Seems the young punk may be involved in insurance fraud:
[MLive] In 2010, Conyers III reported two laptops and $27,000 in concert tickets were stolen from a government-registered vehicle in downtown Detroit, raising questions about why he was driving a vehicle registered to his father's Congressional district.
The elder John Conyers said in a statement at the time the vehicle was used during the Thanksgiving holiday and said he'd make sure it wouldn't happen again. ...and an aspiring rapper, turning his life around:
In 2013, Conyers III posted a song to his YouTube channel about his experiences in the spotlight. The video contains multiple instances of inappropriate language.
The fabulous online life of John Conyers III, or why his family needs to do damage control immediately For a minority Democrat, it's a resume enhancer.
If they can afford grass ....
[StarTribune] Gov. Scott Walker moved ahead Monday with his plans to make Wisconsin the first state to drug test able-bodied adults applying for food stamps, a move blocked by the federal government or found to be unconstitutional when other states have tried.
Wisconsin's plan was approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature more than two years ago, but it languished because it conflicts with federal rules prohibiting states from imposing additional eligibility criteria on food stamp recipients.
Florida had a drug test requirement for food stamp recipients that a federal appeals court blocked in 2014, finding it violated constitutional protections against unreasonable searches. Walker filed a federal lawsuit in 2015 seeking approval to test food stamp applicants, but it was rejected because then-President Barack Obama's administration had not yet formally rejected the state's request to do the testing.
Walker asked then-President elect Donald Trump's administration in December 2016 to make clear that drug screening is permissible, but it has not taken action and now Walker is moving ahead anyway.
Walker approved a rule change to implement the screening and sent it to the Legislature for review Monday. Walker spokesman Tom Evenson said the governor believes he has the authority to implement the rule.
The Legislature has four months to review the rule and it could take a year after its approval before the testing would begin. Lawsuits by those who oppose the drug testing are expected once it's implemented, assuming the federal government doesn't step in and block it in the meantime.
Under the plan, childless FoodShare participants who fail a drug test would be eligible for state-funded rehabilitation treatment if they don't have any other way to pay for it. FoodShare is Wisconsin's name for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
The Walker administration estimated that a small fraction of the program's applicants ‐ 220, or 0.3 percent, of the 67,400 applicants a year ‐ would actually test positive for drugs.
Walker has touted the drug testing as a way to put more drug-free workers into the workplace.
Opponents say that's wrongheaded.
"The state could do far more to expand the workforce by investing in broader access to effective drug treatment programs, rather than spending scarce state resources on the administration of drug screening and testing requirements," said Jon Peacock, research director for Kids Forward, which advocates for children and families in Wisconsin.
Peacock said he was certain there would be a legal challenge over the constitutionality of drug screening food stamp recipients as well as whether such a move would be a violation of federal law governing the food stamp program.
Walker has pushed to expand drug testing for public benefit recipients. The budget he signed this year called for drug screening all able-bodied, childless adults applying for state Medicaid BadgerCare health benefits, pending federal approval. The budget also required drug test requirements for food stamp recipients would be expanded to parents of children ages 6 to 18.
Walker and 11 other governors in 2016 asked the federal government for permission to drug test food stamp recipients.
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1. If they can afford weed they don't need my help buying food. (The law specifies 'able-bodied, so presumably excludes medical marijuana.)
2. A cheaper way might be to just exclude Twinkies, Doritos, and Vanilla Wafers from food stamp eligible purchases.
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...Time to bring this up again - the 28th Amendment: "No person shall be appointed to or be permitted to stand for special election to any seat in the House of Representatives or Senate if they are related by blood or marriage to the previous officeholder."
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So adopted relatives are not covered by the 28th Amendment?
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We had a Revolution against royalty, but we keep creating family political dynasties indistinguishable from royalty - Adams, Harrison, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton, Gore, Bush, etc.
[ZeroHedge] Days after it emerged that former Special Counsel investigator Peter Strzok was fired from Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia probe in August for sending anti-Trump text messages to his mistress while the two were working together on the Clinton email investigation, Sara Carter of Circa told a Fox News panel that there are more anti-Trump messages sent by Mueller's team floating around.
Tangentially, it has been widely reported that Mueller's special counsel is stacked with investigators who have donated to Obama, Clinton or other Democrat causes. As Jessica McBride reported in Heavy:
Andrew Weissmann: Weissmann is a Barack Obama and Democratic campaign donor, according to federal records. "Weissmann, who led the Enron investigation, previously gave $2,300 to Obama’s first presidential campaign in 2008 and $2,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 2006
Jeannie Rhee: donated $5,400 to Hillary Clinton in 2015 and 2016, according to FEC records. The records show she gave $2,500 each to Obama for America and Obama Victory Fund 2012 in 2011
Andrew Goldstein: According to Fox News, "Goldstein contributed a combined $3,300 to Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012"
Greg Andres: FEC records show that Andres has donated at least $2,700 to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
James Quarles: Donated thousands of dollars to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He has also donated money recently to other Democrats, including Friends of Chuck Schumer and two other Democrats. He has a lengthy donation history dating back years. He did donate to two Republicans over the years, however.
Elizabeth Prelogar: A former law clerk to Justics Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagen, gave $250 to Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to FEC records. She also gave $500 total to Obama for America and the Obama Victory Fund 2012.
Brandon Van Grack: gave small amounts to ActBlue, an effort to raise money for Democrats, and to a Democratic candidate for Congress in 2012. In 2008, he gave about $286 to Barack Obama.
Rush Atkinson: donated $200 to Clinton’s campaign in 2016.
Kyle Freeny: In 2012, Freeny gave $300 to Obama. In 2008, Freeny also gave $250 to Obama, FEC records show.
...who were a) on strike, b) whose union was fined $1 million a day by Federal judges because they were in violation of Federal law that said they cannot strike. By that time they had zero union protection because they had no contract, so it was a massively different situation than we have now. Do you think Federal employees are dumb enough to go on strike en masse again?
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Set up offices in the most isolated part of alaska and transfer the troublemakers there. If they want a paycheck they can move and continue working, otherwise they can quit.
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There is an old, old saying which I think says it all about Trump's tactics with the Mueller probe:
Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself.
One set of rules for thee, another one for me our corrupt FBI/Democrat coalition
[DailyCaller] The FBI agent who was fired from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation team for sending anti-Donald Trump text messages conducted the interviews with two Hillary Clinton aides accused of giving false statements about what they knew of the former secretary of state's private email server.
Neither of the Clinton associates, Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, faced legal consequences for their misleading statements, which they made in interviews last year with former FBI section chief Peter Strzok.
But another Strzok interview subject was not so lucky.
Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, pleaded guilty last week to lying during an interview he gave on Jan. 24 to Strzok and another FBI agent. Circa journalist Sara Carter reported on Monday that Strzok took part in that interview with the retired lieutenant general.
At the time, Strzok was the FBI's top investigator on the fledgling investigation into Russian interference in the presidential campaign. He was appointed to supervise that effort at the end of July 2016, just weeks after the conclusion of the Clinton email probe. CNN reported on Monday that as the FBI's No. 2 counterintelligence official, Strzok signed the documents that officially opened the collusion inquiry. RTWT - Clearly Mills and Abedin lied. Comey explained it away. Nothing to see here. Separate "justice"
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Trial and punishment are only for the enemies of the state.
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It's going to take some time to clean up the corruption mess left behind in the EffBeeEye. The left should not cheer or take solace for having left behind a Banana Republic in the Deep State. Such things eventually bite you in the arse during the cover-up or clean-up.
[PowerlineBlog] Like everyone else, I have puzzled over why General Michael Flynn apparently lied to the FBI when he had no reason to do so. We may never know the answer to that question, but here are a few possibly unrelated pieces of the puzzle:
1) Via InstaPundit, Michael Ledeen speculates about what drove Flynn’s guilty plea:
While working with General Michael Flynn on The Field of Fight, I interviewed many of his former colleagues in order to better understand my co-author. Virtually all of them described a man who cared deeply about the truth and presented it in circumstances that were certainly not favorable to him. These people portrayed General Flynn as a compulsive truth-teller.
So why has he now confessed to making false statements to the FBI?
It doesn’t make sense. I don’t believe Flynn intentionally misled the FBI, or anyone else, about his unquestionably licit conversations with the Russian ambassador.
I think the "guilty" plea tells us more about the Mueller investigation, and about the politicization of "justice" more generally, than it does about presumed malefactions by the retired general.
I think that Gen. Flynn admitted guilt in order to stop the pain for himself and his family.
It is notable that Mueller and company have apparently dropped their investigation of Gen. Flynn’s son, and the plea agreement will dramatically reduce the family’s legal expenses.
I believe Flynn has said that he has spent $1 million on lawyers, and felt compelled to plead guilty to something lest he be ruined financially.
