"Don't go wobbly" - the great Margaret Thatcher.
[DailyCaller] Conservative author Ann Coulter was one of the most vocal supporters of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.
She wrote "In Trump We Trust" and proclaimed that she worships him like the "people of North Korea worship their Dear Leader ‐ blind loyalty."
Coulter described herself as a single-issue voter during the election and was drawn to Trump due to his "Mexican rapist speech" and him calling for a border wall to be built.
In an interview Sunday with The Daily Caller, Coulter let it be known she still has hope in the Trump presidency, but is ready to jump ship.
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It amazes me how so many people just expect for everything Trump said he was going to do, was just going to happen as soon as he stepped foot into the office. Kinda hard to do when every pice of shit in Washington and on tv is fighting you with every breathe on every issue.x
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Many accept the reality that he can ask or even demand, but the purse strings are held by Congress.
h/t Instapundit
Pity the Democrats, to the extent you can without bursting into hysterical laughter at their agony. America has thoroughly rejected them in every branch of the federal government plus out in the states, and on top of that they were utterly humiliated by the guy they all claimed was a complete moron. Which begs the question ‐ what does that make the sanctimonious harpy he crushed in the Electoral College?
They still haven’t realized what’s going on. Their ego-driven drive to dominate normal people and shape us into New Socialist Nongendered Beings has blinded them to the bitter reality.
We think they, along with their minions in the media, in Hollywood, and on campus, suck.
They are baffled at our refusal to acknowledge their moral, intellectual, and political superiority. It doesn’t just compute.
Yeah, well compute this, geebos.
You look nuts. I mean wacko, zonked out, "Hey, that goldfish is firing a mind control laser at my brain and making me break dance" nuts.
But don’t stop. No, pump it up. You’re at "11," and I say take it to "12."
This is great!
All this insanity is going to help us normals retain power, from your gyno-hat marches to the fake hate crimes to your insistence that the Russians are responsible for everything from Hillary losing the election to the rarely-discussed but well-known liberal epidemic of ED.
Here’s a little test. It’s been about six months since Trump treated The Smartest Most Accomplished Woman In The World like a NordicTrack treats Harry Reid, and does anyone know even one person who has said, "You know, I voted for Trump, but now after Neil Gorsuch, General Mattis and H.R. McMaster, I really wish I had checked the box for Felonia von Pantsuit?"
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Never, ever count them out. They are still alive and kicking. They are still extremely dangerous. Sooner or later they will come up with a candidate who can win. Face it. Bill Clinton was charming and charismatic. Barack Obama was charming, charismatic and running against John McCain. So, yeah, they did it before and they can do it again.
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When that Nordic Track beat Harry Reid half blind I then realized there IS a God and that He IS a Republican.
The shale boom has thus far remained a uniquely American phenomenon (for a long list of reasons), but the issue of other countries replicating that success has always been a question of when, not if. Argentina’s Vaca Muerte formation contains the second-largest reserves of shale gas in the world behind China, and as the WSJ reports, those multitudes of hydrocarbons are attracting the keen interest (and capital) of oil and gas companies:
Islam rose anew in 20th century on a tide of petrodollars
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Oil companies are understandably reluctant to inveest huge amounts of capital in places that buthave a history of nationalizing company assets. High prices and profit margins and production rates can overcome thar reluctance - make back the investment before nationalization - but none of those apply there, now, or to shale resources.
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Argentina’s Vaca Muerte formation contains the second-largest reserves of shale gas in the world behind China
A cholera outbreak in Yemen has killed 180 people since April 27, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Monday, hours after the Houthi-controlled health ministry said 115 had died from the disease in the capital Sanaa.
[Hot Air] I used to think the best sign that liberals had won this debate among the broader public was that Republican senators have begun conceding it. But now I don’t know. A pageant answer becoming headline news because it defied liberal orthodoxy seems like a solid sign too. Is it because Kara McCullough’s black and represents D.C. and therefore isn’t "supposed" to think this way that makes it news? Or is it the fact that she disagreed with the liberal position and was rewarded for it by winning the pageant? Impure thoughts mustn’t be incentivized.
The first query: "Do you think affordable health-care for all U.S. citizens is a right or a privilege and why?"
"I’m definitely going to say it’s a privilege," McCullough responded. "As a government employee, I am granted health-care. And I see firsthand that for one to have health-care, you need to have jobs. So therefore, we need to continue to cultivate this environment that we’re given the opportunities to have health-care as well as jobs to all the American citizens worldwide."
The jobs part of that answer may be more of an affront to Democrats than the "privilege" part. One of the selling points of ObamaCare in 2010 was that it would end "job lock" -- supposedly. Not until health insurance is decoupled from employment can people truly be free, etc etc. In practice, if you’re staring at a potential $12,000 deductible for an exchange plan, it might make financial sense to not only cling to your job but to take a pay cut in order to hang on to that sweet, sweet employer-provided insurance. But really, we’re in the post-ObamaCare phase of American health-care reform now, on both sides: Conservatives are scrambling to patch together something, anything, that replaces the status quo while liberals see an opportunity to shove the country towards single-payer. There’s plenty of support for it out there too, and not just on the left. If Americans don’t yet think health care is a right, it seems safe to conclude that most think it should be.
I was surprised that I couldn’t find a recent poll squarely on point, but this one taken by Pew in January is close. This is a proxy for the right/privilege question, I think.
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Not this shit again - remember how many times they said eggs were bad for you, then they were good for you, and so on? I lost count during my lifetime.
[Daily Caller] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested illegal aliens working construction at the Travis Air Force Base and are looking to deport them as soon as possible.
ICE quickly arrived on the scene after a military official realized that two illegals, Hugo Mejia and Rodrigo Nuñez, did not have valid social security numbers and reported the pair of construction workers at the base, The Mercury News reports.
After arresting Mejia and Nuñez, ICE has placed the men in expedited deportation proceedings, as both men have removal orders stemming from when they entered the country illegally over a decade ago.
Mejia is naturally upset. He told The Mercury News in Spanish, while detained at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, that he has a good track record.
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"Good track record for 17 years?" Would that be with a fake Social Security Card, and paying no taxes ?
Base Commander should order the termination of the contract of the firm he works for and direct the Travis JAG to investigate the Contracting Officer Representative (COR). If he's (the worker) a DoD civilian employee, dig deeper and investigate the Civilian Personnel Office on Travis. Might want to consider relieving the base commander, if any of these action are not already taking place.
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..something about "doing the jobs Americans' won't do"
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Hey, i had an illegal paying social security on my number for a few years in the early 2000's.
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Oh, SS taxes were likely paid and the SSN was likely legit. Somebody else will get the money.
That is one nice feature of the whole deal. Imagining these people without any benefits when they reach retirement age is even better.
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And as an aside, the Contracting Officer Representative has the job of ensuring that the terms of the contract are met. The COR doesn't write the contract. Neither does the COR do the background checks or directly question the workers' qualifications. Or issue them base access.
