A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the father of a Muslim boy who was arrested after taking a homemade clock to his high school in Texas.
Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed sued the city of Irving, the Irving Independent School District and the principal of MacArthur High School on behalf of his son Ahmed Mohamed, whose arrest and three-day suspension for taking a clock ‐ mistaken by a teacher for a bomb ‐ to school on Sept. 14, 2015, attracted national headlines.
Charges later were dropped, but Mohamed filed a lawsuit claiming his son's civil rights were violated by discrimination on the basis of his race and religion. The suit, which sought unspecified damages and attorney fees, also claimed city officials violated the then-14-year-old boy's rights under the Fourth and Fifth amendments during his interrogation and arrest.
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pretty obvious from the start that this was a CAIR put-up act to keep dhimmis afraid to spot the terrorists among them
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I would hope that a losing plaintiff who sought compensation for attorney's fees would have to pay defendant's attorney's fees. Clockboy's family got off light.
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I always call him 'Fake Bomb Boy' because that is what he is. He didn't 'invent' a clock. I doubt he even built it ( his father probably did or someone from CAIR).
Somehow should ask him to build a second one. Under observation and without his father 'helping'.
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China has for the first time extracted gas from an ice-like substance under the South China Sea considered key to future global energy supply.
Chinese authorities have described the success as a major breakthrough.
Methane hydrates, also called "flammable ice", hold vast reserves of natural gas.
Many countries including the US and Japan are working on how to tap those reserves, but mining and extracting are extremely difficult.
What is 'flammable ice'?
The catchy phrase describes a frozen mixture of water and gas.
"It looks like ice crystals but if you zoom in to a molecular level, you see that the methane molecules are caged in by the water molecules," Associate Professor Praveen Linga from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore told the BBC.
Officially known as methane clathrates or hydrates, they are formed at very low temperatures and under high pressure. They can be found in sediments under the ocean floor as well as underneath permafrost on land.
Despite the low temperature, these hydrates are flammable. If you hold a lighter to them, the gas encapsulated in the ice will catch fire. Hence, they are also known as "fire ice" or "flammable ice".
By lowering the pressure or raising the temperature, the hydrates break down into water and methane - a lot of methane. One cubic metre of the compound releases about 160 cubic metres of gas, making it a highly energy-intensive fuel. The noose is closing on oil ticks.
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Statoil of Norway found that the floor of the North Sea is lousy with this stuff. You have to be careful with offshore platform placement because of it, not to mention sea floor equipment.
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Millions of K-12 students across the country believe that mathematics is a sadistic discipline--(I should know, I was one of them)--but a new "social justice" training module aims to persuade teachers that maybe the kids are on to something.
The course was designed by Teach for America and is offered through EdX, according to Campus Reform. It presupposes that math could be made more interesting for students if it was infused with socially relevant themes. That's not a terrible assumption--maybe young people would like math better if it was being taught in a language they understood. (If Olivia eats 10 pieces of avocado toast every day, how long will it be until she can afford to move out of her parent's house? That sort of thing.)
But Teach for America thinks that language is "social justice," and has designed a course that makes some startling claims about math.
"In western mathematics, our ways of knowing include formalized reasoning or proof, decontextualization, and algorithmic thinking, leaving little room for those having non-western mathematical skills and thinking processes," the training course claims.
It continues:
"Mathematical ethics recognizes that, for centuries, mathematics has been used as a dehumanizing tool... mathematics formulae also differentiate between the classifications of a war or a genocide and have been used to trick indigenous peoples out of land and property."
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Formalized reasoning or proof, decontextualization/abstraction, and algorithmic thinking are pretty much the concepts that make 'Western' mathematics a very powerful tool part of which is the language of the universe.
Without these concepts any form of 'non-Western' mathematics is a compilation of intuited truths, half-truths and much superstition.
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So STEM jobs are hiring, and STEM jobs pay well, and STEM is one of the big reason's America has stayed on top so by all means let's convince the children that the base of the whole STEM success pyramid is evil?
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Like Indian positional notation ("Arabic" numerals)?
For some reason the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans were able to build incredible stuff without it. The 'West' didn't use (cultural appropriation!) them till sometime after the Reconquista.
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Rarely in the last half-century have so many elite conservatives and intellectuals been so estranged both from a Republican administration and from those who voted for it--neither have they become so animated in their antipathy and disgust for a sitting president.
During the 2016 election, and the current Trump presidency, there have appeared four implicit tenets to the conservative "Never Trump" position that, we are supposed to understand, justified not voting for him, actively opposing him, or voting for Hillary Clinton:
...So far all the political violence associated with the election of Trump, from Inauguration to the latest campus rioting, has been on the Left.
...The crudity in contemporary politics--from the constant sick jokes referring to First Family incest, smears against the First Lady, low attacks on the Trump children, boycotts of the Inauguration, talk and dreams of killing the president--is on the liberal/progressive side.
...Trump was not so much a reflection of red-state Americans’ political ignorance, as their weariness with those of both parties who ridicule, ignore, or patronize them--and now seek to overturn the verdict of the election. Because people without college degrees in Crit. Lit. are too stupid to vote?
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A read most of the whole thing, skimming a bit, and concluded, "pretty good".
Then I saw the author at the bottom - Victor Davis Hanson. No wonder it was good!
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Rarely in the last half-century have so many elite conservatives and intellectuals been so estranged both from a Republican administration and from those who voted for it.
That is because their "conservatism" was a gig, not a cause.
And because Trump's success was an embarrassing contrast to their pathetic failures.
The question I would ask all the Con Elite is:
"What exactly is it that you have conserved?(Your place at the trough doesn't count)"
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The blizzard of lies and distraction blowing through Washington is not just any routine stuffstorm, but a calculated attempt to bring down a president ‐ our president, not the establishment’s president. And more than that, it’s an attempt to ensure that we never again have the ability to disrupt the bipartisan D.C. cabal’s permanent supremacy by inserting a chief executive who refuses to kiss their collective Reid.
This is a coup against us. It’s a coordinated campaign by liberals and their allies in the bureaucracy and media to once and for all ensure their perpetual rule over us. We need to fight it, here and now, so we don’t have to fight it down at the bottom of this slippery slope.
It’s brazen. It’s bold. It’s insulting to our intelligence. They aren’t even trying to hide their lies anymore. Truth is irrelevant; this is a choreographed dance routine and everyone has his moves. Call it Breakin’ 2: Electric Leakaroo, except instead of trying to save the community center they’re trying to save their power and prestige. When Trump was elected, I hoped the necessary revolution against 'the New Class' or 'American Mandarinate' can be accomplished without bloodshed. Hoped - not believed.
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Prosecute any and every leak to the fullest extent of the law. When you jail 10-15 reporters for taking classified info and not reporting it, the rest will get the message. Mass firings from the CIA and NSA, replacing them with non-ivy league types but actual patriots will also fix alot of the issues.
I simply can't wait for Tyler Smythe Jameson IV to argues that he was discriminated against when he was fired.
There's nowhere near enough popcorn for that one...
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And it isn't just 'Democrats' vs 'Republicans' anymore. The people have spoken and elected *their* choice and not the Establishement's chosen one. Not a beltway insider - not even a career politician.
They are scared shitless that he might actually try to solve some of the issues he ran on. He might *fix* the immigration issue. He might *build* the wall (and not just promise too), He might even try to keep Americans safe (instead if inviting every terrorist and murder he can find like Obama and Company did). He might arrest and put in Prison the neighborhood Thugs and Murders which Obama and company have been sheltering.
And that is why they loath him and all that he stands for - but Democrats and far too many Republicans.
[AnNahar] U.S.-led coalition aircraft Thursday struck a pro-regime convoy apparently transporting Shia bandidosgunnies in Syria as it headed toward a remote coalition garrison near the Jordanian border, U.S. defense officials said.
While officials stressed the defensive strike did not signal deepening U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war, it nonetheless raises questions about the ongoing feasibility for the coalition to maintain its singular focus on 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.
In a statement, the coalition said the strike had occurred "well inside" an established de-confliction zone northwest of the At-Tanf garrison, where British and U.S. commandos have been training and advising local forces fighting IS.