2) Then we have this from Glenn Reynolds:
SO THE FBI SUPERVISOR WHO WAS TEXTING ABOUT HOW MUCH HE HATED TRUMP is the one who interviewed Mike Flynn. "A supervisory special agent who is now under scrutiny after being removed from Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office for alleged bias against President Trump also oversaw the bureau’s interviews of embattled former National Security advisor Michael Flynn, this reporter has learned. Flynn recently pled guilty to one-count of lying to the FBI last week. . . . Strzok was removed from his role in the Special Counsel’s Office after it was discovered he had made disparaging comments about President Trump in text messages between him and his alleged lover FBI attorney Lisa Page, according to the New York Times and Washington Post, which first reported the stories. Strzok is also under investigation by the Department of Justice Inspector General for his role in Hillary Clinton’s email server and the ongoing investigation into Russia’s election meddling. On Saturday, the House Intelligence Committee’s Chairman Devin Nunes chided the Justice Department and the FBI for not disclosing why Strzok had been removed from the Special Counsel three months ago, according to a statement given by the Chairman."
This stinks to high heaven. But wait, there’s more involving shady FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe [Ed.: McCabe is a Democratic Party activist masquerading as a law enforcement officer]:
According to another source, with direct knowledge of the Jan. 24 interview, McCabe had contacted Flynn by phone directly at the White House. White House officials had spent the "earlier part of the week with the FBI overseeing training and security measures associated with their new roles so it was no surprise to Flynn that McCabe had called," the source said.
McCabe told Flynn "some agents were heading over (to the White House) but Flynn thought it was part of the routine work the FBI had been doing and said they would be cleared at the gate," the source said.
"It wasn’t until after they were already in (Flynn’s) office that he realized he was being formally interviewed. He didn’t have an attorney with him," they added.
Comey was lecturing us about the FBI’s professionalism and integrity just today. Pathetic. This looks like a sleazy, deliberate trap.
There is no doubt that under the leadership of Robert Mueller and James Comey, the FBI became a sleazy, partisan operation. A thorough house-cleaning is needed, although it will come too late to do Michael Flynn any good.
3) I would like to see the transcript of the interview of Michael Flynn by Democratic Party activist Peter Strzok and his colleague that gave rise to Flynn’s guilty plea. What, exactly, did Strzok ask Flynn, and how, exactly, did Flynn respond? Is there actually any clear-cut falsehood in the transcript? I wonder.
Maybe Flynn really did try to mislead the FBI, for reasons that seem inexplicable. Or maybe he was an innocent man, crushed by the overwhelming power and financial resources of the Democratic Party, represented here by the FBI and Robert Mueller and his team of activists. If I could see the transcript of his interrogation, I would tell you which of those scenarios I think is closer to the truth.
PAUL ADDS: Andy McCarthy suggested a reason why Flynn might have lied about interactions with the Russian ambassador even though they didn’t break the law. He wrote:
Even though Flynn’s interactions with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak did not amount to Trump-campaign collusion in Russia’s perfidy, they did show that the Trump transition was dabbling in foreign relations with the Putin regime (among other foreign governments) and was attempting to undermine the policy of the incumbent Obama administration ‐ at least on the U.N. resolution condemning Israel. . . .
[W]e have only one president at a time. It is unseemly for an incoming administration to undermine the sitting president. If revealed, such behavior would be politically damaging enough. Here, that damage of Trump-transition interference with President Obama’s foreign relations would have been magnified by Russia’ involvement, given that Democrats were accusing Trump of colluding with Putin to throw the election. This made any conversation about the sanctions between Flynn and Kislyak look terrible, no matter how innocent they were and no matter how normal for a transition period.
To be clear, I’m not saying that Flynn was thinking this or, for that matter, that he lied. And I agree with John (and Glenn Reynolds) that Peter Strzok’s role as the interviewer of Flynn during the FBI investigation stinks. Like John, I would like to see a transcript of the interview.
I also wonder why the FBI questioned Flynn about his interactions with the Russian ambassador ‐ interactions that were legal and normal in a transition period. I have long thought that it was an attempt to set Flynn up. That suspicion deepens given the new information about the role of Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok in the proceedings.
Being set up does not, of course, excuse lying ‐ if Flynn lied. But the FBI’s apparent eagerness to entrap Flynn makes me want to see what, exactly Strzok asked Flynn, and how, exactly, Flynn responded.
[VOA News] A federal judge is expected to sentence former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown on Monday for fraud and other charges related to a purported charity for poor students that she used as a personal slush fund. It's racism, of course. That's what she said.
The 71-year-old Brown was due in court at 10 a.m. in Jacksonville, a city in the Florida district she represented in Congress during her historic, nearly 25-year career.
Brown, a Democrat who was one of the first three African-Americans to be elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction, could spend the rest of her life in prison.
A federal jury in May convicted her of 18 of the 22 charges against her, which included fraud, lying on her tax returns and on her congressional financial disclosures.
Prosecutors outlined a pattern of fraud by Brown and her top aide that included using hundreds of thousands of dollars from the One Door for Education Foundation for lavish parties, trips and shopping excursions.
Brown's former chief of staff, Elias "Ronnie" Simmons, and One Door's executive director Carla Wiley accepted plea deals and testified against Brown. They are also scheduled to be sentenced Monday.
Federal prosecutors said the three used One Door to bring in more than $800,000 between 2012 and 2016, including a high-profile golf tournament at TPC Sawgrass. The Virginia-based One Door only gave out one scholarship for $1,200 to an unidentified person in Florida, according to court documents.
Simmons told jurors that his boss ordered him to take cash and checks from One Door's account on dozens of occasions and deposit the money into Brown's personal account.
Brown testified in her own defense, saying she was left in the dark about the details of One Door's money, and blamed the theft on Simmons.
U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Corrigan could sentence Brown to many years in prison for each of her 18 counts.
Her attorneys argued for leniency at a hearing last month, saying Brown's community work should mitigate her crimes.
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Thanks for playing, Congresswoman, and as a parting gift here's a case of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] New pictures spreading on Yemeni outlets purport to show the moment 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 ... button men attacked Saleh’s car.
According to the sources, tribal mediation was able to convince Saleh to leave his home in Sanaa to his hometown in Sinhan district south of the capital. The Houthis reportedly agreed provide Saleh with safety under a tribal agreement.
Sources told Al Arabiya that Saleh left his house in Sanaa with only one car along with his son and two leading members of his General People's Congress party.
A source said Saleh’s car arrived in the area of Sayan, a few kilometers from the village of Beit al-Ahmar in Sanhan, until the entourage were stranded and blocked by seven cars filled with Houthi holy warriors.
"The car that was carrying Saleh could not escape because the seven Houthi cars were completely blocking them," the source said.
Houthi Death Eaters reportedly forced the former president and his lover companions from their car, and were then ordered to fire their guns at Saleh’s stomach and head. Several sources said at least 35 rounds of ammunition was fired.
Saleh met with his confidants and party members on Monday near Sanaa’s 60th Street in the early hours of the morning.
According to available information, Houthi militias began bombing Saleh's house in Sanaa with RPG grenades.
After Saleh decided to go with his party leaders to his hometown Sinhan, 40 km southeast of Sanaa, the Houthi militias managed to encircle his motorcade. Clashes erupted to break the siege, where several of his bodyguards and leaders of the Congress Party were killed.
Saleh and a number of his assistants, including his brother's son, Tarek, who leads Yemen’s Elite Republican Guards, were chased by a military convoy of militias which sources said included at least 20 vehicles.
Ali al-Bukhiti, leader of the Yemen’s People Congress Party said that a sniper shot at Saleh in the head, while other reports said that the Houthis tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... Saleh and a number of his assistants and then killed them at point-blank range.
Houthi militias, however, said they killed Saleh by attacking his motorcade with sniper bullets and rocket-propelled grenades.
A video published by the Houthis showed a scene similar to the killing of the Libyan Colonel Muammar Qadaffy ...who single-handedly turned a moderately prosperous kingdom into a dictator's fantasyland and was then murdered by his indignant subjects 42 years later... , where Houthi gunnies wrapped Saleh's body in a blanket and showed that Saleh had a bullet on the left side if his head.
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Something very small but traveling very fast hit his head.
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M x V2 rearranged the furniture.
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[PRESSTV] 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... has unleashed a fresh wave of aerial bombardments against targets in Yemen’s capital Sana’a in an apparent effort to support forces loyal to ex-president former 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... , who are suffering setbacks in their battle against 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 ... Ansarullah fighters.
Local residents have reported that their homes were rattled as Saudi warplanes rained bombs on several locations near Sana’a International Airport and the Interior Ministry, both under the control of the Houthi Ansarullah movement. The aerial strikes started late Sunday and continued into the early hours of Monday.
The casualty count is not known, with sources noting that the airport itself was not pounded during the aerial attacks.
Riyadh has intensified its Arclight airstrikes since the breakdown of an anti-Saudi alliance between the Houthi fighters and forces loyal to Saleh last week.
On Saturday, Saleh called upon the Yemeni armed forces and police not to take orders from the Ansarullah movement "under any circumstances or at any place" and expressed his intention "to turn a new page" in relations with the Saudi-led coalition if it agreed to end its military aggression against and the blockade on Yemen.
