The son of US President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn is being investigated as part of the ongoing federal probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, NBC News reported on Wednesday.
Citing four current and former US officials, NBC said it was unclear when the probe into Michael Flynn Jr. began. But is said it was at least partly focused on his work for the lobbying firm run by his father, already a known subject of the US probe that is also examining any potential collusion by Trump's campaign.
The younger Flynn has denied any collusion with Russia, according to NBC. Lawyers for both men declined to comment to NBC.
[Newsweek] CIA Director Mike Pompeo said documents retrieved from the 2011 Navy Seal raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden would be released in "weeks"‐with the exception of one particular part of the haul, his pornography stash.
In a wide-ranging interview on the anniversary of 9/11, Pompeo said told Fox News’s Bret Baier: "There’s some pornography, there’s some copyrighted material. Everything other than those items will be released in the weeks ahead."
In the operation on his Abbottabad compound in Pakistan, U.S. special forces retrieved a wide-ranging stash of documents, including family letters, documents relating to Islamic history, and notes about the group's operations.
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Most of it probably was already downloaded from the net. It's there for examination if you want. It's like going through all the Hillary 'erased' email traffic, boring, repetitive, mechanical, and no 'social redeeming' value.
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No doubt would have huge psy-ops value with the devout.
We should be doing this as part of fighting a multi-front war against the jihadis. Right now, going off to fight the infidel is much more romantic and adventurous than working in Dad's falafel shop. Time to deploy Madison Avenue to make jihad synonymous with loser.
DOJ Inspector General can only investigate possible wrong doing of criminal action, not prosecute. They then refer their findings to the FBI for criminal prosecution if warranted. This is a step in the right direction.
[Politico] Democrats have attacked the president every which way, but polling and focus groups show none of it's working. There's a reason for that...
Democrats tried attacking Donald Trump as unfit for the presidency. They’ve made the case that he’s ineffective, pointing to his failure to sign a single major piece of legislation into law after eight months in the job. They’ve argued that Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself and that his campaign was in cahoots with Russia.
None of it is working.
Data from a range of focus groups and internal polls in swing states paint a difficult picture for the Democratic Party heading into the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential election. It suggests that Democrats are naive if they believe Trump’s historically low approval numbers mean a landslide is coming. The party is defending 10 Senate seats in states that Trump won and needs to flip 24 House seats to take control of that chamber. The only other 'Teflon' politician I can recall is Reagan. What this article demonstrates is the inherent bias of the national media, trying their level best to destroy a Republican president, and not getting the backing of large swaths of the voting public who know better than to fall for it. That, above anything else, is Trump's major contribution to U.S. politics.
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A great deal of this is Trump's refusal to let the nattering class affect his actions. The other part, of course, is that his supporters (including me) like him better than they like his opponents. I'm willing to forgive an almost unlimited number of awkward tweets for the occasional Gorsuch, for example.
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I'm with Iblis on this.
It's not so much that I like Trump; I don't, I've always thought he was an a$$hole. There's lots of them out there, I've been there myself when I thought the occasion warranted it.
His opponents, on the other hand, are generally speaking, useless liars, social perverts, and wanna be tyrants. Exactly the kind of people that I like to see crying in agonized frustration.
It's all been very entertaining, if it wasn't so pathetic.
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William Jefferson Clinton was pretty slippery as I recall, too
William Jefferson Clinton was covered by others as well.
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Another reason is his use of twitter and other venus to bypass the media and go directly to the people. One wonders weather he deliberately says something 'stupid' every once in a while in order to keep people listening....
[WashingtonExaminer]'Pumpkin spice just doesn't taste as good when you add a shot of racism,' a feminist leader explained as the fall flavor began to pop up in coffee shops around the country. This is a shockingly weird claim, but it shouldn't be surprising.
In an editorial published last month, we wrote about the Left's effort to broaden the boundaries of concepts such as white supremacy and racism in a way that impugns the conduct of well-meaning people. Now, a feminist nonprofit is running a campaign to convince festive imbibers of Pumpkin Spice Lattes they're unknowingly boosting the cause of white supremacy.
The co-founder of UltraViolet issued the "shot of racism" statement Sept. 6. I knew Starbucks had a secret menu, but the baristas must really be keeping these racism shots on the down low. Continues.
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Just when I think we have about reached peak insanity, I'm proven wrong.
Meows nasty Narcissus poeticus,
"A sketch from me liber viaticus:
Confusing their bods
With the all-knowing gods,
A priestess of Bast, and her catechist."
[Powerline] I paid no attention to the fact that Hollywood was producing a biopic of Ted Kennedy’s famous "accident" at Chappaquiddick in 1969, and would have assumed that it was a typical gauzy pro-Kennedy puff piece if I had known. But Variety magazine, the main trade journal of Hollywood, offers a review that not only says that the forthcoming movie Chappaquiddick is suitably harsh on Teddy, but that he‐and the Kennedy reputation‐deserve it:
The film says that what happened at Chappaquiddick was even worse than we think. Kopechne’s body was found in a position that implied that she was struggling to keep her head out of the water. And what the film suggests is that once the car turned upside down, she didn’t die; she was alive and then drowned, after a period of time, as the water seeped in. This makes Edward Kennedy’s decision not to report the crime a clear-cut act of criminal negligence ‐ but in spirit (if not legally), it renders it something closer to an act of killing.
But this is just the beginning. The reviewer, Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman, piles on:
[Zero Hedge] Last week the Washington Examiner reported that Hina Alvi, the wife of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's now-infamous former IT staffer Imran Awan, had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to return to the U.S. where she currently faces charges of conspiracy and bank fraud. The deal with prosecutors mandates a return to the U.S. during the "last week of September 2017" and is structured so that she will not be arrested in front of her children.
Now, if you're the cynical type, then it might have struck you as somewhat odd that Alvi would agree to return from Pakistan, the place to which she successfully fled specifically to avoid the charges she now seems to be embracing.
But, at least according to Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) who appeared on Fox News recently, there may be more to Alvi's return than meets the eye as he predicts that the Awans could be working on a broader immunity deal with prosecutors in return for a "significant" and "pretty disturbing" story about Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
"I don’t want to talk out of school here but I think you're going to see some revelations that are going to be pretty profound. The fact that this wife is coming back from Pakistan and is willing to face charges, as it were, I think there is a good chance she is going to reach some type of immunity to tell a larger story here that is going to be pretty disturbing to the American people."
"I would just predict that this is going to be a very significant story and people should fasten their seat belts on this one."
Of course, this follows speculation that surfaced last week suggesting that even if the Awans were originally acting to protect/extort Debbie Wasserman Schultz, that may have all changed on April 6, 2017 when Imran seemingly led U.S. Capitol Police directly to her laptop. Per The Daily Caller:
[Hot Air] After remarking on the need for a consistent pro-life approach on immigration in the US, Pope Francis might have to clean house on that topic with religious brothers closer to home. The Belgian Brothers of Charity issued a defiant statement today after a Vatican order to stop offering euthanasia, especially in non-terminal cases, for their psychiatric patients. Rather than comply, the monks insist that they have plenty of room within Catholic teaching to assist in suicides when patients request it:
[FOX] Security at the State Department's Benghazi compound was so dire that another contractor was brought in to clean up the mess just two weeks before the 2012 terror attack ‐ and was later pressured to keep quiet by a government bureaucrat under then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to two men from the American security company.
Brad Owens and Jerry Torres, of Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, say they faced pressure to stay silent and get on the same page with the State Department with regard to the security lapses that led to the deaths of four Americans.
They spoke exclusively with Fox News for "Tucker Carlson Tonight," revealing new information that undermines the State Department's account of the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, where Islamic militants launched a 13-hour assault from Sept. 11-12 that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith and former Navy SEALS Ty Woods and Glenn Doherty.
Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions provides security for U.S. embassy and consulate personnel around the world in some of the most dangerous locations spanning Africa, the Middle East and South America, according to the firm.
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"Blue Mountain U.K. is a teeny, tiny, little security company registered in Wales that had never had a diplomatic security contract, had never done any high threat contracts anywhere else in the world that we've been able to find, much less in high threat areas for the U.S. government.
One might almost think that Benghazi was like Hillary's server--an invitation to come in.
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Reading the full article, the still-in-place State Department contracting office, Jan Visitainer, commented that she didn't think security guards should be armed... Why is this woman still in public service Rex?
Hello Refugees!, by Tuvia Tenenbom. Jewish Theater of New York; New York 2017. Paperback; 194 Pages. $12.99
[PJMedia] Tuvia Tenenbom is the Jewish world’s answer to the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Diet coke is Tenenbom’s drug of choice, to be sure, but the method is the same: Get in the middle of a dodgy and maybe dangerous situation and stir up a story that you then can write about. The faux-naiveté with which he accosts the unwitting actors in his improvised theater-of-the-absurd masks a deep cunning; an Israeli-born graduate of ultra-Orthodox religious education with advanced degrees in mathematics and computer science, Tenenbom can start trouble in five languages. Two of his books, Allein unter den Deutschen (alone among the Germans) and Allein unter den Juden (alone among the Jews) were bestsellers in Germany and Israel, respectively. The former first appeared in English under the awkward title I Sleep in Hitler’s Room in 2011, and my review was, to my knowledge, the first that the then-unknown author received.
In the intervening six years Tenenbom has matured as a writer. If Kafka had written non-fiction, he could not have bested Tenenbom’s latest book. It is funny, sad, and frustrating to anyone who wants to make politics out of the European refugee crisis, at any part of the spectrum. This is his best work by far and one of the finest pieces of reporting I have seen in quite some time. Starting in 2016 Germany absorbed over a million migrants, many of them victims of the Syrian civil war but also economic migrants from all over the Islamic world. Germany’s long-serving Chancellor Angela Merkel declared, "Wir schaffen es!" ("We can do it!") and Germany mobilized to demonstrate its good-heartedness and generosity‐not so much to the world, but to itself.
