[Tolo News] A recent report released by the Pentagon in Washington D.C. states that Daesh is expanding in Afghanistan and preparing to confront the Taliban.
According to the report, the Taliban are also monitoring Daesh's activities, and the two groups have already faced off in confrontation on several occasions.
Based on comments by senior U.S. officials, it appears Washington's continued involvement in training, advising and supporting the Afghan cops has taken on a new objective in combating the expansion of Daesh. "ISIS's lasting defeat still requires forces to fight and prevail on the ground," U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said. "We can and will continue to develop and enable such local forces."
Yet the Pentagon report warns that the Taliban's insurgency must not be underestimated, as the Haqqani Network still poses a major threat to the United States and Afghanistan.
Separately, there have been reports in the media that Iran has started supporting the Taliban in order to defeat Daesh in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, Tehran has categorically and repeatedly denied the allegations. No, no! Certainly not! In an exclusive interview with TOLOnews this week, Muhammad Reza Bahrami, the Iranian Ambassador to Afghanistan, said an alliance between Iran and the Taliban would be bad for everyone involved. "Iran and the Taliban have no relations," Ambassador Bahrami said. "In Iran's security policy, relations with terrorist groups have not been defined; any relations with these groups would be a loss for Iran, the region and beyond."
Echoing that sentiment, U.S. Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, has said the only way to resolve the issues in Afghanistan and the broader region is through cooperation among governments. "Stability must be cultivated from inside out, and, importantly, owned by regional stakeholders," Gen. Dempsey said. "The potential transformation of the region will be achieved over time by and through our regional partners."
For now, however, the battle against Daesh in Afghanistan is predominately taking place on a local, provincial level. On Thursday, Farah Governor Muhammad Asef Nang said his province had been ridden of Daesh affiliates.
The Taliban recently sent a highly-publicized letter to Daesh leaders emphasized that there is no need for a new front in Afghanistan. The letter warned that if Daesh forces open a new battlefront, then they could face strong opposition by the Taliban.
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The Afghan Taliban wid anti-ISIS/ISIL support from IRAN???
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Iran doesn't support just any Taliban, they support the Shiite taliban who are a small minority of Taliban and, with respect to the other Taliban, they have a non confrontation policy if the Taliban don't kill shiite tribemen
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[Tolo News] In a recent report by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), it is alleged that officials from the Afghan Ministry of Education (MoE) have repeatedly provided fraudulent data to donors in order to personally profit off of donations for schools.
"Ministers have reported that no schools are open in the insecure parts of Afghanistan, but former officials have forged the numbers and have embezzled the money," SIGAR head John Sopko said on Thursday. "These claims show that the United States might have paid aid money for schools that did not exist."
Current Minister of Education Asadullah Haneef Bakhi has discussed the "ghost schools" and fraudulent statistics in the past, and said such corruption has made it difficult for his ministry to approach donors for legitimate needs.
"In some of the insecure areas, there are no schools, but the benefits, opportunities, money for infrastructure, money for teachers and so on have been taken," Minister Bakhi told TOLOnews.
According to SIGAR, as of March 31, 2015, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had spent 769 million USD to support education in Afghanistan.
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"These claims show that the United States might have paid aid money for schools students that did not exist."
A frequently used tactic in long distance education is web-enrollment and grant, scholarship, federal and state aid applications. Often 'students' are funded for relocation (travel, tuition, rent, food) by the State Dept.
Stage II of the fraud is for the students to drop classes for a refund. These are washed through unregulated internet institutions so the unaudited cash can walk offshore.
[Tolo News] Groups of Afghan children said mostly to be under the age of 15 have picked arms in a number of southern provinces to fight the Taliban.
Brave kids.
Although the Ministry of Interior (MoI) has said that arming Afghan youth is not necessary, it has also not outright denied any involvement in the matter.
The children are said to be motivated by their hatred for the Taliban, a group responsible for many deaths, injuries and destruction in their communities. "They [the Taliban] killed my father, and I will not leave my country to them so long as I am alive," one of the child soldiers told TOLOnews.
The exact location and identities of the youth militia members have not be disclosed for security reasons.
Predictably, human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups have responded by unequivocally denouncing the involvement of children in combat, and pointing out that such activities directly violates international conventions that the government of Afghanistan is a signatory of.
"According to Human Rights Laws, which Afghanistan has also signed, these conventions are known as the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits this issue, where underage children cannot be used on armed front lines," Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) front man Rafi Bedar said. "Young children are still recruited among local police forces," he added, suggesting there may be some institutional backing for the youth militias behind the scenes.
Nevertheless, MoI officials have sought to distance themselves, asserting that there is no need for them to arm youth militias. "Overall, we are against the arming of individuals, because we have enough security forces in Afghanistan," deputy front man Najeeb Danesh said on Thursday. "We have around 400,000 armed forces who can play an important role in maintaining security for Afghanistan's citizens."
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Nairobi – Kenya’s president ordered on Thursday the central bank to issue regulations and then lift restrictions on key money transfer services vital for Somalia suspended over suspected links to the al-Qaeda-allied Shabaab. Kenya in April froze transfer companies as part of a crackdown on alleged Shabaab supporters following the university massacre of almost 150 people by the Islamists.
President Uhuru Kenyatta, in a statement released to mark Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, said he had “noted the proposal to lift the suspension of licences” for 13 registered money remittance providers (MRPs).