It's more likely that the contractor sub-contracted the work. That's not illegal, unless the contract stipulated otherwise. But it will give the contractor a black eye. And likely the base as well.
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The Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law that establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects for laborers and mechanics.
* prevailing wages = union wages in the location
The contractor had to bid labor costs estimates in accordance with the Act. Someone is pocketing the difference.
[Daily Caller] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer confirmed Sunday he would support his caucus in the upper chamber if they blocked the appointment of a new FBI director until a special prosecutor to the Russia investigation is named.
"I think there are a lot of Democrats who feel that way. We will have to discuss it as a caucus, but I would support that move, because who the FBI director is, is related to who the special prosecutor is," Schumer told CNN’s Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
Schumer said, "Remember, the criteria for a special prosecutor, independent in making day-to-day decisions from the hierarchy in the Justice Department and the White House, can only be fired for cause, has to report to Congress, and, very importantly, can look into any attempts to thwart the investigation, are all really important criteria."
He added, "To have that special prosecutor, people would breathe a sigh of relief, because then there would be a real independent person overlooking the FBI director."
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No problem, just stick with the acting director. With the extra pay and perks, I'm sure he won't mind filling for the balance of Comey's term or until a Recess Appointment can be arranged. Who knows, he might be the man for the job, and it could lead to the eventual reduction of elimination of the 10 year tour of duty. If he screws up, fire him as well and promote the next guy to acting director.
Plan B: Nominate a qualified African American or female to fill the position and let Schumer stall that one.
There's nothing in your ball sack on this one Schumer. Have a nice day.
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Sure no problem, while we're on the subject of special prosecutors, we can also appoint one or more to investigate Hillary's dealings and behaviors while in the government service.
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How's he gonna block it with only 46 votes? Good luck, Schmuckie.
Unfortunately, he can probably count on at least two so-called Republicans.
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Unless some of the Pub Senators go renegade, Schumer cannot block the confirmation of the new FBI director thanks to Harry Reid and the nuclear option.
[Last Refuge] Carson Huey-You graduated yesterday from Texas Christian University with a degree in physics and dual-minors in Chinese linguistics and Applied Math. He enters graduate school next fall en route to a Phd in Quantum Mechanics.
Oh yeah, well, he’s 14-years-old ....and on pace to achieve his Phd in physics and applied and theoretical sciences before he will be old enough to vote....
"It is just something I have learned to deal with because, to me, I am not a genius. I am a normal 14-year-old person doing college-level stuff."
Carson wants to get a doctorate, teach and test some of his ideas.
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Sadly, he will be run off campus by SJWs for "acting white..."
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If he is driven out of academia, he'll be snatched up by private industry... and his younger brother, too. His brother has benefitted by his experience -- he is graduating from high school at the age of ten, according to the source article linked at the link.
[Detroit Free Press] WASHINGTON -- Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier and convicted national security secret leaker, will remain an active-duty, unpaid soldier, eligible for health care and other benefits, following her scheduled release May 17 from military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, according to the Army.
Manning entered prison as a man named Bradley. Manning changed her name, identified as a woman and received hormone treatment while incarcerated. Her sentence was commuted in the final days of the Obama administration, a move that infuriated some in the military and President Trump.
While Manning’s court-martial conviction remains under appeal, she will remain a private in the Army, said Dave Foster, an Army spokesman. As an active duty soldier, Manning will continue to receive health care and have access to commissaries and military exchanges, but she will not be paid.
"Pvt. Manning is statutorily entitled to medical care while on excess leave in an active duty status, pending final appellate review," Foster said.
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The likely goal is to no doubt one day make this person Sergeant Major of The Army (SMA). Evil and debauchery has surely been elevated to entirely new levels.
And to the poor old veteran waiting in line for treatment, what is he told ?
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Unpaid active duty...and do military hospitals provide sex change hormone support, or will the current refill be the last? All sorts of President Obama's pen & phone orders have been quietly reversed while the left was hyperventilating about the latest Trump tweet.
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One wonders whether there could be a copyright issue with producing Russian weapons in America without a license, though Russian and Chinese spies haven’t been reticent about helping themselves to U.S. technology. Either way, it seems like a sensible and economical idea to produce foreign weapons in America, rather than having to procure them from unreliable or unsavory international arms merchants.
g(r)omgoru, Those machine guns been around so long that any patents would have expired. Note they mention 'copyright' in the article. Copyrights only apply to the original drawing and not to the actual mechanical device itself. Since the American manufacturer(s) will have to come up with their own drawings, foreign copyrights would not apply to them, although they can copyright their own drawings.
The NSV was adopted by the Soviet Army in 1971. It is no longer being produced in Russia; the manufacturing license for the NSV ended up in Kazakhstan after the break-up of the Soviet Union. The NSV has been manufactured in Bulgaria, India, Poland and Yugoslavia under license. Picture of NSV at link
So it's been at least 46 years since the above guns were introduced. I'll say it's pretty much a safe bet we no longer have to worry about patent protections.
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1. Patents are country specific. Even if there were patents in Russia (or the USSR) they would not apply in the US. Only a patent issued in the US would be an issue.
2. Patents would have to be filed within 12 months of the first commercial availability of these weapons. After that you are statutorily barred from filing.
3. If any IP is an issue, it might be design copyright. This is "thin" protection, but an exact replica might run afoul.
[Iraq News] Continuous festivities are still taking places between Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by US-led international coalition, and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, after the terrorist group’s attack on the countryside of Raqqa.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the forces from the operation codenamed "Euphrates Wrath" continue their assault, where they managed to advance toward the city.
These festivities are coincided with shelling by the SDF and bombing by the International Coalition’ warplanes on the Islamic State-held areas, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights added.
Noteworthy, SDP, backed by the US-led coalition warplanes, imposed their control on al-Tabqa city and the Euphrates dam.
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[Iraq News] A mass grave was found in a remote area near the Iraqi-Iranian borders, a local source from Diyala province said.
"Based on a report from a sheep herder, security troops were able to find a mass grave that includes eight bodies, five of whom were unidentified women, in Shaanoun region, (20 KM east of Qazaniya,120 KM northeast of Baquba)," the source told AlSumaria News on Sunday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said, "the grave is very close from the Iraqi-Iranian borders," adding that the "bodies were decayed and handcuffed."
"The bodies are being recovered while efforts are made in search for other bodies," the source said adding that the grave is the first one found in Qazaniya.
The sprawling region of Qazaniya is located in Diyala with common borders with Iran extending for tens of kilometers.
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.... executed hundreds of civilians and security personnel since its emergence in 2014.
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That area I figure that mass graves could be anywhere from a few months to a few millennia old..
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Oman’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi affirmed his country’s support for Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and its legitimate government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The Omani official said during a telephone conversation with Yemen’s Deputy Prime Minister Abdulmalik al-Mekhlafi that Muscat supports any and all efforts to achieve security and stability in a manner that preserves the territorial integrity of Yemen and preserves its national institutions and the capabilities of the Yemeni people.