Praised as an expression of German leadership and denounced as capitulation to Muslim invaders, the great migration is neither. In Tenenbom’s account, bored refugees eat bad food and contract skin rashes in the overcrowded, unsanitary facilities where the German government has dumped them. They are happy to complain to an Arabic-speaking journalist and spill their hopes and dreams‐to marry a German blonde, to get rich, to get back to Syria or Afghanistan or Pakistan where they can find edible food. Most are just bored; a few are suicidal, but there is a one-year waiting list to see a German psychiatrist.
[PJMedia] There are people who say that someone who claims they were raped should always be believed. There are even some people who think women are either incapable of lying about being raped or that women are too morally pure to stoop to telling falsehoods about such a heinous crime.
...For example, take the story of young Koh Tsuruta, formerly of Augustana University, as reported by The College Fix:
...She said Tsuruta chased her down as she tried to leave his apartment. That’s an important nugget that the incompetent investigators ignored, particularly because she wasn’t exactly a credible person.
There's just one problem with that tidbit. Tsuruta lost most of his feet in an accident several years prior to this. In other words, he can't chase anyone, anywhere.
Further, the woman in question is reportedly a serial accuser who has claimed she was sexually assaulted by multiple men and even is alleged to have threatened to report an ex-boyfriend for rape. So, an American University expels a handicapped man - incapable of running, for running down and raping his victim caveman style. A highly decorated and well thought of general gives an openly pro-Hezbollah Muslim access to critical national security information. And GOPers elected on the promise to abolish Obamacare drag their feet.
Do I detect a pattern?
[PJMedia] During the week of August 27, an Israeli delegation met with members of the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House to discuss the current threat to Israel by the terror group Hezbollah.
Israel believes this threat is currently dire. This meeting preceded a two-week long Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) exercise to rehearse for possible war with Hezbollah. The Jerusalem Post described this exercise, which commenced on September 4 and is ongoing, as the IDF’s largest in 20 years.
Hezbollah has been a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997. However, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster reportedly brought NSC Senior Director on Counter-Terrorism Mustafa Javed Ali to the White House meeting with Israel. Ali, a McMaster appointee, is described by a senior administration source as being "opposed to Hezbollah’s designation as a terrorist organization."
What then transpired at the meeting has been confirmed to PJ Media by several administration sources, by members of non-governmental organizations involved in national security, and by a source within the Israeli government.
The Israeli delegation demanded that Mustafa Javed Ali leave the room. So, nothing has changed despite the fact that Obama is gone - Iran still has its agents of influence.
[Ynet] Elta North America, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries, is named one of four companies to win tender to build prototype of smart systems integrated into border wall US Pres. Trump plans on building between US and Mexico; 200 companies participated in tender, Elta will receive $300,000-500,000 grant to develop model.
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This is great news. Israel has some of the most advanced technologies for this sort of thing. Major cost reductions also. This effort should progress much faster or at least it should baring snail darter concerns.
[LI] Hillary Clinton would probably like everyone to forget about her email scandal but she’s not out of the woods yet. There are still many unanswered questions. A Maryland judge has ordered an investigation of her lawyers connected to the deletion of emails.
FOX News reports:
Investigation into Clinton lawyers accused of deleting emails is ordered
A Maryland county judge has ordered the state bar to investigate three lawyers accused of deleting thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Circuit Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. ruled Monday that the Attorney Grievance Commission and Office of Bar Counsel Maryland Office of Bar Counsel must look into complaints against Cheryl Mills, Heather Samuelson and David E. Kendall, citing "allegations of destroying evidence," according to the Washington Times.
The ruling came after Ty Clevenger, an attorney in New York City, filed the complaint. He recently was denied files from the FBI related to Clinton’s email investigation, due to what the bureau called a lack of public interest.
It’s amazing that Hillary Clinton got so close to becoming president, after intentionally using a private email server and potentially destroying evidence in the investigation.
[Guardian] Between April and July 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were murdered in the most rapid genocide ever recorded. The killers used simple tools ‐ machetes, clubs and other blunt objects, or herded people into buildings and set them aflame with kerosene. Most of the victims were of minority Tutsi ethnicity; most of the killers belonged to the majority Hutus.
The Rwanda genocide has been compared to the Nazi Holocaust in its surreal brutality. But there is a fundamental difference between these two atrocities. No Jewish army posed a threat to Germany. Hitler targeted the Jews and other weak groups solely because of his own demented beliefs and the prevailing prejudices of the time. The Rwandan Hutu génocidaires, as the people who killed during the genocide were known, were also motivated by irrational beliefs and prejudices, but the powder keg contained another important ingredient: terror. Three and a half years before the genocide, a rebel army of mainly Rwandan Tutsi exiles known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front, or RPF, had invaded Rwanda and set up camps in the northern mountains. They had been armed and trained by neighbouring Uganda, which continued to supply them throughout the ensuing civil war, in violation of the UN charter, Organisation of African Unity rules, various Rwandan ceasefire and peace agreements, and the repeated promises of the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni.
During this period, officials at the US embassy in Kampala knew that weapons were crossing the border, and the CIA knew that the rebels’ growing military strength was escalating ethnic tensions within Rwanda to such a degree that hundreds of thousands of Rwandans might die in widespread ethnic violence. However, Washington not only ignored Uganda’s assistance to the Rwandan rebels, it also ramped up military and development aid to Museveni and then hailed him as a peacemaker once the genocide was underway.
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I look forward to the Guardian's coverage of the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. Lots of references to Stalin having the right idea, the need to break a few tens of millions of eggs to make an omelet, etc. It will be a challenge to blame the Ukrainian Famine on the US, or the Katyn Forest Massacre, but those lads are up to it.
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Somalia 1993: US tries to help, gets blamed for genocide.
Rwanda 1994: US stays out, gets blamed for genocide.
In other words, it's always America's fault no matter what. Why even try in that kind of situation? All we ever get from it is abuse.
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What someone has already posted today. They hate us. Nothing we can do can ever make them happy, other than we die. They just want all the wealth and power. As Texans say - Come and take it.
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The Policeman of the World™ has retired. Rwandans, Somalis, Syrians, Ukrainians and all the rest of them can damn well figure it out for themselves.
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[PJ] As I've recounted in more than 30 articles here at PJ Media over the past three years, virtually every Islamic terrorist who has conducted an attack in the West since 9/11 has already been known to authorities, which prompted me to coin the phrase "known wolf" terrorism.
Amidst the commemoration of the 16th anniversary of 9/11, it bears recalling that 9/11 itself was a "known wolf" attack, too.
The CIA had intelligence that two Saudi 9/11 hijackers were living in the United States, but they deliberately refused to share the information with the FBI. The FBI had authority to act on such information and possibly prevent the 9/11 attacks:
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I seem to recall a 'wall' erected to prohibit the sharing of information, and, and, something about its author in the Congressional team that 'investigated' 9/11.
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The CIA had intelligence that two Saudi 9/11 hijackers were living in the United States, but they deliberately refused to share the information with the FBI.
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval L. Patrick (D) got a call from state police: The investigation had narrowed in on the man who would soon be known as Suspect No. 2, the man whom police captured Friday night bleeding and disoriented on a 22-foot boat in a Watertown driveway.
Patrick said the images of Suspect No. 2 reacting to the first explosion provided “highly incriminating” evidence, “a lot more than the public knows.” Link
[The Hill] In three days, the director of the FBI and the attorney general are required to come before the House Intelligence Committee under the threat of being held in contempt.
Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) has issued a subpoena to both agencies to provide information on how the FBI has utilized a controversial opposition research dossier compiled by a former British spy, Christopher Steele, in its investigation into Russian election interference. Neither responded by the Sept. 1 deadline.
According to the highest ranking Democrat on the committee Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the subpoena is a partisan effort. Schiff argues it undercuts the basis of the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s active measures by discrediting the dossier and thereby any further intelligence the FBI may have derived from it. If this is true, the Republicans, in their attempt to help the president, may end up helping Russia as well.
Skipping down to the bottom line. Don't miss the author info:
Revealing our hand to Russia at this stage of the investigation could significantly jeopardize the FBI’s efforts. In receiving a subpoena from a committee that is rife with partisan infighting and where the information may be sought for political, rather than national security purposes, the FBI is right to be concerned about sharing its methods and sources. Perhaps in not responding to the request, they are simply putting their country first ‐ for once, the committee should do the same.
Asha Rangappa is a former special agent in the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI in New York City. She is currently an associate dean at Yale Law School. Follow her on Twitter @AshaRangappa_.
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Trial balloon anyone? 'Cone of Silence' coming soon! National Security demands it, sez author, former FBI Counterintelligence agent and Yale Law School plant associate dean.
Sources and methods leaked? From all accounts it would appear former Special Branch employee (now disappeared) Christopher Steele and his alleged Russian contacts were the sources. The 'method' was his authored dossier.
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Asha Rangappa is a former special agent in the Counterintelligence Division of the FBI in New York City. She is currently an associate dean at Yale Law School.
Swamp dweller. If she is opposed to this, then it can only be a good thing.
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The FBI seemed to have purchased it yet it made its way over to the Illary's campaign.
[TIME] Former President Jimmy Carter offered a damning indictment of U.S. foreign policy and domestic affairs Tuesday, saying money in politics makes the nation more like an "oligarchy than a democracy" and casting President Donald Trump as a disappointment on the world stage.
Carter's criticisms, offered at his annual presentation to backers of his post-presidency Carter Center in Atlanta, went beyond Trump, but he was particularly critical of the nation's direction under the Republican president's leadership.
The 39th president, a Democrat, offered this advice to the 45th: "Keep the peace, promote human rights and tell the truth."
