defending the terrorist argue that because police shot him 11 times, he has experienced "brain injuries, limited longevity, and/or post-traumatic stress disorder." Maybe he is beyond the ability to live a rewarding life and should be, out of compassion, put down?
This article starring:
Ahmad Rahimi
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[Grabien News] News just broke that President Trump is dismissing the director of the FBI, James Comey.
Comey will inevitably be remembered for the controversial role he played in the 2016 presidential election, where his agency conducted surveillance of the Trump campaign as well as investigated the Clinton camp for mishandling classified materials, giving both sides arguments for how the FBI ultimately swayed the vote.
But even before the 2016 campaign, the FBI endured a number of humiliations under Comey's tenure. Most damning were revelations that the FBI was generally aware of almost every terrorist who successfully struck America over the last eight years.
Here are 10 of Comey's biggest embarrassments at the FBI:
1. Before he bombed the Boston Marathon, the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev but let him go. Russia sent the Obama Administration a second warning, but the FBI opted against investigating him again.
2. Shortly after the NSA scandal exploded in 2013, the FBI was exposed conducting its own data mining on innocent Americans; the agency, Bloomberg reported, retains that material for decades (even if no wrongdoing is found).
3. The FBI had possession of emails sent by Nidal Hasan saying he wanted to kill his fellow soldiers to protect the Taliban -- but didn't intervene, leading many critics to argue the tragedy that resulted in the death of 31 Americans at Fort Hood could have been prevented.
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Michele R. McPhee, Maximum Harm, The Tsarnaev Brothers, The FBI, And The Road to The Marathon Bombing, pg 143.
The office of the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community examined those issues and the questions of whether Tamerlan was an asset (and if he wan't, why not) in its report on information sharing among the intelligence community:
1. Why did the CT (Counterterrorism Unit of the FBI) agent not visit Tamerlan's mosque [in Cambridge]?
2. Why did the CT agent not interview the woman Tamerlan was accused of assaulting?
3. Why did the CT agent not interview Tamerlan's wife, Katherine Russell aka Krina [sic] Tsarnaeva?
4. Why was Tamerlan not asked about if he sympathized with Chechen rebels?
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McPhee's theory is that the Tamerlan Tsarnaev was very likely a recruited FBI asset. Her book, which is a fascinating read BTW, makes a very compelling case. She has certainly 'run the traps.'
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Only 10? Why does it seem like so many more? Maybe it's all this drama queen's face time on TV and before Congress. Comey and Loretta Lynch and the DOJ and the FBI by trying to cover up all the scandals and protecting the arses of the Clintons and Obama. He would have better-served the country just by following the Constitution and the law rather than dancing on the head of a pin.
"50 bucks says that Comey will show up to work today because he couldn't discern intent from that letter."
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Yeah, Frank, how come you and I didn't think of that one? Dang.
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Scandal #11 - the "The Innocence of Muslims" Nakoula debacle. Similar to the Tsarnaev deal - Nakoula was directly tied to a Islamic Terror financier when he was arrested for money laundering/fraud prior to the film being made - likely recruited by the FBI, if not, why not...and the film contributed to the whole unrest mess that that Hillary blamed for causing Benghazi...
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Even though Comey was dismissed, the sun came up this morning. No massive walk-outs at FBI Main or any of the field offices. My mail arrived at about the same time. Gasoline prices appear to be unchanged. Mother's Day has not been cancelled. None of my neighbors have been... caught away into the clouds. The Russians are still the Russians.
[BBC] A woman who deliberately ploughed into a cyclist after being confronted about using her mobile phone behind the wheel has been jailed for three years.
Justine Henshaw-Bryan chased Damien Doughty through Stoke Newington, north London, sending him flying into a tree. Henshaw-Bryan, who is due to give birth in November, said her then boyfriend told her to follow the cyclist, but the judge rejected her claim.
Mr Doughty, 38, was badly hurt, spending three days in intensive care. Sentencing 25-year-old Henshaw-Bryan at Wood Green Crown Court, Judge Gregory Perrins said her actions could have killed Mr Doughty.
"This was a calculated attempt to run him over and use your car as a weapon," the judge said.
"It would have been obvious that to do so would have carried significant risk of injury."
The court heard how the pair nearly collided on Stoke Newington High Street on 10 February 2016, when Henshaw-Bryan pulled out in front of the cycle courier while using her mobile.
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Unmarried with baby-melon, off to fetch beer and chips for the boyfriend. Her circuits were likely already overloaded. Attempting to conduct corrective counseling with these people is a big mistake. Your comments will not be heeded and may well result in a homicidal response.
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The female of the species - especially behind a wheel.
And yet it's males 16-25 years of age who pay the most for driving insurance, because of the significantly higher probability that they will be in an accident, g(r)omgoru. It takes a while to get used to testosterone. ;-)
As for Ms Henshaw-Bryan: after she serves her sentence, take away her right to drive until she is forty, assuming she has a acquired common sense by then.
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And yet it's males 16-25 years of age who pay the most for driving insurance, because of the significantly higher probability that they will be in an accident
Actually, women have more accidents. But they are usually at lower speed than men and cause less damage. Hence lower insurance premiums.
Men drive too fast, and women don't pay enough attention, as in this case.
[CNN] She was a married 40-year-old drama teacher when she met the then 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron while directing a school play. Den Sommeren jeg fylfe 15 ?
Now Brigitte Trogneux will continue to coach her husband, but on a much bigger stage - as France's First Lady at the Elysee presidential palace.
Newly-elected French President Macron 's wife, now 64, has been constantly by his side during his campaign, managing his agenda, editing his speeches and advising him on his stage presence.
In his victory speech made outside the Louvre Museum, Macron thanked his family and those close to him as the crowd was cheering "Brigitte!"
(CNN) Michael Huggins' grandfather never learned how to read or write. He was born in Mississippi when Jim Crow laws still legalized racial segregation, but eventually left in the 1950s by riding in the trunk of a car that was leaving the state. Two generations later, his grandson is graduating from Harvard.
"If he hadn't made his decision to leave and find a better life for his family, I wouldn't be here," Huggins said. "Graduating from Harvard, it's spiritual for me. And I know so many people who have stories like that."
Huggins, who will graduate with a master's degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, hopes that such stories will be shared and celebrated at Harvard University's first commencement ceremony specifically honoring black graduates.
The event, to be held two days prior to Harvard's traditional commencement, aims to honor the achievements of black students at Harvard and to share their experiences with the larger community.
More than 300 students and 500 guests have registered to attend the May 23 event. The event will be an optional, additional ceremony.
The ceremony, Huggins said, is not meant to be divisive, but rather an affirmation of identity and community.
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The goal is not a separate commencement ceremony. The goal is a completely separate institution and government. Embedded tribalism cannot simply be whisked away with the magic broom of multiculturalism.
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I've been through all this $hit before, with the separate graduations and proms and what not and I'm sick of it.
If you (anyone) doesn't want to be part of the society than move out. All of those entertainers and athletes can pony up a few mill each and get you started elsewhere.
Back in '67 when I graduated HS was right in the middle of the mess. There was major rioting 10 miles away etc. etc. You were in the right then, you won as you should have, now deal with it.
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Huggins, who will graduate with a master's degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a racialist chip on his unemployable shoulders
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Harvard is racist? Who would have known (sark)?
they told me that if I voted for Trump racial segregation would be back in the University and they were right
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I wonder if African Americans have really thought out the end game of all of this voluntary apartheid. They can't realistically live isolated from whites in the real world can they?
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"They can't realistically live isolated from whites in the real world can they?"
RJ - as long as it's enabled by the rest of us ...sure...as long as we pay for it and let it happen.
Case in point - UC Santa Cruz and the recent cave to the black demands. Working out pretty good for them I'd say. How far would non-black conservatives get if they tried the same thing? You know the answer..
[American Thinker] When George Will and other leading intellectuals started to rip holes in their warm comfort couches in despair at Donald Trump's long series of victories, culminating in his election to the presidency, a lot of us were scratching our heads. What was it about winning that drove George Will, Jonah Goldberg, and Bill Kristol to despair?
It made no sense. I blame new money.
Their Conservative Cringe makes even less sense today, when Trump is carrying out a series of actions that we have long clamored for.
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He's not a 'White's Man', he's really not one of us.
