[RT] Two suspects are in jug after a pickup truck crashed at high speed into three DC employees, including two coppers, one of whom is in "very critical condition," according to Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham.
Two MPD officers are being treated at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, and one DC transportation department officer was also injured, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser told news hounds Thursday evening.
A white pickup truck struck the officers in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of the District of Columbia, an area that MPD Chief Newsham described as a "nightlife area."
A weapon was recovered from the truck, Newsham said.
"We have to look at that very closely," Newsham told a news hound who asked if he was ruling out terrorism. "We do not have a motive at this time."
Two occupants in the truck were tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... as suspects and sustained non-life threatening injuries, Newsham said.
One witness described hearing sounds that sounded like shots.
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Bob Rogan, chief of staff to Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), ran from a coffeehouse and reached the truck’s dazed passenger as he climbed from the wreckage, a cut on his forehead. Rogan said the man told him that he and his friend had been to a club and smoked something.
“ ‘I told him not to do this,’ ” Rogan recalled the passenger saying. “ ‘I told him to slow down, and he wouldn’t slow down.’ ” Rogan said the driver remained behind the wheel, swaying slightly and appearing disoriented.
D.C. police arrested the two men in the pickup, both from a rural county in Virginia 40 miles south of Richmond, as investigators tried to piece together what caused Thursday night’s crash along the 2400 block of 18th Street NW, in the heart of one of the District’s most vibrant and busiest nightlife areas. A police report says that in the pickup’s back seat, investigators found a military-style weapon described as a Romarm Cugir rifle, the Romanian version of the AK-47. It was not clear why the men had the gun.
Police identified the driver as Brandon Figures-Mormon, 22, of Disputanta, Va., who was charged with assault with intent to kill and illegal possession of a firearm. They said the passenger was Dwayne Nicholas Taylor, 23, of Prince George, Va.
[RT] Thousands have turned out to mourn the victims of the Tehran attacks, shouting "Death to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... " and "Death to America." It comes after Iranian leaders accused Washington and Riyadh of supporting the attacks which killed 17 people earlier this week.
Crowds gathered on the streets of the Iranian capital to shout slogans against the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel on Friday, while reaching out to touch coffins wrapped in flags and covered in flowers.
Earlier on Friday, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the attacks would only increase Tehran's hatred against the US and its "stooges" including Saudi Arabia.
The attack "will not damage the Iranian nation's determination and the obvious result is nothing except an increase in hate for the governments of the United States and their stooges in the region like Saudi (Arabia)," he said ahead of the funeral, according to state media.
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a terrorist attack from Balochistan about now would be just the thing to confuse the Mullah's "death to..." mantra
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It's been "death to USA" for 30 years. So, I kinda, like the new version (even if I think it was a false flag operation - would ISIS attack heavily guarded places?)
The attack severely damaged the Mullahocracy's prestige, embarrassed the IRG, disrupted business in Tehran which surely cost the various crony capitalist types substantial amounts of money and ruined the day's events at the Khomenei mausoleum.
The false flag theory seems pretty thin.
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We don't know that the attack "severely damaged the Mullahocracy's prestige". We do know it generated a lot of internal outrage (the wars throughout ME that Iran is involved in are not exactly popular with Iranians), and garnered sympathy from the useful idiots. We also know that well orchestrated suicide attacks against hard targets are not common.
[RT] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... is claiming responsibility for two kabooms which killed 30 and injured up to 40 in central Iraq. One blast rocked the Shi'ite holy city of Karbala, second only to Mecca in importance for pilgrims.
The first attack took place in Karbala, 100km south of Baghdad, at around 11:30am local time when a bomb went kaboom! at a city center bus depot, injuring five people, reports local media outlet Al Hurra news.
Hours later, at roughly 1:45pm local time, a jacket wallah attacked a busy market in Musayib, about 50km east of Karbala. It killed at least 30 and injured 35, according to Iraqi security sources cited by Rooters.
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) already grabbed credit for the attacks via their Amaq propaganda news network.
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The nuclear cooperation deal between Japan and India, first negotiated in November, just cleared a big hurdle in Tokyo. The Nikkei Asian Review reports:
Japan's ruling party on Wednesday pushed a nuclear cooperation deal with India through the upper house of parliament, clearing the way for Japanese exports of materials and technology to the South Asian country.
The deal is contentious because India has not signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or NPT. […]
India stands to become the first nonsignatory to get access to Japanese nuclear tech. The governing Liberal Democratic Party accounted for most of the "aye" votes in the Diet, or parliament.
Following the approval, the government intends to revise relevant rules under the Nuclear Regulation Authority ‐ Japan's industry watchdog. Once India takes similar steps and the governments exchange documents, the deal will take effect, possibly by this summer.
On both economic and strategic grounds, this is a natural fit for both countries. Japan has immense nuclear expertise, but little domestic appetite for the technology after the Fukushima disaster; India is thus a natural export market. And Tokyo and New Delhi have been getting closer for several years now as they seek to balance against a rising China. *cough* Pakistan *cough*
The deal's opponents argue that Japan is tacitly endorsing India's status as a nuclear armed-state, even though it has provisions that would void the deal if India resumes nuclear tests. But somehow, we suspect the United States‐which signed its own civilian nuclear deal with India in 2008, despite India's status outside the NPT regime‐is not too upset to see China's two most prominent regional rivals getting cozier. Let's see....doesn't India have some nuke warheads laying around? What could they offer in trade, hmmmm?
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Someone at a party to a Japanese diplomat: "Japan has world class manufacturing and a nuclear power industry. It could probably build nuclear weapons in 3 weeks if it wanted to."
Japanese diplomat: "It might take that long."
This deal is not about Japan acquiring primitive Indian nukes. Maybe India will be testing some advanced Japanese designs?
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Get the f&$k over it. You aren't president. You will never be president. By all rights you should be succumbing to your many illnesses while slowing rotting in a federal penitentiary.
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Sure, Val, everybody should have cheap, affordable, comprehensive health care. As long as somebody else pays for it.
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These petulant, communist lizards cannot stray far from the public eye. Please keep talking Val. Voluntarily declaring one's self a 'leaker' of sensitive (if not classified) documents to the NYT is gaining popularity. Your turn may soon come.
[YourNewsWire.com] The Facebook fact-checking organization recently "debunked" claims that CNN had staged a scene during one of their news broadcasts that involved Muslim protestors protesting the recent London Bridge terror attack.
[American Thinker] He pleaded the case of a loyal soldier, rather than forsake retired U.S. Army lieutenant general Michael Flynn to the mercies of FBI director James Comey. And he asked for loyalty from the congenitally disloyal. You'll agree: President Donald Trump is being indicted on technicalities and on personal style.
Distill the president's unremarkable actions, subject to a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, and it becomes clear that the establishment ‐ for sensible people outside the Beltway have dissociated from the Russia-collusion phantasmagoria ‐ is indicting Trump on the plain, impolitic speech that catapulted him from candidate to president.
Trump is "aggressive and oblivious to the rules of engagement," fumed CNN's sibilant Chris Cillizza, formerly of the Washington Post. Correct. But was the language of combat you deployed, Mr. Cillizza, a Freudian slip?
The president's linguistic infelicities ‐ a word salad, at times ‐ have given the press popinjays and their Washington overlords the foothold needed to go after him. Throw in the "bad" habits of a businessman he has retained. Trump transacts with everyone ‐ Russians, too. We voted for deals, not wars.
This is the sum and substance of President Trump's offenses ‐ and beating Hillary Clinton to the White House.
Proponents of free markets understand how business operates. Statists don't. To the statist, the Fake News fabricator, and the stark raving mad Washington Post (WaPo), "Trump sitting next to Russian Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, at a luncheon hosted by Leonard Lauder, the oldest son of Estée Lauder," in 1986, is incriminating evidence...of something.
[Aiken Standard] An active duty colonel at Fort Gordon, his wife and a third person have been indicted in case alleging bribes and kickbacks totaling $20 million, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Army Col. Anthony Tyrone Roper, 55; his wife Audra Roper, 49; and Dwayne Oswald Fulton, 58, a former employee of a defense contracting firm, all of Augusta, were indicted this week by a federal grand jury in Savannah, the news release said.
Further indictments are possible. A retired colonel referred to only as "CDL" in the indictment "aided and abetted by the Defendants and others, provided false and fictitious information and paid bribes to public officials. This could get interesting.
The indictment doesn't specify who the other public officials are.
According to the news release, the indictment states the scheme began in 2008, continuing almost a decade. The scheme involved soliciting and accepting cash bribes in exchange for rigging more than $20 million in U.S. Army contracts, the release states.
According to the indictment, Anthony's responsibilities included oversight of the U.S. Army's efforts to build and modernize its information and communication network.
The indictment states he sought and received bribe payments in exchange for steering and awarding Army and private company contracts.
The scheme utilized various shell companies, such as Quadar Group and OzTEK Research LLC, the indictment continues. Very likely sub-contractors (subs). Could we please have the names of the 'Prime Contractors and the Gov't Contract Officer Representative (COR)?
"The indictment further alleges that in an attempt to hide their bribery and fraud schemes, the Defendants attempted to obstruct an official investigation into their criminal conduct," the release states.
According to the indictment, the suspects would offer and give bribes, that included cash and no-show jobs in exchange for official acts.
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The COR is likely a homesteading civilian. He or she will (or should) have the historical knowledge. Either's sworn statements would be delightful however.
[The Hill] Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden on Thursday defended former FBI Director James Comey's efforts to publicly disclose memos of his interactions with President Trump.
"Even if details leaked by the FBI Director fell under confidentiality obligations, the public's need to know here is the superior obligation," Snowden wrote on Twitter.
Comey acknowledged in a bombshell testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier Thursday that he had authorized a friend to share with a reporter the content of a personal memo detailing a conversation between him and Trump.
The memo, which Comey wrote contemporaneously, documented his Oval Office meeting with Trump in February when the president allegedly asked him to drop the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
[The Hill] A former FBI agent said he felt "completely disgusted" after reading the prepared testimony of former FBI Director James Comey regarding interactions with President Trump.
"I read this and I literally wanted to rinse myself off afterwards," James Gagliano said on CNN.
"I felt completely disgusted."
Gagliano's comments came after Wednesday's release of the opening statement Comey is set to deliver Thursday to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Trump repeatedly sought to influence the FBI's investigation into Russian election meddling before firing Comey as the bureau's director, according to the testimony Comey is set to deliver.
Comey's opening statement details multiple interactions with the president, including a January dinner at the White House where Trump said he needed and expected the FBI director's loyalty.
Gagliano on CNN also described the interactions between Trump and Comey.