Since November 29, armed festivities sparked by forces loyal to Saleh, have continued against Houthi forces that are at the forefront of a retaliatory war against the Saudi-led military coalition. Saleh loyalists accuse the Houthi fighters of raiding their bases across Sana’a and beyond, an allegation that the Houthi leader has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not!
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[Kicker Daily] Two Philippine soldiers and two civilians were killed in two separate encounters between troops and communist militants and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in Mindanao on Sunday.
The first clash took place in Barangay Ned in the town of Lake Sebu, South Cotabato where two soldiers were killed when around 25 New People’s Army rebels engaged members of the 27th Infantry Battalion in a gun battle that lasted an hour. Seven soldiers were also injured in the encounter.
The militants were believed to be part of Guerrilla Front 73 – Far South Mindanao Region.
Meanwhile, two villagers were killed when they were caught in the crossfire between the military and BIFF militants in Shariff Aguak town in Maguindanao.
The victims were identified as Unti Kamama, 60, and his grandson, Mohammad Kamama, 13. Six residents of Barangay Timbangan, including four children were also hurt. A soldier was wounded in the incident as well.
Reports said around 30 BIFF fighters attacked an Army detachment in the area, resulting in the clash.
Military spokesman Arnel Dela Vega believes the attack was in retaliation to the more than 30 BIFF members killed in recent offensives by combined forces of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the military.
[ALMASDARNEWS] ISIS has not given up hopes of turning the tides in eastern Syria, signified by stubborn reluctance to withdraw from a narrow salient stretching from the eastern fringes of Homs through to the Euphrates River in southern Deir Ezzor.
On Monday, 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.... combatants based in the desert west of Abu Kamal fired an anti-tank missile towards a group of Syrian soldiers that could be seen ducking for cover in the horizon, possibly killing some of them:
In the same day, two ISIS suicide kabooms struck SAA positions further north on the outskirts of Salhiyah town amid attempts by the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) elite Tiger Forces to liberate the last ISIS-held villages and towns on the Euphrates River.
Given the current rate of advance, the SAA’s Big Dawn offensive is expected to reach its conclusion in approximately a month, culminating in the complete capture of the Islamic State heartland.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Fierce festivities broke out between the ISIS and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... terrorist groups when the former assaulted the latter’s positions in the Khojiany administration of Afghanistan’s Nanjarhar province about 6 days ago.
ISIS’s assault led to the krazed killer faction’s capture of several populated regions in the province and the disposition of hundreds of locals escaping the escalating violence. Taliban’s forces launched a counteroffensive two days later and managed to successfully expel ISIS from the Adur and Sur Dagh localities.
Unfortunately for the weary Talibs, US-backed Afghan government forces would take advantage of this inter-jihadist violence and launch vicious assaults on Taliban’s positions in the province with the aid of relentless artillery bombardments and Arclight airstrikes.
Spawning out of thin air, ISIS has managed to emerge as a dominant force in Nanjarhar province within an impressively short time frame.
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Afghan army should stay out of it as long as they are killing each other. Don't want is is getting too strong.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Masked fighters of mysterious origin stormed the headquarters of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ’s 23rd Division in the rebel stronghold of Orom al-Kobra located in the western countryside of Aleppo.
The unknown button men looted all the rebel group’s heavy weaponry including heavy machine guns and TOW missiles in addition to vehicles in what would be a crippling blow to the krazed killer faction. Though it is worth noting that the 23rd Division has been very dormant in recent times with its last recorded participation in battle against the government forces in March during the Hama battles.
It is not unlikely that Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is responsible for those attacks as there are many precedents to such cases including the most recent HTS assault on Jund al-Malahem two days ago in southern Idlib. HTS has a long track record of looting and dismantling rebel groups like the Syrian Revolutionary Front and Jaish al-Mujahideen.
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[ARABNEWS] Officials in former 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... ’s General People’s Congress party (GPC) confirmed to Rooters that the former Yemeni president and party leader has been killed outside Sanaa, in what sources in 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 ... group said was an RPG and gun attack. The pictures show him with a hole in his head you could put your fist into. Continued on Page 49
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[ARABNEWS] A Spanish judge on Monday ordered that four prominent members of the Catalan independence movement should remain in jug, including the No. 2 of the ousted regional government, who will campaign in a polarized regional election from a jail near Madrid.
The judge set €100,000 ($118,000) bail for the six other Catalan politicians who had been placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in early November, and ordered their passports to be confiscated. The six were expected to leave jails near Madrid later in the day.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch shot Ike through the elbow. Take that, Ike! he yelled. Ow! yelled Ike..... Catalan ex-president Carles Puigdemont and four of his separatist allies heard that they will be judged on whether they can be extradited from Belgium to Spain on Dec. 14, exactly one week before the election.
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[All Africa] Armed groups loyal to Libyan National Army forces (LNA) appear to have summarily executed dozens of men in the LNA-controlled town of al-Abyar, Human Rights Watch said today.
On October 26, 2017, local police forces discovered the bodies of 36 men, all of them executed, close to a main road south east of al-Abyar, 50 kilometers east of Benghazi. Authorities transferred the bodies to a hospital, where families came to identify them. Relatives of six of the victims told Human Rights Watch that the men had been locked away Please don't kill me! on various dates by gangs loyal to the LNA in Benghazi or in other areas controlled by the LNA.
This incident comes after a series of unlawful killings and summary executions in Benghazi that prompted the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to issue an arrest warrant against an LNA special forces commander on August 15.
Following the discovery of the 36 bodies in al-Abyar, Gen. Khalifa Hiftar, the LNA chief, ordered the military prosecutor of the eastern region on October 28, to conduct an investigation. The LNA and the military prosecution have yet to announce any investigation results.
"The Libyan National Army's pledges to conduct inquiries into repeated unlawful killings in areas under their control in eastern Libya have so far led nowhere," said Eric Goldstein, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "The LNA will be condoning apparent war crimes if their pledge to investigate the gruesome discovery in al-Abyar proves to be another empty promise."
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[Al Jazeera] The leader of Yemen's 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 ... rebels has praised the death of former 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... , the country's tossed president, as a victory against a Saudi-led military coalition that Yemen
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) The civil defense department in Nineveh has announced concluding the recovery of bodies in the province, an official said.
Speaking to Alghad Press on Monday, Brig. Gen, Mohamed al-Jawari, head of the department, said, “the civil defense team concluded processes of recovering bodies in Mosul, especially in the western side of the city.”
The teams, according to Jawari, “will respond to calls from citizens over presence of any bodies to remove them from under the rubble.”
“Over the past period of time, the civil defense teams managed to recover bodies from under the debris, in the wake of calls made by citizens over presence of bodies,” he added.
Regarding estimates on the accurate figures of recovered bodies, Jawari said, “no accurate information on number of the bodies, however, they exceed 2,000.”
Last week, Col. Zaid Ibrahim, of the department, told Alghad Press that 95 percent of the bodies were in the western side of Mosul as well as the Old City.
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have run into a mass grave in south of Mosul on Monday, a security source said.
“Security services found relics of 70 bodies for victims killed by Islamic State in one of the graves in al-Shura region, south of Mosul. Some of them were for children and women who were executed during offensives,” the source told Baghdad Today.
“Security troops transferred the bodies to forensic medicine department in Mosul,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
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With ISIS ousted, it’s time to leave the mopping up to the professionals. Give the paramilitaries a parade and the thanks of a grateful nation, and send ‘em home to their wives and girlfriends.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq’s draft 2018 budget excludes 30.000 fighters of the paramilitary forces that fought 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.... alongside the government from the payroll earmarked for the forces, a parliament member was quoted saying.
Faleh al-Khazaali, a member of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee, was quoted saying, in press statements on Monday, that the draft "included allocations for 122.000 fighter of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), while the official number of fighters on the ground who receive salaried from the mobilization institution is 152.000".
Khazaali labeled the budget "unfair to the mobilization".
The parliament concluded a consultative session on the draft on Sunday, and referred the document to the finance committee to turn it its final form.
Last week, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi vowed to give Popular Mobilization Forces payments equal to other government troops. "The government pledges to equalize the salaries of the Popular Mobilization Forces with their peers at security forces", he stated.
Popular Mobilization Forces, an alliance of volunteer Shia paramilitary forces, have actively backed the Iraqi government’s military campaign against IS since 2014, when they were formed upon a top Shia clergy edict to counter the Sunni Jihadist group.
PMF won official recognition as a national force late 2016, becoming under the command of the prime minister, who is also the supreme commander of the armed forces.
Sulaimaniya (IraqiNews.com) The Kurdish Peshmerga Ministry has said that the Iraqi federal and paramilitary troops are rallying in south of Sulaimaniya, describing the step as dangerous one that does not helping de-escalation.
In press remarks on Monday, Halgurd Hikmat said, "the recent deployment by al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) in Cremian region, between Jalawla and Calar towns, is considered breaching to the truce between Iraqi and Peshmerga troops."
Moreover, he said that "deploying the Iraqi army and PMFs at the time, when the truce is still ongoing is dangerous and does not serve efforts of de-escalation."
Hikamt also urged Iraqi troops to stop the deployment and stick to the truce to avoid escalation.
