[ENCA] Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodx al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra... has urged Egyptians to topple their government in the second message from Islamist bandidosbully boyz this week calling for violence in Egypt where presidential elections are due in March.
Egypt has stepped up its battle with Islamist bandidosbully boyz ahead of the vote on March 26-28. Cairo launched the latest military offensive against an 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.... branch in Sinai which has killed hundreds of police and soldiers and some civilians since it launched an insurgency in 2014.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tarek Saleh, the nephew of late Yemeni president former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , was seen in Hodeidah with the city’s governor al-Hassan Taher in the operations room to liberate the west coast.
Areas in the west coast have been recently liberated, such as Hays.
Many Yemenis think Tarek’s public appearance sends a clear message to the Houthis especially that Tarek is viewed as the "second man" after Ali Abdullah Saleh and that he’s played an efficient role in the uprising against the Houthis in Sanaa.
Earlier this month, Tarek, who beat feet from Sanaa where he was leading battles against the Houthis, called on all parties in different fronts and with different political affiliations to reach agreements to serve the mutual aim of confronting the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... movement.
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[AA.TR]Finsbury Park Mosque in North London opened its doors Sunday afternoon to members of the public as part of the annual Visit My Mosque event.
During the six-hour event, visitors were given a tour of the mosque, spoke to worshippers, enjoyed a free meal, and took part in a question-and-answer session with the mosque committee and its management.
Attendees included Moslem Council of Britannia head Harun Khan, local Labour MP Emily Thornberry, and the leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.
"This year’s Visit My Mosque Day, held this Sunday 18 February, comes at a particularly sensitive time, being the first one since the attack last year. For the mosque this is an important opportunity to build upon the spirit of local solidarity and show that Finsbury Park Mosque is more than just a mosque," said Mohammed Kozbar, Finsbury’s chairman.
The Islamic center was the scene of a terrorist attack last year when Darren Osbourne drove a van into a nearby crowd of worshippers, killing one and injuring many.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Corbyn described today’s event as an "excellent open day at the mosque," adding: "I have been supporting and have been involved in this mosque for more than 30 years. I saw it being built and I have held advice bureaus here, and so having the open day bringing in the entire community of all faiths is great.
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HARUN KHAN
Finsbury Park Mosque
MOHAMED KOZBAR
Finsbury Park Mosque
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Yahoo - you can smell their barely contained contempt along with portraying anti-Soros motives as anti-Joooo.
Whereas we know that Mr. George Soros, as he now styles himself, has been a vile and vicious human being since childhood, happily outing his Jewish friends and neighbours to the Nazis for a share of the loot. Had he not been Jewish, he would have equally happily outed both his Jewish and his non-Jewish neighbours to the Nazis for a share of the loot. I imagine Prime Minister Orban knows this, too. He just hasn’t figured out that he needs to say it.
Hungarian leader Viktor Orban called on Sunday for a global alliance against migration as his right-wing populist Fidesz party began campaigning for an April 8 election in which it is expected to win a third consecutive landslide victory.
Popular at home but increasingly at odds politically and economically with mainstream European Union peers, Orban has thrived on external controversy, including repeated clashes with Brussels and lately the United Nations.
[AA.TR] The U.S. and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... will either normalize relations or bilateral ties will grow even worse, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Sunday.
Speaking to journalists during the Munich Security Conference, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkey has lost confidence in the U.S. due to Washington’s support for the PYD/PKK terrorist group in Syria.
"Our relations with the U.S. have been going through a critical period. Either we are going to normalize relations, put relations back on track, or they will get even worse," he stressed.
Cavusoglu said that during U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Ankara last week, the sides agreed to establish two mechanisms, with the goal of addressing issues of disagreement between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... allies.
"One is on bilateral issues," he said, explaining that this mechanism would particularly focus on Ankara’s expectations from Washington regarding the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) and its U.S.-based leader, who orchestrated a defeated coup in 2016.