"Beginning with that first awkward handshake that we saw on camera when Director Comey and the president met and ... it started out as a handshake, turned into kind of a half hug," Gagliano said.
"You could tell -- it was palpable -- how uncomfortable Director Comey was."
"For 48 years ... FBI Director [J. Edgar] Hoover pulled puppet strings, and had presidents on their heels," he added. "We now have a president that was attempting to put an FBI director on his heels."
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There's the rub: Bureaucratic institutional Washington sees the President as a temporary nuisance who must be brought to heel. This particular voter does not see it that way and I'm sure I'm not alone...
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A definate "rub." The last guy was a totally compliant, 'Affirmative Action' Deep State puppet. Wars, bread & circuses, a giddy Hollywood, regime changes, an unending list of new laws and regulations and expanded government and costly new programs.
This new fellow is our punishment for daring to elect someone from outside the beltway party [sarc].
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"Beginning with that first awkward handshake that we saw on camera when Director Comey and the president met and ... it started out as a handshake, turned into kind of a half hug," Gagliano said. "You could tell -- it was palpable -- how uncomfortable Director Comey was."
Comey: "I expected Hillary"
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Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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[IsraelTimes] Belgian security experts say there was little pooling of info between various levels of law enforcement after 2016 bombings.
An investigation into the Brussels suicide kabooms last year has highlighted failures in intelligence sharing among the security services as well as their "limited" information about radical networks.
The parliamentary committee probe also found that the security services failed to thoroughly follow up information about the men would carry out the attacks on the metro and airport in March 2016 that killed 32 people.
"The absence of an information-sharing culture constitutes the main gap within and among the security services," the report said.
Fifteen years after major reforms, the committee complained of "compartmentalization which blocks comprehensive information management."
Belgian security experts said just after the attacks there was little sharing of information among the six police zones in Brussels or between the federal police and local police or between the state security services and local forces.
The report said there was a failure to follow up in the cases of Khaled and Ibrahim El Bakraoui before the former went kaboom! at Maalbeck metro station and the latter set off his suicide bomb at Zaventem airport.
Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... claimed that Belgium ignored intelligence about Ibrahim El Bakraoui after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! him near the Syrian border as a "foreign terrorist fighter" and deported him in June 2015.
It recommended that the security services deploy liaison officers at Belgian embassies in countries that play an important security role, such as in Turkey.
"The information position of our security services is too limited in radical circles and on social networks, for example," the report said.
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.... , which claimed the Brussels attacks, communicate using social networks.
The report also recommended better coordination among the different police, intelligence and security services as well as reinforcing and streamlining their resources.
It called for better handling of evidence or potential evidence, referring to the February 2015 seizure of the cell phone of Brahim Abdeslam, who took part in the November 2015 Gay Paree attacks, in a drugs case.
An analysis of the phone’s contents revealed nothing and officers did not follow up until after French police found that Brahim Abdeslam had blown himself up in Gay Paree and that his brother Salah Abdeslam was a runaway in the case.
But it said the phone had disappeared and was only found a year later under a pile of papers in the Brussels cop shoppe where Brahim Abdeslam had been questioned in the drugs case.
27-year-old spent two months in 2016 traveling with militants in Syria and Iraq
He was detained by Kurdish peshmerga forces in northern Iraq in March 2016
27-year-old faces five years to life in prison when he is sentenced on October 13
Khweis was reportedly asked to be a suicide bomber because he had no skills
During his time, he cleaned up for fighters, bought groceries, and made lunches
In February 2017, the US military recovered his ISIS intake form and a camp roster that included his name with 19 other Islamic State fighters
This is the Palestinian-American idiot who ran away from ISIS with three cell phones, three forms of ID including his Virginia drivers licence, and a large amount of cash, only to miss the Turkish border and find the Peshmerga instead. His Peshmerga inteview video can be seen at the link.
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The lesson is, if you intend to join ISIS take a weapons course first.
[Free Beacon] Former FBI Director James Comey revealed Thursday that he provided excerpts of his memos to a friend with the understanding that they would be given to reporters.
Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that after President Donald Trump tweeted that he might have "tapes" of their conversations, he realized his private memos might set the record straight.
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Daniel C. Richmanis the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
Richman is a former federal prosecutor who served as chief appellate attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and has served as a consultant to the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury on federal criminal matters. Richman was the Brendan Moore Professor in Advocacy at Fordham Law School before joining Columbia Law School’s faculty. In 2004, Richman was appointed by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as chairman of the Local Conditional Release Commission. He is currently an adviser to FBI Director James B. Comey.
Richman's scholarly writings include more than 30 law review articles. He has offered testimony as an expert in a number of congressional hearings, and state, federal, and international criminal and civil matters.
Emphasis added.
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"I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter," he said. "I didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel."
Snowflake pajama boy didn't deserve to be head of the FBI. No better than the DC snipers John Allen Muhammad and Malvo taking shots. He is a duplicitous weasel who is not to be trusted.
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The Director of the FBI leaking a memorandum? WTF, maybe he is Pajama Boy having hot chocolate. Well, the hearings were a typical congressional circus, but they sure revealed the character of this ex (thank G-D)FBI director.
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Geez. A leaker and an officer of the court.
The felony possibilities multiply.
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[PJ] On June 3, PJ Media reported that although Theresa May's Conservatives still had an edge in the general election polls, the socialist Labour Party was catching up. Well, according to Sky News, Britain will indeed have a "hung parliament," meaning that the Tories have lost their majority and can only remain in power by forming a coalition government.
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It could be the remainaics in the Tory party tried to throw the election.
I saw zero campaigning and the campaign management was awful.
Then all the terrorism happened and the response was dismal.
Plus Corbyn ran a Trump style meet the people thing where he went up and down the country. He mainly met activisits BUT they liked it and went out. TMay? Did feck all.
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London has a Muslim mayor and he's apparently feeling no blowback over the latest attack there. The Brits may be done. They apparently have no will to fight.
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The problem is that the trajectory of the country is not really affected by political events or elections. Brits will not be able to vote themselves out of this trajectory.
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I paraphrase. She said something like, 'We couldn't have predicted it, and there was nothing we could do to stop it.'
My response was must not have read any Israeli news for the last 10 years.
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"We couldn't have predicted it, and there was nothing we could do to stop it"
I remember that. It sounds just like typical American political blather that indicates they will do better without taking blame for failure. I guess I underestimated the response that would get.
[AnNahar] Two naturalized Americans from New York and Michigan have been charged with terrorism, accused of operating on behalf of Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... in the United States, Panama and Thailand, US officials announced Thursday.
Ali Kourani, 32, and Samer el Debek, 37, were tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on June 1 in the Bronx and just outside bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , respectively, US officials said. They appeared before US magistrates separately.
Both were hit with a raft of charges that include providing material support to Hizbullah -- which Israel and the West consider a terror group -- weapons offenses and receiving military-type training from group.
If convicted they could spend decades in a US prison.
Debek, on Hizbullah's payroll for years, conducted surveillance in Panama, where he scoped out the US and Israeli embassies and assessed vulnerabilities of the Panama Canal and ships passing through it, US officials said.
Kourani allegedly monitored potential targets in the United States, including military bases in New York, acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim said.
Hizbullah is the most powerful gang in Leb. Although blacklisted as a terror group in the West, it enjoys widespread support in Leb because of its "resistance" to Israel and social welfare programs.
US officials said Kourani received weapons training from Hizbullah as a teenager in Leb before moving to the United States legally in 2003, to obtain degrees in biomedical engineering and business administration.
They alleged that he was recruited into Hizbullah's operations unit Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... in 2008, and the following year became a naturalized US citizen.
He communicated with his handler through coded emails, and received bouts of weapons training and drills on tactics in Leb, US prosecutors said.
In the United States, he allegedly scoured for firearms suppliers, Israeli military personnel, airport security information and surveilled US military and law enforcement facilities in New York, sending information back to Hizbullah.
US officials say Debek visited Thailand in May 2009 on his US passport, tasked with cleaning up explosive precursors in a Bangkok house that had been abandoned by others because they were under surveillance.
In 2012, he went on a Hizbullah surveillance mission to Panama, tasked with identifying areas of weakness at the Panama Canal and providing information about how close someone could get to a ship passing through the Canal, officials said.
Panama's government expressed "satisfaction" over the arrests, saying "it maintains active cooperation with international intelligence bodies to prevent this type of threat."
The statement said US authorities had alerted Panama in 2014 that Debek might try to enter that country, and "actions were immediately taken in line with the law to impede his entry."
Debek allegedly told the FBI that he was detained by Hizbullah from December 2015 to April 2016, and falsely accused of spying for the United States.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that his military training included extensive instruction on bomb-making.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli security forces entered the West Bank town of Beit Fajjar overnight Wednesday to shut down a weapons manufacturing workshop.
IDF forces confiscated a lathe from the facility, which was believed to be involved in producing makeshift firearms that could be delivered to terror groups.
Also overnight, seven Paleostinians, including one Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", operative, suspected of involvement in terror groups or participating in violent protests were jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in other operations across the West Bank, the Walla news website reported.
[Ynet] An IDF soldier was lightly injured overnight by protestors throwing stones at coppers in Hebron. The soldier was maimed in the back by a cinderblock thrown at him was evacuated to the hospital in Jerusalem.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian who had been released from Israeli prison following a two-month hunger strike was again tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! overnight for incitement, Israeli security forces say.
Mohammed Allan was detained for questioning "as part of the struggle against the phenomenon of Paleostinian incitement in media and social media, which leads to severe attacks in Israel," the Shin Bet says.
The 32-year-old resident of Einabus in the northern West Bank was arrested for "inciting through the media while calling for acts of terror and resistance to the ’Zionist enemy,'" it says.
In November 2015, Allan was released from a year in jail under an Israeli measure known as administrative detention, which allows imprisonment without trial for six-month periods renewable indefinitely.
He was arrested for contacts with the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... with the aim of carrying out attacks.
Allan began a hunger strike in June 2015 that brought him near death and also boosted tensions in the occupied West Bank, with Israel announcing in September that it would not be extending his detention.
[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says Adam and Firas Faki were at heart of planned killing, intended to avenge March’s death of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror chief Mazen Faqha.
Four Arab Israelis were charged Thursday with serious offenses connected to an alleged plan to assassinate an Israeli army officer in Dire Revenge for the shooting death in Gazoo in March of Mazen Faqha, a Hamas terror chief. Three further suspects are in jug.
Faqha was tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! for life for orchestrating a 2002 suicide kaboom that killed nine people, but was released along with more than 1,000 other Paleostinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was held by Hamas for five years. In Gazoo, he oversaw efforts to recruit cells to carry out terror attacks from the West Bank against Israeli targets. He was killed on March 24 by unknown gunnies.
