Frustration, anger, racist chants and the lionization of a jailed IDF soldier were in full effect in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv Tuesday night, as a few thousand people rallied in support of Sgt. Elor Azarya, the day after he was charged with manslaughter.
As chants of "he’s a hero" were heard around him, 60-year-old Edi Arusilevi of Petach Tikva said he came "because we must support the IDF, it’s our family", adding that "people who sit in offices all day and are judging Azarya don’t understand what soldiers go through."
This is old from about a month ago; not sure why the news is carrying it again today.
The war between Republicans and Democrats on the politically splintered Federal Election Commission flared late Monday when a Republican commissioner and former chairman charged that the panel's Democrats want to regulate the press and end free election media.
The moves by Democrats "signal an active regulatory effort within the agency, caution press organizations to look over their shoulders, and chill the free exercise of press activity," said Republican Lee E. Goodman in a statement on a recent FEC split vote.
On that vote, the Democrats voted as a block to punish the maker of an anti-Obama movie distributed free before the 2012 election. The Republicans argued that he should receive the standard media exemption, as Democrats on the FEC have granted liberal moviemakers in the past. The split voted blocked any action against Joel Gilbert and Highway 61 films for his Dreams of My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception. How DARE he make teh 0ne look bad!! i.e. tell the truth
Goodman, who has been warning of efforts by Democrats on the FEC to regulate and even block conservative news sites like the Drudge Report, said that a split vote on the anti-Obama movie proves the motives of the Democrats, Ann M. Ravel, Steven T. Walther, and Ellen L. Weintraub.
In rejecting the movie maker's bid for the media exemption, Weintraub said, "Press entities do not act as press entities when they distribute millions of free DVDs immediately before an election solely in electoral swing states."
Goodman wrote in a statement that her words could target any media that distributes news free at the end of the election in key states, from Drudge to the New York Times.
"There is no ambiguity in the point of this curt statement: all otherwise bona fide press entities are subject to investigation by the federal government through either the Commission (or the Department of Justice) based on nothing more than the means they pursue to market and exhibit their otherwise fully protected content," he wrote.
Goodman explained: "There is nothing unusual about a press entity's publication of election-related commentary in the months, weeks, and even days before an election when the public's interest is piqued. Newspaper editorials are commonplace in the weeks and days leading up to an election. It also is common for press entities to distribute their fully-protected electoral commentary and advocacy free of charge." Silly republican. That is how they want it. Only the state approved message should be broadcast before the election so the right person is chosen by the plebs. The MSM is already in line and they are going for the independents as hard as they can.
UnitedHealth, the nation's biggest health insurer, will cut its participation in public health insurance exchanges to only a handful of states next year after expanding to nearly three dozen for this year.
CEO Stephen Hemsley said Tuesday that the company expects losses from its exchange business to total more than $1 billion for this year and last. He added that the company cannot continue to broadly serve the market created by the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansion due partly to the higher risk that comes with its customers.
The state-based exchanges are a key element behind the Affordable Care Act's push to expand insurance coverage. But insurers have struggled with higher than expected claims from that business.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. said it now expects to lose $650 million this year on its exchange business, up from its previous projection for $525 million. The insurer lost $475 million in 2015, a spokesman said.
UnitedHealth has already decided to pull out of Arkansas, Georgia and Michigan in 2017, and Hemsley told analysts during a Tuesday morning conference call that his company will not carry financial exposure from the exchanges into 2017.
"We continue to remain an advocate for more stable and sustainable approaches to serving this market," he said. Look for more insurance companies to bail like crazy if they can't raise rates this year.
As Stephen Green would say, "That means it is working." All aboard the single payer choo choo train!
[ABC News] President Barack Obama says the top-ranking U.S. intelligence official is reviewing classified material in a Sept. 11 report that families of attack victims and some lawmakers are demanding be made public.
Several members of the House and Senate, including House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, have joined 9/11 families in pressuring for declassification of 28 pages that are part of government documents compiled on the 9/11 attack amid speculation of a possible role by Saudi Arabia. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attack.
In an interview with CBS's Charlie Rose, Obama was asked if had read the 28 pages. "I have a sense of what's in there," he replied.
Obama also revealed that James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, "has been going through this" to ensure that whatever is made public does not damage U.S. national security interests.
"My understanding is that he's about to complete that process," the president said.
Former U.S. Sen. Robert Graham, who helped write the report that includes the 28 redacted pages, recently told CBS's "60 Minutes" the secret material could reveal possible Saudi backing for the men who hijacked airplanes, flying two into the World Trade Center in New York and another into the Pentagon. A third hijacked plane crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, in western Pennsylvania.
Graham, a Democrat, declined to cite any details on the portion of the report that remains classified.
Obama also voiced concerns about a legislative move to allow victim families to bring lawsuits against other countries believed to have provided support for attacks.
"This is a matter of how generally the United States approaches our interactions with other countries," he said. "If we open up the possibility that individuals and the United States can routinely start suing other governments, then we are also opening up the United States to being continually sued by individuals in other countries."
Material from the interview was to be broadcast on "CBS This Morning" and PBS, as well as "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.
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In an interview with CBS's Charlie Rose, Obama was asked if had read the 28 pages. "I have a sense of what's in there," he replied.
No stuttering or stammering, a completely evasive answer of non-committal. After all, his time must be devoted to visiting rappers and other urban varmints. He's a man of strict priorities.
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How is it possible that the top intel official hasn't memorized these 18 pages and made them part of their thinking and planning (even if they can't release them?). Inconceivable.
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In an interview with CBS's Charlie Rose, Obama was asked if had read the 28 pages.
ValJar gave him the Cliff Notes.
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Obama also voiced concerns about a legislative move to allow victim families to bring lawsuits against other countries believed to have provided support for attacks.
Well, yes. There is a valid argument there.
A competent and ethical Executive branch would have pressed for a governmental response, instead of forcing the survivors to litigate in the courts.
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John R. Schindler (XX Committee blog) writes about this subject HERE. When 9/11 happened he was a counterintelligence officer with the National Security Agency.
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Top Intel Official Reviewing Secret 9/11 Material
"Which top intel official, Mister President?"
"Top. Intel. Official."
Mike
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Does anyone else feel nauseous whenever reading anything about or by Commander Zero?
[CNN] More than 200 people were wounded after an explosion rocked Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday morning. It is not yet clear how many had died in the attack, but a statement from Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said that a "number" of people had been killed.
Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi said a suicide car bomber caused the blast. The attack targeted the office of a security team that works to protect the government's VIPs. At least one armed attacker was killed by police at the site, but authorities are seeking two more suspects in the area, Sediqi said.
The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Its statement said, "First a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden lorry on the gate of the department and then other armed attackers went in and started shooting on the rest of the enemies."
Several witness said they continued hearing gunfire after the blast. The explosion was heard near the American Embassy in Kabul, according to an embassy spokeswoman.
[Guardian] US vice-president Joe Biden has acknowledged "overwhelming frustration" with Israel’s government
So the Guardian biffed the headline: Joe is the one who is frustrated...
and said prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s administration has led the country in the wrong direction, in an unusually sharp rebuke of America’s closest ally in the Middle East.
Biden, in a speech to the pro-Israel, pro-peace advocacy group J Street
...the anti-Israel "pro-Israel" group wholly owned by George Soros, who considers the high point of his life to be those years when he betrayed his fellow Jews to the Nazis for fun and profit...
on Monday, offered a grim outlook for peace efforts, reflecting dim hopes for progress during the remainder of the Obama administration.
Although Biden said Israelis and Palestinians shared blame for undermining trust and shirking responsibility, he was emphatic in his critique of Netanyahu’s government, suggesting his approach raised "profound questions" about how Israel could remain both Jewish and democratic.
"I firmly believe that the actions that Israel’s government has taken over the past several years ‐ the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the legalisation of outposts, land seizures ‐ they’re moving us, and more importantly they’re moving Israel, in the wrong direction," Biden said.
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Joe if you hadn't noticed those jokers Trump and Bernie, the American people seem to feel 'overwhelming frustration' with the American government and the people who own and operate it.
[Free Beacon] Dr. Paul Song stepped down as Chair of the California-based Courage Campaign Board Monday after his controversial remarks at a rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.)
During a New York rally last Wednesday, Song referred to "corporate Democratic whores" right after talking about Hillary Clinton, Sanders’ opponent in the Democratic primary.
"Medicare-for-all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate Democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us," he said.
[Free Beacon] The left-leaning Middle East activist group J Street, one of the key groups that lobbied in favor of the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran, hosted a fundraiser for the Senate campaign of Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D., Ill.) in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
Duckworth is running against Republican Sen. Mark Kirk, a critic of the nuclear deal and architect of the U.S. sanctions against Iran. The fundraiser was held at La Tasca in Washington, D.C. and seats topped out at $5,400 per plate, according to the invitation.
The fundraiser is part of a concerted effort by J Street to target lawmakers who opposed the Iran deal, particularly pro-Israel stalwarts like Kirk. The group announced in January that it would focus on defeating Kirk and Sen. Ron Johnson in 2016, two of the more vulnerable senators up for reelection.
Although J Street describes itself as a "pro-Israel, pro-peace" organization, it has sought to unseat many of Israel’s top supporters on Capitol Hill and financed the campaigns of the Jewish state’s main critics.
In past elections, J Street targeted pro-Israel legislators such as former Reps. Joe Walsh (R., Ill.) and Allen West (R., Fla.). The group previously helped bankroll campaigns for many signatories of the 2010 "Gaza 54" letter, a congressional letter that criticized Israel’s military response to Hamas rocket-fire.
Although J Street enjoys a close relationship with the Obama White House, its vocal opposition to Israel’s defensive military action and support for the Iran nuclear deal has also alienated many Democrats. A number of prominent lawmakers asked J Street to remove their names from the group’s conference host committee in 2009, including Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kristen Gillibrand.
Kirk's campaign criticized Duckworth on Monday for accepting money from J Street and tied her support for the "dangerous" nuclear deal to her involvement with special interest groups.
"After Tammy Duckworth voted in favor of the dangerous Iran Nuclear Agreement, J Street pledged to raise millions to support her campaign and launch attacks on her opponent Senator Kirk," Kevin Artl, Kirk for Senate campaign manager, said. "Rep. Duckworth continues to demonstrate that her voting record is shaped by special interest groups and political support."