Peshmerga announced on Wednesday receiving U.S. assurances of continued military assistance, with USD 364 million in financial aid for 2018. This came during a meeting between Acting Peshmerga Minister, Karim Sinjari, in Kurdistan Region’s capital, Erbil, and Becker, commander of Iraq security cooperation at the U.S. Central Command.
Earlier in November, Karim al-Nuri, a senior PMFs leader said, "al-Hashd al-Shaabi has no intentions for attacks against Erbil or deployment outside the borders of the federal government.
Iraqi government forces approached the southern borders of Erbil, capital of semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region, shortly after engaging in festivities with the region’s forces in Qushtapa and Altun Kupri in northern Kirkuk in October.
Baghdad had declared intentions to retake areas disputed on with Erbil following the Kurdistan Region’s vote for independence from Iraq in September, urging Peshmerga to cooperate with federal troops.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham were able to beat back another powerful attack by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) at the strategic town of al-Rahjan in northeast Hama.
Led by the Qalamoun Shield forces of the 3rd Division, the Syrian Arab Army began the day by storming the surrounding hilltop and farms of al-Rahjan.
The Syrian Army would manage to take control of al-Rahjan Hill and its corresponding farms after a breaking through Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s front-lines.
Once these sites were captured, the Syrian Army entered al-Rahjan from its southern axis; however, this advance would be short-lived as the jihadist rebels mounted an important counter-attack.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham would manage to recapture all of the territory they lost and restore control over al-Rahjan.
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[MEMRI.ORG] In recent weeks, the ongoing struggle between 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) and al-Qaeda for leadership of the global jihad movement found a new theatre ‐ the Sinai peninsula ‐ as al-Qaeda made efforts to reenter the Egyptian arena and challenge the hegemony of ISIS in Sinai, or at least to put on a media show of challenging ISIS's Sinai Province. The struggle was manifested on the ground, in actual fighting between the two organizations, and in online propaganda, in an exchange of invective and threats. The struggle in Sinai mirrors the struggle between ISIS and al-Qaeda in other areas, such as Syria, Libya, Yemen, and elsewhere.
Jund al-Islam (JI), al-Qaeda's affiliate in Sinai, grabbed credit for an October 11, 2017 attack on ISIS fighters that killed a number of them, and boasted that it has the power to "uproot" ISIS. If the attack was indeed perpetrated by JI, it constitutes a precedent, since to date ISIS has not faced a challenge from within the jihadi movement. However,
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When not digging tunnels, Homo sapian ”Palestinensis” is known for staging knife attacks on those he imagines oppress him.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian policeman was seriously maimed after being stabbed, apparently by an Islamic hard boy, on Monday, officials and media reports said.
The incident took place while the policeman was manning a checkpoint on Salah-a-Din Street in eastern Gazoo, the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run Interior Ministry in Gazoo said in a statement.
The assailant was injured during the incident and taken to a hospital, the ministry added.
Gazoo media reports said the assailant was an "extremist," likely referring to a radical Salafi, a group that has targeted Hamas personnel in the past.
In August, a member of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, which is a Salafi organization, carried out the first suicide kaboom against Hamas forces in Gazoo, killing a border guard.
There’s a lovely photo of Hamas police at the link. Fascinating uniforms: shoulder boards with heavy gold bullion fringe, draped gold cords, blinding white puttees... and baseball caps.
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Fascinating uniforms: shoulder boards with heavy gold bullion fringe, draped gold cords, blinding white puttees... and baseball caps.
In the history of military uniforms 'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery'. Kepis, spiked helmets and tricornes had their days.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham ’s top military commander in the Golan Heights Abu Huthayfa Konan was neutralized earlier today during festivities between the terrorist group and the Syrian Army’s 4th Mechanized Division.
The Paleostinian national was killed as he led the battle against the advancing government troops north of Mughr al-Mir who are attempting to impose full control over the entire Beit Jinn pocket. According to military sources, four other hard boyz including two prominent field commanders were killed in the missile strike that targeted their headquarters.
This development is the latest in a series of setbacks suffered by the faceless myrmidons in strategic rebel-held bastion bordering Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. If the situation keeps heading down this route, the bandidos holy warriors will soon find themselves riding green buses to Idlib or Jarablus, just like their counterparts from West Ghouta, Darayya, Barada Valley, and al-Tal.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The vice leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terror group in Afganistan Abderrazaq Mahdi defected from ISIS in a video statement published on Taliban ...Arabic for students... -run media.
Citing his dislike of ISIS’s oppression of Moslems in regions falling under their domain, Mahdi defected to the Taliban almost a week ago as fierce battles take place between the two Lion of Islam groups in Afghanistan’s Nanjarhar province.
Notably, Abderrazaq Mahdi was the figure responsible for communication and coordination between ISIS’s Iraqi and Afghan branches. The following is the video displaying Mahdi’s most recent interview in which he addressed the reasons behind his decision:
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[ARABNEWS] 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... President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi on Monday rallied his countrymen in areas controlled by Houthis to rise up against the Iran-backed militia, who had just murdered their erstwhile ally former president former 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... In a televised address, Hadi said the Yemeni Army, which has surrounded Sanaa, was ready to support all efforts that aimed to eradicate the Houthis. The legitimate Yemeni government had extended its hand to all sincere Yemeni citizens to start a new page in the country’s future and to establish a new Yemen, based on pluralism, democracy and freedom, he said.
"Yemen is passing through a decisive turning point that needs our unity and steadfastness in the face of these sectarian militias," Hadi said. "Let’s put our hands together to end this nightmare."
Saleh was assassinated on Monday by 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, two days after he broke ranks over disagreements with his allies.
The militias overran Saleh’s home in the capital, Sanaa, and the former leader fled south toward his home village of Sanhan. Houthi button men halted his four-vehicle convoy 40 km from the city and opened fire. Saleh, 75, was killed along with Arif al-Zouka, secretary-general of the former president’s General People’s Congress party, and al-Zouka’s deputy Yasir al-Awadi.
Video posted on social media showed Saleh’s motionless body with a gaping head wound, his eyes open but glassy, and blood staining his shirt under a dark suit. The footage showed Houthis carrying the body in a blanket and dumping it in a pickup truck.
Saleh ruled Yemen for more than 30 years, stitching alliances and playing off one tribe against another. He once described governing the country as like dancing on the heads of snakes.
The former president was replaced in 2012 by his deputy, Hadi, against whom he joined forces with the Houthis to stage a coup. 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... formed a military coalition in 2015 to restore Hadi’s internationally recognized government. On Saturday, Saleh had turned his back on the Houthis and offered talks with the Saudi-led coalition.
Rajeh Badi, a front man for the Hadi government, said it was a sad day in the history of Yemen.
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[Ynet] Shin Bet confirms two Negev Bedouin residents were placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Friday night on suspicion of involvement in nationalistically-motivated stabbing attack in Arad that claimed the life of 19-year-old Sgt. Ron Kokia.
Security forces arrested last week two Negev residents on suspicion of involvement in a terror attack carried out last Thursday, in which Sgt. Ron Yitzhak Kokia was fatally stabbed in Arad, it was cleared for publication Monday.
During the investigation, one of the suspects implicated himself in the attack and informed his interrogators where the Tavor assault rifle was taken after being stolen from the 19-year-old Kokia in the murder.
The two suspects, both Bedouin, were arrested on Friday night, 24 hours after the attack, by the Shin Bet, which determined during the investigation that the stabbing was nationalistically-motivated.
The two were arrested, the Shin Bet said, after intense intelligence operations and a widescale manhunt.
On Sunday, one of the suspects took the security forces to the scene of the stabbing, where he reconstructed exactly how it took place.
A gag order was placed over the identities of the suspects.
Kokia, who served in the Nahal Brigade, was stabbed to death while waiting for the bus outside a mall in Arad on Thursday night in what police believed from the outset was likely a nationalistically-motivated murder.
He was laid to rest Sunday afternoon at Tel Aviv's Kiryat Shaul military cemetery, with some 2,000 people in attendance.
Mayors of Bedouin communities in the south of the country met Tuesday with the mayor of Arad to reaffirm their commitment to coexistence after the arrest of two Bedouin Israelis for the fatal stabbing of an IDF soldier last week.
They met with Mayor Nissan Ben Hamo at his office in the southern town’s municipal building. Among those who took part in the meeting were the mayors and regional council leaders of Rahat, Hura, Ar’ara Banegev, and Al-Kasom.
Talal al-Krenawi, mayor of Rahat, urged his community members to turn away from violence.
“We call on you, the young people, not to resort to violence,” he said. “These [attackers] are weeds that must be uprooted.”
Krenawi called for continued coexistence between Jewish and Bedouin communities in the area, Hadashot TV news reported.
“We denounce the attack and we are against violence,” he said. “Don’t let this grave incident harm the coexistence between us. We are in favor of tolerance and call on all the young people not to resort to violence. We must work together and live together; this is my country, as it is yours.”
Krenawi said that the Bedouin wanted to live in peace with their Jewish neighbors. “Our parents who were here wanted to live in peace with their Jewish neighbors. The way of terror attacks is not our way and is not acceptable to us.”