White’s
White’s is one of the oldest and most exclusive clubs in London, established in 1693. This members-only haven of serenity is situated in a grand Portland stone Grade I-listed building on St. James’ Street, secreted away in Piccadilly. The club remains of the male-only persuasion. A plethora of royals are presently members including heir to the throne, Prince Charles. Complete with gaming rooms, a majestic bar, and a menu replete with British game, White’s is an enclave of tradition nestled in the bosom of modern London.
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Does anyone read George Will or listen to him on Sunday mornings other than some in the UniParty in Washington? He is no more a conservative than Jonah Goldberg and Bill Kristol. Will puts me in mind of Cokie Roberts. He is a word merchant who peddles a phony kind of intellectual schtick passed off as cleverness. Will ought to stick to writing about baseball.
[Wash Times] Sen. John McCain on Wednesday handed Republican leadership and President Trump a stinging legislative defeat as he cast a surprise deciding vote to maintain an Obama-era regulation limiting methane emissions from oil and gas wells.
It was the first time the White House and congressional Republicans failed to rewrite or overturn environmental regulations put into place by the previous administration. That regulatory rollback, until Wednesday, united the party.
The Bureau of Land Management rule, put into place in November, has been in Republican crosshairs for months. The House has voted to eliminate the rule through the Congressional Review Act, a law that lets Congress unwind some recent regulations.
The Senate was expected to follow suit and deliver a win not just for Republican leadership and the administration, but also for their allies in the oil and gas industry. Instead, Mr. McCain and two fellow Republicans -- Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Susan M. Collins of Maine -- joined all 48 Democrats in voting against the measure, leading to its defeat in a 51-49 vote.
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Can't the Republicans expel McCain and Graham from the party? If they walk like ducks and quack like ducks they should go ahead and switch their party affiliation to the donks.
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I look forward to the day that the State of Arizona votes to fill the position he once held.
[Hot Air] Why not, says King? "Already has his clearances, knows the subject, man of integrity." Man of integrity? We all knew last night when the word came down that Democrats (or Democratic-leaning independents like King) would instantly start rehabbing Comey’s image on their side to make him a more effective martyr for Trump, but good lord. A week ago the reigning Democratic nominee was on camera accusing Comey of having cost her the election. Now he’s a "man of integrity." At this rate, we’re headed for a Trump/Comey election in 2020. What color ribbon will Democrats be wearing on their lapels next week to make the tragic end of James Comey’s career?
[Daily Excelsior] Pakistain army tonight opened heavy shelling and firing along the Line of Control (LoC) in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district in violation of ceasefire.
Reports said Pakistain opened firing with automatic weapons followed by shelling at Sher Makri and Numb Kaladi areas of Nowshera sector in Rajouri district around 11 pm.
The Indian side retaliated, leading to heavy exchanges, they said, adding there were reports that Pakistain army could try to facilitate infiltration attempts by the turbans under the cover of firing.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... there were no reports of any casualties or damage on the Indian side in the firing and shelling. Casualties, if any, on the other side were not known.
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How many infiltrators this time?
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[217.218.67.231] US-backed bad boys, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have fully captured the city of Tabqa and a nearby dam from the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group.
The SDF, an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters, on Wednesday recaptured the city, which sits on the Euphrates River and on a strategic supply route about 55 kilometers west of Raqqah, ISIS’s stronghold in Syria.
SDF front man, Talal Sello, told AFP that the forces had "achieved victory and completely liberated the city and the dam."
Rami Abdel Rahman of the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also confirmed the development.
Both the dam and the city are under the control of the joint force, according to the monitoring group.
The SDF had been fighting ISIS in Tabqa, as part of the "Wrath of the Euphrates" operation, which was launched in November 2016.
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[Daily Excelsior] An Army officer Lieutenant Umar Fayaz, 22, was kidnapped from his relative’s house and rubbed out by murderous Moslems in Shopian district of South Kashmire last night.
A senior police officer said that the officer had gone to attend a marriage ceremony of his cousin at Batapora in Shopian last evening. He was kidnapped by at least 5-6 murderous Moslems at around 10 p.m from the marriage party.
The officer said that locals and relatives didn’t inform the police about the abduction of the Army officer. He said that he was killed by murderous Moslems but they are investigating the other angles as well. He said that the officer had stayed at his home for 5 days but no one harmed him there. He said that someone tipped off the murderous Moslems that led to his abduction and killed. Two bullet marks were found on his body.
The officer said that the body of the Army officer riddled with bullets was spotted by a local at Harmain in Shopian and he subsequently informed the police.
A police party rushed to the spot and recovered the body. After conducting legal formalities, police handed over the body to family of the killed officer at Kulgam.
A local at Sadsuna village said that they heard three gun shots at around 11:30 p.m. He said that in the morning they found the body of the Army officer in the village road. He was tortured before being rubbed out.
Lt Umar was posted with a RAJRIF in Akhnoor area of Jammu. The officer was just commissioned in December 2016.
Srinagar-based Defence spokesperson, Col Rajesh Kalia, said here that in dastardly act, some unidentified murderous Moslems yesterday kidnapped and then killed a young Army officer, Lt Umar Fayaz, who had come on leave to his native place in Kulgam district of South Kashmire to attend a marriage in his family. The Army spokesperson said that the officer was unarmed.
Col Rajesh Kalia said: "The young officer was presently serving in Akhnoor, Jammu. The Army salutes the braveheart and stands by the bereaved family in this hour of tragedy and commits to bring the perpetrators of this heinous act of terror to justice."
The Army officer was given a guard of honour and drapped in tricolor at his ancestral village of Kulgam district. Several hundred people including his relatives and neighbours attended his funeral that passed off peacefully.
Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti has condemned the killing of Army officer.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The commander of the second operations in the counterterrorism agency, Major General Maan al-Saadi, announced on Wednesday that his forces liberated the neighborhood of al-Maamel in the heart of the right coast of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Al-Saadi said in a statement to Al Arabiya that his forces liberated al-Maamel neighborhood Wednesday after freeing the industrial zone yesterday. The forces are now surrounding the agricultural reform district in preparation for entering in the coming hours and then liberate it.
Al Saadi continued saying, "We are investing the victory and the high spirits of our forces in the field against the defeat and the low morals of the terrorist organization. Our forces now control the Maamel neighborhood after a battle that lasted from the early morning hours and ended with us controlling the neighborhood in the heart of the right coast of Mosul."
On the course of the battles, Saadi stressed that the coming days will carry many surprises asserting, "We will have achieved the greatest victory in controlling all the land of Mosul."
The death of a leader and three of his lover companions
For his part, the commander of the forces of the Iraqi counter-terrorism unit, Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani al-Asadi announced the death of an ISIS leader during the battles over al-Maamel district in Mosul.
Al-Asadi told Al Arabiya that the terrorist Abu Ayyub al-Shami and three of his lover companions were killed during the battles in the al-Maamel neighborhood.
As for civilians, he said that they have opened safe corridors for the exit of citizens, emphasizing, "We have managed to evacuate about 10,000 people over the last four days and we have been able to move them out of the battlefield."
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[217.218.67.231] Former Yemeni president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... has expressed his willingness to enter into talks with the Saudi regime, which has been engaged in a massive bombing campaign against his nation since 2015.
"We have no choice but dialogue," AFP quoted Saleh as saying on Tuesday during a meeting of his General People's Congress Party in the capital Sana’a.
"We are ready to go to Riyadh, Khamis Mushait, Muscat or elsewhere to start dialogue and to reach an understanding," Saleh added, referring to cities in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and neighboring Oman and without elaborating on what sort of understanding he was looking for with Riyadh.
Saleh, however, underlined his opposition to the Saudi-backed resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, insisting that Saudi Arabia would have to find a "new leadership." "Like... ahem... me."
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[217.218.67.231] North Korea has warned that the deployment of a US-made missile system in South Korea will turn the Korean Peninsula into a nuclear battlefield.
The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) "is a source of a nuclear disaster being brought to our race at the moment," said a report in North’s state-run Korean Central TV on Wednesday.
The installation of THAAD began last month amid rising tensions over North Korea’s ballistic and nuclear tests. China and Russia have also criticized the deployment of THAAD, saying it would significantly affect the balance of power in the region and would lead to more instability. Washington and Seoul had agreed on the installation in the summer of 2016.