[Breitbart] According to the Associated Press, the "Hood Billionaire" and well fed rapper joined fellow artists Alicia Keys, Common, Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes, Janelle Monae, Ludacris, Chance the Rapper and others at the White House on Friday, where the group met with the president to discuss the administration’s "My Brother’s Keeper" initiative, which focuses on empowering black and Latino youth.
But according to TMZ, Ross’s ankle monitor, which he must wear as a condition of his release on kidnapping and assault charges last summer, beeped loudly shortly after the president concluded a speech.
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South Africa' answer to "Affirmative Action" is something called "BEE" or (Black Economic Empowerment). As one might predict, BEE is doing wonders for the entire country.
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The WH is a 'dead zone' for the type of two-way radio communications these monitors require, due to the SS communications security protocols. When they can't 'Talk to Home Base' after a certain period of time, they go into alarm.
Having a guy on LE monitoring (of any sort) really troubles me as to the security situation here.
Of course, lots of other things about this administration do the same.
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Sort of works as a metaphor for the entire administration. Even the left is starting to see the alarm go off.
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The high-flying beaut of Montmartre,
And damnedest of dames de théatre!
So, what lifted Nella?
"I tella you, fella --
Dat giant white bird of Sumatra."
[Hurriyet] The executives of a major Turkish company and a number of bankers were among 100 people detained by police on April 19 over allegations of funding the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen, prosecutors and company officials have said.
The raids were the latest police operations targeting thousands of supporters of Gulen, accused by President Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of leading what prosecutors described as a "terrorist organization" trying to overthrow the government.
Two board members of the Dumankaya construction group were named by the state-run Anadolu Agency as being among those taken into custody. Dumankaya said in a statement that its board members had been invited to police headquarters to provide information.
The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office, which did not name Dumankaya, said 100 people had been taken into custody in an operation focused on Istanbul and carried out across nine provinces. A total of 140 arrest warrants were issued.
Those held are accused of membership of a terrorist group, funding a terrorist group, and spreading terrorist propaganda in relation to the misuse of funds collected by Gulen followers in 2014-2015, the prosecutor’s office stated.
Gulen and Erdogan were allies until police and prosecutors seen as linked to Gulen opened a graft investigation into Erdogan’s inner circle in 2013. Thousands of coppers, prosecutors and judges were sacked or reassigned for alleged links to Gulen.
Among those held on April 18 were 41 employees of Islamic lender Bank Asya, founded by followers of Gulen and seized by the government last year, the prosecutor said.
"Money was collected exploiting religious feelings and was not used for the purpose promised to people who made donations," the prosecutor’s office alleged.
Companies ranging from media and mining to furniture and cable-makers have been investigated and executives detained. Media outlets linked to Gulen have been seized and some closed.
Dumankaya has grown strongly in recent years and plans investments of over 1.5 billion liras ($525 million) this year, targeting a rise in sales to 750 million liras this year from 463 million last year, according to its website.
Erdogan accuses Gulen of creating a "parallel state" and conspiring to unseat the government with a network of supporters in the judiciary, the police and the media. Gulen denies the accusations.
A total of 2,261 people were rounded up in operations in 48 provinces across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... targeting the financial activities of Gulen’s followers since police measures began, daily Milliyet reported over the weekend, citing police data. Those detained include coppers, civil servants, teachers and businessmen.
A Turkish court in December 2014 issued an arrest warrant for Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999, accusing him of heading a criminal group.
Security officials in Kunduz said Monday they have pushed back a major onslaught by the Taliban in Chardara district, which is only eight kilometers south-west of Kunduz city.
According to officials, at least 1,000 Taliban fighters launched a coordinated attack on various security check posts in the district but they faced strong retaliation on the part of Afghan security forces.
The officials also said that 20 Taliban militants were killed in this battle.
A local police commander in the district, Mohammad Amin, said the Taliban has used farm land and civilian houses as strongholds to fight security forces.
He said: "Security in Chardara is related to security in Kunduz. They [Taliban] wanted to take control of Chardara."
TOLOnews reporter, Tariq Majidi, who is reporting from Kunduz, said the security forces confirmed they destroyed a military tank used by the Taliban on Sunday night.
Chardara is the closest district to Kunduz city, which has raised concerns that the battle will reach the city in the near future – if the resurgent Taliban is not pushed back.
"There has been no change in defense lines of the security forces over the past four days that the militants are fighting against them," said district chief for Chardara, Mohammad Zalmai.
According to officials, there are at least 10 check posts in Chardara – of varying sizes.
Security officials also said some of the Taliban fighters came to the district from other provinces and other parts of Kunduz to fight security forces.
"There are Pakistani fighters among the Taliban [that fight against Afghan security forces in Chardara]. Some of the fighters have come from Kandahar and Helmand provinces to fight the security forces and take control of the district," said Abdul Azim Andarabi, an army officer.
"It is four days and four nights that we are fighting and they [militants] are attacking from every side," said Farid, a police officer.
(IraqiNews.com) Anbar – On Monday, Anbar Operations Command announced, that the cleansing battle of Fallujah from the so-called ISIS will be carried out next week, while indicated to the participation of the different security services backed by the international coalition aviation and tribal fighters.
The commander of Anbar Operations Maj. Gen. Ismail al-Mahalawi said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The security forces are preparing for the cleansing battles of Fallujah from ISIS guerrilla.”
The statement added, “The cleansing battle will start next week, with the participation of the army, police, Anti-Terrorism forces, tribal fighters and the international coalition aviation.”
ISIS could use civilians as human shields Medea Benjamin is never around when you need her
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – On Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned of using the civilian as human shields by ISIS during Fallujah cleansing battles, while called the security forces to secure safe havens for the unarmed civilians.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also revealed, that ISIS has kidnapped 100 children from the residents of Fallujah to recruit them in terrorist operations.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights’ member, Fadhel al-Gharawi, said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “ISIS gangs use the civilians as human shields in Fallujah, and booby-trap houses in spite the presence of civilians in these houses.”
The statement added, “ISIS kidnapped 100 children from Fallujah during the last three days to use them in terrorist operations.”
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Dozens of African migrants have reportedly drowned after a boat carrying 400 people capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.
Most of the 400 migrants aboard the boat were fleeing from Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea and had been hoping to reach Italy. Somali media reports say that rescue workers have only managed to save 29 passengers from the waters after the shocking incident.
Over 400 migrants are thought to have drowned, the Somali ambassador in Egypt told BBC Arabic.
Social media users have claimed that the boat had started its journey in Egypt with Italy being its intended destination, a route favoured by many smugglers.
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At least the Turks had the decency to sell life jackets to these people before they got into the boats. And it's a good bet that not one of them ever learned to swim.
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SteveS----That is very cruel, but witty. WKRP, one of their best episodes.
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Should have paid for the upgrade to the premium service.
Funny how the reporting never mentions the money involved and where it comes from. A few million migrant colonists X a few thousand per head and we are talking billions of dollars.
ALEPPO – Subsequent to fierce battles with Syrian rebel factions, militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Monday captured a key village in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo, local and military sources reported.
Local activists confirmed that sporadic clashes continued between the two sides near the Syria-Turkey border until Monday midnight.
Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, rebel spokesman Saleh Zein said that ISIS militants launched a major attack on rebels headquarters in Aleppo’s north and were able to seize control of Tel Battal village near the Syrian-Turkish border after heavy battles with the rebel fighters from the Sultan Murad Brigade and the 1st regiment.
“Daesh launched heavy artillery shells and rockets on headquarters of the rebels headquarters in the area, forcing them to withdraw towards the town of Dudyan,” Zein reported, using an acronym for ISIS.
This coincided with ISIS’s attempts to advance towards the rebel-held Dudyan town. Meanwhile, the Turkish army pounded several tactical units and positions for ISIS in the town of Kafr Ghan and the village of Tel Hussein, causing them casualties, according to local sources.
“Aleppo’s northern suburbs has been witnessing hit and run assaults between the conflicting parties for months, but due to the convergence of the villages in the region, they could not be permanent military zones for one party,” media activist Dirar Hamid told ARA News in Aleppo.
“However, areas that enjoy a strategic location like Dudyan are supposed to be held in order to control the whole region,” Hamid argued.
In case of capturing the villages of Soran, Ahtimlat and Doabak, Syrian rebels can fortify their presence in the region which may enable them liberate the strategic town of al-Raee on the Turkish-Syrian border, according to the source.
Despite the Turkish shelling on its positions, ISIS was able days ago to regain control of the strategic town of al-Raee in northern Aleppo subsequent to fierce battles with the armed opposition fighters.
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[Iran Press TV] A court in Pakistain has handed down life sentences to two convicts involved in the country’s largest child abuse and extortion scandal.
"Two convicts in the Kasur child abuse case have been handed life imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 rupees ($2,860) each by an anti-terrorism court of Lahore," said Sheikh Saeed Ahmed, the chief prosecutor of Punjab, on Monday.
The scandal shocked Pakistain in August last year after it was revealed that for the past nine years, a local gang had been filming sexual exploitation of children below 14 years of age, all residents of Hussain Khanwala village in the Kasur district, southwest of Lahore.
The 400 pornographic videos of at least 280 victims were circulated during the nine-year period for 50 rupees (40 US cents) each. In some cases, the videos were used to blackmail the children’s parents. The scandal gained national attention early in August after festivities broke out in the village between parents protesting against the police's failure to arrest those responsible.
After the scandal surfaced, about 20 arrests were made and Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... vowed to "severely" punish the perpetrators.
On March 11, the Pak Senate passed a bill that criminalized for the first time sexual assault against minors, child pornography and trafficking. Previously, only the acts of rape and sodomy were punishable by law.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Yemeni government front man has said the arrival of the Houthis delegation to peace talks has been delayed following disagreements between them and the ousted president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... Yemen’s Iranian catspaws backed out of UN-brokered peace talks just hours before the negotiations were due to start on Monday in Kuwait, demanding an immediate halt to Arclight airstrikes by the coalition according to two officials who spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to news hounds.
It was not immediately clear if the negotiations were completely scuttled.
According to two media officials linked to the Houthis, rebel representatives have delayed their trip to Kuwait.
A UN-brokered cease-fire announced earlier this month has sought to facilitate the negotiations in Kuwait, though it has repeatedly been breached. Along with Sanaa, cities of Taiz, Marib and Jouf have seen most of the cease-fire violations.