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During the investigation, one of the suspects implicated himself in the attack and informed his interrogators where the Tavor assault rifle was taken after being stolen from the 19-year-old Kokia in the murder.
I bet that was painful
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I was under the impression that the Bedouin didn't involve themselves with anyone else's troubles, and allied themselves with whomever was in power in the region, thereby avoiding most conflict.
So were these kids expressing Bedouin nationalism or Arab nationalism?
[DW] The commotion surrounding a suspicious package at a Potsdam Christmas market is how Germans found out about an extortion case at shipping giant DHL. Usually, companies keep such threats secret ‐ for good reason.
A great deal about the suspicious package planted in Potsdam last week was unusual, but not the fact that it was part of an extortion attempt against a large company. Between 7,500 and 8,000 blackmail cases are reported in Germany every year, says Frank Roselieb of the Institute for Crisis Research at the German University of Kiel. Based on its analysis of crime statistics, the institute concludes that there are on average 150 blackmail threats each week.
Goodness. How anti-social.
But the public only ever finds out about a very few cases, such as this week's DHL incident or the recent supermarket extortion case in which a man threatened to contaminate baby food in stores if the company refused to give into his demand for millions of euros. Most of the threats are kept under wraps. According to Roselieb, no one is interested in "shouting out such threats from the rooftops."
Recalls, not revelations
Delivery service DHL is currently the target of multiple threats
Companies face the dilemma of needing to protect their reputation while at the same time protecting their customers. For this reason, instead of revealing blackmail threats to the public, companies will often issue product recalls for supposed "precautionary consumer protection." Businesses are understandably reluctant to talk about poisoning and extortion.
The risk consulting firm Result Group knows why most cases are concealed. "The worst thing that can happen to a company is that customers turn their backs on it," says Result Group's Christoph Eichel. The consultants recommend that companies prepare themselves "for all eventualities" so that employees are aware of the company's procedures when they are blackmailed.
Last week's threat temporarily shut down a Christmas market in Potsdam
Blackmailers normally don't go public with their demands because they want to avoid the risk of being exposed. That is one reason why Roselieb believes that the DHL blackmailer, for instance, is an amateur. A parcel bomb offers up many clues to Sherlocks, everything from the type of glue to the type of explosive used.
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[All Africa] The secessionist crisis in Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... 's western region is deepening, with the government promising to crack down hard after anglophone bully boyz rubbed out four soldiers and two coppers last week.
The soldiers were killed in an ambush on a military convoy outside the town of Mamfe on 29 November in Cameroon's anglophone South West Region. The coppers were killed the following night in the nearby town of Eyoumojock.
The secessionist Ambazonia Defense Forces, the armed wing of the Ambazonia Governing Council, grabbed credit for the attacks.
Ambazonia is the name anglophone separatists have given to the homeland they hope to carve out of western Cameroon in this majority French-speaking country.
The shootings bring to 10 the number of security forces killed since last month.
Promising action, Defence Minister Joseph Beti Assomo said on Saturday that "measures will be taken immediately" to "eradicate this inconvenient situation", without elaborating further.
State radio was blunter. "[President] Paul Biya has declared war on these Death Eaters who seek secession," it announced.
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Come on, Ambazonia? And there's at least 200 anglo phone jocks in this place alone (mainly RJ11's but also some 14's), what's all that about?
[ARABNEWS] Former 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... President former 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... on Monday paid with his life for defying the Iranian-backed Houthi
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[TheGuardian] The government has suspended a multimillion-pound foreign aid project amid allegations that money paid to a contractor in Syria was reaching the pockets of jihadist groups.
The plug was pulled on the scheme funding a civilian police force following claims its members were being made to hand cash to extremists.
Officers from the Free Syrian Police were apparently also working with courts accused of torture and summary executions according to allegations made in a BBC Panorama documentary due to air on Monday evening.
The Foreign Office confirmed on Sunday night that it had suspended access to the justice and community security scheme (Ajacs), which has been running since late 2014, following grave concerns about its management by the British contractor, Adam Smith International.
Britain is one of six countries supporting the community-led police force set up after the Syrian uprising and stationed in regions held by opposition rebels.
According to documents seen by Panorama, police officers in Aleppo province were forced to hand over cash to the extremist group in control of the area, Nour al-Din al-Zinki.
The programme, Jihadis You Pay For, also claims that the Syrian branch of al-Qaida, Jabhat al-Nusra, had handpicked police officers for two stations in Idlib province. Other evidence suggested dead and fictitious people were on the force’s payroll.
Adam Smith International, which strongly denies the allegations, said it had managed taxpayers’ money “effectively to confront terrorism”.
When the company visited one police station, supposedly the base for 57 police officers, it could not find a single officer, the investigation found. The contractor said it accounted for the officers on subsequent visits and that it had found very few instances of dead officers remaining on the salary list in Syria.
It said it used cash because there was “no practical alternative” and that officers imposed by Jabhat al-Nusra were detected within two months.
Payments to the stations funding the extremist group Nour al-Din al-Zinki were stopped in August 2016, it added.
In a statement published on Sunday, Adam Smith International said Panorama’s allegations about the Ajacs project were “false and misleading”.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq exported crude oil worth USD6.83 billion during the month of November, the country’s marketing company said in a statistic released on Monday.
Alghad Press website quoted the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) saying that that was the worth of 105.51 million barrels exported during the month, with an average price per barrel of USD57.194.
The statistic put the daily export rate at 3.503 million barrels.
"Kirkuk fields did not record the export of any petroleum quantities during last November.
Iraq’s oil ministry had unveiled intentions to drive up crude oil production to five million barrels a day before the end of 2017.
Last week, Iraq’s oil minister said he supports an OPEC decision to extend cuts in oil supply, a measure aimed at increasing prices.
Iraq is OPEC’s second largest oil producer following 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... Iraq’s oil exports for October were worth more than USD5.455 billion, with more than 103.7 million barrels recorded, a daily export rate of 3.3 million barrels and an average price per barrel of more than 52.5.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) One person was killed and eight others were injured in two bomb blasts in Baghdad on Monday, a security source told Baghdad Today website.
“A bomb planted near an overcrowded market at Arab Jibor neighborhood south of Baghdad exploded, leaving one person killed and five others injured,” the source said.
“Another bomb placed by terrorists near a road went off at al-Dawanem region in southwestern Baghdad, injuring three people,” the source pointed out.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A booby-trapped house was detonated at al-Mahasnah village south of Baghdad on Monday, a military command said.
“Iraqi troops detonated a booby-trapped house and three bombs at al-Mahasnah village south of Baghdad,” the Baghdad Operations Command said in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Baghdad Today website.
“The blasts left no casualties,” the statement read, adding that security forces also arrested a number of outlaws, who are wanted on criminal and terror charges.
[DAWN] CIA Director Mike Pompeo has warned Pakistain that if it does not eliminate the alleged safe havens inside its territory, the United States will do "everything we can" to destroy them.
As Defence Secretary Jim Mattis arrives in Islamabad on Monday to persuade Pakistain to support the new US strategy for Afghanistan, the Trump administration is sending mixed signals to its estranged ally. The new strategy seeks Pakistain’s support to defeat the Taliban ...Arabic for students... in the battlefield as Washington believes that only a defeat will force them to reconcile with the Afghan government.
Talking to journalists aboard his plane on Sunday, Secretary Mattis said he did not plan to "prod" Pakistain into action because he expected Islamabad to adhere to its promises to combat terrorism.
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"safehaven?" Lessee... that would be ISI headquarters?
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Over eighty displaced families have returned back to several regions in Anbar province, the media department announced.
"81 displaced families returned back from al-Amiriya camps back to their regions in Ramadi, Ankour, al-Hasa and Falluja," the department said in a statement.
On Friday, Fahd al-Rashed, a member of Anbar provincial council, told BasNews website that rate of destruction exceeds 70 percent in the liberated regions of Rawa and Qaim, with a high rate of destruction in Annah, in west of Anbar.
Earlier in November, Iraqi forces recaptured Anbar’s western town of Rawa, the very last bastion under 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.... control. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said that his country has defeated Islamic State over the military level, but will declare final victory after desert areas are purged of hard boys.
[THEPORTAL-CENTER] Iranian embassy in Sana’a was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade during the fierce battles that took place between the Huthi militias and the Popular Congress forces that loyal to former president former 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... in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. It is still not clear which side has hit the embassy, and whether it is a deliberate attack or not. It is also not known if there were Iranian diplomats at the site when it was burned.
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He seems to be talking about Houthi's here, but the point is moot.
[ToloNews] Southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province military officials on Monday said in the last eight months foreign forces along with Afghan forces carried out over 400 Arclight airstrikes against forces of Evil in different parts of the province.
The 215 Maiwand Military Corps Commander, General Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai, said the strikes carried out by the Afghan forces and foreign troops on forces of Evil and have had good results in the elimination of the gangs.
"In the last eight months Afghan and foreign forces carried out 400 airstrikes in which a big number of Taliban ...Arabic for students... were killed. Currently, our forces are busy in Maiwand 7, Maiwand 8 and Maiwand 9," said Ahmadzai.