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[Indian Express] Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... chief Maulana Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... has written about the attack on the Sunjuwan military station in Jammu on February 10, in the latest issue of the outfit’s online mouthpiece, saying, "Only three mujahideen destroyed the Sunjuwan military camp. For three days, they withstood thousands of troops, special squads, helicopters and tanks. Entire India from head to toe panicked."
In another article in the issue, a Jaish leader says the attack was launched by "the Afzal Guru squad" of Jaish.
Azhar wrote about the attack in his weekly column ’Rang-u-Noor’, under his pen name Saidi, in the February 14 edition of Al Qalam. Though he didn’t take responsibility for the attack, he wrote that "the attack by these three fidayeens has carried forward the legacy of Khalid Bin Waleed" ‐ in a reference to the legendary military commander of the era during the advent of Islam.
The attack was carried out at the military station by three murderous Moslems in the wee hours of February 10, leaving five soldiers and a relative of a soldier dead. All the three Death Eaters, whom the Army identified as Pakistain nationals belonging to the JeM, were later bumped off.
"Fighting and defeating big armies with few men is truly one of the colours of the jihadi legacy of Khalid Bin Waleed,’’ Azhar wrote. "When I heard the details of the attack on the Sunjuwan military camp by Kashmiri mujahideen, I remembered Khalid Bin Waleed. Imagine, despite such a huge strength of the enemy, three mujahideen entered a military camp and fought for more than 50 hours, targeting the enemy posts. Is it any ordinary thing? There were miracles taking place. The Kashmiri leadership was saying that the number of mujaideen is only three. Next day India claimed that three mujahideen have been martyred, but the sounds of kabooms and firing were still coming from within the camp. With the help of media, the entire world was watching this miracle. If all the three were already martyred, who were fighting then? Whose fear made them take tanks inside the camp? Why were they (the Indian Army) blowing up their own buildings? India should reflect on this attack and they will understand that defeat is their destiny."
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[IsraelTimes] In cable, State Department reportedly urges Britannia, La Belle France and Germany to agree on weaknesses of accord that must be fixed.
Taking a softer stance than US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... on the Iran nuclear deal, the State Department is seeking an agreement with three European nations over which weaknesses in the accord must be improved, Rooters reported Sunday.
Somebody doesn’t understand the good cop/bad cop process.
"We are asking for your commitment that we should work together to seek a supplemental or follow-on agreement that addresses Iran’s development or testing long-range missiles, ensures strong IAEA inspections, and fixes the flaws of the ’sunset clause,'" the message from the State Department reads.
In January, Trump signed a waiver to keep the deal alive, but vowed it would be the last time he did so, unless the US and Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... worked to strengthen it.
And now the diplomatic arm of the American government is asking for exactly that. Honestly, these people have the long term memory of a gnat.
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[DW] A court in Iraq has sentenced German teenager Linda W.
...that would be Saxon lass Linda Wenzel, who forged her mother’s signature at the age of 15 to run off to her Chechen on-line sweetheart, then amused herself in Mosul as a member of al-Khansaa Brigade, ISIS' female morality police. This allowed her to drive, carry a gun, and whip grown women over their clothing choices...
to six years in prison for her involvement with "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.... " (IS) jihadis, German media reported on Sunday.
Citing judicial sources in Baghdad, broadcasters NDR, WDR and the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported that the 17-year-old was given five years for being a member of IS, as well as an extra year for entering Iraq illegally.
The trial took place before a juvenile court in the Iraqi capital and was not open to the public, the reports said. The verdict could not immediately be independently verified by authorities in Germany.
Linda W., a student from the eastern German town of Pulsnitz, bravely ran away from home in mid-2016 after talking to forces of Evil online and converting to Islam. According to her own account, she made her way to Iraq via The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... and Syria, and married an IS fighter from Chechnya.
Linda W. was locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! by Iraqi authorities in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... last summer, when government troops drove the holy warrior group out of the northern city. She was then transferred to a Baghdad prison.
In a televised interview recorded soon after her arrest, the young German said she regretted joining the Islamist militia.