At the talks, the Houthis were widely expected to comply with a UN Security Council resolution demanding their militia withdraw from Yemeni cities, the handover of the rebels’ heavy weapons to government forces and the release of detainees.
Representatives from both sides were also to be deployed along the front lines to monitor for cease-fire violations.
Also Monday, tens of thousands of Yemenis rallied in the port city of Aden, demanding the secession of the south from the rest of the country and the return of the one-time independent state of South Yemen.
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[IsraelTimes] Egyptian forces flooded and partially destroyed a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, tunnel in the southern Gazoo Strip Monday, temporarily trapping a number of workers inside, Paleostinian media reported.
News of the incident came as Israeli security forces revealed they had discovered and destroyed a Hamas attack tunnel extending into Israeli territory, also near the southern Strip.
The tunnel flooded by Egypt appeared to have been a commercial tunnel used to smuggle people and goods in and out of the Strip, as opposed to the "terror tunnel" located in southern Israel, which could have been used to carry out attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.
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[Iran Press TV] Three Somali civilians have bit the dust in a shooting incident by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... bandidosturbans in the country’s capital, Mogadishu, police and witnesses say.
According to a Somali police official, two non-combatants were killed on Monday during a drive-by shooting by the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group in central Mogadishu. One al-Shabaab bully boy was also killed in the incident.
The gunman "was killed by police after he killed a civilian. Another civilian was killed after the car the assailants were riding in detonated," said police official Ibrahim Mohammed.
The third civilian victim died later of gunshot wounds sustained in the firing.
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[DAWN] SPIN BOLDAK: At first glance Mohibullah looks an ordinary Afghan teenager, wide-eyed with a tender smile, a little peach fuzz and a boyish dream of becoming a kick boxer. But this 15-year-old is languishing in prison ─ tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! after the Taliban preyed on him to become a jacket wallah.
The runaway teen was apprehended in 2014 as he was about to blow himself up outside a district governor's office ─ a failed mission that has left him locked up in juvenile detention in southern Kandahar city.
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The runaway teen was apprehended in 2014 as he was about to blow himself up outside a district governor's office
Should've had a Guard Cat
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Nearly 200 anti-government armed faceless myrmidons were killed or maimed in the latest raids of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Monday.
According to a statement by the Ministry of Defense (MoD), the raids were jointly conducted by Afghan army, police and intelligence operatives in the past 24 hours.
The statement further added that the ground forces were receiving close-air support by the Afghan Air Force (AAF) as well as the artillery units of the Afghan army.
MoD said at least 96 faceless myrmidons were killed and 93 others were maimed with majority of the faceless myrmidons killed in northern Kunduz province.
According to MoD, at least 82 faceless myrmidons were killed and 69 others were maimed during the raids in Dasht-e-Achi, Khanabad, Chahar Dara, Imam Sahib and outskirts of Kunduz city.
The ministry added that the remaining faceless myrmidons were killed during the operations in Kandahar, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , and Baghlan provinces.
The anti-government armed myrmidon groups have not commented regarding the reports so far.
Meanwhile, ...back at the fist fight, Jake ducked another roundhouse, then parried with his left, then with his right, finally with his chin... MoD said at least five soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces also bit the dust during the operations conducted with an aim to suppress the foreign and local myrmidons.
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[AlAhram] The bomb was targeting a prisoner transport van, according to security sources
An improvised bomb (IED) detonated in the North Sinai city of El-Arish, killing two citizens and injuring 11 others, including three police conscripts from a passing police van, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Monday.
According to security sources and eyewitnesses, unknown assailants planted the bomb in the El-Khazan area with the aim of targeting a passing prisoner transport van.
Security forces are currently combing the area for the culprits and other possible bombs.
The bodies of the two dead citizens and the injured were transferred to El-Arish General Hospital, while the injured conscripts were taken to El-Arish Military Hospital.
No group has yet grabbed credit of the attack.
No doubt Ansar Bayt al Maqdis will claim it tomorrow, and it will turn out they got men and materials from Hamas. Previously:
[IsraelTimes] The Egyptian army thwarted a major attack on its forces in the northern Sinai, close to the border with Gazoo, according to the local media
Two soldiers are said to be injured and three gunnies killed in the Saturday night attack at a checkpoint near the entrance to the town of Rafah.
A spokesperson for the Egyptian army tells the Daily News Egypt: "The terrorist attack targeting El Masora checkpoint was foiled. Soldiers stationed at the checkpoint killed three gunnies and injured six."
A Sinai-based journalist tells the paper that the attack was intended to mirror a similar one in March that targeted a different checkpoint and killed 15 people..
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York on Tuesday to discuss implementation of the Iran nuclear deal and ways Tehran can use its influence to end Syria’s civil war, US officials said on Monday.
Kerry is expected to raise Tehran’s concerns over difficulties with accessing the global financial system despite the lifting of some US sanctions under the nuclear deal.
Iran and six world powers clinched the nuclear agreement in July 2015, which allowed for the easing of some sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union and United Nations in return for Tehran curbing its nuclear program.
Tehran has called on the United States to do more to remove obstacles to the banking sector so that businesses feel comfortable with investing in Iran without penalties.
Current US policy bars foreign banks from clearing dollar-based transactions with Iran through US banks. But US officials have said the Obama administration is considering ways in which non-US companies can use the dollar in some business transactions with Iran.
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HAMA – Subsequent to fierce battles with the pro-regime army forces, Syrian Islamist rebel groups on Monday captured strategic positions in Syria’s central province of Hama.
Islamist groups attacked the pro-regime forces with artillery shelling and rockets, killing and wounding dozens of soldiers, according to local activists.
Speaking to ARA News in Hama, media activist Abdul Rahman Taha said that fighters from the Islamic Party of Turkestan and Jund al-Aqsa rebel groups continued their progress at the expense of the Syrian army forces and were able to take over the tanks hill near the Jorin military camp subsequent to fierce battles clashes.
“Islamist rebels were able to kill dozens of the regime’s army troops and wound many others,” Taha said, pointing out that Islamist rebels seized two tanks [T 72] and destroyed a machine gun [caliber 23] belonging to the Syrian army.
The source emphasized that the Syrian army responded to the attack with several rockets on the rebels’ headquarters inside the towns of Tel Wasit and Mansoura.
ARA News could not verify the death toll in the ranks of the rebels.
A rebel spokesman reported that similar clashes broke out between the two sides in the vicinity of the town of al-Hakura, coinciding with aerial bombardment by pro-Assad warplanes on the Khirbat an-Noqus town and the vicinity of al-Hakura and Mansoura towns.
In the meantime, the villages loyal to president Bashar al-Assad in western Hama witnessed the displacement of dozens of civilians, especially after the advance of Islamists, according to local activists.
Islamist rebel factions launched on Monday a new battle to break into the pro-regime forces’ positions in the plain of al-Ghab and in the western suburbs of Hama, taking over the town of Khirbet an-Naqus.
Over the past few months, Syrian Islamist rebels led by the Conquest Army group were able to capture a number of villages and towns in the al-Ghab plain, especially after taking over the cities of Idlib and Jisr al-Shughur from pro-Assad forces in northwestern Syria.
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[IsraelTimes] Police revealed Monday that indictments were filed against members of a network that funded disruptive activities on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem aimed at discouraging Jewish visitors to the holy site through provocations and agitation.
The activities of the network were uncovered by a joint Israel Police and Shin Bet general security services operation, police said in a statement.
Indictments were filed against Muhammad Jabarin, a resident of the northern city of Umm al-Fahm, and Najeeb Qawasmeh Jada and Khalil Abasi, residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, for property transactions for the purpose of terror and membership in a prohibited organization.
Police withheld further information regarding the charges against the suspects.
The Jerusalem District Prosecutor asked that the suspects remain in jug.
During the course of the investigation, police said, prima facie evidence was compiled about a network making payments to male and female activists of the so-called Murabitat groups, which have been banned from the Temple Mount during Jewish visitors’ hours.
In addition to questioning the key suspects, police acted against dozens of Murabitan activists in an investigation which is still ongoing, police said.
The single-sex Murabitan [for men] or Murabitut [for women] groups are known for opposing Jewish presence on the Temple Mount by shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great") at visitors, and sometimes resorting to physical assaults. The Prime Minister’s Office has described them as a "salaried group of activists aimed at initiating provocations on the Temple Mount."
Guidance and funding for the group was in the past provided largely by the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, which was banned in November last year. At the time the Prime Minister’s Office called the organization "a sister movement of the terrorist organization Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason," and said the two movements maintained close, clandestine ties.
In early September, the Murabitat (plural of "Murabit" -- a defender of Islam) were banned from the mount during morning hours in which Jews visit, on the orders of Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. Since then, their members have mostly waited outside the gates of the compound, confronting Jews upon their exit.
(IraqiNews.com) The Turkish security authorities said on Monday, that 18 Kurdish militants were killed in clashes with the Turkish security forces when they tried to flee last night from the border town of Nusaybin into Syria.
A security source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Security forces were conducting a security operation in Nusaybin area when clashes broke out as a group of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party members arrived in the Syrian city of al-Qamishli,” adding that, “15 PKK militants were killed during clashes in the areas of Nusaybin, Şırnak and Yüksekova.”
Recent satellite imagery shows that activity is continuing at North Korea's nuclear test site, the website 38 North said Monday, amid heightened concern the communist nation could carry out its fifth nuclear test soon.
So much for being leaned on by the Chinese...
The April 14 imagery shows limited activity at the North Portal, where the North conducted three of its four nuclear tests, and what appears to be a trailer or small passenger vehicle is present outside the tunnel entrance, 38 North said.
The imagery also showed the presence of what is likely a shipping container or equipment trailer at the main support area, 38 North said. The area is also clear of snow and well-maintained, which also indicates that it is active, it said.
"While there is little evidence of that a test is imminent, the possibility cannot be ruled out since the North has demonstrated the ability to conduct detonations on short notice by slow rolling preparations, masking significant indicators from satellite view," 38 North said.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said that the United States is monitoring the situation closely.
"I won't talk about intelligence matters, but I can just tell you we're watching this as closely as we can," he said. "We continue to call on them to stop these destabilizing activities and to prove that they are willing to return to the six-party process."
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[Iran Press TV] At least four Syrian nationals including three children have bit the dust when a number of rockets landed in a town on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s southeastern border with Syria, security sources say.