The US missile system is equipped with a powerful detection system known as an X-band radar, which experts say would destabilize regional security and upset the region’s current military balance.
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Thaad doesn't have nuclear warheads. Just your stupid NKor crap has them.
[217.218.67.231] The UN has warned that a Saudi attack on Yemen’s Houthi-controlled port city of Hudaydah could displace half a million civilians.
"Between 100,000 and half a million people could be displaced as the conflict and humanitarian situation continue to worsen," said Shabia Mantoo, the spokesperson for the UN refugee agency, on Wednesday.
Located in the southern Yemeni province of Tai'zz, Hudaydah is part of a broad battlefront where Saudi forces are fighting the Yemeni army and its Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... allies, which are in control of most of Yemen’s northern and western regions. Some 80 percent of the war-torn country’s food imports and relief aid also come through the port.
"The humanitarian situation alone continues to worsen even without the conflict intensifying," she added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Trump administration is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information about the whereabouts of the military leader of Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front.
The State Department says the reward will be paid for information "leading to the identification or location" of Abu Mohammed al-Golani. The offer is the first under the department’s "Rewards for Justice Program" for a Nusra Front leader.
In a statement, the department said that the group under Golani’s leadership had committed numerous attacks in Syria, including many against civilians, since 2013.
Golani, a Syrian national believed to be in his 40s, has been identified by the US as a "specially designated global terrorist" since 2013 and subject to US and international sanctions, including an asset freeze and travel ban.
The Nusra Front is designated a "foreign terrorist organization" by the US. In 2016, it changed its name to the Fatah al-Sham Front and formally cut ties with al-Qaeda last year, but is still widely seen as being linked to the global terror network.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A shadow district chief of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has been killed during the festivities with the local residents 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.
The provincial police commandment in a statement said Taliban’s shadow district chief for Khogyani district was killed on Tuesday after a brief clash with the residents of the district.
The statement further added that the shadow district chief of the Taliban for Khogyani has been identified as Waifullah who was also famous Omar.
Another key Taliban group member identified as Enayatullah was also maimed during the clash, the police commandment said, adding that the Afghan army soldiers arrived in the area to assist the local residents.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... appealed to Moscow to "rein in" the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... and its key ally Iran, during White House talks Wednesday with Russia’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov.
"President Trump emphasized the need to work together to end the conflict in Syria, in particular, underscoring the need for Russia to rein in the Assad regime, Iran, and Iranian proxies," the White House said following their talks at the Oval Office.
Trump described the Oval Office meeting with Lavrov as "very, very good" on Wednesday, urging that the horrible killing in Syria must stop.
Trump also claimed progress on ending the conflict in Syria.
"We had a very, very good meeting" Trump said shortly after the meeting. "We're going to stop the killing and the death (in Syria)."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... on Wednesday called on the United States to immediately reverse a decision on arming Syrian Kurdish fighters considered by Ankara to be a terror group.
"I hope very much that this mistake will be reversed immediately," Erdogan said after Washington announced it would arm the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) in the fight against forces of Evil in Syria. Erdogan vowed to bring up "our worries" on the issue in talks with US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... on May 16 in Washington.
After Trump approved the arms supply to support a campaign to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa, Erdogan told a news conference he wanted to believe that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s allies would side with Ankara and not with terrorist organizations.
Turkey views the Kurdish YPG militia as the Syrian extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has fought an insurgency in southeast Turkey since 1984 and is considered a terrorist group by the United States, Turkey and Europe.
The YPG has been seen by Washington as the best ally against forces of Evil in Syria.
"The supply of arms to the YPG is unacceptable," Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli told A Haber television on Wednesday. "Such a policy will benefit nobody".
"We expect that this mistake is to be rectified," he said, days ahead of a crunch meeting in Washington between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US counterpart Donald Trump.
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Maybe if Turkey was an actual ally we wouldn't need Kurdish ones?
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I hope Trump does the right thing and arms the Kurds, the only sensible people in the region. Shooting down a couple of Turkish planes would be a bonus.
[Libya Herald] At least one person was killed and a number of others injured today in central Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... when two rival local militias battled it out for control of the area.
The two ‐ the Nawasi brigade, which controls much the corniche from the Libyana headquarters near Busetta to Suq al-Thalath on the west side of the city and which is trying to expand its zone, and the Ghazewy brigade, based in the Old City, have been rivals for some time. One area of contention has been their relationships with black market currency dealers. Some are protected by Nawasi, others by Ghazewy.
The situation spiralled out of control today when a woman queueing at a bank off Martyrs’ Square was reported rubbed out by one of the militias. It has not been disclosed which militia or which bank, although there are reports of attempts to arrest a member of the Ghazewy.
There were festivities near Busetta and near the Corinthia Hotel, and both militias called on their supporters to be ready for a major confrontation. Somehow, however, the situation calmed down during the afternoon, without any obvious reason.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene... both Dreibi district and the Airport Road saw tanks and other heavy weapons appear on the streets but residents say they heard no shooting.
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[Libya Herald] The Libyan National Army (LNA) has recaptured the National Library in Benghazi’s Sabri district from Islamic forces of Evil in heavy fighting there and in Suq al-Hout during which at least 13 more soldiers died and another 55 maimed.
The fact that in the48 hours since the assault on the last two murderous Moslem enclaves began, at least 24 troops have died and over 110 been maimed is evidence of the fierce resistance the LNA is encountering. There are still no figures for killed or captured murderous Moslems.
The National Library set in its own parkland is reported to have been badly damaged in the fighting. It is unclear what has happened to its stock of 150,000 books and archives.
Social media pictures posted by LNA soldiers show tanks attacking from the coastal side of Sabri, suggesting that the forces of Evil may finally have been cut off from their intermittent supplies brought in by boat.
The LNA is also reported to have captured ground around the al-Hilal football ground.
Roads leading from the front lines to the Benghazi Medical Centre and the Jalaa hospital remained blocked to civilian traffic to allow Red Islamic Thingy ambulances clear passage.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least eleven people were killed in a roadside mine kaboom in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, the local authorities said Wednesday.
The incident took place late on Tuesday night in the vicinity of Maiwand district of Kandahar.
According to a statement by the provincial government, a four by four vehicle belonging to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Death Eaters struck an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted in Khak-e-Chopan area of Maiwand district late on Tuesday night.
The statement further added that eleven people inside the vehicle were killed in the kaboom.
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[DAWN] Police on Tuesday evacuated a tent camp in northern Gay Paree where more than 1,600 migrants colonists, mostly from Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , were living in squalid conditions.
Hundreds of police moved in at dawn to remove the migrants colonists, camped between major access roads into the French capital.
The settlement at the Porte de la Chapelle area was located just metres from a new refugee transit centre set up by Gay Paree city authorities late last year to take asylum-seekers off the streets but which has limited space available.
These "illegal camps" present "major risks for the security and health of their occupants as well as for local residents," Gay Paree police said in a statement.
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[DAWN] SHANGLA: A couple was killed for honour in Donkacha Chauga area of the district.
DSP Puran circle Zeerab Gul told mediapersons here on Tuesday that the girl (23) and man (27) were allegedly rubbed out by brothers of the girl late on Monday night. He said that the bodies were found in the room of girl at her house.
Mr Gul claimed that the girl’s family members had decided to kill the two after suspicion that they had illicit relations. He said that they were killed with Kalashnikov fire. He said that after the attack brothers of the girl, Ali Rehman and Mohammad Waseem, surrendered to police.
The police started the paperwork but haven't done much else under Section 302 and 311 of the Pakistain Panel Code and have started investigation.
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[AlAhram] Egypt's armed forces said on Wednesday that it was able to destroy a large amount of kaboom used by faceless myrmidons in North Sinai.
In an official statement, army front man Tamer El-Refaie said that the military's second field army discovered and were able to dispose of kaboom used by the faceless myrmidons to manufacture improvised bombs (IEDs) in the city of Rafah.
They were also able to demolish a 600-metre trench used by faceless myrmidons to hide and plan attacks against Egyptian security forces.
[DAWN] India has moved the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Pakistain, accusing the latter of violating the Vienna Convention in the case of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was handed a death sentence by a Field General Court Martial (FGCM) last month.