In May, Hamas executed three men it accused of the liquidation and of collaborating with Israel.
The alleged Dire Revenge plot came to light after security services detained seven residents of the central Israeli town of Jaljulia, near Kfar Saba, on suspicion of dealing illegally in weapons.
One of them -- Mahmood Muhammad Abed al-Karim Daud -- revealed details of two brothers involved in the attack plan while under interrogation, the Shin Bet security services revealed Thursday.
The brothers, also from Jaljulia, are Adam Ismail Muhammad Faki, born in 1992, who is known to police for criminal activity, and Firas Ismail Muhammad Faki, who is two years older, known to the security services for his support for the so-called 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.... movement and for planning criminal and security-related activities in his hometown.
Firas Faki was one of four Jaljulia residents detained in December 2015 on suspicion of illegal arms dealing and taking part in riots.
The details form part of a charge sheet submitted by central district prosecutors to the central district court on Thursday.
According to the Shin Bet, during a trip Adam Faki took to the Gazoo Strip in December 2014 for a family wedding, he was recruited to Hamas by two Hamas activists -- his half brother Muhammad and another man, Hassan al-Matsi.
While in the Strip, Adam Faki took part in military training and shooting practice. Also participating was Hassan Jabari, a senior Hamas figure and brother of the late Ahmed Jabari, who served as acting head of the terror organization’s military arm when he was killed in an Israeli Air Force strike on the enclave in 2012.
Muhammad Faki told his half-brother Adam to acquire weapons, identify a victim and recruit a helper, the charge sheet said.
Adam subsequently tried to get hold of two pistols and silencers from another Jaljulia resident, Yassin Mar’ari.
Adam’s brother Faras was locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on suspicion of having known about the plan and even of helping half-brother Muhammad to contact Adam secretly via his cellphone.
The Shin Bet said that the incident highlighted the risk of weapons circulating among criminals being transferred to terrorists.
The investigation also showed how Hamas was "exploiting Israel’s humanitarian policy" vis a vis the Gazoo Strip for terrorist purposes, the Shin Bet added, using family visits and permits for merchants or patients needing medical treatment to go in and out of the enclave.
In November, the Shin Bet arrested another resident of Jaljulia suspected of planning to join IS in Syria.
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[ARA News] Credible reports indicate that at least 231 civilians attempting to flee western Mosul have been killed by ISIS fire since 26 May, including at least 204 over three days last week alone, the UN reported on Thursday.
“The UN Human Rights Office has been documenting ISIL’s use of civilians as human shields and its slaughter of those attempting to flee since the start of the Mosul operation, but recent reports indicate a significant escalation in such killings,” the UN said in a statement.
“On 26 May, ISIL reportedly shot at civilians trying to flee al-Shifa neighbourhood in western Mosul, killing 27 people, including 14 women and five children. Their bodies were reportedly buried two days later by neighbours,” the UN stated. Moreover, the UN reported other incidents, such us the killing of 163 civilians in the al-Shifa neighbourhood on 1 June, and on 3 June, ISIS shot at least 41 civilians in the same location, while they attempted to flee ISIS.
“Shooting children as they try to run to safety with their families – there are no words of condemnation strong enough for such despicable acts,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said. “I call on the Iraqi authorities to ensure that those who are responsible for these horrors are held accountable and brought to justice in line with international human rights laws and standards. The victims of such terrible crimes must not be forgotten.”
“The murder of civilians, as well as the intentional directing of an attack against civilians who are not directly taking part in hostilities, are war crimes,” the UN said.
Furthermore, the UN said there are reports of civilian casualties by air strikes.
”The [UN] High Commissioner called on the Iraqi Security Forces and their Coalition partners to ensure that their operations comply fully with international humanitarian law and that all possible measures are taken to avoid the loss of civilian lives. He urged the Iraqi authorities to ensure that any allegations of human rights violations committed by Iraqi Security Forces are also fully investigated and those responsible held accountable,” the UN said.
Dave Eubank from the Free Burma Rangers also confirmed the reports in an email to ARA News. Eubank was operating with his group in West Mosul on 1 June.
“With God’s help, and Iraqi Army and police, and U.S. military, we were able to do the rescue. We saw over 50 shot dead by ISIS yesterday and today, and helped 30 shot people who managed to escape,” he said on 2 June.
“All last night people came crawling across the highway near the hospital near the first bridge. Early this morning we saw that at least four people were still alive including children, but ISIS controlled all access and swept the area by sniper, machine gun, mortar, and RPG fire. There was no way to help them even though they were only 150 yards away,” he said.
His group that is trying to help injured civilians, and tries to save civilians from ISIS, they have seen around 50 dead bodies spread out along the street. “Dead babies, mothers, and people of every age – and had been like this for two days in the blazing sun and ISIS shooting,” Eubank told ARA News.
However, due to the US providing support to his group and the Iraqi army, his group saved several civilians after the US provided a smoke screen in Western Mosul.
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[AlAhram] The United States shot down a pro-Syrian regime armed drone that was attacking U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria on Thursday, a U.S. military front man said, the first time the regime had attacked coalition forces.
U.S. Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, who is a front man for the U.S.-led coalition fighting 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, said the MQ-1 like armed drone was destroyed after it fired upon coalition forces carrying out a patrol outside a deconfliction zone in southern Syria. Dillon said there were no coalition casualties.
Dillon said that earlier in the day the United States had also carried another strike out against pick-up trucks with weapons who had moved against U.S.-backed fighters near the town of At Tanf.
[AlAhram] At least 13 people are dead, including four attackers, after Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... launched the deadliest attack in months on the northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... city that is the birthplace of the krazed killer group, police said Thursday. The attack came just hours before a visit by the country's acting president.
The jihadists attacked late Wednesday in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, as evening prayers were ending, targeting four locations around the city. Thirteen people were killed, including four attackers, Police Commissioner Damian Chukwu said.
Extremists also clashed with soldiers outside the city in Alidawari village and Jiddari Polo suburb, where homes were set on fire, Chukwu said. Nigerian forces killed three Boko Haram holy warriors in that fighting, he said, and one attacker was captured alive.
Acting president Yemi Osinbajo arrived in Maiduguri on Thursday to launch a food relief program for hundreds of thousands of people who have fled their homes in the wake of Boko Haram attacks in the region. The eight-year insurgency has killed more than 20,000, kidnapped thousands and spilled into neighboring countries, creating a vast humanitarian crisis with thousands said to be near starvation.
The attacks late Wednesday in Maiduguri took place in various locations around the Chad Basin Development Authority headquarters just before 9 p.m., resident Alhaji Bashir said. The targets included a mosque, he said.
Young members of a civilian defense group, who have come together to combat the Islamic krazed killers, saw one jacket wallah at the headquarters. "One of the youth vigilantes rushed to hold him, and the bomb went off and killed the suicide bomber and three other persons," Bashir said.
In another attack, aexploding trollop female suicide bomber entered a crowd of worshippers leaving prayers and detonated her explosives, he said.
Dozens of injured people filled the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital on Thursday, said Abba Shehu, a private security worker.
Mosul (Reuters) The killers made no attempt to hide the bodies of the 15 men they shot dead by the side of a road cutting across wheat fields in northern Iraq.
Blindfolded and bound, the victims lay decomposing in plain sight of the occasional car that drives along this route scattered with spent bullet casings. Two of the men had been marched a short way into the field, where one was apparently forced to kneel before being shot from behind.
Prostrated beside him, the other man wore faded jeans. In his back pocket was an ID card: Qusay Mohammad, age 31.
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[JPOST] A prominent leader of Hamas' Izzadin Kassam brigade was killed Wednesday in an "accidental" explosion in southern Gaza, according to PA news outlet Ma'an.
The explosion occurred at a Hamas post near Rafah, injuring three other militants, according to the Palestinian news agency.
Hamas described Ibrahim Hussein Abu al-Naja as a prominent leader and said the source of the explosion was not clear.
This is not the first time militants have been killed in mysterious Gaza Strip explosions, with Ma'an reporting that numerous Hamas "resistance posts" have been destroyed over the past few years.
On April 26, an "accidental" explosion killed an Islamic Jihad military member during preparatory work in the site, the terrorist group announced.
The Gaza Ministry of Health later stated that another Palestinian was wounded in the same "accident."
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Is that covered under hovel owners insurance?
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The mystery of why you are there to start with, and then why are you handling explosives? I thought the "Palestinians" taught their kids this shit in kindergarten.
The fact you have no identity and have amassed so much shame in such a short amount of time in the last Century tells me that you are in a DEATH SPIRAL.
You surpassed the point of accepting failure which makes any animal dangerous.
And this is your rebuttal from on High.
This is the first converse You will hear.
[Iran Press TV] Saudi Arabia’s national soccer team has come under criticism for its refusal to observe a minute’s silence for the London attack victims during a recent match with Australia.
Before the World Cup qualifier in Adelaide on Thursday, the Australian national soccer team lined up in the center of the field to keep silence over the killing of two Australian women killed in last week's terror attacks in London.
However, the Saudi team continued jogging, passing the ball and taking their positions on the field. Pictures show a Saudi player, Salman al-Faraj, facing the Australian team with his hands behind his back.
[DailyMail] Pictures show the Australian team lined up at the halfway mark, with the Saudi players ignoring the gesture as they get in formation to start the game.
Saudi players on the bench refused to stand for the minute's silence.
A spokesperson from the Football Federation Australia told Daily Mail Australia they had been advised prior to the match that the Saudi team would not be taking part.
'The FFA sought agreement from the Asian Football Confederation and the Saudi national team to hold a minute's silence in memory of those lost in Saturday night's terror bombings in London and in particular the two Australian women,' the spokesperson said.
'Both the AFC and the Saudi team agreed that the minute of silence could be held.
'The FFA was further advised by Saudi team officials that this tradition was not in keeping with Saudi culture and they would move to their side of the field and respect our custom whilst taking their own positions on the field.
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Am sure there are several politicians who are eager to explain to us that it wasn't what it seems.
[RFE/RL] The self-proclaimed commander of Albanians fighting with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq has been killed there, the leader of the Muslim community in his hometown of Kacanik said.
Florim Neziraj said that Lavdrim Muhaxheri's brother had informed him of Muhaxheri's death earlier in the day. He said family members told him that Muhaxheri was killed by an air strike in Syria and asked him to notify the Islamic community of his death.
Muhaxheri, an IS fighter who has declared himself as the "commander of Albanians in Syria and Iraq," is notorious in Kosovo for a video posted on the Internet in 2014 showing him beheading a man in Iraq. Another video showed him killing a person with a rocket-propelled grenade.