Helmand provincial council members have meanwhile said the airstrikes did not have any impact on Lion of Islam’s activities in the province. According to council members, there are still a few districts of the province are under Taliban control.
"If the security forces want to retake a district, they can do that. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... holding the district for a long time is difficult because there are not enough forces," Ataullah Afghan, head of the council said.
The 215 Maiwand Military Corps is optimistic about the increase of airstrikes while Baghran, Nowzad, Musa Qala, Khanshin and Desho districts of the province have been under Taliban control for some years.
Fighting is also ongoing between Taliban and security forces in parts of Lashkargah city, the capital city of the province.
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1-2/3 airstrikes per day for 8 months? Not a wipeout but keeps them looking over their shoulders. It lets newbies, if they have them at this point, know there is not much job security and the virgins are not so attractive.
[PRESSTV] Zim-bob-we's new president has called for public unity to revive the African country's ailing economy as his new cabinet took the oath of office.
Emmerson Mnangagwa made the appeal after he swore in the 22-member cabinet at State House in the capital Harare on Monday.
"I have sworn in a new cabinet just to finish the term of the former president, which is a period of six to seven months," Mnangagwa said.
"I believe with my team we will stand up to the challenge," the president added, noting, "I want them (Zim-bob-weans) to be united, we must grow our economy."
Mnangagwa has drawn criticism for appointing officers from the military which played a key role in the events leading to his ascent to power. The cabinet includes Air Marshal Perrance Shiri, who was appointed agriculture and lands minister, and Major General Sibusiso Moyo, who is now in charge of foreign affairs.
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The white farmers and businessmen are eager to return, right after you go back to calling it Rhodesia and return the stolen lands, or just compensation in actual real money, not zimbob bucks. Otherwise, its just another BS line from a tinpot clown in a funny outfit.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Heavily armed turbans belonging to Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... have launched a daring overnight assault on a major AMISOM military base near Qoryoley district in Lower Shabelle region.
The attack took place at Mashalay, a small town located on the outskirts of Qoryoley, a former Al-Shabaab bastion, about 120Km northwest of Mogadishu.
The ambush has led to a deadly shootout ensued between the turbans and AU peacekeepers at the camp. The AU soldiers were reported to have repulsed the attack.
Local residents reported kabooms and an intense gunfire at the AMISOM base following the Al-Shabaab raid which raged on for about an hour in the area.
Neither AMISOM nor Al-Shabaab has commented on the battle and the casualty figures.
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[All Africa] The U.N. refugee agency reports the number of refugees that have fled into Zambia to escape militia violence in Haut-Katanga and Tanganyika Provinces of Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... now has topped 12,000.
The agency reports more than 8,400 Congolese refugees have arrived in Zambia in just the last three months, indicating a worsening of the situation in south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Government forces reportedly are killing many civilians in response to the rebellion in Haut-Katanga and Tanganyika Provinces against the continued rule of the country’s President, Joseph Kabila.
To put the increasing instability in the country in perspective, UNHCR front man, Babar Baloch, notes more than four million people are internally displaced in DRC. He told VOA within the past month alone, 200,000 more people have fled their homes.
"When you do the math, the rough total of internal displacement comes to around 6,500 people being displaced each day. Refugees who are arriving, they fear that as violence is intensifying, they fear that more people could be forced out from DRC into Zambia," said the front man.
Baloch said some 80 percent of the refugees are women and kiddies, driven out by the extreme brutality of rampaging militias. He said civilians reportedly are being killed, women raped, property looted and houses torched.
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Exhibit A of the failed liberal policy of "colonization is bad"
The people of Angola and the Belgian Congo were not ready for self government when they were turned loose on themselves. They've been a failed state with horrific slaughter ever since.
[ARABNEWS] If President former 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... had been killed five days ago, the Saudi-led coalition and the legitimate government would have taken the blame, but instead he was killed by Houthis after he formally annulled his alliance with them.
By killing Saleh, Houthis have practically become the enemies of all Yemeni parties, especially given that he was their alleged political facade.
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Saleh, Houthi's, Saleh, Houthi's....how bout "A pox on both your houses"
[PRESSTV] Egyptian security forces have killed five suspected bully boyz during a raid on a desert hideout to the northeast of the capital Cairo.
Egypt's Interior Ministry made the announcement in a statement on Monday, saying the bully boyz had been killed in a shootout in an area located between Ramadan city and Bilbeis town in the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya.
The security forces came under heavy fire as they surrounded the hideout, which forced them to "deal with the source of the shooting," the ministry said, adding that the incident led to the deaths of five unidentified bully boyz and apprehension of six other people.
The statement noted that the bully boyz had been training to use firearms at the site, where security forces found bomb-making materials, assault rifles and ammunition for possible terrorist attacks.
The ministry said they also tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! six other "elements" from the same group who were observing "some vital buildings in preparation to carry out a series of hostile operations against them" in Cairo and the southern province of Assiut.
The ministry did not link the bully boyz or those arrested to any specific group.
[PRESSTV] Christian turbans killed a Mauritanian UN peacekeeper in an attack on a camp for displaced people in a Central African Republic diamond-mining town on Monday, the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... mission there said.
Fighters armed with AK-47s and makeshift weapons also maimed one Zambian and two Mauritanian peacekeepers during the 90-minute shootout at the police checkpoint in the town of Bria, the UN added.
The country has been driven by sectarian conflict since 2013 when Seleka ...a 'mainly' Moslem rebel force in the Central African Republic that overthrew the govt, imposed a regime of rapine and looting on the country's non-Moslem population, and was then tossed by France. They still exist, getting funding and weapons from somewhere or other, licking their wounds, complaining about the oppression of Moslems, and occasionally raping and looting someone... rebels ousted President Francois Bozize. That triggered a backlash by Christian anti-balaka fighters.
As many as 100 people died in Bria in June during a day of festivities between rival factions. The area is coveted by militia for its surrounding diamond mines. It also hosts tens of thousands of people displaced by the conflict.
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[PRESSTV] Despite all this saber-rattling by US officials against North Korea, the United States is not going to launch a nuclear attack on the Asian country, according to Michael Burns, a political and military analyst in New York.
Burns made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Monday while commenting on US threats and projection of military power against North Korea.
On Monday, US F-22 fighter jets arrived in South Korea to start air combat exercises amid escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States.
The stealthy F-22s and F-35s that roared into the sky over South Korea on Monday are among 230 American and South Korean fighters carrying out the annual Vigilant Ace 18 air combat exercises on the Korean Peninsula.
About 12,000 troops are also participating in the war games, which have angered North Korea. They are scheduled to end Friday.
North Korea on Monday warned that the "ceaseless large-scale war games" by the US and South Korea are "creating a situation that a nuclear war may break out any moment" on the Korean Peninsula.
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...I don't think we're going to start a war - but in all honesty, I fully believe we're ready for Kim Il Fatty to do something stupid so we can take the first punch and then clean his clock.
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It may be conventional weapons on our part, unless PorkBoy launches nukes at US territory or troops, then all bets are off for tactical nukes on our part. HOWEVER, any nuke use leaves a mess in the region for the ChiComs to deal with, and the SKors and the Japanese. So like it or not, all those players need to work with the ChiComs to find a way to have PorkBoy take an imminent dirtnap or AAA-ride, or however the skinny Norks figure out to do him.
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I agree, conventional war. By the time the first hour is up Seaul has a lot of rubble (but a fraction of the worst case scenario) and North Korea is out with command and control and major roads destroyed as well as carnage along the North Korean side of the DMZ. I suspect the Chinese might even join in to destroy roads between North Korea and China to contain the refugee crisis.
Then what? We can't force China to deal with them after we blew them up. South Korea would be the natural but China will oppose and South Korea will need rebuilding on her own.
The US should float a plan to have Japanese peacekeepers in North Korea as a way to motivate China to step up and do what they have to do to avoid US action.
[ARABNEWS] By arresting Darfur’s powerful militia chief Musa Hilal, Khartoum has tightened its control over Sudan’s strife-torn region but analysts say it might open a new chapter of violence.
Hilal, a former aide to President Omar Bashir, was tossed in the clink Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! last week by Sudan’s counter-insurgency forces near his hometown of Mustariaha in North Darfur state after fierce festivities that left several dead.
"This is a dangerous moment actually," Magnus Taylor, Sudan analyst with the think-tank International Crisis Group, told AFP.
"By taking out Musa Hilal, they have pitched two different Darfuri Arab clans against each other."
Hilal, the top leader of the Mahamid clan of Darfur’s biggest Arab tribe, the Rezeigat, was captured by a unit of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by other members of the broader Rezeigat tribe.
"This is the start of intra-fighting, this is only the beginning," said Ahmed Adam, a research associate at London University.
"No doubt, Hilal’s arrest will impact the security and stability of Darfur."
During the initial years of the Darfur conflict that erupted in 2003, Arab militias fought alongside government forces against the region’s black African rebels.