In an application filed in the ICJ Monday, India stated that Pakistain has been repeatedly denied consular access to Jadhav, a blurb issued by The Hague-based ICJ said.
India alleged that "it was not informed of Jadhav’s detention until long after his arrest," and learned about the death sentence through the media.
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*sigh* What message is Morocco sending this time by letting them through?
[AlAhram] Around 300 sub-Saharan African migrants colonists stormed the six-metre razor-wire fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla early on Tuesday, with around 100 successfully crossing the border, police said.
Three copperswere maimed and required medical attention after the 0500 GMT rush, after migrants colonists threw stones at border security, Spanish police added.
Spain's two enclaves in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla, are often used as entry points into Europe by African migrants colonists, who either climb over border fences or try to swim along the coast.
Over 1,000 migrants colonists attempted to cross into Ceuta in January, but most were returned to Morocco.
[AlAhram] A man tossed in the clink Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! near the British parliament last month was involved in bomb-making in Afghanistan in 2012, it was alleged Wednesday as he appeared in court on terrorism charges.
...the known wolf who was born abroad but reared in Tottenham. He first became known to the world when he participated in George Galloway's 2010 Viva Palestina road trip to Gaza, during which he became friends with the future notorious Al Shabaab jihadi Thomas Evans...
27, was arrested not far from Prime Minister Theresa May's office on April 27, in possession of three knives, London's Westminster Magistrates Court heard.
He is charged with preparing terrorist acts relating to that incident, and faces two other charges of having or making explosives related to activity in Afghanistan in 2012.
The court heard that his fingerprints were alleged to have been found on parts for improvised bombs (IEDs) recovered in Afghanistan that year by US intelligence.
Ali, from north London, told the magistrate: "I don't recognise the charges."
He remains in jug and will appear at the Old Bailey court in London on May 19.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian teenager was incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! outside a military court on Wednesday when police discovered he was carrying two pipe bombs.
The suspect was caught while attempting to pass the checkpoint outside the military court near Nablus, Israel Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. Border Police and military police became suspicious when he claimed he did not have his identity card with him, she said. They detained him and searched him, discovering two pipe bombs hidden in his clothes.
[DAWN] The Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched an awareness campaign through SMS service against the uploading of blasphemous content on social media.
Through the campaign, social media users are being provided information about the issue and those users who react to such content in ignorance are being motivated not to do so.
After reports that websites containing blasphemous material are being operated in the country, the Islamabad High Court has taken up the issue.
Besides, the National Assembly’s standing committee on information technology and telecommunication, headed by retd Capt Mohammad Safdar, is also pushing the PTA to take steps to address the issue.
The message being sent by the authority to people says, "Uploading and sharing of any blasphemous content on Internet is a punishable offence under the law. Instead of taking law in hand, such content should be reported to PTA on info@pta.gov.pk for legal action."
Director (legal) of the Ministry of Information Technology, Nasir Ayaz, assured the parliamentary committee on Tuesday that steps would be taken to stop the uploading of blasphemous content on social media.
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[SHABELLENEWS] Gunmen believed to be Al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... members have shot and killed a well-known Somali elder in Mogadishu on Wednesday morning, witnesses said.
The witnesses, speaking to Radio Shabelle identified the elder as Abdulkadir Sheikh Hussein Farey, saying he killed by two gunnies at close range outside his house in Waberi district.
The killers managed to escape the scene after the shooting. It is yet unclear the motive behind the killing of the elder, but, Police said investigation is underway.
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[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday took notice of an employer in Punjab's Sheikhupura cutting off her domestic help’s hand.
The chief justice instructed the Inspector General Police of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... to submit a report on the incident within two days.
Justice Nisar took notice of the incident after media reports claimed that the lady employer allegedly cut the right hand of her 13-year-old domestic help with a fodder machine.
The local police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against four people on Tuesday on the orders of a lower court for allegedly chopping off help's hand.
Jannat Bibi, the boy’s mother, moved the district and sessions judge who directed the police to register a case.
The police registered the case against the employer Shafqat Bibi, her brother Zafar Tarrar and two others and placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Zafar.
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... has also sought a report from the Sheikhupura regional police officer about the incident.
He said the culprits involved in torture and amputation of hand of the boy be arrested and should be dealt with according to the law.
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[SHABELLENEWS] On the eve of the Third London Conference on Somalia, President Uhuru Kenyatta insists that it would be catastrophic for the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia to exit before realising the extermination of the Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... terror group.
As the United States, a funder, sets its sights on a full hand-over of security functions to Somalia’s own forces, President Kenyatta is adamant that AMISOM ‐ whose drawdown was projected to commence next year ‐ must be adequately facilitated to complete its mission.
"We can hurry to leave but what happens when an inadequately prepared Somali force is left to its own devices? A vacuum is left and the root of the problem will re-emerge."
He maintained that it is in the best interest of Kenya to take the fight, as it were, to the enemy and not risk compromising regional stability.
"It is not a Somali problem. It is in essence our problem."
His position is shared by the AMISOM Force Commander Lieutenant General Osman Noor Soubagleh who at the conclusion of the African Chiefs of Defence Conference said, "the draw-down will be depend with (sic) some conditions."
"We need to first help to degrade and contain Al-Shabaab, to bring levels of violence to levels that are acceptable that can allow for the government as such to be present and exercise its functions all throughout the country."
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[RUDAW.NET] Around a dozen ISIS militants were surprised when they came across Peshmerga forces on the Makhmur front south of Erbil on Tuesday.
“Tonight, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, nearly 10 to 15 ISIS militants fell into an ambush set up by the Peshmerga forces in the village of Pungina east of Baqert town. Some of them were injured, some ran away, leaving behind a dead body,” Sirwan Barzani, commander of the Makhmur front, told Rudaw.
The Makhmour front manned by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and located about 70 kilometers south of Erbil, has helped to protect the Kurdistan Region since the ISIS group first emerged in late 2013.
“ISIS militants left behind a number of binoculars, light weapons, and planted bombs. We are currently searching the area to find other ISIS militants,” he added.
The Kurdish Peshmerga, supported by the international anti-ISIS coalition, has battled extremists along a nearly 700 kilometers of frontlines stretching across the south of the Kurdistan Region.
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[RUDAW.NET] After meeting with US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asked the international community to consider the consequences of ousting leaders of state as was done in Iraq and Libya.
"We need prevent such a situation that evolved in Iraq and Syria ... Both in respect to Iraq and Libya, the international community, the progressive community, was obsessed with the idea to oust one person -- Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... in Libya -- and look what it has led to," said Lavrov in a presser at the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C.
"That is why when we are talking about the Syrian settlement; we [should] try to learn from our mistakes. Why don't we try to focus on the settlement and not on ousting one person? Why don't we focus on eliminating the threat of terrorism," he added.
Lavrov said Moscow believes it is in Washington’s interest to go along with de-escalation zones guaranteed by Russia, Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
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[RUDAW.NET] Kurdish-majority forces have announced they "fully liberated" Tabqa Dam on Wednesday from ISIS, a day after the US announced it would further its partnered forces in northern Syria.
"Syrian Democratic Forces have fully liberated Tabqah Dam. Security operations continue in the area," read a tweet from the Peoples' Protection Units (YPG).
YPG and Syrian Arab Coalition (SAC) members dually comprise the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which the US-led international coalition has been supporting in the fight against ISIS.
AFP news agency reported it had spoken with SDF spokesperson Talal Silo, who said "his forces 'achieved victory and completely liberated Tabqa city and the dam.' Combing operations [are] ongoing."
The SDF later formally announced its celebrations after recapturing Tabqa in a tweet.
The declaration comes a day after the US Defense Department announced it had been authorized to further arm Kurdish fighters in northern Syria ahead of the offensive to retake Raqqa.
The Coalition had announced earlier on Wednesday that a few neighborhoods in Tabqa still contained ISIS resistance.
"SDF and [the] Syrian Arab Coalition have successfully liberated the vast majority of Tabqah and continue to clear the final two neighborhoods," wrote the Coalition’s spokesperson US Col. John Dorrian in a tweet.
Tabqa is strategic because of its dam between Lake Assad, which connects to the Euphrates River. An air field is also located south of the city, which the SDF took control on March 27.
The securing of Tabqa is seen as one of the final hurdles prior to commencing operations to retake ISIS’s de facto capital city of Raqqa.
