[MAGHAREBIA] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) is gaining ground in Libya and a new international approach is needed to address the growing threat, a senior Libyan official said on Thursday (February 5th).
Aref Ali Nayed, Libya's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and an adviser to Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani, was in Washington and New York this week to discuss the new challenges on Libya's security front.
"It's not possible to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria without also addressing the Libyan component," Nayed told AFP.
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[Libya Herald] A Libyan lower court in the eastern city of Al-Beida overturned the decision of the Supreme Court in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... that ruled that the elections of Libya's House of Representatives (HoR) were unconstitutional.
The Preliminary Court ruling on Thursday suspended the previous ruling of 6 November 2014 declaring it null and void.
One of the Advocates who took the case to court, Amal Bughagis, told Alwatan newspaper that the decision was a landmark in the Libyan political process. Bughagis, said that the decision ended the GNC's tenure, by virtue of a judicial decision, and not a political statement.
Bughagis added that there is an earlier ruling by the Supreme Court that ruled that a lower court could suspend a ruling of a higher court, including that of the Supreme Court.
In her last comment, Bughagis was answering the question of whether a lower court could overrule a higher court.
It will be recalled that Libya's Supreme Court had ruled on 6 November 2015 that the June 2015 House of Representatives elections were unconstitutional. In its ruling it said that the GNC ''February Committee'' set up by the GNC in February 2014 to set up new elections for a body to replace the GNC, was in itself unconstitutional.
The ruling in Tripoli was not recognized by the House of Representatives, nor by the international community on the basis that the court sitting in Tripoli may have been coerced.
Libya's current ''social contract'', the Transitional Constitutional Declaration of August 2011, drafted during the 2011 Libyan revolution that overthrew the Qadaffy dictatorship, provided for the election of one transition parliamentary body, the GNC, whilst the constitution was being drafted.
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[Libya Herald] Abdul-Hakim Belhaj had pinned the blame for the current political crisis wholly on Khalifa Hafter. The Opration Dignity leader was a criminal for beginning the war currently being waged in Libya, the former head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) said in an interview published by Euronews.
"It started when retired General Khalifa Hafter came back onto the scene, ", he said in a statement in which, bizarrely, he also implied that Hafter had formed the House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk. Belhaj considers it illegitimate.
Belhaj also asserted that the UAE was supporting Hafter, providing "aircraft, weapons, ammunition and armour to those who are killing the Libyan people".
The sole legitimate gang, he said, was Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... . Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni, when he was defence minister, gave Libya Dawn authority, Belhaj maintained. It was now carrying out the orders of the legitimate ruling body--the General National Congress (GNC).
Asked about the dialogue talks, Belhaj said he supported them and had called for them, and had himself met with UNSMIL representatives. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... he did not think the Geneva meetings would be effective because people "far removed from what is influencing politics in Libya" were invited. He did not elaborate further on this.
In one of several questions alluding to Belhaj's past as leader of the LIFG, Euronews asked, "Are you a fighter under the guise of a politician?" Belhaj did not directly answer this question, however earlier in the interview he claimed that he was no longer a fighter but a politician and insisted he was not currently leading an gang.
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... is alarmed by what it described as a power vacuum in Yemen after the dominant 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 Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... movement dissolved parliament on Friday and said a new interim assembly and government would be formed, a U.N. front man said on Friday.
"This power vacuum is of great concern to us," Stephane Dujarric told news hounds. "The Secretary-General (the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon) ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... and all of those who are concerned with Yemen here are following the situation very closely."
He added that U.N. special envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar was now returning to the Yemeni capital Sanaa because of the escalating crisis.
This is more of that "strategic patience" we've been hearing about lately...
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In 1993 I worked in michigan at a firm that employed a palestinian man who was elated to be going 'home' to meet his 12 year old bride who had been married to him using his brother as proxy. I don't think that there is anything good in these people.
* See BIGNEWSNETWORK > US INTELLIGENCE WARNS ISLAMIC STATE IS MOVING OUTSIDE OF IRAQ, SYRIA TO EXPAND ITS TERRITORIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
* IIRC CNN WOLF BLITZER'S SITUATION ROOM = Blitzer interviews top US Politico whom believes the ISIS may now desire to begin expanding or moving "beyond its aspirations" in the ME, + could poten decide to attack the USA directly.