"A convoy going down the road didn't respond to numerous ways for it to be warned off from getting too close to coalition forces in At-Tanf," a U.S. defense official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "Then there was finally a strike against the lead portion of that movement."
A second defense official told AFP the forces in the convoy appeared to have been Shia militia.
Attempts to stop the convoy included a call to the Russians -- who are working with the Syrian regime -- then a "show of force" in the skies above the vehicles, followed by warning shots.
The first official said the convoy was "significant" in size, but only the lead vehicles were hit.
Coalition officials said Russian forces had apparently unsuccessfully tried to dissuade the pro-regime movement south.
Describing the hours-long event as an "escalation-of-force situation," the official said it did not signal a strategic shift for the coalition, which remains focused on fighting IS group.
Yehya al-Aridi, a front man for the Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee in Geneva, praised the strike.
"We welcome robust action against the foreign forces who have turned Syria into a killing field," he said. "Iran and its militias have kept (President Bashar-al) Assad in power. They cannot be allowed to wage war on our soil with impunity."
America has been militarily involved in Syria since 2014 but has for the most part avoided engaging directly in the country's civil war.
The biggest exception to this was a U.S. cruise missile attack on a Syrian airbase last month in response to a suspected chemical attack by the regime.
At-Tanf has been the target of repeated attacks in recent months.
Last month, U.S.-led allied forces and Syrian rebels thwarted a significant IS attack on the base.
And in June last year, Russian warplanes bombed the outpost, reportedly just one day after British special forces had pulled out.
[AlAhram] The governmental committee tasked with appraising and seizing the funds of members of the banned Moslem Brüderbund group seized on Thursday the funds of 28 Brotherhood leaders, as well as 12 companies affiliated with the group.
In a Thursday statement, the committee, which was formed in 2014 and is headed by Mohammed Yasser Abo El-Fotoh, said that it confiscated the funds 11 members of the family of leading Brotherhood figure and businessman Hassan Malek, including the funds of his five children.
In November 2016, the committee said it had seized the assets of more than 1,370 people as well as 1,125 companies and NGOs since March 2014, with a total of at least $34 million in seized Brotherhood assets.
The Moslem Brüderbund was designated a terrorist organization by the Egyptian government in November 2013.
Malek has been in jail since October 2015 pending investigation into charges of harming the country's economy and financing the banned Brotherhood. His assets were seized by the committee in September 2014.
Earlier this month, a Cairo Criminal Court ordered Malek's release on an EGP 20,000 pending trial. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... after prosecurtors appealed the release order, a judge renewed his detention for 45 days.
The 12 firms seized by the committee today mainly operate in real estate investments, contracting, transportation and import and export, according to the committee’s statement.
The committee added that it has informed both the administrative and general prosecutions of financial and administrative violations in nine schools also seized by the committee.
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The percentage of Jewish Israelis who consider US President Donald Trump more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian has taken a nosedive since his inauguration, according to a Smith Research poll published on Thursday and taken for The Jerusalem Post.
The poll of 500 Israelis representing a statistical sample of the adult Jewish population found that, just days ahead of Trump’s arrival in the country, he will need to take steps to persuade Israelis that he is on their side.
Only 56% of Jewish Israelis said they considered the Trump administration more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian, down from 79% on January 11.
IMO, USA policies in ME will always be screwed: the result of refusing to admit that Islam & Democracy don't mix - not without explosive results.
However, as long as frackers keep fracking ...
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The man elected in good measure due to the excessives of the Left. What better play than to game the system and deep state and wait till 2020 to move the embassy. The Left will go nuts, they can't help themselves, its in their nature. Meanwhile the people who elected him will still be there and would vote as they did, against the Left so publicly displayed. Meanwhile, its a fait accompli just like Obama pulled with so many petty actions.
[CITIZEN.CO.ZA] The Æthiopian Federal High Court accused them of planning to carry out terror attacks inside the East African country.
A court in Æthiopia has sentenced 23 people to up to 15 years in prison for establishing links to the Al Qaeda and Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... Lion of Islam groups.
The Æthiopian Federal High Court accused them of planning to carry out terror attacks inside the East African country.
"The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate quoted the court ruling as saying three of those sentenced had been planning to establish an Islamic state," the Voice of America (VOA) has reported.
According to court officials, the defendants were involved in clandestine activities in six Æthiopian cities, including the capital Addis Ababa, between 2010 and 2014.
The charge sheet said the defendants recruited individuals and sent them to neighbouring Somalia for training. Al-Shabaab, which has links to Al Qaeda, is based in Somalia
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[NEWS24] An Afghan official says eight police have been killed in attacks on three checkpoints in southern Kandahar province.
Zia Durani, spokesperson for the provincial police chief, said on Thursday the Taliban ...Arabic for students... attacked police checkpoints overnight in the districts of Khakrezm Arghistan and Nasheen.
Durani says 22 Taliban fighters were also killed in the attacks. The fighting was particularly fierce in Nasheen district, he says.
Taliban spokesperson Qari Yousof Ahmadi grabbed credit for the attacks.
Elsewhere, in western Hirat province on Thursday, a Taliban gunman attacked an army bus, killing one officer and wounding two others, according to Jilani Farhad, spokesperson for the provincial governor.
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[Al Jazeera] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Pakistain to stay the execution of an Indian national convicted of spying.
India approached the top UN court after Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav, a retired Indian naval officer, was sentenced to death by a Pak military court last month on charges of espionage and sabotage.
"Pakistain shall take all measures at its disposal to ensure that Mr Jadhav is not executed pending the final decision in these proceedings," the ICJ ruled in a unanimous and binding decision on Thursday.
Ronny Abraham, the Hague-based court's president, also asked Pakistain to inform the tribunal that it will implement the ruling, and stressed that ICJ decisions are binding on all state members.
The ICJ's rulings are final and binding. Yet, the court has no means to enforce its decisions and they have occasionally been ignored.
The hearings and, final decision, could take more many months, if not years.
Pakistain's government accepted the decision of the court, saying that the orders do not affect the current status of Jadhav's case as his execution was not imminent, given pending appeals.
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[BENARNEWS.ORG] Two men killed in a firefight with security forces in Sulawesi have been identified as members of the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT) bully boy group, local officials said Tuesday.
The gunbattle took place a day earlier when soldiers on a routine patrol encounted gunnies in a mountainous area of Poso regency so remote that civilians can reach it only after a four-day walk from the nearest village, officials said.
Two were rubbed out while the other men escaped, said Arif Darmawan, head of the Central Sulawesi Police Mobile Brigade Unit. One soldier was maimed, he said.
Central Sulawesi police chief Rudy Sufahriadi on Tuesday identified the two dead men as MIT members Barok, 38, and Askar, 30, of Bima, West Nusa Tenggara.
They were identified by MIT members who were captured in recent months, police said, and their bodies were taken to Bhayangkara Hospital in Palu, where DNA samples would be taken in hopes of locating their relatives.
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who was in Palu on Tuesday to open a congress of the Indonesian Islamic Students Movement, instructed security forces to find the members of the banned outfit still on the lam.
Hundreds of security personnel have been on the ground in Poso regency since January 2015 in two joint army-police operations code-named Camar Maleo and Tinombala.
"(The president) expressed appreciation for the personnel of Tinombala Task Force and communicated that we should focus on finding the remaining (suspects)," Rudy told news hounds in the lovely provincial capital.
More than a dozen MIT members, including its leader, Santoso, were killed as a result of the operations in 2016, officials said. Santoso swore allegiance 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.... terror group in an audio recording released by the MIT in July 2014.
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[RT] The famous Russian architectural features enveloping the White House on the latest cover of Time magazine seem to have stumped CNN, which referred to the onion domes as "Russian minarets."
The cover of the new issue of Time features the White House covered in a structure which appears to be a combination of two Moscow landmarks ‐ the Kremlin Walls and the onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral.
The architectural depiction of the "Trump Russia ties" narrative had CNN stumped, which called the onion domes "Russian minarets" in an editorial. While onion domes are a predominant form of Russian Orthodox church domes, minarets are distinctive tower-like features usually found adjacent to mosques.
CNN quickly realized the mistake and changed the headline "to more accurately describe Russian architecture," according to a clarification in the article.