A Turkish citizen and five other Syrians were also maimed after five rockets struck the southeastern Turkish town of Kilis on Monday.
Local officials say a state hospital and a teachers’ dormitory were among the targets hit by the rocket fire in the volatile region.
It was not immediately clear if the mortar shells had been fired from Syria.
Kilis is a town located just north of the Syrian border, some 10 kilometers from the Syrian town of Azaz. According to Turkish officials, it is the only town in Turkey with a majority of Syrians.
Separately, a mortar landed near an army outpost in the southern Hatay Province. The Turkish military fired on what it called ISIS positions in northern Syria in retaliation. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
In recent months, the area has been the scene of fierce festivities involving the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Lion of Islams, whom Ankara said is working to push out of the border zone.
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(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – An informed source in Nineveh Province announced on Monday, that al-Hashed al-Watani forces liberated two villages in Bashiqah District northeast of Mosul, while pointed out that the liberation operation was backed by the Peshmerga forces and the international coalition aviation.
The source said in a press interview obtained by IraqiNews.com, “The forces from al-Hashed al-Watani backed by the Peshmerga forces and the international coalition aviation managed to liberate the villages of Barima and al-Noran northeast of Mosul from ISIS grip,” indicating that, “The international coalition aviation bombed a number of ISIS headquarters in the two villages.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “ISIS did not show any resistance and withdrew its fighters toward Khor village and al-Shalalat area.”
(IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – The Anti-Terrorism Directorate in Kurdistan Security Council announced on Monday the implementation of an air landing operation in cooperation with American troops in Hamam al-Alil area in Mosul, while pointed out that the operation resulted in the killing of one of ISIS Emirs, along with two of his assistants.
The Anti-Terrorism Directorate said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “An air landing operation was carried out in Hamam al-Alil area south of Mosul based on accurate intelligence information,” pointing out that, “The operation was carried out in cooperation with a special American force.”
The statement added, “The operation resulted in the killing of one of ISIS Emirs, who was known as Salman Abd Shaib al-Jabouri (Abu Saif), along with two of his assistants.”
[DAWN] DERA GHAZI KHAN/LAHORE: A heavy exchange of fire commenced on Monday afternoon between security forces and gangsters, with two army helicopters flying overhead for reconnaissance purposes.
Earlier, the district administration of Rajanpur was ’alert’ in anticipation of a full-scale operation by the military as a Monday afternoon deadline to the gangsters to surrender unconditionally and release coppers held as hostages expired.
The Army had given the Chotoo gang until 2pm on Monday (today) to surrender, police officials speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... had told Dawn.
In case they refused to abide by the deadline, the Army said it will begin a full-scale operation, the official added.
Corps Commander II Corps Maj Gen Ishfaq Nadeem chaired a high-level meeting in Rajanpur on Monday and took stock of the situation before leaving, an official said, adding that an emergency has been imposed in hospitals in Dera Ghazi Khan, Rahim Yar Khan and Rajanpur.
Rajanpur DCO Zahoor Hussain Gujjar, while talking to Dawn, confirmed that an emergency had been imposed at all hospitals in and around the area. "We are alert," he said, adding that the official leaves of Rajanpur district babus government employees had been cancelled.
The officials have been directed to remain at their places of duty until further notice in order to take on any untoward situation in the aftermath of the expected operation, he said.
At least six coppers were killed and 24 others taken hostage by the gang when the operation was launched less than a week ago.
Dawn quoted a well-placed source on Monday saying that the gang had released some of the hostages, but the source was unable to say how many had been freed.
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[Iran Press TV] A court in Ukraine has sentenced two Russian soldiers, captured in 2015, to 14 years in prison for crimes, including fighting in the conflict in the country’s troubled east.
The Ukrainian court made the ruling on Monday, after it found Sergeant Aleksander Aleksandrov and Captain Yevgeny Yerofeyev guilty of participating in "an aggressive war" against Ukraine and committing "a terrorist attack" in the country’s east.
Kiev says the two were servicemen with an elite Russian military intelligence unit when they were tossed in the calaboose Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in the eastern region of Lugansk last May.
Russia, however, insists that the pair had resigned from active duty and crossed into the war zone of their own free will.
Russia’s Interfax news agency, citing the convicts’ lawyers, said Aleksandrov and Yerofeyev have yet to decide whether to file an appeal against the verdict.
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has proposed swapping the soldiers for a Ukrainian pilot who was sentenced to 22 years in prison by a Russian court in March.
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[NAIJ] Over 45 suspected Boko Haram terrorists are reportedly being detained in Kirikiri maximum prison, Lagos. The Nation reports that the suspects have been in the prison awaiting trial since the last seven months, following an order by a magistrate, Adeola Adedayo of an Isolo magistrate court.
The Amnesty International has been called upon by a rights group, the Prisoners’ Rights Advocacy Initiative (PRAI), to carry out an independent investigation of the 45 suspected Boko Haram members arrested in Lagos last year, with a view to ascertaining their true status.
Recall that in September last year, operatives of the Department of State Services had arrested 45 suspected Boko Haram members in connection with a foiled attack on Dolphin estate, Ikoyi in Eti-Osa local government area of Lagos. The suspects were charged to a Lagos state magistrate’s court sitting in Isolo and the court ordered they be remanded in Kirikiri prisons in the state.
The petition, dated April 5, and signed by the PRAI director, Ahmed Adetola–Kazeem is entitled: Call for investigation and prevention of rights abuse of 45 terrrorism suspects detained in Kirikiri maximum prison since November. The petition was also sent to the executive secretary, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the Lagos attorney-general and commissioner for justice.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 31 people bit the dust in the latest flash floods in northern parts of the country, the local officials said.
The flash floods swept through residential areas in northern Baghlan and Samangan, northeastern Takhar and northwestern Badghis provinces.
According to the local officials in Badghis, heavy seasonal rain falls triggered flash floods in northern parts of the country, mostly affecting the Jond, Kamari and Sang Atash district in Badghis.
The officials further added that 5 deaths were reported in the village of Pul Bagh in Taloqan city of Takhar where 3 others sustained injuries.
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... officials in Samangan said at least 5 people are missing after flash floods hit the area, damaging at least 5 acres of agricultural land.
Reports from the central Daikundi province suggest the main transportation routes have been blocked as a result of the flash floods.
This comes as dozens of people bit the dust in flash floods triggered by heavy seasonal rain falls across the country last year.
Afghanistan is hit by heavy rainfalls as the weather gets warm across the country which mainly contributes to flash floods that leave hundreds of people dead every year.
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[Iran Press TV] Political and military interventions by the United States and its allies have sparked the ongoing crises in Syria and Iraq that have taken thousands of lives, says an author and political commentator.
Jack Lauria made the comments in an interview on Monday with Press TV over Washington’s plans to increase the number of special operations forces in Syria and deploy Apache helicopter gunships to the battlefield in Iraq.
"The major reason over the last century for the crises that has beset the Middle East and North Africa, has been intervention by Western powers," Lauria said.
He said the ongoing crisis in Iraq has been particularly sparked by the US invasion in 2003 that gave rise to the ISIS (ISIS) Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group.
Lauria argued that Washington, along with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and other Persian Gulf allies directly supported the terror group and helped it take parts of Syria under control as well.
"The issue now is what does the US do? What is the responsibility of the United States now that they have created this mess? Do they just walk away or there is more intervention needed," he noted.
Lauria said Washington’s objectives in Syria were suspicious considering its record of training anti-government faceless myrmidons in the country.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Army (ANA) Commando Forces have placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! a key Taliban group member during a night operation in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) front man Dawlat Waziri said Monday that the special night operation was conducted with an aim to arrest the key Taliban leader.
He said the operation was successfully conducted which led to the arrest of Mullah Khalifa along with another bad boy accompanying him.
According to Waziri, the operation was conducted in Khakriz district of Kandahar province late on Sunday night.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the report so far which comes amid deteriorating security situation as the group announced is spring offensive last week.
This comes as the anti-government armed bad boy groups have constantly been attempting to carry out terrorist attacks in Kandahar city during the recent weeks.
A jacket wallah was rubbed out by the intelligence operatives before he manage to carry out an attack on Kandahar police headquarters earlier this month.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saw mill, Scarface Al had tied Little Nell to the log and was about to turn on the buzz saw... Afghan intelligence operatives arrested at least 19 turbans who were planning to carry out coordinated attacks in Kandahar province a day before the suicide bomber was rubbed out.
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It's almost as if Karzai had deliberately throttled the Anti-Taliban push by eliminating night raids during his late tenure
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Troops from a U.S.-led coalition landed a helicopter in northern Iraq and seized at least one ISIS fighter from a vehicle, three witnesses and two Kurdish security sources said.
The force quickly took off again with their captive on Sunday afternoon, the sources told Rooters.
"It all happened in less than 10 minutes," said a witness of the raid in Badush district, around 20 km (12 miles) northwest of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the largest Iraqi city still in the hands of ISIS.
A front man for the U.S. coalition declined to confirm or deny the reports.
A news agency that supports ISIS said the turbans had thwarted the raid.
Iraqi authorities say they will retake Mosul this year. But an army offensive launched last month south of the city has been put on hold until more forces arrive to hold ground.
The United States announced last December it was deploying a new force of special operations troops to Iraq to conduct raids against ISIS there and in neighbouring Syria.
The hard boy group's second-in-command and other big shots were likely killed last month by an air strike after a U.S. special forces' helicopter was fired on from the ground.
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[NYDAILYNEWS] The bad news has been snowballing for Bill de Blasio, what with the emergence of a federal probe involving, among other things, top cops in Brooklyn accepting diamonds, trips and more from two big donors to various appendages of his political operation and what’s now four separate investigations into a city-aided flip, again involving a wired backer of the mayor, of a Lower East Side nursing home for AIDS patients into luxury condos.
I wrote last Sunday that "after this week, I’m losing faith that de Blasio’s horse trading is paying off for the city." And it appears I’m not the only one.
Ace New York corruption buster Preet Bharara, fresh off turning two of Albany’s three men in a room into convicted felons (and exposing one of them, former Assembly Speaker and de Blasio ally Shelly Silver, as an adulterer who had one mistress who was a major Albany lobbyist and another who he helped get a state job), is now reportedly looking into these messes and their links to the mayor’s 2013 campaign.