In November, officials in Kosovo said they had arrested 19 people on suspicion of having links to the Islamic State and planning to carry out terrorist attacks. Police said the suspects had received orders from Muhaxheri.
Muhaxheri's death was announced over mosque speakers in Kacanik, in keeping with tradition when someone from the community dies. This decision caused criticism in Kosovo. But Neziraj said, "We are serving every citizen and the mosque belongs to everyone."
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[THEHILL] The House of Representatives on Thursday passed sweeping legislation to strip and replace much of the financial regulations passed under President B.O. after the 2008 financial crisis.
The House passed the Financial CHOICE Act 233-186, along party lines. The bill is not expected to pass the Senate.
Why not?
Sponsored by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the CHOICE Act is the most ambitious Republican effort to roll back the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed in 2010. Republicans have long targeted Dodd-Frank, saying it has created a crushing regulatory burden that suffocates small businesses and banks while empowering unaccountable babus bureaucrats.
"Dodd-Frank represents the greatest imposition on our business enterprises than all Obama era regulations combined," Hensarling said Thursday morning in a briefing with news hounds. "In many respects, it was not a response to the financial crisis, but a grab bag of leftist ideas that were waiting on the shelf for quite some time."
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Why not?
Dunno for sure but my guess would be McCain and Graham.
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Senate is expected to filibuster. That's probably why the Schlappschwaenze in the House were willing to pass this in the first place, kind of like when they only vote to repeal Obamacare when there's no chance of its being signed.
[RT] The mother of Youssef Zaghba, one of the three men responsible for the deadly vehicle and stabbing attack on London Bridge, says she never believed her son’s terrorist intentions, especially after years of close police surveillance.
“I never thought he could have done anything violent I always tried to talk to him, there are no words, the pain is too big, the pain I feel as a mother. I don't know if it makes sense to ask for forgiveness, if it would make sense I would ask for it,” Valeria Khadija Collina said during an interview at her home in Bologna, in northern Italy.
Collina believes her son was “not dangerous” at the time, and that the only reason he got stopped in Bologna on his way to Istanbul was because he carried only a small backpack, had a one way ticket and that he misspoke at the border, saying, “terrorist instead of a tourist.”
Collina met her Moroccan husband and converted to Islam before giving birth to Youssef in 1995. Zaghba was identified earlier this week as the third terrorist involved in the London Bridge attack which left eight people dead and 48 others injured.
The Moroccan-born Italian attacker was briefly detained in Bologna last year, presumably while trying to reach Syria through Turkey to join the ranks of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists.
According to his mother, Zaghba planned his trip to Syria for at least a year prior to his detention in March 2016. His motive, to start a new life.
“When my son wanted to go to Syria, in 2015, what he said, and I believe that, was that he didn't want to go for fighting but to live in an Islamic country, to work and make a family,” Collina says.
Collina believes her son was “not dangerous” at the time, and that the only reason he got stopped in Bologna on his way to Istanbul was because he carried only a small backpack, had a one way ticket and that he misspoke at the border, saying, “terrorist instead of a tourist.”
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I'm not interested in anything a Muslim has to say.
[Free Beacon] The Obama administration "systematically disbanded" law enforcement investigative units across the federal government focused on disrupting Iranian, Syrian, and Venezuelan terrorism financing networks out of concern the work could cause friction with Iranian officials and scuttle the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a former U.S. official who spent decades dismantling terrorist financial networks.
David Asher, who previously served as an adviser to Gen. John Allen at the Defense and State Departments, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday that top officials across several key law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the Obama administration "systematically disbanded" law enforcement activities targeting the terrorism financing operations of Iran, Hezbollah, and Venezuela in the lead-up to and during the nuclear negotiations with Tehran.
"Senior leadership, presiding, directing, and overseeing various sections [of these agencies] and portions of the U.S. intelligence community systematically disbanded any internal or external stakeholder action that threatened to derail the administration's policy agenda focused on Iran," he testified.
Asher now serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Illicit Finance and is an adjunct fellow at the Center for New American Security, two national security think tanks.
He attributed the motivation for decisions to dismantle the investigative units to "concerns about interfering with the Iran deal," a reference to the nuclear deal forged between the U.S., five other world powers, and Iran during the final years of the Obama administration.
As a result, "several top cops" retired and the U.S. government lost their years of expertise.
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ValJar's influence
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I'm afraid this might be jut the tip of the iceberg concerning Barack Obama's administration support of the Terrorist nation Iran and terrorists in general.
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ValJar, the most successful foreign agent in US history. The breadth of her actions to aid Iran is staggering, yet virtually invisible to the investigative geniuses of the MSM. Why is that?
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Honestly, was Obama just a fool with Grima Wormtongue hadnling Iranian deals for him, or was in actively undermining US policy because he felt Iran wasn't a threat (or wouldn't be if treated nicely).
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Thursday, Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) rebels based in the Syrian Desert bombarded checkpoints controlled by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and allied paramilitary factions on the Damascus-Baghdad highway in southeastern Homs.
Using GRAD rockets and artillery guns, the FSA’s Osoud al-Sharqiya, Ahmad al-Abdo Martyrs Brigade and Maghwar al-Thwara struck SAA positions around the Zaza checkpoint which was liberated last month by Syrian government forces whom hope to reach the strategic al-Tanf border crossing, thus creating a land route to territory held by the friendly Iraqi Army.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa spent the day shopping for new underwear. Tonight was going to be a special occasion... the US Airforce conducted a new wave of sorties against the SAA, destroying multiple technicals and killing an unknown number of military personnel.
Despite hostilities by the US and its vetted proxies, the SAA is steadily advancing towards the al-Tanf crossing while simultaneously capturing turf on the provincial border with Sweida.
Washington has so far warned the SAA to stay outside a 55 kilometer buffer zone covering the al-Tanf border area are where US special forces have established a military base.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the SAA has not adhered to the US buffer zone. On Thursday morning, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) also bombed US-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria in retaliation over the ongoing American aggression.
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[DAILYWIRE] A Virginia imam is advocating for female genital mutilation, or FGM, despite the fact that the practice is illegal in the United States.
Imam Shaker Elsayed of the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, appears to believe that abusing women under the guise of religious purity codes is morally virtuous.
Mutilating a little girl’s genitals today can prevent “hypersexuality” in the future, says Imam Elsayed in a sermon to parishioners. After suggesting that the more extreme forms of mutilation may need to be avoided, the imam lectures his parishioners about seeking guidance from Muslim gynecologists familiar with the illegal procedure.
FGM is "the honorable thing to do if needed,” he preaches, detailing the supposed virtues of the horrifying practice. Imam Elsayed explains:
"[Cut] the tip of the sexually sensitive part of the girl so that she is not hypersexually active...in societies where circumcision of girls is completely prohibited, hypersexuality takes over the entire society and a woman is not satisfied with one person or two or three."
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Personally, I'm in favor of castrating Imams, and also cutting their tongues out - and they should be considerably less of a bother thereafter.
[Ynet] A leader at one of Virginia's largest mosques has resigned after the imam there made comments in support of female genital mutilation.
Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, who was director of outreach at the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, posted his resignation Friday on his website.
Abdul-Malik says he's leaving after "many reprehensible statements" by Dar Al-Hijrah's senior imam, Shaker Elsayed, including his recent comments on genital mutilation
Incidentally, interesting name the congrgation chose: Dar Al-Hijrah.
[RT] The US government estimates as many as 100 girls may have had their genitals cut at the hands of a bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , Michigan doctor and his co-conspirators, a federal prosecutor said during a court hearing.
Assistant US Attorney Sara Woodward disclosed the information while trying to convince the judge to keep the doctor and his wife locked up.
"Due to the secretive nature of this procedure, we are unlikely to ever know how many children were cut by Dr. [Jumana] Nagarwala," US Attorney Woodward said, referring to the lead defendant in the case, according to the Detroit Free Press.
"The Minnesota victims were not the first victims," she added.
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[POLITICO] The Turkish government must waive diplomatic immunity for individuals involved in a clash with police and protesters earlier this month, a bipartisan group of senators wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson earlier this week, or else face rescinded visas and revoked diplomatic credentials.
Dark-suited, gun-carrying men that appeared to be security personnel accompanying Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... reportedly to assault peaceful protesters gathered outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence earlier this month. Video of the incident shows them charging past a line of coppers to attack the protesters in Northwest Washington’s Sheridan Circle.
On a separate video, Erdogan himself can be seen calmly watching the fighting unfold from the driveway of the ambassador’s residence before turning his back and walking inside.
The U.S. politicians, led by Sen. Claire McCaskill ...Now, why would I pay taxes on my airplane? Send the bill to the taxpayers!... (D-Mo.), wrote in a letter dated Tuesday that Erdogan’s security had "engaged in a brutal, unprovoked, and inexcusable attack against protestors" and labeled their actions "wholly unacceptable."
"It is clear to us that both the Turkish government and its representative in the U.S., Ambassador Serdar Kilic, bear responsibility for the unjustifiable actions of the Turkish security personnel," said the letter, a copy of which was provided to POLITICO. The letter’s other signatories included Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).
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Simply declare them 'Persona Non-Grata' (PNG) and sent them to Dulles for a flight home.
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Just PNG them and have done with it. The question to me is the ordering of priorities for our six (6) Princes of the Senate -- How much is Genuine Concern, How much is Posturing for the Press, and How much is just stirring up excrement that Trump's diplo's are going to have to clean up.
Taiz – Command of Forces of Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen raided on Houthi and Saleh’s warehouses and clusters in Midi front of Hajjah governorate, on the Saudi border. The coalition intensified its raids on Houthi sites in several Yemeni cities under militias’ control.
The coalition concentrated its raids on Sanaa, Hajjah, and Saadah.
Media center of the army Fifth Military Zone reported a military source confirmation that the coalition targeted Houthi sites with eight raids including a weapon storage south of al-Nasim farms as well as reinforcements in Hiram and Ahem heading towards south of Midi.
This happened at the time coalition air force continue to raid on military sites of the insurgents in Sanaa and its outskirts.
During the last three days, raids targeted Nahdayen military camp, the Presidential Palace, and other insurgency camps.
In Taiz, clashes intensified between troops of Yemeni National Army and Houthi and Saleh’s militias on the western and eastern front lines of the governorate. The army began cleansing strategic locations on the eastern front and closing in on the Special Force camp in al-Houban area.
