Something to make you smile for the day. Istanbul| Ottomans were the first to walk on the surface of the moon, not Neil Armstrong, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, yesterday, during an iftar (fast-breaking) dinner hosted by the Turkish Green Crescent.
Mr. Erdogan claimed that Muslim explorers reached the Moon more than 300 years before the beginning of the Appolo program, vowing to build a mosque "in the crater" where they landed.
"It is alleged that the first man to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong in 1969," Erdogan said. "In fact, Muslim space explorers reached our satellite 334 years before that, in 1635. Everyone knows the story of the famous aviator, Lagâri Hasan Celebi, the "Ottoman Rocket Man", who made the first successful manned rocket flight in 1633. What you might not know, is that he attempted to reach the moon, two years later, and could very well have succeeded!"
The story of Lagari Hasan Celebi was purported by a famous 17th century Arab merchant and traveller, Mehmed Zilli, also known as Evliya Celebi. In his famous travelog, he explains that Lagari Hasan Celebi launched in a 7-winged rocket using 50 okka (63.5 kg or 140 lbs) of gunpowder. It took off from Sarayburnu, a site below the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
As Evliya Celebi wrote, Lagari proclaimed before launch "O my sultan! Be blessed, I am going to talk to Jesus!", before lighting the rocket’s gunpowder. He then ascended more than 200 meters in the air and landed in the sea, hundreds of meters from his takeoff point. Swimming ashore, he allegedly reported: "O my sultan! Jesus sends his regards to you!".
President Erdogan’s surprising claim generated some whispers and laughter from the audience, a reaction that clearly angered the Turkish politician. He slammed the skeptics for mocking his claims, adding that he would soon have the proofs to back his claims.
"Why do you not believe it? Because you’ve never believed that a Muslim can do such a thing, just like you’ve never believed that our ancestors could manage to launch ships in the Golden Horn after transporting them across land," Erdogan said, referring to Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II’s conquest of Istanbul in 1453. "This claim is not new. A number of academics in Turkey and in the rest of the world have made this claim, and I believe they are right. NASA may have destroyed most of the physical evidence of the Ottoman’s success during the Apollo 11 mission, but we’ll try to find any evidence that might have escaped the cover up."
The Turkish President did not, however, give any precision about the proofs he was expecting to find nor how he was hoping to gather them.
The story of Lagâri Hasan Celebi is considered a legend by most historians, and most experts believe that it is impossible that the "aviator" could have survived a flight into outer space.
His first flight was, indeed, addressed in an experiment by the television show MythBusters, on November 11, 2009, in the episode "Crash and Burn". The rocket constructed for the TV show did not adhere closely, however, to Evliya Celebi’s descriptions and the final design did not attempt to utilize materials of the period;
The team noted that Evliya Celebi had not sufficiently specified the alleged design used by Lagâri Hasan, but concluded that it would have been "extremely difficult" for a 17th-century figure, without access to modern steel alloys and welding techniques, to land safely or even achieve thrust at all. This conclusion was backed by the fact that, although the re-imagined rocket rose, it exploded in midflight
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Mooselimbs have to be the first at everything and everywhere.
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Ottomans can FOAD and become extinct too. Let them be the first to go extinct for outright moronic stupidity and their galaxy sized inferiority complex rooted in far too much truth.
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He then ascended more than 200 meters in the air and landed in the sea, hundreds of meters from his takeoff point.
Like an Islamic Kim Jong Pudge. If I didn't know they were too busy trying to destabilize America, I'd suspect the CIA was slipping LSD into Erdy's mint tea. Hey, maybe it's the ghost of Wild Bill Donovan!
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Kim Jong-un is disputing this report. He claims he time traveled to a year before the Turkish landing and sung the North Korean Anthem. He is not saying how he got back...
[Breitbart] A California-based businesswoman who runs an outsourcing firm to replace American tech workers pleaded guilty to H-1B visa fraud.
Sridevi Aiyaswamy of Strataserv Inc. in San Jose, California, pleaded guilty in federal court after she fraudulently brought foreign guest workers on the H-1B visa to the United States by falsely claiming they had already secured jobs in the country when they had not, according to Mercury News.
Aiyaswamy brought 25 foreign nationals to the U.S. on H-1B visas by telling immigration officials that jobs were waiting at Cisco Systems, Inc.
Every year, more than 100,000 foreign guest workers come to the U.S. on the H-1B visa, replacing Americans in the tech, medical, fashion, and other industries.
Strataserv, Aiyaswamy’s outsourcing firm, previously worked with some of the largest outsourcers including Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco Systems, IBM, Amazon, Yahoo!, and Apple.
Aiyaswamy pleaded guilty to three of the 34 counts she was charged with, admitting to the H-1B visa fraud. The woman now faces a maximum 10-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine.
William Shatner is such a smarty pants on twitter. He gets his snarky point across with few words.
Shatner has been the subject of left-wing anger since he announced in May that he would not follow the lead of many in Hollywood and attack President Donald Trump.
Shatner, a Canadian, said, "I consider myself a guest here," when asked to comment on former Star Trek cast member George Takei’s constant criticisms of the President.
On Twitter Wednesday morning, the Captain Kirk actor was asked his plans for the day. He responded by saying, "Tweet Hello. Have SJWs get offended by figuring some obtuse way to define it. Spend my day telling them off. You know, just a typical day."
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Fellow actor Adam Baldwin asked Shatner if social justice warriors "ever explain the difference between their ’social justice’ and Justice?"
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The tweets go on with one person on the left saying that progressives gave shatter his career back...
Shatner simply replied, "How so?"
LOL! The next Star Trek reunion may be some fun to watch!
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- Dutch Pilot Christiaan van Heijst is known for the stunning images he takes from air freighter cockpits
- He was flying from Hong Kong to Baku in Azerbaijan when he captured the launch of the missile
- It took off from a restricted area to the north of his flight path and created amazing balloon effects
For all the integration of females into the service, many have done a lot of good and have served honorably. However, those commanders and first shirts down in the company and platoon level have an encyclopaedia of 'fail' that only the brass has covered up for year. Remember the uproar when the theater commander in the ME threaten Art 15 when the next one got pregnant?* They, the preggies, get evaced and some male gets yanked for the duties (probably making his stateside rotation usually w/family very abbreviated). The Narrative(c) is not just owned by the Left. That suppression of the truth helped lead to this. If you want to serve, thank you, but serve to standards on the terms that the battlefield dictates, because the enemy doesn't care about pols, activists, or your desires in life. Do not endanger others in your ranks because your dreams do not match the reality that is the unforgiving combat environment.
* in olden days a soldier who inflected a debilitating wound upon himself to avoid danger or combat would be courts martialed as a minimum and in the real old days, executed as an example to others.
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Maximum0.3% of the general population. Gotta be even smaller in military.
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Again, Trump does something to reverse the insanity of the past 8 years. This is exactly what I hoped for! This and Gorsuch alone make him worthy of re-election. A Jacksonian figure with moments of vulgar and crude behavior, plus silly and immature reactions to things he should ignore, he still is doing great things. We cannot let the Lilliputians in the press and the progs bring this man down. He fights! (With kudo's to Abe for the last )
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Frank G, yet Fauxcahontas and other SJWs are screeching about what an insult Trump's tweets are to the "thousands" of transgenders honorably serving in the military today.
Somehow I find it hard to believe that there are thousands.
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the "thousands" of transgenders honorably serving in the military today
Ah, I wondered about the origins of the expression "come on you pussies!".
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If nobody knows - ie. they can do the job ad use the existing facilities without causing unit disruption - then nobody cares. Trump's tweets apply to the other 99.7% of them.
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Thousands of transgenders? I think not. I am also fairly certain that the number of serving gays in the military hover around and about 2% or possibly less than that. My own gaydar is likely not that acute - but really and for trannies? Dear lord, get your issues sorted out on your own time and pocketbook.
The medical and surgical issues are HUGE. Asking combat troops, or even behind-the-front-line troops to accommodate their particular hangups? This is not the job of the military. The job of the military is to kill baddies and blow their s*it up, not serve as social service enablers for every pathology that comes down the pike.
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The job of the military is to kill baddies and blow their s*it up, not serve as social service enablers for every pathology that comes down the pike.
At least it was in days gone by. I can only speak for the Army of the 1960's - 2000, but it's been a social petri dish for decades.
[American Thinker] One of the big concerns of Republican holdouts in Senate legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare is Medicaid. Many rural and low-income Americans depend on the program. But Medicaid is a huge expense; it’s the feds’ fourth largest outlay, behind only Defense, Social Security, and Medicare. But more than that, Medicaid’s growth rate is also cause for concern.
At the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the fact sheet for national health expenditure (NHE) lists data for 2015 that helps us put Medicaid costs into context. The first fact is that total national healthcare spending was $3.2T in 2015, about the same as all federal revenue. The second fun fact is that Medicaid spending was $545.1B, and its rate of growth was 9.7 percent, which was significantly faster than the other major components of national healthcare.
Medicaid, however, is a federal-state program. Another report from the CMS, the "2016 Actuarial Report on the Financial Outlook for Medicaid," breaks down spending between the feds and the states in its Executive Summary on page iii (page 9 of the pdf): "Federal Medicaid outlays in 2015 were $349.8 billion and grew 16.0 percent over the previous year, in large part due to the Medicaid eligibility expansion." An annual growth rate of 16 percent seems particularly unsustainable in a welfare program like Medicaid.
[LI] After three Islamic terrorists used weapons hidden at the Al-Aqsa Mosque to kill two Israeli policemen, Israel placed metal detectors at the entrances to the Temple Mount. Just as there are already metal detectors to enter the Western Wall area, the holiest place at which Jews are allowed to pray.
The placement of metal detectors led to a wave of Palestinian violence (including the stabbing death of three Israelis having Sabbath dinner). There were many other threats of holy war against the Jews incited not just by Palestinians, but also by other Muslim leaders around the world.
Under threat of increased violence, and with the Jordanians effectively taking Israeli Embassy staff hostage, Israel capitulated in what appeared to be a deal for the release of Embassy staff in exchange for removing the metal detectors.
As I wrote in Israel capitulates to Palestinian terror, to remove metal detectors at Temple Mount. Israel said it would use other means of monitoring who entered the Temple Mount to prevent weapons smuggling, but Palestinians immediately announced they would not accept any additional security measures.
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Israeli removal of Temple Mount metal detectors {are] not enough for Palestinians
The West will have to realize that there will never be enough concessions to satisfy the Palestinians so it is best to get on with life and live our lives according to our cultural traditions. We also need to quit funding terrorism and terrorists both directly and indirectly.
[Free Beacon] The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent over $500,000 on apartments for people who "did not exist," according to the agency's inspector general. Apparently there were no comments regarding potential voting irregularities, food stamps fraud, or fraudulent Social Security check cashing among the ghost residents.
An audit released last month found that managers of Section 8 housing in Jefferson County, Texas, defrauded the government by stealing the identities of former tenants and falsifying incomes.
The government subsidizes the rent of 99 units at Beverly Place Apartments in Groves, Texas, and paid the complex $1.8 million between January 2013 and December 2015.
"Beverly Place's owner did not administer its project-based Section 8 program in accordance with HUD regulations," the inspector general said. "Specifically, the owner billed HUD for at least 97 tenants who did not exist or whose income eligibility was either falsified or unsupported."
The inspector general noted that "nonexistent tenants" were ghost tenants who either never lived in the apartment building or were past tenants who had moved out.
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Here is the actual IG finding. The owner and respondent appears to be a man by the name of 'Bill W. Bill Jr.' No photographs of Mr. Bell or any of the HUD officials were available.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent over $500,000 on apartments for people who "did not exist," according to the agency's inspector general
Ah, but the important question is who is registered to vote from those addresses and how many absentee ballots came from there?
[American Thinker] Donald Trump is a naturally polarizing figure. His bread and butter is brazen attacks on those who challenge him. As a media figure and as a business promoter, that worked well. As president, however, Trump needs to pick his fights carefully and avoid needless political bloodletting. Changing people in his administration when he feels that things have gone wrong suggests that he picked the wrong people to begin with, especially in the first six months of his administration.
In some cases, like Comey, a holdover from the Obama administration, Trump should have cleaned house right at the beginning of his term of office, when people naturally understand Trump's need to have his own people in key positions. When Trump gets rid of people who have been his supporters and who have interviewed for the job Trump gives them in his administration, it is a different matter.
Jeff Sessions was the first senator to endorse Trump in his run for the Republican nomination. Sessions is also a man who during his political career has stood up to the Establishment and done what he has believed to be the right thing even if it was not the most politically expedient. Sessions has a reputation among the Republican caucus in the Senate as a particularly honorable and decent man. He also gave up a safe Senate seat as a member of the majority party to serve on Trump's team.
If President Trump fires Attorney General Sessions or if Trump continues to harass Sessions with dumb tweets, then the president runs the risk of alienating honest, genuine Senate conservatives who are immune to threats from Trump but who can give him headaches and problems he cannot imagine.
Almost everything Trump does, except for executive orders, must go through the Senate ‐ legislation, appointments, and treaties. If Trump alienates conservative Republicans in the Senate, it is hard to see how he will be able to do anything during his term as president. Why should these senators trust Trump? Why should they believe he is really conservative, particularly if he taps Rudy Giuliani as the next attorney general, a decent man on the wrong side of nearly every social issue?
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein spoke just hours after Trump tweeted out his latest attack on Sessions, faulting the attorney general for "a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes...& Intel leakers!"
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I went through the article at the link and it's all about what Sessions did for trump and that Sessions' friends can do to Trump. Not a single word about Sessions' performance as an AG. Curious.
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Sessions has a reputation among the Republican caucus in the Senate as a particularly honorable and decent man
Talk about a low bar.