For his part, Mekhlafi hailed Oman’s position in support of legitimacy and the right for Yemenis to live in peace, according Yemen’s official news agency.
The Yemeni official stressed that his country and its legitimate government are keen to develop bilateral ties with Oman in various fields and to enhance the level of coordination between the two countries.
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[Iraq News] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... forces of Evil killed 64 civilians, including women and kiddies, while trying to flee battles between the group and Iraqi security forces in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to the eastern side, a human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... monitor said.
The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were trying to cross the Tigris River, which bisects the city, on Thursday morning to the eastern side which Iraqi forces took over in January, but were rubbed out by IS snipers.
Some others were captured by the Death Eaters, according to the organization, which quoted some survivors who made it to the Sallamiya district in the east. They said more than 40 families were trying to cross the river, but 64 dead bodies were washed ashore.
The observatory quoted a security source in Sallamiya that the corpses bore signs of gunshots, and that he was predicting more dead bodies to resurface.
Earlier on Sunday, BasNews quoted Ahmed al-Obaidi, a Federal Police Captain, saying that IS forces of Evil had rubbed out 16 Iraqi women who were trying to flee al-Rifaie district in western Mosul, adding that 30 other families in the same district.
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[Iraq News] The self-proclaimed 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 stoned a man, on Sunday, on charges of adultery in Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The observatory said that the Islamic State group stoned a man, on charges of adultery, in the municipal square in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, in front of dozens of civilians, including children.
The terrorist group canceled the execution of two other stoning sentences in the city, due to the presence of aircraft of the international coalition in the skies of the area, the observatory added.
Noteworthy, the US-led international coalition is intensifying its air strike on the Islamic State headquarters in both Syria and Iraq.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Sunday directed the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing to take action against "those ridiculing Pakistain Army on social media" in order to protect "the prestige, reputation and goodwill" of the armed forces.
"As far as the freedom of speech is concerned, the Constitution makes it clear that national security and defence institutions would not be criticised and that citizens would not engage themselves in any activity that causes damage to the prestige, reputation and goodwill of Mighty Pak Army," Nisar was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the ministry.
"Ridiculing Pakistain Army or its officers in the name of freedom of speech is unacceptable," he maintained.
The statement further said that targeting such a prestigious and disciplined institution of the country for the sake of particular interests was not only a matter of concern but a severe offence.
The minister directed the FIA Cyber Crime Wing to take strict action against all those involved in the practice "intentionally or unintentionally".
The minister directed the authority to take action without any discrimination regardless of the political affiliation and profession of those involved.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US-backed Iraqi forces pushed deeper into the last pocket of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... controlled by ISIS murderous Moslems on Sunday as the battle for the city approaches an end after seven months of gruelling urban combat.
The murderous Moslems have now been dislodged from all but a handful of districts in the western half of Mosul including the Old City, where ISIS is expected to make its last stand, taking advantage of narrow streets and its dense population.
Brigadier General Yahya Rasoul said the area controlled by ISIS was no more than 9 percent of west Mosul, which is bisected by the River Tigris.
"It’s a very small area," he told Rooters. "God willing, this is the final phase."
The elite Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) stormed the Ureibi and Rifaie districts at dawn on Sunday, according to a statement from the Joint Operations Command.
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[Iran Press TV] A colonel in the Egyptian military has been killed and three recruits have been injured in an kaboom that targeted their armored vehicle in the Sinai Peninsula, security sources say.
The Sunday attack was carried out in northern Sinai, where Egyptian government forces are battling militancy in connection with the presence of 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... terrorists.
Sources provided neither the exact location of the kaboom nor further details.
Last week, bandidosDeath Eaters in Sinai opened fire on members of Tarabeen tribe and killed a dozen of them. The tribe members have been armed by the Egyptian military to counter the bandidosDeath Eaters operating across the region.
The bandidosDeath Eaters have also extended their campaign to other parts of Egypt, most recently attacking churches in the capital Cairo and other cities.
[Iran Press TV] The United States and Japan have called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Security Council over North Korea's latest missile test, amid tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.
On Sunday, Washington and Tokyo asked the council to convene an urgent meeting a few hours after South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that Pyongyang had launched a ballistic missile earlier in the day, the second missile firing in two weeks.
The missile test, however, was the first since South Korea's new President Moon Jae-In came to power with the promise of reducing tensions with the North.
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Do the Japanese ambassadors think they will be safer at the UN in New York?
[Iran Press TV] Yemeni snipers have killed two Saudi troopers in the kingdom's southern region of Jizan in another retaliatory attack against Riyadh's full-scale war on the impoverished nation.
Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network carried the report on Sunday, saying the first soldier was killed in ambushes by the Yemeni army sharpshooters in the Faridhah military base and the second trooper was fatally maimed in Dafiniah village later in the day.
A report by Rooters published in April last year said that at least 400 Saudi soldiers had been killed in the cross-border fire since the start of the war in March 2015.
In early April, Arabic-language Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... Watch news agency reported that nearly 120 Saudi troopers had been killed in dozens of sniper operations carried out by Yemeni army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees. It added that most of the operations had been conducted in Jizan, where a total of 74 Saudi soldiers bit the dust in 22 encounters.
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[SHABELLENEWS] At least Two Somali government soldiers were reported to have been maimed in Al shabaab attack on SNA bases in the town of Qoryoley, located some 120Km southwest of Mogadishu.
The overnight attack has sparked a fierce clash between the bully boyz and government forces that left at least two soldiers injured, according to residents who spoke to Radio Shabelle.
The fighters belonging to Al shabaab attacked the district from different direction, and targeted Somali military bases and the city’s Police station, said the anonymous locals.
The city which fell to Somali and AMISOM forces in mid 2014 has been hit by sporadic attacks by the Al Qaeda-affiliated Al shabaab fighters who want to topple the government.
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[SHABELLENEWS] A tense of fighting was news hound to be running high in parts of eastern Galgaduud region on Sunday following a deadly inter-clan fighting on Saturday that left six people dead.
Residents in Labi Ano reported that both clan murderous Moslems are massing around the village, in preparation for another battle. Local villagers began to flee their houses due to the conflict.
The armed clan militia fighters clashed over land ownership in pasture area. The elders of both warring sides are making efforts to bring an end to the escalating tension.
At least 10 people were maimed and witnesses said that many houses were torched while hundreds of people fled the area, which is under the control of Somali government.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Two prominent Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leaders were killed in a targeted operation of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel in northern Samangan province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the two prominent Taliban leaders were actively in charge of leading the group’s insurgency in this province.
The statement further added that Mawlavi Jalal, the group’s shadow deputy provincial governor and Mawlavi Ghiasuddin, the group’s district chief were among at least six holy warriors killed in the operation.
At least fifteen Lions of Islam were also maimed during the operation, the Ministry of Interior added.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A key Taliban ...Arabic for students... leader in charge of recruiting turbans for the group has been tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
According to the local security officials, the detained Taliban leader has been identified as Akhtar Mohammad and was arrested late on Saturday night in Kandahar city, the quiet provincial capital of the province.
