[DailyMail] Police believe Abouyaaquob was the last free member of a 12-strong terror cell behind the attacks - all the other members are either dead or in detention
The Las Ramblas terrorist who killed 13 people when he deliberately rammed a van into pedestrians in Barcelona has been rubbed out at a vineyard, 28 miles west of the city, in a dramatic showdown with police.
Younes Abouyaaqoub, a 22-year-old Moroccan national, became Europe's most wanted man after he ploughed a van into pedestrians on Thursday.
He escaped the scene on foot before hi-jacking a car, stabbing its driver to death and ramming into a police blockade near Sant Just Desvern, outside Barcelona.
He spent four days in hiding before today being spotted by a Catalan vineyard owner in the town of Subirats.
The daughter of the vineyard owner said her father alerted police after they saw a car crossing their property at high speed even though the vineyard was closed off.
Roser Venura says police told them to immediately leave the Ventura Soler cava vineyard, located between the towns of Sadurni d'Anoia and Subirats. She says "we heard a helicopter flying around and many police cars coming toward the gas station" near the property.
Armed units were scrambled before confronting Abouyaaquob who was wearing what appeared to be a boom jacket. He died in a hail of bullets while yelling 'Allahu Akbar' - meaning 'God is greatest' in Arabic.
Abouyaaqoub's death brings to an end the worst terror attack in Spain in 13 years, as all of his co-conspirators are either dead or in detention.
Those living in Subirats are still being warned to stay indoors, however, as police search for another man who may have been helping to hide Abouyaaqoub before he was bumped off.
On Monday authorities named Abouyaaquob as the man who drove the van that plowed down the city's famed Las Ramblas promenade, killing 13 pedestrians and injuring 120 others.
Escaping the scene, Abouyaaqoub then carjacked a man named Pau Perez and stabbed him to death Thursday night as he made his getaway, Spanish officials said Monday.
Another vehicle attack early Friday by other members of his hard boy cell killed one person and maimed several others in the coastal town of Cambrils. That ended in a shootout with police, who killed five attackers.
Spanish authorities have now raised the corpse count in the country's two vehicle attacks to 15, with some 50 people still being treated in hospital for their injuries.
Police have 'scientific evidence' showing Abouyaaqoub drove the speeding van in Las Ramblas and also killed Perez on Thursday night, regional police chief Josep Lluis Trapero said Monday.
He said the suspect walked through Barcelona for about 90 minutes after the van attack - through the famed La Boqueria market and nearly to Barcelona University - before hijacking the car.
Perez was parking his car, a Ford Focus, in a lot between 6.10pm and 6.20pm Abouyaaqoub stabbed him before 6.32pm, put him in the car's rear seats and drove away, Trapero said.
Trapero said Perez was already dead when Abouyaaqoub then rammed the car through a police checkpoint minutes later and police opened fire on his car.
The suspect ran over a police officer as the car evaded the checkpoint. About 7 p.m., police found the car and Perez's body nearly 2 miles away from the checkpoint, near Sant Just Desvern, a town west of Barcelona, but Abouyaaqoub was nowhere to be found.
The Spanish newspaper El Pais published images Monday of what it says is Abouyaaqoub making a getaway on foot after the van attack. The three images show a slim man wearing sunglasses walking through the La Boqueria market.
Abouyaaqoub escaped and has not returned to his home in Ripoll, said Trapero.
The oldest son of immigrant parents, Younes was born in Mrirt, a remote village in the mountains between Fez and Marrakesh.
His father Omar had got a job in Ripoll in the timber industry and aged four Younes traveled with his mother Ghanno Gaanimi and younger brother Houssa to Spain, taking the ferry across the Straits of Gibraltar for the first time in 1999.
The Abouyaaquob brothers enrolled at a local school where their Moroccan background and lack of Spanish was not unusual among the 1,000-strong immigrant community.
Younes is described as 'normal' by his peer group in Ripoll ‐ from both Spanish and Moroccan families.
A family friend told MailOnline: 'Younes was just a normal young man, like the others who have been caught up in this mess.'
A teenage neighbour added: 'Younes was a nice guy. A bit shy, but a nice guy. God knows what happened to him for him to have done what he did?'
Strong and athletic, Younes even won trophies for running and climbing.
He got a job at a local factory after school, gaining diplomas in health and safety at work and became a qualified fork lift truck driver.
However over the past year he became increasingly obsessed with Islam, praying more frequently and reading up about the prophet Mohammed.
His relatives claim he was brainwashed.
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He died in a hail of bullets while yelling 'Allahu Akbar' - meaning 'God is greatest' in Arabic.
Sadly we'll likely never know his motivation. Possibly the Reform Movement
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We should check the International Classification of Diseases. Surely there's a cause in there, somewhere.
h/t Instapundit
[Townhall] I took a week off from the milieu of political insanity to go out amongst the normals and chalk up another huge trial victory, and when I got back I was stunned - stunned! - to find that a consensus had formed that Nazis are bad. Beforehand, I had no idea where the establishment stood on Nazis, but now it's crystal clear. They hate Nazis because Nazis are bad. Everyone from CNN to Mitt Romney hates Nazis. I couldn't be prouder of an establishment that takes that kind of tough stand. They're going to hate Nazis, and they don't care whose jack-booted toes they step on!
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These "elites" don't care what average Americans hink so long as they can preach to the ones that won't think. Plus while they yammer on, they get to enjoy the roaring in their empty heads from the echoes.
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I had no idea where the establishment (mostly lefties) stood on Nazis, but now it's crystal clear. They hate Nazis because Nazis are bad.
The establishment also hates Russians because Russians are bad. Maybe the establishment are just into hating and more than a little bit crazy. Maybe it's time to take a vacation from the establishment as did the author of the article.
[Robertreich.org] We have endured Donald Trump for 7 months. Although he has had few legislative victories, he has almost single-handedly destroyed the moral authority of the presidency of the United States at home and abroad, brought us to the brink of a nuclear war without consulting anyone, and sown division and hatred.
He has given encouragement and legitimacy to the ugliest in America.
How can this nation endure another 41 months of this man?
We can’t wait for Robert Mueller’s evidence of Russian collusion. Even if Mueller finds that some of Trump’s aides colluded, Mueller might well find that Trump had "plausible deniability." Top guns often arrange wrongdoing so the they can plausibly deny they knew it was occurring. That’s the art of the deal.
Let’s be clear. There is already enough evidence to impeach Trump on grounds of abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
There is already enough evidence of mental impairment to invoke the 25th amendment.
I know, Republicans are in control of Congress. But this is no license for Trump to destroy the nation we love.
I know, removing Trump would mean having Mike Pence as president. But a principled right-winger is better for America and the world than an unhinged sociopath.
Republican as well as Democratic members of the House and Senate must commit themselves to removing this president.
Those of you represented by Democrats in the House or Senate must get their commitment to remove him, as soon as possible.
Those of you represented by Republicans in the House or Senate must let them know that you will campaign vigorously against them in 2018 unless they commit to removing Trump as well.
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The sight of these America-hating globalists trying to wave the flag and get people motivated by patriotism is so hilarious my sides hurt every time I see it.
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'unhinged psychopath...', funny how for Leftists anybody who doesn't do/say what they want must be crazy.