If President Trump fires Attorney General Sessions or if Trump continues to harass Sessions with dumb tweets, then the president runs the risk of alienating honest, genuine Senate conservatives who are immune to threats from Trump but who can give him headaches and problems he cannot imagine.
Trump has been trying to get more of the conservative agenda through than any President since Reagan.
If Senate cons won't support him out of pique, them they're useless (or inimical) and should be replaced.
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Ima about done with Trump. I guess we have staff or cabinet meetings via dumbazz "tweets" now a days where the President of the USA berates his AG in front of all. He smears a good man like Sessions in the NYT no less just days after he gives the press exactly what they want by running off Spicer...and replacing him with a slicky boy wealthy liberal NY banker. Sessions and Spicer are both solid conservatives that were fighting Pelosi in the trenches in 2010-2011 and defeated her...while Scaramucci was raising funds for Obama and the dems.
This type of behavior by Trump does not pay well in the South. I and most everyone I know voted for Trump and after this week most folks down here refer to him as an idiot. Trumo needs to STFU and build the wall.
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then the president runs the risk of alienating honest, genuine Senate conservatives
Just wondering - when they had dinner a few months ago, did Trump ever apologize to Ted Cruz for massively insulting Heidi Cruz? By my count, Ted's probably one of the few friends Trump has in the Senate.
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I will believe in Sessions when he fires his department's lawyers who went after the Sisters of the Poor. A case that is still in motion from his office. Or when he make delay murderers of the VA, not to forget the IRS and Comney,,, do the happy dance perp walks to the closest Federal prison.
Raj Why should Trump ever apologize to Cruz? The first insult was fired at by the Texas lobbyist and Cruz operative Andrea McWilliams. Enter Liz Mair's super PAC "Make America Awesome". She was working out of Cruz supporter Carly Fionia's same PO box and started sending out fliers about Mrs. Trump to upcoming states. Did Teddy apologize for that? Hell no.
Anyone remember weasel Ted's voter intimidation fliers he sent out in Iowa? I mean come on, talk about shades of Obammer's IRS.
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I really dont need people speaking for us poeple from the South.
And Trump does not need Sessions talking to the Russians continuing the scam investigation into Trump that came out just before Trump started going after Sessions last week.
[American Thinker] Deep in the Colorado mountains each year is the Aspen Security Forum, a Washington, D.C. establishment gab-fest for discussing "critical issues" of national security and intelligence. Trump Russian collusion and Russian hacking of the election are likely to be hot topics of discussion, either formally or over delicious lunches of Colorado lamb or fresh Rocky Mountain trout. All powerful people need a place to get away, to think, and plan for the future.
Who is doing the discussing and moderating at this "nonpartisan venue"? Such paragons of "nonpartisan" dialogue as Representative Adam Schiff, NBC's Andrea Mitchell, CNN's Wolf Blitzer, and plenty of others, all of whom would feel quite at home at a Washington, D.C. dinner party. Admittance is allowed only with a membership card from "The Establishment Club," also known as the "He-Man Trump-Hater Club," initially started by the Little Rascals but now morphed into an adult club.
One of the panel discussions, moderated by nonpartisan Wolf Blitzer, featured two nonpartisan Obama administration Deep Staters, John Brennan and James Clapper. Discussing one of the Trump stories of the day, that Trump may fire special counsel Robert Mueller, Brennan bromanced Mueller by saying, "It was an inspired choice ‐ they don't come any better." Of course it was a great choice. They are on the same team ‐ the "destroy Trump at any cost team." This is preaching to a bunch of like-minded NeverTrumps in Aspen.
[Free Beacon] The Central Intelligence Agency under President Trump is giving more authority to field operatives and cutting excessive bureaucracy in a bid to boost intelligence operations, CIA Director Mike Pompeo says.
In his first news interview since taking charge of the agency in January, Pompeo also said he believes America's greatest long-term security challenge is the threat posed by China, not Russia.
During a wide-ranging interview on the sidelines of a security conference in Aspen, Colo., Pompeo revealed the CIA is preparing intelligence options for the president, including covert action, for use against North Korea in efforts to counter the threat of a future nuclear missile attack.
He also outlined how the CIA is stepping up counterintelligence programs against foreign spies and leaks of intelligence.
Other disclosures by the CIA chief included new details of North Korea's drive to develop reliable strategic nuclear missiles and a renewed CIA focus on stealing foreign secrets.
"Look, our primary mission is foreign intelligence," Pompeo told the Washington Free Beacon.
"That is at the core of what we do, and so the ability to go collect against the most difficult places, the most difficult targets in a way that is not one off, that is deep and robust and redundant, is something this agency is really good at when they are allowed to do it. And the president is going to go let us do it."
Similar to the Pentagon shift in giving military commanders greater authority to act in the field, the CIA is unleashing its spying power--clandestine operations, intelligence analysis, and technical prowess.
The CIA chief said decentralizing spying authority presents both risks and promise.
"In nearly every one of those cases it increases the risk level," he said. "It also greatly enhances the likelihood you'll achieve the outcome you're looking for."
The shift followed an internal agency review earlier this year that identified several areas where the CIA needed new guidance, or CIA activities that are allowed under law but had been restricted under President Barack Obama's administration, Pompeo said.
The CIA director said he meets regularly with Trump during intelligence briefings and noted that the president has been very supportive of agency reforms aimed at improving CIA operations.
A former Army officer who until January was a Republican member of the House, Pompeo said the two most immediate security threats are Islamic State terrorists fleeing the Middle East and North Korea's aggressive effort to field long-range missiles with nuclear warheads that can strike the United States.
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ValJar fits in that command structure prominently. Champ was a pliant front for the actual power/intellect/agenda in the shadows on most issues. He did make the decisions on final four and TV channels (when the Wookie wasn't there).
[Breitbart] Last year, the marionettes rebelled. Naturally, the Great Puppeteer Counter-revolt of 2017 followed.
"I think it’s the obligation of some executive branch officials to refuse to carry that out," former CIA director John Brennan said of the possibility of Donald Trump firing special counsel Robert Mueller. "I would just hope that this is not going to be a partisan issue. That Republicans, Democrats are going to see that the future of this government is at stake and something needs to be done for the good of the future."
Leaving aside the imprudence of the president firing the man investigating his campaign’s alleged ties to Russian interference in the 2016 election, Trump certainly possesses the right to dismiss Mueller. Unelected people who work for the man elected president do not possess the right to thwart the legal directives of their boss.
The American people, after all, elected Trump. Rod Rosenstein elected Mueller.
A fine line exists between anonymous, unelected, unaccountable government officials undermining the president’s legal directives and such people working to overturn the results of last year’s election. One might argue the two as one in the same differing only in degree.
Did the Russians meddle in our electoral process in 2016 or do entrenched bureaucrats do so on a constant basis? How one answers that question dictates one’s response to this current controversy.
November’s results, one might think, would have sparked epiphanies. Americans voted for a populist outsider to, in his words, "drain the swamp." Brennan’s words indicate that the swamp thrives six months after inauguration. The election neither hastened the drain nor chastened the creatures from the swamp. As the late, great Stan Evans oft reflected, people go to Washington imagining it a swamp only to soon regard it as a hot tub. Who wants to vacate a hot tub?
A self-flattering interpretation by the puppeteers imagines Trump voters as Pap Finns resentful of the mere existence of the edumacated elites. Cultural tics surely explain part of this divide. But more so do frustrations with votes repeatedly resulting in policies unwanted by voters. Brennan encouraging employees of the executive branch to subvert the executive comes off as too analogous to the unelected continually sabotaging the will of the electorate that directly caused Trump’s election. Trump’s supporters certainly see it this way. This fight is an extension of the overall fight that colored the presidential election.
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Classic projection. These people have been in charge of 'Endless Wars' for decades. Victory over evil is not their goal. Their goal is the effective management of evil.
[Breitbart] Tuesday on the Senate floor, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gave a speech upon returning from Arizona after having an emergency craniotomy to remove a blood clot and a subsequent diagnosis of cancer.
McCain cast the deciding vote to begin the health care debate and chided both sides for not being bipartisan over the last several years, saying, "I voted for the motion to proceed to allow debate to continue and amendments to be offered. I will not vote for this bill as it is today."
McCain said, "I hope we can again rely on humility, on our need to cooperate, on our dependence on each other, to learn how to trust each other again, and by so doing, better serve the people who elected us. Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio, television and the internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood."
[DAILYCALLER] Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... ’s top information technology (IT) aide was placed in durance vile Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! Monday attempting to board a flight to Pakistain after wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to that country.
He attempted to leave the country hours after The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group revealed that he is the target of an FBI investigation, and the FBI apprehended him at the airport.
Credit union officials permitted the wire to go through,
Why?
and his wife has already fled the country to Pakistain, after police confronted her at the airport and found $12,000 in cash hidden in her suitcase but did not stop her from boarding, court documents show.
Again, why?
"On January 18, 2017 at 12:09 pm, an international wire transfer request form was submitted [at the Congressional Federal Credit Union] at the Longworth House Office Building in the District of Columbia, in the amount of $283,000.00,
Oh. Mr. Obama was still president.
to two individuals in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... , Pakistain," according to an affidavit obtained by TheDCNF.
Imran Awan, a Pak-born IT aide, had access to all emails and files of dozens of members of Congress, as well as the password to the iPad that Wasserman Schultz used for Democratic National Committee business before she resigned as its head in July 2016.
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Yes. And the same Congress critters want MORE of these H1B types.
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I've fixed the link to yesterday's article, which now points to the article instead of yesterday's Burg. My apologies for the error.
Second, Representative Wasserman Schultz fired Mr. Awan yesterday. The Daily Mail link phil_b posted yesterday now has the quote:
On Tuesday, Wasserman Schultz announced that Awan had been fired after his arrest was announced.
'Mr. Awan previously served as a part-time employee but his services have been terminated.
'No charges, evidence or findings from the investigation have been formally shared with our office, so we cannot comment on them,' a spokesman for her said.
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As I said yesterday, this looks to be just a holding charge, with more stuff coming. Lets hope there is some major plea bargaining over whatever dirt he has.
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The pursuit of this and other related potential instances of criminal activity does not appear to be very aggressive. This may account for some of Trump's frustrations with the new Attorney General.
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So is the family ISI, Taliban, Ikhwan, IRGC, common criminals, or some combination of the above? How long before their "raid" is praised in mosques?
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My thought. Whoever Trump has as AG, the folks on the lower levels will still 'slow walk' any evidence or charges.
The whole sector has to be cleaned out.
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...I'm tired an Awan a go home...
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Charged right now with bank fraud.
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Lock Little Miss Debbie up too for good measure. Call it criminal conspiracy to defraud. I got a feeling this little bird would sing like a canary.
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ZH got it wrong about Awan being a "taxpayer funded government employee".
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe all of these congress critters get an allocation of federal funding to support their office staff to include IT personnel.
[Ynet] Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... 's government says suspected jihadis have killed at least five people in three different villages in the country's volatile north.
Residents of Sibe, Neyda and Ndidja said Tuesday that armed members of local Islamic turban group Ansaroul Islam attacked Monday on cycle of violences.
The military says it has deployed troops to secure the area.
Landlocked Burkina Faso's remote northern Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... bordering Niger and Mali has recently become the target of increased Islamic turban attacks. The area is home to Islamic preacher Ibrahim Malam Dicko, whose Ansarul Islam group is now considered a terrorist group by Burkina Faso's government.
The military says it is withdrawing its battalion from Sudan to redeploy along its border with Mali to fight turbans. The first group of the soldiers arrived last week.
Dhi Qar (IraqiNews.com) A police officer was killed on Tuesday in an armed attack north of Dhi Qar governorate by unknown assailants, a police source told Alsumaria News.
“Unknown assailants opened fire late last night against a police officer, 33, while returning home by his own car in Al Dawaya area, northern Dhi Qar, leading to his death,” the source said.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added that security forces cordoned off the crime scene and took the body to the forensic medicine department.
The source did not mention any details about the motivations for the murder.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Paleostinian ambassador to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... on Tuesday demanded that all Israeli security measures at a Jerusalem holy site be removed after Israel lifted some obstructions that had triggered violent protests.
"De-escalation is urgent," Riyad Mansour, the Paleostinian representative, told a UN Security Council debate on the Middle East.
Mansour appealed for a "continuation of all efforts to restore the historic status quo at al-Aqsa mosque compound" and said "this requires the lifting of all measures in violation of the status quo."
Five Paleostinians have been killed in festivities sparked by the new Israeli security measures at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
The compound houses the revered al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, and Dome of the Rock.
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[DAWN] A judicial magistrate at Cantonment Courts on Monday dismissed five different applications filed by the prosecution and defence in Khadija Siddiqui stabbing case, including one for cancellation of attempted murder clause in the FIR.
Ms Siddiqui, a law student, was allegedly attacked by her class fellow, Shah Husain, on May 3, 2016, near Shimla Hill where she along with her driver had gone to pick her younger sister from school.
Both sisters were about to get into their car when helmet-wearing suspect attacked Khadija with a knife and stabbed her 23 times leaving her critically injured.
Civil Lines police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Shah Husain on charges of attempted murder. The suspect is happened to be son of a lawyer, Tanvir Hashmi.
During the trial proceedings on Monday, the defence counsel requested the court in writing that the offence of attempted murder should be deleted from the FIR. He also asked the court to summon a prosecution witness again for cross-examination.
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[AlMasdar] Syrian military authorities have intercepted a large weapons and ammunition shipment that was destined for Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) snuffies in western Qalamoun.
Sources say that the arms shipment originated from central Syria and contained thousands of bullets and dozens of anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM).