Provincial police front man Zia Durani confirmed the report and said Akhtar was arrested around 9 pm local time during a special operation conducted in the city.
He said another Taliban member who was involved in murders and guerilla attacks was also arrested during the operation.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Taliban ...Arabic for students... vehicle struck an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted on a roadside in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, leaving at least 10 of them dead, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Sunday.
According to a statement by MoD, the incident took place on Saturday in Maiwand district.
The statement further added that seven bandidos murderous Moslems were also maimed in the kaboom and their vehicle was totally destroyed.
The ministry also added that 10 bandidos murderous Moslems were killed, 6 were maimed, and 2 others were tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! during a separate operation conducted in Nish district.
The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including the Taliban bandidos murderous Moslems have not commented regarding the report so far.
Taliban bandidos murderous Moslems and faceless myrmidons belonging to the other murderous Moslem groups frequently use Improvised Explosive Device as the weapon of their choice to target the government and security personnel.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... in majority of such attacks the ordinary civilians are targeted besides the roadside kabooms inflict heavy casualties to the security personnel and government officials while in some cases the bandidos murderous Moslems fall prey of the tactic.
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You would think that the Taliban would at least remember where they planted their IDEs. Good thing that they cannot remember!
I wonder what kind of medical treatment they gave to the 'survivors'? "Lead medicine?"
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan intelligence operatives rescued a minor girl who was kidnapped from Kabul by a gang of kidnappers, the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said Sunday.
According to a statement by NDS, the gang was demanding a ransom of $105 thousand for the release of the 5-year-old girl.
The statement further added that the girl, Gay Pareea, was kidnapped 23 days ago from Kabul city and was taken to Pakistain to keep her in the custody until the ransom is recovered.
The gang was busted during a sophisticated operation conducted by the intelligence operatives, NDS said, adding that the gang was led by an individual identified as Syed Mustafa Akbari who was also famous as Agha Sahib.
The other eight members of the gang have been identified as Edris son of Mohammad Omar, Abdul Farid son of Abdul Nabi, Dil Agha son of Mohammad Naeem, Parvez son of Noor Alam, Syed Jamal son of Syed Akbar, Hekmatullah son of Aqa Jan, Mohammad Zarif son of Mohammad Shafi, and Fahima daughter of Akbar.
NDS further added that Abdul Farid was in charge of taking care of the minor girl after she was kidnapped from the city.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A group of four Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... bully boyz were killed as they were planting an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on a roadside in central Pashtun-infested Logar province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said "Last night, four Taliban mine planters including a local commander of Taliban were killed by own explosives while they were planting a roadside kaboom."
The statement further added that the incident took place in Mohammad Agha district of Pashtun-infested Logar province.
"Afghan National Police are working diligently with local leaders and the public to prevent these types of acts from killing and wounding innocent civilians and security forces," the statement said, adding that "Afghan National Police encourages all citizens to report suspicious activities and criminal acts by dialing 119."
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[Bangkok Post] A key suspect was arrested in connection with the car bombing of a Big C superstore in Pattani's Muang district on Tuesday, and a massive manhunt is underway for eight others. Suhaimee Sama-ae was apprehended in Pattani's Nong Chik district on Thursday night. He had allegedly confessed he was involved the attack and implicated eight others in the plot.
Pol Maj Gen Piyawat alleged Suhaimee was part of a group that held up and murdered pickup truck owner Nuson Khachornkham and stole his vehicle. The truck was then packed with explosives and used in the car-bomb attack that left 61 people injured at Big C Supercenter on Tuesday afternoon.
The eight others implicated by Suhaimee have outstanding warrants for their arrest in connection with previous violence in Pattani and Yala provinces. They were identified as Anuwa Kaso, Ruslan Baimat, Maolana Samoh, Isma-ae Mosu, Bukkolee Lamsoh, Abdulasi Japakeeya, Manase Saidee and Muhammad Kaso.
Two of seven other people earlier detained for questioning over the attack are a religious leader and a local tambon leader, who gave "useful information" to investigators.
[Bangkok Post] A canvas vendor was battered, bruised, tied up and cruelly executed before his truck was stolen to be used as the bomb delivery system in an attack on a department store in Pattani on Tuesday.
The body of Nuson Khachornkham was brought to the hospital where doctors said that apart from a gunshot wound in the neck, Nuson was struck with a hard object in the face. His nose was broken and the skin around his eyes and cheeks was gashed open. There were marks on his neck, wrists and ankles where he was tied up. The body was found with its wrists tied behind its back.
Detectives said that a "customer" phoned Nuson on Tuesday morning and asked him to install a canvas awning at a mosque in Nong Chik district. His truck was later parked at the Big C Supercenter in Muang district, Pattani, and exploded at about 2pm Tuesday, injuring 61 people.
Nuson's body was found in a paddy field in tambon Ko Po of Nong Chik district on Thursday. His widow said at his funeral on Friday that her family with two young children had lost its breadwinner and she was worried about how they would survive. She also said she was too afraid to stay in Yala.
[Iraq News] One person was killed, five others were maimed in a blast that took place in Baghdad, a security source has said.
"A booby-trapped car went kaboom! near a bridge of al-Rubaie street, leaving one person killed and five others maimed," the source told Alghad Press, adding that the number is subject to increase.
"The blast occurred near the Federal Police deployment after the car drove off the bridge which flies over al-Rubaie street on the intersection leading to Karrada district, which has a high Shia majority.
Violence and armed conflicts claimed the lives of 317 Iraqis, and caused injuries to 403 others during the month of April, according to a monthly count by the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI).
The total figure of victims signalled a drop from 1115 victims in March.
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[Cracked] Oh, lovely. We're sure Benjamin appreciated having a custom Seize sur Vingt tuxedo when he was debating which of his nostrils to pick for dinner. Other details of this orgy included how the couple first bonded on a trip to Ibiza with 25 of their closest friends, how their wedding guests included Paris Hilton and Adrien Brody, and how they once got into a minor disagreement over where to put a Gerard van den Berg chair, a trendy La-Z Boy that typically sells for thousands of dollars.
Look, wealthy people have every right to throw fancy weddings. But when you get the newspaper to rub our faces in it like this, you inch just that little bit closer to becoming the villains in a young adult dystopia.
But don't worry -- their extreme wealth hasn't caused them to forget how to treat working-class life like a novelty:
[IsraelTimes] Wife of Ahmad Qatamesh denies he has PFLP connections, says he was likely detained for supporting prisoners’ hunger strike.
IDF troops placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! 14 suspects in the West Bank during raids overnight Saturday, including a senior member of the terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, an army spokesperson said.
According to the Shin Bet security agency, Ahmad Qatamesh was arrested in the city of el-Bireh and taken in for interrogation on the basis of his alleged membership in the PFLP.
Qatamesh, who is also a writer, was previously held in an Israeli prison in the 1990s for over five years without trial over his ties to the PFLP. At the time of his release, he was the longest-serving Paleostinian prisoner to be held in so-called administrative detention.