Police in Marseille urge residents to avoid parts of Old Port area after a woman was killed and another person injured at one of two bus stops in different areas of the city into which a driver rammed his vehicle; man known to police, suffered psychological issues. Could it be not an adherent of Religion of peace?
La Provence reported that the suspect came to Marseille specifically for psychiatric treatment in a specialized institution. The paper did not name its sources and the police official could not confirm the report.
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Of course he could be both mentally unstable and Muslim. It's a common path to Sudden Jihad Syndrome, though conventional politicians and journalists desperately need to conceal the fact.
Inbreeding for thousands of years has a cost, of which this is only one.
[Daily Caller] A chief of staff of Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke quietly agreed in early 2016 to sign away a $120,000 missing electronics problem on behalf of two former IT aides now suspected of stealing equipment from Congress, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
Clarke’s chief of staff at the time effectively dismissed the loss and prevented it from coming up in future audits by signing a form removing the missing equipment from a House-wide tracking system after one of the Awan brothers alerted the office the equipment was gone. The Pakistani-born brothers are now at the center of an FBI investigation over their IT work with dozens of Congressional offices.
A senior House official with knowledge of the situation provided TheDCNF with new details about how exactly the brothers are suspected to have stolen the equipment and possibly data from Congress, raising questions about the members or staffers who were signing the checks on equipment purchases.
Keep in mind that Congressional offices are independent. They set up their own operating procedures. They have their own budgets. They buy their own equipment. Same for consumables. Their staff are not Civil Service (don't receive Federal pay) and are hired and fired by the office.
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Last I looked, you could buy a fairly high end laptop for $1500. Now, if you're in the market for a high end data base server with eight CPUs, 256 GB of RAM, maybe 1024 GB of solid state disk storage and a tape library for backup, you could be in the $120,000 range. But I don't see the likes of Imran Awan being able to administer that kind of technology. So that leaves a helluva lotta room for graft.
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They were never going to get the money back so it was simpler to "write it off the books". After all, it is Other Peoples Money™, right, Right?
[Twitchy] It was all fun and games for the Left last week when President Trump was disbanding his economic committees, but they are not pleased at all about the fact that he just told a federal advisory committee on climate change to take a hike as well.
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How about trimming (heavily) the National Endowment of the Arts and Humanities? Don't need so much to end them (that's Congress' bitch), but have only 1 person to process all the paperwork. To play the game properly, give each congresscritter one freebee each year, which should tell us much more about said congresscritter.
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Obama set up an Advisory Council for the Arts. They had not met once since President Trump took office and then all resigned last week. Seems clear that is one council that doesn't need to be restaffed (or put Bannon as the sole member if you'd like to see heads explode).
[DAWN] A Bangladesh court sentenced 10 bully boyz to death on Sunday over a failed plot to assassinate Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. by detonating a huge bomb at one of her rallies in 2000.
"The men were sentenced to death by a firing squad for planting a huge explosive near where Hasina was scheduled to speak during her first term as prime minister in 2000," prosecutor Shamsul Haq Badol told AFP.
"The bomb was planted in an attempt to kill Sheikh Hasina, high-ranking leaders of the (ruling) Awami League party and dignitaries," Badol said.
The 76-kilogram explosive was detected and defused, sparking a manhunt for those responsible for the liquidation attempt on Hasina, who is now in her third term as leader of Bangladesh's government.
Police allege the operation was led by Mufti Abdul Hannan, the late leader of murderous Moslem group Harakat ul Jihad Al Islami, which perpetrated a string of attacks across Bangladesh in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Hannan, the main accused in the failed bomb plot, was hanged in April for orchestrating a grenade attack on Britannia's envoy to Bangladesh in 2004.
The accused in this latest case wanted to kill Hasina because "they said she was not a Moslem, and an agent of India, and Islam can be established (in Bangladesh) only by killing her," Badol claimed.
He said another large explosive was found three days later at a helipad where Hasina was scheduled to land.
A separate prosecutor, Khandaker Abdul Mannan, said those sentenced to death were also implicated in other assaults, including a deadly bombing at a church and a secular festival.
Defence lawyer Faruque Ahmed said the defendants would lodge an appeal through the jail authorities.
"There are a lot of questions about this case. The defendants said they did not get justice," he told AFP. Hannan tried to kill Hasina in a separate grenade attack at a rally in the capital Dhaka in August 2004, in which 22 people were killed, Badol said.
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[Al Jazeera] German police tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 35 neo-Nazis in Berlin as they gathered to commemorate the death of high-ranking Nazi official Rudolf Hess.
Officers detained a total of 39 people on Saturday - four of them counterprotesters.
More than 500 neo-Nazis had attempted to march to the site of the former prison in Berlin's western district of Spandau where Hess died on August 17, 1987, but were blocked by left-wing groups and local residents.
Neo-Nazi protesters were frisked and funneled through tents where police checked them for weapons, forbidden flags and tattoos showing symbols banned in Germany, such as the Nazi swastika.
A number of far-right protesters emerged from the tents with black tape covering their arms or legs.
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Nobody stopped by all those years he was in Spandau and now they rally for him, like WTF?
[Al Jazeera] Pak police have detained and imprisoned a teenager for allegedly burning pages of the Koran outside a shrine, according to officials.
Asif Massih, an 18-year-old Christian, was tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on blasphemy charges on the night of August 12, shortly after a complaint was issued, police confirmed to Al Jazeera on Sunday.
The alleged incident took place in Jam Kayk Chattha village, which is near the town of Wazirabad in central Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... province.
"He is in jail now," local police official Muhammad Asghar at the Alipur Chattha cop shoppe, where the case was registered, told Al Jazeera.
"When the police took the suspect into custody and brought him to a police check-post, a crowd of around 200 men gathered outside ... demanding the culprit be handed over to them," local police official Pervaiz Iqbal told AFP news agency.
"We then secretly moved the culprit to the cop shoppe in Wazirabad where he was interrogated and confessed to his crime."
Massih was charged under section 295-B of Pakistain's penal code, added Iqbal, referring to a part of the country's constitution that makes the death sentence mandatory for anyone who damages or desecrates the Koran.
He will stand trial and faces the possibility of being put to death.
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Jerry Lewis's schtick was OK when it was current, i.e. the '50's. It didn't age well.
Although, "King of Comedy" is interesting in a "Jerry Lewis meets Taxi Driver" kind of way. I recommend it.
When Jim Carey started recyling Lewis's whole schtick, it basically left me flat.
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[Al Jazeera] Thirteen people have been killed in a town in Central African Republic, a local doctor said on Sunday, as the toll from sectarian violence that has sparked fears of genocide continued to rise.
The festivities took place in Bria, in the centre of the country 450 kilometres from the capital Bangui, between a majority Moslem rebel group and a predominantly Christian gang called the anti-Balaka.
"Thirteen bodies were found on Saturday after violent fighting between self-defence forces and parts of Abdoulaye Hissene's FPRC," Michel Ambapo told AFP news agency, referring respectively to the anti-Balaka and a faction of the rebel coalition known as the Seleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... "At least 20 maimed were admitted to hospital, most of them combatants on both sides and several civilians," the doctor added.
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[Al Jazeera] Iraqi forces have launched a ground offensive to retake a key ISIS-held area in the northern part of the country, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said.
"You either surrender, or die", Abadi said in a televised speech announcing the operation early on Sunday.
He was addressing Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) fighters, who have been in control of the city since 2014.