Carter, 92, did not mention explicitly Trump's threatening exchanges this summer with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, but the former president said the U.S. should engage directly with the insular leader and discuss a peace treaty to replace the cease fire that ended the Korean War in 1953.
"I would send my top person to Pyongyang immediately, if I didn't go myself," Carter said, noting that he's been three times to the country, even as successive U.S. administrations have refused to deal with the regime.
The North Koreans, Carter said, want a treaty that guarantees the U.S. will not attack unless North Korea attacks the U.S. or an ally, particularly South Korea. "Until we talk to them and treat them with respect ‐ as human beings, which they are ‐ I don't think we're going to make any progress," Carter said.
He also dismissed Trump's optimism that he can engineer Middle East peace. Trump has tasked his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with handling the issue that has vexed U.S. administrations for generations, but the president notably backed off the long-held U.S. position calling for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians.
N.B. It's been a oligarchy for over a generation, slow one. Maybe because you swim in the party that promoted special interests over democracy, you missed it from the bubble.
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Fuck the "world stage". Trump is what's good for America. The world hates us, so why should we do anything for them? The more we do, the more they hate us.
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"Until we talk to them and treat them with respect ‐ as human beings, which they are ‐ I don't think we're going to make any progress," Carter said.
Typical globalist on his knees inhaling furious amounts of tyrant dick.
They don't care about that idiot. They care about power and you being afraid of them, which you clearly are. They won't stop until you force them, which you can't since you are choking on their members.
[AJR] Hillary Clinton has been talking a lot about herself and her failed campaign lately. With her new book, "What Happened," coming out Tuesday, she has been rounding the media circuit explaining to every reporter who will listen why it's not her fault she lost to Donald Trump last November.
She told CBS News's Jane Pauley that it was FBI Director James Comey and the media who are to blame for obsessively covering her email scandal.
Then, in a conversation with USA Today, Clinton told the editors she is "convinced" Trump associates communicated with the Russians to upend her campaign.
Clinton playing the blame game is nothing new. But, White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway wondered aloud Monday why the defeated Democrat kept talking about herself on a day meant to honor the victims of the September 11 terror attacks.
[Breitbart] Former al-Qaeda gunnies have launched a new group in terrorist safe haven Pakistain for jihadists who have severed ties with 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.... (ISIS/ISIS) branch in the region.
"Hi. My name is Syed Hassan Nawaz -- "
"Hi, Syed." "Hi, Syed." "Hi, Syed."
" -- and I am a jihadi."
Although the new group claims it has no official links to al-Qaeda or any other foreign terrorist group, it concedes that the late Osama bin Laden
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[DAWN] Amid pressure from media and civil society, the government on Monday abandoned the idea of promulgating the Pakistain Print Media Regulatory Authority (PPMRA) Ordinance 2017, ordering strict action against three officers for unilaterally moving ahead with the proposal.
The repressive stipulations of the draft law aimed to regulate the print media by making it mandatory for newspapers to seek annual renewal of their licences and sought to give authorities power to raid media houses at will.
The draft was on the agenda of the Press Council of Pakistain (PCP), which was scheduled to meet on Monday. But the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting intervened in the matter, requesting PCP Chairman Dr Salahuddin Mengal to drop the item from the agenda of the council’s 15th general meeting.
Later, a detailed office order was issued by Information Secretary Sardar Ahmad Nawaz Sukhera, which stated that PCP chairman Salauddin Mengal informed the secretary that the development of a draft PPMRA 2017 was initiated following a meeting with the information minister on March 3, 2017.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A paramilitary fighter was killed and two others were wounded on Tuesday when a bomb exploded in a southern Baghdad area, according to a police source.
Alsumaria News quoted the source saying that a member of the Tribal Mobilization was killed while two others were wounded when a roadside bomb went off while their patrol was passing through arab Jabbour area, Dora, south of the capital.
Violence and armed conflicts left 297 Iraqis dead and wounded during the month of ِAugust, according to a monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq which excludes security members deaths. Baghdad was the most affected province with 45 deaths and 135 injuries.
The Iraqi capital has seen almost daily bombings and armed attacks against security members, paramilitary groups and civilians since the Iraqi government launched a wide-scale campaign to retake Islamic State-occupied areas in 2016. While most of of the explosions and attacks went without a claim of responsibility, Islamic State has claimed several incidents.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A civilian was killed, while another was injured in a bomb blast in east of the capital Baghdad.
“A bomb, planted inside a car, exploded in al-Mashtal region, east of Baghdad, leaving one person injured and another killed,” a security source told Baghdad Today on Tuesday.
“Security troops cordoned off the blast spot. Ambulance transferred the wounded to hospital, while the victim was taken to forensic medicine department,” the source added.
Earlier on the day, member of the Tribal Mobilization Forces was killed while two others were wounded when a roadside bomb went off while their patrol was passing through arab Jabbour area, Dora, south of the capital.
Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Nine Iraqi army personnel were killed in fierce clashes with Islamic State militant group, near Tal Afar, west of Nineveh, Anadolu news agency reported.
“Around 40 IS militants on board of cars launched, late on Monday, an attack against military units of the army’s 73rd brigade at Qasabet al-Ra’ie, in Aiyadhiya, located 11 KM from Tal Afar,” Cap. Mohamed Shilah al-Ameri, of the army’s 9th division command, said on Tuesday.
“Nine soldiers, including two officers, were killed during confrontations. Four military vehciles were destroyed. Three bodies of the militants were found,” Ameri added.
In related news, eighty militants, including 15 suicide bombers, were killed during the operations carried out by the army.
A previous report by the War Media Cell said the militants were killed while the army’s 15th division, backed by fighter jets, was purging the village.
Iraqi troops were able to liberate Tal Afar on August 31. PM Haidar al-Abadi announced in a televised speech on August 20 the beginning of operations 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’. This came after 40 days of declaring victory in Mosul, the group’s former capital, where operations lasted between October to July.
Joint troops then recaptured Aiyadhiya, located 11 KM away from Tal Afar, after invading it on August 29.
A monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), which excludes security members deaths, said 297 Iraqis, were killed and injured due to violence and armed conflicts during the month of ِAugust. Baghdad was the most affected province with 45 deaths and 135 injuries.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] ISIS seems to have revamped its strategy of terror, as evidenced by its latest attacks in Spain, Finland, Russia and Belgium. Unable to hold on to its territories in Iraq and Syria in the wake of relentless strikes by the international coalition, ISIS has now adopted the strategy of delivering "death by a thousand cuts," to show that it has not capitulated.
This strategy aims to increase the number of terrorist attacks outside the Middle East, ranging from small-scale and rudimentary assaults (for example knife attacks or ram raiding) to more sophisticated operations (such as boom-mobileings and suicide kabooms).
The important thing here is the emphasis on striking at random and indiscriminately, anywhere and at anytime in order to create a sense of heightened anxiety and desperation among security forces and the general public.
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[DAWN] Syed Ali Raza, a Sectarian Terrorists Intelligence Group (STIG) official, has been removed from service for allegedly sharing sensitive information with Lions of Islam while holding an important office, said a notice from the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Sindh.
The written order announcing the dismissal of Ali Raza "with immediate effect" was issued on Tuesday from the office of Additional Inspector General of Police of CTD Sindh.
Raza was accused of sharing confidential information by a political party worker Umair Hassan Siddiqui, who was tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! from Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... headquarters Nine Zero during a raid by Rangers last year.
Siddiqui made the allegations in front of a joint investigation team, according to the notice. Raza was summoned for questioning but he failed to appear. Instead, a written reply was submitted which was deemed "unsatisfactory", leading to the termination of Raza's service.
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[DAWN] The bodies of the teenaged couple, allegedly electrocuted for contracting a free will marriage, will be exhumed for postmortem examination on Wednesday in the supervision of a magistrate and a medico-legal officer, SHO Shah Latif Town Amanullah Marwat told Dawn on Tuesday.
Initial investigation into the murder suggests that the family members of the couple gave them electric shocks until they died before secretly burying the bodies at a graveyard in Sherpao Colony, Ali Hasan Brohi goth, he said.
Earlier while talking to Dawn, Malir SSP Rao Anwar said that the police came to know about the dual murder through an informer and a case was filed on behalf of the state. Subsequently, police enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! the fathers as well as some other family members of both the victims.
The families were enraged over the marriage of the 15-year-old girl and the 17-year-old boy, who had run away from their houses last month, he added.
The accused confessed to their crime, according to the police, and revealed that a jirga was involved in declaring death sentence to both the victims.
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[DAWN] Two senior executives of a collapsed peer-to-peer lender were sentenced to life in prison and 24 others punished over what has been called China's biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, state media reported on Tuesday.
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent operation where investors are promised quick returns on their investments but are actually paid from the investments of new investors instead of legitimate business activities.
The company, Ezubao, swindled more than 900,000 investors out of $7.6 billion, mainly between 2014 and 2015.
The brazenly luxurious lifestyles of top Ezubao bosses drew wide attention to the long-running case, one of the several recent high-profile trials to shine a light on pervasive fraud and corrupt practices in the Chinese financial industry.
The company was alleged to have fabricated most of the projects on its website and paid old debts with money from new investors.
Ding Ning, head of Ezubao's parent company Yucheng Holdings, was sentenced by a Beijing court to life in prison for charges ranging from fraudulent fundraising to illegal possession of a gun, the People's Daily reported.
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[Iran Press TV] The Constitutional Court of Spain has suspended another referendum law ratified in the regional parliament of Catalonia as Madrid struggles to block a vote of independence in the region planned for earlier next month.
The court, which serves as the highest Spanish authority on constitutional issues, said on Tuesday that the law outlining a legal framework for the October 1 referendum of independence in Catalonia would be suspended until judges decide its compliance with the Spanish constitution.