White House overtaken by Russian minarets on new Time cover
Time magazine published an eye-catching cover Thursday aimed at the Trump presidency -- this time depicting the White House being overtaken by Russian minarets.
Despite promptly changing the wording, the ’Russian minarets’ caused a wave of online mockery.
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[REUTERS] Somalia's al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... publicly cut off the right hands of two men on Thursday after a sharia court convicted them of breaking into a shop and stealing about $500, the al Qaeda-linked group said.
The two men had confessed to the theft in Tiyeglow district of the southern Bakool region and were ordered to refund the money, Moalim Gedow, al-Shabaab’s Bakool governor told Rooters.
An al-Shabaab ambulance then took the men to hospital, Abdullahi Madey, a Tiyeglow resident told Rooters.
Al-Shabaab, which has been fighting for years to topple the central government and impose its own strict interpretation of Islamic law, carries out executions, floggings and amputations after summary trials in cases ranging from espionage to theft.
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[Chicago Tribune] 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 attacked several government-held villages in central Syria on Thursday, capturing at least one of them in violence that left 52 people dead including more than two dozen women and kiddies, some of whom had their heads chopped off, as well as Syrian troops, state media, medical officials and an opposition monitoring group said.
The attack in the central Hama province targeted villages where most residents belong to the Ismaili branch of Shiite Islam, raising fears the Death Eaters might massacre them, as they have in other minority communities in Syria and Iraq.
The villages are located near the town of Salamiyeh and the highway that links the capital, Damascus, to the northern city of Aleppo, but state media said traffic was not affected.
The attacks come as government forces are on the offensive against the Death Eaters in other parts of Syria, mostly in the northern province of Aleppo and the central Homs region and to the east. U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces are meanwhile marching toward the holy warriors' de-facto capital of Raqqa, in northern Syria.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least forty five rockets fired from the other side of Durand Line landed in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan, the local officials said Thursday.
Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani said the rockets were fired on Wednesday and landed in Lalpur district.
Khogyani further added that the rockets landed in Rina Parcha areas but the attack did not incur any casualties to the local residents.
The eastern provinces of Afghanistan including Kunar, Nuristan, and Nangarhar provinces have been subject to indiscriminate artillery shelling from the other side of Durand Line during the past several years.
The persistent rocket attacks have incurred casualties to the residents of the three provinces besides hundreds of families have been forced to flee the area.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial governor of northern Balkh province and Chief Executive of Jamiat-e-Islami party Ata Mohammad Noor has warned that the Northern parts of the country will become second Syria if immediate steps are not taken to improve the security and eliminate threats posed by the terrorist groups.
Speaking during a gathering in capital Kabul, Noor said the government’s policies and steps to eliminate terrorism are not sufficient.
Noor also claimed that certain countries have changed their policies and are now supporting the Taliban group to counter the threats posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group having affiliates in Afghanistan.
In other parts of his speech during the gathering, Noor said the Jamiat-e-Islami party will continue to remain robust and no challenges will have any impact on its presence and activities.
The chief executive of Jamiat-e-Islami party also emphasized on the need of unity among the people and establishment of proper programs to defend from the rights of the people.
In regards to the appointment of the new chief for Jamiat-e-Islami party, Noor said a congress summit will be held and anyone receiving the highest support will be given the post.
The remarks by Noor came as Noor aims to further step up political activities, eying participation in the upcoming presidential elections.
Speaking a ceremony in Mazar-e-Sharif city on the eve of Nowruz, Noor said he has intentions to step into major political activities, emphasizing that the decision regarding his resignation will be taken once consulting with the elders, his political allies, and others close to him.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pak officials claim two diplomats of the country have been placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! by the Afghan cops in capital Kabul.
"The Afghan Deputy Head of Mission was summoned to the Foreign Office today to lodge Pakistain’s strong protest over the incident in which two diplomatic officials in Kabul were detained, reportedly by Afghan security agencies," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistain said in a statement.
The statement further added "The Afghan DHM was conveyed that the incident was a clear violation of the Vienna Convention of Diplomatic Relations (1961) and against the spirit of the brotherly relations between the two countries. It was emphasized that such incidents undermined the constructive engagement which the two countries envisaged for strengthening of bilateral ties."
"We urge the Afghan Government to take immediate steps to ensure the security and safety of our diplomatic personnel and premises and to ensure that such incident do not take place in future," the statement added.
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What mischievous activity caused this?
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They were probably nabbed providing cash, weapons, and material support to the Haqqani terrorist network operating in Kabul.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan intelligence operatives have foiled plans by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group to carry out a series of attacks in capital Kabul.
The National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) in a statement said Wednesday that a hideout of the Taliban forces of Evil was busted in capital Kabul, resulting to the killing of a Taliban bad boy.
The statement further added that the operation was conducted in the vicinity of Mosahi district of Kabul.
The Taliban bad boy killed during the operation was actively involved in terrorist attacks and bombings, NDS said, adding that two of his lover companions were also tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! during the operation.
The Afghan intelligence operatives also confiscated three Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), large cache of ammunition, and documents for spreading propaganda in favor of the Taliban group along with other types of military equipment and kits, NDS added.
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[DAWN] The situation in North Wazoo Agency (NWA) is reportedly returning to normality as the internally displaced persons are returning to their homes and peace has prevailed, but life remains difficult for them due to the lack of basic facilities.
According to the NWA General Officer Commanding Maj Gen Hassan Azhar Hayat, who hosted journalists for a briefing on the area's overall situation on Thursday, all no-go areas have been cleared by the Army and 80 per cent of the people displaced from the areas have now been resettled.
He said that around 80 per cent of the displaced people from the area had returned and were "contributing to the development of the agency".
Major Gen Hayat told news hounds that the era of operations has come to an end and an era of development has started in the agency with the launching of new projects.
Sharing the details of these projects, he informed news hounds that four army public schools have been established in NWA. A model town is also in final stages in main Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... city.
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[Al Jazeera] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has called for the removal of the US diplomat coordinating an international coalition fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group in Syria and Iraq, accusing him of backing Syrian Kurdish fighters.
Ankara regards the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group, which has been fighting a decades-old armed campaign in southeast Turkey and is considered a "terrorist organization" by Turkey, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Yet the US views the YPG, a central part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as its main ally in the battle on the ground against ISIS. Earlier in May, 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... pledged to arm the group ahead of a planned attack on Raqqa, ISIS's self-proclaimed capital in Syria.
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[POLITICO] 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... may be dramatically miscalculating how much support Sen. Joseph Holy Joe Lieberman ...what a Democrat maverick would look like if the Democrats had mavericks... has among his former fellow wardheelers to become FBI director.
Some Senate Democrats hold a grudge against Lieberman for his rightward turn and opposition to some of President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... 's agenda late in his Senate career. Others say even though they respect Lieberman, the FBI director should not be a former politician. And all Democratic senators interviewed for this story said the former Connecticut senator lacks the kind of experience needed for the post.
The 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate, who later caucused with the party as an independent in the Senate after losing his 2006 Senate primary, has emerged as a front-runner to replace fired FBI Director James Comey. But Lieberman's nomination would likely produce the most partisan vote for an FBI chief in Senate history. Typically, nominees for the job have been approved unanimously or with token opposition.
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Yes. Look at Law Enforcement people to fill that slot. Lie in the FBI. And stop listening to the idiocrats on anything important.
They are all stupid, ignorant, brainwashed, and un-able to learn.
I nominate politically neutral, non-showboat, Chief David Brown.
From Wikipedia.com:
A Dallas native, Brown is a graduate of South Oak Cliff High School and attended the University of Texas at Austin before enrolling in the Dallas police academy, originally with the intention of becoming a prosecutor.[3] He earned a Bachelor of Science from Dallas Baptist University, in 1999 and an MBA from Amberton University, in 2001 and graduated from the FBI National Academy and the FBI National Executive Institute, the Senior Management Institute for Police, the National Counter-Terrorism Seminar in Tel Aviv, and the United States Secret Service dignitary protection seminar. He is certified by the State of Texas as a master peace officer and a police instructor.
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I'd like to see a strong cop as director; one who has allegiance to the Constitution, a non-partisan, is respected within and outside the FBI and one who loves his country, the USA...and dear Santa, a pony.
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but out of the whole FBI, you cannot find a technical expert to fill that rank?