No specific details exist to how exactly the illegal arms transferal was intercepted by the SAA, however it is known that the would-be smugglers attempted to move the weapons and ammunition via pickup trucks in areas without government checkpoints during late night hours.
The HTS forces in western Qalamoun to which the shipment was bound are currently embattled against both the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Hezbollah who greatly outnumber and outgun the jihadists. The SAA and Hezbollah have recently initiated hostilities in this region in an attempt to expel HTS from its last string footholds along the Syrian-Lebanese border.
At least 28 Taliban insurgents were killed in an Afghan security forces airstrike in Kohistan district of northern Faryab province on Monday afternoon, local officials confirmed Tuesday.
In addition, six other insurgents were wounded.
The airstrike was launched a day after Taliban insurgents took control of the district from security forces.
"Seven Taliban local commanders are also among the dead,” a spokesman for Shaheen 209 Military Corps Nasratullah Jamshidi said.
“Soon we will launch a military operation to re-capture the district,” Jamshidi said.
However, he did not provide further details.
On Monday, local officials said that at least 60 security force members were under siege by the Taliban in the district.
Kohistan district fell to the Taliban early Sunday after heavy clashes between security forces and insurgents.
“Thirty army special forces, 20 soldiers and 10 national policemen have been surrounded by the insurgents in Khair Abad village which is 1.5 kilometers far from center of the district since yesterday,” a spokesman for the provincial governor, Abdul Karim Youresh said Monday.
“The clashes still continue in the area and the Taliban have told the tribal elders that if the security forces do not surrender to them, they will kill them all,” Youresh said.
He said that 130 residents who were helping security forces in their battle to hold off the Taliban had surrendered to the insurgents. However, their commander managed to escape and fled to Ghor after the district’s collapse.
[AlMasdar] Rebel fighters in rural Damascus have launched a rocket attack late this night in response to fierce Arclight airstrikes conducted yesterday by Russian fighter jets against their positions.
The attack, which was unexpectedly carried out after midnight, hit the Russian Embassy in al-Mazra’a district as well as al-Abasyeen square. No casualties reported.
On Monday, Russian Arclight airstrikes destroyed outposts and command centers for the al-Qaeda-affiliate Hay’at Tagrir al-Sham in Irbeen town located to the east of the capital, killing and injuring scores including high-ranking commanders.
Local activists also confirmed that the Arclight airstrikes targeted ammunition depots for Faylaq al-Rahman; an Islamist group active in Eastern Ghouta and a close ally for the HTS.
Meanwhile, ...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often...... the Syrian Army troops continue its large-scale operation against the two abovementioned groups in Jobar and Ayn Tarma to the northeast of Damascus.
[AlMasdar] Albeit slow and partial, the offensive by pro-government forces against ISIS in central Homs does in fact continue. Today, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies liberated a town and secured some key hilltops from the terrorist group in the region.
The settlement liberated today was the town of al-Baghliyah. After this pro-government forces, capitalizing on the capture of al-Baghliyah, advanced into the hills nearby, securing some high points that overlook another settlement, the town of Rasm Hamadah.
As a result of today’s advance, the town of Rasm Hamadah itself is soon expected to be liberated by the SAA and its allies as they have fire control over it.
Today’s advanced was covered by Russian attack helicopters which targeted ISIS vehicle movements in the area. This indicates that the command of the Russian air group is itself still interested in the central Homs, east Hama operation.
The premier SAA formation spearheading the offensive in central Homs is the 5th Assault Corps and, as can thus be expected, it was the main force behind today’s advance.
[AlMasdar] The Islamic State (ISIL) got a rough start to the day on Tuesday, thanks in large part to the Syrian and Russian jets that were stalking their positions in the Deir Ezzor Governorate.
Syrian and Russian jets flying out of the Homs Governorate began the day by pounding the Islamic State’s positions in the Panorama area and Al-Hawiqah District.
Following their airstrikes on these sites, the Russian and Syrian air forces turned their attention to the eastern sector of the provincial capital and Al-Jafra village near the Deir Ezzor Military Airport.
According to a military source at the 137th Artillery Brigade’s HQ, the Syrian and Russian air forces carried out more than 15 airstrikes this morning, causing heavy damage to the Islamic State’s defenses.
Among the targeted sites for the Syrian and Russian air forces was an ammunition depot near the Al-Baghiliyah District; this supply depot would ultimately destroyed during the bombardment, the source added.
[AlMasdar] With the Syrian Army marching on the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, more villages and towns are being liberated amid massive ISIS collapse.
Today, the SAA’ Tiger Forces, backed by tribal fighters, took over Huwayjat Shinan town located to the east of Dalha along the western back of the Euphrates.
Meanwhile, fierce clashes broke out between the Army troops and ISIS militants in Nuzayzah and Rajm as-Sulayman towns; both situated to the east of Salam Alaykum town which was fully recaptures yesterday.
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[AlMasdar] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have repelled a huge Islamic State counterattack against their positions in the southeastern districts of Raqqa city.
For a localized counterattack, the number of men ISIS threw into the battle was exceptionally high and so badly beaten back were the terrorist group’s forces by the end of the assault that when the dust settled it had lost 35 fighters killed in action. Furthermore, 90 percent of the Hisham Ibn Abdulmalik neighborhood is now under SDF control as the Islamic State has been forced to cede certain points it held prior to the attack.
A spokeswoman for the SDF said that ISIS attacked the alliance group’s positions across several districts, including the neighborhoods of Hisham Ibn Abdulmalik, al-Bareed and al-Rodah, clarifying that the SDF were able to kill more than 30 militants, eleven of which were neutralized in the Nazlt Shahada area alone.
Whilst the SDF has not disclosed its own casualties, trusted sources of Al-Masdar News say the US-backed alliance group has lost some 30 fighters dead over the last five days.
[AlMasdar] The elite Tiger Forces of the Syrian Arab Army, after liberating Huwayjat Shinan early yesterday, have since followed up their advance in southeastern Raqqa Governorate by securing several new strategic locations en route to the strategic city of Deir Ezzor and killing scores of ISIS militants in the process.
Late yesterday afternoon, the Tiger Forces, sweeping across the central desert expanses of Syria, liberated the al-Jarayeh oil field area which is located to the south of the town of Ghanm al-Ali town.
Following this, the Tiger Firces also liberated the village of Nuzayzah to the north of the recently captured village of al-Salaam Alaikum.
All in all, yesterday’s operation by the Tiger Forces resulted in the death of some 30 or so ISIS militants and the destruction of two vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs).
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[AlMasdar] The Syrian government troops repelled a major assault launched by the Islamic State on Jadeed Fritan hill in the eastern countryside of Hama.
A military source said that at least 15 militants were killed and injured in the failed attack.
Meanwhile, the Army troops – backed by the Palestinian al-Quds Brigade and local fighters – resumed the offensive aimed to recapture the ISIS-held Qualib al-Thor town.
The government forces managed to seize a strategic hill that overlooks the town, thus opening the way for more significant advances inside the town.
The same town was almost entirely captured by the Syrian Army, but was forced to withdraw following a fierce counterattack by the Islamic State militants.
[AlMasdar] A group of rebel fighters have turned themselves in to the Syrian authorities in the northern countryside of Hama as the government promotes reconciliation agreements across the country.
The surrendered militants have made it to a joint Syrian-Russian checkpoint carrying the safety access leaflets dropped earlier by Army helicopters over the rebel-controlled areas in Hama and Idlib.
The Syrian government, in collaboration with the Russian Center for Reconciliation, is encouraging militants to engage in reconciliation deals and have their status settled in order to restore their normal lives.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A probe into the deadly operations against the ISIS hard boyz in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province has confirmed the civilian casualties besides scores of ISIS Lions of Islam were killed or maimed.
The probe team was found after reports emerged that several civilians sustained casualties in the raid conducted in Haska Mina district.
According to the findings of the probe team, the ISIS forces of Evil had taken shelter inside a house where a funeral ceremony was held, taking scores of civilians as hostages and using them as human shields.
The members of the probe team said the ISIS Lions of Islam immediately launched an attack on the security personnel after hostage takings, prompting the security personnel to respond to the fire with the support of airpower.
At least 25 ISIS forces of Evil were killed and 15 others were maimed in the operation that lasted for several hours.
The provincial government in a statement said the probe team included high level government officials including officials from the 4th brigade of the army, police commandment, intelligence directorate and other related government institutions.
In the meantime, the local residents reaffirmed their support to the security personnel and institutions in their fight against the forces of Evil of the terror group in this province, the probe team members said.
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[PJMEDIA] Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas) said today that the idea of finishing the U.S.-Mexico border wall is "obsolete" and that the U.S. government should tear down the existing fencing.
"The important thing to remember is Mexico is an ally, not an enemy. Our two countries share tremendous economic, cultural and social ties. The idea that we would ever have thought about building a fence or a wall between these two countries is just very difficult to believe. To me, a wall is a fence and a fence is a wall," Vela said during a presser alongside other House Democrats on Capitol Hill.
Double-layer fencing is present in some sections of the southern border while other areas have a vehicle barrier or no fencing. Spending bills that are being considered in the House include funding for building about 70 miles of the border barrier.
Vela said President Reagan called for tearing down the Berlin Wall because it was a "bad idea," so Congress should do the same with the existing fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"The idea of building a wall between the two Germanys was a bad idea and that’s why he decided to tear it down," Vela said. "We are going to vote against these measures, but if it was up to me I would bulldoze the existing wall."
Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) argued that spending taxpayer funds on expanding the barriers at the border is wasteful.
"This bill should be about funding defense priorities, not cleaning up after Trump’s failures," he said.
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From his congressional website:
All postal mail sent to my offices must be scanned for security purposes, which means it will take an additional two weeks for me to receive it.
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Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas) said today that the idea of finishing the U.S.-Mexico border wall is "obsolete" and that the U.S. government should tear down the existing fencing
Worried about the drying up of the source of new voters coming across the border.
[AlAhram] Two men were jugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! on Tuesday for allegedly killing five coppers in a terrorist attack on a security checkpoint in Giza governorate in mid-July, al-Ahram Arabic website reported.
A security source told al-Ahram that the two suspects were taken into custody along with the cycle of violence used in the attack.
The police are still looking for a third suspect.
The source noted that the investigations thus far indicate that the suspects are members of an armed bully boy group affialiate with the Hasm
...one of the Muslim Brotherhood's NeverSisi militant groups, it appeared, as from Allah's forehead, in 2016...
and Agnad Masr
...which in 2014 indignantly asserted its allegiance to Al Qaeda, unlike the allegiance-shifting Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, subsequently also known as Islamic State in the Sinai. For whatever reason we haven't seen Agnad Masr much here...
groups.
During the arrest, the stolen weapons of the dear departedcoppers were seized by the police, said the source.
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[AlAhram] Jordan's military released security camera footage Monday of a shooting in which a Jordanian soldier killed three U.S. military trainers at an air base in the kingdom.
The video had previously been shown to the families of the U.S. Army Green Berets by U.S. law enforcement but had not been made public until Monday.
The soldiers were killed Nov. 4 when their convoy came under fire at the entrance to the al-Jafr base in southern Jordan.
A Jordanian military court sentenced the soldier, 1st Sgt. Marik al-Tuwayha, to life in prison with hard labor last week.
The defendant had said he opened fire because he feared the base was coming under attack and that he had acted in line with open-fire regulations.
Jordan's military said in a statement Monday that the soldier "had acted against orders and military instructions and had not acted in self-defense."
The statement was posted by Hala Akhbar, a news site linked to the military that also released the security camera footage.
Jordan initially said the Americans triggered the shooting by disobeying entry rules, a claim that was later withdrawn.
The victims of the shooting were Staff Sgt. Matthew C. Lewellen, 27, of Kirksville, Missouri; Staff Sgt. Kevin J. McEnroe, 30, of Tucson, Arizona; and Staff Sgt. James F. Moriarty, 27, of Kerrville, Texas.
The 6-minute-long video was in line with descriptions previously given by the relatives of the American soldiers who had watched the footage.
It shows the U.S. convoy coming under fire at the entrance to the base. The footage has no sound, but puffs of white-gray smoke indicate gunfire.
At one point, two figures, U.S. forces, are seen getting out of their vehicles to take cover. They raise their hands and wave from behind a barrier, but the shooting continues. Another figure, according to past descriptions the Jordanian, chases them and keeps shooting.
According to the descriptions of the relatives, Lewellen and McEnroe, who were in the first vehicle waiting at the gate, were the first to be hit by gunfire.
Moriarty and another soldier jumped out of the next two cars to take cover and returned fire with their pistols. They yelled that they were friendly forces, the relatives said.
The defendant kept shooting, they said. He was seriously maimed in the exchange.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... has rejected that the party has reached to an agreement or negotiations are underway for political role in the government of national unity.
A statement by Hezb-e-Islami said there have been changes in the stance of the party to seek political share or power in the government.
The statement further added that Hezb-e-Islami is prepared to support the government unconditionally for bring peace and stability and ending the ongoing violence in the country.
The party also added that Hezb-e-Islami is prepared to assist with the security of the major infrastructure projects, including construction of water dams and the TAPI gas pipeline project, insisting that it has the necessary capabilities to ensure security of such projects.
This comes as reports emerged recently suggesting that Hezb-e-Islami is seeking share in the government of national unity led by President Ghani and CEO Abdullah and that negotiations are underway in this regard.
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[RoadAndTrack] Ford is pursuit rating all the things lately; it even applied the cop-readiness moniker to a Fusion hybrid earlier this year. Now comes a far different pursuit machine, based on the 2018 F-150. Drink up!
In both cases, the term "pursuit rated" is better viewed as a measure of each machine's ability to slide into typical patrol duty more than any notion of chasing down baddies at triple-digit speeds. Besides, this F-150 can only reach 100 mph. Need we list the number of modern cars capable of 101?