Neighboring The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has objected to YPG’s participation in Raqqa operations.
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[Ynet] Tajik security services have detained the eldest son of a former elite police force commander who defected to 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.... two years ago, suspecting that the young man was going to join his father, security sources said on Wednesday.
The United States last August offered up to $3 million for information about Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, whom it trained in counter-terrorism before he joined Islamic State.
Washington has described Khalimov as "a key leader" of Islamic State, which has seized parts of Syria and Iran and staged or inspired deadly holy warrior attacks around the world.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government had a $182 billion budget surplus in April, confounding market expectations for a deficit, according to Treasury Department data released on Wednesday.
The budget surplus was $106 billion in April 2016, according to Treasury's monthly budget statement.
The fiscal 2017 year-to-date deficit was $344 billion compared with $353 billion in the same period of fiscal 2016.
When accounting for calendar adjustments, the surplus last month was $145 billion compared with an adjusted surplus of $146 billion the prior year. The adjusted deficit for the fiscal year to date was $373 billion compared with $314 billion the prior fiscal year period.
Receipts last month totaled $456 billion, up 4 percent from April 2016, while outlays stood at $273 billion, a decrease of 18 percent from the same month a year earlier.
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the April surplus is a result of the April filing deadline
because more people are asking for extensions each year, the anticipated surplus was about $100B but apparently, a lot of people paid estimated taxes with their extension.
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[217.218.67.231] Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi has ordered the country’s army to do what is necessary to protect businesses amid widening protests against poverty and unemployment.
Essebsi said during a speech in Tunis on Wednesday that the "grave but necessary decision" of asking the army to intervene in protests was made at a top-level government security meeting.
He said "the state must protect the people's resources" as protesters in Tunisia's impoverished inland provinces become increasingly vocal in their demands for jobs and better living conditions. Demonstrations and sit-ins staged in recent weeks have led to a halt in production at Tunisia’s oil and phosphate facilities as protesters continue to block roads in those areas.
Essebsi said continued protests had cost the government five billion dinars (about two billion dollars), especially due to the stoppages of phosphate mining, adding that the situation had worsened the country’s debt.
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Schumer is ignored by everyone but the MSM. He is always tripping over his lip as he flips on issues. He has been on a quest for relevancy ever since the Pubs took over. It is a shame the good people of NY can't find another Senator who would better represent them and who wasn't a partisan hack.
After President Trump accused his predecessor in March of wiretapping him, James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, was flabbergasted. The president, Mr. Comey told associates, was “outside the realm of normal,” even “crazy.”
For his part, Mr. Trump fumed when Mr. Comey publicly dismissed the sensational wiretapping claim. In the weeks that followed, he grew angrier and began talking about firing Mr. Comey. After stewing last weekend while watching Sunday talk shows at his New Jersey golf resort, Mr. Trump decided it was time. There was “something wrong with” Mr. Comey, he told aides."
POTUS, as the US' CEO, pushed the trapdoor actuator before the relationship became more toxic.
Schumer, Pelosi, etc., have demonstrated that the concept of "Loyal Opposition" is passé.
POTUS knows that firing Comey (who DJT may have viewed as a tool of the Left) was the alternate to the Chinese Water Torture of keeping him?
[AlAhram] German police have detained a second soldier suspected of involvement in a plan by an army officer and a student to carry out an attack, possibly on left-wing politicians who don't oppose immigration, the federal public prosecutor said on Tuesday.
The prosecutor's office named the third suspect in the case, which has shocked the country and prompted a debate about the depth of right-wing radicalism in the military, as Maximilian T., a 27-year-old German national.
"The accused is strongly suspected of planning a severe act of violence against the state out of a right-wing bully boy conviction," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
The three had planned to carry out an attack and make it look like it had been the work of Islamist turbans, it said. Former president Joachim Gauck and Justice Minister Heiko Maas were on a list of possible targets prepared by the suspects.
The first soldier and the student, named Franco A. and Mathias F. respectively, were detained on April 26.
The prosecutor's office said in its statement that Maximilian T. had at times covered up Franco A.'s absences from military barracks, suggesting he was also a soldier.
"Maximilian T. had covered up arising absences, making excuses on behalf of Franco A. to bosses," the statement said.
A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office declined to say explicitly that Maximilian T. was a soldier.
Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen has come under fire for her s handling of the case, with some saying her harsh tone towards the armed forces implied most soldiers were right-wing radicals. Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... defended the minister on Tuesday.
"This is an unbelievable story with a right-wing bully boy background and it was right that the defence minister did not try to minimize it but rather called it what it is, and we say we have to investigate whether such thing occurs often," Merkel told the broadcaster WDR.
Von der Leyen has apologized for her blanket criticism of the military, saying she regretted remarks that military leaders were weak and unable to deal with problems like sexual harassment claims and right-wing extremism.
The scandal has also raised questions about the competence of staff at shelters where migrants colonists first register before they can apply for asylum. Franco A., who served with an army battalion stationed in La Belle France, had used a fake identity to register as a Syrian refugee and moved into a shelter for migrants colonists in Bavaria even though he speaks no Arabic.
Prosecutors believe the three wanted to implicate asylum seekers in the attack and make the public believe that Islamists were behind it.
The soldier had previously been detained in late January by Austrian authorities on suspicion of having hidden an illegal gun in a bathroom at Vienna's main Schwechat airport. Von der Leyen said Franco A. had intended to have the finger prints of a Syrian asylum seeker on the gun, which he wanted to use in a possible attack and leave at the scene.
[AlAhram] German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday said she would respond to the discovery of far right sympathisers in the German army with reforms, including revising one of the force's post-Nazi era founding principles.
Von der Leyen told reporters she would on Wednesday inform a special session of the parliamentary defence committee about the investigation into the case and far right sympathies within the military.
She said the ministry would clarify its "Traditionserlass," a policy last updated in 1982 that gives a differentiated view of how troops are to treat and view the legacy of the German military. Von der Leyen, whose post includes the role of commander in chief of Germany's armed forces, is a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel who is gearing up for a national election in five months' time.
The military needed a faster and more efficient reporting scheme for incidents and potential threats and would need to increase the political education of troops, the minister said.
Eleven immigrants including a seven-year-old boy are found inside cramped refrigerator lorry full of oranges in an Aldi car park
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[DailyMail] Police and paramedics were called to the scene at about 11.30pm last night after reports of people inside the lorry outside the supermarket in Northfleet, Kent. One boy needed medical treatment, while the 54-year-old lorry driver was arrested on suspicion of assisting illegal entry to the UK and remains in custody. A Kent Police spokesman said: 'Officers and the South East Coast Ambulance Service attended and a boy was taken to hospital as a precaution. He was later discharged and the group were taken to the Home Office.
Syria Fighter and Islamist Anjem Choudary Deputy Allowed Back into UK to Work… as a Take-Away Driver
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[Breitbart] The former right-hand man of infamous hate preacher Anjem Choudary has been allowed to return from fighting in Syria to work in the UK, despite being deemed “a risk to the national security”. The jihadist, identified by the pseudonym Abu Rayah, went to fight in Syria just three years ago but is now delivering take away food to unsuspecting members of the public in London. Mr. Rayah, who now works for Just Eat, has previously hit the headlines when he was fronting the Muslims Against Crusades group, whose members celebrated the 9/11 terror attacks and burnt poppies on Armistice Day.
[Right Scoop] Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was heavily booed while she was delivering a commencement address on Wednesday at Bethune-Cookman University, a historically black college in Florida.
Students jeered DeVos and turned their backs to her, BuzzFeed reports.
BuzzFeed reporter Molly Hensley-Clancy was present at the Bethune-Cookman commencement exercises, and tweeted updates throughout the event. She first documented the students' loud booing of Omarosa Manigault, the White House Office of Public Liaison's director of communications and a close confidante of President Donald Trump from his time on "The Apprentice."
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The perpetually unhappy African American entitlement liberals who claim everyone is racist regardless of society handing them everything they could possibly want on a silver platter is never ending. With jobs, opportunities and bright futures finally becoming reality to graduates are never going to be acknowledged by the University Socialist Indoctrination Camps until funding is cut.
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Savages, yes. Noble, No. Down right rude. These students should shut up, they might learn something if their mouths are not too busy spouting off platitudes which they were provided by the left.