You don't reward Deep State. The old 'reward failure, you get more failure' approach gets you what you have in the swamp. One of the reasons people voted Trump.
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The Democrats reject Lieberman because he is a Democrat. Their line, that their people strongly believe, is that Trump is out to destroy our Constitution and create a right wing police state. This would presumably have to be done through the FBI. Appointing a Democrat to head the FBI makes that claim almost impossible to believe.
Naturally, the Democrats have to oppose it. Such an appointment makes their antics seem malevolent or absurd to all but imbeciles.
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"It's a Trick! He's giving us what we wanted"
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This morning on CBS I saw John McCain endorsing Lieberman. That's enough for me...Lieberman is unacceptable.
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so I notice McCain and Pelosi both are acting dain-bramaged; you supposed we've reached the Boomer expiry date?
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Chief David Brown sounds like a great nominee. He is a well educated professional, and has had much interaction with the FBI.
Another no-nonsense nominee would be Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clark. We need no BS type folks that are not denizens or previous denizens of the swamp. Retreads like Lieberman are a joke.
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"I notice McCain and Pelosi both are acting dain-bramaged"
Acting, #11?
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[IraqiNews] La Belle France and Germany are resisting a plan by U.S. officials for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... to take a bigger role in the fight against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Syria and Iraq, in line with calls from President Donald Trump
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Why would we be confronting Russia?
They're ALSO fighting ISIS (and doing a much better job of it).
Hama (SyriaNews.media) Violent festivities continued between Syrian government forces 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 in the northern countryside of al-Salamiyah, due to the ongoing attacks of the terrorist group on the headquarters of the regime forces in al- Mabujah and Aqarib villages, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Thursday.
The observatory revealed that the Islamic State group launched a violent attack on the villages of al-Mabujah and Aqarib, located 15 km away from al-Salamiyah city, while Syrian government forces are trying to retake the locations they lost near the two villages.
The festivities also coincided with a shelling by regime forces on the headquarters of the Islamic State in the area, allowing security forces to captures some of the headquarters and forcing the gunnies to flee.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... three blasts hit the city of Salamiyah, in addition to several air strikes conducted by army warplanes, resulting in the killing of 9 security members and 15 members of the Islamic State, as well as wounding 20 others.
Noteworthy, al-Mabujah village suffered a similar attack in April 2015, where the Islamic State group executed 46 Sunni, Alawi, and Ismaili civilians, including 10 children.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) One soldier, five Islamic State militants were killed, while others were injured as an attack against security troops in Tuz Khurmatu region, east of Salahuddin province, was foiled, security source said.
“IS militants launched early on Thursday a fierce attack against security troops at Bir Ahmed region in Tuz Khurmatu,” the source told Alghad Press.
Joint troops of “army, police and paramilitary troops were able to thwart the attack forcing the fighters to escape after killing and injuring some of them,” the source added.
“An army soldier was killed, while two others were slightly injured. Other police personnel were wounded,” according to the source. “Five IS members were killed, while others were injured as the attack was foiled.”
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Nine civilians were killed, while eleven others were wounded as a blast occurred in a popular market in Tuz Khurmatu region, north of Tikrit, Salahuddin province, a security source said.
“A suicide attack took place as a bomber wearing explosive belt targeted a popular market in Tuz Khurmatu, leaving nine civilians killed and eleven others injured,” the source told Sky Press on Thursday.
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi command leading the war against 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.... Death Eaters in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... will aim at the town of Tal Afar as a next stage, while officials say 750 fighters remain in the city.
Maj. Gen. Najm al-Jubouri, a top commander of Mosul operations, told state-run paper al-Sabah on Thursday that Iraqi troops’ next target after Mosul will be the town of Tal Afar, an Islamic State stronghold near the Syrian borders.
"The army will join forces with al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) to liberate what is left of the province, especially Tal Afar, the main haven for ISIS (Islamic State) leaders," Jubouri told the newspaper. He also pointed to ongoing operations to retake Qairawan, Baaj and Adnaniya, all near Tal Afar.
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Well it sure was nice of you to let them know exactly where you are going to strike next.
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Probably running low on ammo, thus letting them know in advance where they're going to strike in the hope that IS will flee and save Iraqi money and ammo.
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hope that IS will flee and save Iraqi money and ammo I don't think that plan will work - ISIS has stood and fought...and has been beat down by the Iraqis at every turn over the past 8 months. The IA and IP are confident enough now to call their shots.
Aleppo (SyriaNews.media) Six persons, including four children, had been killed in Aleppo Province, on Wednesday, due to air strikes, raids and sniper fire, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The observatory stated that an air strike on 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.... -held Maskana town, in the eastern countryside of the city of Aleppo, killed a youth, while air raids on Sem al-Hamam Village, in eastern Aleppo, resulted in the killing of four children.
Furthermore, another youth was killed by a sniper fire in eastern Aleppo, near the borders with the city of Raqqa, the observatory added.
Damascus (SyriaNews.media) Syrian Air Force warplanes bombarded areas in the northern and eastern country sides of Homs, while Syrian regime forces fired more than 30 rockets on areas, in eastern Ghouta of Damascus.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that Syrian Air Force warplanes bombarded areas in Taldou District, in Houla area, in the northern countryside of Homs, while carried another air strikes on al-Sokhna city and al-Shumareya Mountains in the eastern countryside of Homs.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... in Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights revealed that festivities escalated between Syrian government forces 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.... bandidosturbans in al-Muhamadeya and Bayt Nayem towns, in eastern Ghouta, leaving casualties among the ranks of the both sides.
Furthermore, more than 18 ground-to-ground rockets, launched by Syrian regime forces, fell on al-Muhamadeya and Bayt Nayem towns, while over 12 different missiles were launched on the same areas, causing material damage, but no casualties were reported.
As-Suwayda (SyriaNews.media) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, on Thursday, that militant factions attacked headquarters of the Islamic State group in the eastern countryside of As-Suwayda, while revealed that Syrian regime forces attacked the northwestern countryside of Daraa.
The observatory stated that the factions fighting alongside the Syrian government forces shelled gatherings and headquarters of the Islamic State group in al-Rasefi area, in the eastern countryside of As-Suwayda, but no casualties had been reported.
Meanwhile in Daraa Province, Syrian regime forces attacked several areas in al-Yadudah Village, in the northwestern countryside of the province, but also without causing any casualties.
Daraa (SyriaNews.media) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported, on Wednesday, that the clashes between regime forces and Islamic State militants continued in al-Mansheya neighborhood, in the city of Daraa, while pointed out that government forces shelled several areas in Daraa, using at least seven rockets.
The observatory said that clashes between Syrian government forces and the Islamic State militants in the city of Daraa left several casualties among the ranks of the two sides.
Meanwhile, regime forces launched at least seven ground-to-ground missiles on areas in the city of Daraa, injuring six persons, including a female child, while also shelled other areas in Basr al-Harir town, in the eastern countryside of Daraa, but no casualties were reported.
Deir Ezzor (SyriaNews.media) The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, on Wednesday, that the self-proclaimed Islamic State group executed 9 persons in Al-Bukamal city and the countryside of Daraa, while coalition air strikes killed 24 fighters of the Islamic State in Deir Ezzor.
The observatory said that the Islamic State militants executed 8 persons in al-Bukamal city, on the Syrian-Iraqi borders, on charges of spying for the international coalition and security forces, while sources informed that the execution took place near al-Rahman Mosque and al-Hajana headquarters.
Meanwhile, at least 20 members of the Islamic State were killed by coalition air strikes of the vicinity of al-Rahman and al-Iman mosque, in al-Bukamal.
Furthermore, four members of the Islamic State were killed by coalition air strikes in Qors town, in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, while clashes between the terrorist group and fighters of the Syrian Democratic forces resulted in the killing of 5 SDF fighters and 9 IS members, in the countryside of Raqqa.
In a related news, another execution took place in the northwestern countryside of Daraa, where the Islamic State executed a youth, by firing squad, for killing another.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Seven 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.... Death Eaters, including Arabs, were killed and a mobile telecommunications facility was destroyed in a military operation, southeast of Rutba district, Anbar province, a military source said.