"I want to go home to my family," she said. "I want to get out of the war, away from the weapons, the noise. I don't know how I came up with such a dumb idea. I've completely ruined my life." "Could it be that yer stoopid?"
"No, no. That can't be it. Still..."
Or taqqiya, always an option in these situations.
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Anbar (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Head of Anbar Salvation Council Sheikh Humaid al-Hayes has uncovered a desire by 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.... (IS) members to run for the upcoming parliamentary election, slated for May.
Speaking to Sputnik news agency, Hayes said, "Six to eight loyalists and former members of the Islamic State group in Anbar are gearing up to run for the May parliamentary election."
Hayes pointed out that his council is "going to send a list of the IS members seeking to run in parliamentary polls to the federal government" to take appropriate action.
He also admitted that dozens of IS holy warriors have returned back to Anbar regions along with repatriated families after being released for the lack of sufficient evidence and corruption.
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The Defense Ministry conducted a successful test of the Arrow 3 missile defense system Sunday night. In conjunction with the Missile Defense Agency, a section of the United States government's Department of Defense, the missile system was tested during overnight hours.
The ministry announced the test was the last experiment in Israel before a major test in Alaska.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Syrian Kurdish forces and the Damascus government have reached an agreement for the Syrian army to enter the Afrin region to help repel a Turkish offensive, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters on Sunday.
Badran Jia Kurd, an adviser to the Kurdish-led administration in north Syria, said army troops will deploy along some border positions and could enter the Afrin region within the next two days.
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If they do this puts the US in an interesting spot.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United States is still unsure who directed a Feb. 7 attack on U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday, even as he acknowledged accounts that Russian civilian contractors were involved.
Rooters has reported that about 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were either killed or injured in Syria.
The U.S. has estimated about 100 pro-Syrian government forces were killed by U.S. strikes to repel the Feb. 7 attack.
Russian military officers told the United States during the incident that Moscow was not involved. The Pentagon has declined to comment on the exact makeup of the attacking forces and Mattis appeared at a loss to explain the incident 10 days later.
"I still cannot give you any more information on why they would do this. But they took direction from someone," Mattis told news hounds flying back to Washington with him from a trip to Europe, according to a Pentagon transcript.
"Was it local direction? Was it from external sources? Don't ask me. I don't know."
Mattis said he "understood" that Moscow had acknowledged contractors were involved, without elaborating on whether that understanding came from press reports. Russian officials have told news hounds that five Russian citizens may have been killed in festivities with U.S.-led coalition forces.
Still, Russian officials deny they deploy private military contractors in Syria, saying Moscow's only military presence is a campaign of air strikes, a naval base, military instructors training Syrian forces, and limited numbers of special forces troops.
But according to people familiar with the deployment, Russia is using large numbers of the contractors in Syria because that allows Moscow to put more boots on the ground without risking regular soldiers whose deaths have to be accounted for.
The contractors, mostly ex-military, carry out missions assigned to them by the Russian military, the people familiar with the deployment said. Most are Russian citizens, though some have Ukrainian and Serbian passports.
The United States and Russia, while backing opposite sides in the Syria conflict, have taken pains to make sure that their forces do not accidentally collide. But the presence of the Russian contractors adds an element of unpredictability.
The U.S. military has said that in its effort to repel the attack on Feb. 7, U.S. forces on the ground called in coalition strikes for more than three hours, involving F-15E fighter jets, MQ-9 drones, B-52 bombers, AC-130 gunships and AH-64 Apache helicopters.
The U.S. military has said the attacking forces were aligned with the Syrian government and were backed by artillery, tanks, multiple-launch rocket systems and mortars.
"I doubt that 257 people all just decided on their individual own selves to suddenly cross the river into enemy territory and start shelling a location and maneuvering tanks against it," Mattis said.
"So whatever happened, we'll try to figure it out. We'll work with, obviously, anyone who can answer that question, but I cannot, at this time."
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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
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Zawahiri
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his terrorist activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included the release of Masood Azhar among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