[DAWN] Jakarta’s Christian governor was enjugged You have the right to remain silent... for two years on Tuesday after being found guilty of blasphemy, in a shock decision that has stoked concerns over rising religious intolerance in the world’s most populous Moslem-majority nation.
Many people waiting outside the Jakarta court shouted "God is greatest" as news came through that Basuki Tjahaja Purnama would be sent to prison for insulting Islam, a surprisingly harsh verdict after prosecutors had only recommended probation.
Purnama, Jakarta’s first non-Moslem governor for half a century and its first ethnic Chinese leader, looked calm when the verdict was announced and said he would appeal, as some of his supporters in court burst into tears.
He was immediately transferred to jail and authorities said his deputy would take over running Jakarta for the final few months of his term. Hundreds of his supporters descended on the prison shouting "Free Ahok" -- Purnama’s nickname -- and violently shook the gate of the facility.
The 50-year-old was hauled into court last year to face trial on charges of insulting the holy Koran while campaigning for re-election, after the blasphemy accusations sparked a series of mass protests in Jakarta spearheaded by radical groups and encouraged by his rivals.
Tuesday’s jail sentence and his loss last month to a Moslem challenger in the Jakarta vote, which he had once been favourite to win, has fuelled fears that hardliners are growing increasingly influential and that the country’s version of Islam that has been praised widely is under threat.
"It’s another big step in the slow decline of religious freedom in Indonesia," said Andreas Harsono, Indonesia researcher for Human Rights Watch, after Purnama was enjugged You have the right to remain silent... The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... and urged Indonesia to review its blasphemy laws, while the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... called on Jakarta to uphold its "long-standing tradition of tolerance and pluralism".
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Apparently the Indonesian government found a way to hold people accountable for violating Sharia law.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS murderous Moslems in Egypt’s restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula ambushed local rustics who were securing an area in the region, killing 10, security officials said.
The men were from the Tarabin tribe and were manning a checkpoint near a krazed killer-stronghold south of the border town of Rafah when the murderous Moslems approached them in a vehicle and opened fire, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because they were not authorized to talk to news hounds.
Local residents who witnessed the attack told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the murderous Moslems were using a security vehicle they had apparently captured in fighting from security forces. The eyewitnesses also spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing retribution.
No krazed killer group immediately grabbed credit for the attack.
Sinai’s powerful tribes have stayed on the sidelines of the battle between Egyptian authorities and a growing insurgency led by the ISIS krazed killer group that has been raging in North Sinai in recent years.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... an open conflict between the rustics and the murderous Moslems emerged in recent weeks.
In late April, an ISIS jacket wallah killed four rustics standing watch in Rafah. The tribes retaliated by killing eight suspected ISIS fighters in a battle in the town earlier this month.
Moussa al-Delh, a powerful member of the Tarabin tribe announced earlier this month in a statement on his Facebook page that the tribe is in war with murderous Moslems under the leadership of the state, inviting other Sinai tribes to join the fight.
[DAWN] There is a need to promote tolerance and coexistence in society. If incorporating blasphemy in the cybercrime law is necessary, religious minorities and their revered personalities should also be protected.
This was stated by Members National Assembly (MNAs) Shazia Marri and Ali Raza Abdi during a meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology on Tuesday.
At the start of the meeting, Chairman retired Capt Mohammad Safdar said it was the responsibility of all Moslems to play their role to stop blasphemy.
He said the Islamabad High Court and Lahore High Court in their judgments had already ordered action against elements involved in uploading blasphemous content on the social media besides making legislation.
"We will take Learned Elders of Islam on board and will also request the judge who has directed to make legislation to give us time. We have to stop blasphemy on the social media at all costs," he said.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... Shazia Marri of the PPP said though no one tolerates blasphemy, the issue should be dealt with an utmost care.
"We have examples when Christians were killed for personal gains by using the name of blasphemy. On the other hand, there is a precedent that a judge offered to a Christian litigant that the decision can be given in his favour if he accepts Islam. We should give space to other religions," she said.
"The cybercrime law was made against terror elements but we don’t know what progress has been made to check this menace so far. But the law is being used against suspects of blasphemy. Once the investigation starts into a blasphemy case the life of the suspect and their family is put in danger. We should be very careful regarding the issue," she said.
Ms Marri said a Christian youth from Kasur was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on the charge of blasphemy after he retweeted a blasphemous tweet.
"He could have retweeted the blasphemous tweet by mistake. We should not make laws without analysing its repercussions," she said.
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[TheCollegeFix] A note that used the n-word and threatened a black female student at St. Olaf College -- sparking an intense protest that led to classes being shut down for a day as student demonstrators accused the school of institutional racism -- "was not a genuine threat," the school’s president said Wednesday.
President David Anderson said in an email to students that an investigation into the note identified a person of interest "who confessed to writing the note." also see the demands which included the usual stuff plus a little bit of anti semitism at:
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Perhaps, the most pathetic aspect of this incident is the college President's initial reaction. Even though it was clear at the time his first email didn't mention the whole thing was a hoax. It's almost as if he was content to let the false narrative fester. Doyathink?
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] The search for a suspect continues in what police called "an unprovoked attack" on an 83-year-old man in the Bronx.
Valentine Hernandez had just crossed Westchester Avenue at Fox Street Monday afternoon when police said he was sucker punched by a much younger and much larger man.
The entire incident was captured on surveillance video.
And what did the video tell those who saw it, other than the size and age of the assailant?
Hernandez fell to the ground and lost consciousness, suffering a laceration to his forehead and fractures to his nose and face.
Miguel Santos is now desperate to speak to his elderly father, who is at death's door in Lincoln Hospital.
"Never seen him that way. He was just there unconscious," he said. "It seems like he’s trying to wake up but he can’t. He can’t open his eyes, can’t open his left eye at all. It’s swollen shut."
Hernandez has lived in the Longwood section of the Bronx for decades and was walking his usual route around the neighborhood.
"If he can, goes to church five, six, seven days a week," Santos said. "He goes every single day and he walks himself. He doesn’t have an aide."
What has both Miguel and Sherlocks confused is the motive behind this brutal attack.
"Everything is still here, even cash was still in his pocket,’ said Santos. "Everything is still here, credit cards."
Police say the attacker didn’t say a word before knocking Hernandez unconscious, leaving him in the street. He then fled eastbound on Fox Street.
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[TheLocal.de] The number of attacks on refugee homes has decreased within the first three months of the year, reaching pre-refugee crisis levels, according to a media report on Tuesday.
The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) recorded 93 attacks against refugee homes within the first three months of the year, according to a government response to a Die Linke (Left Party) enquiry seen by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ). That would be about one attack per day.
This was about on par with the 106 incidents reported at the beginning of 2015, before the influx of refugees peaked in the autumn of that year.
Germany took in a record 890,000 asylum seekers in 2015. That same year, the number of attacks against refugee homes also hit record levels, with 1,031 incidents reported. That was more than five times the 199 cases in 2014. Last year also saw nearly 1,000 attacks against asylum facilities.
So far in 2017, 86 of the 93 reported cases were linked to right-wing radicals, according to the report.
Outside of asylum homes, 318 assaults were reported against asylum seekers or refugees, the vast majority of which were also linked to right-wing radicals. Another 25 attacks were against hired or voluntary refugee aid workers.
[TheLocal.se] Sweden's National Board of Forensic Medicine (Rättsmedicinalverket) handed the results of its examination of Rakhmat Akilov
...the rejected asylum-seeking father of four who drove a hijacked, bomb-laden 30-ton truck through a crowded Stockholm pedestrian zone in April on orders of ISIS after he was sent back after trying to get to Syria. He killed four and injured 15, considerably fewer than he'd planned because his bomb didn't explode. This proves that Allah did not approve...
to Stockholm District Court on Wednesday, in which it concluded that the Uzbek national was not suffering from any mental issues when the attack was carried out.
The unstable ones are no good for more complicated operations.
The same is true of Akilov's condition during the investigation, doctors also concluded. As such there is no reason to consider psychiatric care as part of any eventual sentence, they judged.
[Breitbart] Hungary has urged Brussels to create a European Union-wide (EU) deportation mechanism, stating that removing migrants who have no right to reside in the bloc is “mostly not possible” in current conditions.