VERSUS
* CNN NEWS > NORTH KOREA ISSUES NEW THREATS TO US BASES, i.e. threatens to strike wid LRBMS at "imperialist aggressor" US Milbases throughout East Asia-Pacific e.g. GUAM + HAWAII + CONUS.
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Only a fool waits until the threat is 'existential' to deal with it. But then, that pretty much defines Obama's little entourage.
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Se defines the administrations courage. I'm hiding on this side of the world and for now I'm safe. We have sheep as leaders. The Nazis were no existential threat to the US, as crystal night happened. Same game, different people.
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As far as Rice goes, she's not alone. If you had a hunch the news sytem was rigged and you couldn't quite put your finger on it, this might help solve the puzzle:
ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to yes, Sunday Talk Show regular and National Security Advisor Susan Rice.
CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, Obama’s Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications.
ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to former Whitehouse Press Secretary the odious Jay Carney
ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obama’s Deputy Press Secretary.
ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obama’s Special Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood
CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to former Hillary Clinton’s Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.
And now you know why it is no surprise the media is in Obama's pocket. Ya think there might be a little bias in the news ???
It also explains the cover up of Benghazi and a great many other things that go under-reported or un-reported.
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"Obama's little entourage" is inaccurately named. Obama's supporters are a large number of our inaccurately-labeled "Best and Brightest". the B&B are neither are best nor our brightes, but they surely believe they are. These fellow travelers of the Obamagenda are the existential threats to the USA. They have captured the allegiance of the USA's Free Lunch Army (for the time being).
I sit in a cafe, wear a beret and posit that life is absurd.
Since existence is futile, I may as well compile all the dumb shit I have heard.
Sartre was right, there is no guiding light and men are no better than turds.
So if ISIS still threatens, whilst global warming beckons, we will just fight them with words!
We wanker's won't fight to hold back the night, we just give you what you all deserve.
And here it is not even quite six years.
[CBSNEWS] Army Secretary John McHugh has approved the awarding of the Purple Heart to the military victims of the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead, the Army announced Friday. The civilian counterpart of the Purple Heart award - the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom - will be conferred on the civilian victims of the shooting.
McHugh was freed to extend the awards after Congress recently broadened the guidelines specifying who is eligible to receive them. The Purple Heart can be awarded to military members who suffer combat injuries, including injuries suffered at the hands of a foreign terrorist organization. As part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015, Congress redefined an attack by a "foreign terrorist organization" to include any attack in which the perpetrator was in communication with or inspired by foreign terrorist elements before the attack. The previous criteria required evidence that the perpetrator was acting at the direction of a foreign terrorist organization.
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Rules were dumbed down, changed. Still no recognition of a terrorist act. Michael and Trayvon to receive Defense of Freedom soon. Pen and phone, you know the drill.
[DAWN] Six weeks ago, Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... and his Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... looked all fired up and on a winning streak. Suddenly, the December 16 tragedy happened in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and changed things for everyone everywhere.
The massacre of 150 schoolchildren and teachers by the Pak Taliban united the nation in the resolve to take on the insane bully boys. Political consultations and legislation moved fast.
Above all, for the first time, there appeared a political will on all sides to get the job done.
Alas, by the middle of January the rare consensus dissolved into the old, perpetual squabbling.
All mainstream political parties have since resumed their usual blame games. There is no debate on real issues. Only narratives have changed -- more so by their spin doctors. Kaptan Imran Khan is back, though to a queered pitch, to lead the PTI in the latest power game -- the election to 52 Senate seats held every three years. But the party would contest that election voting only in the assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , the province it rules, and not in the National Assembly because it was "born of rigged elections".
That may look paradoxical only to those not in politics. Meanwhile, ...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system... Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , no more facing PTI's jarring 'Go Nawaz Go' refrain, is busy in networking to gain the PML-N the control of the Senate too, the miserable performance of the ruling party in the National Assembly, where it enjoys absolute majority, notwithstanding.
Political analysts expect the PML-N to gain a majority in the Senate on the back of its allies and the PTI to return five Senators from its stronghold of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Although literally reduced to Sindh in May 2013 elections, the PPP is hopeful of receiving a much needed boost, if not many seats, in the Senate election to be held on March 3. It is pinning the hope on its seeming recovery in Punjab, the bastion of power as its founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent... called it. Perceived as invincible, until Gen. Zia ul Haq ...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988... overthrew Bhutto in 1977, the PPP had some 50 MNAs from 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.... in its last stunt in power 2008-2013. It has only three MNAs from Punjab in the present National Assembly.