The Catalonia parliament had approved the law on September 6 along with another decision to endorse the referendum itself. The Constitutional Court in Madrid had earlier suspended the first law and warned that it would punish civil servants contributing to the vote in any form.
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[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... emir Senator Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... says his struggle will continue till the accountability of all the 436 people mentioned in the list attached with the petition he has filed in the Supreme Court, ousted premier Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... being one of them.
Speaking to the participants in a gathering at the GTS Chowk, Gujrat, on Monday leading the JI’s Ehtesab Caravan from Lahore to Islamabad, he termed the corruption a form of terrorism that had ruined the country more than the militancy.
He said the corrupt parliamentarians had harmed the country more than the bully boyz hiding in caves. These corrupt elements had been exploiting the masses for so long and it was the time people should rise against them to root out the corrupt system and bring in the Islamic system in Pakistain, he added.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Officers conducting the ongoing multi-agency security Operation Linda Boni in Lamu county have discovered and flattened three key al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... hideouts at Lango la Simba in Witu Division of Lamu West.
According to Linda Boni Operation Director Joseph Kanyiri who was speaking during a security meeting at Mahrus Hotel in Lamu Island on Sunday, September 10, the hideouts were discovered and destroyed by Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldiers and National Police Service officers who are manning the area.
He added that the hideouts were being used by the hard boyz as a base to launch attacks in the area especially on vehicles plying the Lamu-Gamba-Garsen road.
It is the same place the hard boyz ambush or plant IEDs on the roads and kill passengers and motorists.
Last month, three Tana River County officials died after their vehicle was torched by suspected al-Shabaab hard boyz in the same area that is also home to the Nyongoro and Gamba.
The same day five passengers aboard a Raha bus from Malindi to Kipini were maimed when the bus was sprayed with bullets by suspected bad boys.
Just recently, two people died in back to back attacks in the area after a Toyota Probox car and a lorry were sprayed with bullets by the bad boys.
Kanyiri now says he is confident that the identification and destruction of the three hideouts this week will help bring the much-needed peace and stability in the area.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Four Burundi nationals were Tuesday morning locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! at Merile area along Isiolo-Marsabit Highway, Isiolo County while headed to Somalia to join al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... militia.
Police say the men had traveled from Bujumbura to Kenya as tourists. They then embarked on a journey that would take them through Isiolo, Mandera and later cross to Somalia.
They were stopped at a roadblock at about 4 am Tuesday and on being grilled they allegedly said they were headed for Somalia to join the terror group.
Those arrested were identified as Ntakarutimana Benerd, 41, Niyongere Yusuf, 32, Nshimirimana Fulgnce Shadady, 31 and Bizoza Abderauf, 20.
Police involved in the operation said they had intelligence to show the group’s mission and that some of them had confessed on the same.
They were taken into custody for grilling, a senior officer said in Nairobi. In June, five Kenyan youths were arrested in the same area while headed for Somalia to join the same group.
This comes as reports show a number of Kenyans who went to Somalia to fight with al-Shabaab militia want to come back to Kenya over a fallout.
A confidential police report shows the Kenyans include Ahmed Iman Ali aka Abu Zinira, together with at least five other senior Kenyan al-Shabaab fighters.
According to the report, some of his loyal followers likely to accompany him in his defection include: Juma Ayub Otit Were aka KB, Erick Achayo Ogada aka Nabhan, Ramadhan Kioko aka Pinji aka Abu Nuseiba, Suleiman Irungu Mwangi aka Karongo aka Maalim Zakariya aka Idriss and Mohammed Tajir Ali aka Wahome.
The five have been on Kenya’s police watch list and have a Sh2 million bounty each on their heads.
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[Iran Press TV] Hurricanes Harvey and Irma might have caused up to $200 billion in damage to the US states of Texas and Florida, similar to the costs from Hurricane Katrina that devastated New Orleans in 2005, according to an estimate from Moody's Analytics.
Harvey battered Houston with record amounts of rain and flooding last month, killing more than 70 people. Irma wreaked havoc across much of Florida and other southeastern coastal states over the past few days. The storm has claimed at least seven lives and left over six million people without power.
"While at this point it’s hard to know how much [damage there is], the storms seem likely to have caused $150 billion to $200 billion in total damage to homes and furnishings, vehicles, commercial real estate, and public infrastructure. This is comparable to the property loss resulting from Hurricane Katrina," Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, said.
The economist added that a critical factor in determining the effect on the economy is "how much insurance money and government aid flows to the impacted regions, and how quickly these funds get there."
Economists expect the recent storms to lower the US economic growth by about one percentage point in the third quarter of this year.
Harvey knocked offline almost a quarter of US oil refining capacity and caused widespread power outages, bringing the Houston metropolitan area to a standstill. The impact was visible in last week’s rise in unemployment claims, the biggest since 2012.
Irma threatened $1.2 billion worth of crops in Florida. This could lead to higher prices of food for some time.
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What the heck happened in Houston 2012 which caused the unemployment requests to rise faster than this biblical flood?
[Al Jazeera] Iraq's parliament has rejected Kurdish plans to hold an independence referendum aimed at creating a Kurdish state in Iraq's nothern territory, a politician announced on Tuesday.
The resolution, which labelled the ballot due to take place on September 25 a "threat to ... the civil peace and regional security", authorises Haider al-Abadi, Iraq's prime minister, to take any measures necessary to preserve Iraq's existing borders.
A breakdown for the vote was not immediately available.
"Kurdish politicians walked out of the session but the decision to reject the referendum was passed by a majority," Mohammed al-Karbouli, an Iraqi MP, said.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... gunnies have lost imported muscle fighting in their ranks during an Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
According to the local officials, the gunnies were killed during an Arclight airstrike conducted by the foreign forces on Monday.
The officials further added that the US unmanned aerial vehicles targeted the gunnies in the vicinity of Lalpur district.
The provincial government media office in a statement also confirmed that three foreign gunnies fighting in the Taliban ranks were killed in Lalpur on Monday.
The statement further added that the gunnies killed in the Arclight airstrike have been identified as Shalman, Mahaz, and Waqas.
The gunnies were involved in various terrorist related incidents in Lalpur and other districts of the province, the statement added.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] An Afghani migrant charged with the rape and murder of a German medical student also allegedly raped a maiden in his native country, local media reports.
Hussein Khavari is currently standing trial in the south-western German university city of Freiburg over the death of 19-year-old Maria Ladenburger last October.
It has now emerged that Khavari might have carried out a similar attack in his native Afghanistan, raping a 12-year-old girl.
So he's been a habitual predator since childhood. Castrate or hamstring him and send him home for his countrymen to deal with -- he's not what Germany wants in their replacement population.
While Khavari was locked up in investigative custody, he allegedly told a fellow prisoner that he carried out the rape in Afghanistan when he was just 14.
A Freiburg police officer confirmed the story to the district court during Khavari's trial, where he has admitted to killing Ms Ladenburger, whose father is a senior legal adviser to the European Commission in Brussels.
According to the police, the parents of Khavari made a settlement with the parents of the raped girl to keep the incident unreported.
It has also emerged that Khavari had been tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and sentenced to ten years for attempted murder in Corfu in 2013 before coming to Germany seeking refuge in 2015.
Khavari threw a 20-year-old student 25 feet down a cliff on the island of Corfu in May 2013. The woman was severely injured but miraculously survived the ordeal.
Khavari did not report to parole officers after his early release from the Greek detention centre and authorities issued a search warrant for the Afghan migrant, but only in their own country.
German authorities criticised the Greeks for "negligence", claiming that if they had known about Khavari’s past, he would have been flagged when he applied for asylum and not allowed into the country, which in turn could have prevented the grisly rape and murder of Ms Ladenburger.
Yesterday, Khavari broke down and asked for forgiveness at his trial in Freiburg District Court, Germany.
Khavari wept as he recalled how he smoked hashish the night he ambushed 19-year-old, admitting that he raped her and drowned her in the knee-deep water of a nearby river.
He said he took her to the water to wash her blood from his body and clothes and claimed the incident had destroyed his life.
He broke down in court and added: 'I want to apologize to the family of Maria'.
Reading from a statement he went on: 'I beg your pardon. I want to apologise to the family of Maria. I wish I could undo it. What I have done, I am sad for from the bottom of my heart '.
He says he dreams of what he did every day as he wiped tears from his face.
'I live with the agony of what I did and this torment destroys my life,' he added.
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So everything cool until it is an EU Official's family. Sweet.
[DAWN] One of the reasons for the increase in the country’s population was that Afghan refugees were counted alongside Pak citizens, Chief Census Commissioner Asif Bajwa said on Monday.
Addressing a presser, the chief statistician said the Pakistain Bureau of Statistics would soon announce the actual number of Afghans living in Pakistain. "We will be in a position to estimate the exact number once reports are finalised," he said, adding that Afghans would be declared "non-locals".
Since 2005, after getting proof of residence cards, Afghan refugees were allowed to live among Pakistani citizens. At the time of the 1998 census, all Afghan refugees were living in refugee camps.
According to statistics provided by the UNHCR, around 1.3 million Afghan refugees are currently in Pakistain. But unregistered Afghan refugees are reportedly present in much greater numbers.
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[Iran Press TV] The Russian military says the Syrian government has managed to liberate 85 percent of the country from the grips of terrorist groups, some two years after Moscow began a counterterrorism campaign in Syria at the official request of Damascus.
Lieutenant General Aleksandr Lapin, the Russian chief of staff in Syria, announced the news in a presser held at Hmeymim Air Base in Syria’s western province of Latakia on Tuesday. He added that Syrian forces must now clear the remaining 15 percent of the country, which amounts to 27,000 square kilometers, of terrorists.
Lapin said Syrian troops continued the operation to free the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr from ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group, after they managed to break an almost three-year siege on the embattled city earlier this month.