He was also rearrested in 2011 and held again without charge for over two years.
Qatamesh’s wife, Suha Barghouti, told al-Jazeera on Sunday that she believes her husband was arrested due to his advocacy on behalf of Paleostinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons.
"We don’t know yet what is happening or why, but I think because he is campaigning for the prisoners and is very active," she said, adding that he was warned by Israel "not to speak so publicly."
Barghouti also said that her husband was wrongly targeted as a result of the "image" Israel has of him.
"They still in their mind consider him a leader and hold him responsible for actions. He’s not a leader or a part of any political organization," she said.
"They have an image of Ahmad [and] he’s paying the bill for what they think he is," she added.
According to Paleostinian officials, 1,500 inmates have been refusing food since the strike began nearly a month ago to protest prison conditions. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... Israeli officials say only some 800 continue to refuse food and have dismissed the hunger strike as an attempt by its leader -- convicted Fatah terrorist Marwan Barghouti -- to show Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... that he still wields influence on the Paleostinian street.
Barghouti is a popular figure in Paleostinian society and is seen as a possible successor to Abbas.
Of the 14 suspects arrested overnight, 13 were detained for their involvement in "popular terror," a term used by the army to denote acts such as rock-throwing and rioting, the IDF said.
[Breitbart] WARSAW, Poland (AP) ‐ Warsaw’s mayor has unveiled a monument to a World War II hero who volunteered to go to Auschwitz and informed firsthand on the atrocities there but later was killed by the communist regime.
The memorial for Capt. Witold Pilecki is located near the place where in 1940 he let himself be caught by the occupying Nazi Germans. It was a step toward becoming an inmate of the Auschwitz death camp.
Pilecki’s descendants joined hundreds of Warsaw residents and authorities at the ceremony Saturday. Survived the Nazis, Auschwitz, the Warsaw uprising, but was unable to survive the Communists.
[Daily Excelsior] Two turbans of Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) who beat feet from an Army base after carrying out Fidayeen attack last month were killed in a shootout in Handwara area of North Kashmire this afternoon.
The two turbans were killed in a brief encounter in Warpora area of Handwara after 21 RR of Army and Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmire Police Handwara carried out an operation on a specific information regarding the presence of turbans in Warpora.
As the security forces launched searches in the area, turbans fired upon the search party and security forces retaliated, ensuing an encounter. Two turbans affiliated with LeT were killed in this brief encounter.
Two AK 47 rifles, 2 pistols, 4 AK magazines, 77 AK rounds, 2 pistol magazines, 7 pistol ammunition rounds, 2 UBGL grenades, 2 HHR, one matrix sheet C3 and C4 and C6 were recovered from the Fidayeen killed in Panzgam Army base, while one map, one feather jacket and some more articles including some cash were recovered from the encounter site.
The Commanding Officer 21 RR, Colonel Kuldeep Singh said that these two killed turbans were involved in suicide kaboom on Panzgam Army base last month. "We found yet to heal wound on the body of one of the eliminated holy warriors which is indicative of likelihood of his involvement in the Panzgam suicide attack. We have found some other evidence among war like stores confirming their involvement in Panzgam incident."
Giving details of the operation, the Commanding Officer said: "We got information about presence of two holy warriors in the forest area of Handwara. This information came to us this afternoon and we accordingly alongwith the Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmire Police Handwara planned an operation to track these terrorists. When we were searching the forest area we observed suspicious movement of two individuals and on being challenged they fired indiscriminately at our joint Army and SOG party. We retaliated and firing continued for 10-15 minutes during which we were able to neutralize both the terrorists. We recovered large quantity of war like stores which includes two AK rifles, two pistols", he said.
These turbans managed to escape from the Panzgam Army base on April 27 and one had received an injury and left his AK-47 rifle there. Three Army personnel including a senior officer and two turbans were killed when turbans of LeT stormed into an Army base in Panzgam village of North Kashmire’s Kupwara district on April 27.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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 ... militias in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa declared a state of emergency on Sunday after an outbreak of cholera, which has killed dozens of people.
Yemen's health ministry called on humanitarian organizations and other aid donors to help it deal with the epidemic and avert an "unprecedented disaster".
The announcement comes just hours after earlier reports suggested Houthi militias were preventing cholera patients from receiving medical treatments at the Republican Hospital in Sanaa.
The Ministry of Health speaking on behalf of the illegitimate government run by Houthis and Saleh forces said on Sunday that the hospital would stop receiving any cases of cholera in order to treat murderous Moslems on the front lines first, sources confirmed.
A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill as hospitals struggle to cope with an influx of patients, the International Committee of the Red Thingy said Sunday.
"We now are facing a serious outbreak of cholera," said ICRC director of operations Dominik Stillhart at a news conference in the capital Sanaa.
Citing figures compiled by the Yemeni health ministry, Stillhart said 115 people had died of cholera between April 27 and Saturday.
More than 8,500 suspected cases of the waterborne disease were reported in the same period in 14 governorates across Yemen, Stillhart said, up from 2,300 cases in 10 governorates last week.
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[Iraq News] Iraqi government forces recaptured Sunday the first district to have fallen in Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s grip in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , setting 80 families free from there as operations near recapturing the group’s last strongholds in the region, a security source was quoted saying.
BasNews quoted Iraqi army Major Ali Mohsen saying forces took over the 17 Tamuz (July 17th), the very first neighborhood of Mosul to have fallen in IS grip in June 2014. Shafaaq News website quoted a security source saying that Iraqi forces managed to free 80 families from the northern area of that neighborhood.
Mohsen told BasNews that the forces also took over the 30 Tamuz district and were in control over 60 percent of al-Refaie. He said troops were preparing to invade al-Najjar district and the Mosul Hotel.
BasNews quoted Ahmed al-Obaidi, a Federal Police Captain, said IS Death Eaters on Sunday rubbed out 16 Iraqi women who were trying to flee al-Rifaie, adding that 30 other families in the same district.
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[Iraq News] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is nearing an "electoral alliance" with influential Shia religious and political leader Moqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... in a bid to isolate former PM and premiership hopeful Nouri al-Maliki, according to a newspaper.
London-based Al Hayat said the anticipated alliance could also draw Iraq’s Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi’s Muttahidon (United) bloc in addition to Kurdish political forces, most notably the Kurdistan Democratic Party, led by Kurdish President Masud Barzani.
The purpose of all those parties is to "keep Maliki away", according to Al Hayat.
It added that Sadr’s and Maliki’s movements had been caught up in an intense rivalry, which became most remarkable in Maliki’s push for a draft law restricting the right to stage protests in a bid to curb weekly pro-reform demonstrations Sadr’s fans had staged upon a call from their leader. It noted that the draft was slated for discussion in parliament on Sunday but was adjourned due to pressures from civil society groups.
The newspaper’s speculations regarding a possible alliance came hours after Maliki said in a statement by his office that he was renouncing his call for a Shia majority rule in Iraq. He accused parties, which he did not name, of plotting against the political process by seeking to put off elections.