[DW] BLUF: For those migrants who decide to return home, going through German channels can take two months or considerably longer to find out if the German government will pay for their trip and funding to start a small business... or not.
[IsraelTimes] Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office says police have raided homes in four states in connection with three people suspected of links to the Islamic State group. Federal prosecutor’s spokeswoman Frauke Koehler said in a statement that apartments and other locations were searched in Berlin, Bavaria, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt on Wednesday morning.
Two suspects are accused of membership in a terrorist organization on allegations they belong to IS, while the third is suspected of supporting a terrorist organization. Two are also accused of weapons violations. No arrests were made and no names were released. Prosecutors say the suspects are believed to be connected to a Syrian arrested in 2016 who was suspected of planning a bombing attack, and another Syrian arrested last week in Leipzig on IS membership charges.
[AnNahar] German police Tuesday arrested two suspected Syrian jihadists, one of them an alleged member of the Islamic State group accused of slitting the throat of a regime soldier, prosecutors said. The alleged former IS member, identified only as 30-year-old Abdulmalk A., was arrested in Berlin, and his 23-year-old compatriot Mousa H. A. in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Both men allegedly first joined the Islamist rebel group then called Al-Nusra in 2012 to battle the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, with Abdulmalk A. commanding fighters. He allegedly captured a Syrian army sniper in early 2013 near the city of Tabqa, forced him to dig his own grave and slit his throat, the prosecutors said in a statement.
In mid-2013 Abdulmalk A. switched allegiance to the IS, in his eastern home city of Deir ez-Zor, joined its combat operations and then was tasked with administering the IS-captured Tabqa Dam, Syria's largest.
Italian Police Link Somali Migrant Traffickers to ISIS and Al Shabaab
10 May
Italian police say they have found indirect links between Islamic militants and a Somali-run migrant trafficking and money transfer ring that was busted in overnight raids in southern Italy. Police said the leader of the Bari-based ring had been in telephone contact with a Somali man arrested in Italy in July on suspicion of having helped two Islamic State foreign fighters enter Italy via Malta.
Italy Investigates Aid Groups Suspected of Working With Traffickers to Facilitating Illegal Migration
10 May
An Italian prosecutor says he is investigating employees of aid groups that are rescuing migrants off Libya for allegedly facilitating illegal migration, but says it’s not a punishable crime since saving lives at sea is paramount. Trapani
Reporter Attacked Live on Air During Report on Immigration in Rome
9 May
An Italian TV reporter and her cameraman were assaulted during a live broadcast whilst covering the living conditions of African migrants hoping to break into northern Europe in search of higher welfare payments.
Leaders of Europe’s Top Four Economies Have Zero Children Between Them
9 May
With the election of Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of France over the weekend, the leaders of Europe’s top four economies — Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy — have zero children between them, a feat perhaps never before matched in European history.
Up to 245 Migrants Missing After Smugglers Wreck Two Ships
9 May
U.N. agencies say up to 245 migrants and refugees are missing and feared dead following two recent shipwrecks of smugglers’ boats in the Mediterranean Sea. UNHCR says one of its partner agencies, the International Medical Corps, reported
Sweden Sees Significant Increase in Asylum Seekers After Scrapping ID Checks at Border
9 May
After scrapping border identification checks for people coming from Denmark into Sweden, the Swedish government has noted a large increase in the number of asylum seekers arriving in the country.
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The original NYT headline is the rub in this article. They have been at this racket for a very long time.
Even after they starved half the people at Jamestown for their futile and idiotic purpose.
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Ain't the meme of "Climate Change" great (sark)? You can have it both ways; whether it's cooling or warming. These troglodyte alarmists flip-flop their position more than James Comey or Hillary Clinton.
[DailyMail] Thomas Cook has become the first operator to cancel holiday bookings to Sharm el-Sheikh following ISIS attack fears in the area. The British travel company has scrapped all flight and hotel packages for the winter season onwards, with alternative trips or refunds offered for some 200 pre-booked customers. The decision comes after continued warnings against travel to the area by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, with March's terror attack alert tipping the balance.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] New pictures have emerged from the 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 showing the aftermath of an Arclight airstrike involving GBU-43 bombing, also known as Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) on ISIS hideouts.
The pictures were released by the provincial government earlier today which shows the massive losses incurred to the ISIS gunnies in Asad Khel area of Achin district.
A destroyed car, bodies of ISIS gunnies dispersed and still lying across the area, damaged tunnels, and presence of the Afghan cops are shown in the latest photographs released by the government.
The bomb was dropped around 7:30 pm local time on Thursday, the 13th of April, a move which was widely welcomed by the local residents and tribal elders of Nangarhar.
The commander of the US forces based in Afghanistan Gen. John Nicholson appeared in a presser after the Arclight airstrike was conducted, saying the use of the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb or Mother of All Bombs in Achin district sent a clear message to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.
Gen. Nicholson made the remarks as he was speaking to reports together with the US Secretary of Defense James Mattis in Kabul on Monday.
"The strike in Achin was to send a very clear message to ISIS. If they come to Afghanistan they will be destroyed," he said.
Gen. Nicholson further added "We are going to keep going until ISIS-K is defeated in 2017. There is no space for ISIS-K in Afghanistan."
A number of the tribal elders also appeared in a gathering after the Arclight airstrike was conducted and urged for further strikes to clear the province from the presence of ISIS murderous Moslems.
Nearly 100 ISIS gunnies including several of their key leaders were killed in the Arclight airstrike and the main tunnels network and other hideouts were totally eliminated.
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We need a bigger MOAB. Maybe GMFnMOAB super plus. The mountain is still standing.
More details about this report from two days ago, plus the names of the hunted miscreants
[AlAhram] French police searched Tuesday for three men suspected of plotting 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-inspired attack after authorities conducted a major operation at a Gay Paree train station.
A ticket vendor in the northern town of Valenciennes thought she recognized one of the three men listed on police wanted notices on social networks. That prompted the police operation and the temporary closure of one of Gay Paree' main transit hubs, the Gare du Nord, late Monday. No arrests have been made.
Rocco Contento of Unite SGP police union told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named the vendor informed police. Two other coppers confirmed the information to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on customary condition of anonymity on Tuesday.
The three suspects have been identified by police as Belgian citizens Bilal Al Marchohi and Tarik Jadaoun,
...oddly enough, those names don't sound Flemish, French, or even German...
and Afghan national Zabihullah Sarwari.
The busy Gare du Nord -- the terminus of a large suburban and national rail network as well as the hub for Eurostar trains from London -- was evacuated after 11 p.m. on Monday night as officers from the special BRI intervention force started pouring into the station.
A security perimeter was established and all passengers on the train from Valenciennes were taken to a nearby brasserie to be searched, Contento said. "Unfortunately it was determined that the person was not in the train," Contento said.
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[Wash Times] Richard Overton, the world’s oldest World War II veteran, is still going strong after 111 years.
Bastrop County, Texas, welcomed Mr. Overton into the world on May 11, 1906, and he still calls it home. Plans are underway for a block party to celebrate the occasion.
The United States Army Air Forces veteran and member of the all-black 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion the told a local paper on Wednesday that he’s always open to whiskey for a birthday present.
"I like any kind you’ll bring me," Mr. Overtontold the Austin-American Statesman. The veteran, who served in the Pacific Theater from 1942 to 1945, adds a bit of whiskey to his morning coffee, which he also enjoys with cigars.
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adds a bit of whiskey to his morning coffee. He may not live to be a 125 if he continues this routine. I'll bet he has outlived all his doctors who recommended that he change his life style. Thanks Mr. Overton for your service--a part of the greatest generation.
[DW] The trial began Monday of an 18-year-old accused of attempting to murder "infidels" by throwing two Molotov cocktails into the entrance of a shopping mall. Both devices failed to ignite, and no one was injured in the attack. The man, identified only as Saleh S. in line with German laws to protect the privacy of defendants, has been in psychiatric custody since December.
Authorities say the teenager had hoped to "spread fear and terror in the population."
Prosecutors allege that he traveled to Syria twice to fight alongside Death Eaters. They say that the second time he took his then-15-year-old sister, Safia S,
... the German-Moroccan teen known as "the ISIS girl", who attempted to kill a German policeman after being prevented from emigrating to ISIS in Syria. Despite her youth she was a known wolf, a favourite of prominent Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel when she was seven...
to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , where she met with members 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.... ." Less than a month after the girl's return, she had been jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! by German police, allegedly for carrying out orders given by IS.