As such, Ford rightly has positioned its latest creation to appeal to rural cops, fish-and-game outfits, and the border patrol. The truck's 375-hp, twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 and four-wheel drive make it perfect for towing up to 7000 pounds of, say, nautical patrol vehicles or for crawling around off-road. Its rugged steel frame, underbody skid plates, and FX4 off-road suspension should give it pothole- and curb-jumping abilities similar to those of other "pursuit rated" vehicles.
Other cop-specific items include a vinyl-covered rear seat that's easily, er, washed, as well as special cloth front seats with anti-stab plates to protect front-seat officers from back-seat attackers. The gauge cluster includes engine-hour and idle-hour meters, the shifter is on the steering column, and a 240-amp alternator helps power the numerous lights and electronics used in modern police cars. To aid the F-150's stopping and turning abilities, Ford fits upgraded brake calipers and pads and a new front anti-roll bar.
Just a word of warning: If you see one of these towing a boat for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, don't assume they can't pull you over for speeding. Just trust us on that one.
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*drool* Need a new one in the distant future. Will tick over 200K miles in August.
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[PhilStar] Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has suspended the military offensive in Marawi, citing concerns over the safety of some 300 civilians being held by Islamic rebels still holed up in some parts of the besieged city. His instructions came on the heels of Congress’ vote to allow the extension of martial law in Mindanao until the end of the year.
The safety of the civilians, he pointed out, is the primary consideration of government security forces. He said, "I don’t care if they are Moros or Christians. I don’t want these innocents to be slaughtered so hintay lang tayo (let’s just wait). Patience."
Duterte admitted that the Marawi crisis “has dealt a terrible blow to our quest for peace, especially now that an alien ideology and a radical shift in purpose have been injected into the local setting.”
“I declared martial law in Mindanao because I believed that that was the fastest way to quell the rebellion at the least cost of lives and properties. At the same time, the government would be adequately equipped with the constitutional tool not only to prevent the escape of rebels who can easily mingle and pretend to be civilian evacuees only to re-group in another place to fight another day, but also to prevent them from spreading their gospel of hate and violence in the rest of Mindanao,” Duterte said.
[DAWN] Taking notice of the alleged occupation of Faisal Mosque by International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI), the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat on Tuesday asked the IIUI authorities to vacate the premises.
In a meeting of the Senate committee, chaired by Senator Talha Mehmood, Deputy Director of Faisal Mosque Mohammad Tahir said that IIUI administration had forcefully occupied the grand mosque's premises even though they were allotted the land for a limited period.
Tahir further said that IIUI has refused to vacate the mosque's premises even though the university administration was allocated 700 acre land by Capital Development Authority, (CDA) where a campus has already been built.
The mosque's deputy director alleged that the IIUI administration was receiving funds from 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... 's government in the name of Faisal Mosque.
The university administration has established its offices in what was the mosque's cafeteria and opened a store in the space reserved for aitekaf, Tahir said. "IIUI has also illegally opened a hostel in the premises as well."
He further complained that IIUI has even taken over the mosque's bookshop.
The members of the Senate committee expressed their displeasure and inquired from the CDA officials present at the session that why the university was not made to vacate the mosque's premises after they had been allotted land of their own.
The committee instructed CDA officials to ensure that the IIUI administration evacuates Faisal Mosque's premises as soon as possible. The committee has also summoned HEC Chairman Mukhtar Ahmed to appear in committee's next session.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... no one from the university administration was present at the meeting.
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[Bangkok Post] A defense volunteer was killed and another man hurt in a gun attack on a tea shop in Pattani province on Sunday morning, media reports said.
Sai Buri district police investigator Chaowalit Atteng said the incident occurred when two men arrived on a motorcycle at a roadside tea shop on Cho Kuyae - Sai Buri road in tambon Tabing.
A group of villagers were sitting together in the shop when the gunmen opened fire. Manor Mahama, a defense volunteer from Sai Buri district, was shot in the head and died instantly. Hamaripeng Late, a villager who was sitting nearby, was hit in the body and injured.
[BOSTONHERALD] Massachusetts court officers cannot hold a suspected undocumented Democratin jug at the request of federal immigration agents if there is no criminal warrant or criminal detainer, the state’s highest court today found today in a blockbuster ruling sure to send shockwaves through the Bay State's immigration enforcement system.
"Massachusetts law provides no authority for Massachusetts court officers to arrest and hold an individual solely on the basis of a Federal civil immigration detainer beyond the time that individual would otherwise be entitled to a release from State custody," the unanimous Supreme Judicial Court ruling states.
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But hey, feel free to smoke all the weed you want!
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Wait till an illegal commits an horrendous crime in MA and flees. Is ICE under any legal obligation to assist MA or does it too fall under 'professional courtesy'?
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... says at least thirty thousand Afghans have been deployed to Syria and Iraq to fight in the ongoing conflicts.
Speaking during a presser in Kabul, Hekmatyar said the Afghan nationals are being used for very less incentives by the outsiders to fight in Syria and Iraq as he expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s regarding the ongoing violence in country saying the war has been imposed on Afghanistan from outside.
Hekmatyar further added that the outsiders are seeking their interests by fueling insurgency in the country while using the Afghan nationals for the conflicts outside the country.
He said the value of the blood of the Afghan people is considered even less than the value of the oil.
This comes as certain Afghan politicians said last year that the Afghan nationals are forced to participate in the wars in Iraq and Syria mainly due to the poverty.
The politicians are saying that the Afghan nationals are migrating to Iran for work but instead some of them are deployed to Syria and Iraq under the pretext of holy war.
The Human Rights Watch had earlier said that Iran has deployed thousands of Afghan nationals to Syria to participate in the conflict.
In the meantime, Hekmatyar called for unity among the people, insisting that only national unity could help to bring peace and stability in the country when people in different parts of the country say no to violence.
He also added that his party will never seek incentives or share in the government but emphasized that they will continue with the national efforts for peace and reconciliation.
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[REUTERS] A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots when an Iranian vessel in the Gulf came within 150 yards (137 meters) on Tuesday in the first such incident since President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... took office in January, U.S. officials said.
The last major incident was earlier in January, though there have been instances when a U.S. vessel fired a flare as well as an event in March when a U.S. Navy ship was forced to change course after multiple fast-attack vessels from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard came too close.
In a statement, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command said the patrol craft, named Thunderbolt, fired the warning shots in front of the Iranian vessel after it ignored radio calls, flares and the ship's whistle.
The Iranian vessel was from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the statement said, adding that it stopped its unsafe approach after the warning shots were fired.
A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the Iranian boat was armed but that the weapons were unmanned. The Thunderbolt was accompanied by a number of other vessels, including those from the U.S. Coast Guard.
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I'd rather they were aimed at the Iranian vessel. We have a little score to settle from last year, as I recall.
[Al Jazeera] The Lebanese group Hezbollah says it is close to driving out Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... fighters from the Syria-Leb frontier.
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham is the former Syrian branch of al-Qaeda that was previously known as al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front.
Since Friday, Hezbollah and the Syrian army have been fighting against the group in the Juroud Arsal mountainous border area.
If successful, the offensive would cement Hezbollah's control over the final section of Syrian border that is still vulnerable to infiltration from rival gangs.
[AlMasdar] The Lebanese Army and Hezbollah resumed their offensive operations in eastern Lebanon this morning, striking the jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham and the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIL) inside the ‘Arsal Barrens.
Backed by the Syrian Air Force, the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah attacked the last remaining sites under jihadist control in the ‘Arsal Barrens, inflicting heavy damage on the defenses of HTS and ISIL.
According to Hezbollah’s official media wing, their forces and the Lebanese Army have captured the following sites:
The six men who were shot Monday in the Dnepropetrovsk massacre, two fatally, were shot over an apparent unpaid bill, according to Russian languages news accounts.
One of the wounded, Edmond Sahakyan, a lawyer, a veteran and volunteer in the war in southeastern Ukraine, said that the meet was set up to discuss apartment construction in Dnepropetrovsk with a well known local businessman.
Among those shot was Sahakyan's brother, Edward Sahakyan, whom Sahakyan said was the cause of the meet.
The local businessman who had built the apartment for Edward Sahakyan was identified as Sholom Nakhshon, a well known Jewish community leader in Dnepropetrovsk.
According to the report in Russkaya Vesna, Nakhshon had demanded payment for an apartment he built for Edward, which apparently had not been paid by the time of the meet. The report said that total of the bill was USD $119,000.
According to the article, after some blood was splayed over the door 10 days before at his brother's apartment, Sahakyan called and set up a meeting to resolve the issue, to which Nakhshon agreed.
The meeting was friendly at first, and Nakhshon even appeared there, but later things became heated and a car with the shooters appeared. One of the shooters at the outset of the meeting shoved a revolver into Sahakyan's gut and issued a verbal death threat. Another shooter had a short barreled AKS-74 rifle, known as the Krinkov. Sahakyan said that Nakhshon appeared to be surprised when the shooting started.
The shooting began when Sahakyan left the meeting to get a rifle, which was identified as a Vulcan .44 Magnum pump-action carbine, which was in his car. When he opened the truck he was fired on, by a shooter with an AK-74 rifle from one side and a shotgun from the other. Sahakyan was hit four times.
According to Sahakyan, all six men were veterans in the civil war in southeastern Ukraine.
- The test, on June 21, was the fourth for the new SM-3 Block IIA interceptor rocket
- The SM-3, launched from a ship, detonated before it reached the target missile
- A review has ruled out technological errors, and puts the blame on a sailor
- They marked the target missile as 'friendly,' triggering trhe [sic] SM-3's self-destruct
- The ongoing investigation hasn't yet explained why they made that error
- The missiles are a US-Japan co-development in the face of North Korea's threats
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Broad brush 'white' Americans for slavery that ended over 150 years ago, but bury the disproportionate violent and destructive behavior of a community in today's society. White America changed its behavior when it was ultimately confronted with the responsibility to face the issue. Refusing to confront the reality today is not going to solve the problem.
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They should live stream surveillance and let the people judge for themselves. Most people are smart enough to see thugs and civilians despite skin color. If more thugs are one skin color then perhaps that problem should be addressed as a separate matter rather than endanger everyone and avoiding fixing a community that is ruining lives.
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It isn't about racial stereotyping. Blacks are the ones doing it.
What terrifies the left that instead of just shrugging our shoulders and thinking that blacks are just bad, we will now ask the logical question of, "Why is it just blacks doing this?"
Which will lead to more questioning of how they are living and why they are so dependent on Uncle Sugar. It will simply destroy the dependent plantation the demoncrats depend on to keep them in line and voting properly.
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What terrifies the 'left' is the aspect of a class action ridership lawsuit over the 'breach of contract' assumed when the safe transport contract is not fulfilled.
This one happened almost a week ago, but it ain't official until Rantburg sez so.
[The Nation] A Thai policeman was killed and another was seriously wounded when Muslim rebels attacked a police checkpoint in Narathiwat province early on Thursday morning. The attack happened in Tambon Palukasamoh in Bacho district.
The two officers were sitting and resting inside the police booth when an unknown number of militants hurled six pipe bombs against the police booth. Two of the bombs landed on the roof of the booth and one of them exploded.
The four other bombs fell on the roof of an adjacent house and outside the fenced area. The bombs that fell outside the fenced area did not explode.
[DAWN] Police raided a marriage ceremony in Sindh's Umerkot district late Monday night, foiling a bid to marry off a minor girl with a 33-year-old man.
A police team headed by Station House Officer (SHO) Vijay Khatri recovered the 11-year-old girl from the wedding ceremony in Umerkot's Bakhtawar Colony where she was due to marry Ahmed Arisar, a man thrice her age.
Police took the minor girl into custody and tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! the groom, while others present at the scene managed to flee.
The groom's mother, who belonged to Rantnor village of Thar, told the police that her family had "purchased the girl" by paying Rs130,000 to the girl's father, Qadir Bux.
That's US$1,234.17. Pakistani rupees aren't worth much nowadays. Were the sum in Indian rupees, the girl would have been worth $2,017.10.
"We are not aware of any law that prohibits underage marriage," she claimed.
Now you know, though it's a law more honoured in the breach, like so much els in Pakistan.
Police on behalf of the state registered a First Information Report (FIR) under sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act, 2013 against eight people, including the fathers of both the minor girl and the groom, the nikah khawan Moulvi Qurban Ali Halepoto, and four other people of the Arisar community who had "brokered the deal".
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[NEWS.MB.PH] A notorious gunner and bomb expert of the Sulu-based Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... Group (ASG) under top leader Radullan Sahiron and another ASG member were tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! as a result of the intensified operations of the military and police against the terrorist group.
Composite elements of the Joint Task Force Tawi-Tawi and the Provincial Police Office of Tawi-Tawi neutralized Abu Sayyaf and kidnap-for-ransom member Ibno Moro in Barangay Kamagong, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi at around 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
Moro, who has a standing warrant of arrest for murder, was a member of the late sub-leader Jul Asman Sawadjaan who operated in Tawi-Tawi and Sulu.
Ranked as the Number 8 Most Wanted in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Moro was involved in the 1989 massacre in Barangay Lapid-Lapid, Bongao; 2002 kidnapping of Alvin Chua at the Chinese Pier in Bongao; 2004 kidnapping of Sibuto Mayor Kuyoh Pajiji of Sibutu; and 2004 murder of Rodrigo Alejandro Sr. and his son, Rodrigo Alejandro, Jr., in Barangay Buan, Panglima Sugala.
"This is another operational feat attributable to the efforts of our troops on the ground and the police," Lieutenant General Carlito G. Galvez, Jr., the Commander of the Western Mindanao Command, said.