Tal Afar and the surrounding area are among the last pockets of ISIS-held territory in Iraq, after victory was declared in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the country's second-largest city.
Iraqi officials believe there are between 1,400 and 1,600 ISIS fighters in the Tal Afar area, including many imported muscle, according to Iraqi Brigadier Generai Yahia Rasool who spoke through an interpreter on Saturday.
"I don't think it will be tougher than the battle of Mosul," he told news hounds.
A US-led coalition is providing air support to the Iraqi troops. In recent days, it has been carrying out dozens of air strikes on Tal Afar, targeting weapons depots and command centres.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... is threatening to continue slashing funds to the Gazoo Strip unless Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, dismantles its rival government in the Paleostinian enclave.
"We transfer $1.5 billion a year, but after Hamas declared its own government, we discontinued 25 percent of our support to Gazoo," Abbas told a delegation of visiting Israeli politicians in Ramallah.
"We fear that if there is no change soon, it will gradually reach 100%," he said.
"We perceive Hamas as an effort to separate the West Bank from the Gazoo Strip, and this an expression of political distrust in the Paleostinian leadership, more than a moral or diplomatic step."
Abbas made the remarks during a meeting with Israeli opposition politicians headed by Meretz chairwoman Zehava Galon.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Five Islamic State militants were killed while infiltrating into western Anbar, Jazeera Operations Command said.
“Security troops managed to kill five militants in Houran region,” Maj.Gen. Qassim al-Mohammadi told Baghdad Today website on Sunday.”The militants were trying to sneak into al-Baghdadi town in western Anbar.”
On Saturday, three militants were reportedly killed as shelling targeted an IS headquarter in al-Shishan district in Annah town. On Friday, Seven militants were killed as an air raid targeted their havens while escaping from Qaim town, western Anbar, towards the Syrian borders.
Fighter jets from the Iraqi army and the international coalition regularly pound IS locations in the province.
Anbar’s western towns of Anah, Qaim and Rawa are still held by the extremist group since 2014, when it occupied one third of Iraq to proclaim a self-styled Islamic Caliphate. Iraqi troops were able to return life back to normal in the biggest cities of Anbar including Fallujah, Ramadi and others after recapturing them.
In late July, a military source was quoted saying that Lt.Gen Abdul-Amir Yarallah, commander of the Nineveh Operations, ordered to besiege IS havens in western Anbar preparing to invade them.
Iraqi fighter jets reportedly dropped millions of leaflets to inform locals residents that liberation offensives for the province were nearing.
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Three Islamic State militants were killed as shelling targeted a group’s headquarter in western Anbar, a security source was quoted saying.
Speaking to Alghad Press on Saturday, the source said, “shelling targeted an IS headquarter in al-Shishan district in Annah town, leaving three militants, who were inside, killed.”
On Friday, Seven IS militants were reportedly killed as an air raid targeted their havens while escaping from Qaim town, western Anbar, towards the Syrian borders.
Fighter jets from the Iraqi army and the international coalition regularly pound IS locations in the province.
Anbar’s western towns of Anah, Qaim and Rawa are still held by the extremist group since 2014, when it occupied one third of Iraq to proclaim a self-styled Islamic Caliphate. Iraqi troops were able to return life back to normal in the biggest cities of Anbar including Fallujah, Ramadi and others after recapturing them.
In late July, a military source was quoted saying that Lt.Gen Abdul-Amir Yarallah, commander of the Nineveh Operations, ordered to besiege IS havens in western Anbar preparing to invade them.
Iraqi fighter jets reportedly dropped millions of leaflets to inform locals residents that liberation offensives for the province were nearing.
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I thank him for Firefly, but as a result of the rest of his works and his recent outburst on twitter, he needs to be taken 50 miles out to sea and made to swim for shore.
[Dawn] PESHAWAR: A boy was killed and six children were maimed in a toy bomb kaboom on the outskirts of the historic provincial capital here on Sunday.
Police said the incident took place in Spinawari area falling in the precincts of Pishtakhara cop shoppe, located on the road leading to Bara tehsil of Khyber agency.
A police official told Dawn the children were playing in a field when the kaboom took place at around 4pm.
The official said apparently the blast was caused by a toy like grenade. "The grenade went off with a bang when the children were playing with it," the official said. He said the blast killed a boy and injured six others.
A spokesperson for the Rescue 1122 said that a child was dead and six others were maimed in the kaboom.
The police official identified the slain child as 15-year-old Zubair, while the injured were identified as Samiullah, Haider, Adil, Azeem, Ismail and Rohail, their ages ranging between eight to 12 years.
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In merry olde Pakland, at Easter
They don't stick grenades up their keister.
The geese get out colors
And paint, then the mullahs
Lay Allah a hell of a feast, sir!
[IsraelTimes] Gunfire from the Sinai Peninsula struck Israel on Sunday night, in what the military said was accidental spillover from fighting across the border.
A military spokesperson would not say where specifically the errant fire occurred, however, Paleostinian media reported it was in the area of the Kerem Shalom Crossing, which sits near the borders of Israel, Gazoo and Egypt.
There were no reports of Israelis injured or of damage caused by the gunfire in Israel.
The northeastern Sinai has seen increased tension between Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and local 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.... affiliates since Thursday, after a suspected IS member killed a Hamas guard, along with himself, in a suicide kaboom in southern Gazoo, near the Egyptian border.
The suicide kaboom occurred as forces tried to stop the man from infiltrating into Egypt, members of the Hamas terror organization said.
[Daily Caller] Congressional aides suspected of criminally misusing their access to House computer systems owed $100,000 to an Iraqi politician who is wanted by U.S. authorities and has been linked to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Middle Eastern terrorist outfit.
Imran Awan and four of his relatives were employed as information technology (IT) aides by dozens of House Democrats, including members of the intelligence, foreign affairs and homeland security committees. The aides’ administrator-level IT access was terminated earlier this month amid a criminal probe by U.S. Capitol Police of a suspected security breach, including an off-site server housing congressional data.
The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has reported that while working for Congress, the Pakistani brothers controlled a limited liability corporation called Cars International A (CIA), a car dealership with odd finances, which took‐and was unable to repay‐a $100,000 loan from Dr. Ali Al-Attar.
Skipping down to the closing para:
The Awan brothers worked for members including Andre Carson of Indiana, one of two Muslims in Congress and a member of the ultra-sensitive intelligence committee.
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so the Awan crime family was able to swindle both the Democrat party 'intelligence' community and Hezbollah
not bad for just a few years of work
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The Awan brothers worked for members including Andre Carson of Indiana, one of two Muslims in Congress and a member of the ultra-sensitive intelligence committee.
Something that was mentioned once in the Marxist-stream media, but somehow went down the memory hole after that.
Also left out was the Awans first worked for Carson, then to the other congress-critters.
Raqqa (Syria News) The self-proclaimed Islamic State group launched an attack, yesterday, on the headquarters of the Syrian Democratic Forces, east of Raqqa.
Qasioun News reported that the Islamic State militants attacked the headquarters of the Syrian Democratic Forces in al-Mokhtaleta neighborhood, east of the city of Raqqa.
Moreover, sources belonging to the terrorist group informed that 15 members of the Syrian Democratic Forces were killed in the explosion of a booby-trapped vehicles, near the Great Mosque east of the city, then violent clashes broke out between the two sides, amid mutual rockets and artillery shelling.
