[Western Journal] Three Democrat-leaning states hemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of people in 2016 and 2017 as crime, high taxes and, in some cases, crummy weather had residents seeking greener pastures elsewhere.
The exodus of residents was most pronounced in New York, which saw about 190,000 people leave the state between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released last week.
New York’s domestic out-migration during that time period was about the same as it was in the same time 2015 and 2016. Since 2010, the state’s outflow of just over 1 million residents has exceeded that of every other state, both in absolute terms and as a share of population, according to the free-market think tank Empire Center.
Despite the massive domestic out-migration flow, New York’s net population grew slightly, largely due to high levels of international immigration and a so-called "natural increase" ‐ the difference between births and deaths in a given year.
New York’s net migration was about minus 60,000 residents, but the state had 73,000 more births than deaths, resulting in a net population growth of about 13,000.
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Long beset by twin budget and pension crises and the erosion of its tax base, Illinois lost so many residents that it dropped from the fifth to the sixth-most populous state in 2017, losing its previous spot to Pennsylvania.
Unexpectedly!
California was the third deep blue state to experience significant domestic out-migration between July 2016 and July 2017, and it couldn’t blame the outflow on retirees searching for a more agreeable climate. About 138,000 residents left the state during that time period, second only to New York.
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But the stupid jerks bring all their toxic politics and ideologies with them and screw over their new states.
New Hampshire is going this way as is North Carolina and I don't know how Texas will hold out.
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Locus effect. They move on from the destroyed land to new fertile land with no knowledge of what they did that caused the destruction in the first place and will do it again to the new land.
A brutal attack claimed by the Islamic State group devastated a two-story Shiite Muslim cultural center in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 41 people and wounding another 84, many suffering severe burns from the intensity of the explosions.
The IS-linked Aamaq news agency said three bombs were used in the ferocious assault as well as a single suicide bomber who blew himself up inside the center, where scores of people had gathered to mark the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the former Soviet Union.
The claim reflects eyewitness reports that said one bomber sneaked into the center and exploded his device. Other explosions occurred outside the building, which also houses the pro-Iranian Afghan Voice news agency, which may also have been a target in the attack.
Earlier, Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said an unknown number of suicide attackers set off an explosion outside the center before carrying out an attack inside.
In its statement to Aamaq news agency, the IS said the center was being funded by Iran and used to propagate Shiite beliefs.
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The only thing an islamic extremist hates as much as an infidel is another muzzie of a different denomination.
3000 or so were killed in N Ireland during the multi-decade Catholic-Protestant battles. That's a good month in muzzi-land.
[Politico] President Donald Trump allowed the Iran nuclear deal to survive through 2017, but the new year will offer him another chance to blow up the agreement ‐ and critics and supporters alike believe he may take it.
By mid-January, the president will face new legal deadlines to choose whether to slap U.S. sanctions back on Tehran. Senior lawmakers and some of Trump's top national security officials are trying to preserve the agreement. But the deal's backers fear Trump has grown more willing to reject the counsel of his foreign policy team, as he did with his recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The decision represents an opportunity for Trump to deliver on a campaign promise to rip up the Iran deal, one he has repeatedly deferred at the urging of senior officials.
When Trump last publicly addressed the status of the Iran agreement, in mid-October, he indicated his patience had worn thin with what he has called "the worst deal ever," and demanded that Congress and European countries take action to address what he considers the deal’s weakness.
"[I]n the event we are not able to reach a solution working with Congress and our allies, then the agreement will be terminated," Trump said in an Oct. 13 speech.
The three months since then have shown little progress toward such a solution.
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He needs to drive a cadmium stake through the heart of the so called agreement.
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The cash was already transferred, the previously blocked products have already been bought; at this point what difference does it make whether the deal is killed or not?
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The cash was already transferred, the previously blocked products have already been bought; at this point what difference does it make whether the deal is killed or not?
Because found treasure is quickly spent on day-to-day items, equipment has to be replaced all the time and parts acquired just to maintain existing equipment. With the sanctions on, companies have to choose between doing business with the US and doing business with Iran. This means that for Iran, in order to get around sanctions, every import item is more expensive, and every export item gets it less revenues than without sanctions. Over time, this has greatly weakened the regime. A re-imposition means Iran will never get the headroom for economic expansion that China has gotten for 4 decades.
[Wash Times] Two professors from San Diego State University claim in a new book that farmers’ markets in urban areas are weed-like "white spaces" responsible for oppression. You will be told what you may eat here at Airstrip One.
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J Bosco are part of an anthology released this month titled "Just Green Enough." The work, published by Routledge, claims there is a correlation between the "whiteness of farmers’ markets" and gentrification.
"Farmers’ markets are often white spaces where the food consumption habits of white people are normalized," the SDSU professors write, the education watchdog Campus Reform reported Wednesday.
The geology professors claim that 44 percent of San Diego’s farmers’ markets cater to "households from higher socio-economic backgrounds," which raises property values and "[displaces] low-income residents and people of color."
"The most insidious part of this gentrification process is that alternative food initiatives work against the community activists and residents who first mobilized to fight environmental injustices and provide these amenities but have significantly less political and economic clout than developers and real estate professionals," the academics write.
The men claim that negative externalities of "white habitus" formed at farmers’ markets can be managed through "inclusive steps that balance new initiatives and neighborhood stability to make cities ’just green enough.’"
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While you know nothing liberal indoctrinators at your knuckle dragging universities are busy spouting of bs, the white folk are too busy to listen. Grow your own corn.
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Who in their right mind wants to remove feedback loops and social norming that tend to increase better and healthier food habits on people?
Farmers markets tend to push less processed, lower carb foods which are actually an improvement to the high carb, highly processed foods that "people of color" have come to make the front and center feature of their cuisine over the past fifty years and are responsible for the epidemic of obesity and diabetes they are suffering.
Leftists blaming a diet promoted by farmers markets for the dietary problems of the urban poor and people of color is much the same as leftists blaming white cops for being a major cause of the death of black people when thousands of times more are killed by the violent culture of the ghetto. In other words, illogical in both cases.