"Given the key involvement of Moro in various kidnappings perpetrated by the Tawi-Tawi based Abu Sayyaf members, the neutralization of the notorious bandit is deemed a big blow on the Abu Sayyaf and kidnap for ransom group, which has faced substantial loss as a result of our intensified operations," he added.
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[MIAMINEWTIMES] More than 30 states have provided their residents’ personal information to 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... ’s voter fraud commission, which is charged with digging up proof that millions of Americans voted illegally in last year’s presidential election and robbed the billionaire real-estate developer of the popular vote.
In true Trump fashion, the president has called out states that have defied the commission’s requests. "If any state does not want to share this information," he tweeted, "one has to wonder what they’re worried about... There’s something. There always is."
The commission's chairman, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, has promised to compare the data collected from states against one another as well as federal databases for felons, undiscovered noncitizens, and people who vote in more than one state.
Trump is absolutely right that voter fraud takes place, but he's barking up the wrong tree. Instead of trying to suppress minorities from voting, the commission should take a hard look at the type of absentee ballot fraud that is practiced regularly in Miami during local, state, and federal elections. After all, the city set the standard for voter fraud when dead people cast ballots in the 1997 mayoral election.
From Little Havana to Hialeah to Sweetwater to Florida City, the absentee ballot fraud machines are still in effect. In the months leading to the 2012 general election, public corruption detectives uncovered a ring of Hialeah boleteros, slang for absentee ballot collectors, who were sneaking around old-folks homes and assisted-living facilities to ostensibly help senile seniors and handicapped welfare recipients fill out their ballots. Some low-level operatives went to jail, but law enforcement never caught the ringleaders.
A year later, police raided the business of then-North Miami Mayor Luci Tondreau’s office as part of an absentee ballot fraud investigation that eventually fizzled out. Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start on his third quart... an absentee ballot fraud case involving a Leon County public school board race unraveled when prosecutors were forced to drop charges against seven of nine defendants because of lack of evidence.
In March, a Palm Beach Post investigative report showed that Florida law still allows candidates and campaigns to manipulate voters who mail in their ballots, and that politicians have ignored warnings to reform the absentee ballot system, which represents nearly one of every three votes cast in the Sunshine State.
Just this week in Miami, an elderly woman pleaded guilty to voter fraud after she was caught casting votes in favor of Raquel Regalado on mailed-in absentee ballots in last November's county mayoral election.
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Start with New Orleans. The Ray Nagin administration and absentee ballots...?
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"If any state does not want to share this information," he tweeted, "one has to wonder what they’re worried about... There’s something. There always is." DJT
Trump must have been aware of the quote attributed to Stalin: "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." (Joseph Stalin)
I wonder how many elections have been stolen in the past? I wonder which party was responsible for most of them? I wonder how the American people would feel about stolen elections that have given the wrong candidate the win? (Rhetorical questions)
[AnNahar] A Paleostinian man suspected of belonging to the Islamist group Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, has been given a life sentence in Austria for plotting a terror attack against Jews in Israel.
The 27-year-old, who was incarcerated Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! at an asylum-seeker center in Lower Austria last July, was found guilty late Monday of belonging to a terror organization and attempting to incite murder.
Prosecutors accused him of contacting two men in the Paleostinian territories via social media apps and ordering them to carry out killings of Jews in Jerusalem.
Both accomplices were detained by Israeli authorities in June 2016, leading to the arrest of the alleged criminal mastermind the following month in the Austrian town of Gmuend.
Mobile phone messages exchanged between the trio revealed that the Paleostinian had told the other two men to throw "apples" -- a code word for hand grenades -- into crowds in Jerusalem, according to the Austrian prosecution.
He also apparently told witnesses testifying in the trial that he was "proud to be part of Hamas".
The man, who denies all charges and said he will appeal the conviction, had already been arrested at the age of 14 in Gazoo and served nine years in prison for violence against Israeli soldiers.
[AlAhram] Austrian police say they have found one of two suspects who allegedly discussed setting off a bomb in an Arabic conversation on a Vienna subway, but he denies any talk of a bomb.
Police say the man turned himself in after photos of him and a fellow suspect were published. The search for them was launched last week, when other passengers who understood Arabic notified police about the conversation after leaving the subway car. The train then was stopped and officers looked for the suspects but found no trace of them or a briefcase they were carrying.
One was allegedly overheard saying he had set "the bomb at five minutes." Police said Tuesday that the suspect claims the witnesses must have misheard their discussion.
The Afghan security forces retook control of the center of Kohistan district in Faryab province at around 9pm on Tuesday.
Shaheen 209 Corps spokesman Nasratullah Jamshedi said the operation to retake the center of the district was launched on Tuesday morning.
He said more than 20 Taliban militants were killed in the operation.
Kohistan district, which fell to the Taliban over the weekend, is located 120 kilometers from Faryab’s capital Maimana city. It has 135 villages and a population of over 150,000.
It shares a border with Ghor, Badghis and Sar-e-Pul provinces in the west and northeastern parts of the country.
The district is also connected to Faryab’s Qaisar, Almar, Pashtoon Kot and Garziwan districts.
“Unanimous consents aren’t getting passed right now,” Enzi spokesman Max D’Onofrio told the Casper Star Tribune.
The 'unanimous consent' term refers to the effectively automatic approval of noncontroversial items.
But Democrats are forcing debate and roll-call votes on nearly every item brought to the floor, as they focus their opposition on plans to repeal ObamaCare.
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There were indeed some black cowboys. No way it was "most"
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I tried to find the original article where I got the "most" from, but could not find it. It was years ago I first read about black cowboys. Most of what I found in today search indicate that one in four cowboys were black, which is more than "some".
Point is that when one hear "cowboy", one tend to think white man". There were a lot of black and Hispanic cowboys from way back.
There is an interesting video at the link. Herewith the transcript:
[AlMasdar] In the provinces of Raqqa and Homs, the Syrian Arab Army and its allies are engaged in a relentless high-pitched battle against the ISIS terrorist group. Unlike the US coalition who wishes to preserve ISIS in Syria as a future card against the Damascus-Tehran-Moscow alliance, the objective of pro-government forces is clear, absolute and simple ‐ for them ISIS, as the most fundamentally despotic and godforsaken entity to ever establish itself on Syrian soil, must be destroyed. With virtually all of the Syrian Army’s vanguard strength being directed against 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.... to the effect of tens of thousands of troops and untold quantities of tanks and artillery ‐ and with ISIS itself now facing the very real possibility of being expelled from the country by the end of the year ‐ it appears that the perfect conditions for a Mother of all Battles are brewing in eastern Syria.
Over the last two weeks, pro-government forces ‐ most notably the Syrian Army’s elite Tiger Forces and the 5th Assault Corps ‐ have been rolling back the ISIS frontier in eastern Syria throughout a series of offensives. The inescapable focus of all the multi-front operations by the Syrian Army and its allies is the strategic city of Deir Ezzor which is now in its third year of besiegement at the hands of the so-called Islamic State.
In addition to now securing most of the mountain chains running between Palmyra and al-Sukhnah, the highlight of the 5th Assault Corps’s most recent push has been the liberation of the al-Hayl gas field ‐ a massive energy complex. The Tiger Forces for their part have reach the B’ir al-Zamlah road junction, the village of As-salaam Alaikum as wells as the towns of Dulhah and Huwayjat Shinan on the western bank of the Euphrates River. Furthermore, in-between these advances, the Tiger Forces have liberated dozens of oil wells, gas extraction points and energy facilities.
In response these ever-encroaching advances against it, ISIS has attempted to grind down pro-government forces by launching multiple raids south and east of Palmyra. Although these hit-and-run attacks have inflicted dozens of dead and maimed on pro-government forces, the Syrian Army and its allies have, in general, managed to successfully hold a solid front-line over the last several weeks, despite having to tactically withdraw at certain times under pressure from large ISIS raids.
As of yesterday, the Syrian Army High Command has sent massive reinforcements to back up the 5th Assault Corps in eastern Homs province. Among the newly-arrived forces are battle-hardened formations such as the 800th Regiment of the Elite Republican Guard, the 1st Armoured Division and the 3rd Armoured Division of the Syrian Arab Army. Such reinforcements are a clear indication that a new broad-front offensive sweep against ISIS is being prepared. To this end it can be expected that whilst the Tiger Forces drive on Deir Ezzor from the northern direction, the central front forces will focus on capturing al-Sukhnah whilst Syrian Army and allied formations in the south place additional pressure on ISIS to stretch the terrorist group’s military resources to breaking point.
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It is an interesting article and vid. It exposes a different point of view, one that I hadn't been aware of. Al Masdar seems to believe that the US backed coalition wishes to preserve ISIS, which is news to me. In stating this, it also implies that the US wants to preserve ISIS. Personally, I want them all dead.
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Unlike the US coalition who wishes to preserve ISIS in Syria as a future card against the Damascus-Tehran-Moscow alliance, the objective of pro-government forces is clear, absolute and simple ‐ for them ISIS, as the most fundamentally despotic and godforsaken entity to ever establish itself on Syrian soil, must be destroyed. With virtually all of the Syrian Army’s vanguard strength being directed against the so-called Islamic State
U.S. coalition wants to preserve ISIS? I doubt that Trump is supporting that policy, at least that is not what he says. He seems to be hell-bent on destroying ISIS.
Is this, supposedly U.S. led coalition that wants to preserve ISIS a left-over from Obama's deep state? More Obama Arab Spring B.S. that hasn't been cleaned out yet?
Female ISIS leader skips town with cash "Rio, here I come!"
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) A senior Islamic State female vigilante has fled the group’s stronghold in western Nineveh with huge sums of money, a local source in the province was quoted saying.
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that the Islamic State’s leading “biter”, a foreign national, fled Hassan Qoi area, in the town of Tal Afar, to an unknown destination with a large amount of money in her possession.
Um Salma, so she was nicknamed, had been in charge of the female division of the hisba (morality police) service, said the source. She had been behind the fatal biting and strangling of several local women in Mosul, which she did based on sentences issued by the Islamic State’s judges, he added.
She had stolen large sums and fled, and the group launched a wide-scale search for her, according to the source.
Tal Afar, held by IS since 2014, has become the group’s most outstanding haven in Nineveh after militants lost their largest bastion, Mosul, to Iraqi forces earlier this month.
Since it proclaimed a so-called “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014, Islamic State assigned female vigilantism division that would levy punishments on women violating the group’s extremist codes of modesty. The biters, according to reports, would either literally bite the bodies of violating females ferociously or use iron clippers for the purpose.
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State executed ten members, including Arab leaders, in west of Mosul, a security source from the army’s Joint Operations Command was quoted saying.
“IS militants burnt the members to death in front of dozens of civilians and group fighters,” Brigadier General Mohamed al-Jabouri told BasNews on Tuesday. “The group informed the people that they were traitors who attempted fleeing.”
The militants included four Syrians and a Saudi national.
“The group burnt the members while being blindfolded and handcuffed,” Jabouri said.
The militants, according to Jabouri, blame their defeat in Mosul on treason and retreat by some leaders and fighters who breached their vows to the group and collaborated with security.
On Monday, news reports mentioned that the group executed one of its prominent doctors in Tal Afar and arrested all of his family members without providing details.
The group reportedly carried out emergency evacuations earlier this week at many of its main headquarters in the town over growing doubts on the people’s cooperation with security services.
A source was quoted earlier this month as saying that non-Iraqi IS militants executed the last local leader in Tal Afar and the town is currently run by Arab and foreign members after eliminating all the Iraqi leaders.
Tal Afar is one of the important strongholds still held by IS in Nineveh since August 2014.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Seven Islamic State (IS) female elements were arrested on Tuesday northwest of Samarra, Commander of Samarra Operations, Major General Emad al-Zuhairi, announced.
“The intelligence of the Samarra Operations managed today to capture seven IS female elements northwest of Samarra,” a statements said.
“The female elements were coming from Mosul towards Baghdad using fake identifications,” the statement added.
Security forces in Samarra had arrested many elements belonging to the IS terror group while attempting to sneak into southern governorates.
Earlier today, tens of IS militants were killed as Iraqi jets launched several airstrikes in Anbar province.
A statement by the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said Iraqi jets launched several airstrikes that left an IS rest house and a weapon stash destroyed.
Furthermore, 21 IS militants were killed on Tuesday in a military operation southwest of Iraq.
Iraqi troops were able to a return life back to normal in the biggest cities of Anbar including Fallujah, Ramadi and others after recapturing them. However, Anbar’s western cities of Annah, Qaim and Rawa are still held by the extremist group since 2014, when it emerged to proclaim a self-styled Islamic Caliphate.
There has not been an officially-declared military campaign to free those regions, but the province’s military command launched a brief assault early January that managed to recapture some western villages before stopping again.
[TheHill] The National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama years by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing to promptly delete unauthorized intercepts, according to newly declassified memos that provide some of the richest detail to date on the spy agencies’ ability to obey their own rules.
The memos reviewed by The Hill were publicly released on July 11 through Freedom of Information Act litigation by the American Civil Liberties Union." I am seriously conflicted about this organization.
They detail specific violations that the NSA or FBI disclosed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or the Justice Department's national security division during President Obama’s tenure between 2009 and 2016. The intelligence community isn't due to report on compliance issues for 2017, the first year under the Trump administration, until next spring.
The NSA says that the missteps amount to a small number -- less than 1 percent -- when compared to the hundreds of thousands of specific phone numbers and email addresses the agencies intercepted through the so-called Section 702 warrantless spying program created by Congress in late 2008.
"Quite simply, a compliance program that never finds an incident is not a robust compliance program," said Michael T. Halbig, the NSA’s chief spokesman. "...The National Security Agency has in place a strong compliance program that identifies incidents, reports them to external overseers, and then develops appropriate solutions to remedy any incidents."