Meanwhile, international coalition aircraft carried out several air strikes on the Islamic State headquarters, while the Syrian Democratic Forces shelled the area of 7 Nissan using heavy artillery.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian Democratic Forces militia is imposing a tight siege on the Islamic State militants inside the neighborhoods of Raqqa, while also recaptures more than 50% of the city since June this year.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Five civilians were killed and injured as an IED exploded in western Baghdad, a security source was quoted saying.
“A bomb exploded near stores at al-Hamamiyat- al-Taji region, north of Baghdad, leaving a civilian killed and four others wounded,” a source told Baghdad Today website on Sunday.
On Saturday, a university professor and a soldier were killed, while another one was wounded in two IED blasts that took place in western Baghdad.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) On Monday, a source within the police force stated, that one civilian was killed and 3 others were injured in an explosion that occurred north east of Baghdad.
The source said, “This evening, a bomb which was emplaced on the side of the road in al-Sha’ab neighborhood in north east of Baghdad had exploded causing 1 death and 3 injured civilians who were passing near the bomb when it blew up.”
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A University professor and a soldier were killed, while another was wounded in two IED blasts in western Baghdad, police source said on Saturday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “a bomb placed under a vehicle of university professor exploded on al-Jami’a district in western Baghdad, leaving the professor killed.”
In related news, another source said “an IED placed on the side of the road in Akar Kouf region in western Baghdad exploded on Saturday while an army patrol was passing, leaving a soldier killed and another injured.”
The victims were transferred to forensic medicine department, while the wounded was taken to nearby hospital, according to the sources, who preferred anonymity.
An attack by the Ukrainian forces in northern Donetsk was driven back by Russian backed rebels, according to a Russian language news account.
According to a news release posted on the Donetsk ministry of defense webpage, elements of the Ukrainian 57 Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade attempted to breakthrough near northern Donetsk city, near Zhabunka area Sunday night.
The news release said the attacks were made in conjunction with an earlier artillery attack in Petrovsky, Kiev and Kuibyshevsky districts of western Donetsk city. This is the first time in a while that Ukrainian artillery has landed in all three western Donetsk districts at once. Yasinovataya, Staromikhailovka, Avdievka and the Donetsk airport were all reported hit with Ukrainian fire just before the attack.
Ukrainian forces used heavy artillery and BMP-2 autocannon fire in their attacks.
Earlier in the evening Ukrainian forces hit rebel positions at Trudovskie and in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. Firefighters in Trudovskie came under Ukrainian artillery fire. One unidentified firefighter, said to be a commander of a firefighting unit in the village, was killed in the attack. Two more were wounded.
Rebel media said that more than 150 artillery shells were fired in the course of the preparatory phase of the attack.
Rebel media has not specified the size of the attack, casualties, nor estimates of casualties from the Ukrainians, which would indicate the attack was yet another probe intended to test the defenses of the rebels.
Ukrainian media did not comment on the attacks, but did note that a rumor floating around social media that their forces attempted to cross the line of contact at the Svetlodarsk arc, which is in northeastern Donetsk, was untrue.
The rumor was that an unidentified Ukrainian motorized rifle brigade, possibly the Ukrainian 58th Motorized Rifle Brigade, advanced two kilometers past the line of contact and had dug in. The denial sounded an awful lot like a description of the Ukrainian attack in the Svetlodarsk area last spring, which turned out to have been denied by rebel forces dug in in that area.
Elsewhere, in Lugansk, according to a news report posted in lb.ua, rebel forces hit several Ukrainian held towns with 82mm and 120mm mortars including Novotoshkovskovo, Novoaleksandrovka and Troitskoye.
One Ukrainian soldier was wounded in the mortar attack in Popasnaya.
Ukrainian media also said that rebel struck Ukrainian positions at Peski and at Avdievka.
Further south rebel artillery was recorded at Pavlopol and Chermalyk.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) A soldier was killed, while another was wounded as a booby-trapped vehicle exploded at a checkpoint in Salahuddin province, a security source said.
“A booby-trapped vehicle driven by a suicide bomber exploded on Sunday at a checkpoint near al-Alam town in Salahuddin,” the source told Mawazin News on Sunday.
“The blast left a police conscript killed and another injured,” the source said adding that the victim was transferred to forensic medicine department, while the wounded was taken to hospital for treatment.
Pivotal regions that link between each of Diyala, Salahuddin and Kirkuk, are still held by the militants which poses threats to the liberated regions. Iraqi troops are urged to prevent the militants infiltration between Salahuddin and Kirkuk provinces, especially the regions stretching along Hamreen mountains and Al-Azeem town.
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State Sunni extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
Security members, paramilitary groups and civilians are targeted by bombings and armed attacks since the Iraqi government launched a wide-scale campaign to retake IS-occupied areas in 2016.
More than 500 Iraqis were killed and injured during July due to violence and armed conflicts, according to a monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI).
[CNN] North Korea warned Sunday that the upcoming US-South Korea military exercises are "reckless behavior driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war."
Pyongyang also declared that its army can target the United States anytime, and neither Guam, Hawaii nor the US mainland can "dodge the merciless strike."
The messages in Rodong Sinmun, the official government newspaper, come a day before the US starts the Ulchi Freedom Guardian military exercises with South Korea.
Tensions between the US and North Korea have grown in recent weeks.
Just last week, Pyongyang said it had finalized a plan to fire four missiles toward the US territory of Guam. State media reported that leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... would assess the US' next move before giving launch orders.
Kim would "watch a little more the foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees," a North Korean statement said last week.
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Now, Kim, unclench your little fists and, please, stop stomping your little feet. You'll hurt yourself.
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I've often wondered if those smiling Military upper brass standing next to Pudgy at ceremonies and photo ops are allowed to have loaded weapons in their fancy holsters that they wear.
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[IsraelTimes] In overnight raid, Israeli forces search the family home in West Bank city of Tulkarem
In an overnight raid, Israeli forces enjugged You have the right to remain silent... the brother of a teen who attempted to stab soldiers at a flashpoint West Bank junction the day prior, the army said Sunday.
Border Police shot and killed 17-year-old Qutaiba Zahran on Saturday after he pulled out a knife and tried to stab a group of Boder Police officers at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank.
One officer was lightly maimed in the leg by shrapnel from the shots fired. He was treated by Magen David Adom medics at the scene and was later transferred to the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah.
Following the overnight arrest, Zahran’s brother was transferred to security authorities for questioning. Five other Paleostinians were detained in overnight raids across the West Bank. Four of the suspects were said to have been involved in violent disturbances against civilians and soldiers.
Channel 2 reported that Zahran had left a note for his parents, saying that he had gone out to carry out a "Dire Revenge attack" and not to mourn him because he was now a "martyr"
The Tapuah Junction has been a frequent site of stabbing attacks in recent years.
[IsraelTimes] Police say a 21-year-old Paleostinian was placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in Netanya last night with a knife concealed on his person on his way to carry out a stabbing attack in the coastal city.
According to a statement by police spokeswoman Luba Samri, the suspect is a resident of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, and was in Israel illegally.
He told police in questioning that he intended to carry out an attack, the statement says.
He will be brought before the Petah Tivka Magistrate’s Court for a remand hearing later this afternoon.