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Geology Profs. STFU
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How are the markets working in Zimbabwe? I'm sure a Go Fund Me program for you to move there for a lifetime study might probably fly.
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As a former Geology prof, I view these idiots with a heavy heart. Geology is a science of how the Earth works. It is not a pseudo-science of how they think man works. Sad to see the intellectual rot of the left has infected what used to be pure science.
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How are the markets working in Zimbabwe? I'm sure a Go Fund Me program for you to move there for a lifetime study might probably fly.
The same social justice kak disturbers who brought hope and change to Zim (Cubans, Russians, Chinese) are responsible for leftest ideologues right here. Same table, same cloth. They're just on a slightly different schedule.
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Judging one by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character. A great man would define that as racism. KKK is taken so I guess BLM will do.
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Doesn't America produce enough self-haters that we now have to import them from Europe?
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Funny enough, a good portion of the sellers are Latinos that either have extra from the pick or have their own farms they sell excess at these farmer markets.
I've also seen a wide spectrum of customers from all walks of live and color.
So I would go back to the drawing board with this pile of steaming theory, you asshats.
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Most of the sellers at our nearby urban farmer's market are black and muslim. They make a point of putting up signs that EBT cards are welcome too. Is this an example of racism against white working folks?
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Warthog, don't forget there are two strains of Geology, the science people and then the One-Earthers from 'Environmental' studies. They are the heretics who should be burnt at the stake.
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Beo: in Zimbabwe they preached social justice but practice garden-variety mercantilist colonialism from the 18th century with the Chinese in the drivers' seat. I'm torn between hating them and wanting to hire someone like Xi or (since Xi is busy) Hu to run the State Department. They're a whole lot better at actually getting profits and growth and employment for their nation even though the whole process is corrupt.
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Profs Tweedledee and Tweedledumb apparently don't get out much. At any of the farmer's markets that I've been to for years in CA, most of the sellers are folks of ethnicity. In addition, Dee and Dumber don't seem to have heard of Mother Michelle O's alleged food deserts and their local solutions.
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Ever consider that the "habits of white people" are both normal and of value to society? That in the past history of Western Civilization that the "habits of white people" have contributed immensely to the quality of life, to the benefit of mankind, and to the success of the Western world. Jackasses!
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Farmers markets tend to push less processed, lower carb foods which are actually an improvement to the high carb, highly processed foods that "people of color" have come to make the front and center feature of their cuisine
From casual observation at grocery store checkout lines, overweight EBT card holders get plenty of protein. Maybe too much protein.
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As a SDSU alumni Life Member, they signed me up for a year subscription to San Diego Magazine. Today's issue arrived with an unfortunate cover: Inside San Diego's Big Farmers' Market Boom. I think I'll let the Magazine and Alumni Association know :-)
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Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have run into 12 mass graves in west of Nineveh, security source was quoted saying on Wednesday.
“The graves were found in Kojar region, Sinjar. They include bodies of Yazidi civilians who were executed by Islamic State since its control on the town in 2014,” the source told Baghdad Today.
“Specialized teams are removing the bodies to extradite them to forensic medicine department in Nineveh,” the source added.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Yezidi fighters in Iraq allegedly forcibly disappeared and killed 52 civilians from the Imteywit tribe in June 2017, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Relatives of victims told Human Rights Watch that on June 4, 2017, Yezidi forces detained and then apparently executed men, women, and children from eight Imteywit families who were fleeing fighting between the Islamic State and Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) west of Mosul.
Yezidi forces were also implicated in two other incidents of enforced disappearances of members of the Imteywit and Jahaysh tribes in late 2017.
“As the ground fighting against ISIS winds down in Iraq, state security forces need to turn their focus to preventing retaliation and upholding the rule of law,” said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Past atrocities against the Yezidis don’t give its armed forces a free pass to commit abuses against other groups, whatever their past.”
Human Rights Watch spoke to two Imteywit members who traveled through the village where, two hours later, the 52 people went missing. Human Rights Watch also spoke to a member of the PMF intelligence services who had visited the village and saw several mass graves that local Yezidi residents told him contained the bodies of the Imteywit victims. A Yezidi community leader provided Human Rights Watch with a list of five Yezidi fighters who he said told him they had killed the families.
In late April, as fighting approached the area just south of the Sinjar region, ISIS forces moved their families from the village of Ain Ghazal in Qayrawan to the desert north of the town of Baaj, two Imteywit men said.
They said that on June 4, the Imam Ali Battalions, a PMF unit, retook the area from ISIS, and started moving local families out of the desert in a convoy of 70 cars traveling north toward Tel Afar. The two men and their relatives – 22 men, 20 women, and 10 children from the Imteywit tribe traveling in seven cars – broke off from the other members of the convoy.
When one car in the smaller convoy got a flat tire, the other cars stopped and waited for the tire to be fixed. The two men opted to head north ahead of the others, and traveled about 18 kilometers, reaching the village of Qabusiye at about 2 p.m.
They said that a car with four Yezidi fighters, one of whom they recognized from home, flagged them down and forced them out of their car. The fighters asked them where they were from and said they would kill the two men as revenge for what ISIS had done to the Yezidis. Just then, the men said, a vehicle carrying Imam Ali Battalion fighters drove up, which ended the altercation, and escorted the two men to safety in the town of Qayrawan.
The men said that two hours later they called a cousin traveling in the convoy to warn them about the Yezidi fighters on the road. The cousin said they were arriving at Qabusiye, but then the call dropped, and his phone was soon switched off. The men said their relatives never made it to Qayrawan and the men have not been able to find out any information about their relatives since. The men gave Human Rights Watch a list of the 52 people in the convoy.
[IsraelTimes] Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz decides to thank US president for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital by honoring him with a planned railway station located near holy site, which is part of a NIS-2.5-billion project.
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One of the reasons I like Trump is because he proved what I've been saying for years: Israel doesn't need an "Israel first" POTUS - "America first" one is more than good enough.