But critics say the memos undercut the intelligence community’s claim that it has robust protections for Americans incidentally intercepted under the program.
[NZHERALD.CO.NZ] President Trump's latest speech has broken the golden rule of public speaking - know your audience - leading to fury over a highly politicised speech to a Jamboree of 40,000 Boy Scouts in West Virginia.
Fuming parents of the Scouts present took to social media after the controversial speech in which the President railed against "fake news" and the Washington "sewer".
"Tonight we put aside all of the policy fights in Washington, DC you've been hearing about with the fake news and all of that," he told the boys who were there for outdoor activities and to develop their leadership skills.
"You know, I go to Washington and I see all these politicians and I see the swamp and it's not a good place."
"In fact, today I said we ought to change it from the word 'swamp' to the word 'cesspool' or perhaps to the word 'sewer.' It's not good. I see what's going on and believe me, I'd much rather be with you, that I can tell you," he said.
The President heaped scorn on the "fake media" and said the size of the crowd would be incorrectly reported. He also referred to "this horrible thing known as Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... " and saw President B.O. - a former Boy Scout himself - booed by the audience.
The speech led to a swift backlash from some parents who said they thought it was contradicting the Boy Scout ethos of courtesy and respect.
"My son and I, along with others I am sure, will be dropping out of Scouts due to supporting behaviour that is contrary to the following Mission Statement," said Michael Christopher Stafford on the organization's Facebook page.
Jude Nevans wrote that she was "done with Scouts" after "you felt the need to have my kid listen to a liar stroke his ego on our time."
Darlington Braden said "Shame on you. You should have asked Trump to do a video address. You knew what would happen. This is on you, and now your organization is covered in Trump slime."
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The speech led to a swift backlash from some parents who said they thought it was contradicting the Boy Scout ethos of courtesy and respect.
To the point of stupidity and suicide? How does honesty fit in here?
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The New Zealand Herald reports on an event that appeared to be very well-received by those in attendance.
"Controversial speech?" So, one person was found who was unhappy with the Scout Jamboree and chose to remove her son from scouting as evidenced by "My son and I, along with others I am sure...(really?)" How about this vague statement: "Fuming parents of the Scouts present took to social media." Shame on the NZ Herald for only reporting on those one-off few and not on the many. More fake news.
Plenty of member of Trump’s audience were right there with him. They clapped when he insulted the press and the specific videographers at the event. They booed when Trump made a passing mention of Hillary Clinton during an extended rant about how thoroughly he won the presidential election. They chanted “USA!” when he said that former Boy Scout and current Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price is “helping to keep millions of Americans strong and healthy” by getting the Senate votes necessary to start “killing this horrible thing known as Obamacare that’s really hurting us.”
Maybe he knew his audience? Both the Scouts and the media.
The rest of the referenced article goes on about how the Girl Scouts are much better than the Boy Scouts and their heathen, knuckle-dragging leaders.
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the Boy Scouts and their heathen, knuckle-dragging leaders prancing elder role models.
In January 1912, Baden-Powell (Hero of Mafeking and father of Scouting) was en route to New York on a Scouting World Tour, on the ocean liner SS Arcadian, when he met Olave St Clair Soames. She was 23, while he was 55; they shared the same birthday, 22 February. They became engaged in September of the same year, causing a media sensation due to Baden-Powell's fame. To avoid press intrusion, they married in private on 30 October 1912, at St Peter's Church in Parkstone.
Died 8 Jan 1941 at the ripe old age 83 at Nyeri, Kenya. Buried there as well. A Kenyan grave probably never visited by a man some call Soetoro.
[AlAhram] A knife-wielding man shouting "Allahu Akbar" charged across the border between Morocco and Spain border on Tuesday, attacking and injuring a police officer, authorities said.
The man was subsequently detained, Spanish Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido said.
"A man entered the border post and once inside, pulled out a large knife and confronted (police) shouting 'Allahu Akbar' (God is Greatest), slightly injuring a policeman," Irene Flores, spokeswoman for the central government's representative office in Melilla, told AFP.
A front man for Spanish police added he ran into the border post.
Melilla and its sister city Ceuta are two Spanish territories located on Morocco's northern coast, and as such represent the only two land borders between Africa and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... They have been hit by unrest before as migrants colonists desperate to reach Europe regularly storm the border between both territories or try and smuggle themselves in, but this is the first attack of this type.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A police officer was killed and two others were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion targeting their patrol in western Baghdad, Alsumaria News reported on Tuesday.
The source told Alsumaria that an IED, planted on a side of a road west of the capital Baghdad, exploded early today targeting a police patrol, leaving a police officer dead and two others wounded.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added that a security force arrived to the explosion scene and cordoned it off. The two injured were taken to a nearby hospital and the body was taken to the forensic medicine department.
Another IED explosion hit a local fish market in northern Baghdad early Tuesday, leaving five civilians injured.
Security forces cordoned off the area of explosion, while ambulances evacuated the wounded to a nearby hospital, a source told Alsumaria.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, apologized to Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, after she was caught on a hot mic making derogatory comments about Farenthold at the end of a Senate hearing Tuesday.
"Neither weapons nor inappropriate words are the right way to resolve legislative debates," Collins said in a statement Tuesday to CNN. "I received a handwritten apology from Rep. Farenthold late this morning. I accept his apology, and I offer him mine."
In a statement to the Washington Examiner earlier Tuesday, Farenthold had no comment on Collins' statements.
Collins issued her apology after she was heard telling Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., that Farenthold is "so unattractive it's unbelievable" after a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
"Well, fat guy. He's huge," Collins told Reed. "He's so ... he's so unattractive, it's unbelievable. Did you see the picture of him in his pajamas next to this bunny, this Playbook bunny?
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Susan Collins - have you looked in a mirror recently?
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Rarenhold is fat and unattractive, but he bangs chicks that make Susan Collins look like a dude (a democrat dude).
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So when does Sen Susan Collins apologize to the US Voters who elected Trump president for doing her very best to butt fck her own parties president?
[Libya Observer] 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... , the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt updated on Tuesday their own terror list adding six Libyan entities and two individuals.
In a joint statement, the four countries labeled the eight as "terrorists", claiming they have direct or indirect links to 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... .
The list included Alnabaa TV, Tanasuh TV, Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, al-Saraya Media Center, Boshra News Agency and Rafallah Sahati Brigade, in addition to the two nationals Ahmed al-Hisnawi and al-Saadi Nawfali.
"The Libyan individuals and terrorist entities, affiliated with terrorist groups in Libya, have received substantial financial support from the Qatari authorities and played an active role in spreading chaos and devastation in Libya, despite serious international concern over the destructive impact of such practices". The statement reads.
Last month, the four countries added five Libyan nationals and one entity to the list of alleged "terror". They included: Libyan Grand Mufti al-Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt... , Ali Sollabi, Hakim Belhaj, Ismail Sollabi and Mihdi al-Harathi, in addition to Defense Benghazi Brigades.
The four-state coalition cut ties with Qatar last month over terrorism support, an accusation Doha denies.
The UAE and Egypt are strong supporters of Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... ’s self-styled army in east Libya. The violated UN arms embargo on Libya and supplied him with weapons and ammunition to defeat his political opponents.
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The resurgent Taliban on Tuesday infiltrated Paktia’s Janikhail district as battles between the Afghan security forces and the militant group rage across multiple fronts in the country.
This also comes after the group’s deadly attack on Monday that killed over 36 civilians in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul.
The collapse of Janikhail marks the third consecutive victory by the militants in just four days.
Over the weekend, the Taliban launched major offensives on Taiwara district in Ghor and Kohistan district in Faryab province in the country’s west and northern parts respectively – seizing control of the strategic towns.
Defense Ministry Blames Pakistan
“Pressure has been mounted on the Pakistani government from the international community particularly from the U.S side. Pakistan has persuaded all armed opponents to come to Afghanistan and increase their attacks,” Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said.
But, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) has rejected claims about the collapse of Janikhail to the Taliban.
Janikhail which is 150 kilometers from the provincial capital Gardez City shares a border with Pakistan’s Kurram Agency and Parachinar region – two tribal regions across the Durand Line.
“The war still rages on in that region. Reinforcements have also been sent to the area,” said Nisar Ahmad Abdul Rahimzai, security commander of Paktia Police Headquarters.
“It is an area which has routes to several provinces. Armed opponents can get supplies from several provinces. They can create security threats for several provinces from the area including Faryab,” said Asifa Shadab, an MP from Faryab.
“We will not allow anyone to harm the aspirations of the people,” said Juma Khan Adil, commander of 606 Ansar Police Unit.
The district has also common borders with Musakhail and Sabri districts in Khost province.
Janikhail which wields a major economic reputation in the south has been frequently targeted by the Taliban.
There are several chromite mines in the district which have further added to the economic status of the town.
Kohistan district meanwhile is located 120 kilometers from Faryab’s capital Maimana city. It has 135 villages and a population of over 150,000.
It shares a border with Ghor, Badghis and Sar-e-Pul provinces in the west and northeastern parts of the country.
The district is also connected to Faryab’s Qaisar, Almar, Pashtoon Kot and Garziwan districts.
Taiwara district is located 240 kilometers from Feroz Koh region, in the west. It has a border with Purchaman and Gulistan districts in Farah province, in the south, with Baghran district of Helmand and in the east and northeast regions with Pasawand Shahrak, Tolak and Saghar districts of Ghor province.
Taiwara was one of the strongholds of the Afghan Mujahedeen during the former USSR occupation and resistance.
But, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) has said that the Taliban must not dream of achieving their goals.
Violence has dramatically increased in the country over the past three weeks as the Afghan security forces are now tackling the Taliban offshoots in at least ten provinces.
[Chicago Tribune] former Marine who secretly traveled to Syria earlier this year to battle 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.... was killed while fighting for a Kurdish militia, his father said Tuesday.
David Taylor Sr. told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that his 25-year-old son, David Taylor, told only a high school friend about his plans to join the Kurdish group, and he swore his friend to secrecy. Taylor's father said he didn't even know of his son's plans until after he had arrived in Syria and was training with the group known as YPG.
"I got an email and he said, 'Pops, don't worry. I'm with the YPG,'" David Taylor Sr. said in a telephone interview from his home in West Virginia. "He said, 'I'm doing the right thing. It's for their freedom.'"
A Kurdish militia group released a video saying Taylor was killed on July 16. The U.S. State Department said in a statement that it was aware of reports of a U.S. citizen being killed while fighting in Syria but offered no further comment. Taylor Sr. said a U.S. consular chief from the Kurdistan Region in Iraq informed him of his son's death.
Taylor's high school friend emailed the father after he learned of the death. The friend said Taylor told him during a visit to St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, last February that Taylor believed the Islamic State group needed to be stopped.
"One night he got drunk and told me of the atrocities he had witnessed in the Middle East during his time in the Marine Corps," the friend, Alex Cintron, wrote in an email to Taylor's parents.
Taylor's father shared the email with AP on Tuesday.
"He said to the effect that 'Isis was the bane of modern existence and needed to be stopped before they destroy any more lives and priceless works of human achievement,'" Cintron said in the email.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt’s military said on Tuesday it has killed more than 40 turbans in a wide-ranging campaign in the Sinai Peninsula where ISIS has been waging a deadly insurgency.
The announcement came a day after seven non-combatants were killed in a foiled attack on a checkpoint with a boom-mobile.
An army tank had intercepted the vehicle and driven over it, almost flattening it, before the explosives went off, according to a video released by the army.
ISIS has waged deadly attacks on the military and police, most recently on a checkpoint in Sinai on July 7 that killed at least 21 soldiers.
But the military, which killed the leader of the group's affiliate in Egypt last year, says it is closing in on the Death Eaters.
It said in a statement on Tuesday that "40 Death Eaters" have been killed in the week-long campaign against the holy warriors.
A military source told AFP that soldiers were staying put in locations they cleared of the holy warriors, rather than withdrawing as in past campaigns.
"After storming terrorist hideouts, the soldiers are staying there," the source, who requested anonymity, told AFP.
"The terrorist elements are fleeing and leaving their weapons behind," he added.
Extremists launched an insurgency in Sinai after the military overthrew the divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
They have maintained a steady war of attrition with sniper attacks and roadside kaboomings.
But unlike their parent organization in Iraq and Syria, they have been unable to seize population centers in the peninsula bordering Israel and Gazoo.
The army also destroyed 20 vehicles belonging to terrorist elements, four cycle of violences and four car-bombs that were intended to target security forces.
Security forces in North Sinai also destroyed 52 terrorist hideouts that were used to store weapons, medical supplies, explosives and communication devices, the statement read.
The statement added that the army destroyed 100 bombs, as well as eight explosives workshops.
[AlAhram] Seven non-combatants were killed when a 4x4 vehicle laden with explosives approaching an army checkpoint south of al-Arish in North Sinai went kaboom! after it was run over by an army tank to stop an imminent attack on the checkpoint on Monday evening, the army front man reported on his official Facebook page.
The 4x4 vehicle, which went kaboom! on the scene, was carrying five suspected turbans armed with guns and 100 kilograms of explosives, the army said.
The victims included two women and two children.
The aborted attack could have killed nearly 50-60 soldiers and civilians, the statement added.
A number of civilian cars and commercial trucks were lined up to pass the checkpoint at the time of the foiled attack, a video footage posted by the army spokesperson showed.
[AlAhram] Leb's army chief said on Tuesday the army had 50 "dangerous terrorists" in jug among hundreds of detainees jugged You have the right to remain silent... in recent security raids on Syrian refugee camps on the border between the two countries.