[Ynet] The State Attorney has indicted Rahat resident Sami Alhuzayl, 36, with threatening a terror attack and threatening murder in writing following a Facebook post he made expressing his desire to become a "martyr" and carry out such an attack.
The indictment says Alhuzayl published the post last month, writing "I'll do anything to make people talk about me as a dead hero or wartime leader who has upheld the honor of his land and Islam
In a text sent to his cousin, Alhuzayl clarified the post was referring "killing Jews."
[Ynet] A 40-year-old Paleostinian from Hebron was placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... after expressing support for ISIS.
He is suspected of publishing Facebook posts in which he expressed open support for ISIS and its activities, as well as disseminating videos about the terrorist organization's activities in various countries and videos documenting the murder of opponents of the organization.
In his interrogation, he admitted that he supports ISIS, and tomorrow he will be brought before a military court for a remand hearing.
SANAA, Yemen: A long-simmering power struggle between Yemen’s Shiite insurgents and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh has burst into the open, threatening to undermine their alliance against the internationally-recognized government and its Saudi-led Coalition backers.
Armed men suspected of links to the rebels on Sunday tore up poster portraits of Saleh and his son and one-time heir Ahmed in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital.
The vandalism took place in a part of the city where Saleh’s Popular Conference party is due to hold celebrations on Thursday marking the 35th anniversary of its founding. Adding to the tension, an unusually high number of armed men could be seen in Sanaa on Sunday, fueling fears that the two sides may clash on the streets of the capital.
Saleh has complained that the rebels, known as Houthis, have sidelined him and his loyalists, leaving them out of military and political decisions, as well as UN-sponsored negotiations to end Yemen’s civil war.
Rebel leader Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi made thinly-veiled charges against Saleh and his loyalists late Saturday, saying his rebels have been “stabbed in the back while fighting the enemy in good faith.”
Without mentioning Saleh or forces loyal to him by name, he suggested that they were not fighting pro-government forces in earnest.
“Look who is on the front lines? Visit the graves (of fallen fighters) to see who is buried there and where they come from?” he said.
In a recorded address scheduled to be broadcast later on Sunday, Saleh dismissed the charges and complained of what he called the domination of decision-making by the Houthis’ Revolutionary Committees instead of the National Salvation government the two sides have jointly set up.
The rift between the Houthis and Saleh adds another layer to the vexing complexities of Yemen’s ruinous civil war.
Yemen’s civil war began in 2014, when the Houthis and their allies swept down from the country’s north and captured Sanaa. The Saudi-led coalition has waged a blistering air campaign since March 2015, seeking to dislodge the Houthis and restore the internationally recognized government, which has been confined to the southern port city of Aden for the past two years.
The war has killed over 10,000 civilians, displaced 3 million people, and pushed the country to the brink of famine. An outbreak of cholera has killed 2,000 people and infected an estimated 500,000, according to the UN’s World Health Organization.
DUBAI: Internal strains afflicting both sides in Yemen’s conflict have deepened, as the UN warned that the failure of the country’s political elites to settle their differences has prolonged the suffering of millions already beset by famine and disease.
In a briefing on Sunday, UN envoy to Yemen Ould Cheikh Ahmed said the intractable two-year-old conflict was exposing ordinary people to death and hardship.
“Yemen today continues to traverse a critical and agonizing period as civilians pay a terrible price of an unending power struggle,” Ould Cheikh Ahmed said.
“Those who survive the fighting face death by famine or disease as the economic situation continues to deteriorate ... The political tensions in Yemen continue to undermine the state institutions on which many Yemenis depend.”
The internationally recognized government based in the southern city of Aden has yet to impose its writ over a kaleidoscope of armed factions there, one of which camped out with its weapons in a protest at a main square on Sunday.
Angry about the mysterious assassination of a local commander, the militia traded gunfire with security forces.
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and most of the government remain in exile due to security threats in Aden while the central bank complained last week that it has no access to cash badly needed to shore up the economy.
Ruling from the capital Sanaa in the north, the government’s foes in the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, also known as Ansar Allah, appeared to fall out with a major ally over the worsening economic crisis.
Its leader launched an unprecedented verbal broadside against its main military and political partner on Sunday over the course of the two-year war, veteran ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in a speech entitled “Maintaining the unity of internal ranks.”
London – Houthi rebels’ leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi accused General People’s Congress, party of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, of backstabbing him and exerting “political extortion”, admitting to his group’s weaknesses.
In a 74 minutes televised speech, Houthi sent a message accusing his insurgency allies. Observers stated the alliance between Saleh and Houthi is now shaken and it is safe to say that the two are no longer as they were.
Houthi spoke after UN Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed announced that Hodeidah port will be placed under the control of a third party, which also was criticized by the leader.
Yemeni Ambassador to UK Yassin Said Nomaan stated that Houthi’s speech is clearly directed at his primary ally.
Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Nomaan described the speech as the “speech of the desperate who can’t see things clearly and is mainly complaining about things.”
During his speech, Houthi underscored the need for fighting corruption and implementing reforms in Yemen’s judiciary system to “hold back traitors.”
He added that the country is currently in a state where it is not right to extort the situation politically. He accused Saleh of using issues that were long used during internal wars and civil clashes, referring to the six wars between Houthi and Saleh.
Houthi, however, admitted to the mistakes of insurgency government institutions and corruption within the judiciary system. He stressed that corrupt officials must be held accountable even if they were Houthis, adding that if they were from within Saleh’s party it will not be acceptable for them to be covered by the party.
He stated that his members are no more than fourth of the insurgency government and declared that Houthis represent a 1 percent of civil servants.
Political analyst Najieeb Gallab considers that Houthi focused in his speech on four axis all of which include direct and indirect threats for Saleh – which reflects the bad state of Houthis on the battle fronts and in power.
Gallab stated that Houthi made it clear that he doubts Saleh’s policies in providing political initiatives and preparing for the 35th anniversary of the establishment of General People’s Congress.
He also directly accused the party of following policies that support the coalition.
In the second axis, in a defensive move, Houthi tried to pin the blame for corruption on his allies. He attempted to accuse Saleh’s party of the failure especially that people can no longer withstand Houthis’ control.
The political analyst believes that Houthi wanted to reestablish the idea that the struggle is primarily a military one and all activities of Saleh and other factions do not serve the purpose, stating that only Houthis are fighting while the rest are running media and political wars against Houthis.
He added that Houthi wanted to send a message that there are some parties serving the legitimacy and coalition’s purposes by pretending to be neutral or blaming Houthis for every problem.
The fourth point addressed in Houthi’s speech according to Gallab was the leader’s attempt to form a unified supporting bloc that can pressure Saleh’s Congress and portray Houthis as the only steadfast front against the legitimacy. Houthi also wanted to send a message that the peace promoted by Saleh’s bloc and other parties is a threat to Yemen and its interests.
Houthis didn’t just criticize their allies or the coalition, they also threw accusations over the UN Special Envoy.
In a statement following Houthi’s speech, spokesperson Mohammed Abdul Salam stated that blaming the UN, international community or the Special Envoy will not create peace. He also added that postponing and justifications will not end wars, but rather deepen the differences.
Political analyst Gallab believes that Houthi’s speech is an evident of the ongoing internal struggles between insurgency allies and that it will become political war. He added that Saleh is no longer capable of controlling objections piling within his Congress, while Houthi is aware that public discontent with them has become a pressure point against them.