[RadioShabelle] The first batch of 1,000 troops operating under the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission in Somalia have left Mogadishu but the country still faces challenges in transitioning from the multinational force to the local one.
Special Representative of the chairperson of the African Union Commission Francisco Madeira said the transitional government of Somalia has been progressively taking over Amisom’s roles in a gradual exit plan to end in 2020.
Mr Madeira said the new government has been ensuring its national security forces are trained to protect the country as another 1,000 troops get ready to leave next year.
Somalia’s soldiers are being trained by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU), The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... and the United Arab Emirates.
But Mr Madeira pointed that the training is uncoordinated and needs harmonisation.
"The integration of the Somali National Army needs to happen with urgency. The training of the army must be synchronised and centred upon a common doctrine and ideology.
"Amisom and the federal government continue with deliberations on the drawdown of troops.
"During the transition period, the two will cooperate in joint operations by degrading al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... to allow the opening of the main supply routes and movement of persons," he said.
He spoke at a briefing in Nairobi last week.
Last year, the African Union’s Peace and Security Council announced an exit strategy that would see some 22,000 troops withdraw and hand over control of security to the national army.
Previously, Amisom trained 10,900 Somali soldiers, with an additional 20,000 troops coming as the mission prepares to exit.
The troops were deployed to Somalia in 2007 to defend the government against the al-Qaeda-affiliated Death Eater group al-Shabaab.
[IsraelTimes] Authorities say 32-year-old received weapons training, fought for the terror group and filmed the 2013 beating of a captured soldier
German prosecutors charged an alleged 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.... terror group who spent time in Syria with membership in a terrorist organization and committing a war crime on Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors said that the 32-year-old German citizen, identified only as Abdelkarim E. B. in line with local privacy rules, left Germany for Syria in 2013 and joined IS. They said he received weapons training and fought for the group.
Prosecutors added that, during fighting near Aleppo in November 2013, the man’s unit beat and kicked a captured fighter from an enemy militia and threatened him with torture. The suspect is also accused of filming the scene.
The man is already in jug in a separate case, which prosecutors gave no details of.
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[AA.TR] A group of Ottoman Turkish soldiers on Tuesday reached a military base in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... ’s capital Doha, according to Qatar’s Defense Ministry.
The group reached the Al Udeid Air Base in southern Doha, the ministry said in a statement.
The soldiers will join another group which previously arrived at Tariq bin Ziyad military base in the Gulf state.
The move comes as part of a 2014 defense agreement between Doha and Ankara under which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... established a base in Qatar at the request of its government.
In April 2016, the two countries concluded a military deal which would see Ottoman Turkish troops deployed to a military base in the Gulf state.
The first group arrived in Qatar this June and conducted their first drill at Tariq bin Ziyad military base.
With this new group, the countries will have more military drills aimed at strengthening the defense capabilities of both countries.
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Yippy's Janissaries expanding the footstool empire V2.0
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[DailyMail] - Facebook has a government and politics unit to help with election campaigns
- Media giant claimed cheap ads and massive reach helped SNP's 2015 landslide
- Concerns voiced about Facebook using unparalleled reach to target voters Wait, what?!
Nota bene: SNP is the Scottish National Party (nationalist social democrats). I believe they lost their last campaign for independence.
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And don't ever forget how Facebook delivered zillions of data points on information on its members to the Obama Campaign committees.
Also, whatever the "Russian" bots were doing, Facebook was literally wall to wall with lies, innuendos, and fake news about Trump. It was worse that SNL or the WaPo.
Google did the same. Giving huge amounts of information and performing free data mining for the Zerobama campaigns.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Two Iraqi intelligence officers were killed Wednesday in an armed attack in Kirkuk, a security source told Alsumaria News.
“Unidentified gunmen opened fire at two intelligence agents on a road leading to Shoraw neighborhood in Kirkuk, killing them immediately,” the source said.
“A security force carried the bodies to the forensic medicine department and a probe was launched into the incident,” the source added.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – Four security men were killed and wounded Wednesday in a bomb blast and clashes with Islamic State in Kirkuk, a military commander told TRT Arabic.
“A roadside bomb planted by Islamic State went off at a village south of Kirkuk, leaving two security men, including an officer, dead,” Commander of Kirkuk Operations Maj. Gen. Ali Fadel Umran said.
“Two other soldiers were wounded in clashes with Islamic State militants immediately after the bombing,” Umran said, adding that the assailants fled the scene into a mountainous area after the shooting.
Police have launched a manhunt for the attackers, Umran pointed out.
Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) – A London-based newspaper has warned that Islamic State militants have regained control of some areas in Kirkuk after paramilitary troops withdrew from there.
In a report quoted by Baghdad Today on Wednesday, Al-Quds Al-Arabi said, “Popular Mobilization Forces have recently withdrawn from a checkpoint at Riyadh district in Kirkuk, giving the Islamic State militant group a chance to emerge again in the district.”
The paper quoted local sources as saying that, “The security satiation is very dangerous in Kirkuk now, particularly on roads linking Kirkuk with Riyadh and Hawija.”
A source, who preferred to remain unnamed, told the paper that, “Islamic State militants who carried out several assassination operations in the governorate in the past period are hiding inside a tunnel at Ayadiya village.”
“IS militants have set up several fake checkpoints on Kirkuk roads to target security men and PMFs,” the source said.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Several civilians and a security personnel were killed and injured in two blasts in Baghdad, a security source said on Wednesday.
"A bomb, placed on the side of the road, in al-Mada’in region, southeast of Baghdad, went kaboom! targeting a vehicle with two personnel of the Sahwa (Awakening) troops. One of them was killed, while the other was injured," the source said.
"Another bomb went off near stores at al-Radwaniyah region, southwest of Baghdad, leaving four civilians maimed," the source added.
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Paramilitary troops announced on Wednesday killing three 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.... murderous Moslems within a training camp in Hamrin Mountains.