"Security troops from Anbar and Jazeera commands as well as the 7th division carried out a military operation in Makr al-Deeb region, southeast of Rutba in the west of Anbar," the source from Anbar Operations Command told AlJournal News on Wednesday. "Seven Death Eaters, including an Egyptian and Saudi nationals, were killed, while a mobile telecommunications facility, which was used for internet connection between Raqqa in Syria and Anbar towns of Qaim, Rawa and Annah, was destroyed."
Moreover, "A truck and three other vehicles loaded with amounts of fuel and ammunition were destroyed. An underground shelter, used by the turbans to hide from the jet fighters, was blown up," the source added.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Two civilians died and eight others were wounded on Thursday when two bomb blasts hit areas in western Baghdad, according to security sources.
One civilian was killed and three others were injured when an explosive device planted near a popular market in al-Nasr wal Salam area in Abu Gharib, west of Baghdad, went off.
Another bomb exploded near commercial stores in Sakalat, al-Resala, also west of Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding five others.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One person was killed, five others were wounded in a bomb blast that occurred in southern Baghdad, a police source said.
“A bomb, placed near a popular market in Sadr al-Yusufiyah region, exploded on Wednesday leaving one person killed and five others injured,” the source told AlSumaria News.
Baaj (IraqiNews.com) Three Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members were killed on Wednesday when fighter jets from the U.S.-led coalition bombarded the group’s location west of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and near the Iraqi borders with Syria.
Col. Kheder Hussein, from the Iraqi Federal Police, said coalition fighters pounded IS locations in the desert areas of Baaj region, west of Nineveh, killing the trio and destroying a munition reservoir belonging to the group.
Coinciding with the major government operations in Mosul, Iraqi and coalition fighter jets are backing a parallel operation recently launched by ground paramilitary troops of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) to clear Baaj and neighboring Qayrawan from IS.
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[NEWS24] A military court in Gazoo on Thursday concluded the trial of three men accused of assassinating a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", military leader and will deliver its verdict at the weekend, an official said.
The trial of the alleged killers of Mazen Faqha opened on Monday and the court held its fourth and final session on Thursday.
The chief suspect, Ashraf Abu Leila, 38, and two accomplices are charged with shooting dead Faqha, a senior Hamas official, next to his home on March 24.
"The verdict will be delivered on Sunday," Hamas-run interior ministry spokesperson Iyad al-Bozum said. "It will be final and under Paleostinian law the accused have no right of appeal."
"The sentence will be the death penalty and execution will be carried out as quickly as possible," said a source close to the military court system.
Hamas has accused the men of colluding with Israel to set up and commit the murder.
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In the wake of the killing it launched a large-scale campaign against all "collaborators" in which it said it made 45 arrests.
Hamas hanged three men on April 6, convicted by the military court of past acts of "treason and collaborating" unconnected to Faqha's slaying.
The liquidation in the middle of the Hamas-run Gazoo Strip shocked the Islamist movement.
Hamas immediately blamed its arch-enemy Israel, with which it has fought three wars since 2008, and implemented strict border restrictions on those seeking to leave the Paleostinian enclave.
Abu Leila was enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... about two weeks after the liquidation and his detention was publicly announced by Hamas's leader Ismail Haniya last Thursday.
Faqha had been in charge of forming cells for Hamas's military wing in the occupied West Bank.
He had spent years in an Israeli jail before being released as part of a 2011 prisoner exchange deal.
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"The verdict will be delivered on Sunday," Hamas-run interior ministry spokesperson Iyad al-Bozum said. "It will be final and under Paleostinian law the accused have no right of appeal."
"Under Paleostinian law" meaning, we do what we want, "hang them all, ahmed and be quick about it..."
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[NEWS24] Libya on Thursday asked Italia to arm the patrol boats it uses in the fight against illegal immigration across the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe.
Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti this week handed over to the Libyan coastguard four patrol boats repaired in Italia as part of a cooperation deal against people traffickers.
Another six patrol boats are to follow soon after the training of their Libyan crews, he said.
"These boats are not fitted with arms. We can't used them for patrols when the traffickers are increasingly armed," Abdullah Tomia, a senior naval officer in charge of cooperation with Italia, told a news conference in 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... "We've asked Italia to arm the patrol boats," he said, while noting that Libya was still under a UN arms embargo in force since its 2011 revolution that toppled dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... "Before the revolution, we were dealing with unarmed traffickers. But no we are up against fierce, armed gangs," Tomia said.
Libyan authorities have complained about lacking the means to deal with the floods of migrants colonists who try crossing the Mediterranean in makeshift boats.
Last year, a record 181 000 migrants colonists reached Italia, 90% of them from Libya.
[AlAhram] Some 2,300 migrants colonists headed for Italia in 22 barely seaworthy vessels were rescued off the Libyan coast on Thursday, the Italian coastguard said.
Coastguard and military vessels joined forces with others chartered by humanitarian organizations to come to the rescue of the migrants colonists, who were packed into 10 wooden boats and 12 rubber dinghies.
"About 2,300 migrants colonists were rescued in the Mediterranean today," the coastguard said in a statement.
Prudence, a vessel chartered by medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres, picked up 770 people, many of them young children -- one a baby aged just six weeks, it said.
SOS Mediterranee's and MSF's Aquarius vessel rescued 560 people and Phoenix, chartered by Maltese NGO Moas, hauled in another 360.
Some 46,000 migrants colonists had reached the Italian coast this year even before Thursday's drama, around a third up on the same period last year, according to the Italian interior ministry.
At least 1,229 people have drowned making the perilous trip, according to the International Organization for Migration -- one death for every 39 persons rescued.
The latest wave of people picked up comes as Italia beefs up security ahead of next week's G7 summit at Taormina in Sicily.
The summit poses a challenge given that local authorities on the island have banned migrants colonists from disembarking at Sicilian ports.
Southern mainland ports or and those in the of Sardinia will instead take the strain.
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[Al Jazeera] On May 3, Libya's two rival leaders, Fayez Serraj, the head of the UN- backed Government of National Accord in 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... and strongman General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , whose Libyan National Army (LNA) keeps a tight grip on the East of the country, held a surprise meeting in the United Arab Emirates.
The encounter spurred fears among Serraj's supporters that the conditions discussed in the Gulf country, a powerful sponsor of General Haftar, may disrupt a UN-brokered peace plan, known as the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA), rather than help it.
The UN deal was signed in 2015 but is widely considered as insufficient to reconcile internal rivalries.
UAE officials hailed the meeting as a major breakthrough after 18 months of stalemate between Tripoli and Tobruk. But analysts have been left wondering if a real discussion between the two reluctant leaders took place at all and why the talks didn't produce any official documents.
Rumours have been swirling around about the results of the meeting and how binding they would be.
According to diplomatic sources, the talks focused on reducing the Presidential Council from nine to three members, to include the head of the Armed Forces, Khalifa Haftar, the head of the House of Representatives Aqila Saleh, and the head of the unity government, Fayez Serraj.
The controversial Article 8 of the Shikrat agreement submitting the army to civil authority would be abolished. Serraj and Haftar also allegedly agreed to work on presidential and parliamentary elections in the Spring of 2018.
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[NEWS24] Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles said on Thursday authorities confiscated his passport and prevented him from traveling to New York to meet with UN officials about his country's deadly political crisis.
"I will not be able to attend the meeting with the [UN] High Commissioner for Human Rights... I am outside the migration zone without my passport" after officials confiscated it, Capriles said in a video posted on Twitter.
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Okay, for once I'm gonna resist the obvious. No I'm not.
North Charleston: He led, and they sought him.
They spot the van bouncing... "We got 'im"
They rolled up and shot him
And stopped his Black Bottom.
That last partner never forgot him.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group offshoot in Afghanistan, ISIS Khurasan, grabbed credit behind the attack on television station in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
ISIS in a statement said the attack was carried out by a group of jacket wallahs belonging to the group.
The attack was launched around 10:30 am local time after a group of at least four suicide bombers stormed the compound of the radio and television station in Jalalabad city, the lovely provincial capital of Nangarhar province.
Provincial governor Gulab Mangal told news hounds that the attack ended after all four suicide bombers were rubbed out by the security forces.
He said festivities between the security forces and the murderous Moslems continued for almost three hours before they were eliminated.