General Joseph Oun was quoted on the army website as saying that among those detained since a major security sweep began last month were some who had taken part in an attack on the town of Arsal in 2014 and in the kidnapping of army soldiers.
The camps around the town have long been a haven for bandidoshard boyz from Syria who have clashed with Lebanese forces conducting security raids in search of suspects hiding among the refugees.
Syrian hard boyz briefly overran Arsal in 2014 in a battle that killed dozens and marked one of the more serious spillovers of the Syrian conflict into Leb
"The army will not make the camps a facade for the terrorists," Oun was quoted as saying, without elaborating on the identity of the krazed killers.
The army said at the time of the raids last month that there were several 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.... officials among some 350 people detained.
It later said four of the Syrian men arrested had died in detention from chronic illnesses. Rights activists and refugees said they had been tortured to death.
Leb's powerful Shia Hezbollah group last Friday launched an offensive in the mountains overlooking Arsal to oust jihadists from their last foothold along the Syria-Leb border.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A total of four German citizens are among a group of women captured by Iraqi forces in the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... last week, a foreign ministry source said on Tuesday.
The foreign ministry on Monday said that two women were among those seized, including a 16-year-old teenager who had run away from her home in the state of Saxony last year.
The source on Tuesday said that two others had now been confirmed as German citizens by consular officials who visited them.
German prosecutors on Monday said they were investigating the teenager, Linda Wenzel, on suspicion of membership in a foreign terrorist organization, alongside with some others.
The group of 20 women were captured in Mosul by Iraqi forces when they retook ISIS stronghold.
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"Do with them as you will. We don't want em back"
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Damascus (Syria News) Ten civilians were killed and several others were wounded in an air strike, carried out by the Syrian regime on the town of Arbin, in eastern Ghouta.
Qasioun News reported that the Syrian regime carried out an air strike, using eight thermobaric rockets, on Arbin Town, in eastern Ghouta of Damascus, killing ten civilians, including seven children and two women, as well as wounding fifty others with different injuries.
Yesterday, Syrian Army Aviation conducted six other air strikes on the city, leaving several casualties and inflicting significant damage to the area.
It is noteworthy, Syrian regime announced ceasing fire in the countryside of Damascus, after agreeing with both the opposition and Russia on a truce, including eastern Ghouta.
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[BREITBART] Children whose sexual characteristics don’t neatly align with the norm have for decades faced surgery to rearrange their anatomy to resemble that of more typical boys and girls -- long before they were old enough to have a say in the decision.
But now the practice is under assault, as never before. The American Medical Association is considering a proposal discouraging it. Three former U.S. surgeons general say it’s unjustified. And on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch and InterACT -- a group advocating for intersex youth -- are releasing a detailed report assailing the practice and urging Congress to ban it.
The report says "the results are often catastrophic" and asserts that the surgeries "can inflict irreversible physical and psychological harm."
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Don't confuse this with the fashionable gender switching fad. Genetic sexual abnormalities are rather more common than people realize.
I would sympathize with this, except I suspect a political gender switching agenda.
[USATODAY] Sen. John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... returned to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon to cast a critical vote in favor of health care legislation less than a week after undergoing surgery and revealing he has brain cancer.
And then, in typical McCain fashion, he took to the floor and blasted both the Senate's draft health care bill and the process that produced it.
McCain’s vote was pivotal as Republicans, who hold a 52-seat majority, scrambled to round up 50 votes on a motion to advance legislation to repeal Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... McCain did not announce in advance whether he would support Tuesday’s "motion to proceed," but he marched onto the floor to a standing ovation from his colleagues and voted "aye." Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Daddy, can I be a senator? Murkowski ... representing K Street ... of Alaska voted no, requiring Vice President Pence to cast the tie-breaking vote in favor.
But that was only a vote to begin debate. "I will not vote for this bill as it is today," McCain said, and if it fails "as seems likely," the Senate should go back to the drawing board, with hearings, markups and consultation with Democrats -- all things that have thus far been lacking.
The outcome was a huge relief for 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... , who had pushed his fellow Republicans hard in recent days to live up to the party's campaign promises to repeal the 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare. Minutes after the vote, Trump called it "a big step."
But the narrow victory on a simple procedural matter raised questions about whether Republicans can muster the votes necessary to pass any of various approaches to repeal. Moderates are worried repeal will cost low-income Americans their insurance and conservatives are angry the proposed bills do not go far enough to gut Obamacare.
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Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security forces arrested six Islamic militants near western Mosul airport, the police command said on Tuesday, as security continues to clear areas recaptured from the group.
The Federal Police service said in a statement that the six militants were arrested during combing patrols in Bu Sayf region, near Mosul Airport.
Federal Police chief Shaker Jawdat said multiple weapons, including explosive belts, were also seized after the arrest.
Iraqi troops recaptured Bu Sayf region from IS members in February, days after a second phase of operations launched to clear western Mosul from militants.
Observers, however, fear that victory on the military level could not mean a total removal of the group’s threat, and think dormant cells could still destabilize the security situation with lone wolf attacks against civilians and security members. Many militants have also been found hiding among thousands of civilians fleeing the battlefield.
IS still controls a few pockets in Nineveh, Anbar, Salahuddin and Kirkuk, and the Iraqi government is planning to launch further offensives to clear those regions.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Four security personnel were killed as Islamic State attacked troops at a market in western Mosul, a source from Nineveh police was quoted saying.
“Security troops deployed at al-Maash market clashed with IS members who attempted attacking the troops,” Cap. Amir Wathiq told BasNews on Tuesday. “The clashes left four police personnel, including a lieutenant general, killed.”
“The attacking elements ran away to an unknown destination, as security reinforcements arrived and police cordoned off the region,” he added.
On Monday, news reports said four civilians were killed while three others, including two policemen, were wounded as a booby-trapped vehicle exploded in Bab Sinjar market in western Mosul.
Despite declaring victory over IS, the group have reportedly carried out attacks against security forces over the past few days.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) A senior Islamic State leader was arrested while attempting to flee western Mosul to the eastern side of the city, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Ministry spokesperson Saad Maan said the forces arrested while crossing from the western side to the east, carrying a fake ID. The apprehended militant had served as the Islamic State’s so-called “tribal affairs bureau for southern Mosul”.
The Iraqi government said it cleared the city of Mosul from Islamic State members earlier this month, ending a three-year occupation by the militant group. Since then, security forces have been combing the recaptured areas for dormant IS cells and for members fleeing among refugee groups. Many have been arrested from refugee convoys over suspicions of affiliation with IS, while others were either apprehended or killed trying to escape between both sides of the city.
The group has lost most of its senior leaders among more than 25.000 members in the U.S.-backed battles, and currently occupies a few pockets in Nineveh, Anbar, Kirkuk and Salahuddin provinces, albeit amid recurrent reports of internal divisions and power disputes among its ranks. The Iraqi government intends to charge at those strongholds in the near future.
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[RT] A California holy man called on Allah to "annihilate" Jews "down to the very last one," urging for the al-Aqsa mosque in Temple Mount in Jerusalem to be freed from their "filth." His comments came amid violence at the holy site between Israeli police and Paleostinians.
Sheikh Ammar Shahin delivered his Friday sermon at the Islamic Center of Davis, where he serves as imam, some 20km from Sacramento, the capital of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, according to a statement from the center.
In the video, the imam called on Allah to "liberate the al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews" and to "destroy those who closed the al-Aqsa Mosque."
Shahin’s hour-long speech in both English and Arabic was mostly dedicated to the dispute over the Jerusalem holy site. Israeli authorities earlier limited access to the compound housing the al-Aqsa, one of Islam’s holiest sites.
The move sparked protests in Jerusalem and across the West Bank which repeatedly turned violent.
Israel also introduced metal detectors outside the al-Aqsa Mosque after a fatal attack on coppers. Following numerous protests by the Paleostinians, it has agreed to remove the detectors.
"Oh Allah, count them all and annihilate them down to the very last one. Do not spare any of them," Shahin said in the video.
In his speech, the imam also quoted a Hadith (sacred text of the words and stories of the Prophet Muhammad) saying that Judgement Day will come after the Moslems fight the Jews in a final battle.
Shahin’s sermon sparked controversy on social media, with some people saying that he "preaches violence."
The Times of Israel has the entire video here. Sheikh Shahin is even wearing a cute little prayer shawl with the Al Aqsa mosque imprinted on it.
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ToI link's broken. MEMRI (bonus: another rad California imam)
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Whoops. Missed "entire." MEMRI's only got a couple of minutes. How about (what appears to be) the mosque's YT channel (59 minutes, not that I've watched it yet)?
Because the US has reached a state in which tolerance has become a terminal condition.
I'll start believing we're serious about countering the menace of Islam when scumbags like Sheikh Shithead are rounded up and sent off to life in prison the instant they open their mouths and spew their poison.
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at least one synagogue in the Davis area will be stupid enough to believe that
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the iman says his words calling for death to all Jews was taken out of context
OK. Fine. I call for the death of all Arabs. Anybody who doesn't like it must know that they are taking what I said out of context and need to shut up and go away. And allow my words to stand with everyone else.
[Libya Observer] In a joint presser in Gay Paree suburbs on Tuesday evening, the Prime Minister of the UN-proposed government Fayez al-Sirraj and the commander of Dignity Operation forces, Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... - under the auspices of La Belle France's President Emmanuel Macron - announced coming to terms on a ceasefire across Libya.
The announcement came following a tripartite meeting for Macron, Haftar and al-Sirraj at La Celle Saint-Cloud outside Gay Paree, where afterwards the UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame joined the talks.
In the presser, the final statement of the meeting was read and contained ten points that are meant to regulate the agreement.
Most importantly, Haftar and al-Sirraj both agreed on elections, promising to provide the needed environment for the House of Representatives and the High council of State as well as the High National Commission for Elections to prepare for the polls.
"We vow to start preparing for the elections as soon as possible under the supervision of the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... ." The statement indicates.
The statement also says that there will be no military solutions in Libya, but rather political solutions through national reconciliation that is inclusive of all parties, adding that using military power is not allowed by any party except for fighting terrorism.
It also called for withdrawing weapons and releasing the fighters then returning them to their civilian ordinary lives, indicating that both parties will do their best to allow the fighters (who wish so) in the official forces of the Libyan state.
"Libyan army will be made of the official troops that can defend the country as per article 33 of the LPA." The final statement says.
"We vow to build a civilian democratic country that respects all national and international laws, agrees to circulate power peacefully, and has unified institutions especially the Central Bank of Libya, Libyan Investment Authority, and the National Oil corporation." The statement reads.
Both al-Sirraj and Haftar said that they will be acting as per the Libyan Political Agreement signed in Skhirat, Morocco on December 17, 2015, saying they will keep dialogue channels to resume the work of Abu Dhabi meeting that was held on May 03, 2017.
"We are working on a strategy for security in Libya that will see all current security and military units joined under one body to combat illegal immigration, human trafficking and other violations via Libya's borders." The final statement explains.
The final statement ended with a call on the Security Council of the UN to support the outcome of Gay Paree Meeting, which was described in the presser by the French President as historic, by mandating Ghassan Salame to do the needed talks to rally the parties around this new step.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two men accused of cooperating with al-Qaeda and who are on the designated terror list which the four countries boycotting 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... announced have been tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Hadhramaut, east of Yemen.
Local security sources said Hadrami elite forces detained Abdullah Mohammed Ali al-Yazidi and Ahmad Ali Ahmad Baraoud as part of a security campaign to pursue and detain all members accused of facilitating al-Qaeda’s work and supporting terrorism particularly after the recent terror lists announced by 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... , the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt.
The terror lists included three Yemeni people and three Yemeni entities which are al-Balagh Charitable Foundation, al-Alhsan Charitable Society and Rahma Charitable Organization.
Who is Abdullah Mohammed Ali al-Yazidi?
Yazidi, born in 1957, is the head of the al-Alhsan Charitable Society, which is on the terror list issued by the four countries boycotting Qatar, and a partner in the Rahma Charitable Organization which is affiliated with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) and which is sanctioned by the US.
Yazidi was a member of the Hadhrami Domestic Council that’s affiliated with AQAP when the Yemeni city of Mukalla was under the group’s control in 2015. In the beginning of 2016, the council selected Yazidi to restructure the council’s administration.
Mukalla was later liberated in mid-2016 by Yemeni forces and the Saudi-led coalition.
According to local reports in 2016, he participated in launching projects in Hadhramaut that are sponsored by Eid Charity affiliated with Qatar and Qatar Charity.
He was arrested in May 2016 by local authorities for supporting (AQAP). A daily affiliated with the group condemned his arrest and demanded his release.
Yazidi is also a founding member of the global campaign to resist the aggression ‐ a campaign led by the Qatari al-Qaeda funder Abdulrahman Bin Omair al-Nauimi who is on the terror lists announced by the UN and the US.
Who is Ahmad Ali Ahmad Baraoud?
Baraoud, born in 1956, was head of the Rahma Charitable Organization that supports AQAP and which is sanctioned by the US.
According to local reports, in February 2014, he was a guest of honor in an event held in Hadhramaut and which was sponsored by Eid Charity.
Baraoud was also arrested in May 2016 by local authorities for supporting (AQAP), and a daily affiliated with the group condemned his arrest and demanded his release.
He was also a member of the Hadhrami Domestic Council.
In June 2017, the US government identified the Hadhrami Domestic Council as a "proxy or cover organization" established by AQAP to "help govern territories it controls, and to manage issues such as administration, economics, security, and building relationships with citizens" in Yemen.
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[FOX News] Do men at Princeton University need special guidance so that they don’t become violent, aggressive stalkers or rapists?