When Bharara announced last year that he was charging Silver -- who de Blasio then called "a man of integrity" -- the lawman said that the "unfinished fight against public corruption continues," and New Yorkers should "stay tuned."
He repeated the phrase last week at a gala for Common Cause, the good government group whose pointed questions about de Blasio’s main outside money operation, The Campaign for One New York, came just before the group suddenly announced it would be closing up shop. Bharara elaborated, just a little, on what we should be tuned in for, saying that "executive offices in government are far from immune from the creeping show-me-the-money culture that has been pervading New York for some time now."
Which, given that Bharara has already ended a probe of Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo, with a public declaration that "there is insufficient evidence to prove a federal crime," sounds an awful lot like "I’d like to dedicate this next tune to Bill de Blasio."
Talking on background this week to people who lead groups that do business with this administration, and have long experience with previous ones, the common concerns were whether or not de Blasio has full control over his own administration and political operation -- and where, exactly, the line between them gets drawn in our post-Citizens United city.
One person compared de Blasio’s inner circle -- particularly Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on all things public-safety related and Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen on all things involving real estate -- to "independent contractors," with tremendous autonomy within their respective spheres. Which might help explain how a mayor with a reputation for micromanaging has spent the last two weeks pleading ignorance about major decisions made by his own administration.
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The first point is do not confuse the investigations.
There are bunches, but scummarxistwhore's name keeps coming up.
I wait for their shitslide to hell MOB
[DAWN] Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday vowed to defend Muslim countries against terrorism and Israel while insisting that its neighbours should not feel threatened.
Speaking during a National Army Day parade in which Iranian forces displayed sophisticated air defence systems recently acquired from Russia, Mr Rouhani praised Tehran’s role in helping the Syrian and Iraqi governments roll back the krazed killerIslamic 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.
"If tomorrow your capitals face danger from terrorism or Zionism, the power that will give you a positive answer is the Islamic Republic of Iran," he said. But he added that Iran would only help if Muslim countries asked it to, and said its military power was purely for defensive and deterrent purposes. "The power of our armed forces is not against our southern, northern, eastern and western neighbours," he said.
The Iranian president appeared to be referring to Gulf Arab states, which have long viewed Iran as seeking to dominate the region.
During the parade, the army displayed Russian-made S-300 air defence missiles delivered earlier this month.
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China's "misperception" about the THAAD missile defense system would be dispelled if it hears expert explanations that the U.S. has offered to provide about the system, a U.S. State Department official said Monday.
Perhaps the Chinese 'pressure' on the Norks is as simple as, they don't want us putting a missile defense system into South Korea...
"We've offered to send subject matter experts to Beijing to brief both the PLA (People's Liberation Army) and government and party officials about what THAAD is," Mark Lambert, the department's Korea director, said during a discussion at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"I think there is a lot of misperception that THAAD is aimed at China and much of that could be alleviated if Chinese officials would agree to meet with our experts," he said. "Unfortunately to date, officials in Beijing have been unwilling to meet with our officials and hear that."
The Chinese understand THAAD perfectly well. That's why they don't want it in South Korea...
Lambert said that the radars associated with THAAD are "pointed northeast towards North Korea, not towards Xinjiang," China, and that THAAD interceptors "would not be a mechanism that would do away with China's nuclear deterrent."
China has expressed strong opposition to the potential deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense unit in South Korea, arguing that the system can be used against it, despite repeated assurances from Washington that the system is aimed only at deterring North Korean threats.
South Korea and the U.S. jointly announced in February, shortly after North Korea's long-range missile test, that they would begin official discussions about the possible deployment of a THAAD battery to better defend against nuclear and missile threats from the North.
Recalling his time in Beijing when tensions were high in U.S.-China relations over military incidents in 2001 and 2009, known as "EP-3 Crisis" and "Impeccable Crisis," respectively, Lambert said that Chinese officials have shown a tendency of not wanting to have dialogue when it was most needed.
"I'm hoping that our bilateral decision to protect Koreans and Americans would not affect our ability to work effectively with Beijing on areas of mutual concern," he said. "We have areas of mutual concern. Those areas exist irrespective of our views on THAAD. I think it's time for thinking a little bit more creatively."
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No.
Fuck you.
THAAD is as good as we want it to be.
Piss off.
[DAWN] Rescuers in Ecuador raced to dig out people trapped under the rubble of homes and businesses on Sunday, following a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed at least 233 people.
Vice President Jorge Glas called it the "worst seismic movement we have faced in decades".
President Rafael Correa said on Twitter that the corpse count had risen to 233. He added that Mr Glas was on his way to the hard-hit city of Portoviejo on the Pacific coast.
The quake, felt across Ecuador, northern Peru and southern Colombia, struck on Saturday evening, lasting about a minute, and was centred approximately 170km northwest of the capital Quito.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The authorities in Pakistain have reportedly called on Afghan Taliban group leadership to shun violence or pay a heavy price, a move which the Pak authorities are saying has been taken to persuade the group to participate in peace talks and end the violence through reconciliation process.
A Pak official quoted in a local media report said the authorities in Pakistain have also called on the Taliban leadership to call off their ’spring offensive’.
The official speaking on the condition of anonymity further added that the warning by Pak authorities have been issued amid concerns that the spring offensive by the group could derail the peace initiative the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) had launched in December last year.
Calling the announcement of spring offensive by Taliban as disappointing, the official said the Taliban leadership has been given a clear message through ’intermediaries’ that they would have to pay a ’heavy price’ if they refused to go back to the negotiating table.
The announcement by Pak authorities to warn the Taliban group comes as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for remaining reckless to act against the safe havens of the Death Eater groups operating in the country.
A top Afghan defense official said last week that Taliban group leaders are convening key meetings in their safe havens inside the Pak soil.
The Chief of Army Staff General Qadam Shah Shaheem told news hounds in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... that the Taliban gatherings, including meetings to pledge allegiance are taking place in Pakistain.
Although the Pak officials have repeatedly denied support to the Taliban group but the country’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... earlier acknowledged the Pakistain has influence on Taliban leaders which could be used as a leverage to force the group to participate in peace talks.
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[Iran Press TV] US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... is accurate in comparing Bill and Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John C. Calhoun ... to the country’s oligarchy ... derived from the Greek words oligos, a few and the verb archo, to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you... who are ruling the US and "squeezing" the middle and lower class households, an investigative journalist in Washington says.
"Senator Sanders has hit the nail on the head; Hillary Clinton and her husband do represent an oligarchy," said Wayne Madsen, an author and columnist specializing in intelligence and international affairs.
"These are the upper one percent of the one percent in the United States who are doing quite well and the rest of the country isn’t," Madsen said during a phone interview with Press TV on Monday.
"Oligarchs like the Clintons and the Bushes and others are squeezing the American working people to the point where they’re angry and that anger is either now manifested in support for Sanders from members of the liberal wing or Democratic Party or their support for Donald Trump, who actually shares many of Sanders’ beliefs about Wall Street and the oligarchs and the bad trade agreements that have cost the United States so many jobs," he added.
Sanders pressed his line of attack again on Sunday that "Wall Street and other special interests" support Clinton, the candidate who wants to bring "oligarchy" to the country.
Sanders also criticized Clinton over fundraising on ABC's ’This Week With George Stephanopoulos,’ calling into question whether big ticket fundraisers belong in the Democratic Party.
Clinton attended two fundraisers co-hosted by Hollywood actor George Clooney over the weekend in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,. The price tag for a ticket to dine with her at the event was $34,000.
Sanders has repeatedly condemned America’s huge wealth inequality, lack of universal healthcare and a corrupt campaign finance system, drawing significant support for his presidential campaign.
He is now hoping to defy expectations in New York state’s primary elections on Tuesday, where the most recent polls showed him trailing Clinton by about 17 points.
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Wayne Madsen
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Two words that should never appear in the same sentence, 'Clinton and squeezing.' My apologies in advance for the potential imagery and any follow-on convulsions.
[DAWN] Afghan forces fought back a renewed series of attacks on Kunduz, killing dozens of Taliban fighters, officials said on Sunday as Death Eaters stepped up their bid to retake the northern city that they had captured briefly last year.
The attacks on Kunduz, involving hundreds of krazed killers, have intensified days after the Taliban announced the start of their annual ’spring offensive’, aimed at driving out the Western-backed government in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... Attacks overnight appeared aimed at cutting off Chardara district on the southwest outskirts of the city, with several checkpoints targeted, Kunduz police chief Qasim Jangalbagh said.
"They wanted to cut the road which connects the district to Kunduz city to stop us sending reinforcements," he said.
Urban warfare causes spike in child, women casualties, says UN
In addition, he said a major attack was driven back at Charkh Ab, to the east, as the Taliban sought to stretch the city’s defences.
Kunduz police claimed 49 Taliban fighters had been killed and another 61 injured, while the defence ministry said 38 were killed and 13 maimed over the past 24 hours.
A police front man said four members of the security forces were killed and 11 injured.
Kunduz public health director Saad Mukhtar said six dead and 107 maimed had been brought to city hospitals over the past three days, which have been put under heavy strain by the destruction of the hospital run by aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in a US air strike last year.
The fall of Kunduz last year followed months of attacks that began in the spring. The attacks weakened security forces before Taliban fighters seized the city centre at the end of September, holding it for two weeks before pulling out.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... officials have made a major effort to reassure residents that there would be no repeat of last year’s demoralising collapse.
The heavy fighting around Kunduz, Afghanistan’s fifth-biggest city underlines the concern highlighted in the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... ’ latest report on civilian casualties, which pointed to a sharp rise in the number of children killed or injured as a consequence of combat in built-up areas.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Ever since the inception of the Paleostinian Authority (PA) in 1994, local and international organizations have repeatedly issued reports on the rampant corruption plaguing its ministries and departments. The problem is not limited to administrative and financial excesses committed by irresponsible individuals for personal motives, but rather is seems entrenched in the PA’s structure.
The most recent corruption case was revealed by the so-called "Panama Papers," which were published early this month. The Panama Papers exposed the involvement of international figures, which also includes notable Paleostinians, in tax evasion and money laundering,
Tareq Abbas, the son of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... on Monday hailed Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s recent announcement which identified the powers of the Saudi Committee of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (often referred to as "inquisitors religious police") and revoked its ability to pursue and detain.
"This is a positive move for Saudi citizens and residents who have suffered years of harassment and abuse by the inquisitors religious police," said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East director.