Commander of the 22 Mika brigade of National Army Abdallah al-Sharaabi told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that by taking over Mohammed Ali Othman school, the national army will be able to advance further. He added that the military school is very important for the insurgents and by liberating it, the army would be able to stop Houthi and Saleh insurgents’ reinforcement line to the surrounding of the military camp and the Republic Palace.
Yemeni forces will proceed with their battle against the insurgents in the governorate, confirmed Major General Khalid Fadel, commander of Taiz front.
The statements came during an inspection tour by Fadel at the battlefront around the military camp of Mohammed Ali Othman school.
Fadel stressed on the necessity for the Yemeni forces remaining firm and pursuing their march until the liberation of the province and the ousting of the militias. He added that the National army is advancing towards the officers’ military school on the outskirts of the Tashrifat military camp and was able to besiege Mohammed Ali Othman school.
A Yemeni official source reported that 56 billion Yemeni Riyal had been wired from the Central Bank to the account Ministry of Defense to pay the wages of Yemeni armed forces for the months of January and February.
Saba News Agency said that the government finally started paying salaries of civil servants in all liberated governorates until the end of May and in some Houthi-controlled areas.
The government called the international community to exert pressures on the insurgents to release the state’s revenues from the Central Bank in Aden.
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State’s so-called “Black Widow” female member was killed in a bomb blast that occurred outside her house on the outskirts of Hawija town, southwest of Kirkuk, a local source in the province said on Thursday.
“A prominent female leader with the Islamic State’s female wing called the ‘Black Widow’ was killed today in a blast caused by a bomb placed near her house on the outskirts of Hawija,” the source told AlSumaria News.
“The member is a widow of one of IS leaders who was killed around a year ago in an airstrike. A prominent female member in Hawija, she used to work for the IS Hisbah (vigilantism) department,” the source who preferred anonymity added.
Hisbah committees are IS’s religious law enforcement arm, which arrests whoever violates the group’s extreme religious rules and carries out sentences issued against them.
Hawija, located 55 KM west of Kirkuk, has been held by IS since mid-2014.
Dozens of residents from Hawija and the regions in its vicinity escape to Kirkuk province on a daily basis. Despite the risky routes to the freed regions, the civilians prefer death to staying under IS control.
Last month, news reports quoted sources as saying that the extremist group opened alternative headquarters for its so-called “Nineveh State, “Dijlah State”, “Salahuddin State” and “Diyala State” in Hawija.
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Ha Ha *wipes tears* Ha ha ha
that's too bad.
*snicker*
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[RT] "The Department of State has worked closely with European partners to diversify European energy supplies through new sources of natural gas, vital interconnectors and new facilities to import LNG. The United States congratulates Poland on this significant step to diversify its own sources of energy and to strengthen Europe’s energy security," Washington said in a statement.
While Europe has been trying to find alternatives to Russian gas, the cost of shipping from the US remains high and demands significant infrastructure investment.
The LNG shipped to Poland is from the Sabine Pass liquefaction facility on the Gulf of Mexico coast. As of now, it is the only LNG exporting facility in the US since the start of the shale revolution. Last year, the first delivery of American LNG to Europe arrived in Portugal.
Poland has been one of the fiercest opponents of Russian gas expansion in the European market and wants to become a huge re-seller of LNG in Europe after building an LNG terminal at the port of Swinoujscie.
While Russia supplies about 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) a year of Poland’s gas needs, the new Polish terminal has a capacity of 5 bcm which can increase to 7.5 bcm. Last year, LNG made up less than 10 percent of Polish gas consumption.
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This bit of very good news for our economy would have never happened under a Soetoro regime.
[Iran Press TV] The Iranian Intelligence Ministry has released the names of and other information about the five Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISISDeath Eaters who carried out twin attacks in the Iranian capital city of Tehran on Wednesday.
The Intelligence Ministry on Thursday released a statement detailing information on the five Death Eaters and "affiliated nuclei," whose full identities it said had been determined after intelligence work by the Ministry.
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It hasn't occurred to them yet that The Great Satan is pulling the strings of ISIS? They're not blaming the Juice?
That's got to be a quantum shift!
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A disturbing video emerged this evening depicting the five ISIS Death Eaters who conducted two highly coordinated attacks on the Iranian parliament and Khomeini Mausoleum on Wednesday morning.
Speaking on camera in a pre-recorded Amaq Agency video, the heavily armed 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 read a chapter from the Koran in Arabic and then proceeded to make several statements in Farsi (Persian/Iranian):
The leader of the jihadist infiltration group initially explained that the incident represented the first ISIS attack in Iran and far from the last.
He then proceded to call on supporters of ISIS to create unrest in Iran by conducting similar attacks in the name jihad on behalf of the Islamic State.
In the latter part of the video, the ISIS hard boy called on ’real Moslems’ in Iran to rise up against the government to punish it for its actions in Syria, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Yemen.
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this group appears to be native sunni persians who fought with other ISIS troops in Iraq and returned to Iran to carry out the attack
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[DAWN] MINGORA: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Swat police claimed on Wednesday to have arrested a key militant from Chuprial Bazaar in Matta tehsil here.
According to police, a high profile militant identified as Javed was arrested following a tip-off. He was allegedly wanted to law enforcement agencies in several anti-state and terrorist activities during the Swat insurgency.
“He along with other militants conducted a hand grenade attack on peace militia when they were in a mosque at Gwalrai area of Matta tehsil in 2008, leaving 11 people dead,” said a statement issued from the office of CTD Swat.
He was allegedly involved in the abduction of 55 persons belonging to peace militia in Swat too.
The police shifted him to unidentified location soon after his arrest for further investigation.
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[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Authorities are investigating a fatal officer-involved shooting in Dundalk Wednesday afternoon. Dundalk is a working class neighborhood just outside Baltimore.
The officer was trying to question the suspect, but police said instead of cooperating, he pulled out his weapon and started shooting.
The incident began just after 2:45 p.m., when police got a call about an armed robbery near the Logan Village Shopping Center in the 3400 block of Dundalk Ave near Avon Beach Road.
Police said when they got there, the suspect was trying to make a getaway on an MTA bus. When they tried to stop him, things quickly escalated.
"Shoved a gun in the guy’s face and was like give me all your money," the woman who called police said.
"When the police responded out here, they were able to locate what they thought was the MTA bus involved. They stopped the MTA bus and they engaged the suspect," said Jennifer Peach of the Baltimore County Police. "At some point during that engagement, the suspect fired shots at the officers. The officers then returned fire and shot the suspect."
"He told her to back up. He said it like 3 or 4 times and he had the gun aimed at her and he let off a fire. He shot the gun and we’re all ducking," the woman said.
The suspect was shot, and later died from his injuries.
A female Baltimore County Police Department officer was shot in the leg, and was taken to a hospital.
"They had the bus surrounded, shots started being fired," said witness Clayton Brown. "The bullet went by me and hit the sign. The officer went down, that scared me more than anything."
A bystander was also shot. Both are at death's door.
About a dozen people were on the bus during the shootout.
The female bystander is expected to survive.
Police say they have body-camera footage of the incident and also footage from the MTA bus.
Nearby schools were placed on lock-down.
"I was hysterically crying all the way here. It kind of makes me emotional again," Jayne Blair said.
"She would have never got shot had I not called and he wouldn’t be dead had I not called, and I feel like crap," the caller said.
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On a freaking BUS? Could have been a lot worse.
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"Dundalk is a working class neighborhood just outside Baltimore."
But the original is in Scotland.
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[CORK BANSHEE-PICAYUNE]
From Baltimore, ructious abduction
By Murad the Barbarous Dutchman,
The Orangeman's pillagers
Filching her villagers
Under Mohammed's escutcheon!
Gentry urge patience. Papists and pilchards hardest hit.
[BREITBART] Thursday during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, former FBI Director James Comey said former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch had asked him to call the FBI investigation into former Secretary of State and then-Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... ’s handling of classified information on a private email server a "matter."
Comey said, "There were other things that contributed to that. One significant item I can’t. I know the committee’s been briefed on. There’s been public accounts of it which are nonsense. But I understand the committee has been briefed on the classified facts. Probably the only other consideration I guess can talk about in an open setting is at one point the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation but instead to call it matter, which confused me and concerned me. But that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we’re to close this case credibly."
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Put Comey and Lynch in adjoining cells at Supermax, and call it "Protective Custody".
1. Clinton is a clueless rascal who can't handle classified, but we won't pursue due to lack of 'intent.'
2. The Russians are evil manipulating bastids.
3. Trump is a liar whom can't be trusted.
4. The media is evil and often gets it wrong.
5. Jeff Sessions and the Russians are in cahoots.
6. Lynch manipulated the FBI mission, but I went along with it because she was my boss.
7. I am a besieged paragon of virtue and patriotism (think Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket), but sometimes I have trouble sleeping.
If more than four or five of the people within your inner circle are really messed up and stupid, perhaps it isn't them.
~ author unknown
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Did Comey also perjure himself under oath? Comey leaked privileged information to a friend, some of which was classified? The NYTs was also involved in this boondoggle.
Does this drama queen face time in the Greybar Hotel? Mueller going to look into this?
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Lynch is now saying Comey is a liar. She never told him to call the investigation of Hillary a matter.
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Comey keystroked those memos on an FBI computer while, he was the Director of the FBI. Those are not his memo's to own and then leak. They are "work product" subject to FBI info handling protocols.
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Comey keystroked those memos on an FBI computer while, he was the Director of the FBI. Those are not his memo's to own and then leak. They are "work product" subject to FBI info handling protocols.
Exactly, and NONE of the emails that Hillary received and sent (whether deleted or retained) were HER'S--they belonged to the Citizens of this Nation. I cannot believe that so many of our people lack this fundamental understanding. It doesn't matter her "intent", nor does it matter what the content of the emails were. They simply DID NOT BELONG TO HER, and any action she took to the contrary was a VIOLATION OF THE LAW.
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Comey, as a result of his testimony yesterday, may provide entry into the DNC shenanigans, Hillary's election rigging, selling our uranium to Russia, pay-for-play, white-collar crime, etc...kind of like Harry Reid and his nuclear option--the gift that keeps on giving.
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Comey, as a result of his testimony yesterday, may provide entry into the DNC shenanigans, Hillary's election rigging, selling our uranium to Russia, pay-for-play, white-collar crime, etc...kind of like Harry Reid and his nuclear option--the gift that keeps on giving.
[FREEBEACON] Iran released video footage showing a drone shadowing U.S. military forces operating in Syria just a day before an unmanned aerial vehicle launched a strike on American forces in the war-torn country, a move that has raised concerns among U.S. officials about the Islamic Theocratic Republic's increasing willingness to use military force in the region.