"The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) 88th brigade destroyed a training camp of Islamic State in Hamrin Mountains and killed three murderous Moslems who were inside it," the PMF said in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Baghdad Today.
"The troops also destroyed the Lion of Islam group’s food store," the statement read, adding that the training camp was made up of over 20 hotbeds.
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[Khaama Press] The Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan claims that nearly fifty bully boyz 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group have been killed in the latest operations of the Afghan national defense and security forces.
The ministry of defense in a statement said Wednesday that ISIS bully boyz suffered the casualties in a series of Arclight airstrikes conducted in Achin district.
The statement further added that three depots of ammunition, explosives, and weapons of the terror group were also destroyed in the raids.
According to the defense ministry, the airstrikes also resulted into the elimination of a safe haven of the terror group in this province.
The anti-government armed Death Eater groups including the ISIS Death Eaters have not commented regarding the report so far
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Mosul (Iraqinews.com) – A senior leader with the Popular Mobilization Forces was killed on Wednesday after unidentified gunmen stormed his house in Mosul, a security source was quoted saying.
“Unknown gunmen stormed the house of Abu Hashem al-Badrani at Abu Jarada village in Mosul, killing him and two of his bodyguards,” the source said.
“The assistants fled the scene into al Jazira region after the attack,” he added.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi security troops have tightened measures at some district in Mosul, western Nineveh, imposing curfew and carrying out campaigns to arrest suspects, Al-Quds Al-Arabi website reported on Wednesday.
The measures were mainly seen at Sumar and Doumeiz districts. Sumar is one of the regions in Mosul, which witnesses assassination of officers and conscripts.
According to eyewitnesses, the measures were taken after a victim’s body was found with Islamic State slogans threatening security personnel and promising return of the caliphate.
The report also quoted observers as saying that security personnel carry out campaigns at different regions in the city searching for suspects who are still hiding.
The report quoted a source as saying that militants seek launching attack in the south of Mosul.
“Significant tension in security situations are witnessed, after the militant group carried out attacks that targeted officials and security personnel,” Abdul Rahman al-Jumeily, a security personnel, said.
Troops, according to Jumeily, “carried out campaigns at south of the city to thwart any attacks.”
“Troops are on high alert since several suicide attacks targeted officials before the attackers fled toward unknown destination.
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[RadioShabelle] Two men dressed in Somali military uniform have killed a civilian in Mogadishu on Wednesday, Dec 27.
A witness told Radio Shabelle that the killers riding in a rickshaw kidnapped the man and shot him dead at Badbado, an IDP camp in the broad-day light.
It’s not yet clear the motive behind the murder of the civilian, as no group has yet claimed credit for the organized killing.
Mogadishu witnessed a surge in attacks and liquidations in the past few months amidst tight security by special forces tasked with the city’s security under stabilization mission.
[RadioShabelle] A Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... army officer has been bumped off in Galkayo town last night, government officials told Radio Shabelle.
Mohammed Yousuf Adan, a senior officer of Puntland Darawish forces, was shot by men armed with pistols while he was heading to his home in the north of Galkayo.
The assassins, who were unknown, have beat feet from the scene.
Al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... has immediately claimed of responsibility for the liquidation as it previously intensified attacks against Puntland officials in Galkayo.
[ToloNews] The first winter military operation was launched in Maidan Wardak province ‐ in the west of Kabul ‐ after the imported electricity transmission lines were cut by Death Eaters.
Local officials claimed that a number of powerful figures and groups from the capital, Kabul, are involved in the problem including the Taliban ...Arabic for students... "Salar, Patanak, Mashin Qala and Watali vilalges in Sayed Abad district were the areas from where convoys were attacked and motorists were stopped," said Fahim Qayim, Wardak Police Chief.
Two days ago, the power company repaired eight kilometers of power cables to reconnect the transmission lines, TOLOnews news hound Tamim Hamid, who has visited the area, said.
Abdul Mohammad, an electric engineer, said his team has been threatened in parts of Sayed Abad district in Maidan Wardak since they started working in the province a few months ago.
"It is clear for all that there are some people who don’t want to implement such projects. Even there are people inside the government who support those elements," Mohammad said.
Other issues, officials said, were also impeding the power line transmission project in the province.
"There are many houses which have been built in the way of the transmission line. I cannot name the owners," said Jawed Karimzai, electricity officer in the province.
"They are powerful figures including local commanders, tribal elders and those who don’t see the benefit in it are trying to impede such attempts," Fahim Amin, a civil society activist.
The transmission of 220 kilowatts of imported power project is part of a $150 million USD plan which covers few southern provinces.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have killed four 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.... murderous Moslems in Salahuddin province, a security source said on Wednesday.
"While a patrol of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) was setting up an ambush at al-Qawshaja region, south of Amerli, in Salahuddin, confrontations occurred in the evening with Islamic State Lion of Islams," the source told Baghdad Today.
"The troops managed to kill four IS members and destroyed their vehicle, which urged the rest to run away," he added.
"Reinforcements from the 52 brigade headed to the region to support troops there. They managed to control the situation and follow the murderous Moslems for long distance south of Amerli," the source said.
"Two of the PMFs were maimed during the festivities," according to the source.
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[Ynet] Fewer than 1,000 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.... fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, the United States-led international coalition fighting the hard-line Sunni murderous Moslem group said on Wednesday, a third of the estimated figure only three weeks ago.
Iraq and Syria have both declared victory over Islamic State in recent weeks, after a year that saw the two countries' armies, a range of foreign allies and various local forces drive the fighters out of all the towns and villages that once made up their self-proclaimed caliphate.
The United States has led an international coalition conducting air strikes against Islamic State since 2014 when the group swept across a third of Iraq. US troops have served as advisers on the ground with Iraqi government forces and with Kurdish and Arab groups in Syria.
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[DailyMail] - Satellite images 'show Chinese and North Korean ships tied together off China'
- South Korea claims there have been 30 such transactions in just three months
- Such trades are banned under a UN resolution adopted in September this year
US satellites have spotted Chinese tankers transferring oil to North Korean ships 30 times in three months - despite strict UN trade embargoes, it has been claimed.