Hilal then led the government-allied Arab Janjaweed militia, notorious button men on horseback who swept through Darfur marauding villagers and fighting rebels who had taken up arms against Khartoum’s Arab-dominated government, accusing it of economic and political marginalization.
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[PRESSTV] Bahrain's most senior Shia holy man Sheikh Isa Qassim has been taken to a private hospital at death's door after weeks of suffering from deteriorating health.
Sheikh Qassim's family and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights group confirmed his hospitalization on Monday and said he was in "critical condition."
He has been under house arrest for around 500 days amid daily protest gatherings in the northwestern village of Diraz which is besieged by regime forces.
Bahrain's leading political party al-Wefaq and rights bodies said the holy man, who is in his late 70s, was suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease.
Deputy Secretary-General of al-Wefaq Sheikh Hussein al-Daihi said the spiritual leader was taken from his home to a private hospital amid tight security measures.
The holy man, known as the spiritual leader of the country's Shia Moslem majority, has been hailed as a source of inspiration for their peaceful demonstrations against the ruling Al Khalifa regime.
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Bahrain's most senior Shia holy man Sheikh Isa Qassim has been taken to a private hospital at death's door after weeks of suffering from deteriorating health. a STD.
[ARABNEWS] A state security court in Jordan on Monday sentenced one Syrian murderous Moslem to death and handed life sentences to three others for their role in a suicide kaboom attack on a Jordanian military border post that killed seven guards last year.
Military judge Col. Mohammad al-Afif said the men, in their early twenties, were involved in helping ISIS stage the suicide kaboom that shook the kingdom in June last year.
Afif said the four had provided photos and intelligence about the Jordanian military post to a ISIS leader in the former de facto capital of the murderous Moslems, Raqqa in Syria. The ISIS leader then sent the jacket wallah.
The military outpost was located a few hundred meters away from Rukban camp in a no-man’s land where thousands of Syrian refugees were stranded and near where the frontiers of Iraq, Syria and Jordan meet.
The court found the four, who were residents of the camp, guilty of "abetting terrorist acts that led to the death of human beings" and other charges of committing "terrorist acts using automatic weapons."
A fifth defendant was acquitted. They had all pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." when the trial began last March.
Officials said at the time the suicide bomber drove an car bomb at full speed from behind a berm and evaded troops to reach the Jordanian post and detonate his car.
The blast, for which ISISgrabbed credit a few days later, also left 15 soldiers maimed, officials said.
The area was later declared a closed military zone and the incident disrupted aid to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees.
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[ARABNEWS] former 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... survived for decades as Yemen’s strongman, the master of shifting alliances, playing both sides ‐ or flipping sides freely ‐ in the multiple guerrilla conflicts and civil wars that tore apart his impoverished nation throughout his life. But his last switch proved his end.
Saleh, who was Yemen’s president for 33 years until he stepped down in 2012 amid an Arab Spring uprising, was killed on Monday by Houthi
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) A suicide bomber was killed while three other foreigners were arrested in a security operation, east of Diyala, a commander said on Monday.
“The police in Diyala managed to kill a suicide attacker and arrest three others of foreign nationalities in an operation that took place in the depth of Hamreen mountains,” Maj. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi, commander of Dijla Operations, told AlSumaria News.
“The command will resume efforts to eliminate the presence of extremist groups in Diyala,” he added.
Security troops managed to kill several suicide attackers over the past few months in different regions across the province.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops destroyed on Monday an Islamic State hideout in Diyala province, the military intelligence directorate said.
“Intelligence officers from the 18th brigade launched an attack on an IS hideaway at Wadi al-Kalal area east of Diyala,” the Directorate of General Military Intelligence said in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Baghdad Today website.
“Fierce clashes erupted between the two sides, prompting an Islamic State militant to blow himself up,” the statement read, adding that the troops killed another IS militant on site.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Fresh festivities erupted near the West Bank village of Qusra on Monday after a group of Israelis returned to the scene of last week’s deadly incident in a march led by a right-wing activist.
On Thursday, a Paleostinian farmer was rubbed out by a settler after refusing to move from his land while Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) helped extricate a group of Israeli hikers hiding in a cave who were being targeted by Paleostinians throwing stones.
In the latest wave of violence, around 50 Paleostinians began rolling burning tyres and hurled rocks after the Otzma Yehudit group marched on the site despite the IDF declaring the area a "closed military zone".
Footage shows IDF soldiers firing tear gas. Paleostinian media say live ammunition was also fired and one Paleostinians was critically injured.
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[DAWN] Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday questioned the legal standing of the agreement reached between the government and Faizabad protest leaders, saying that none of the terms could be legally justified.
"How can cases filed under the Terrorism Act be dismissed?" he asked during a hearing at the IHC regarding the recent sit-in at the Faizabad Interchange in the capital.
After the weeks-long protest that had virtually paralysed the capital, the government and leaders of Tehrik-e-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY) reached an agreement on November 26 in which the former conceded to the latter's demands ‐ including dropping all the cases against the protesters.
The IHC, however, had noted a "number of serious objections on the terms of agreement" and expressed its displeasure over the army’s role in the settlement made with the protesters.
"Who is the army to adopt a mediator's role?" Justice Siddiqui had inquired in the previous hearing. "Where does the law assign this role to a major general?"
The IHC recommended that the legal standing of the agreement should be discussed in a joint session of the parliament, DawnNews reported.
Attorney General of Pakistain (AGP) Ashtar Ausaf, however, disagreed with the recommendation, saying that since the high court had taken suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... notice of the matter, the judiciary should oversee it. He had appeared in court on Justice Siddiqui's orders.
The AGP requested the court to grant him some time to determine the legal position of the army's role as an arbitrator in the negotiations, saying that he was not in the country and needed time to prepare the report.
In a written order on November 27, the IHC bench had directed the attorney general to help the court determine how the armed forces could act as an arbitrator.
The Intelligence Bureau also presented a report on the botched operation against the protesters by the police in court today while the chief commissioner of Islamabad submitted a detailed report on the protest.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... special assistant to the prime minister, Barrister Zafarullah Khan, excused himself from IHC's order to prepare a report on the sit-in.
On November 27, the high court had tasked Zafarullah with filing a report on "what happened [during the sit-in] where and when" within 10 days.
The judge remarked that the protesters were guilty of blasphemy, pointing to the language used by the protest leaders and participants during the sit-in.
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[IsraelTimes] Syrian state TV claims its air defenses intercepted three missiles; reports come days after Israel said to hit Iranian base
Israel’s military struck a Syrian military installation on the outskirts of Damascus late Monday night, according to initial reports.
According to the reports out of Syria, the strike targeted the Jamarya military facility and research center, northwest of the Syrian capital.
"Israeli planes targeted the Jamarya region near Damascus including a scientific research center and warehouses where weapons and ammunition of the regime and its allies were stocked," Rami Abdel Rahmane, director of the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group told AFP.
Syrian state TV reported that its air defenses intercepted three missiles shot by Israel. The Syrian regime often makes such claims.
"Our air defenses blocked an Israeli missile attack on one of our positions in Damascus province and downed three of the targets," Syrian state media said.
Video posted online from near Damascus showed flashes followed by large bangs, apparently showing either the strikes. An air defense missile can also be seen being shot.
Brief video of something happening at night can be seen at the link.
The reports could be immediately confirmed. Israeli authorities do not generally comment on specific instances of air strikes.
The same site was reportedly targeted by Israeli jets in January 2013 targeting a convoy of Russian-made SA-17 missiles being transferred to the Hezbollah terror group, according to Western sources.
The report comes three days after Israeli jets reportedly hit an Iranian military base being constructed in Syria, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Israel’s northern border.
Satellite images published earlier on Monday showed the destruction at that site, the al-Qiswah base south of Damascus.
Image can be seen at the link, and there are more satellite images of the ten damaged and destroyed buildings on the Iranian base here. According to Al Masdar, at least seven missiles came from Lebanese air space on Monday, just like the last round.
[KhaamaPress] At least six gunnies including two foreigners were killed in the latest Arclight airstrikes conducted in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The provincial police commandment in a statement said the airstrikes were carried out on Sunday in the vicinity of Haska Mina district.
The statement further added that the hideouts of the terror group were targeted in Awghaz and Jani Khel areas of the district, leaving six of them dead, including two foreign Lion of Islams.
No further details were given regarding the identities of the foreign hard boyz killed in the airstrikes but the police commandment said the local residents and security personnel did not suffer any casualties.
About F*&king time they swatted down these rogue Democrat judges
[AyPeeNews] The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries.
This is not a final ruling on the travel ban: Challenges to the policy are winding through the federal courts, and the justices themselves ultimately are expected to rule on its legality.
But the action indicates that the high court might eventually approve the latest version of the ban, announced by President Donald Trump in September. Lower courts have continued to find problems with the policy.
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said the White House is "not surprised by today's Supreme Court decision permitting immediate enforcement of the President's proclamation limiting travel from countries presenting heightened risks of terrorism."
Opponents of this and previous versions of the ban say they show a bias against Muslims. They say that was reinforced most recently by Trump's retweets of anti-Muslim videos.