Iran's release of the video--which shows it using a drone to monitor U.S. operations as a Farsi-language narrator threatens to strike American forces--comes as the American military on Thursday was forced to shoot down a drone in Syria that was firing on coalition forces.
The Thursday attack, which U.S. military officials say was sponsored by Syrian-regime allies--which include Iran--highlights the increased threat posed by the Islamic Theocratic Republic to U.S. forces operating in Syria.
While U.S. military officials would not confirm the drone was Iranian in origin, the timing of the attack and release of video footage by Iran has fueled speculation among national security insiders that Iran is stepping up its operations to counter U.S. military forces in Syria.
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[Rappler] Indonesian police on Thursday said they arrested a man suspected of helping Indonesians join the attacks in Marawi City, as well as two others suspected of helping inspire a double suicide bombing in Jakarta.
Indonesia's National Police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of helping Indonesians travel to Mindanao to join the Maute group, which is affiliated with the Islamic State. The police said four of the people he helped were being sought by Philippine authorities.
Of the eight foreign fighters confirmed killed in the Marawi clashes, two were Indonesians, according to Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana.
Meanwhile, two other men captured on Wednesday in Bandung are suspected of being involved in suicide bombings in Jakarta on May 24. Three policemen died in the explosions.
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[RT] Details of the gruesome murder of a hospital employee by members of an elite Iraqi counter-terrorist unit have been shared by photographer Ali Arkady, who in an interview with RT, recalled that the man was shot after soldiers suspected him of trying to lead them into a trap.
The original 12-second smartphone clip depicting the cold-blooded murder of an unidentified Iraqi was allegedly recorded by the Iraqi Emergency Response Division (ERD) in December 2016. It shows a man, whose arms are tied behind his back, trying to run away from his executioners before being murdered in broad daylight by his captors.
The details of the apparent extrajudicial execution were made public by Arkady, a freelance filmmaker who between October and December of last year, documented the accomplishments and atrocities of the ERD ‐ the Iraqi special forces unit tasked with hunting down Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) fighters in Iraq.
Speaking to RT about the murder video, Arkady revealed how the man’s executioners boasted about killing an unarmed Iraqi. The incident, Arkady recalled, unfolded on December 12, 2016, when two members of the ERD ‐ Captain Omar Nizar and Sergeant Haidar ‐ who the filmmaker has been following for months, returned from one of their assignments.
The ERD officers recorded the execution on their smartphone, and once back at the unit's headquarters, were very eager to share the footage with Arkady and at least two other journalists present there.
"They started showing [the footage], saying, look how we killed this person. He leads us into a village. We wanted to extract information out of him," Arkady told RT.
"[The footage] showed how Sergeant Haidar started firing, unloading around 6-9 shots at the person. Then you hear Captain Omar’s voice [saying], ’Haidar, stop, that is enough. I want to talk to him.’ But then he himself shot this person three times."
Further conversations on that day revealed that the Iraqi was murdered for allegedly trying to lead the special forces unit into an ISIS ambush.
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[DAWN] Six suspected bully boyz and an army soldier were killed in a pair of gunbattles along the highly militarised de facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmire between India and Pakistain, the Indian army said Thursday.
Three 'militants' and a soldier died in fighting that erupted Thursday after the suspected bully boyz allegedly crossed over into India-held Kashmire's (IHK) Nowgam sector from Azad Jammu and Kashmire, Indian Army Spokesman Col. Rajesh Kalia claimed.
Kalia said three other suspected bully boyz were killed Wednesday in Machil sector.
There was no independent confirmation of the incidents.
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that's what the last couple days of "LOC indiscriminate firing" were over
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This woman has beaucoup criminality coming at her from many directions: the Clinton Foundation, pay-for-play, large-scale theft, perjury during Congressional hearings, having an illegal server and mishandling classified info among a few.
Wouldn't it be prudent to go after her for some of these things. She'd pick up a felony conviction and get knocked out of politics for 2010 and probably forever. This would protect the American people from the ever-present existential threat she presents to them. Besides, she hates us all.
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Give him (McShame) a break! He's still attempting to locate 'moderate muslims' which must be quite frustrating. Imagine waking up looking into the mirror each morning with that cock-up hanging around your neck. Pity the poor swamp creature.
At least 10 Daesh insurgents were killed in foreign troops airstrikes in eastern Nangarhar province in the past 24 hours, local officials confirmed on Thursday.
The airstrike was launched in Nargose and Chenar area of Kost district and “foreign insurgents were also among the dead,” a spokesman for the provincial governor, Attaullah Khoghyani said.
He said that the airstrike continues in the province.
He did provide any further details.
from Khaama: Fighting continues between Taliban, ISIS
Deadly clashes broke out between the Taliban insurgents and militants affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group, leaving several dead from both the sides.
The provincial governor’s spokesman Ataullah Khogyani said the incident took place in the vicinity of Pacher Agam district.
He said the militants of both the groups exchanged heavy fire in Suri Village, Judri, Saleh Baba shrine, and Wachi Lagadi areas.
Khogyani further added that so far 12 ISIS militants have been killed and two others have been wounded and two civilians were also killed.
At least three Taliban insurgents have also been killed during the clashes, Khogyani said, adding that hundreds of families have been forced to flee from the area.
According to Khogyani, provincial governor Mohamamd Gulab Mangal has also visited the affected families and security personnel in Hejratullah Rahmani area.
He promised that the Pacher Agam areas where the militants are conducting insurgency will be cleared in the near future.
The ISIS loyalists have long been attempting to gain foothold in the strategic Pacher Agam district in a bid to expand their presence and operations in this province.
The deputy house speaker of the Afghan parliament Zahir Qadir earlier had warned that the loyalists of the terror group are attempting to establish the Khurasan Caliphate in Afghanistan and are busy expanding their presence in some of the difficult terrains of the country.
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What began as a friendly argument concerning the size of the Prophet's Nose escalated into several suicide hangings and one mullah left a note saying" Blame no-one for my death."
He was found holding his pet cat and wearing an oversize bra, possibly belonging to his mother.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Late on Thursday afternoon, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) imposed full control over Hawsh al-Dawahra in the East Ghouta after capturing most of the rural town from Jaish al-Islam ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful... the day before.
Led by the 105th Brigade of the Elite Republican Guard, the Paleostine Liberation Army (PLA) and National Defense Forces (NDF), government forces overran the last sniper nests and gun positions despite facing many Islamist units whom tried desperately to cling onto control of the town, located southeast of the Islamist stronghold of Douma.
The media wing of Jaish al-Islam claimed its turbans were able to maintain a foothold in Hawsh al-Dawahra; however, a source embedded with the Elite Republican Guard assured al-Masdar News that all turbans had been pushed to the town’s western fields and outskirts.
Jaish al-Islam also published footage of the battle, claiming to have destroyed a BMP-1 and T-72 tank along with killing 16 SAA soldiers, events which the aforementioned SAA source told al-Masdar News were exaggerated.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] In his written and spoken testimony on Thursday, Comey said that he never felt that Trump had tried to impede the FBI's investigation into Russia, even that the president had encouraged it and he suggested that former national security adviser Mike Flynn wasn't at the heart of the investigation.
"The assumption of the critics of the president, of his pursuers, you might say, is that somewhere along the line in the last year is the president had something to do with colluding with the Russians ... to affect the election in some way," Matthews said on MSNBC, following the testimony.
"And yet what came apart this morning was that theory," Matthews said, listing two reasons why. First, he said Comey revealed that "Flynn wasn't central to the Russian investigation," and secondly, he said that kills the idea that Flynn might have been in a position to testify against Trump.
"And if that's not the case, where's the there-there?" Matthews said.
In his testimony, Comey confirmed media reports that Trump had asked him if he could drop the FBI investigation into Flynn and that the president had asked for his "loyalty." But Comey also asserted that he had told Trump that he was not personally under any investigation and that the president had encouraged the Russia investigation, even if it implicated any of his associates.
The hearing lasted nearly three hours and was followed by additional closed testimony in the Senate.
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[DAWN] INTO the cauldron of Middle East and Gulf politics, the krazed killerIslamic 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 has once again inserted itself with potentially terrifying consequences for a region already mired in tension, conflict and war.
The twin terrorist strikes in Tehran yesterday were designed not just to inflict casualties on the Iranian people, but also to send a signal that the state of Iran itself is under attack.
The choice of targets -- the Iranian parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini, who founded the present-day Iranian state -- could not be more potent.
The IS, with its explicitly sectarian agenda, appears to have demonstrated that it has the resources to strike in the heart of the most important Shia-majority country in the Moslem world.
And it has managed to do so at a time when, instead of uniting against the threat the group poses to all nations, the Moslem world is riven by some of the most bitter politics and disputes in years.
Much will depend on how the Iranian state reacts and the position that the Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... -led cluster of Moslem countries takes on the attack.
The sensible approach is clear: Saudi Arabia should recognise the peril that the IS poses to all states and immediately adjust its increasingly hawkish approach to Iran and countries allied with it; Iran should reconsider its provocative search for more influence in the Middle East and the Gulf and, instead, focus on the necessary fight against the IS.
But the sensible approach is likely to have few takers and already hawkish elements in Iran have suggested that Saudi Arabia may have had a role in the Tehran attacks.
With Tehran in recent years accused of cultivating sectarian proxies and non-state krazed killer groups across swaths of the Middle East, the possibility of a fresh wave of violence across the region cannot be ruled out.
Yet, more conflict cannot be regarded as a foregone conclusion in a region where historical rivalries and even enmities have been managed for long stretches.
While the Middle Eastern and Gulf countries will have to take responsibility for maintaining the peace between themselves, two factors appear to have contributed to the new imbalances in the region.
A metastasising IS is clearly a threat to everyone -- a terrorist super-group that threatens all countries but that few states appear to truly understand.
It is impossible for states to manage relations among themselves while the IS remains active on the scale it is today.
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But the sensible approach is likely to have few takers
A pretty common malady.
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As with the carrier based bombing of Tokyo in 1942 the result of this will be more psychological than material.
[RT] A military investigation into a US Arclight airstrike on a mosque in Syria’s Aleppo province found that the strike was "lawful," even though it likely resulted in the death of a civilian. More than 40 people died in the attack, which targeted an al-Qaeda meeting.
On Wednesday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) released the findings and recommendations of an internal investigation into the March 16 Arclight airstrike in al-Jinah, Syria. The conclusions were first announced in a series of tweets.
The US initially refused to take credit for the strike, admitting only to striking a nearby terrorist gathering in the bordering Idlib. The Pentagon also insisted that the mosque was still intact, despite video evidence to the contrary. In early May, however, CENTCOM acknowledged that it destroyed the mosque.