Iraqi parliament elections are slated for early 2018, and there is a tendency to run municipal elections simultaneously. Shia groups occupy more than a half of the parliament’s 328 seats.
According to the statement, Maliki’s announcement came during a conference on "societal reconciliation" in the southern Iraqi province of Najaf. Explaining his concession, Maliki said "the country rejects sectarianism and racism".
Maliki’s opponents accuse him of stoking sectarian divisions and failure to curb corruption throughout his two-term, eight-year premiership, besides blaming him for losing Iraqi territories 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.... hard boys.
Maliki is the leader of Daawa Party, of which PM Abadi is a senior member.
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He seldom got to play the hero. But in every film or series he had a role in, as far as I was concerned, the hero and villain roles were inverted. Similarly, I've always considered Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) the Good in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
[ALMASDARNEWS] U.S. and British forces entered southern Syria on Sunday afternoon while traveling through the Tanf Border-Crossing in the Homs Governorate, the SMART News Agency reported tonight. Based on the report released by the SMART News Agency, approximately 150 U.S. and British military personnel entered Syria, alongside the Free Syrian Army’s “Jaysh Mughawyr Al-Thurah”; they were filmed traveling towards the Hamimah area.
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I read about them staging for this last week here - https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/3835
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[Daily Excelsior] Pakistain army today opened new fronts in Rajouri and Poonch sectors even as entire population from nine villages of Nowshera sector, located close to the Line of Control (LoC) shifted to safer areas including the migrant camps and houses of their relatives. While there was no shelling in Nowshera sector today, panic still prevailed among the villagers, who were putting up in forward areas.
Official sources told the Excelsior that almost entire population from nine villages, located close to the LoC and which bore brunt of Pak shelling yesterday as well as prior to that, were evacuated in buses and bunkers overnight and this morning while some of them reached the safer areas including the migrant camps on their own.
The villages, deserted by the people, included Khamba, Sarya, Bhawani, Kalsian, Anwas Bhandar, Manpur, Dhanaka, Khori and Ganiah, located close to the LoC in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district, where three civilians have been killed and half a dozen others injured during past four days.
Official figures revealed that 1200 people have been lodged in three migrant camps at Government Higher Secondary School Boys, Nowshera, Government Middle School, Bawali and Government High School Nonial while around 400 people have left for the houses of their relatives in safer areas from the villages, hit by very heavy mortar shelling by Pakistain army yesterday.
Indian side had given effective retaliation to Pakistain. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... details of casualties and damages suffered by Pakistain couldn’t be ascertained immediately.
All Government schools falling within five kilometers radius of LoC have been closed in Nowshera and Manjakote sectors in view of Pakistain shelling. Some of the Government schools have been hit by 120mm and 82mm mortars fired by the Pakistain army in Nowshera and Manjakote sectors.
Sources said the authorities had to press a fleet of buses and bunkers to evacuate the civilians, who were trapped in the forward villages in view of heavy Pakistain shelling. The buses going on evacuation operation were also targeted at Nonial yesterday. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... the evacuation operation was completed by this afternoon as there was no shelling since 7.45 pm yesterday. Apart from evacuation, some of the people reached the migrant camps on their own while others left for the houses of their relatives in safer areas.
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[Iraq News] A local official has unveiled that a former al-Qaeda leader and a close aide of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s supreme leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... was killed in an Arclight airstrike in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Sunday.
Alsumaria News quoted Udai al-Khadran, mayor of al-Khales, Diyala, saying he received confirmed information that the krazed killer, a former Iraqi army brigadier, died along with four companions.
Kahdran said the dear departed member was al-Qaeda’s "emir" in al-Khales between 2006 and 2007. He had fled to Hawija, Islamic State’s stronghold in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... where he stayed in hiding using a fake ID before emerging to the scene again to become IS’s military commander for that region. He later became a senior commander in Mosul.
"The dear departed is the criminal mastermind for Islamic State’s defense strategies," Khadran stated, adding that he had been involved in the killing of "hundreds of innocent people in many provinces, including Diyala."
However, it seems he has no name, or the reporter would have mentioned it.
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a former Iraqi army brigadier
Reminds me: did we ever get a confirmed-confirmed kill/death on Big Red?
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[Last Refuge] Good grief. NBC’s Chuck Toad spent two-thirds of his interview opportunity with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking repeated questions about the preferred Democrat narrative known as the ‘Muh Russian conspiracy’.
However, Tillerson did have the opportunity to push back against Senator John McCain’s ridiculous attacks against Secretary T-Rex. Anyone who watched the T-Rex talk to the State Department on May 3rd can fully understand the context of Tillerson’s outline of distinction between “U.S. policies” and “U.S. Values”. If you haven’t watched or read the speech you should, SEE HERE.
Senator John McCain was furious that Secretary Tillerson would not accept the McCain/Powers “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine which mandates U.S. foreign policy as interventionist around the globe. Senator McCain wrote an op-ed opposing Tillerson and demanding that U.S. policy must include creating more wars around the world.
[Ynet] President Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah Party posts a poor showing in Paleostinian municipal elections across the West Bank, reflecting public discontent, even though the rival Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, movement stayed out of the race.
President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's ruling Fatah Party posted a poor showing in Paleostinian municipal elections across the West Bank, even though the rival Islamic Hamas movement stayed out of the race, according to results announced Sunday.
The vote reflected public discontent with Abbas and his Fatah movement, whose popularity has sunk due to a weak economy, nepotism in its ranks and its failure to lead the Paleostinians closer to independence.
Saturday's vote gave Paleostinians a rare chance to cast ballots after over a decade without presidential or legislative elections. Abbas' embattled party ran virtually unopposed, and Saturday's election was seen as a litmus test of Fatah's popularity.
But the results indicated lackluster support for the party, which has dominated Paleostinian politics for half a century. In an indication of public sentiment, just 53 percent of eligible voters cast ballots. Voter turnout in the previous municipal elections, in 2012, was comparable, elections commission director Hisham Khalil said.
In Hebron, the West Bank's largest city and a Hamas stronghold, Fatah won just seven of 15 seats.
"The result wasn't great for us," said Tayseer Abu Sneineh, the head of Fatah's list in the city.
In Nablus, another major city, Fatah won 11 of 15 seats, but only after forming an alliance with Islamist candidates. Turnout in Nablus was just 21 percent.
Fatah only won clear victories in two major cities, Jenin and Jericho. In several cities, Fatah couldn't piece together enough candidates to field a campaign list, leaving local Fatah politicians to run as independents.
Roughly 2.2 million Paleostinians live in the West Bank, of whom just over 787,000 were eligible to vote. East Jerusalem's 300,000 residents didn't take part in the elections.
The Paleostinians have been divided between rival governments since Hamas defeated Fatah in the 2006 legislative elections and drove the latter out of the Gazoo Strip the following year, leaving Abbas in control only of the Paleostinian Authority autonomy government in parts of the West Bank. Repeated attempts to reconcile have failed.