A paid position at the Ivy League school -- part of its Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources and Education (SHARE) office – focuses on “ … promoting an environment for healthy male social development by challenging belief systems and social constructs that contribute to violence …”
Colleges and universities across the country have been grappling with how to address what seems to some like an increasing number of reported sexual assaults on campus – sometimes referred to as a campus “rape culture” -- with decidedly mixed results and even some backlash.
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Title IX under Betsey DeVos will not support University Man-bashing and kangaroo courts
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“With plans for ‘compulsory accountability program for students accused of sexual misconduct under Title IX,’ this appears once more that Princeton is getting involved in places it lacks the skill set to handle,” said Gainor, noting the job posting uses the term accused, not convicted. “In other words, if you are a parent, don’t send your sons to Princeton.”
With a very broad definition of misconduct which includes merely looking at a person's attributes and the high crime of telling a woman she's sexy.
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Finally a recent reason to be proud and happy that I went to Yale
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And what does this Interpersonal Violence Clinician and Men’s Engagement Manager, University Health Services job pay? Seems like a waste of valuable money for this B.S. PC job. Besides it's not needed anyway, since there was a report released and reported at Drudge that states: "Sperm count in Western men plunges to record low as scientists blame chemicals in everyday products for crisis." We are going the way of the Shakers and are going to die out.
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JohnQC, speak for yourself. My little swimmers are doing just fine! Well, then again I'm a deplorable which equates to a barbarian in the ocular receivers of the elitely degreed betters.
[FREEBEACON] The State Department's top lawyers are systematically removing the word "genocide" to describe 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.... 's mass slaughter of Christians, Yazidis, and other ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria from speeches before they are delivered and other official documents, according to human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists and attorneys familiar with the policies.
Additionally, Democratic senators are delaying confirmation of Mark Green, Trump's pick to head the U.S. Agency for International Development who has broad bipartisan support.
These efforts guarantee that Obama-era policies that worked to exclude Iraq's Christian and other minority religious populations from key U.S. aid programs remain in place, the activists said.
Richard Visek, who was appointed by President B.O. as head the State Department's Office of Legal Adviser in October 2016, is behind the decision to remove the word "genocide" from official documents, according to Nina Shea, an international human rights lawyer who directs the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom.
"I don't think for a minute it's a bureaucratic decision--it's ideological," said Shea, who also spent 12 years as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, or CIRF, from 1999 to 2012.
A State Department front man on Monday said he would look into the matter and respond.
The latest moves from the State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser appear aimed at rolling back then-Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... 's March 2016 genocide determination. Kerry's much-anticipated genocide designation came after months of equivocation and detailed documentation by interested parties that the Islamic State is responsible for genocide against Yazidis, Christians, and Shia Moslems.
It was one of the few times in history that the United States designated ongoing mass murders against ethnic or religious minorities as meeting the legal definition of genocide laid out in a 1948 treaty. That agreement requires signatories, including the United States, to take steps to "prevent and punish" genocide.
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Still need evidence that the left considers Christians to be subhumans in need of extermination, or that they view expansionist Islam as an ally in the same?
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I love this revisioning of history.
Soon there will have been no slavery, no Islamaphobia, no Transgenders, no nuttin! Just the way I like it Zero, blank, crickets.
[BREITBART] As the debate over 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... ’s voter fraud commission intensifies, a new study has found 8,471 instances of double voting during the 2016 elections occurring in 21 states.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), which was cofounded by Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer and former Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, analyzed data from 21 U.S. states and found that 7,271 ballots were cast in more than one state by individuals with the identical first and last name, middle initial, birthdate, and partial Social Security number. Another 1,200 double votes meeting the same criteria were detected within the same state. Given the high methodological bar employed, GAI says the statistical "probability of correctly matching two records with the same name, birthdate, and Social Security number is close to 100 percent."
The 37-page study is unique in that while most past voter fraud analyses have used statistical models to project fraud rates, the GAI report identified actual matches of real votes cast using public voter information rolls. "There are currently no government agencies or private entities that compare all state voter rolls to detect duplicate voting fraud," states the report.
GAI says the reason it only examined 21 states is because the government watchdog group encountered numerous hurdles in gathering state voter data, including: "exorbitant costs," woefully disorganized and incomplete data, and "outright rejected requests" from states. Still, "extending GAI’s conservative matching method to include all 50 states would indicate an expected minimum of 45,000 high-confidence duplicate voting matches," says the report.
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I had a few chances to do this - my father and I share first, middle initial and of course the last name. He wasn't removed from the voter roll for about six to eight years, according to my cousin.
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But surely you have different Social Security numbers, Raj. Mr. Wife is in the same situation, with no jr. appended after his name. And of course, your signature in the voter rolls book would be completely different.
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conservative matching method to include all 50 states would indicate an expected minimum of 45,000 high-confidence duplicate voting matches,” says the report.
How about the all the other ways of rigging an election and election fraud?
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But surely you have different Social Security numbers, Raj.
Well, yeah! To explain further, I'm in Mass. and he was back in the home state of New Hampshire. I don't think it's worth it to drive two hours to cast a ballot, especially when the cousin's wife's family are all poll workers at the father's old voting booth.
[DAWN] The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Lahore said it had tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! two 'terrorists' belonging to the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) and the Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... (JuA) on Tuesday evening. Improvised bombs (IEDs) and grenades were also recovered from the suspects, a statement from the CTD said.
"The CTD Team has arrested two terrorists/members of banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization JuA/TTP, namely Ali Noor and Sartaj Khan, from Walton Road Lahore," read the statement.
"They were preparing to launch an attack on personnel of law enforcement agencies in next week," it added.
A CTD investigation team was at the scene of the crime and an investigation was underway, the statement read.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Given the extremely sensitive nature of this story, and to protect my co-researchers in Bangladesh, I can neither disclose nor discuss exact sources and methods used during this investigation. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... I can say that the investigation was primarily based on extensive review of ISIS communiques and information gathered through open source intelligence.
Sajit Debnath aka Muhammad Saifullah Ozaki, the Japanese-Bangladeshi jihadi and former associate professor of Ritsumeikan University, is most likely the elusive ameer of ISIS in Bangladesh, responsible for a series of jihadi attacks in the country including the July 2016 massacre at the Holey Artisan Bakery.
Information gathered during months of investigation suggest that Ozaki is the individual whose interview was featured in the 14th issue of ISIS’ flagship Dabiq magazine in April 2016. In that interview, Shaykh Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif (Ozaki’s kunya or Islamic nom de guerre) was identified as the "amir of the Khilafah’s soldiers in Bengal."
Given the extremely sensitive nature of this story, and to protect my co-researchers in Bangladesh, I can neither disclose nor discuss exact sources and methods used during this investigation. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... I can say that the investigation was primarily based on extensive review of ISIS communiques and information gathered through open source intelligence.
The first part of Ozaki’s kunya (Abu Ibrahim ‐ "father of Ibrahim") is most likely based on the name of his youngest son, who is a minor. Ozaki and his Japanese wife have three sons, who are named after Islamic prophets. He used the name of his eldest son ‐ also a minor ‐ as part of another kunya he once took.
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[RT] Moslems should use every opportunity to go to Jerusalem to help protect the al-Aqsa mosque, which Israeli soldiers are "carelessly polluting" while "easily spilling blood," Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has said.
Moslems should support their brothers in faith suffering from Israel’s actions at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Erdogan told members of the ruling AK Party on Tuesday.
"From here I call upon all Moslems. Those who are able to should visit al-Aqsa... Those who cannot visit al-Aqsa should send aid to our brothers there," Erdogan said in Ankara, as cited by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
"When Israeli soldiers carelessly pollute the grounds of al-Aqsa with their combat boots by using simple issues as a pretext and then easily spill blood there, the reason [they are able to do that] is we [Moslems] have not done enough to stake our claim over Jerusalem," Erdogan said.
He added that Ottoman Turkish authorities are doing their utmost to protect Christian and Jewish places of worship from holy warrior attacks, saying that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has "no issues with them," according to Rooters.
Erdogan also said he had spoken to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and told him that Moslems visiting al-Aqsa mosque could not be treated as terrorists. "We can also not accept Jews going to synagogues and temples being treated as terrorists," he said.
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Iraqi militia kills 2 ISIS troops near Ramadi Jackpot!
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Pro-government paramilitary forces killed two Islamic State members and seized their ammunition truck west of Anbar on Tuesday, a security source was quoted saying.
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that a force from “Al-Jazeera Shield”, a regiment affiliated with the “Tribal Mobilization”, ambushed three IS militants at the Kilo 160 region, west of Ramadi. A third militant was arrested and a truck laden with light and medium weapons was also seized.
Mobilization forces have occasionally fought off IS assaults on the Kilo 160 region over the past months coincidently with Iraqi government offensives to clear IS havens across Iraq.
IS has held enclaves in the towns of Annah, Rawa and Qaim in western Anbar and near the borders with Syria since the group emerged in 2014 to proclaim a self-styled Islamic “Caliphate”.
The Iraqi government plans to aim at those regions after totally clearing the province of Nineveh, where a few pockets remain after the liberation of Mosul, IS’s largest stronghold, earlier this month.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Tens of Islamic State militants were killed as Iraqi jets launched several airstrikes in Anbar province.
A statement by the Defense Ministry’s War Media Cell said Iraqi jets launched several airstrikes that left an IS rest house and a weapon stash destroyed.
“The strikes also targeted militants, killing tens of them west of Haditha lake,” the statement added.
Haditha city is fully controlled by security forces and tribal fighters, however, IS launches attacks there every now and then. The regions in the north of the lake are desert ones with a number of houses that are used by IS militants as hideouts.
Ealier on the day, Petra news agency quoted Army Colonel Ahmed al-Shemari as saying that 21 IS fighters were killed as military troops foiled an IS attack against military sites in al-Nakhib region, near the Iraqi-Saudi borders.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] New deadly festivities have been reported among the ISIS murderous Moslems and Afghan cops a day after scores of murderous Moslems were killed along with the civilians during the similar festivities.
According to the local officials in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , the new festivities took place in the vicinity of Haska Mina district on Monday afternoon, a day after the ISIS murderous Moslems ambushed the security personnel in the same area using civilians and funeral participants as human shield.
The provincial government media office in a statement also confirmed the latest festivities and said at least 23 ISIS murderous Moslems were killed as a result.
The statement further added that the latest festivities took place in Gagari and Camp Payeen areas of Haska Mina.
At least two ISIS murderous Moslems were also incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... during the operations, the provincial government said, adding that the operations were conducted with the support of the airpower.
The provincial government also added that two personnel of the special security forces also bit the dust and four others were maimed.
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[DAWN] Doctors on Wednesday will examine a 10-year-old girl raped by her uncle, as India's top court considers whether she should be allowed to have an abortion despite strict laws.
The girl's parents went to the Supreme Court after their appeal to abort the 26-week foetus was rejected by a lower authority, despite warnings that her body was not ready for childbirth.
Indian law does not allow medical terminations after 20 weeks unless there is a threat to the mother's life. But the Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal, ordering doctors to conduct a medical examination and report back before a ruling is given on Friday.
The girl's pregnancy was only discovered recently after her parents took her to a hospital when she complained of stomach pain.
Indian courts have considered many pleas from rape victims seeking permission to terminate pregnancies following abuse.
In many cases, the women only discovered they were pregnant when late in their term.
In May, the top court allowed a 10-year-old rape victim from the northern state of Haryana to abort her nearly 21-week foetus.
India has a grim record of sexual assaults on minors with 20,000 cases of rape or sexual assaults reported in 2015, according to government data.
A UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2014 said that one in three rape victims in India was a minor and expressed alarm at the widespread sexual abuse of children.
Almost 50 per cent of the abusers are known to the victims.
Sex -- whether consensual or otherwise -- with a person aged below 18 is considered rape in India.
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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
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Istanbul| Ottomans were the first to walk on the surface of the moon, not Neil Armstrong, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, yesterday, during an iftar (fast-breaking) dinner hosted by the Turkish Green Crescent.
[Breitbart] A California-based businesswoman who runs an outsourcing firm to replace American tech workers pleaded guilty to H-1B visa fraud.
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[Free Beacon] The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent over $500,000 on apartments for people who "did not exist," according to the agency's inspector general.
[American Thinker] Deep in the Colorado mountains each year is the Aspen Security Forum, a Washington, D.C. establishment gab-fest for discussing "critical issues" of national security and intelligence. Trump Russian collusion and Russian hacking of the election are likely to be hot topics of discussion, either formally or over delicious lunches of Colorado lamb or fresh Rocky Mountain trout.
[Breitbart] Last year, the marionettes rebelled. Naturally, the Great Puppeteer Counter-revolt of 2017 followed.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Paleostinian ambassador to the 
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[PhilStar] Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has suspended the military offensive in Marawi, citing concerns over the safety of some 300 civilians being held by Islamic rebels still holed up in some parts of the besieged city. His instructions came on the heels of Congress’ vote to allow the extension of martial law in Mindanao until the end of the year.
[Bangkok Post] A defense volunteer was killed and another man hurt in a gun attack on a tea shop in Pattani province on Sunday morning, media reports said.
[BOSTONHERALD] Massachusetts court officers cannot hold a suspected 
[Al Jazeera] The Lebanese group Hezbollah says it is close to driving out Jabhat 
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[MIAMINEWTIMES] More than 30 states have provided their residents’ personal information to 
...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt...
[Chicago Tribune] former Marine who secretly traveled to Syria earlier this year to battle the 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A total of four German citizens are among a group of women captured by Iraqi forces in the Iraqi city of 
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Two men accused of cooperating with al-Qaeda and who are on the designated terror list which the four countries boycotting 
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[DAWN] Doctors on Wednesday will examine a 10-year-old girl raped by her uncle, as India's top court considers whether she should be allowed to have an abortion despite strict laws.