"Currently the operation to free the city is ongoing. The Syrian military will soon finish off" ISIS terrorists, who "used to occupy the city’s neighborhoods," he added.
Lapin stated that Kalibr cruise missiles, launched from the Black Sea escort vessel, Admiral Essen, had destroyed ISIS’s command posts and communication networks; an effective move that disrupted control of the terror group’s units in Dayr al-Zawr province.
"Over 450 terrorists, five tanks and 42 pickups, with heavy machine guns, were liquidated during the operation," he said.
In a bid to aid the war-torn Arab nation in its war against foreign-sponsored terrorism, in September 2015, Russia started a campaign in Syria at an official request made by Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... Russian warplanes, based in Hmeymim, have so far significantly aided the government troops in ridding Syria of the widespread militancy. One of the biggest breakthroughs in anti-terror offensives was made in December last year, when Syrian troops, backed by Russian air force, managed to gain full control of the city of Aleppo.
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well the terrorists have been replaced by the Tyrant so, if you are Syrian, that's a good news and bad news thing
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[Al Jazeera] The International Union of Moslem Scholars (IUMS) has condemned the reported arrest of Moslem preachers and scholars in 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... , urging Saudi King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdulaziz to order their release.
Salman al-Audah, a prominent Moslem preacher and member of the IUMS's board of trustees, and more than 20 others were enjugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! on Sunday, according to social media postings.
The Doha-based IUMS said in a statement on Monday that the scholars "should not be used as pawns in political disputes", referring to the crisis between 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... and four other Arab states - Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt.
"In regards to the crisis [with] the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, Audah has done nothing but call for unity between these brotherly countries," the statement read, noting that his last tweet urged GCC members to "come together for the sake of their people".
The IUMS is an organization of Islamic theologians headed by chairman Yusuf al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... , and headquartered in Qatar.
About 90,000 Moslem scholars are connected through the union, which claims to bring together Sunni and Shia Moslems.
Ali Qara Daghi, IUMS secretary-general, was quoted in the document as saying that Auda was known for his "moderate positions".
Saudi Arabia is yet to issue any official statement regarding the reported arrests.
The incident came to light on Twitter after Khalid bin Fahd al-Audah tweeted on Sunday that the Saudi authorities had arrested is brother Salman.
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[DAWN] The 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.... home ministry on Tuesday apprised the Lahore High Court (LHC) that releasing Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba... (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... from house arrest will likely create a situation of unrest in the province, DawnNews reported.
The ministry stated this in a written reply submitted before the court during the hearing of an appeal for the release of JuD chief.
During the hearing, the counsel for Saeed A. K. Khokhar argued that Saeed's detention was illegal and baseless, thus the LHC should rule in favour of the defendant and discard the order of keeping JuD leader under house arrest.
"The defendant was put under house arrest after the US threatened to cut Pakistain's aid; it was done without any cases being registered against him," Khokhar argued.
Upon this, the judges pointed out that the defendant's lawyer had made no mention of the US's alleged pressure in the case. They added that the defendant's application is based on a news clipping.
The home ministry, on the other hand, in their written reply to the LHC, said that the JuD chief was put under house arrest under the anti-terrorism laws to keep him from collecting funds ‐ which is a violation of various resolutions of the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... The reply said that the reports by police and the counter terrorism department's operational branch on the matter have also been submitted before the court.
It also pointed out that various cases were registered against members of JuD for collecting hides during the three days of Eidul Azha in contempt of the ministry's orders.
Cases were also registered against the party for collecting funds in contempt of the provincial ministry's orders, the reply said.
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[Iran Press TV] Russia on Tuesday strongly condemned a new education law in Ukraine, saying it will infringe on the rights of Russian-speakers.
The law, approved Sept. 5 by the Ukrainian parliament, restructures Ukraine's education system and specifies that Ukrainian must be the main language used in schools, rolling back the option for lessons to be taught in other languages.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday that the law is designed to "forcefully establish a mono-ethnic language regime in a multi-national state" and alleged that it violates Ukraine's constitution and Kiev's international obligations.
Ukrainian officials have rejected the suggestion that minority languages will be sidelined.
Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin wrote on Twitter earlier this week that the law will not hamper the free development of languages other than Ukrainian.
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[DAWN] The National Assembly on Tuesday echoed with a debate about the lack of freedom and safety faced by minorities in Pakistain as MNA Khaleel George discussed the matter of alleged lynching of Christian schoolboy in Vehari last month.
"Sheron Masih lost his life because he drank water in the same glass as the other boys," George said, adding that this is a moment of deep reflection for the nation.
"Our school curricula need to be revised to reflect interfaith harmony. The minorities of this country feel alone at the moment."
While expressing grief on Sheron Masih's death, Shazia Marri said, "Mashal Khan also lost his life as a result of intolerance within an educational institution."
"This mindset is fast becoming prevalent in our institutions and society, while the state has shut its eyes," she added.
"No liberal feels safe in Pakistain. The question is Why is the National Action Plan not being implemented?", Marri asked.
Speaking on the matter, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... 's Asad Umar voiced said, "It is our responsibility to take care of this nation's minorities," adding, "The real danger is this mindset that promotes violence in the society."
"The ones maligning the name of religion and Pakistain by falsely calling this Islam need to be brought to justice," Umar said while demanding strict action against the forces promoting violence in the society.
Last month, a class IX student of the Government MC Model High School, Burewala, died when his class fellows punched and thrashed him on the school premises.
Sheron Masih, of Chak-461/EB, wanted to leave the school during recess for home but his classmate Ahmed Raza, trying to be a good cop, tried to stop him.
He kicked and punched Sheron, who collapsed on the school premises and later, he was received dead at the Burewala Tehsil Headquarters Hospital.
Sub-Inspector Kashif said that Ahmed had thrashed and kicked Sheron. The victim's family claims the attack was religiously motivated.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Nelson Marwa has mocked Lamu chiefs saying they are only good at gaining weight and warned that many will be fired over insecurity
The Coast regional coordinator said corruption among Lamu chiefs and their assistants has robbed residents of security.
Marwa said the administrators take bribes from anyone and end up allowing criminals and suspicious herders into the county.
He said they find out later that the people are members of the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia... terror group.
The group wants Kenyan troops to leave Somalia where they were part of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... peacekeeping mission.
They have carried out sporadic attacks in counties including Lamu, Mandera and Wajir in retaliation.
To flush them out, the government has decided to bomb Boni Forest in Lamu and has asked all ’foreign herders’ to leave ahed of this operation.
Marwa said they chiefs are aware of the orders yet they choose to work with al-Shabaab.
"They will accept any amount, to allow criminal elements to operate within the county, without caring about the repercussions of their insatiable appetite for bribes and the county’s security."
He added chiefs in areas where the bandidosLions of Islam have carried out many attacks allow them to pose as herders.
"Some of them had been bribed by the herders and had allowed them to continue staying in Lamu," he said in the county on Monday.
The security coordinator also disbanded all community policing committees headed by chiefs in Lamu and ordered that new ones be formed immediately.
The committees work with police in implementing regulations aimed at curbing crime and increasing security.
But Marwa said Lions of Islam had infiltrated the teams rendering them useless.
"They cannot function accordingly since members seem to have been compromised."
The security chief further suspended several chiefs in the county whom he accused of sleeping on their jobs.
"Some chiefs are fully aware of the many security challenges in Lamu. These criminals and bandidosLions of Islam have been bribing their way here and killing locals...the chiefs are aware," he said.
"They take bribes and allow bandidosLions of Islam to come and kill innocent civilians at will. That’s why I am disbanding all community policing committees here. Let new ones be formed and represent all communities.. We are also firing some of the chiefs whose actions have left people dead."
Marwa directed county commissioner Gilbert Kitiyo and his deputy Loius Rono to ensure speedy formation of new teams that will function devoid of corruption and undue influence.
He added: "I have fired the chief in Hindi where four people were butchered recently with immediate effect.
"The other chiefs in places where people have been killed before will be issued with letters to that effect. We can’t have people risking the lives of locals like that. They must tell us where they were when these people were being killed."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias embarked, this Monday, on a forced recruitment campaign targeting the children in the northern Yemeni province of al Mahwit, an area under their control.
Parents are afraid for the lives of their children who would be forced to fight in their ranks on their lost battle.
Local sources confirmed that the leadership of the coup militia in the province of al-Mahwit asked the Directorate of Jebel al-Mahwit and several directorates to support their fronts with 170 fighters as compulsory conscription.
The Houthi militia had forced the local authority leaders in the departments to collect the requested number of fighters by force.
Al-Mahwit Media Center said that the militias held a meeting on Monday to approve the formation of a committee to carry out the effort to impose recruitment on citizens.
The committee involves the director of the al Jabal directorate Ali al-Tayari, the secretary-general of the local council Yahya Khadeef, the Houthi leader, Abdul Jalil al-Asiri and Ali Bahr.
The Center quoted the residents of the Jabal al-Mahwit district as saying that militia members were deployed in the Directorate, with statements calling for enlisting.
When they were met with rejection and refusal from the residents, they threatened the citizens, who fear forced drafting in Mahwit and the areas controlled by the militia.
The militia fronts have witnessed a large deficit and a severe shortage in their fighters, after thousands of them were killed on the fronts and the majority fled, forcing them to resort to forced conscription and intensifying the mine layering in an effort to disrupt the progress of the national army supported by the Saudi led Arab Coalition.
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Believe thats called conscription
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[DAWN] International divisions emerged on Tuesday ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on a worsening refugee crisis in Myanmar, with China voicing support for a military crackdown that has been criticised by the US, slammed as "ethnic cleansing" and forced 370,000 Rohingya to flee the violence.
Beijing's intervention appears aimed at heading off any attempt to censure Myanmar at the council when it convenes on Wednesday.
China was one of the few foreign friends of Myanmar's former junta.