Overhead images appear to show ships from the two countries shackled together for a fuel transfer in the West Sea off China.
Such ship-to-ship trades are banned under a UN Security Council resolution adopted in September.
But according to South Korean government sources, American satellites have pictured large vessels from both China and North Korea illegally trading in a stretch of the West Sea on multiple occasions.
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[IsraelNationalNews] Federal judge in Argentina rules that Alberto Nisman was murdered and did not commit suicide.
A federal judge in Argentina ruled on Tuesday that Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who was found dead days after accusing former President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center, was murdered and did not commit suicide.
In a 656-page ruling quoted by Reuters, Judge Julian Ercolini said there was sufficient proof to conclude that the shot to the head that killed Nisman in January 2015 was not self-inflicted.
The ruling marks the first time any judge has said the case was a murder.
Nisman, who was Jewish, was found dead from a gunshot wound in his apartment in January 2015, the day before he was supposed to present a report on the 1992 AMIA Jewish center bombing to Argentine lawmakers.
It has been revealed that Nisman had drafted arrest warrants for Kirchner and then-Foreign Minister Hector Timerman before he was found dead.
Those warrants charged that Kirchner orchestrated a secret deal to cover up Iranian officials' alleged role in the attack. She denies the allegations.
Previous scientific tests showed that Nisman likely did not shoot himself, but the case languished until last year, when it was moved to a federal court that handles political murder cases.
After Nisman's death was initially labelled a suicide, his family – who insists he was murdered – commissioned its own independent forensic investigation.
“Nisman’s death could not have been a suicide,” Ercolini wrote in Tuesday’s ruling, which also charged Diego Lagomarsino, a former employee of Nisman‘s, with accessory to murder.
Lagomarsino has acknowledged lending Nisman the gun that killed him the day before he was to appear before Congress to detail his allegation against Fernandez. He has said Nisman asked him for the gun to protect himself and his family.
Kirchner is facing accusations of treason and plotting a cover-up for signing a 2012 pact with Iran that would have allowed senior Iranian officials accused in the deadly attack to be investigated in their own country, rather than in Argentina.
In early 2013, Argentina's congress approved, at the request of the executive branch, an agreement with Tehran to form a truth commission to investigate the bombing.
Leaders of Argentina's Jewish community, which at 300,000 people is the largest in Latin America, criticized the accord. An Argentine court in 2014 declared the agreement to be unconstitutional.
[RadioShabelle] In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. forces conducted an Arclight airstrike against al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... faceless myrmidons on the morning of Dec. 24, 2017, in southern Somalia, killing 13 Death Eaters.
U.S. forces will continue to use all authorized and appropriate measures to protect the United States, its partners, and interests, and deny safe haven to terrorist groups.
This includes partnering with AMISOM and Somali National Security Forces (SNSF) in combined counterterrorism operations and targeting terrorists, their training camps, and their safe havens throughout Somalia and the region.
Together with other international partners, the United States is committed to providing Somali, AMISOM and SNSF with support in the fight against violent holy warrior organizations.
[Conservative Free Press] Sen. Marco Rubio hasn’t always been the most steadfast supporter of the Trump administration, but he ‐ like many Republicans ‐ was distressed by what he witnessed on Thursday when the United Nations General Assembly voted 128-9 to condemn the U.S. for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In a tweet following that disgraceful vote, the Florida senator said it might be time for America to seriously think about pulling its investments out of the increasingly-hostile international organization.
"Given its tendency to be a forum for anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, reevaluation of US role as single largest donor to #UN is long overdue," wrote Rubio.
President Donald Trump and Ambassador Nikki Haley have also said that the vote will weigh heavily when it comes to America’s relationship with member countries, to say nothing of the organization as a whole.
"They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us," Trump said Wednesday. "Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care."
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While Jeff Sessions does absolutely nothing to bring Hillary Clinton (and even Obama, but we'll settle for Clinton...for now) to justice, here is more blah-blah-blah from the administration. True enough, the UN is a joke, but the empty words get tiresome.
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Send in the forensic accountants and expose just how deep the corruption has spread through the UN. Then slash our contributions by that amount. Every time that we threaten to do this the screams rise to the sky.
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Eliminate diplomatic immunity for the representatives to the UN. They aren't accredited to the US government. It's like giving diplomatic immunity to representatives to any trade group or industry regulatory body. That would shake up the group quickly but technically not hinder their deliberations. And think of the parking ticket revenues
[The Hill] The House Intelligence Committee has issued a subpoena to an associate of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) over his connection with the controversial dossier containing unverified allegations about President Trump and his ties to Russia, The Hill confirmed on Wednesday.
Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) wants to talk to David Kramer, a former State Department official and current senior director at the nonprofit McCain Institute, about his visit to London in November 2016, a source familiar with the matter confirmed.
The Washington Examiner's Byron York first reported on the subpoena.
While in London, Kramer met with the dossier's author, former British spy Christopher Steele, at McCain's request, to view "the pre-election memoranda on a confidential basis," according to court filings.
Kramer then flew back to the U.S. and delivered a copy of the memos to McCain, who then handed the documents to the FBI.
[AlAhram]An Egyptian military court sentenced 10 people to death on Wednesday, including two key runawayhard boyz Hisham El-Ashmawy and Shady El-Manaei, on various terrorism charges.
The court also sentenced 22 other defendants in the case to 25 years in prison, and four others to 10 years in prison. It also sentenced one defendant to 7 years in prison and two others to 5 years.
The sentences can be appealed.
The court also acquitted 83 defendants.
The military court also referred one defendant to a civilian court.
There are 155 defendants in the case, known in the media as the 'Ansar Beit al-Maqdis 3 trial,' with 89 standing trial in absentia.
In October 2017, the military court had issued a preliminary death sentence for 13 defendants, referring the verdict to Egypt's Grand Mufti for a non-binding consultation per Egyptian law.