Mangal further added that four people, all workers of the television, were killed during the attack and at least 24 others were maimed.
According to Mangal, seven security personnel and 17 civilians were among those maimed during the festivities.
He said the forces of Evil launched the attack by initially carrying out a suicide kaboom and allowing the remaining murderous Moslems to enter the compound.
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[UK.REUTERS] Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitaries captured an air base from Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Lions of Islam on Thursday, gaining a strategic foothold in the western desert as they push towards the Syrian border.
While regular Iraqi security forces engage in gruelling urban combat inside djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the paramilitaries have been advancing against Islamic State through thinly populated terrain to the southwest.
Last week, the paramilitary groups, known collectively as Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), or Hashid Shaabi, launched an offensive to retake the Qairawan district, around 95 km west of Mosul.
The Sahl Sinjar airbase is around 65 km east of the Syrian border.
"After rehabilitation, the air base will be an important base for Hashid troops and Iraqi helicopters to transport fighters and arms," said Karim al-Nuri of the powerful Badr Organisation.
"The air base will help chasing the snuffies in the open desert with Syria."
The head of the PMF, Falih al-Fayyadh, met with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... in Damascus on Thursday and discussed "close and direct" military cooperation against Islamic State along their shared border, Syrian state media said.
Unlike regular Iraqi security forces, the PMF does not receive support from the U.S.-led coalition, which is wary of Iran's influence over the most powerful factions within the body.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The paramilitary troops have cut off the main supply route of the Islamic State in west of Mosul, according to the media service.
In statements, Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said troops “were able to cut off the street linking between Tal Qasab and Qairawan,” which is considered “the IS main supply route in north of Qairawan.”
Moreover, “the 40th brigade’s missiles shelled IS strongholds in al-Qahira, in south of Qairawan.”
Roads in villages of Tal al-Dala’ and Thara al-Karrah, located south of Qairawan, were combed after being liberated on Tuesday, the media service added. Huge losses were inflicted on the enemy near villages in north of Qairawan.
The troops also “received dozens of families fleeing IS from villages north of Qairawan,” according to the statement
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[Al Jazeera] A Paleostinian was killed by an Israeli settler during a clash near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank during protests in support of hunger-striking prisoners.
The clash near Hawara military checkpoint in the northern West Bank erupted on Thursday when an Israeli settler in a car attempted to pass through a crowd of Paleostinian protesters, with the settler and Israeli soldiers opening fire, Paleostinian security sources said.
The Paleostinian killed was identified by the health ministry as Muataz Bani Shemsay, 23, from a village near Nablus. He was shot in the head.
A photographer with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency was also maimed by gunfire but was in stable, pH balanced condition, medics said.
A spokesperson for the Samaria Regional Council said in a statement that it was the third day in a row of riots along the highway near Hawara.
According to a military spokesperson, “hundreds of Palestinians threw rocks at passing vehicles” during the violent demonstration.
A military jeep pulled up seconds after the man’s car came under attack, and the soldiers inside it quickly dispersed the crowd with tear gas and other riot dispersal means.
The Palestinian ambulance driver who blocked a settler vehicle from escaping a rioting crowd has been arrested by security forces. The driver was filmed exiting the ambulance and assaulting the settler's vehicle. The ambulance itself has been impounded.
Between Thursday night and Friday morning, security forces also picked up one of the suspected rioters and impounded a bus that is believed to have been used to shuttle people to the violent protest in Hawara, outside Nablus, the army said.
Some of the Palestinians who participated in the riot had been brought to the area on organized buses, like the one that was seized early Friday morning, the army said.
Go to the link to see a short video of traffic moving slowly but steadily until one car is cut out, then blocked by the ambulance. The driver walks away as the first few Palestinian lads start throwing stones. Update from An Nahar at 12:50 p.m. EDT names the ambulance driver:
Yussef Derieh, an ambulance driver from the village of Aqraba, near the main northern West Bank city of Nablus,
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[EN.APS.DZ] ALGIERS-An arms cache and ammunition have been discovered Thursday in Tinzaouatine (Bordj Badji Mokhtar) by a detachment of the People's National Army (ANP), announced the National Defence Ministry in a communiqué.
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[NEWS24] The head of Austria's Greens party has resigned from all party functions and says she will also give up her seat in parliament.
Austria's political landscape is in turmoil. The governing centre-right coalition has agreed to part ways and hold early elections October 15 while the opposition Greens have been shaken by recent infighting that has alienated some supporters.
But Eva Glawischnig said on Thursday that her decision was personal and prompted only by her wish to remain in good health while caring for her children.
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[EN.APS.DZ] ALGIERS – Four hiding places and 6 homemade bombs have been destroyed on Wednesday in Boumerdes and Skikda, said Thursday the National Defence Ministry in a release.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least one person was killed and two others were maimed in an attack on the Afghan army bus in western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province of Afghanistan.
According to the local government officials, the incident took place earlier today in the central city of Herat.
Provincial governor’s front man Ghulam Jilani Farhad confirmed the incident and said two faceless myrmidons riding on cycle of violences opened fire on a bus carrying Afghan army soldiers and officers.
He said the faceless myrmidons managed to flee the area after opening fire on the bus, leaving one person dead and two others maimed.
Farhad further added that an investigation is underway along with a search operation for the apprehension of the culprits.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twenty three snuffies were killed in Arclight airstrikes conducted by the US forces in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government in a statement said at least four hideouts of the snuffies were also destroyed in the Arclight airstrikes.
The statement further added that the Arclight airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Garamser district of Helmand.
The first Arclight airstrike targeted two vehicles of the snuffies carrying nine snuffies and were travelling in the vicinity of Kamarbandi (Kharko) area, leaving all nine snuffies dead and the two vehicles totally destroyed, the statement said.
The statement also added that the second Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Omarzo area as the personnel of the 215th Maiwand Corps of the Afghan army were busy conducting counter-terrorism operations.
The provincial government said at least 14 bandidos bad boys including five Paks were killed in the Arclight airstrike and 8 others were maimed and four of their hideouts were destroyed.
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Hawija (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State militants executed a young man in Kirkuk for collaborating with Iraqi security forces, a security source was quoted saying on Thursday.
DPA quoted the source saying that the group executed the young man by a firing squad at Hawija, an IS stronghold the group has held since 2014.
Rawa (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State members have executed for civilians in western Anbar over accusations of collaboration with security forces, a security source was quoted saying.
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that a shooting squad killed the four in the center of the city of Rawa in the attendance of watching residents.
Since it emerged in 2014 to proclaim a self-styled Islamic Caliphate, the Islamic State executed hundreds of civilians and security agents for multiple reasons, including failure to commit to its extremist religious rules, attempting to flee areas under its control or collaboration with security forces.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Military operations have been launched from three regions in Diyala province, the Dijla Operations Command has declared.
"Security troops of police and army, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Units] andal-Hashd al-Ashaeri [tribal mobilization] forces and army jets, launched on Wednesday military operations at three regions to comb five areas is Hamreen basin, in north and northeastern Diyala," Mag. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi, told Alghad Press.
"The troops will raid 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.... havens in Hamreen including Anjana, Sarha, Qurret Tabah, Jisr Narin and Ain Laila," he said adding that the outcome of the operations will be declared over the coming few hours.
According to Azzawi, the operations "come within the leadership strategy to eradicate shelters of the Death Eater groups in Diyala."
Several offensives were launched over the past few months in eastern and northeastern regions in Diyala. Earlier this month, the command launched offensives at four regions of al-Nada basin, Hamreen, Wadi Thilab and Tilal Qazlaq in the province.
IS still holds a few areas in Salahuddin, Diyala, Anbar and Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... occasionally using them as launching points for its attacks against civilians and security. The Iraqi government is currently employing most of its military power in a major campaign to drive IS out of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , its largest stronghold in Iraq.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Hamas has banned people walking dogs in Gaza in order to protect women and children. Because the Prophet said so.
The hardline Islamic group claims women and children feel scared when confronted by large dogs while strolling in the street.
The ban will impact dog owners who want to walk their pets in populated areas such as towns and villages or on the beach.
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Mohammedan matrons out walking:
"This dog business..." "Isn't it shocking!"
"Permitted to nuzzle!"
"And not wear a muzzle."
"The next thing you know, they'll be talking!"