Beijing has tightened its embrace under Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government as part of its giant trade, energy and infrastructure strategy for Southeast Asia.
The exodus from Myanmar's western Rakhine state began after Rohingya gunnies attacked police posts on August 25, prompting a military backlash that has sent a third of the Moslem minority population fleeing for their lives. Didn't that work out well!
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State’s so-designated “finance minister” has fled the group’s havens in Anbar province, carrying large amounts of money allocated for fighters’ salaries, a paramilitary source was quoted saying.
Qatari al-Obaidi, a senior leader at the Tribal Mobilization, told Alsumaria News that Islamic State’s finance official, Sabbar Batoushi, fled the town of Annah, 210 kilometers west of the city of Ramadi, carrying large amounts of the group’s funds.
Obaidi said the militants declared a curfew in the town in search for the fugitive leader.
Since Iraqi government forces launched a wide-scale campaign to retake Islamic State-held regions in October 2016, the militant group has reportedly suffered financial constraints and many of it senior leaders have either died in combat or fled battlefields.
Islamic State has held the towns of Annah, Rawa and Qaim since 2014, when it proclaimed an Islamic “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria. Recent news reports have said military reinforcements were sent to areas near those towns preparing for an invasion against IS. The Iraqi Joint Operations Command has, meanwhile, declared that its coming battle would be in IS-held Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk. So far, U.S.-backed government forces recaptured Mosul, Islamic State’s former capital, and the town of Tal Afar, a major haven west of Mosul.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Two female children and three Islamic State militants were killed on Tuesday in south and west of Mosul, a security source said.
“Two children were killed, while two others were wounded as an explosive from the war remnants exploded in Imam Gharbi village, Qayyarah, south of Mosul,” the source told Shafaq News.
In related news, the source said, “al-hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), backed by army jets, repulsed an infiltration attempt by IS, near Tal Sufuq, west of Mosul, on borders between Iraq and Syria. Three IS militants were killed.”
In July, Iraqi forces took over the village, which was re-invaded by the militant group just before the government declared victory over the group in the city. Later on July 10, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over IS militants who had held the second largest Iraqi city since 2014. More than 25000 militants were killed throughout the campaign, which started in October.
Since the city was declared free, security troops continue to comb western Mosul areas for hidden IS cells.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Three persons, including a woman, were shot dead by armed individuals Tuesday in eastern Mosul for having links with Islamic State militants.
A security source told Shafaq News webste that unknown armed persons invaded a house in al-Sukkar district, northeast of Mosul, and killed three members of one family, while a fourth woman was wounded.
According to the source, the family had sons who served as Islamic State members, one of whom had been killed in battles. The woman killed in the raid was a member of the extremist group’s Hisbah (vigilantism) division.
Iraqi government forces consummated the recapture of Mosul early July. The eastern section of the city was retaken late January. Up to 30.000 members of the group had been killed in more than eight months of military operations in the city, Iraqi commanders had declared.
The Iraqi security forces had regularly combed areas recaptured from the militants in search for remnant cells. Local authorities had also declared plans to isolate militants families in rehabilitation camps, and to deport foreign nationals to their home countries.
Deir Ezzor (Syria Newa) – The Islamic state group carried out, on Tuesday, an extensive security operation in the city of Mayadin, east of Deir Ezzor, to search for foreign members who escaped the group along with their families.
Qasioun News reported that the IS militants set checkpoints and deployed patrols in the city of Mayadin, east of Deir Ezzor, to search for foreign members who escaped the group along with their families, but they were unable to capture any of the escaped members.
Meanwhile, the IS militants attacked Deir Ezzor Airbase, and managed to seize it completely, then violent clashes broke out between the militants and Syrian army forces and allied militias in the area.
It is noteworthy that the IS Emir of the so-called Islamic Police (al-Hisba), known as Abu Khuzaima Al-Tunsy, surrendered himself, along with 5 other members of the Islamic State group, late on Monday, to the Syrian regime forces.
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[TheDrive] On July 25, 1991, drivers traveling south along Highway 83 past Bismark, North Dakota came across an odd sight, a seemingly innocuous tractor trailer truck stopped along the road, guarded by police and heavily armed federal agents and leaking smoking goop. What local residents didn’t necessarily know ‐ and the Department of Energy wouldn’t tell them at the time ‐ was that they had seen a specialized truck for discreetly carrying nuclear weapons and other radioactive cargoes. These tractor trailers are booby trapped with countermeasures such as immobilizing foam and self-destruct systems, which all sound right out of a Hollywood blockbuster. They belong to the Office of Secure Transportation (OST), which has a checkered record of safety and disciplinary issues.
This eventually became OST, now part of the larger National Nuclear Security Administration, who continues to be in charge of moving America’s most dangerous weapons and other hazardous nuclear material "of strategic amounts" safely around the country. Before that, there were a variety of different organizations that handled disparate nuclear transportation operations.
"There are several things going on where the truck is and we’re looking at that area," was the cryptic response Ben McCarty, a Department of Energy spokesperson, gave the Bismark Tribune when they asked for answers following the 1991 incident. "We have operational responsibility for the vehicles and we’re checking it thoroughly." Continues w/ pix and vid.
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In the 1980s on the interstate near Bozeman MT I saw a military style convoy going on the opposite side: a semi truck trailer bracketed by black Chevy Suburban-type vehicles, police cruisers fore & aft, Humvees with what looked like guns in turrets, and several helicopters overhead with what looked like MGs in their open side doors, gunners in place. Nothing "discreet" about that operation.
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...Worked with these folks a couple times while I was in SAC. Fun Fact: Not only are the drivers armed, the Government authorized them any weapon they wanted, and paid for it.
Mike
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Brrrr! Lena the Love Bug was curvy
And, off of her additives, swervy:
Cis-gender rear-enders
And queer fender-benders
And dragging and chicken with Herbie!
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She's right -- that's the best swimsuit for her, though I have to wonder whether she lost about fifty pounds in real life or thanks to someone's photoshop skills.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The foreign minister of Pakistain Khwajah Asif has claimed that the US forces have failed in Afghanistan as he arrived in Tehran on Monday to seek regional and international support in the aftermath of the US strategy declaration by 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... last month.
"Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, during his day long visit to Tehran on 11 September 2017, called on Iranian President Dr. Hassan Rouhani. They discussed strengthening of brotherly relations between the two countries rooted in common history, culture and people to people ties and reaffirmed the mutual desire to strengthen bilateral cooperation," the Foreign Ministry of Pakistain said in a statement.
The statement further added "Earlier, soon after his arrival in Tehran, Foreign Minister held detailed talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Dr. Javad Zarif on bilateral relations and the prevailing regional situation, including efforts for peace and stability in Afghanistan."
"The two Foreign Ministers also exchanged views about efforts for peace and stability in Afghanistan, particularly in the context of latest developments in Afghanistan," the statement said, adding that "They agreed that there was no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan and a politically negotiated settlement was imperative for lasting peace in Afghanistan. They underscored that the regional countries have vital stakes in stability in Afghanistan should play a more proactive role in the peace efforts."
This comes as the Pak officials earlier said that Islamabad intends to seek regional and international support after the US President Donald Trump’s policy declaration for South Asia in which he harshly criticized Pakistain for allowing the terrorist groups to use its soil despite receiving billions of dollars in aid from Washington in the name of the fight against terrorism.
President Trump said "For its part, Pakistain often gives safe haven to agents of chaos, violence, and terror. The threat is worse because Pakistain and India are two nuclear-armed states whose tense relations threaten to spiral into conflict. And that could happen."
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You'd think some energetic journalist looking to get a scoop would be looking into it. How long can they keep the guy locked up while they make their case?
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So Rantburg is now linking to White Supremacist sites now huh? Is it really relevant that an overweight woman that got mowed over by fucking Nazi may have died of a heart attack instead of blunt force trauma? Yeah...and those fat jokes are real classy too.
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...but your never-Trump rants are getting pretty tiresome.
What do my comments have to do with President Trump?
Allow me to answer - absolutely nothing.
The link to this post is an unapologetic WS site. The content and comments are overtly racist and anti-semetic. The article itself is repugnant and IMO beneath Rantburg standards. But then again maybe things have completly changed around this joint.
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So Rantburg is now linking to White Supremacist sites now huh? Is it really relevant that an overweight woman that got mowed over by fucking Nazi may have died of a heart attack instead of blunt force trauma? Yeah...and those fat jokes are real classy too.
I made the decision to link to a "White Supremacist site", because the writer had provided a fact that apparently some people regard as cause to force someone off the internet, and had provided a fact/opinion I was not aware of.
Hunter Wallace has the same right to speak his mind as the people who were denied a forum on the Internet by stating the very same opinion.
I placed it in opinion because I routinely feature editorials that do not fit my views.
You apparently are in the same mindset as Google and GoDaddy, i.e. that the Bill of Rights only apply to you as an individual, and to no one you disapprove of.
As for the fat jokes, you can put this squarely on the media, which featured a foto of the victim which bore very little resemblance to the victim the day she died. The fact the foto bore little resemblance to the woman meant, to me at least, that the media was attempting to blow something by the rest of us. It was a successful attempt at managing opinion before all the facts were out.
What they did by posting the foto and leaving out how Heyer died was much like your overbearing, and patently false (even outrageous) statement that we link to white supremacist sites.
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MSM misled us all very badly with their Charlottesville coverage. Instead of focusing on the lack of law enforcement they went after Trump for criticizing both sides in the violence. Then it turns out even Nancy Pelosi is scared of Antifa...but no apologies to Trump. For over a week they raked Trump over the coals as if the violence had been entirely his fault when they should have been asking Gov MacAuliffe why he didn't enforce the law. Now we must consider how Ms. Heyer really died, if it was the driver's fault or not, what's happening with his trial and why the authorities won't release the autopsy report. MSM won't tell us.