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Cricket champion? Weapon of choice is a bat , nodoubt.
[DAWN] KARACHI: Police detained more than 20 rights activists for a couple of hours on Thursday after they 'insisted' on marching towards CM House while participants in the outlawed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous banned extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wing of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (ASWJ) rally near the same venue dispersed after being assured by the law enforcers of security for their leader.
The civil rights activists, led by Jibran Nasir, had earlier this week staged a two-day sit-in at the PIDC traffic intersection to condemn the Shikarpur attack and demanded action against proscribed organizations, including the ASWJ, and their leaders.
The sit-in, which attracted a small number of participants, ended on the government assurance that flags and graffiti of the banned outfits would be removed from the city in the first phase.
The rights activists re-emerged at the PIDC traffic intersection on Thursday evening an hour after the ASWJ diverted its big 'Kashmire Day' rally towards CM House to demand security for its Sindh chief, Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqi, that the group said had been withdrawn by the government.
The situation remained tense for a while when the police, anticipating some kind of clash between the two groups, blocked major road links to CM House and Governor House.
The rights activists argued that the government had banned the ASWJ in February 2012 and yet it was allowed to stage a rally.
Mr Nasir said he had received 'threats' from the banned outfit, a claim categorically denied by the ASWJ front man.
"The ASWJ has publicly threatened the civil society members through its Twitter account," said Mr Nasir while speaking to Dawn. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... the ASWJ front man said that "we threatened neither Mr Nasir nor any other civil society member".
"The ASWJ workers offered Asr and Maghrib prayers at the PIDC intersection," said ASWJ front man Umer Ma'awia.
"We actually staged a demonstration at the PIDC intersection to demand the revival of security arrangements for our leader, Aurangzeb Farooqi, which have been withdrawn by the Sindh government recently. We are very concerned about his security and would consider the government responsible for any threat he faces."
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[IsraelTimes] Newly obtained documents show meticulous process by which martyrdom status, payment levels, honorary ranks are determined
Here's the set-up. Detailed examples at the link.
Congressional politicians were astonished last year to learn that the Paleostinian Authority was issuing monthly payouts totaling $3-7 million as salaries and other financial rewards to specific snuffies and their families. The money was channeled, in part, through the Ministry of Prisoners pursuant to the Law of the Prisoner. The law set forth a graduated scale, pegging monthly salaries to the length of Israeli jail sentences, which generally reflects the severity of the crime and the number of people killed and/or injured.
Thousands of documents, newly obtained by this news hound through a lawsuit to unseal court-protected files, demonstrate that these payouts are not blind automated payments. Rather, senior Paleostinian Authority officials as high as President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... scrutinize the details of each case, the specific carnage caused, and the personal details of each terrorist act before approving salaries and awarding honorary ranks in either the PA government or the military.
Ministry of Prisoners front man Amr Nasser has explained, "We are very proud of this program and we have nothing to hide." Nonetheless, in response to the international furor over the payments, the Paleostinian Authority announced last year it would replace the Ministry of Prisoners with an outside PLO commission known as the Higher National Commission for Prisoners and Detainees Affairs.
The PA is dependent upon foreign donor countries to supply much of its budget, which now exceeds $4.2 billion annually. About ten percent of the PA budget, more than $400 million, is contributed annually by United States foreign aid. The US and many other countries have enacted laws forbidding any payments when the monies directly or indirectly support or encourage terrorism.
Edwin Black is the author of the award-winning IBM and the Holocaust, as well as his most recent bestseller, Financing the Flames which broke the story of taxpayer-funded terrorist salaries.
Lots of unicode below which will probably be garbled.
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[Al Ahram] Secretary of State John Kerry stressed to his Iranian counterpart Friday that the US aimed to meet a late March deadline for a deal reining in Iran's nuclear programme.
Kerry "reiterated our desire to move toward a political framework by the end of March", a senior US official said after Kerry met Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for two hours in Munich.
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...Didn't say March of WHEN...
Mike
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"That is my final deadline, and if you don't like it, I have others"
[Al Ahram] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has pledged one billion euros in funding for the crises in Syria and Iraq and the fight against 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.... bully boy group, the bloc's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Friday.