In 2014, El-Ashmawy defected from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis terrorist group after it declared its allegiance to ISIS. El-Ashmawy then formed a new terrorist group, al-Morabetoun, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which is based in North Sinai, has grabbed credit for most of terrorist attacks against security forces and churches in Egypt since July 2013.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian police are taking a softer approach to breaches of Islamic rules, opting for education over punishment, Tehran’s police chief says.
"According to a decision of the commander of the police force, those who do not observe Islamic codes will no longer be taken to detention centers nor judicial files opened on them," Brigadier General Hossein Rahimi says in a speech in the Iranian capital.
"We offer courses and 7,913 people have been educated in these classes so far," he says, adding that there were more than 100 counseling centers in Tehran province.
Rahimi, who was appointed in August, does not elaborate on which Islamic codes were in question or when the new guidelines were introduced.
It marks a stark shift from his predecessor, General Hossein Sajedinia, who announced in April 2016 that there were 7,000 undercover morality police reporting on things like "bad hijab" ‐ a blanket term usually referring to un-Islamic dress by women.
Figures are rarely given, but Tehran’s traffic police said in late 2015 they had dealt with 40,000 cases of bad hijab in cars, where women often let their headscarves drop around their necks.
These cases generally led to fines and temporary impounding of the vehicle, the front man said at the time
[Ynet] Several suspected French Islamist bandidoshard boyz have been tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in northern Syria, including a man once convicted of running a jihadist recruitment network in La Belle France, a source close to the matter said on Wednesday.
According to French news channel LCI, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia detained three men on Dec. 17.
"Several French (nationals) were arrested in northern Syria in the Hassakeh area, near the Iraqi border," the source said, confirming the arrests.
The source added there were more than three Frenchies stopped, including Thomas Barnouin,
...also known as Thomas Abdelhakim, the converted son of French schoolteachers became a member of the Toulouse network led by “the white emir,” Olivier Corel, after studying in Saudi Arabia...
an Islamist known to French security services who is believed to have gone to Syria in 2014 to join 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....
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Poor grades, could not marry the boy of her choice, or raped? When girls get involved there is generally some deep unhappiness behind an attempt at suicide by Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Security forces detain 18-year-old female after she tried to force her way through Qalandiya, crossing where she was twice denied entry in one day
A Paleostinian teen was incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Wednesday after trying to illegally enter Israel and allegedly carry out a terror attack, police said.
The suspect, an 18-year-old female, was turned away at the Qalandiya crossing near Jerusalem, and later tried to cross again using her 7-year-old sister’s permit. When she was refused, she began arguing with border guards and tried to force her way in, a police spokesperson said.
During subsequent questioning, the teen admitted to planning an attack in the Jerusalem area.
A source with knowledge of the case told The Times of Israel that the Paleostinian planned to buy a knife and stab a police officer.
The woman, from the town of Qataneh, was tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... , pending a remand hearing. Her name was not released by police.
The Qalandiya checkpoint was the scene of violent protests by Paleostinians last week, in response to US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The army said then that hundreds of Paleostinians clashed with Israeli troops. Protesters threw Molotov cocktails and rocks at troops and set tires on fire. The soldiers responded with nonlethal riot dispersal weapons, including tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets.
[AlAhram] A Libyan crude oil pipeline blown up on Tuesday will take about a week to repair, the head of state oil firm NOC told Rooters on Wednesday.
A "terrorist group" was probably responsible for the kaboom as such groups were roaming around in the desert where the remote field is located, said a front man for an eastern Libyan force tasked with protecting oilfields.
The blast, about 130 km (80 miles) south of the Es Sider terminal, cut output by between 70,000 barrels per day (bpd) and 100,000 bpd, according to NOC, which said the cause was unclear.
"It is estimated that the repair will take about one week from today," NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanallah said in a written response to questions. "The damage is estimated as 30 to 35 metres of a 24 (inch) pipeline."
"This will not have a major effect in the marketing programme, only a little change," he added.
He did not give a production figure, but an industry source said Libya's output had dropped to between 900,000 bpd and one million bpd.
An official at NOC subsidiary Waha Oil, which operates the pipeline, said a team of senior executives and engineers would visit the site on Wednesday to assess the damage.
The pipeline was attacked after being uncovered by maintenance workers carrying our repair work to stop an oil leak, said Miftah Magariaf, commander of the oil protection force.
"That's the reason the pipeline became visible. Otherwise I don't think it would have been attacked," he said, adding security in the desert was shaky.
"Terrorist groups have been roaming in the desert and creating problems everywhere," he said.
Flows have been diverted, but at least one tanker's berth at Es Sider was cancelled in the morning, an industry source said.
But a Libyan shipping agent said the tanker, Al Mabrouk, was likely to berth at the port in the afternoon.
NOC may have to revise January loading programmes for Es Sider due to the outage, and likely cancel some cargoes, according to two trading sources that lift Libyan crude.
A preliminary loading schedule for the terminal shows 13 crude tankers are due to load at the port next month, at a rate of around 252,000 bpd.
The blown-up crude pipeline lies in an area of poor security where Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... has operated in the past.
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[AlAhram] A criminal court in Egypt’s Sharqiya governorate issued on Wednesday 10-year prison sentences against 11 people for joining a group with ties to the terrorist organization ISIS.
In 2015, the prosecution charged the defendants with communicating with the terrorist group, plotting to undergo advanced military trainings abroad and carry out terrorist attacks against vital facilities in Egypt.
The defendants can appeal the sentence.
Over the past three years, Egyptian authorities have locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! and charged a number of people in the Nile Delta governorate with being members of terrorist cells with ties to ISIS, and plotting attacks in the country.
"It's a commercial disaster," Mr. Aboulafia says. "Every conceivably bad idea that anyone's ever had about the aviation industry is embodied in this airplane."
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Dublin-based Amedeo counts eight A380s among its fleet, and has a further 20 on order from Airbus, but such is the lack of interest in the world's largest passenger plane that it has been unable to renew its leases, or find new customers, despite months of negotiations.