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Federal Police forces have become in control over 291 square kilometers of western Mosul as operations running since February reach the Islamic State’s last havens.
Federal Police chief Shaker Jawdat said Thursday that his forces had also evacuated 270.000 civilians since operations launched in February 19th to retake western Mosul.
“The group (Islamic State) resorted to submerging sewage networks at the south of 17 Tamuz with petroleum and setting it on fire in order to prevent our drones from tracking its defeated members towards the Old City,” Jawdat stated.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army has invaded another district as troops resume their advance in the western side of Mosul, a source said.
Speaking to Shafaaq News, the source said that the army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service raided al-Najjar district, recapturing half of it.
Hundreds of Islamic State families publicly fled al-Najjar and the remaining IS-held districts in western Mosul, along with civilians heading toward the liberated regions.
In related news, the War Media Cell reported that Iraqi fighter jets F16 have destroyed a booby-trapping workshop, killing several IS militants in an airstrike launched in western Mosul.
In a statement on Thursday, the WMC said “the airstrike destroyed all weapons and explosive substances that were inside the workshop, located on al-Shifa district, in western Mosul.”
“The jets also destroyed two IS locations, one of them was used for telecommunications. A bomb factory in Tal Afar town was also destroyed,” the statement added.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have freed two captivated Yazidi girls in western Mosul, AlSumaria News reported on Thursday.
Federal Police’s Rapid Response forces were able to liberate two Yazidi girls, who were held by Islamic State militants in 17 Tamuz (July 17th) district, in western Mosul, the news report mentioned.
The two girls were in good health condition, it added.
IS abducted and executed hundreds of Yazidis after it took over Sinjar district, a Mosul region on the borders with Syria. News reports mentioned that the captives were distributed among the fighters in Iraq and Syria.
After Sinjar fell to IS in August 2014, thousands of Yazidi Kurds fled Sinjar to nearby mountain areas. In March, revealed data showed that 2,915 Yazidis, including nearly 1500 children, were rescued from IS captivity, while more than 3500, including nearly 1500 children, were still held by the extremist group. The ethno-religious minority of Yazidis came to the spotlight when Islamic State militants, taking over large parts of Iraq, victimized its members, massacred, enslaved and tortured thousands of the community members.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The number of Iraqi refugees displaced by battles between Islamic State fighters and Iraqi government troops in Mosul has reached 670.000 since encounters broke out in October, the government said Wednesday.
Migration and Displacement Minister Jassem al-Jaff told al-Arabiya TV that 150.000 people have, meanwhile, returned to their home areas, adding that repatriation was still going with a slower pace compared to migration.
Earlier this week, Nineveh council member Hassan al-Allaf said that besides 600.000 civilians the government registered at refugee camps, there are 600.000 more who sought refuge with relatives or settled in rented lodgings.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State suicide bombers attacked Iraqi troops on Wednesday with booby-trapped cars at a district in western Mosul where intense encounters continue as the group’s domains shrink.
Rudaw network said the militants attacked the forces with five booby-trapped vehicles at al-Rifaie district, but said no word was given regarding casualties.
On Monday, the Iraqi Joint Operations Command urged Iraqi civilians to avoid using cars or motorbikes for transportation, saying that troops would target those vehicles as IS continues to use them in their attacks against government forces.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) More than 30 Islamic State militants were killed as Iraqi troops invaded two western Mosul districts, according to the Interior Ministry’s Rapid Response forces.
“Rapid Response troops killed on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning more than 30 IS militants while invading Iqtisadiyeen and 17 Tamuz [July 17th] districts in western Mosul,” Maj. Gen. Thamer al-Husseini told Alghad Press on Wednesday.
“The troops resume their advance after raiding 17 Tamuz and Iqtisadiyeen,” he said adding that the militants attempted hindering the forces depending on booby-trapped vehicles and civilians used as human shields.
“Several houses were booby-trapped. Families were held inside. Thus, we were forced to depend on the individual combat skills,” Husseini added.
“The total number of IS members killed on Wednesday exceeded 25, most of whom were Arabs and foreigners. On Tuesday, four booby-trapped vehicles were seized, while 12 militants were killed on Iqtisadiyeen district,” Husseini added.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Twenty Islamic State militants were killed in clashes against the Iraqi troops in western Mosul, a Federal Police officer declared.
“Fierce clashes erupted between Iraqi forces and IS militants in regions of Bab al-Toub, al-Mekkawi and Bab al-Jadid, which left 20 militants killed and others injured,” Lt. Gen. Odai Samir told BasNews on Wednesday.
“The troops confiscated the militants’ weapons,” he said adding that “police troops fully besieged al-Arbeaa and Jadid markets ahead of invading them.”
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi government forces recaptured on Wednesday al-Rifaie district, a major area held by the Islamic State where intense battles have been running to retake the region.
The Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said the army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service took over the district completely and raised the Iraqi flags above its buildings.
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[DAWN] Khadija Siddiqui, a student at a private college, who was brutally attacked by her classmate in May last year, is due to sit an exam in the coming week -- alongside her attacker.
Siddiqui, 22, was attacked on May 3 last year, three days before she was due to appear for her final law exams, by Shah Hussain, the son of Advocate Sayed Tanvir Hashmi.
Siddiqui had gone to pick up her seven-year-old sister, Sophia, from school and had barely approached her car when Hussain, wearing a helmet rushed towards them. The attacker then pushed Siddiqui and stabbed her 23 times.
Siddiqui was stabbed 23 times.─Facebook
Siddiqui was stabbed 23 times.─Facebook
A murder case was filed in Lahore High Court (LHC) within a week of the attack. Evidence was presented before the judiciary, including video footage which helped identify the attacker.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... LHC had dismissed pre-arrest bail of the suspect in September 2016 while a sessions court granted him post-arrest bail after two months.
Appearing on Geo TV's 'Aaj Shahzaib Khanzada Kay Saath' on Wednesday evening, Siddiqui said she could not accept that a man who had tried to attack her in the presence of her younger sister would be appearing for the same law exam as her in two days.
"He will become a part of the same legal system, this is traumatising for me. I do not know how I will give the exam" Siddiqui said, appearing on the daily talk show a year after the brutal stabbing that left her in a critical state.
Siddiqui said that she used to be friends with Hussain up till a year before he attacked her. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... she added, that all communication between them had been cut off when Hussain became "coercive" towards her. Siddiqui said that Hussain has also hacked her accounts.
The victim of the brutal stabbing expressed her dismay at the legal system that has failed to bring her attacker to accountability.
"I don't understand how you can attack someone in front of their little sister with the intent to murder. Yet in this society, there is no accountability."
Siddiqui said that, in her opinion, the attacker had been allowed to walk free due to the "influence the lawyers have over the judge".
"The judges get scared, the lawyers have so much influence the judges are forced to give an incorrect verdict."
"In our [legal] system there are weaknesses. We have loopholes in the law, of course, but they are not enough to to validate such extensive delays [in granting justice]."
She asserted that the delays were means to exert pressure on "the weaker party."
"Those who have the power to do so, pressure the courts so much that the victim is forced to give up."
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... she added that that her determination to fight her case had never wavered, rather, it had become stronger.
"If i give up, the avenues will open up for others to engage in such violence with ease."
Siddiqui recounted that her attacker's father had approached her outside the court once and asked her to forgive his son.
"I told him the way you have sided with your son... this is very dangerous for the society. He can someday attack another girl, just the way he attacked me," Siddiqui said
Appealing to the judiciary to review its decision, Siddiqui said that her case should become a landmark case and set an example in society of punishment is handed down to even the powerful when they commit a crime.
She said that the decision of the court was "erroneous" and "perverse" and called on Chief justice Saqib Nisar to listen to her appeal.
Siddiqui also appealed to "those who have mothers and daughters in their homes to stand up and raise their voices."
"In this society the woman is always silenced, and she is asked to tolerate. They have tried to silence me as well, but I am still standing strong."
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[Al Jazeera] European politicians have threatened Hungary with unprecedented sanctions if the right-wing government does not withdraw some of its anti-European Union rhetoric. A concerted campaign by the Hungarian government blames the European Union for many of its problems. Yet critics of Hungary say it gets billions of dollars every year in European grants, only for the money to disappear because of corruption.