"This package will strengthen our actions to help restore peace and security in a region that is so close to us and that has been devastated by terrorism and violence for too long," Mogherini said.
"The murder of Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh just days ago is further proof that terrorism has no boundaries and that Moslems are the first victims of Da'esh," she said, using one of the names for the Islamic State jihadist group.
The EU said in a statement that it had agreed the the "first EU comprehensive strategy on tackling the crises in Syria and Iraq and the threat posed by Da'esh".
"It brings together ongoing and planned initiatives of the EU and its Member States and boosts their efficiency, with an additional 1 billion euros in funding for the next two years," the statement said.
Islamist violence in La Belle France and Belgium in recent weeks has stoked fears in the 28-nation about the risk from its citizens going to fight with IS in Syria and Iraq then returning to carry out terror attacks.
"We face common challenges and common threats. We share an interest with our friends and partners in the region to stand up to them in the most effective way, and this is what we are doing today," Mogherini added.
IS has seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq and last year declared a "caliphate" in areas under its control, imposing its brutal interpretation of Islam and committing widespread atrocities.
Jihadists have flocked to Syria since anti-government protests broke out in 2011 and escalated into a multi-sided civil war in which more than 200,000 people have died.
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If it comes at the expense of "Palestinians". But, being EU, they're---probably---just print it.
[ARA] Qamishli, Syria ‐ The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (IS/ISIS) allocated financial reward for each bully boy able to kill or injure Jordanian pilots to prevent them from participating in the international coalition's strikes against the group.
The radical group issued a list of names of the wanted Jordanian pilots.
IS issued a statement, of which ARA News received a copy, saying that the Shura Council of Islamic State approved the allocation of a financial award for each member able to kill or wound Jordanian pilots "to prevent them from flying or working within the Crusade coalition which targets Moslems in the Islamic State".
"The Islamic State group has allocated an amount of 100 golden dinars to everyone who can capture or kill a Jordanian pilot," the statement read.
According to the statement, the IS group has gained information about Jordanian pilots who carry out strikes against the group after interrogations with Moaz Kassasbeh ‐a Jordanian pilot who was executed by the IS Lions of Islam on Tuesday.
"We call on our Moslem brothers in Jordan to target those criminals who shed the blood of Moslems. Jordanian Moslems are invited to support the Islamic State against those traitors," the IS leadership said in the statement.
In this regard, Syrian human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... activist Rudi Ali told ARA News that the IS Lions of Islam used to slaughter their opponents or execute them on the ground, "but the case was different with the Jordanian pilot Moaz Kassasbeh, as he was barbarically burned to death".
The Islamic State's turbans referred to the reason of burning the pilot, saying: "Kassasbeh was accused of burning children of Syria and Iraq with missiles of the international coalition warplanes which attack Moslems.
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IS are the only true Moslems. Everyone else must be killed or converted to support IS.
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As Sen. Tom Cotton said: "I hope they (ISIS) all roast in hell!" Now there is a good man with a big set as contrasted with that wimpy candyassed SOB in the WH.
[MAGHAREBIA] A Moroccan expert is warning against the growing threat of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) using women in terrorist operations.
In the last weeks of 2014, the Moroccan and Spanish security authorities dismantled a cell specialised in recruiting women and sending them to ISIS. The cell was based in Barcelona and had extensions in Ceuta, Melilla and Fnideq.
The cell, comprising four women residing in Barcelona, targeted maidens of tender years in Morocco and sent them to Fnideq where they were ideologically indoctrinated before being sent to Syria to engage in "jihad annikah ...Islamic whoredom. Proper Moslem women are expected to engage in 20-minute marriages with rutting Lions of Islam for the greater glory of Allen. Naturally, the Lions of Islam are expected to make a contribution to the holy men running the operation, say, twenty bucks or so, of which the Flowers of Islam get maybe five. They'd probably make out better in Amsterdam or Tijuana... ".
Several reports around the world have sounded the alarm about the rising numbers of women who join ISIS to engage in jihad annikah. The phenomenon, which started as women joined their husbands who were fighting in Syria, has evolved and now includes more and more unmarried girls.
Recent field research conducted by the Moroccan-based Northern Observatory for Human Rights (ONERDH) confirmed the worrying trend. ONERDH Director Mohammed Benaissa told Magharebia that northern Morocco has had at least ten cases.