The ban applies to travelers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
"President Trump's anti-Muslim prejudice is no secret. He has repeatedly confirmed it, including just last week on Twitter. It's unfortunate that the full ban can move forward for now, but this order does not address the merits of our claims," said Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project. The ACLU is representing some opponents of the ban.
Just two justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, noted their disagreement with court orders allowing the latest policy to take full effect.
The new policy is not expected to cause the chaos that ensued at airports when Trump rolled out his first ban without warning in January.
The ban applies to travelers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Lower courts had said people from those nations with a claim of a "bona fide" relationship with someone in the United States could not be kept out of the country. Grandparents, cousins and other relatives were among those courts said could not be excluded.
The courts were borrowing language the Supreme Court itself came up with last summer to allow partial enforcement of an earlier version of the ban.
Now, those relationships will no longer provide a blanket exemption from the ban, although visa officials can make exceptions on a case-by-case basis.
The justices offered no explanation for their order, but the administration had said that blocking the full ban was causing "irreparable harm" because the policy is based on legitimate national security and foreign policy concerns.
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There's a book out there called Marching Orders that reveal what the Japanese consulates were saying in the broken code transmissions prior to Pearl Harbor, something like 'friends' in the communities. If that info was passed circa '41-'42 to the court, we may understand why they upheld the interment action. Likewise, if intel has been provided to today's SCOTUS that shows 'agents' transiting into the US via these locales, it would be institutional suicide for SCOTUS to act contrary to vital national security interests.
[DAWN] SIX and a half years after the lethal raid on Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... , former US president Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... has come up with a statement that vindicates the position maintained by Pakistain: the latter did not know the whereabouts of the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... until he was killed by American SEALs in action on May 2, 2011. Mr Obama made this remark during an interview in India, saying his government had no evidence that proved Islamabad was aware of Bin Laden living in a location where the Pakistain Army has a huge presence. The former president’s words are by far the biggest snub to experts who were convinced that Pakistain had a hand in hiding Washington’s most high-profile target in the US-led ’war on terror’. But while it is a real setback to these analysts, it will surely not be the end of the refrain that aims to paint the Saudi murderous Moslem spending long years in this country as a guest. In fact, there could be increasing focus on the incompetency of the Pak administration in allowing an extremely dangerous suspect to stay in the country and operate undisturbed from here for many years. Hence, there is no room for complacency.
There are many more challenges that will require Islamabad to be on its toes. The follow-up questions during the very interview in which Mr Obama admitted to there being no proof of Pakistain’s involvement in the Bin Laden affair did provide new angles. With yet another round of questions about the May 2011 raid and the events surrounding it in the offing, what is required by the authorities and the diplomats representing this country is some deft and cool handling, now that they appear to have a clean chit from the former US president. Most crucially, the country should be able to assert strongly that, just as it didn’t hide the prime ’war on terror’ suspect then, it has nothing to hide now. This is where the unveiling of an earnest discussion on the report compiled by the Abbottabad Commission could come in useful. It is unfortunate that in the tradition of earlier inquiry reports on some of the most significant events in this country’s history, the Abbottabad Commission probe has officially not seen the light of day. It can greatly help in taking Pakistain’s case forward. Let no fear come in the way of a natural desire to know the truth.
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[PRESSTV] Leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, says the movement has managed to thwart a major threat to the country’s security by defeating the plot hatched by former president, former 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... , and his forces.
He added that despite his early pretense about being opposed to Saudi aggression, Saleh finally changed course and took sides with the aggressors.
Noting that everybody was taken by surprise by Saleh’s sudden change of course, 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 ... noted that the fighting in the capital Sana'a in past days had worried people about security and unity in the country.
After they revealed their new position, Houthi said, we asked them to stop their warmongering and criminal activities and told them this was the wrong course that they had taken.
Houthi added, "However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... they declined our request and continued with their wrong pro-Saudi approach and ended up with blocking the capital’s streets."
"They intended to do the same in other provinces and cities ... but today, this plot was defeated very quickly," he said.
Noting that recent positions taken by Saleh were openly in favor of Yemen’s enemies, the leader of Ansarullah said Saleh’s positions, which were backed by a united media front of the enemies even took members of his own party by surprise.
Houthi said there was coordination between Saleh’s militia and the Saudi-led coalition, which provided them with air support in order to conquer Sana'a and end the war 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... in their favor.
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[IsraelTimes] Two rockets were launched at Israel from the Sinai region of Egypt, the Israeli military said early Tuesday morning as alarms rang out in Israeli communities near the border at least five times throughout the night.
There were no reports of injuries or damage from either rocket, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
Rocket sirens blared in the Eshkol region near the borders with the Gazoo Strip and the Sinai Peninsula before 2 a.m. Tuesday morning. They went off again an hour later as second rocket was launched.
It was not immediately clear if either missile landed in Israeli territory, the army said.
Sirens sounded a third time at 4:15 a.m., again at 4:50 a.m and again just after 5 a.m. There were no immediate details from the army on possible additional attacks.
Terrorists in Sinai affiliated 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.... occasionally attack Israel, though they have mostly focused on battling Egyptian forces as part of an Islamist insurgency.
“The sirens were a false alarm, and no rockets were launched at Israeli territory,” a military spokesperson said.
It was not immediately clear if there had been launches in Sinai that were not directed at Israel, but were instead part of internal Egyptian fighting.
The spokesperson added that the incident was being investigated to determine what caused the malfunction.
[PRESSTV] Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani says calls for disbanding Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) indicate a new plot aimed at bringing back insecurity to the Middle East.
The fact that a Western country's president echoes calls by the Israeli regime and emphasizes the disbanding of the volunteer pro-government forces, commonly known by their Arabic name as Hashd al-Shaabi, shows a new plot is being hatched to bring insecurity and terrorism back to the region, Shamkhani said in a meeting with the head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council Led by Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI, formerly the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRII, pronounced Scarey)) is not nearly as supreme as it makes out to be. The al-Hakim family business is merely another one of political parties, this one Shiite and with its power base in the south of the country. The Iranian government sponsored the party's creation in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war after the leading Iraqi Islamist group was weakened by a government crackdown. Designed as an umbrella organization to unite Iraqi Shi'a groups, the party supports Islamic government controlled by holy men. In post-Saddam Iraq ISCI has worked closely with other Shi'a organizations to provide social services and humanitarian aid. Though accused of receiving money and weapons from Iran, ISCI leaders maintain that the party is committed to democracy and peaceful cooperation. The Badr Brigade initially acted as ISCI's armed wing but later to split to form the independent Badr Organization.
and the first deputy speaker of the country's parliament, Sheikh Humam Hamoudi, in Tehran on Monday.
He added that wisdom of the Iraqi officials, particularly the politicians, would thwart the enemies' plots to undermine the country's solidarity and national security, saying, "Certainly, such plots will be foiled."
During a visit to Iraq on Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron called for a "gradual demilitarization" and the "dismantlement" of the PMU fighters and all militias in Iraq. His call was widely received with outrage and anger by many in Iraq.
Ahmad al-Assadi, one of the PMU’s leaders, was quoted by AFP as saying that "any such discussion is rejected and we do not accept interference in Iraqi affairs."
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[PRESSTV] Yemen’s 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 ... Ansarullah movement says the country’s former president, former 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... , "was not honest" in his confrontation with the Saudi-led military coalition as he was collaborating covertly with Riyadh, describing Saleh’s era as the "worst" in Yemen’s history.
Mohammad al-Bukhaiti, a top figure in the Political Council of Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Monday, hours after Saleh was killed in festivities between his militia and the Houthi fighters on the outskirt of the capital Sana’a.
The Houthi official described the death of Saleh on Monday as a landmark and major turning point in Yemen’s history since a "dangerous plot against the nation" had been foiled by Yemeni forces.
"Today 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... is witnessing a historic phase, maybe one of the most historic phases, one of the most historic phases. The most dangerous conspiracy against these people was toppled," he added.
"We also have the end of the era of Saleh which was the worst era in the history of Yemen. We have entered a new phase. I would add that we have filled the gaps inside the country," he noted.
"Because Saleh wasn't honest in confronting the aggression, he was collaborating with this aggression secretly and not publicly or overtly," he added.
"We were correct when we accused Saleh of conspiring. We were also honest when we said that Saleh isn't participating in confronting the aggression, and using the card of internal sedition in Yemen will have an impact in confronting the aggression," he noted.
"Despite internal sedition, despite all this, the front against the aggression has not been affected... despite many of the fighters being preoccupied by defusing this sedition," he further said.
"This shows that those fighting the aggression are the Yemeni people led by Leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi. And there is a popular will in confronting this aggression and against this aggression. Were it not for a popular will.. a real popular will... we will not have succeeded in persevering against this foreign aggression and amidst the political divisions and sedition," he further stated.
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The fact that a Western country's president echoes calls by the Israeli regime and emphasizes the disbanding of the volunteer pro-government forces, commonly known by their Arabic name as Hashd al-Shaabi, shows a new plot is being hatched to bring insecurity and terrorism back to the region, Shamkhani said in a meeting with the head of the 