Fatah and Hamas were supposed to compete in elections last year in both the West Bank and Gazoo. But with the rival factions disqualifying each other's candidates, Fatah went forward with the elections in the West Bank alone in a bid to renew its legitimacy.
The Paleostinian president is currently more than a decade into what was supposed to be a four-year term.
Hanna Nasser, head of the Central Elections Commission, said the organization plans to approach Hamas about the possibility of holding municipal elections in the Gazoo Strip.
[ABC] A group of white nationalists carried torches Saturday night in Charlottesville, Virginia while protesting the planned removal of Confederate statues in the city -- an incident that has provoked anger and frustration from politicians and activists.
The torch wielders -- reported to be several dozen by local paper Daily Progress -- were reacting to a November 28 city council vote to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at Charlottesville’s Lee Park, the public space where the protest took place Saturday. As reported by the Daily Progress? Blunt irony that.
A court injunction has halted the removal of the statue for six months, but that didn't stop the protesters, led by avowed white nationalist Richard Spencer, from reportedly chanting slogans like "we will not be replaced," "Russia is our friend" and "blood and soil " at the site of the statue.
Mike Signer, the mayor of Charlottesville, expressed his disgust with Saturday's protest in an interview with ABC News.
"I think it's horrific," he said of the protests. "We're a city that proudly values our diversity." We 'value our diversity' with the obvious exception of historical parks, statuary and torch light protests.
Signer noted that the demonstration coincided with the park’s Festival of Cultures, event, which was created to celebrate the "cultural and linguistic diversity" of the local community. It isn’t clear whether or not the timing was deliberate, he said.
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"I think it's horrific," he said of the protests. "We're a city that proudly values our diversity."
What edition of Newspeak did he use in that sentence?
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This is a picture that some people do not realize represents pockets of people who are still Dixie.
A few years ago I was in Monroe and West Monroe, Louisiana on business. I stayed at a hotel in Monroe, and to get to restaurants I walked a few blocks from Monroe to West Monroe, by crossing the Ouachita River. This happened to be the time of year for Mardi Gras so I went across the bridge into Monroe to watch what I thought would be a Mardi Gras parade. Before crossing the bridge a young black guy on the Monroe side tried to sell crack to me.
The parade was in progress when I got on the other side of the bridge and what I saw was truly amazing.
Confederates. Men in full uniform, carrying muskets and in some cases actual rifles. The flag of Dixie was every where. And they were all Democrats. Dixie Democrats.
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It's tribal. A common bond of identification. Takes many forms across societies. Including the critics who are incapable of self reflection of their own tribal identifications.
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The flag of Dixie was every where. And they were all Democrats. Dixie Democrats.
I'm from the south (Georgia) and still have relatives and friends there. They're NOT "all Democrats". Instead, they're proud of their southern heritage. Most of them have nothing in common with the current Democratic party, although half of them may indeed have a "D" next to their name on their voter registration.
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My Grandmother told us that among her mother's friends growing up, the Civil War was referred to as the "late unpleasantness" or the "War of Northern Aggression". This is oral history from a Virginia/Maryland family with only half their tongue in cheek! The progressive/commies are driving the wedge deeper with their BLM friends, I hope they know what they are uncorking?
[SHABELLENEWS] At least 17 people, mostly women and young children have died from hunger and lack of water at sprawling IDP camps near Somalia’s capital Mogadishu in the past few days.
An IDP camp administrator confirmed to Radio Shabelle, the deaths of the people, who were among thousands of locally displaced persons fled the drought-stricken regions in southern Somalia.
Thousands have been streaming into Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, in search of food aid, to escape from dying of hunger and thirsty due to the biting drought in the horn of Africa country.
The deaths of the IDPs came as the Somali National Drought Committee officials said they collected large sum of money as donation that was allocated to assist the drought-affected people.
The Somali National Drought Committee has been accused of misuse of the financial donations as people are dying of hunger and lack of water.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egyptian member of parliament Ghada Ajami announced she is preparing to propose a draft law to punish those who conceive more than three children.
She confirmed to Al Arabiya that the draft law would be submitted to parliament within days and which stipulates "punishing those who have more than three children from enjoying government treatment and public services".
"That will include free education in government schools or obtaining subsidized goods from the government," she added.
She added that Egypt's drastic increase in population is consuming most of the development revenues.
"Egypt sees a population reaching 100 million people despite the decline in the rate of economic growth, which leads to increased burdens on the state and lack of services and take all the resources of the country," Ajami told Al Arabiya.
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It depends on the parents, and on the children. My mother thoroughly enjoyed deliberately having four in four years, and we enjoyed one another.
Egypt's birth rate had fallen to slightly above 3, then rose with the fortunes of the Muslim Brotherhood , per the CIA World Factbook. This ordinance would punish the Islamists, primarily the Muslim Brotherhood:
Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world and the third most populous country in Africa, behind Nigeria and Ethiopia. Most of the country is desert, so about 95% of the population is concentrated in a narrow strip of fertile land along the Nile River, which represents only about 5% of Egypt’s land area. Egypt’s rapid population growth – 46% between 1994 and 2014 – stresses limited natural resources, jobs, housing, sanitation, education, and health care.
Although the country’s total fertility rate (TFR) fell from roughly 5.5 children per woman in 1980 to just over 3 in the late 1990s, largely as a result of state-sponsored family planning programs, the population growth rate dropped more modestly because of decreased mortality rates and longer life expectancies. During the last decade, Egypt’s TFR decline stalled for several years and then reversed, reaching 3.6 in 2011, and has plateaued the last few years. Contraceptive use has held steady at about 60%, while preferences for larger families and early marriage may have strengthened in the wake of the recent 2011 revolution. The large cohort of women of or nearing childbearing age will sustain high population growth for the foreseeable future (an effect called population momentum).
[DW] With purges intensifying, rich Turks are mopping up real estate in Greece. Old tensions may loom, but the incentive for secular Turks is sweet: visa-free stay in an EU member state.
A lanky man in a bright red shirt paces across a wood-paneled waiting room. He peers out of the window, then plops into a comfy black chair, bouncing back up again within minutes to place a string of telephone calls, pacing the room once again.
Unnerved by the presence of a news hound, the lanky man shies away from any conversation, refusing to divulge his name and details of his family and their whereabouts.
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Clandestine attempt to take the rest of Cyprus?
[ALMASDARNEWS] A massive blast hit, this morning, a base for rebels near the northern city of Azaz, leaving scores dead and injured.
According to rebel sources, the kaboom was caused by an unidentified surface-to-surface missile, and targeted an ammunition depot for the rebel group known as Liwa al-Fateh.
The sources reported that scores of turbans have been killed and maimed in the kaboom.
Azaz has been frequently targeted with waves of suicide kabooms by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... . The last attack has killed 6 and maimed 18 others at the Interim Government headquarter in the city.
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What kind of rebels?
My first thought was Turks shooting at Kurds, but these could be Russian/Syrian targets or US targets.
I don't know that ISIS has ground to ground missles.