The CENTCOM report outlined the events of May 16. The military commanders received intelligence about a meeting location about a group of "al-Qaeda holy warriors and those collaborating with them," which was confirmed by follow-up surveillance. The decision-makers believed the meeting would take place in "a warehouse, with a shed and residence in near proximity."
At that point, the military began the targeting process.
"The strike cell followed procedures to confirm that the meeting was a valid military target, ensuring the strike would be proportional, and taking all feasible precautions to minimize collateral damage or civilian casualties," Major Josh T. Jacques, media operations chief for CENTCOM, said in a statement provided to RT.
The strike used F-15 fighter jets and MQ-9 Reaper drones to target the warehouse. It caused "superficial damage" to the adjacent mosque. CENTCOM followed up with a secondary strike against "Lions of Islam who were seen outside the building after the initial strike."
Approximately two dozen al-Qaeda members or affiliates were killed, and several others were maimed, CENTCOM said. It also resulted in the death of one "non-combatant, who may have been an adolescent."
An April report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), which was based on witness accounts, said that the mosque had been used daily and saw dozens of people gathering inside during prayer calls. It accused US forces of failing to double check the facts on the ground before launching the strike because "aerial surveillance of the building would have shown this."
"The Arclight airstrike took place in between the sunset and the evening prayer, at a time when US officials should have known that there would be people gathering in the mosque," deputy director of HRW’s Middle East and North Africa division, Lama Fakih, told RT in April.
The human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... organization did not find any evidence that would have backed up the claim that an al-Qaeda meeting was being held there.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] She is charged with 'willful retention and transmission of defense information'
The 25-year-old was indicted by a federal grand jury and a judge ordered her to be detained until her trial
Winner faces up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines if she's found guilty
Indictment states she worked with top-secret clearance at government agency
Government claims they found handwritten notes at Winner's home which appeared to sympathize with Osama bin Laden and other terrorists
In one note, Winner allegedly wrote: 'I want to burn the White House down and go live in Kurdistan'
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10 years in Leavenworth and then Kurdistan. No,no I am sorry, what did Kurdistan do to deserve her.
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I wouldn't be overly concerned about Low-T. I recommend the Air Force, then possibly contracting at Fort Gordon. There will be plenty of time for men later on.
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“I’m pretty, white and cute,” she allegedly told her sister. Prosecutors said Winner told her sister she would braid her hair and cry in court.
What a snowflake!
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Intelligence and moral compasses don't always align. Snowden was a brilliant snowflake, Bin Laden was also brilliant. Honor, integrity, and a strong moral compass have little to do with intelligence... Otherwise intellectually challenged people like me would be stealing, raping, and burning, instead of defending.
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She also used a personal portable hard drive on her AF laptop. Wonder what else she's downloaded? Lucky we have Trump. Obama would've pardoned and hired her
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People on other websites have pointed out her expertise was in Iran/Afghanistan, not Russia. Which raises the question of how she got ahold of Russian intercepts:
1) Did she acquire them under false pretenses? (a crime)
2) Did she acquire the intercepts with the intent to distribute them to unclassified persons.
3) Does her pledging allegiance to Iran meet the legal definition of Treason?
4) Are the cats more intelligent than their owner?
5) Would the NSA be better off hiring the cats instead of Reality Winner?
Al
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Which raises the question of how she got ahold of Russian intercepts:
She likely had access to finished intelligence products on the 'high side' (JWICS).
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49 Pan. Many kinds of intelligence. Geniuses like Einstein can be like little kids outside their area of expertise. But, learning a language gives you an insight how people speaking it think - because you don't learn language without reading books in it (I don't mean Sapir - Whorf). Also, learning a foreign language, let alone three, is a lot of work - work and leftards don't mix.
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Not all that bright, if she is splitting infinitives. 'I want to burn the White House down' more properly would be [subject] want to burn down the [object].
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#7 “I’m pretty, white and cute,” she allegedly told her sister.
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#10 Add: Apparently a Flash Drive. I thought USB ports were disabled post-Manning?
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Not all that bright, if she is splitting infinitives.
Why Bobby, I never would have tagged you as a grammar snob. How delightful! That right there is how I persuaded trailing daughter #2 to care about grammar and spelling during her early school years. It made so much sense to her that she took on editing her schoolfriends' writings, so their thinking would get full credit, too.
The European Commission extended its series of reflection papers on the future of Europe with a paper on offering scenarios for closer defense cooperation. "The Transatlantic relationship is evolving. The onus of improving European security lies first of all in European hands," says the document, signed by two Commission Vice Presidents, Federica Mogherini and Jyrki Katainen.
This statement echoes German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent comments about the need for Europeans to take their destiny into their own hands, and Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's words last year that "Europe can no longer afford to piggy-back on the military might of others."
Defense self-sufficiency is easier to discuss than to achieve. The European Union, including the UK, spends less than half on defense than the US. One way to close the gap is for the 21 countries within the EU that are also NATO members to increase military spending to 2 percent of economic output, something that Trump demands as a condition of further US protection. The Commission offers an alternative: Better coordination of defense spending and establishing a single market for the military industry, which would foster competition and eventually lead to a more manageable arsenal (currently, EU armies use 178 weapon systems compared with 30 in the US).
An alternative to NATO is also necessary because the alliance is no longer a comfortable framework for northern European countries, whose relations with a key NATO member, Turkey, have cooled in recent months. On Wednesday, Germany announced it would be moving its 260 personnel and its reconnaissance planes to Jordan from Turkey's Incirlik airbase, where they've been stationed to conduct reconnaissance flights over Syria. The Turkish government wouldn't let German parliament members visit the troops at Incirlik because of numerous political disagreements with Germany, so Merkel's cabinet retaliated. It has also led several European countries in rejecting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's invitation to hold the next NATO summit in Istanbul.
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This statement echoes German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent comments about the need for Europeans to take their destiny into their own hands, and Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's words last year that "Europe can no longer afford to piggy-back on the military might of others."
Let 'em talk all they want. The fact is that they no longer have the will to defend themselves, and even if they did the Soviets Russians could be marching straight to the Rhine, but the bureaucrats will still be arguing over the regulations covering button size on the uniforms.
Mike
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Cause they wouldn't be able to conquer Israel anyway?
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If the Islamic troops were smart they'd settle down for another five years. Promote their own to behave and join the various militaries (german, Italian) and learn as much as they can.
I think they got over confident early and the results will be bad for them (and bad for Europe, naturally).
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) A security source in Salahuddin Province informed that a civilian was killed and two others were wounded in an armed attack in Balad District, south of Tikrit, Alsumaria News reported on Thursday.
The source revealed that six gunmen fired indiscriminately, this evening, in Balad District, resulting in the killing of a civilian and injury of two others.
Security forces cordoned off the area of incident, while transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital and the body to the forensic medicine department, the source added on condition of anonymity.
Noteworthy, Iraq is witnessing an extraordinary situation, where military operations continue to drive out the Islamic State group from its-held areas.
Meanwhile, US-led international coalition is conducting several air strikes on the terrorist group headquarters, leaving dozens of casualties.
[Al Jazeera] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... will never surrender to the pressure being applied by its Arab neighbours and won't change its independent foreign policy to resolve disputes that have put the region on edge, Qatar's foreign minister has told Al Jazeera.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani made the remarks in Doha on Thursday, just days after Bahrain, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , Egypt, the UAE and several other countries cut relations with Qatar.
They accuse Qatar of supporting gangs and their regional rival, Iran. Qatar says the charges are baseless.
"We are not ready to surrender, and will never be ready to surrender, the independence of our foreign policy," Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman said.
He also said Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani would not leave the country while it was "in blockade", and therefore could not attend an offered mediation by 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... at the White House.
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Qatar not backing down. This will not end well for them I think.
Their airline can't operate, and 2 LNG tankers bound for Europe turned back. I assume because Egypt will refuse Suez passage.
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On an historical note. Both the Saudis and Bahrain controlled Qatar, before the British came along and essentially created Qatar as a separate entity.
A woman is suing a Texas restaurant and its manager after flaming queso sent her to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns.
Erika Saenz, a 27-year-old from Austin, was eating at Dos Salsas Cafe in Cedar Park on May 20 when the queso exploded and left her with "life-altering burns," the Austin American-Statesman reports.
Saenz and her family ordered the restaurant's tableside "Quesos Flameados." When it was brought to the table, the waitress attempted to spray a flammable chemical on the cheese and light it on fire, but the flames "went sideways" and engulfed Saenz, according to her lawyer, Adam Loewy.
She jumped to the ground as her family doused her with water. She was later taken to a burn unit in San Antonio with severe burns on her face, chest, neck and arms, Loewy said.
He said she has been released from the hospital but will need plastic surgery.
Loewy said the queso appetizer is usually brought out of the kitchen already on fire, but in this case the waitress tried to ignite it at the table.
"I think this is the height of negligence that they would have a dish like this in which they have no fire training for the waitress," he said.
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I suppose they may have been thinking that if they allowed a US military uniform, they'd be sued to Hell and back if they didn't allow a fake suicide vest. And even more if they checked to see if it really was fake.
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I hope someone takes up the case of this Marine and he sues those who prevented him from participating in the commencement in his dress blues. Make the decision makers personally pay out of their pockets--not the taxpayers.
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Principal Chip Pettit defended the decision and alleged it was not meant to disrespect the military, or Stanley, or veterans, or the school community.
“This tradition is not intended to be disrespectful to students, parents, or our community, but as a source of pride for our students,” Pettit told NBC Chicago. “It is also not intended to be disrespectful to our students choosing to serve in the military, our active duty servicemen and women, and our veterans.”
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It is a high school graduation, not boot camp graduation. Wear the cap and gown like everyone else. Wear your USMC uniform when you report to your first duty station. The world doesn't revolve around what a PFC feels he/she is entitled to wear. I want to put my 1stSgt chevrons back on and have a brief counseling session with this Marine.
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Say VS, when I graduated at my university, we wore our uniforms under our cap and gown. Then in the graduation ritual, they had us take off the cap and gown, and perform the oath of office amongst the those assembled. Technically, we had the 'official' oath taking and paper signing the night before, but the public display was and had been a part of it all. Then we all departed, with a designated exit where the First Shirt stood to give each of us our first salute with a silver dollar tendered.
[Iran Press TV] Yemeni air defense forces, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have reportedly intercepted and shot down a twin-engine, all-weather tactical F-15 fighter jet belonging to the Royal Saudi Air Force.
An unnamed Yemeni military source told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that the aircraft was targeted with a surface-to-air missile as it was flying in the skies over the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a on Thursday.