Safia's story
In January, a court sentenced Safia, now 16, to six years in prison for stabbing a police officer in the neck with a vegetable knife at Hanover's main train station in February 2016. Because of Safia's age, the trial was not open to the public.
According to Sherlocks, Safia had intended to carry out a "martyrdom operation" for IS. The 34-year-old police officer suffered life-threatening injuries but survived after undergoing surgery.
Safia's defense called her sentence "unquestionably high" and announced an appeal. Her lawyers said a teenager lacked the capacity to understand the impact of her actions. The defense team had pushed the court to convict the teenager on the reduced charge of aggravated assault, arguing that the knife attack had resulted exclusively in grievous bodily harm and that Safia had not intended to kill the officer.
Lawyers disputed the charge that Safia supported IS, pointing out that the group's members have not generally apologized to their victims after attacks, as she had when she wrote a letter to the officer while in jug. Nevertheless, in January the judge cited Safia's mobile phone chats as proof of her intent to kill on behalf of IS.
The girl's father, identified only as Robin S., told the RedaktionsNetzwerk news platform that prosecutors had carried out a "show trial" against his daughter because of her religion. "She wore a head scarf," he told the platform, "but she was also a fan of Justin Bieber and played soccer."
Robin said Safia regretted her actions and deserved another chance. "If she had been a punk," he said, "she would have gotten a maximum of two years."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Recent reports have claimed that a dispute erupted between ousted Yemeni president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... and the Houthis. This is good news and was also expected for a while now.
Who will turn against the other first? This is the question when it comes to this "hybrid" alliance between a party ‐ that claims to be nationalist and fights against the governance of the Imamate and whose "legitimacy" is as a result of revolting against the governance of Hamid ed-Dine imams ‐ and a group that believes in the myths of the Imamate and the Zaidi Hashemi rule. What adds to these is the more dangerous and mythical Khomeini component of their practices.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] They made the captive children, weak from hunger, fight over a single tomato. Then the ISIS gunnies told them that in paradise they could eat to their hearts delight, but they could only get there by blowing themselves up.
The lesson was part of the indoctrination inflicted by the gunnies on boys from Iraq's Yazidi religious minority after the Lion of Islam group overran the community's towns and villages in northern Iraq. The group forced hundreds of boys, some as young as 7 or 8, into training to become fighters and jacket wallahs, infusing them with its murderous ideology.
Now boys who escaped captivity are living in camps for the displaced along with what is left of their families.
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...It is said that when the Holocaust begain, if every Jew was prepared to take one SS man or Gestapo agent with them, the Holocaust never would have happened.
I wonder how long ISIS would last if every one of these lost souls would detonate those vests standing amid those monsters.
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[EADT.CO.UK] A mother-of-three says she is lucky to be alive after being attacked by a herd of cows when walking her dog in fields near Great Yeldham in Essex.
Carol Green, 52, of Goodchild Way, has warned others to avoid the animals, especially if they are with young calves.
Ms Green was walking through farmland close to the village when the ’horrifying’ attack happened.
She said the herd suddenly came at her, knocking her to the floor and headbutting her.
"It was absolutely horrifying," she said. "It was a living nightmare."
"I tried to keep calm and walk a little faster but they had blocked the stile.?"They were just closing in. The large one seemed to be leading the others.
"Then it headbutted me, it had its head like a bull would have it.
"It knocked me off my feet and then started kicking me about with its hooves and its head."
Ms Green, who says she has been suffering nightmares and flashbacks since the attack, managed to escape by climbing over a gate and making her way to a nearby fishing pond.
"There was a chap there who heard the screams but didn’t pay much attention because he thought it was youths messing about.
"He put me in the car and took me home, called the police and rang the paramedics.
"I was then taken by ambulance to Broomfield Hospital. I suffered bad bruising mainly. I had to get the back of my ear glued because there was a nasty cut behind my ear."
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[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] Border Police locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! three Arab residents of Yafia on Tuesday on suspicion of stabbing seven cows to death in the Jezreel Valley.
The suspects killed the cows on Israeli Memorial Day last week, in retaliation for the cows straying onto land which does not belong to their breeder.
The suspects allegedly used a scythe of approximately six feet in length to kill the cows.
The suspects, who are in their 60s, 40s, and 20s, were transferred for further investigation. The Tiberius Magistrate Court extended their remand until this coming Sunday.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BBC] A woman who deliberately ploughed into a cyclist after being confronted about using her mobile phone behind the wheel has been jailed for three years.
[CNN] She was a married 40-year-old drama teacher when she met the then 15-year-old Emmanuel Macron while directing a school play. 
[American Thinker] When George Will and other leading intellectuals started to rip holes in their warm comfort couches in despair at Donald Trump's long series of victories, culminating in his election to the presidency, a lot of us were scratching our heads. What was it about winning that drove George Will, Jonah Goldberg, and Bill Kristol to despair? 
[Hot Air] Why not, says King? "Already has his clearances, knows the subject, man of integrity." Man of integrity? We all knew last night when the word came down that Democrats (or Democratic-leaning independents like King) would instantly start rehabbing Comey’s image on their side to make him a more effective martyr for Trump, but good lord. A week ago the reigning Democratic nominee was on camera accusing Comey of having cost her the election. Now he’s a "man of integrity." At this rate, we’re headed for a Trump/Comey election in 2020. What color ribbon will Democrats be wearing on their lapels next week to make the tragic end of James Comey’s career?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The commander of the second operations in the counterterrorism agency, Major General Maan al-Saadi, announced on Wednesday that his forces liberated the neighborhood of al-Maamel in the heart of the right coast of 
[217.218.67.231] Former Yemeni president 
North Korea
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Trump administration is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information about the whereabouts of the military leader of Syria’s al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A shadow district chief of the 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish President 
[Libya Herald] At least one person was killed and a number of others injured today in central 
[Libya Herald] The Libyan National Army (LNA) has recaptured the National Library in Benghazi’s Sabri district from Islamic 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least eleven people were killed in a roadside mine 
[DAWN] Police on Tuesday evacuated a tent camp in northern 
[DAWN] SHANGLA: A couple was killed for honour in Donkacha Chauga area of the district.
[DAWN] India has moved the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Pakistain, accusing the latter of violating the Vienna Convention in the case of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was handed a death sentence by a Field General Court Martial (FGCM) last month.
[AlAhram] A man 
[DAWN] The Pakistain Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched an awareness campaign through SMS service against the uploading of blasphemous content on social media.
[SHABELLENEWS] Gunmen believed to be A
[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Wednesday took notice of an employer in Punjab's Sheikhupura cutting off her domestic help’s hand.
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
[RUDAW.NET] Around a dozen ISIS militants were surprised when they came across Peshmerga forces on the Makhmur front south of Erbil on Tuesday.
[RUDAW.NET] After meeting with US President 
[RUDAW.NET] Kurdish-majority forces have announced they "fully liberated" Tabqa Dam on Wednesday from ISIS, a day after the US announced it would further its partnered forces in northern Syria.
[Ynet] Tajik security services have detained the eldest son of a former elite police force commander who defected to 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government had a $182 billion budget surplus in April, confounding market expectations for a deficit, according to Treasury Department data released on Wednesday.
[AlAhram] German police have detained a second soldier suspected of involvement in a plan by an army officer and a student to carry out an attack, possibly on left-wing politicians who don't oppose immigration, the federal public prosecutor said on Tuesday.
[DAWN] Jakarta’s Christian governor was 
[DAWN] There is a need to promote tolerance and coexistence in society. If incorporating blasphemy in the cybercrime law is necessary, religious minorities and their revered personalities should also be protected.
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] The search for a suspect continues in what police called "an unprovoked attack" on an 83-year-old man in the Bronx.
[AlAhram] French police searched Tuesday for three men suspected of plotting an 
[Wash Times] Richard Overton, the world’s oldest World War II veteran, is still going strong after 111 years.
[EADT.CO.UK] A mother-of-three says she is lucky to be alive after being attacked by a herd of cows when walking her dog in fields near Great Yeldham in Essex.
[ISRAELNATIONALNEWS] Border Police 