So it has come up with a novel solution: launching its own A380-only airline.
[ArabNews] Ottoman Turkish counterterrorism units discovered a new tactic being used by ISISmurderous Moslems during a raid in the Central Anatolian province of Kirsehir on Dec. 26. On the same day, security forces also detained 12 people in the southern province of Adana over their suspected links to ISIS.
Police discovered a number of molds of the fingerprints of dead ISISmurderous Moslems during raids on two different areas in Kirsehir, where dozens of ISISmurderous Moslems had been enjugged Please don't kill me! previously. The molds are believed to have been used for financial transactions.
Sertac Canalp Korkmaz, a researcher in security studies at Ankara-based think tank ORSAM, said the molds could be used in a number of ways, including hiding the identity of those planning or implementing terrorist acts.
"They might use them to forge identity cards and passports, or to communicate between themselves on digital media," he told Arab News. "But the key point is whether this tactic is limited to this particular cell. If these fingerprint patterns are unique, this operation becomes even more significant," he said.
A total of $60,000 was also seized during the raid, along with a number of marriage certificates bearing the flag of ISIS, and a letter written by ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... . He reportedly warned of disillusionment within ISIS and issued new instructions to boost the morale of the krazed killers.
According to Kadir Ertac Celik, an adviser on security policies at the Ankara Center for Crisis and Policy Studies (ANKASAM), the raid shows that ISISmurderous Moslems were unexpectedly well-equipped and used sophisticated tactics beyond those traditionally employed by terror organizations.
"These findings once again raise concerns over whether ISISmurderous Moslems were trained by intelligence services to conduct such forgeries," Celik told Arab News.
"Such methods create the perception that ISIS has a qualified structure, exerting serious influence over people and boosting its own image," he added, noting that the terror group has been trying to expand its operations.
"Forged identities and accounts mean ISIS can pose a threat to economic security, and can provide the terror group with additional capabilities through financial transfers," Celik continued.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... he added, the discovery of such evidence also offers new insights to security forces and increases their chances of success in the fight against terrorism.
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[ArabNews] The Saudi-led coalition supporting the internationally recognized Yemeni government on Wednesday said it destroyed a 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 ... rocket-manufacturing workshop in Saada, as well as weapons stockpiles including surface-to-surface and ballistic missiles.
Weapons obtained by Houthi militias from Iran were also seized, said coalition front man Col. Turki al-Maliki at a presser in Riyadh on Wednesday. "We have knowledge of the movements of those wanted in Yemen."
The coalition leadership welcomed the UN Security Council’s condemnation of Houthi launches of ballistic missiles against 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... "There’s a responsibility on countries that turn a blind eye to the smuggling of weapons to the Houthis," the coalition said.
It has developed a new mechanism for inspection and verification of arms smuggling, al-Maliki said.
"Five vessels went to the port of Hodeidah carrying fuel this week. Coalition forces gave 10 permits to transfer aid to 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... through land crossings," he added.
"Air-borne foodstuffs were sent to besieged areas of Yemen," he said, stressing that the coalition continues to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Yemen.
The coalition said it welcomed cooperation with human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. organizations inside and outside the country.
"Some human rights organizations inside Yemen are infiltrated by the Houthis. We understand the pressure on organizations in areas controlled by the militias," said al-Maliki.
"Shabwa is under the control of the legitimate government. The province is being cleared of mines planted by the militias," he added. "The Yemeni National Army is advancing strongly in the province of al-Baydah."
The Houthis have lost many field commanders and their morale is low, he said, adding: "We call on those who have information about Houthi hard boyz to contact us."
Coalition forces targeted 412 Houthi military positions, including those near the Saudi border, as well as a supply vehicle for militias and field commanders at the border, al-Maliki said.
The coalition targeted assembly points for militia fighters before they are sent to the frontlines, he said, adding that the coalition refrained from targeting military sites that contain civilians.
[ArabNews] Hundreds of British fighters who joined ISIS are believed to be hiding in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , adding to fears of an increased threat of terror attacks in Europe, according to reports.
Thousands of bandidosDeath Eaters fled to Turkey after the terror group lost its grip on the strongholds of Raqqa in Syria and djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Iraq this year, The Times of London reported.
Ciwan Xhalil, a Syrian Kurdish intelligence officer who collaborates with Western intelligence agencies over foreign ISIS fighters, told The Times that most British ISIS fighters had fled Syria and gone to Turkey.
"The exodus began after Mosul (in Iraq) fell and continued after (ISIS) lost Raqqa. We have lots of French in our jails and scores of other nationals but we think most of the British have escaped," he said.
About 850 Britons traveled to join ISIS, of whom about half have returned. About 130 are confirmed dead.
The figure is higher than the 300 returnees to Germany and 271 to La Belle France.
The report warned there has also been a surge in the number of women involved in attacks ‐ with nearly a quarter of terror plots in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... from the start of 2017 to May involving women.
Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... according to the US-led international coalition fighting the bad boy group, fewer than 1,000 ISIS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria, a third of the estimated figure only three weeks ago.
"Due to the commitment of the Coalition and the demonstrated competence of our partners in Iraq and Syria, there are estimated to be less than 1,000 ISIS (ISIS) hard boyz in our combined joint area of operations, most of whom are being hunted down in the desert regions in eastern Syria and Western Iraq," the US-led coalition told Rooters in an emailed statement.
Moreover, British security sources said it is increasingly difficult to leave Turkey and return to Britannia without being flagged. Returning terror fighters are stopped and questioned by the MI5 security service and police and will be prosecuted if there is evidence that they fought for the caliphate.
The authorities also deploy covert techniques to track down Death Eaters. American intelligence sources said that the CIA and MI6 were coordinating to track a cadre of foreign ISIS fighters.
Although only three of the 40 attacks in Europe since 2015 have involved foreign terrorist fighters returning from Syria and Iraq, those incidents caused more than half the fatalities.