So yeah, Depot Guy, Rantburg has a link to a site you choose to characterize as white supremacist. Go ahead and read CNN if think they're any better. But it's no good to cast aspersions on the source unless you can disprove the facts. We want the facts. Got any?
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James Fields has been treated for schizophrenia since he was a child, DepotGuy, which is a decade or two earlier than it usual manifests. He needs to be locked up because he is a documented danger to his mother, who takes care of him; the problem is that nowadays we don't lock up crazy people until they've killed someone, after which they spend the rest of their lives in prison. But the particular form of vicious stupidity Mr. Fields latched onto is immaterial -- he could have as easily been a fucking Antifa Black Bloc, or a soldier of the archangel Michael, getting instructions through messages on his laptop that only he could see.
American "Nazis" are pathetic poseurs, except for the ones who are undercover FBI agents or the legitimately insane.
Is it really relevant that an overweight woman that got mowed over by fucking Nazi may have died of a heart attack instead of blunt force trauma?
I am overweight by about twenty pounds. Ms Heyer is grossly obese, carrying about ten times that much excess weight; this may or may not have been the result of poor behavioural choices, though smoking cigarettes, and its effect on an already strained cardiovascular system, definitely is. And yes, it does matter if she spontaneously died of a heart attack due to overexertion rather than having been killed by a panicking crazy man. If she was already dead, he did not kill her, nor could she have dodged out of his path as others did -- and then we can look into the responsibility for subsequent events of the violent Antifa idiots who were pounding on his car with clubs... and the mainstream news media who trumpeted a false story to smear the non-left for political advantage.
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I made the decision to link to a "White Supremacist site", because the writer had provided a fact that apparently some people regard as cause to force someone off the internet, and had provided a fact/opinion I was not aware of.
I'm sure DepotGuy can helpfully provide other sources that mentioned the heart attack. Perhaps, CNN? ABC, NBC? MSNBC?
Maybe television is boring. Perhaps The New York Times has something? The Washington Post? The Los Angeles Times? The Arizona Republic? Any other 'reasonable' newspaper in his vicinity?
What do my comments have to do with President Trump?
Allow me to answer - absolutely nothing.
Allow me to respond - in this instance.
Your other past comments, not "absolutely nothing".
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… much like your overbearing, and patently false (even outrageous) statement that we link to white supremacist sites.
Hmmm…I wonder what led me to call the link a White Supremacist site? I dunno, maybe it was the article titled ‘White-Collar Supremacy’ in which a “The White ethnostate” is imagined. And oddly enough it’s listed under the tagline of “White Supremacy”. Or maybe it was the websites comment section that led me to that conclusion? As example, one poster with an avatar that has a Nazi symbol imposed on a US flag commented; “The Senate is nothing but israeli-occupied territory.” “And good riddance to Heather “light as a feather” Heyer”. But perhaps that’s me just being overbearing and making patently false statements again.
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youcan put this squarely on the media, which featured a foto of the victim which bore very little resemblance to the victim the day she died.
See: "Michael Brown Lil Scholar™", "Trayvon Adorable grade schooler™",....
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Obviously, there's no convincing you.
But at least consider that the great bulk of War on Terror news we post comes from foreign sources, which feature facts and data our vaunted domeatic media won't or can't publish publish.
Some of them are as racist and anti semitic as can be, such as al-Manar and the Iranian news agency Press TV. Some of the sources we use are as bland and unimaginative producers of news as can be, the way it should be.
Some of them, such as the Daily Mail provide us with domestic news we can't find anywhere else.
The decision to link to a white supremacist site was a calculated risk, the calculation only being to bring to light two facts we did not have before.
The site was the source.
The site's owner has some very unsavory political ideas, but his presentation was as unbiased as can be presented.
I hasten to add that I was like you several years ago. If facts or ideas come from unsavory sources, they they must not be considered. But I have aged some since, and my thinking has been tempered somewhat from experience in helping out around here.
I understand you disagree with my decision, but I would prefer to leave it there.
[DCWHISPERS] POTUS Trump has laid out some general and lofty tax reform goals. Whispers indicate he’s willing to concede some of those as leverage to getting a bipartisan bill through Congress ‐ a signal the President is pivoting to his lifelong experience as a deal-maker. The first six months of his presidency has been marred by Congress’s repeated rebuke of the President’s agenda.
It appears POTUS is now prepared to amp up the public pressure to try and force Congress to get something done and stop worrying about merely holding on to their House or Senate seats.
Word is this approach is working which could set up a very successful and ultimately beneficial 2018 for the American people.
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You mean things like Obamacare repeal, which pretty much every GD "Republican" ran on as well? That agenda?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Afflicted with war that has plunged the country into what the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... has called the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II, thousands of professionals in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... have endured the war without an income in over a year.
For Abdullah Saif al-Hakimi, a doctor at a local hospital in Taiz and an employee at the Office of Public Health, life has become increasingly difficult over the past year as he last received a salary in August 10 of 2016.
Cash casualties "Life was already difficult when we were receiving the salaries because it was barely enough to cover anything, but now that I don’t even receive anything, we only live with the most basic necessities," Hakimi, who supports a family of nine, told Al Arabiya English.
Many others are also suffering the same fate as Hakimi. According to him, all his colleagues at the hospital ‐ which employs over 50 staff members ‐ have also been without a salary for over a year but continue to work due to the high demand for medical services in the besieged city.
Since the start of the conflict in Yemen, which began shortly after the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias took control of the capital, civilians in Taiz have suffered a two-year siege. Continuous fighting of the Houthis, their allies (forces loyal to ousted president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... ) with the Popular Resistance and the Yemeni Army who are supported by the Arab coalition caused the siege.
In addition to the conflict that has killed at least 10,000 people, civilians in Yemen are struggling with a cholera epidemic, famine due to soaring food prices and endless power cuts.
Several activists also reported that out of desperation, many residents in Yemen camped out in front of local governmental centers demanding their salaries, but died waiting.
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[DAWN] SIALKOT: A police official was filmed beating a woman on Monday on the Daska judicial complex premises.
The footage, which went viral on social media sites and was broadcast by TV channels, shows Satrah cop shoppe’s Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Sarwar Dogar repeatedly slapping the woman, identified as Zakia Bibi, in the presence of several onlookers.
Dawn learned the ASI had brought Saania Akhtar, the daughter-in-law of Zakia, to produce her before Civil Judge Waqas Hashmi. Saania was reportedly rescued by police from her captors after three months of abduction.
Zakia told Dawn the police official was teasing Saania and when she confronted him, the official humiliated her in front of the public. She alleged the police were keeping Saania at the all-male cop shoppe. She said her daughter-in-law had been kidnapped three months ago, and now instead of arresting the kidnappers, the police were harassing them in the case.
Police, however, said Zakia along with some other women, tried to get Saania free and beat the officials. District Police Officer Dr Abid Khan ordered a probe into the matter.
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[Iran Press TV] UN officials have warned that over three quarters of children and young adults seeking asylum in Europe fall prey to torture, rape and other forms of abuse during their journey.
Young asylum seekers from Sub-Saharan Africa are particularly at risk of abuse, most probably due to racism, officials from UN children's agency, UNICEF, and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.
"They use words like torture, beating, killing, slavery, trafficking, [and] rape not like abstract concepts, not something they have to write a report for school, but as their reality," UNICEF Brussels director, Sandie Blanchet, said at a press conference after UNICEF and IOM published a report based on extensive interviews.
"Just imagine for a second your own kids going through that," Blanchet noted.
According to UNICEF report, which surveyed 22,000 asylum seekers and refugees, including 11,000 children and young people, 77 percent of children and young individuals seeking to cross the Mediterranean to Europe had suffered "direct experiences of abuse, exploitation and practices, which may amount to human trafficking."
"Racism is likely a major underlying factor behind this discrepancy,” the report added.
IOM Director for the EU Eugenio Ambrosi called on officials to adopt a more effective border management policy, using trained professionals to care for children rather treat them as "a potential enemy crossing illegally our sacred border."
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rather treat them as "a potential enemy crossing illegally our sacred border."
But they are and they are.
Europe seems to be overdosing on their own sanguine ennui.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT) on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... provided a detailed report on Tuesday on recent coalition Arclight airstrikes in the cities of Hudaydah and Aden.
Spokesperson for JIAT, Mansour al-Mansour, confirmed that a recent August 27 Arclight airstrike that hit an education complex in the port city of Hudaydah was only approved after coalition forces ensured no presence of civilians on the site.
"The particular site called the Shaima education complex that was surgically hit in late August had no civilian presence. The site itself was being used as a military facility by armed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias after capturing the space," Mansour told news hounds during a presser on Tuesday.
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[Iran Press TV] The White House has denied any arrangements with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to stay at the Trump International Hotel during his visit to the United States to meet with US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told news hounds on Tuesday that no efforts had been made to make the premier stay at the president’s hotel and that Razak made a "personal decision."
The Malaysian leader is reportedly staying at the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue.
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$20 says Jim Acosta's e-mailing these guys ideas like this.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated New Delhi’s strong support to Afghanistan in the fight against the imposed terrorism.
"The Prime Minister affirmed that India attaches the highest priority to its ties with Afghanistan," the Office of the Prime Minister of India said in a statement.
The statement further "The Prime Minister reiterated Indias strong support to Afghanistan in fighting terrorism imposed on that country and its people."
"He also reiterated Indias full support to the Government and people of Afghanistan, including through humanitarian and development assistance, in their efforts to build a peaceful, united, democratic and prosperous nation," the statement added.
This comes as the Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj informed regarding New Delhi’s agreement with Kabul to expand defense cooperation.
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Good opportunity for India to put a thorn in Pakiland's side.
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Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Twelve Islamic State militants, including cameramen of the group’s media arm, were killed in an airstrike in southwest of Kirkuk, a local source said.