The jet had purportedly taken part in Arclight airstrikes against residential neighborhoods in Yemen.
Earlier in the day, Saudi fighter jets pounded a commercial district in the Ghamar area of Razih district in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa'ada, leaving at least three civilians dead and destroying several buildings.
Saudi military aircraft also carried out two strikes against the city of Sirwah, which lies about 120 kilometers east of the capital, but no immediate reports of casualties were available.
Separately, Yemeni soldiers and allied fighters from Popular Committees launched a barrage of artillery rounds at the Hanjar base in the Qulal Shaibani area of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s southwestern border region of Asir, though no words of casualties or the extent of damage caused were reported.
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[Manila Times] The former mayor of battle-torn Marawi City was arrested Wednesday evening at a police checkpoint in Villanueva town, Misamis Oriental, two days after an arrest order was issued against him and more than 180 others for rebellion.
Fahad "Pre" Salic is among 184 individuals charged for rebellion. Also charged was his brother, Omar Ali Solitario, likewise a former mayor of Marawi City, the PDP-Laban provincial chairman, and a commander of the Moro National Liberation Front. He remains at large.
Regional police spokesman Lemuel Gonda said Salic was arrested on Wednesday evening in San Martin village. He was en route to Cagayan de Oro City when he was flagged by members of the Misamis Oriental Provincial Public Safety Company.
The ex-mayor immediately denied involvement in the ongoing Maute attack on Marawi. He was temporarily locked up at Villanueva town jail. Salic is related to the Maute terrorist leaders, brothers Omar and Abdullah, who lead the so-called IS Ranao. Salic's wife, Rasmia, is a niece of Farhana Romato Maute, mother of the radical siblings..
In December, the two former mayors were said to have acted as government missionaries to the Maute rebels who took over Butig, Lanao del Sur, for ceasefire talks. They were said to be among a group of influential relatives of the Mautes who met with President Rodrigo Duterte in Davao City in November last year on the latter's invitation.
Duterte had tagged the two as among narco-politicians in the province.
On Tuesday, authorities arrested Cayamora Maute, father of Omar and Abdullah, along with his third wife Kongan Alfonso Balawag and two other family members in Davao City.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Thirteen civilians were killed, while eight others, including Islamic State militants, were wounded in violent attacks that occurred in several regions in Diyala, security officials and eyewitnesses said on Thursday.
DPA news agency quoted sources as saying that IS militants stormed house of an air force agent in Qurret Tabah village, northeast of Baqubah, and shot him dead in front of his family.
In a market in al-Hadi district in Abu Sayda village, northeast of Baqubah, a bomb blast left two civilians killed and two others wounded, the sources added.
Another bomb placed on the side of the road leading to Jalawla town exploded while an Iraqi army patrol was passing, killing three soldiers and injuring two others, according to the sources.
Meanwhile, Iraqi army, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) carried out a military operation in al-Burda region, in the depth of Hamreen mountains, killing four militants and destroying a booby-trapped vehicle.
In related news, the sources added that unknown gunmen opened fire against three civilians at each of al-Asri, al-Tami and al-Tikiya al-Thaniya districts in central Baqubah and Muqdadiyah.
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
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[TOWNHALL] The most significant revelation that came out of the most recent London massacre of disarmed British subjects was not the bloodshed itself, but the pathetic sissy whining, in the midst of throats being slashed, at the Brit who refused to adhere to the comforting lie that the Moslems doing the slashing in the name of Allah were not Moslems doing the slashing in the name of Allah.
The left would rather you lie and die than tell the truth and live.
It’s exhausting being lied to 24/7 about the big issues, and don’t start with the "but what about Trump?" nonsense because...well, what about Trump?
Does Trump pretend that the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... has nothing to do with Islam because to admit the Islamic State has something to do with Islam is an admission that the unquestionable idea underlying multiculturalism ‐ that every culture is wonderful except the Western culture that brought about 95 percet of the learning and science that is making the grinding poverty and disease that was heretofore man’s fate a thing of the past ‐ is an utter fraud?
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Yea, well, first they came for the Jews - and you all thought it's a smashingly good idea.
[DAWN] Heavily armed al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... murderous Moslems have stormed a military base in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , killing close to 70 people and wounding dozens more, officials said Thursday.
Residents said civilians, including women, had their heads chopped off during the rampage.
Officials called it the region's deadliest attack in years, highlighting the twin challenges facing security forces from the Al Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab and the growing presence of fighters linked to the hard boyIslamic 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.
The attack began with a blast at the remote Af-Urur camp, roughly 100 kilometres west of the commercial hub of Bossaso, before the bandidosholy warriors overran the base and killed soldiers at close range, said Ahmed Mohammed, a senior military official.
Close to 70 people were killed, though an exact corpse count was not yet available, Mohammed said. Abdi Hersi Ali, Puntland's interior minister, said troops suffered causalities but he declined to give further details.
Residents in the area reported chaotic scenes, with fighters beheading several civilians they encountered.
One witness, Abdibasit Hassan, said women were among those beheaded. "The situation is grim over there. This attack was an unexpected one," Mohammed said. The murderous Moslems, including jacket wallahs, reportedly attacked the base from three directions, forcing soldiers to retreat.
Col Hashi Ahmed, a senior military official, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that reinforcement troops reached the area and drove the bandidosholy warriors out of the camp. He estimated that at least 100 fighters were involved in the attack.
Al-Shabaab claimed killing at least 61 soldiers in the attack. The Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group, which monitors murderous Moslem groups, said the murderous Moslem group issued the claim via its Shahada News Agency. Al-Shabaab also said it seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition and more than a dozen military vehicles.
Puntland in northern Somalia also faces a growing threat from IS-linked fighters who have split from al-Shabaab.
Liban Mohammed, a nurse at the hospital in nearby Armo town, said at least 40 maimed soldiers had been brought there after Thursday's attack.
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Perhaps the "leading NGOs" should commit a few thousand of their troops to dig the murderous bastards out on the ground then. [RT] Human Rights Watch, Amnesia Amnesty International, War Child and other advocacy groups have banded together to condemn the use of "inherently indiscriminate weapons" during the campaign to retake djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS).
"All warring parties should cease using explosive weapons with wide area effects and inherently indiscriminate weapons in densely populated west Mosul. ISIS’s unlawful use of civilians as ’human shields’ and the difficulty of identifying civilians in buildings increases the risk of civilian casualties."
Iraqi forces, with air support provided by the US-led coalition, has been engaged in fierce urban combat, trying to wrestle Iraq’s second city back from the jihadists since October last year.
The remaining Islamic State forces, who Iraqis believe are readying to die in battle, are housed in fortified positions in the densely-built western side of the city, where civilian houses have been booby-trapped and turned into passage ways for the jihadists.
"Thousands of families are trapped by ISIS in west Mosul, with its fighters preventing civilians from fleeing to safety," said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.
"Iraqi and coalition forces should recognize that in the crowded Old City, using explosive weapons with wide area effects puts civilians at excessive risk."
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Drop them behind ISIL lines for a closer look.
Historically ignorant bastards need a refresher on urban warfare.
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Thursday, Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... forces completely withdrew from vulnerable territory located on the southern bank of the Euphrates River on the frontline between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
This led to the SAA and SDF exchanging skirmishes with one another in a de facto no-mans zone in western Raqqa which government forces hope to take control of in the coming hours after liberating the adjacent Maskanah Plains last month.
Although ISIS no longer controls around 20 villages due to the tactical retreat, much of the rural area is believed to be booby-trapped and remains off limits to both the SAA and SDF.
Therefore, the SAA’s Tiger Forces are expected to wait until Friday morning before entering the abandoned villages. Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... Russian and Syrian warplanes bombed ISIS convoys which were leaving the aforementioned area en route to Raqqa city.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Several citizens were killed and injured on Thursday as Iraqi troops shelled Mosul’s Old City, local residents told Shafaaq News.
A civilian was killed, while three others were wounded as mortar missiles shot by Iraqi forces against al-Qulay’at region in the Old City, the residents said.
Earlier this week, Col. Reda Abdullah al-Bahadli, of the Rapid Response forces, was quoted by Anadolu Agency as saying that airstrikes launched by army jets against IS locations in al-Shifa district, northeast of Mosul, on Saturday claimed lives of 43 civilians. 30 others were killed as the troops attacked IS pockets in districts of al-Shifa, al-Zanjili, al-Borsa, Bab Sanjar and Bab al-Toub in western Mosul.
IS now has only two remaining districts of al-Shifaa, al-Zanjili and parts of the Old City.
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[DAWN] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... -based broadcaster al-Jazeera said Thursday that it was under a widescale cyber attack which had targeted "all systems", according to a statement released on social media by the broadcaster.
"Al Jazeera Media Network under cyber attack on all systems, websites & social media platforms," it said on Twitter.
The attack was also confirmed by a source at al-Jazeera, who said the broadcaster was attempting to repel the hack.
"An attempt has been made, and we are trying to battle it," said the source.
Following the initial reports of a cyber attack, some viewers in the region said they could no longer receive al-Jazeera television.
Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... , one of the largest news organizations in the world, has long been a source of conflict between Qatar and its neighbours, who accuse the broadcaster of bias and fomenting trouble in the region.
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Happy dance!!!
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Gee, that's too bad...
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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
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[RFE/RL] The self-proclaimed commander of Albanians fighting with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq has been killed there, the leader of the Muslim community in his hometown of Kacanik said.
[DAILYWIRE] A Virginia imam is advocating for female genital mutilation, or FGM, despite the fact that the practice is illegal in the United States.
[RT] The US government estimates as many as 100 girls may have had their genitals cut at the hands of a 
Hillary Clinton
[Rappler] Indonesian police on Thursday said they arrested a man suspected of helping Indonesians join the attacks in Marawi City, as well as two others suspected of helping inspire a double suicide bombing in Jakarta.
[RT] Details of the gruesome murder of a hospital employee by members of an elite Iraqi counter-terrorist unit have been shared by photographer Ali Arkady, who in an interview with RT, recalled that the man was shot after soldiers suspected him of trying to lead them into a trap.
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...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
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A woman is suing a Texas restaurant and its manager after flaming queso sent her to the hospital with second- and third-degree burns.
[Iran Press TV] Yemeni air defense forces, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have reportedly intercepted and shot down a twin-engine, all-weather tactical F-15 fighter jet belonging to the Royal Saudi Air Force. 
[Manila Times] The former mayor of battle-torn Marawi City was arrested Wednesday evening at a police checkpoint in Villanueva town, Misamis Oriental, two days after an arrest order was issued against him and more than 180 others for rebellion.
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[RT] Human Rights Watch, 
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
[Al Jazeera] Organisations