Hence, according to Gallab, Houthis is trying to defend his position and blame others for this decline of situation inside Yemen. He explained that Yemeni people are aware that Houthis mean prolonged war and cause corruption.
He concluded that Yemeni citizen knows that Houthis are the main obstacle before any political solutions for the crisis, which places Houthis in big trouble.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Nine civilians were killed and wounded as a landmine, planted by Islamic State, exploded in Nineveh on Saturday, according to Mawazin News.
“A civilian was killed, while eight others were wounded as a landmine from the war remnants exploded in Qureitagh village, east of Mosul city in Nineveh,” a security source said.
“The injured were transferred to hospital for treatment,” the source added.
In February, the United Nations estimated cost for removing landmines and explosives from the city of Mosul by US$50 million.
Local officials from central Ghazni province confirmed on Sunday that unknown gunmen abducted ten people in the district on Saturday.
The incident took place in Qarabagh district of the province after the gunmen stopped two vehicles and “took with them ten people including women,” said officials.
The officials said police have started investigations into the incident.
No group including the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the abdication.
Qarabagh is one of the insecure districts in the province in which the insurgents are active and frequently target local security forces.
Rocket artillery hits Damascus trade fair Someone, somewhere was having a better time than the jihadis
BEIRUT: Six people were reported dead on Sunday when a rocket hit near an international trade fair in Syria’s capital Damascus being held for the first time in five years.
The Damascus International Fair was once the leading event on Syria’s economic calendar but had not been held since shortly after the outbreak of the country’s war in March 2011.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor of the war, said six people, including two women, were killed and around a dozen wounded in the rocket fire near the entrance to the fair.
A rescuer speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity confirmed the toll.
A source at a hospital in Jaramana, an area southwest of the capital, told AFP he had seen dead and injured being evacuated from the scene.
There was no confirmation of the toll from officials.
However, state television briefly carried a breaking news alert reporting the rocket fire and saying it had caused injuries, citing its reporters at the scene.
The alert was removed shortly afterwards, and a reporter broadcasting live from the fair interviewed several officials who made no mention of the rocket fire or casualties.
“We were preparing to receive visitors when I heard an explosion... then I saw smoke to the side of the entrance to the exhibition hall,” 39-year-old Iyad Al-Jabiri, a Syrian working at a textile stand at the fair, told AFP.
The fair opened on Thursday at the capital’s Exhibition City and is scheduled to last 10 days.
It was touted as a sign that work toward rebuilding Syria and revitalising its ravaged economy was getting under way, despite the violence that continues in parts of the country.
Its general director, Fares Al-Kartally, said the decision to hold it this year was a result of “the return of calm and stability in most regions” of Syria.
“We want this fair to signal the start of (the country’s) reconstruction,” Kartally told AFP earlier this week.
While Damascus has been insulated from much of the worst violence of the country’s war, several key rebel enclaves remain in the Eastern Ghouta region outside the city.
Fighters in the area have regularly fired rockets into the capital, and government warplanes have frequently carried out devastating raids across Eastern Ghouta.
In recent weeks, much of the area has been quieter after the implementation in July of a “de-escalation zone” covering parts of Eastern Ghouta.
The trade fair dates back to 1954 but was last held in the summer of 2011, months after the eruption of protests against President Bashar Assad’s government.
Since then, the country has spiralled into a bloody civil war that has killed more than 330,000 people, displaced millions and devastated the economy.
The fair is hosting firms from 23 countries that have maintained diplomatic relations with Damascus throughout the conflict.
The United States and European countries, which maintain economic sanctions on the Assad regime, were not officially invited, although a handful of Western companies are attending on an individual basis.
Syria’s government has seized large parts of the country from rebels and jihadists in recent months and talk has begun to turn to reconstruction and even the reestablishment of ties with Western nations.
But Assad said Sunday that countries seeking to resume ties or reopen their embassies must end their support for Syria’s rebels.
“We are not isolated like they think, it’s their arrogance that pushes them to think in this manner,” he said in a speech to members of Syria’s diplomatic corps broadcast on state television.
“There will be neither security cooperation, nor the opening of embassies, nor a role for certain states that say they want to find a way out (of Syria’s war), unless they explicitly cut their ties with terrorism,” he added.
Meanwhile the Observatory on Sunday said that at least 18 civilians were killed the previous day in air strikes by the US-led coalition on a jihadist-held village in northeast Syria.
Three children were among the victims, said the Observatory, adding that three Daesh group jihadists were also killed in the raids on Al-Jezaa in Hasakah province.
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[PJMedia] Google revealed in a blog post that it is now using machine learning to document "hate crimes and events" in America. They've partnered with liberal groups like ProPublica, BuzzFeed News, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to make information about "hate events" easily accessible to journalists. And now, there are troubling signs that this tool could be used to ferret out writers and websites that run afoul of the progressive orthodoxy.
In the announcement, Simon Rogers, data editor of Google News Labs, wrote:
Now, with ProPublica, we are launching a new machine learning tool to help journalists covering hate news leverage this data in their reporting.
The Documenting Hate News Index ‐ built by the Google News Lab, data visualization studio Pitch Interactive and ProPublica ‐ takes a raw feed of Google News articles from the past six months and uses the Google Cloud Natural Language API to create a visual tool to help reporters find news happening across the country. It's a constantly-updating snapshot of data from this year, one which is valuable as a starting point to reporting on this area of news.
The Documenting Hate project launched in response to the lack of national data on hate crimes. While the FBI is required by law to collect data about hate crimes, the data is incomplete because local jurisdictions aren't required to report incidents up to the federal government.
All of which underlines the value of the Documenting Hate Project, which is powered by a number of different news organisations and journalists who collect and verify reports of hate crimes and events. Documenting Hate is informed by both reports from members of the public and raw Google News data of stories from across the nation.
On the surface, this looks rather innocuous. It's presented by Google as an attempt to create a database of hate crimes ‐ information that should be available with a quick Google search, it should be noted. But a quick glance at the list of partners for this project should raise some red flags:
The ProPublica-led coalition includes The Google News Lab, Univision News, the New York Times, WNYC, BuzzFeed News, First Draft, Meedan, New America Media, The Root, Latino USA, The Advocate, 100 Days in Appalachia and Ushahidi. The coalition is also working with civil-rights groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, and schools such as the University of Miami School of Communications.
ProPublica poses as a middle-of-the-road non-profit journalistic operation, but in reality, it's funded by a stable of uber-liberal donors, including George Soros's Open Society Foundations and Herb and Marion Sandler, billionaire former mortgage bankers whose Golden West Financial Corp. allegedly targeted subprime borrowers with "pick-a-pay" mortgages that led to toxic assets that were blamed for the collapse of Wachovia. The Southern Poverty Law Center, of course, is infamous for targeting legitimate conservatives groups, branding them as "hate groups" because they refuse to walk in lockstep with the progressive agenda. And it goes with out saying that The New York Times and BuzzFeed News lean left. Much more at link, too much to fit it all here.
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Yes, Google is building a bubble so that nobody will be able to experience anything but the reality they present. It is information totalitarianism. Switch away from Google today, and tell your friends to do so too.
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This one has got me steaming. It's not just conservative websites but anyone who disagrees with the propaganda. I've seen Progressive websites on YouTube (Owned by Google) that have been censored because Google doesn't agree with their position.