Speaking to AlSumaria News on Tuesday, the source said, “U.S.-led Coalition shelled, today, an IS location in Riyadh in Hawija, southwestern Kirkuk.”
“As per preliminary information, around twelve militants, including four cameramen and editors of Amaq agency, were killed,” the source, who asked to be anonymous, added.
The air raid, according to the source, destroyed tactic units of the group.
Hawija and other neighboring regions, west of Kirkuk, have been held by IS since mid-2014, when the group emerged to proclaim an Islamic “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria. The group executed dozens of civilians and security members there, forcing thousands to flee homes.
Previously this month, news reports said 100,000 civilians are besieged in Hawija by the militant group, that could use them as human shields during the battle.
Further reinforcements from the Federal Police were sent earlier this month from Baghdad to the town, as the military command declared last week, the end of operations in Tal Afar, the militants’ last haven west of Nineveh, and the approach of the launch of offensives for Hawija.
Spokesperson of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command Yehia Rasool said, last week, there were 2000 IS militants inside Hawija.
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twelve militants, including four cameramen and editors of Amaq agency
[THEFEDERALIST] A Dominican woman testified on Tuesday that Sen. Bob Menendez, who faces felony corruption charges, helped her with her U.S. visa application after her alleged ex-boyfriend, who is also on trial, asked the Democratic senator to intervene.
Rosiell Polanco-Suera told the court her visa application was initially denied in 2008, but after her wealthy ex-boyfriend ‐ Dr. Salomon Melgen, who was convicted of Medicaid fraud earlier this year ‐ asked "the senator" to intervene, her application was green-lighted, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reports.
Prosecutors say Melgen allegedly bribed Menendez for years with luxury vacations and gifts in exchange for political influence and favors. On Monday, one of Menendez’s former staffers told the court one of those favors was lobbying the State Department to get Polanco-Suera and her sister visas to enter the United States. Both Menendez and Melgen stand trial together as defendants and face 18 counts of bribery and fraud, but they say they’re innocent.
Menendez is also accused of lobbying the government on behalf of the wealthy eye doctor over a $8.9 million billing dispute. In 2011, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) found that Melgen was over-charging them for an eye drug, then Menendez allegedly intervened on his deep-pocketed benefactor’s behalf.
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Isn't this the kind of thing senators supposed to do?
[Al Jazeera] Donald Earl Collins is an Associate Professor of History with University of Maryland University College. Yeah, buddy! A scholar of the first rank. Howard Zinn is smiling in his grave.
Let there be no doubt. US President Donald Trump is a mercurial, inept, me-first racist. In recent weeks, Trump has thrown in with Charlottesville's white supremacists and pardoned known anti-immigrant xenophobe Joe Arpaio. Trump has pursued an agenda of rescinding more and more of President Barack Obama's executive orders, including the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), potentially leading to the deportation of undocumented immigrants who were children when they came to the US.
Trump's behaviour isn't unprecedented. His racist, incompetent, and callously narcissistic performance as president shares similarities with that of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Woodrow Wilson, and Richard Nixon. And although he continues to follow the lead of some of America's most racist and inept presidents, he continues to retain many of his supporters.
Millions of supposedly non-racist Americans - people who say they wouldn't align themselves with Neo-Nazis - continue to support Trump. Why?
Subconscious hatred or fear alone cannot fully explain why they tacitly support the Trump administration's racist and xenophobic policies, and Trump's racist and xenophobic words and deeds along with them.
The answer to this question lies in understanding the power of racial advantage and narcissistic self-gratification, the combination of which has made the Trump presidency possible. All that power is embodied in the reality of segregation in the US. Its diffusion in all aspects of American culture and life reinforces the idea of white superiority over Americans of colour and of America as a perpetually great and righteous nation, even as it isolates whole social and racial groups of Americans.
Racial and social segregation and the dominant white narrative
Residential segregation is the root cause of all other forms of segregation in the United States. Its immediate effect is that white children tend to go to school isolated from interaction with children of colour. As education expert Diane Ravitch wrote in her 2013 bestseller Reign of Error, "Today, racial segregation remains a pervasive fact of life for millions of black [and equally impoverished Hispanic] children, primarily as a result of residential segregation." Working-class and poor whites are residentially segregated not only from all social classes of Americans of colour, but also from affluent whites.
At the same time, white children tend to be almost exclusively taught by white teachers. Currently, nearly five out of six teachers in the US (82 percent) are white, and the majority of teachers of colour teach in school districts where students of colour are predominant.
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[NYPost] A 22-year-old National Guardsman from Pennsylvania was accused of threatening to kill Vice President Mike Pence, officials said.
William Dunbar, of Berlin, Pa., was on duty at the Army National Guard Training Center when he said, "If someone pays me enough money, I will kill the vice president," Richland County cops said.
Witnesses said they alerted commanding officers after they heard Dunbar make the threat twice on Saturday.
He was charged with disorderly conduct and making terroristic threats, both misdemeanors.
Dunbar was taken to Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center for evaluation and then to county prison, where he was held on $250,000 bond, officials said.
At least four insurgents were killed in an Afghan security forces operation in southern Kandahar province on Monday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in a statement on Tuesday.
In addition, two other insurgents were wounded.
The operation was launched in Maiwand district of the province to clear the area of insurgents. The security forces also demolished a stronghold belonging to the enemies, read the statement.
“The security forces also destroyed explosive materials used for making mines,” it said.
No further details were provided and the Taliban has not commented on the operation.
[Ynet] A member of a Moslem minority group has been sentenced to two years in a Chinese prison after forming online discussions groups to teach about Islam.
Huang Shike was locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in 2016 in Xinjiang province, three months after he formed a discussion group about Moslem worship on the messaging app WeChat, according to the official website China Judgments Online. Huang, 49, taught about the Koran, Islam's holy book, in another WeChat discussion group. More than 100 people were members of each group, the website said.
The discussion groups "disturbed normal religious activity" and violated laws about using the internet to discuss religion, the website said.
Chinese authorities have dramatically increased surveillance and police patrols in Xinjiang, fearing the spread of myrmidon Islam which they believe has infiltrated the region from Central Asia.
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Powerline] I paid no attention to the fact that Hollywood was producing a biopic of Ted Kennedy’s famous "accident" at Chappaquiddick in 1969, and would have assumed that it was a typical gauzy pro-Kennedy puff piece if I had known. But Variety magazine, the main trade journal of Hollywood, offers a review that not only says that the forthcoming movie Chappaquiddick is suitably harsh on Teddy, but that he‐and the Kennedy reputation‐deserve it:
[Zero Hedge] Last week the Washington Examiner reported that Hina Alvi, the wife of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's now-infamous former IT staffer Imran Awan, had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to return to the U.S. where she currently faces charges of conspiracy and bank fraud. The deal with prosecutors mandates a return to the U.S. during the "last week of September 2017" and is structured so that she will not be arrested in front of her children. 
[Hot Air] After remarking on the need for a consistent pro-life approach on immigration in the US, Pope Francis might have to clean house on that topic with religious brothers closer to home. The Belgian Brothers of Charity issued a defiant statement today after a Vatican order to stop offering euthanasia, especially in non-terminal cases, for their psychiatric patients. Rather than comply, the monks insist that they have plenty of room within Catholic teaching to assist in suicides when patients request it:
Hello Refugees!, by Tuvia Tenenbom. Jewish Theater of New York; New York 2017. Paperback; 194 Pages. $12.99
[LI] Hillary Clinton would probably like everyone to forget about her email scandal but she’s not out of the woods yet. There are still many unanswered questions. A Maryland judge has ordered an investigation of her lawyers connected to the deletion of emails.
[PJ] As I've recounted in more than 30 articles here at PJ Media over the past three years, virtually every Islamic terrorist who has conducted an attack in the West since 9/11 has already been known to authorities, which prompted me to coin the phrase "known wolf" terrorism.
[TIME] Former President Jimmy Carter offered a damning indictment of U.S. foreign policy and domestic affairs Tuesday, saying money in politics makes the nation more like an "oligarchy than a democracy" and casting President Donald Trump as a disappointment on the world stage.
[AJR] Hillary Clinton has been talking a lot about herself and her failed campaign lately. With her new book, "What Happened," coming out Tuesday, she has been rounding the media circuit explaining to every reporter who will listen why it's not her fault she lost to Donald Trump last November. 
[Breitbart] Former al-
[DAWN] The bodies of the teenaged couple, allegedly electrocuted for contracting a free will marriage, will be exhumed for postmortem examination on Wednesday in the supervision of a magistrate and a medico-legal officer, SHO Shah Latif Town Amanullah Marwat told Dawn on Tuesday.
[DAWN] Two senior executives of a collapsed peer-to-peer lender were sentenced to life in prison and 24 others punished over what has been called China's biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, state media reported on Tuesday.
[DAWN] 
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The 
[Iran Press TV] The Russian military says the Syrian government has managed to liberate 85 percent of the country from the grips of terrorist groups, some two years after Moscow began a counterterrorism campaign in Syria at the official request of Damascus.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Al Jazeera] The International Union of 
[DAWN] The National Assembly on Tuesday echoed with a debate about the lack of freedom and safety faced by minorities in Pakistain as MNA Khaleel George discussed the matter of alleged lynching of Christian schoolboy in Vehari last month.
Lawn care and the animal kingdom shall not go unscathed! These invasive critters kept a number of people from going to the polls. 
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[DCWHISPERS] POTUS Trump has laid out some general and lofty tax reform goals. Whispers indicate he’s willing to concede some of those as leverage to getting a bipartisan bill through Congress ‐ a signal the President is pivoting to his lifelong experience as a deal-maker. The first six months of his presidency has been marred by Congress’s repeated rebuke of the President’s agenda.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Afflicted with war that has plunged the country into what the 
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