Members of the inquisitors religious police, known informally as Mutawaa, can no longer stop or arrest or chase people or ask for their IDs or follow them, under the new regulations.
They should instead "carry out the duties of encouraging virtue and forbidding vice by advising kindly and gently", the official Saudi Press Agency reported citing the decree.
"Saudi Arabia has taken a step that could rein in longstanding inquisitors religious police abuses, but authorities must enforce the new regulations for them to have any meaning," Whitson said.
Last week, the Saudi cabinet issued a decree which sought to organize the framework of committee’s operation.
Under the approved changes, religious officers will no longer be allowed to detain people and instead must report violators to police or the kingdom’s anti-narcotics officers.
The decree also stipulated the criteria of which members of the committee are selected; it states that they must have sufficient educational qualifications, a good reputation and no criminal record or ruling against them prior to joining.
Each member of the committee will now also be required to wear a photo ID card while on duty. A detailed translation of last week cabinet decree can be found here.
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HRW - willing dupes. How fucking stupid do they think we are?
For more than five years, Donald Trump’s new top campaign aide, Paul Manafort, lobbied for a Washington-based group that Justice Department prosecutors have charged operated as a front for Pakistan’s intelligence service, according to court and lobbying records reviewed by Yahoo News.
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Mr. Manafort's clients don't appear to be doing very well these days. Did RNC Chairman Reince Priebus recommend Manafort for the Trump aide position ?
Was Manafort brought on to help Trump snare disillusioned Clinton democrats ?
[Dhaka Tribune] Leadership turmoil within the Taliban since the death of the murderous Moslem group’s founder has fuelled closer links with foreign groups like al-Qaeda, the new commander of international forces in Afghanistan said, complicating counter-terrorism efforts.
In an interview, General John Nicholson pointed to what US officials saw as a shift in the Taliban’s relationship with groups that Washington considers terrorist organizations.
That could influence his assessment of plans to cut US troop numbers next year, because if al-Qaeda, which carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, can operate in Afghanistan with increasing freedom, it may pose a greater security threat inside the country and beyond.
That was the very reason NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces went into Afghanistan in the first place: to prevent al-Qaeda functioning freely while the Taliban, which ruled the country until its ouster at the end of 2001, looked on.
"You see a more overt cooperation between the Taliban and these designated terrorist organizations," Nicholson said.
"Our concern is that if the Taliban were to return, that because of their close relationships with these groups, that they would offer sanctuary to these groups."
Nicholson is about half way though a review of plans that would see US troop numbers nearly halved to 5,500 by 2017 and an end to much of the training and advice the NATO-led coalition currently provides Afghan forces fighting the Taliban.
Some US politicians and Afghan commanders are urging Washington to reconsider its draw-down plans, worried that the Taliban movement poses a growing threat to security.
Public appetite for an even more prolonged deployment of US forces in Afghanistan is low, partly because the conflict is seen as limited to the country itself with little risk of international spillover.
Nicholson highlighted a "greater linkage" between the Taliban and US-designated terrorist group al-Qaeda since the death of Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and his replacement by current leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
Prompted by the need to win support in a leadership battle that broke out after Omar’s death was announced last year, Nicholson said Mansour had been forced closer to groups like al-Qaeda and the Haqqani network, blamed for a series of high-profile suicide kabooms in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... Al-Qaeda, which US officials have estimated has between 100-300 fighters in Afghanistan, has returned as one of the main focuses of the US counter-terrorism mission in Afghanistan. Some independent assessments say that estimate is too low.
The group has been less prominent in recent years as the Taliban, numbering thousands of fighters, seized territory in a series of intense battles including, briefly, the northern city of Kunduz and, more recently, swaths of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... in the south.
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Who could have foreseen that?
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[Iran Press TV] Oman The country on the Arabian Peninsula next to Yemen. It is ruled by Sultan Caboose.
on Monday offered to narrow differences between 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... and Iran over efforts to stabilize the global crude market.
"Oman has a good relationship, by the way, with everyone, not just Saudis and Iran, and we are prepared to see what is good for all of us," Oman’s Oil Minister Mohammed Al Rumhy told Bloomberg TV.
"I’m willing to talk to anyone."
Rumhy said he was disappointed but not surprised over the failure of Doha talks among world’s biggest crude producers to freeze output to the levels that existed in January.
"It was expected that there would be problems because in the buildup to Doha, there were a lot of talks about Iran not joining and Saudis insisting on having Iran on board," he said.
One suggestion to advance the talks that wasn’t considered at the Doha meeting is to set the cap based on maximum production, Rumhy said.
"The reality is in the fields. Most of us have peaked, with the exception of maybe one or two, so if we say look, everybody is producing at a maximum level, let’s try to agree on where we are now and then move forward."
Producers should try to get consensus on a freeze by the time OPEC meets in June, Rumhy said.
"Hopefully those who were not on board yesterday will be on board by June. From now on until June, we would be working on trying to convince everyone else that the freeze is the right way to do it."
Producers should still work on reaching a deal, Rumhy said, offering to facilitate discussions.
Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh on Monday described a plan to implement a freeze on the output of key oil producers as a "new sanction" against the country’s oil industry.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan has demanded removal of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... from the blacklist of the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... and United States blacklist in a bid to join grinding of the peace processor.
The delegation of Hezb-e-Islami led by Ghairat Baheer have said they have put forward the party’s 25 conditions to Afghan government to join grinding of the peace processor, including the removal of Hekmatyar’s name from the blacklist.
Hekmatyar’s name was included in the blacklist by the United Nations Security Council in 2003 for having links with the al-Qaeda terrorist network leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse... Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.
Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... Baheer said the party has also demanded the removal of the other leaders name from the blacklist, including Abdullah Nowbahar and Abdul Saboor.
The two leaders were added to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists by the United States of America earlier in the month of March.
According to US State Department, the designations blocks all property subject to U.S. jurisdiction in which Abdullah Nowbahar and Abdul Saboor have any interest and prohibits U.S. persons from engaging in any transactions with Nowbahar and Saboor.
The State Department said both Abdullah Nowbahar and Abdul Saboor are explosive experts for Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) and participated in the September 18, 2012 attack on a bus carrying foreign employees of Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... International Airport that killed 12 people.
The delegation of Hezb-e-Islami arrived for peace talks with the Afghan government in mid March following the conclusion of Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) meeting on Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
The QCG members, including Afghanistan, Pakistain, United States and China called on krazed killer groups to join peace talks with the Afghan government in a bid to end the ongoing violence in the country.
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[THENEWSNIGERIA.NG] Nigerian troops from 113 Battalion are at present locked in a fierce battle with Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Lions of Islam at Kareto, northern Borno state.
The army front man Colonel Sani Usman, gave the alert and promised to furnish more information later.
"The troops have been battling the snuffies since (the) early hours of today", Usman said.
No further details were immediately available from the remote area in Kareto where the festivities occurred.
Kareto is south of Damasak and north of Gubio town and not far from the borders with Niger.
The army in recent times had intensified flushing the Boko Haram fighters out of their comfort zones and camps, seizing their ammunitions supply, food and transport.
A clearance patrol to Borgozo-Alargano general area on Sunday yielded a large cache of arms and ammunitions concealed by Boko Haram Lions of Islam in a bunker.
The patrol team also cleared remnants of Boko Haram Lions of Islam that were dislodged from Alagarno forest hibernating at Kadari, Camp Abu Fatima and Gursum.
The troops discovered large cache of arms and ammunitions that include 36 boxes of .51mm calibre, 5 x 20 Lyra beefcake mixture of 7.62mm (NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... ) ammunition, large quantity of 7.62mm (Special), ammunition and one 81mm mortar tube.
In addition, the troops recovered 1 Toyota Hilux, 1 Generator and several cycle of violences.
Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighters attacked Nigerian troops early on Monday, the army said, after two suspected jacket wallahs were rubbed out near military positions.
Army front man Sani Usman said in a brief emailed statement: "Boko Haram gunnies attack troops of 113 Battalion at Kareto, northern Borno state.
"The troops have been battling the turbans since the early hours of today."
A soldier with the regiment told AFP the troops were ordered to the town of Damasak near the border with Niger and took up position in Kareto, some 38 kilometers (24 miles) away.
"Today at about 6:30 am (0530 GMT), two suicide bombers approached us and we shot at them and they went kaboom!," he said.
"As soon as the explosives went off, there were barrages of heavy artillery fired by Boko Haram, who came in large numbers with heavy weapons.
"We took up position in our trenches and fired back but they kept firing RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), which we didn't have.
"We lost some men, I don't know how many, and many others were maimed. Some of us fled in disarray. We realised that we were outnumbered and outgunned."
The troops withdrew to Jeyimolo village and a fighter jet was deployed to Kareto while a search was launched for the dead and missing, he added.
A local chief confirmed the attack but said further details were still sketchy.
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[VENTURESAFRICA] The latest discovery made by the Nigerian army in a village in Borno state is a grave containing ammunition that is reportedly worth over N20 million. During a press briefing, Major General Leo Irabor noted that this "monumental recovery" was in conjunction with the Civilian Joint Task Force, who led them to the grave following a tip-off.
During the operation, the Nigerian army claims that they were able to recover "36 boxes of .50MM, a 5/20 lethal brief case, a mixture of 7.62 mm NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... and 7.62mm special, a 1/81 NATO tube, five AK-47 rifles, grenades, mortar bombs, a generator, Hilux van and several cycle of violences." According to Irabor, the arms and ammunition discovered by the army were enough to destroy a trained battalion. In addition to the missiles recovered, the army reportedly bumped off a few Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gunnies as well.
Irabor stated that this discovery has confirmed the military’s earlier knowledge that Boko Haram operates several underground logistic bases in Borno state and its environs. This lends credence to the statement in Premium Times by Sani Usman (the Acting Director, Army Public relations), who said that the Nigerian army recently uncovered Boko Haram’s food storage. "To save for the rainy day, the gunnies had underground food storage facilities where they stocked large quantity of foodstuffs," Sani said in his statement.
With the recent discoveries, it is quite obvious that Boko Haram couldn’t have been able to get funds for food or sophisticated arms and ammunition without some external support or funding from an organization or country with an interest in their nefarious activities.