"As to the new generation of women who are joining ISIS, most of them are maidens of tender years who were recruited via social networking websites," he explained.
Benaissa noted that sheikhs of jihadi salafism have made the matter easy for those girls by issuing fatwas permitting marriage via Skype, and other fatwas allowing them to travel to Syria without a male companion.
The phenomenon of women travelling to Syria and Iraq has taken an alarming dimension in recent months, as their number is estimated between 300 and 500.
Mohammed Benhammou, president of the Moroccan Centre for Strategic Studies (CMES), said that the size of this phenomenon was much bigger.
"There is another dimension related to the travel of women to Syria and Iraq, and this is related to global prostitution networks that started to pay attention to the region after the war broke out in Syria," he said.
"In a report on transnational crime issued by CMES three years ago, we observed intensive activities by global prostitution networks towards Turkey and Jordan," he added.
Benhammou unveiled that prostitution networks exploited the desire of North African girls to immigrate to Europe and lured them to Turkey where many deceived maidens of tender years found themselves hostages to prostitution networks that sell their bodies to fighters in Syria.
ISIS has exploited this situation to penetrate prostitution networks and recruit women into the group as part of the jihad annikah, Benhammou said.
"ISIS has given hookers a package of financial and moral incentives, like a monthly salary, a chance to repent and get out of the circle of prohibition and erase their past by giving themselves over to jihad, and a possibility to continue with their profession under the pretext of marriage with the group fighters," he explained.
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[Gulf News] The gruesome killing of a Jordanian pilot who had crashed in Daesh territory laid bare a problem of the US-led coalition -- there is no sure way to rescue an airman who is down behind enemy lines. Now, in response, the US has moved search-and-rescue aircraft closer to the battlefield, defence officials said on Thursday.
US pilots are flying missions over Syria daily from bases in the region, including from Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , and partner nations, including Jordan, 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 Bahrain, are flying less often.
The risk of capture is unavoidable in air combat missions anywhere. The danger is arguably greater for pilots flying over Syria with no US troops nearby, even though Daesh has a very limited ability to shoot down planes.
The importance of finding the pilot before he is captured was highlighted by the video showing Daesh Death Eaters burning Jordanian Lt Muath Al Kasaesbeh alive in a cage.
The US has flown nearly 900 combat missions over Iraq since last August and more than 900 over Syria since September -- not to mention hundreds of reconnaissance and other support missions -- without a single loss. Coalition pilots have flown more than 350 air strike missions over Iraq and 80 or more over Syria, with Al Kasaeasbeh the only casualty so far.
Nonetheless, three defence officials said that in recent days the US has moved search-and-rescue aircraft into northern Iraq to shorten the response time in the event of another pilot loss. Al Kaseasbeh's plane went down in December and he was quickly captured by Daesh fighters before US rescue crews could reach him.
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To be fair, CSAR is difficult. My team lost an A-6 pilot we were in radio contact with, had a rescue-bird ETA 30 min and air cover hot inbound. The Iraqis showed up first. Still... bothers me.
But putting your CSAR assets hours away is criminal.
[Al Ahram] The UN Security Council plans to adopt a resolution next week aimed at halting funding to 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.... Death Eaters from oil, antique trafficking and ransoms, a diplomat said Friday.
A draft text, drawn up by Russia, was distributed to the 15 member countries ahead of Friday closed-door discussions.
The resolution, completed after dialogue with the United States and Europe, draws largely on previous UN sanctions on organizations and individuals affiliated with al-Qaeda, particularly the freezing of assets and an arms embargo.
The council in August adopted a resolution to cut off sources of financing and the flow of imported muscle to Iraq and Syria, warning countries that do trade in oil with the Islamists they could face sanctions.
"These are already pretty robust, binding obligations and our goal was to expand and clarify and drill down what these obligations mean, how they apply in the context of oil smuggling particularly" a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... He added that the text should be adopted next week, but clarified that its enforcement would be difficult due to the multitude of intermediaries who deal with the jihadists.
"We hope these norms and provisions will have a real impact," he said.
One of the resolution's new provisions specifically prohibits the trafficking of art and antiquities from Syria, where IS controls a substantial swath of territory. A similar ban already applies to Iraq.
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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.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Al Ahram] Secretary of State John Kerry stressed to his Iranian counterpart Friday that the US aimed to meet a late March deadline for a deal reining in Iran's nuclear programme. 
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