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I don't know much about Richard Spencer other than he has been demonized as a white nationalist by the left-wing media. However, I do agree with his statement in the article:
"Authoritarianism in service of any cause leads to a slave society despite the best intentions of those who helped usher it in."
In another era, this all-to-familiar poem was written:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
The "They" can be the Progressives, Socialists, communists, the alt-left, alt-right, anarchists, Bilderbergs, etc.; whoever has authoritarian control intentions--anybody who is opposed to the freedom of the individual, i.e. the statists. My advice to those who want to manipulate and control us: "Go fvck yourselves. FOESAD!"
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I use DuckDuckGo for searches and couple this with Privacy Badger, which filters out trackers and other similar ilk. It learns. Worked well for me.
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No, duckduckgo does not relay the search to Google.
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[AnNahar] The Lebanese army pressed its offensive Sunday in the outskirts of the eastern border towns of Ras Baalbek al-Qaa, capturing new hills from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, as three soldiers were killed in a landmine kaboom.
The three soldiers were en route to participate in the anti-IS operation that began on Saturday, an army source told the AFP news agency.
"An army vehicle was hit by a landmine on the Dawwar al-Njasa road in Arsal's outskirts at noon today, killing three soldiers and injuring one soldier seriously," the army said in an official statement.
It said the maimed soldier was evacuated to a hospital for treatment.
A front man said Saturday that 20 IS fighters had been killed in the festivities so far, and 10 Lebanese soldiers had been maimed.
During a daily press briefing on the operation, an Army Command front man said the army seized control of 30 square kilometers of territory on the second day of the offensive.
He added that the army has so far managed to oust the IS group from 80 out of 120 square kilometers it initially held.
The day also witnessed the destruction of 12 IS posts, the seizure of arms and ammunition and the destruction of a booby-trapped car and a bomb-laden cycle of violence that were carrying jacket wallahs, the army front man, Colonel Fadi Abu Eid, announced.
State-run National News Agency meanwhile reported that the army on Sunday captured the Jabal al-Kheshen, Khirbet Daoud, Khirbet al-Tineh and Dhalil Umm al-Jamaa areas in Ras Baalbek's outskirts from the hands of IS bully boys.
The advancing troops were backed by Arclight airstrikes and artillery and rocket shelling.
Lebanese soldiers were also besieging a number of IS snuffies in the Wadi Mirtbayya area, according to NNA.
"The army is bolstering its posts and dismantling the landmines and traps that were left behind by the IS group," the agency added.
Army Commander General Joseph Aoun meanwhile inspected military units deployed in the Ras Baalbek region and toured posts recaptured from the hands of the IS group.
The army began its operation in the mountainous outskirts of Ras Baalbek and al-Qaa early on Saturday, and in the first day captured around 30 square kilometers of territory, a military front man said.
"That is around a third of the area controlled by the terrorists," Brigadier General Nazih Jreij said late Saturday.
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Hezbollah Military Media Center circulated a video which shows how the Resistance fighters and the Syrian army units stormed Hmaime town in Homs southeastern countryside.
The latest reports confirmed that the Syrian army and allies managed to completely regain the whole town.
The video shows Hezbollah fighters and the Syrian army units striking some ISIL terrorists’ posts in the town before controlling them and confiscating the remnants of the takfiri militants.
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Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Several Islamic State militants were killed and injured while booby-trapping a vehicle in Tal Afar town, west of Nineveh province, a local source said.
“Several IS members were killed and injured in a car explosion while the militants were booby-trapping it on Hassan Kowi district, in Tal Afar town,” the source told Al-Sumaria News on Saturday. “The explosion occurred at one of the group’s locations used for booby-trapping.”
“Among the killed members were one of the group’s prominent bobby-trapping experts called abu Baraa al-Halabi,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
The group, according to the source, is in chaotic situation after Iraqi joint troops reinforced its presence around the town.
On Friday, army troops killed 16 IS members after thwarting an attack by the militants near the town.
The international coalition, led by the U.S. launch air raids in and around the town in order to facilitate the battle for Iraqi troops, which announced earlier this month concluding arrangements ahead of the invasion.
The Iraqi army’s ninth armored division reportedly reached to the boundaries of the town. Tal Afar has been set as the next target of operations after victory was declared in Mosul on July 10.
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi joint forces have advanced by three kilometers from the southern direction toward Tal Afar town, the paramilitary troops announced.
In a statement on Sunday, the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) said troops “advanced by three kilometers from the southern direction toward Tal Afar and gained control on four hills that overlook the town from the same direction.”
“These hills include Tal Zinbar, west of the town, which was freed by security troops along with the 26th brigade,” the statement added.
Moreover, the service added that “army jets launched airstrikes that destroyed four booby-trapped vehicles driven by suicide bombers, who were trying to attack the troops to hinder their advance toward the western direction of the town.”
A statement by the Federal Police Command said troops, backed by army jets, gained control on al-Abra al-Sagheera region and are advancing toward al-Saad, al-Zahraa and al-Wihda regions.
Earlier on the day, a local source from Nineveh said that two of the Islamic State’s defense lines in Tal Afar were destroyed by the airstrikes.
“Two IS advanced defense lines were destroyed hours before the offensive to liberate the town was launched,” the source told AlSumaria News on condition of anonymity.
“Huge losses were inflicted on the enemy,” he added.
Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced in a televised speech on Sunday the beginning of offensive to recapture the town, which has been held by the militants since 2014, when the extremist group first emerged to proclaim its self-styled ‘caliphate’.
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Amongthe killed members were one of the group’s prominent bobby-trapping experts
Need more teachers like that.
Likely drifted left post-election
SOUTH CHINA SEA - The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while underway east of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca on Aug. 21.
The collision was reported at 6:24 a.m. Japan Standard Time, while the ship was transiting to a routine port visit in Singapore.
Initial reports indicate John S. McCain sustained damage to her port side aft.
Search and rescue efforts are underway in coordination with local authorities.
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The BSMedia will claim the merchant ship skipper is a Trump supporter.
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I don't see how the US navy could be hacked to cause this kind of accident as someone would always be at the helm of a navy ship in a congested straight and if the controls didn't follow their commands it would be very obvious.
I think it is more likely that China hacked some civilian autopilot software and is using it to cause collisions with the US fleet. Even that I think is unlikely, just more likely.
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Worth noting, USS John S. McCain is named for senator Maverick McBackstabber's father and grandfather who were both flag officers in the USN.
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You cant hack the Boatswain Mates & Signalmen on watch Topside nor the Nav team, OOD, Conning Officer, and bridge lookouts. That is their purpouse in life - to keep eyes open and continuous comms, establishing the picture and maintaining situational awareness.
I drove ships with far less electronic assistance. Nothing replaces alertness and attentiveness. I guarantee these incidents could have been prevented. There should be a shakeup of the 7th fleet going farther up than ships' Captains, safety standdowns and retraining/recerting of all bridge/lookout personnel.
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The BSMedia will claim the merchant ship skipper is a Trump supporter Civil War Statue.
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The Strait of Malacca is one congested waterway. I checked with Marine Traffic app and you better be on your toes going through this chokepoint.
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Seriously, WTF? We've just had two first-line surface combatants put out of action. That would be a pretty good day's work for a hostile sub commander.