In 2014, Terrence McCoy, a writer at the Independent, explored how the Boko Haram terrorist group gets their capital. In his article, he noted that although analysts say the funding process for Boko Haram is "intricate and opaque," based on a survey of academic, governmental and journalistic accounts, Boko Haram funds are largely linked to "black market dealings, local and international benefactors, the al-Qaeda and other well-funded groups in the Middle East." Although there are speculations that some wealthy Islamic Lions of Islam may be involved in providing funds, weaponry and information to the gunnies group, it has not yet been confirmed.
Therefore, McCoy’s observation may explain why Boko Haram, which has pledged its allegiance to ISIS (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) is in possession of modern and largely uncommon weaponry that can wipe out their opponents.
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"36 boxes of .50MM, a 5/20 lethal brief case, a mixture of 7.62 mm NATO and 7.62mm special, a 1/81 NATO tube, five AK-47 rifles, grenades, mortar bombs, a generator, Hilux van and several cycle of violences."
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"Jeebus. Why are we stopped? It's very hot and dusty here. Oh. Really. All right, let's get this shit over so we can get to our rooms. I need a shower"
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Got Frank G's joke after the link.
Pappy, you mean apologize or drive 60mph on a 2 lane residential road?
[Dhaka Tribune] Criminal Investigation Department has identified 20 foreigners who were allegedly involved in the digital heist of $101 million from Bangladesh Bank.
Additional Deputy Inspector General Md Shah Alam made the disclosure in a press briefing held at CID Headquarters in Dhaka on Monday afternoon.
He said: "The names of 20 Filipino, Sri Lankan and Chinese nationals came up during our official visits to the countries regarding the heist.
"We might again visit the countries but we cannot disclose the names right now for the sake of the investigation."
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[Dhaka Tribune] Two alleged robbers, who were the suspected accused in a robbery case filed with Jorarganj cop shoppe of Mirsarai upazila, have been killed in a shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-7) at Muhuri project area under the upazila in Chittagong. I'm thinking of redoing the graphic as "Tales from the Upazila"... The dear departed are Md Kamrul Hasan, 41, the son of Mujammel Haque of Dhaka, and Yakub Ali, 34, the son of Abdul Hai from Pirojpur, said an official press statement of the elite force signed by its Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Amirulla, also the assistant director (AD) of RAB-7, media wing. They will be missed, even though the RAB didn't...
Four foreign pistols, one DBBL shotgun, two SBBL guns, two one-shooter guns, six magazines, 21 rounds of bullets, eight rounds of cartridges, two axes, four machetes, two knives, 10 mobile phones along with 14 SIMs, 50 grams of looted gold, cash and liquors were also recovered from the spot, said the ASP. From two guys? And from all the guys who vanished like they were never there...
ASP Amirulla said the dear departed were the suspected accused in the case filed for looting a jewelry shop named Shameem Jewelers at Baryarhat area of Jorarganj on February 26, while the "shootout" took place at Muhuri Project area under Jorarganj cop shoppe at around 4am Monday. "Md, what time is it?"
"It is 4 a.m., Yakub!"
"Time to loot the jewelry shop!"
Acting on a tip-off that a group of robbers gathered in the area to commit a robbery with firearms, "Hello? Is dis the RAB?... Lissen, dis is Mahmoud da Weasel!... Shameem Jewelers at Baryarhat area of Jorarganj... I can say no more!"
a team of RAB-7 led by Squadron Leader Shafayat Jamil Fahim conducted a drive to arrest the criminals, said ASP Amir.
The RAB official said the criminals opened fire sensing the presence of RAB members
"*Sniff* Kamrul, did you put on aftershave before we left?
"I thought you did."
"Old Spice - it's the RAB! Start shooting, boys!"
forcing them to fire back to save lives and property,
"Remember the Rules of Engagement, lads!"
"Shoot ta kill, Sarge?"
"The official Rules, ya dope!"
leading to the shootout. Later the robbers fled the spot but Kamrul and Yakub were found to be critically injured.
Later the duo were taken to Mirsarai Upazila Health Complex where the on-duty doctors declared them dead, added the ASP. "They're dead, Jim!
In the shootout two RAB members were also injured, said the blurb. A hernia and a bruised ego... However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the names of the injured were not mentioned there.
ASP Amir said in examining the CCTV footage of the jewelry shop during the robbery and the driving licenses of the duo, RAB confirmed their identities and learned Yakub was accused in at least 12 systems 30 cases filed with different cop shoppes.
The bodies were sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH). "Here's another couple for you Dr. Quincy!"
"Thanks Sam, stack 'em in the back with the others."
On February 26, robbers looted a large amount of gold from the jewelry shop at Baryarhat under Jorarganj cop shoppe of Mirsarai upazila and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace by blasting crude bombs on a microbus and cycle of violence.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Jordan recalled its ambassador from Iran, Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Monday, saying the diplomat had been called back for consultations over what it described as Tehran's interference in Arab affairs.
It is the latest Arab country to recall its envoy from Tehran since Saudi Arabia cut ties with the Islamic Republic in recent months.
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[Ynet] Two buses catch on fire on Moshe Baram Road in the capital's East Talpiot neighborhood as a result of kaboom; 2 seriously maimed, six in moderate condition, suffering from burns and smoke inhalation.
Twenty-one people were maimed when an bomb blew up on a bus on Monday afternoon, causing it to catch on fire while it was driving on Moshe Baram Road in Jerusalem, in what the defense establishment suspects to be a terror bombing.
The number 12 Egged bus was travelling from the East Talpiot neighborhood (Armon HaNatziv) towards Mount Herzl when an kaboom went off on it and it caught fire. As a result of the kaboom, a nearby bus and a private vehicle also caught on fire.
Jerusalem District Commander Yoram HaLevy confirmed on Monday evening the kaboom was caused by an bomb placed in the rear part of the bus.
"We are still in the initial stages of the investigation. We're trying to find out primarily where the bomb came from and who placed it on the bus," HaLevy said, adding that it should not take police much longer to indentify who planted the explosive on the bus.
He did, however, stress that "we can't at the moment come out with a clear statement that this was done by a terrorist or a jacket wallah. We're looking into all possibilities, as we do in every scene of an incident."
Magen David Adom paramedics treated 21 maimed, among them two at death's door, six in moderate condition and the rest lightly maimed. Some of the maimed are suffering from different degrees of burns, while most are suffering from smoke inhalation. The maimed were taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center and the Hadassah Medical Center's Ein Karem and Mount Scopus hospitals.
MDA front man Zaki Heller said that when paramedics arrived at the scene, all of the maimed were outside the bus and none were found inside by firefighters.
Prof. Avraham Rivkind, the head of the Shock Unit at the Hadassah Ein Karem hospital, said some of the injuries were in line with injuries from past terror bombings in Jerusalem. "There are penetration wounds. We saw in imaging and we pulled out a nail and nuts," he said.
The bus that went kaboom! was reportedly empty, and the maimed people were in the second bus that caught on fire as a result of the kaboom.
Police were investigating whether one of the people seriously injured in the kaboom was in fact the terrorist responsible. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... the identity of the burned victim had not yet been confirmed, a spokesperson said.
The driver of the bus, who was lightly injured, told media he checked the bus for bombs twice before starting his route.
[Iran Press TV] Militants currently engaged in peace talks with the Syrian government have begun a fresh offensive against military and civilian positions northwest of the country as accusations fly high on violations of a truce deal meant to restore calm to the country.
Sources close to the bully boyz said on Monday that attacks were launched in rural areas of the Latakia Province, northwest of Syria, where the government enjoys a relatively considerable support.
The sources said the offensive was meant to retaliate what they called government’s deliberate violation of the truce, which has been in effect across Syria since end of February.
Other bully boyz said attacks were carried out in rural districts of Hama, a province adjacent to Latakia.
The attacks come against the backdrop of meetings between the government and holy warrior groups in the Swiss city of Geneva, where the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... is trying to seal a permanent peace deal between the warring sides. The United Stated and Russia engineered the current ceasefire in a bid to facilitate the talks.
A representative of the bully boyz in Geneva talks, identified as Mohammed al-Abboud, said Monday that the opposition has the right to defend itself. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... reports from Geneva have shown that the anti-government side is becoming increasingly irked with the way the talks are going forward. Damascus denies it has done any deliberate violation, saying holy warrior attacks like the one on Latakia on Monday are meant to give the opposition the upper hand in the negotiations.
The current truce in Syria excludes ISIS and Nusra Front, two major Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... groups operating in the east and north of Syria. Government forces have managed to retake some key areas from the two groups over the past few weeks.
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Video at link explaining the problem. Apparently it's very prone to getting hacked. I don't know if it's even getting updated anymore or not.
The US government has issued an urgent alert to Windows customers.
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...I got an update for it a few days ago, but as soon as I saw this I yanked it out of the hard drive. Can't remember the last time I used it, anyways.
Mike
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Yeah, we still have it on our system. Hardly ever use it and this makes a good case for removal.
Normally use VideoLan (VLC) player anyway. Way more flexible.
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Clean your registry with CCleaner or some other good one afterwards. QuickTime leaves some cr*p.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A vote of confidence expected to be held Monday on a new UN-backed Libyan unity government was postponed until Tuesday, a parliament member told Al Arabiya News Channel. A special session of the internationally-recognized parliament, to be held in the eastern city of Tobruk, failed to take place.
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[DAWN] QUETTA: Four commanders along with 140 other bully boyz surrendered their arms to authorities on Monday.
The bully boyz surrendered before the commissioner of Kalat division and law enforcement officials.
Militants who surrendered today belong to the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and other proscribed groups.
Four commanders who surrendered are Eid Muhammad of the BLA, Niaz of Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) and two others, who were not named.
The commissioner while welcoming the surrender assured the bully boyz that the government would make efforts to rehabilitate them, with the bully boyz claiming that they were misled by certain elements to partake in subversive activities.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 12 Taliban turbans were killed in an attack on a security post in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan, security officials said Monday.
The incident took place in Chaharbolak district after a group of Taliban turbans launched coordinated attack on a security post with an aim to capture.
The Provincial police chief General Abdul Razaq Qaderi confirmed that the attack was carried out late on Sunday might.
He said the Afghan police forces managed to repulse the attack, leaving 12 Taliban turbans dead during the shootout that lasted for almost one hour.
Gen. Qaderi further added that the Talibs had came from northern Jawzjan province to attack the post and a policeman also sustained injuries during the clash.
The Talibs group has not commented regarding the incident so far.