The threat level in Britannia remains at "severe," meaning that further attacks are likely. The country is dealing with one of the worst cases of homegrown radicalization in Europe, and the chief of Britannia’s MI5 domestic security service warned in October that the threat of Death Eater attacks in Britannia was at its "highest tempo" in his three-decade career. British security services have foiled almost a dozen attack plots this year.
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[ToloNews] At least 14 army soldiers were maimed in a boom-mobile detonated close to 505 Boost Police Zone in Lashkargah city, capital of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... on Wednesday, officials confirmed.
The blast happened at about 2:40pm local time while the soldiers were leaving the base to launch a military operation, a front man for provincial governor, Omar Zwak said.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... he did not provide further details about the blast.
Taliban ...Arabic for students... has grabbed credit of the attack in a social media post.
[Khaama Press] A suspected US dronezap targeted a commander of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network in the tribal regions of Pakistain on Tuesday.
According to reports, the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Mata Sangar area located in Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... in the tribal regions of Pakistain.
Local officials have confirmed that two people were killed in the airstrike which targeted a vehicle as it was traveling in the area.
In the meantime, reports indicate that a commander of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network identified as Jamil-ud-Din was killed in the airstrike along with another murderous Moslem.
The Pak government officials have not formally commented regarding the airstrike so far.
US Vice President Mike Pence during his visit to Afghanistan on Friday reiterated Washington’s stance regarding the terror safe havens in Pakistain.
He said "For too long Pakistain has provided safe haven to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and many terrorist organizations, but those days are over. President Trump has put Pakistain on notice."
"As the President said, so I say now: Pakistain has much to gain from partnering with the United States, and Pakistain has much to lose by continuing to harbor criminals and terrorists," he added.
The Afghan and US officials have long been insisting that the leadership councils of the Taliban and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network are based in the key cities of Pakistain where from they plan and coordinate attacks in Afghanistan.
The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) earlier had warned that the United States will take necessary steps if Pakistain fails to destroy terror safe havens in its soil.
At least three Haqqani members including a commander were killed in a foreign forces dronezap in the Kurram tribal region near the Durand Line, the de facto border between Afghanistan and Pakistain, on Tuesday, Pak media reported.
According to reports the targeted commander was identified as Juma Khan a key commander of Haqqani network.
The incident happened when Khan and the other Haqqani members were traveling in a vehicle.
Meanwhile a Haqqani member confirmed the killing of Khan to Rooters.
[IsraelTimes] Father of 5, an immigrant from Belarus, claimed he just wanted to live within the Caliphate, court documents say
Which is why he planned to leave his Muslim Arab wife and five children behind in Dar al Harb. Right.
A Belarusian-Israeli convert to Islam was convicted Wednesday of attempting to join 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.... terrorist group in Syria.
Valentin Vladmir Mazlevski, 40, who was tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! nearly a year ago while trying to travel to Syria via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , was convicted by the Nazareth District Court of contact with a foreign agent, attempting to travel to an enemy country and obstruction of justice.
Mazlevski is from the Arab Israeli town of Shibli‐Umm al-Ghanam, his wife’s hometown. The father of five moved to Israel from Belarus in 1996 at age 18 and converted to Islam four years later, while he was serving in the Israel Defense Forces, the Shin Bet said in its indictment.
"The investigation revealed that Mazlevski, who was active in IS-supporting groups on the internet, shared details of his intentions to travel to Syria and even coordinated his arrival with [the groups]," the indictment said.
Mazlevski argued that he did not want to join the military ranks of Islamic State, but rather was traveling to Syria in order to live under the nascent Islamic Caliphate set up by the international terror organization, according to the Nazareth District Court’s decision.
The defendant also said he did not know Syria was considered an enemy state, the decision said.
If you must lie, my dear idiot, at least lie better than that.
On January 16, 2017, Mazlevski was detained and interrogated in Ben Gurion International Airport, where he had gone to catch a one-way flight to Turkey but was stopped at the gate. The Shin Bet said it had received advance intelligence about Mazlevski’s plans.
Oh? Do tell.
In the days that followed, Mazlevski attempted to remove any trace of Islamic State support from his cellphone, deleting accounts and conversations, according to the indictment. However, ars longa, vita brevis... on January 26 he made contact on the Telegram messaging application with a Chechnyan who had links to Islamic State
Mazlevski was arrested on February 7 and admitted to Sherlocks that he had planned to join Islamic State in order to "fulfill the commandment placed on every true Moslem to live under an Islamic state and hold fast to his beliefs," police said.
Police were aware of Mazlevski’s support for Islamic State since at least July 2016. That month he was brought in for a "debriefing, in which it was clarified to him that Islamic State is an illegal organization and that he has been ordered to stop his security activities," according to court documents.
In October of that year he began looking into joining the fighting in Syria. He contacted a purported Islamic State fighter in Syria who identified himself as "Abu Abdullah." But before he could set out, Abu Abdullah broke off contact and scuttled Mazlevski’s plans, according to police.
A month later, he reached out to an alleged Islamic State member in the Sinai Peninsula and considered joining the fight against Egyptian troops there, police said.
Apparently undeterred, Mazlevski contacted a Russian-born IS fighter in Syria in January and began making preparations to travel there through Turkey, according to the indictment.
Mazlevski will appear before the court again on February 8 for a sentencing hearing.
The Shin Bet security service estimates that approximately 50 Arab citizens of Israel have traveled to Syria or Iraq to join the group in recent years.
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Dumb-dee-dumb-da, with the emphasis on dumb.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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A brutal attack claimed by the Islamic State group devastated a two-story Shiite Muslim cultural center in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 41 people and wounding another 84, many suffering severe burns from the intensity of the explosions.
[Wash Times] Two professors from San Diego State University claim in a new book that farmers’ markets in urban areas are weed-like "white spaces" responsible for oppression.
the personification of Somali state failure...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
the personification of Somali state failure...
[Ynet] Fewer than 1,000 
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
...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...
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Kurram Agency
[IsraelTimes] Father of 5, an immigrant from Belarus, claimed he just wanted to live within the Caliphate, court documents say