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>Yet critics of Hungary say it gets billions of dollars every year in European grants, only for the money to disappear because of corruption.
Hey the wrong people must be getting the EUSSR graft! Corruption is embedded in the EUSSR.
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European politicians have threatened Hungary with unprecedented sanctions if the right-wing government does not withdraw some of its anti-European Union rhetoric.
[Al Jazeera] US President Donald Trump has denounced the appointment of a special counsel to lead the Russia investigation as "the single greatest witch-hunt" in American history.
In the face of rising pressure from Congress, the US justice department named Robert Mueller, the former FBI director, on Wednesday as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election and possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia.
In a pair of Twitter posts on Thursday morning, Trump made clear he was unhappy with the latest crisis to grip his four-month-old administration.
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Not the 'latest crisis'. All part of the same crisis that started last November 9. Just like the 434-day "Hostage Crisis". Only longer.
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If the deep state or shadow government is looking for a real witch for a real witch hunt, they don't have to look very far--no farther than the 2016 election.
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Tell the Special Counsel they have (1) Only jurisdiction on this one (1) issue and that's it -- no Whitewater Probe wandering everywhere; and (2) You have six (6) months and January 1, 2018 your remit ends. Otherwise this will be a Never ending Circus...
[NEWS24] A Dutch court has convicted 20 people of insulting or threatening a politician and television personality in a racially charged case that shocked the nation.
The verdicts on Thursday came in the trial in Amsterdam of 21 people accused of targeting Sylvana Simons, who is a former dancer and television presenter of Surinamese descent, with a torrent of online racist abuse. One person was acquitted.
The court said in a statement that the heaviest sentence, 80 hours of community service, went to a man who superimposed the head of Simons on video images of a Ku Klux Klan lynching.
Simons' political group, called Artikel 1, welcomed the verdicts, saying in a tweet that they sent a "clear signal" about the limits of freedom of speech.
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Trump is a TV personality. He could take up dancing. Maybe he should look into Ancestor.com to see if he might be of Surinamese descent. Maybe this case ought to be a model for the USA (said in half-jest).
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So, was this a leering, gaptoothed "attack" on Ms. Simons, or mere mockery of her (I'm assuming here) lurid claims of enduring victimhood? If the latter, and it's me catching 80 hours, I'm demanding to do my time in DF van... or censoring posts online... anti-Christmas education... anti-pork campaign... euthanizing droolers... on and on...
Also, sending in a montage of my face pasted onto cotton pickers, schoolteachers, politicians, Black Peter... Can you buy fun like that, even in Holland? And at the end of it all, to spend a month or two delivering lunches to delightful old Dutch ladies (or passing out prostitute vouchers to junkies, or whatever constitutes community service over there)? What a country! Hey, Sylvana, wanna get married?
[CampusReform.org] - Even as "concerned students" rally to his defense, former students are revealing even more recordings of a Texas A&M professor advocating violence against white people.
- Curry and his defenders insist that recordings of him apparently advocating for "killing white people" were taken out of context. Yeah, sure...
- A group of former students, however, has compiled an archive of classroom recordings taken over the past several years in which Curry repeatedly advocates for violence against white people. Here is Dr. Curry's CV and contact page.
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"I'm killing Caucasians!" cries Curry.
"Don't worry, I'm not in a hurry.
I gotta get ready
And whet my machete,
But someday... KABLOOEY! Oh, sorry."
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There is no intellect, no integrity in academia. Since they refuse to clean house, its up to the legislative body of the people to clean house. Don't give me crap about 'academic freedom' as the Left has already destroyed it.
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@#5: Also part of the mix is the BS put forth by "Roots." Ignored by the movie were those black countrymen who facilitated ans profited from the slave trade. And don't get me started about the Dutch.
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Ignored by the movie were those black countrymen who facilitated ans profited from the slave trade.
It's all about the neighbours. The Slavic slave trade goes back to the Roman Empire, but continued until Catherine II of Russia annexed the Crimea in 1783, putting the Moslem Tatars out of business. Link Likewise, the Moslem sub-Saharan tribes hunted their non-Muslim neighbours for fun and profit as they still do today, sending them north to be sold in the great slave markets of the Muslim world. The trade to the Americas was much smaller, and very probably less deadly to the cargo.
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Leopard doesn't change its spots, Barbara. Nor does it become a vegetarian.
(i) Just How many Iraqis, Syrians, and Afghans have the US military killed since 2001?
(ii) Who invented guns*, tanks, warplanes, aircraft carriers, chemical weapons, nukes, biological weapons, cyberwarfare - African Americans?
*I know about Chinese & gunpowder - they invented it & used it for fireworks.
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The Slavic slave trade goes back to the Roman Empire, but continued until Catherine II of Russia annexed the Crimea in 1783, putting the Moslem Tatars out of business.
It actually continued in the Central Asian khanates until the 1870s, and the Ottomans were enslaving Bulgarians and Serbs at least as late as the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.
And that's not counting the what the Nazis did, or the Communists for that matter.
[ARANews] 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.... (ISIS) suspect, who was incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by the Dutch authorities in December, was allegedly planning an attack on the Turkish consulate in the city of Rotterdam, the Dutch media reports.
The suspect, 31-year old Jaouad A., talked with others about this, as shown by evidence of the Dutch intelligence service AIVD.
The evidence was presented this week at a meeting where the trial against the suspect was discussed.
Jaouad A. was arrested in December 2016 following a tip of the Dutch intelligence. During a security raid on his house, the Dutch police found a Kalashnikov with ammunition, large amounts of firework and a painting of an ISIS flag.
Moreover, a manuel was found on the suspect’s computer showing how to make bombs from firework.
In October 2016, the suspect in a conversation with people discussed attacking the Turkish consulate as a target. It’s unclear with who the ISIS suspect spoke, and most likely his voice was recorded by hidden microphones.
According to lawyer Silvis, who reprents the suspect, not much is clear about the recorded conversation.
"A lot of it is not audible, so the context is not clear," she said.
The court case is expected to continue for three more months.
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[THEHILL] New video captures Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... watching members of his security detail violently clash with protestors in Washington on Tuesday.
The Hill confirmed that the video, uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, was shot by a staff member at VOA Turkish, a multimedia Internet and TV service.
In the video, Erdogan emerges from a car in the driveway to watch the incident before heading inside the Turkish ambassador’s residence. His bodyguards are visible from Erdogan's car kicking and punching protesters.
Roughly two dozen protestors had gathered outside of the embassy to protest the Turkish leader’s policies.
Nine people were maimed during the demonstration. The Turkish Embassy said on Wednesday that Erdogan's bodyguards were acting in "self-defense" during the incident and the protesters were affiliated with the terrorist group PKK. A protest leader denied that anyone involved had any ties or sympathies to the PKK.
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Remember the DC pols make sure the 2d Amendment is never permitted in their town. Try that in some other places and a good old Tombstone shoot out would have been viral on the Net.
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The "great Moslem vampire" (yes, I mean Tayyip) is thirsty for Kurdish blood. What happened in Washington is nothing compared to what will happen in Iraq and Siria if Trump does not reign in the "Mad dog of Turky"
Erdogan is an enemy of the west, clad in a Sheep's skin.
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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.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the father of a Muslim boy who was arrested after taking a homemade clock to his high school in Texas.
[AlAhram] The governmental committee tasked with appraising and seizing the funds of members of the banned 
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[Al Jazeera] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Pakistain to stay the execution of an Indian national convicted of spying.
Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
Wazoo
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Seven 
[AlAhram] Some 2,300 
... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[DAWN] Khadija Siddiqui, a student at a private college, who was brutally attacked by her classmate in May last year, is due to sit an exam in the coming week -- alongside her attacker.
[Al Jazeera] European politicians have threatened Hungary with unprecedented sanctions if the right-wing government does not withdraw some of its anti-European Union rhetoric. A concerted campaign by the Hungarian government blames the European Union for many of its problems. Yet critics of Hungary say it gets billions of dollars every year in European grants, only for the money to disappear because of corruption.
[Al Jazeera] US President Donald Trump has denounced the appointment of a special counsel to lead the Russia investigation as "the single greatest witch-hunt" in American history.
[THEHILL] New video captures Turkish President 