Balkh is among the relatively peaceful provinces in northern Afghanistan but the anti-government armed bad boy groups have recently increased to their insurgency activities in different parts of northern Afghanistan.
The acting provincial governor Ata Mohammad Noor earlier warned that the bad boy groups are attempting to expand violence in Balkh province.
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Houthi militias and forces loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh have continued bombing residential neighbourhoods in the city of Taiz, despite the signing of a truce agreement on Saturday afternoon and the opening of the eastern and western ports of the city.
The official Yemeni news agency quoted a local Yemeni source as saying, "Violent explosions were heard last night on more than one front, while the two eastern exits leading to Sanaa and the western one leading to Al Hudaydah were shut down and sieged by the Houthis."
The Media Bureau of the Popular Resistance in Taiz has recorded more than 16 violations committed by the coup militias, which include bombing of military bases, resistance sites, and residential neighbourhoods during the agreed truce timeline.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Iranian authorities have promised to take immediate actions to try the culprit involved in the brutal murder and rape of a little Afghan girl.
The Iranian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Mohammad Reza Bahrami, has said the country’s Vice President has met with the family of the victim.
He said the culprit would be tried for the brutal murder and rape of the child, promising quick actions by the authorities in Iran.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ... a front man for the Iranian Police, Syed Muntazir Mehdi, said the authorities have released special orders to follow the case.
The brutal murder of the 6-year-old Afghan refugee girl, Setayish Quraishi, sparked anger both in Afghanistan and outside after reports regarding the horrific incident emerged recently.
The incident took place in Khairabad area in Veramin city in the outskirts of Tehran, the scenic provincial capital of Iran.
The girl was initially kidnapped by a 17-year-old Iranian and was raped by the teenager who then murdered her by stabbing her to death.
The girl was also burnt with acid in a bid to hide the brutal rape and murder incident, accoridng to local media reports which added that the perpetrator attempted to burn the victim after his friend denied to help him.
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[Iran Press TV] Syria's envoy to 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... says Israeli regime has been collaborating with the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISISturbans and al-Qaeda linked holy warriors in the occupied Golan Heights.
Bashar Ja'afari made the remarks during a press briefing after meeting the UN's special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, at peace talks in the Swiss city of Geneva on Monday.
The Syrian official also denounced as "provocative" an Israeli cabinet meeting recently held in the occupied region.
"It is an irresponsible provocation committed by Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of the Israeli occupation force," Ja'afari said, noting, "This Israeli provocation ... confirms without any doubt the cooperation between Israel and turbans of ISIS and Nusra Front on the demarcation line between where the Golan is and UN troops are positioned."
Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu at the beginning of a cabinet meeting in the occupied territory on Sunday ruled out any possibility of returning the occupied Golan Heights to Syria, saying Israel will lay claim to it forever.
The Sunday meeting was held in defiance of international law that requires Israel to return Golan to Syria.
Israel’s returning of Golan to its rightful owner is part of a draft agreement being drawn up during peace talks currently under way in Geneva for the objective of ending the deadly five-year conflict in Syria.
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[FRANCE24] Demonstrators stormed an airport runway in northern Mali on Monday to protest against arrests by French forces of people suspected of links to Islamist Lions of Islam who operate in the region, local officials and witnesses said.
Security forces fired warning shots and teargas to deter the mostly female protesters in the town of Kidal who also ransacked and set fire to airport facilities, said a local official, witnesses and the U.N. mission in Mali, MINUSMA.
The protests appear to mark a deterioration in relations between foreign forces and the local community in Kidal, a town at the centre of a separatist movement and violence by Islamist Lion of Islams, some of whom are linked to al Qaeda.
One person died and six were maimed, said Ahmoudane Ag Ikmasse, who represents Kidal in the national assembly. Ikmasse said he was in the capital Bamako but was in contact with people in Kidal.
A doctor in Kidal’s health centre said two died from gunshot wounds.
It was not clear why the airport was targeted or why women were the main participants in the protest.
The U.N. mission was not immediately able to confirm the corpse count and it was not clear how many people were involved in the protests. A French military front man declined to comment.
"MINUSMA is contact with the Malian authorities and leaders of local communities as well as those from civil society, aiming to ease tensions and understanding the circumstances of the events," the mission said in a statement.
MINUSMA and French forces have been stationed in northern Mali for about three years since separatists joined jihadists to seize the region from the government in Bamako.
Although La Belle France drove jihadists out of key towns in 2013, they have regrouped. In November, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb attacked a luxury hotel in the capital, killing 20 people and demonstrating a reach beyond their base.
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Monday, that a group of gunmen killed a merchant in western Baghdad, and stole 120 thousand dollars.
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, unidentified gunmen driving a modern vehicle shot a vehicle belonging to the owner of an electrical devices company while passing in the Police Tunnel area in western Baghdad, killing him on the spot,” pointing out that, “The gunmen stole 120 thousand dollars that were inside the vehicle before fleeing to an unknown destination.”
The source, who requested anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the dead body to the forensic medicine department, while opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident and who stands behind it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – A source in the Ministry of Interior announced on Monday, that eight people had been either killed or wounded in a bomb blast in western Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com, “This evening, an explosive device exploded near a popular market in Euphrates neighborhood in western Baghdad, killing one person and injuring seven others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “Ambulances rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment and the dead body to the forensic medicine department, while cordoned off the area and prevented approaching it.”
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – An informed security source stated on Monday, that the security forces have declared maximum alert in the capital Baghdad, after the followers of the Sadrist Movement besieged the Ministries’ headquarters calling the ministers to resign.
The source said in a brief statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The Ministry of Interior declared a state of maximum alert in the capital, Baghdad, after hundreds of protesters besieged the ministries’ headquarters, calling for the dismissal of the ministers and a comprehensive reform.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The security forces were heavily deployed in the different areas of Baghdad, especially downtown, in anticipation of any emergency.”
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran was shocked by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) final summit communiqué lambasting Tehran’s interference in the region and Hezbollah’s terrorism. Iranian officials sharply criticized the OIC and claimed that the organization has been hijacked by certain countries.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... Iran’s foreign affairs minister reminded Islamic countries ‐ which had approved the communiqué ‐ of the fate of Saddam Hussein and Tariq Aziz. Iran routinely responds to attempts to condemn violence and terrorism by making threats. Several Iranian figures from the foreign ministry echoed: "You will regret!"
Inciting statements The OIC also rejected "Iran’s inciting statements regarding the execution of judicial decisions made against perpetrators of terrorist crimes in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and considered those statements as flagrant interference in Saudi Arabia’s internal affairs and a contravention of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Charter, the OIC Charter and all international conventions."
Most Islamic countries have a strong desire to fight terrorism. Fighting violence and terrorism and eliminating militias have topped the agenda during Saudi King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... ’s meetings with Arab and Islamic leaders and presidents. Iran, however, was upset because hard boyz who blow up buildings, embassies and consulates were condemned.
We are faced with two parallel projects that never intersect: the project of the state, moderation and tolerance led by Saudi Arabia and the project of violence, terrorism and establishing militias led by Iran. The world must choose: life or death.
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(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A security source in Kirkuk Province announced on Monday, that 36 members of the so-called ISIS and al-Hashed al-Shaabi fighters had been either killed or wounded during repulsing an attack launched by ISIS in southern Kirkuk.
The source said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “This morning, violent clashes broke out between al-Hashed al-Shaabi forces and ISIS militants in Tel Ahmed on the outskirts of Bashir village in southern Kirkuk,” pointing out that, “The clashes resulted in the killing of 15 ISIS militants and one member of al-Hashed al-Shaabi, as well as injuring 20 others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “The security forces were able to repel ISIS attack, while detonated two car bombs before arriving to the front lines of the security forces.”
(IraqiNews.com) Kirkuk – A source within al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia said on Monday, that al-Abbas Combat Regiment of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi militia had managed to repel an attack by ISIS on the area of al-Bashir south of the province.
The source said in a brief statement received by IraqiNews.com, “The forces of Abbas Combat Regiment foiled, this morning, a violent attack by ISIS gangs on the area of Tal Ahmed in the village of al-Bashir (20 km south of Kirkuk),” adding that, “[The forces] inflicted big losses in lives and equipment upon the enemy,” pointing out that, “The forces detonated two booby-trapped vehicles driven by suicide bombers.”
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
UnitedHealth, the nation's biggest health insurer, will cut its participation in public health insurance exchanges to only a handful of states next year after expanding to nearly three dozen for this year.
[ABC News] President Barack Obama says the top-ranking U.S. intelligence official is reviewing classified material in a Sept. 11 report that families of attack victims and some lawmakers are demanding be made public.
[CNN] More than 200 people were wounded after an explosion rocked Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday morning. It is not yet clear how many had died in the attack, but a statement from Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said that a "number" of people had been killed. 
[Guardian] US vice-president Joe Biden has acknowledged "overwhelming frustration" with Israel’s government 
[Free Beacon] Dr. Paul Song stepped down as Chair of the California-based Courage Campaign Board Monday after his controversial remarks at a rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.)
[Free Beacon] The left-leaning Middle East activist group J Street, one of the key groups that lobbied in favor of the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran, hosted a fundraiser for the Senate campaign of Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D., Ill.) in Washington, D.C., on Sunday.
Dozens of African migrants have reportedly drowned after a boat carrying 400 people capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.
[Iran Press TV] A court in Pakistain has handed down life sentences to two convicts involved in the country’s largest child abuse and extortion scandal.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in New York on Tuesday to discuss implementation of the Iran nuclear deal and ways Tehran can use its influence to end Syria’s civil war, US officials said on Monday.
[Iran Press TV] Political and military interventions by the United States and its allies have sparked the ongoing crises in Syria and Iraq that have taken thousands of lives, says an author and political commentator.
China's "misperception" about the THAAD missile defense system would be dispelled if it hears expert explanations that the U.S. has offered to provide about the system, a U.S. State Department official said Monday.
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in 
Hillary Clinton
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[VENTURESAFRICA] The latest discovery made by the Nigerian army in a village in Borno state is a grave containing ammunition that is reportedly worth over N20 million. During a press briefing, Major General Leo Irabor noted that this "monumental recovery" was in conjunction with the Civilian Joint Task Force, who led them to the grave following a tip-off.
[DAWN] QUETTA: Four commanders along with 140 other 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 12 Taliban 