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Generally speaking, altohough that may not apply in the Middle East, ammo dumps are protected by...stuff. Concrete. Sandbags. Big holes with overhead cover.
IOW, it's not a target for an area weapon. It has to be very accurate and that means you need to know the position to the nearest, say, ten meters.
Additionally, military explosives or propellantes are designed not to go off willy nilly. So you have to put a high explosive--detonator prefearbly--on it. Or a gib ol' bomb close by.
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east of Raqqa and north of the Euphrates
I think it is in Kurdish controlled territory
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A quick google of "Liwa al-Fateh" suggests that it first became Liwa al Tawhid and then Jabhat al Shamiya, which is one of the US-supported power brokers in Aleppo among the 50+ rebel groups operating there, according to an Institute for the Study of War backgrounder dated February, 2016. Perhaps someone with a mind better suited to such complexities could do further research, as I do not stand behind any of this beyond averring that I found it on the internet.
Al Jabhat al Shamiya (U.S. Supported)
Al Jabhat al Shamiya is the newest incarnation of one of Aleppo’s oldest Free Syrian Army A liates, Liwa al Tawhid.27 Al Jabhat al Shamiya likely maintains the Liwa al Tawhid’s connections to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, although the formation of Al Jabhat al Shamiya reportedly followed months of negotiations between Turkey, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, which may have included a new funding agreement for the group.28 The group’s in uence appears to be growing in 2016. The group publically declared its merger with prominent U.S.-backed, TOW anti-tank missile recipient Thuwar al Sham Brigades on January 27, 2016.29 The merger appears to have transferred the TOW missiles, as Al Jabhat al Shamiya demonstrated its rst use of the weapon on January 26, 2016.30 Al Jabhat al Shamiya controls the Babal Salameh border crossing with Turkey north of Aleppo City, which feeds the GLOC pro-regime forces severed on February 4, 2016.31 The group is therefore now likely split between the Northern Aleppo countryside, where it retains access to the border, and the city, where it is at risk of siege.
Al Jabhat al Shamiya is a major anti-ISIS opposition group, and increased its anti-ISIS messaging in late 2015. It released a mock execution video styled after ISIS propaganda on December 9, 2015, in which ghters staged an execution of ISIS ghters and walked away from the detainees, asserting “Muslims are not criminals” and demanding that ISIS repent for its violent actions.32
Al Jabhat al Shamiya is also a major political and religious actor in the province. The group maintains specialized units for activities behind the front line, including a Security Commission, which is responsible for internal security measures on behalf of the Shari’a Court of Aleppo and its Countryside. Its activities include policing, managing checkpoints,33 and conducting arrests and executions.34 The Security Commission also claims to provide services such as maintaining electricity and water infrastructure in Aleppo, although this appears to function at a more localized level;35 Jabhat al Nusra maintains control over the main water and power plants in Aleppo city.36 Al Jabhat al Shamiya also manages several “monitoring centers” in Aleppo Province to assist other opposition factions with surveillance and command and control.37
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran’s ex-president Mohammad Khatami on Sunday endorsed President Hassan Rouhani in a video message, calling on voters to give him another term in this week’s election.
"Mr Rouhani’s government has been a successful one, despite all the limitations, problems and the great expectations," he said in the video posted on social media.
"We should all go and vote for Rouhani, for freedom in thought, logic in dialogue, law in action, securing the rights of citizens and enforcing social and economic justice."
Khatami praised the government for taming rampant inflation of above 40 percent in 2013 to below 9.5 percent and the "steps" taken against stagnation.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Following new gains, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have advanced to within a few kilometers of Raqqa city, bringing four new villages under their control over the past 24 hours.
With the fourth phase of operation Euphrates Wrath in full force, the SDF took control of Tal Maaz, Melali, al-Atshana and Abu Khabret al-Rachid in a rural region northwest of Raqqa.
Similar to djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , 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.... forces have turned to jacket wallahs to fend off attacks from hostile belligerents. A SDF-linked outlet said "tens" of ISIS snuffies were killed but did not specify the jihadist corpse count during the Kurdish advance.
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[Iraq News] The paramilitary troops have freed a village, east of Qairawan region, and besieged another in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... In a statement, al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said that troops "fully liberated Tal Qasab village, east of Qairawan, from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... bully boys."
"Huge losses in lives and weapons were inflicted on the enemy," the statement said adding that Bashuk village in western Mosul has been besieged.
A stash of weapons and explosives factory were found in east of Qairawan, the troops said in other statements.
Earlier on Sunday, the PMUs declared reaching to the last IS supply routes of Qahtaniyah -Qairawan in the west after cutting all the roads in Qairawan.
The troops also declared that the snuffies withdrew from the front defense lines to inside Qairawan.
Many villages in Qairawan region, a main Islamic State bastion which links between Tal Afar town and the Syrian borders, were freed over the past two days as the troops launched an offensive on Friday to free the region.
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[Iraq News] The paramilitary troops have declared reaching to the last supply routes of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... after cutting all the roads in Qairawan, west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... The troops of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) "controlled the main street in Qairawan," according to its media service
"The troops cut all of the supply routes of IS, which now has only one route of Qahtaniyah -Qairawan route in the west," it added. The murderous Moslems "withdrew from the front defense lines to inside Qairawan
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... a security source told Shafaq News that IS evacuated the residents from a village in Qairawan as the battle rages.
"The murderous Moslems forced the people in al-Mawaleh village, west of Qairawan, to leave toward Baaj district, in west of Mosul on borders with Syria," the source added.
PMUs liberated many villages in Qairawan region, a main Islamic State bastion which links between Tal Afar town and the Syrian borders, over the past two days as the troops launched operations on Friday to free the region.
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[Iran Press TV] Yemeni snipers have killed two Saudi troopers in the kingdom's southern region of Jizan in another retaliatory attack against Riyadh's full-scale war on the impoverished nation.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A group of four 
[Bangkok Post] A key suspect was arrested in connection with the car bombing of a Big C superstore in Pattani's Muang district on Tuesday, and a massive manhunt is underway for eight others. Suhaimee Sama-ae was apprehended in Pattani's Nong Chik district on Thursday night. He had allegedly confessed he was involved the attack and implicated eight others in the plot.
[IsraelTimes] Wife of Ahmad Qatamesh denies he has PFLP connections, says he was likely detained for supporting prisoners’ hunger strike.
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[Daily Excelsior] Pakistain army today opened new fronts in Rajouri and Poonch sectors even as entire population from nine villages of Nowshera sector, located close to the Line of Control (LoC) shifted to safer areas including the migrant camps and houses of their relatives. While there was no shelling in Nowshera sector today, panic still prevailed among the villagers, who were putting up in forward areas.
[Ynet] President Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah Party posts a poor showing in Paleostinian municipal elections across the West Bank, reflecting public discontent, even though the rival 
[DW] With purges intensifying, rich Turks are mopping up real estate in Greece. Old tensions may loom, but the incentive for secular Turks is sweet: visa-free stay in an EU member state. 