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You have to do an analysis of the watch standing crew and standing orders to diagnose is there is a systemic/quality control problem with crew training and qualifications. These are warships with state of the art sensors and night fighting systems being rammed by enormous, slow cargo ships. No coverup, but ruthless honesty is required because people have died and our naval competency is rightfully being questioned by adversaries.
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One difference between the McCain and the Fitzgerald is that the McCain was hit on the port side, whereas the Fitzgerald was hit on the starboard side.
Not that it's likely to make any difference to the career of the McCain's CO.
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I was told (by an aquaintance at the five sided funny farm) that the Navy as averaged one Captain or Commander relieved of duty every two months for the last 12 years. (And it was 4 a year for the previous 20).
Makes ya think...
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So the cream of the USN is getting its ass kicked by the merchant marines?
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"All" GPS does is tell you where you are at any given instant. It tells you nothing about anything in the vicinity. So if the Russians hacked the GPS, it still would have no effect on the collision wth another ship.
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Let me expand on my previous remark about the difference between the Fitzgerald and McCain collisions.
Under International Rules of the Road, if a ship is approaching you from starboard (right side), it is YOUR responsibility to avoid the collision. Turn, change speed, whatever it takes. For the Fitzgerald, the other ship was approaching from starboard.
For the McCain, the other ship was apparently approaching from port (left side). Thus it was the other ship's responsibility to avoid the collision. The McCain should have tried to warn the other ship, via radio or whatever means it could. Once collision looked inevitable, a situation known as being in extremis, the McCain should have taken whatever action it could to avoid the collision. All of this should come out in the investigation.
Understand that ships the size of the McCain do not stop or turn on a dime. They do not go from zero to 60 in seconds.
As I said earlier, it probably won't matter for the career of the McCain's CO.
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Time to install dashcams on the DDG's?
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McCain was by far the more maneuverable vessel, and should have had far better perception of the traffic and command-control, not to mention that after Fitzgerald its people should have been on high alert, sea rules of the road be damned.
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Hmmm....anything about reduced crews on the more modern ships? Is watch their only duties or an additional duty? Number of hours on duty vs available (real) sleep - see sleep deprivation.
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Glen, gorb, the Rules of the Road do not distinguish between military and commercial vessels. Even though the McCain is more maneuverable than the other ship, if the other ship was approaching from the McCain's port, it was the other ship's responsibility to maneuver to avoid the collision.
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Rambler, my point was that simply having the right of way is insufficient in a case like this. I have the right of way as a pedestrian in a crosswalk, but it is not in my best interest to ignore the truck who fails to recognize it. After the Fitzgerald I would figure every Captain would have laid down double and triple safety policies, especially in hazardous places like Malacca.
That said, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action. Depending on what you count, we are either at twice or four times, this year.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Among the eclectic throng of demonstrators in Boston on Saturday, a supporter of President Trump found himself surrounded by protesters who yelled profanities at him.
A man wearing an Israeli flag as a cape can be seen in a video shared by Univision's Jessica Weiss, walking through a crowd of protesters. One person rips off his "Make America Great Again" and throws it away.
Amid the obscenaties directed at him, one protester shouted, "Get the fuck out of our fucking town." Another person can be heard urging the other protesters not to be violent.
Weiss asked why he was in Boston to demonstrate, and the man replied, "I want to show that people shouldn't be afraid to voice their other views and voice their opinions."
"You shouldn't be afraid to go outside and say you're conservative," he added "And it's pretty sad that things like this happen."
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Hezbollah fighters and the Syrian army units managed on Sunday to advance in western Qalamoun, controlling a number of ISIL posts in Al-Suhreej and Harf al -Jafr.
Hezbollah and the Syrian army had launched the campaign against ISIL terrorists in Western Qalamoun, regaining 87-kilometer area.
As Suwayda (Syria News) Jaysh Ahrar al-Ashayer (Army of Free Tribes) announced, this morning, launching an offensive to retake its headquarters, east of As Suwayda.
Qasioun News reported that Jaysh Ahrar al-Ashayer militia has announced launching an operation, codenamed “Restoration of Dignity,” in order to retake the headquarters it lost to the regime forces, east of As Suwayda.
The militia launched an attack on the Syrian regime forces and allied militias in al-She’ab area, east of As Suwayda, killing and wounding several members of the government forces, while the militia lost over 15 members.
In the last few days, Syrian regime forces recaptured large areas in the eastern countryside of As Suwayda and the border with Jordan.
It is noteworthy that Jaysh al-Ashayer had withdrew toward the Jordanian territory, after the fierce attacks launched by the Syrian army against it, backed by heavy aerial cover.
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At least eight insurgents were killed during “Alburz 12” operation in Chamtal district of northern Balkh province, local officials confirmed on Sunday.
In addition, 12 other insurgents were wounded.
The operation was launched on Saturday in Nawawari Taraki village of Chamtal district of the province to clear the area of insurgents, a spokesman for the military in the north of Afghanistan, Nastratullah Jamshidi said.
“Mawlawi Matiullah, shadow governor of Taliban for Balkh is also among the injured insurgents. The clashes are still ongoing and the Taliban are being driven from the area but are fleeing to Jawzjan province (which borders Balkh)," said Jamshidi.
“Two Afghan security forces were also wounded in the clashes,” Jamshidi said.
In the meantime, local officials said that “two public forces were also killed in the clash with security forces.”
Damascus (Syria News) Syrian regime forces and allied militias have violated the de-escalation agreement in Jober neighborhood, and shelled the area using toxic gases, a source told Enab Baladi on Saturday.
The source revealed that Assaf forces shelled Jober neighborhood with missiles containing toxic gases, causing suffocation to 4 cases, which were documented by Jober Medical Office.
The shelling was carried out immediately after signing the deal, and also hit the cities of Zamlka and Hamoriyah, killing 3 persons and wounding dozens others, as well as shelling the areas of Saqba, Kafr Btna and Ayn Tarma with dozens of missiles.
Meanwhile, Syrian regime media said that the army forces carried out artillery shelling on the headquarters of the armed groups in the axis of Jober-Ayn Tarma.
Yeatserday, an agreement was conducted to ceasefire in Jober neighborhood and eastern Ghouta.
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[DW] German-Ottoman Turkish author Dogan Akhanli, who was detained in Spain after The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... issued an Interpol arrest warrant, has been released. His detention added more strain to ties between Ankara and Berlin.
Akhanli will be released from detention on the condition that he remain in Madrid, his lawyer Ilias Uyar said.
Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... noted that it was just one of many cases of Turkey pursuing and detaining German citizens.
"That's why we have massively changed our Ottoman Turkish policy recently ... because it's quite unacceptable that Erdogan does this," Merkel said.
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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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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Bad timing for Jos Wagner tin toys. A little man with exploding head could have been very popular. 
[Twitchy] It was all fun and games for the Left last week when President Trump was disbanding his economic committees, but they are not pleased at all about the fact that he just told a federal advisory committee on climate change to take a hike as well.
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as 
[Al Jazeera] Pak police have detained and imprisoned a teenager for allegedly burning pages of the Koran outside a shrine, according to officials. 
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SANAA, Yemen: A long-simmering power struggle between Yemen’s Shiite insurgents and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh has burst into the open, threatening to undermine their alliance against the internationally-recognized government and its Saudi-led Coalition backers.