“I direct the Central Bank of Kenya to immediately issue comprehensive regulations that guide the operation of MRPs, upon which their suspension would be lifted,” Kenyatta added.
No date or further details were given for when the suspension would end.
Aid agencies criticised the shutting down of transfer services, warning it would hit wimmin and minorities the poorest hardest and jeopardise their operations.
Easier to pay for a Toyota Land Cruiser with cash. Fewer questions that way...
With no formal banking system in the poverty-stricken country, diaspora Somalis use money transfer services to send cash back home to support their families, sending some $1.3bn each year, dwarfing foreign aid.
Kenyatta also called for a security “review” during Ramadan. In past years Shabaab fighters have intensified attacks during the month of fasting.
“Aware that the enemies of our country may wish to exploit this season, I call upon the entire Muslim fraternity and its leadership to remain vigilant, and do everything in their power, to co-operate fully with the security agencies in order to safeguard this holy month,” Kenyatta said.
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[al-Alam] 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... expressed "deep concern" on Wednesday over a death sentence handed down by an Egyptian court against ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and called for his release.
The United States has branded the sentencing of Egypt's first democratically elected president as politically motivated.
"Doha adds its voice to the countries calling for the verdict to be quashed and Morsi released," said the statement on the official Qatar News Agency.
An Egyptian court on Tuesday upheld a death sentence handed down against Morsi on charges of plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the country's 2011 uprising.
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Out of the plane at 30000 feet without a parachute.
[AnNahar] Egypt has granted presidential pardons to 165 people enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! under a controversial law governing the right to protest, a statement from the presidency said on Wednesday.
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the list does not include any figures from the 2011 revolt that drove Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... from power and who were imprisoned under the law in a move that caused uproar among international human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups.
The 165, "convicted in trials for breaking the law on demonstrations", have been granted a presidential pardon and will not serve the remainder of their sentences, the statement said.
It said the list of those to be released "includes a large number of young people and minors".
The announcement comes on the eve of the start of the holy Moslem fasting month of Ramadan.
Since the army toppled Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013, the authorities have cracked down hard on his supporters and on all forms of opposition.
In November 2013, they adopted a new law outlawing demonstrations that have not been given advance authorization by the police.
Hundreds of Islamist protesters -- as well as dozens of secular and leftwing demonstrators -- have been enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! under the legislation.
Leftwinger Alaa Abdel Fattah, a top secular activist behind the protests that led to Mubarak's downfall, was sentenced to five years in prison.
His sister Sanaa Seif got two years, and the founder of the April 6 movement that spearheaded the 2011 revolt, Ahmed Maher, was sentenced to three years.
There have been calls for President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi -- who was army chief when Morsi was ousted -- to pardon figures from the 2011 uprising.
Following Morsi's removal, his supporters were targeted in a campaign of bloody repression in which at least 1,400 people were killed when security forces used deadly force against protesters.
According to 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.... , more than 40,000 people were incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... or referred to the courts.
Hundreds have been sentenced to death in speedy mass trials that the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... called "unprecedented in recent history".
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Unprecedented in history?
Sure there bubbba?
In the arch of human history, this is fairly tame.
[AA.TR] Nigeria's military command and control center (MCCC) will be operational in the next 21 days, an army front man said Wednesday. How the hell long have the Bokeaux been devastating the country? And they're just now getting around to establishing a command center?
The new guy used to be a military man, so now that he's in charge he's doing such things. The previous guy didn't see the need for centers or, apparently, command.
The announcement comes days after all the relevant arms of the military relocated to the country's northeast to boost its counter-terrorism efforts.
"The installation of hi-tech equipment, infrastructure development of the center and posting of additional operations staff have also commenced," front man Sani Usman said in a statement.
"They are to be completed within 21 days, when the MCCC will be fully operational," he said.
Usman said once the center becomes fully operational, all military decisions regarding the fight against 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... will come from the MCCC.
He said military chiefs touched base at the center since Tuesday last week.
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[Ynet] Thousands of people have been diagnosed with dengue fever in southern Yemen, where fighting has raged for months between Iranian catspaws and their opponents, international organizations and health officials said Thursday.
Allah must not love them any more -- all four horsemen of the Apocalypse are now riding across the land.
The top health ministry official in the southern port city of Aden, al-Khadr Al-Aswar, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that at least 5,000 people have been diagnosed with the mosquito-borne virus. He said mountains of uncollected garbage, sewage and heat have contributed to the spread of the disease. The World Health Organization said last week that at least 3,000 suspected cases have been reported since March in several provinces, including Aden. It said three people died from the disease. The WHO said the last major outbreak, with 1,500 confirmed cases, was in 2011 in the western Hodeida governorate.
[DAWN] The adage, "Politics is the art of the possible", proved true on Wednesday when 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... refused to meet former president and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
Sources told Dawn that after his Tuesday evening's hard-hitting speech against the military establishment, Mr Zardari conveyed his desire to the prime minister for a meeting.
According to a source in PML-N, the prime minister initially agreed to meet the former president, but later changed his mind on the advice of members of his cabinet.
Information Minister Pervaiz Rasheed told media that "time is not right for such an interaction. The cabinet colleagues suggested to the prime minister to delay the meeting for the time being".
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[DAWN] Pakistain on Thursday welcomed all efforts to normalise relations between Pakistain and India, saying that peace between the two countries is key to security and development in the region. Backtracking from last week's truculence in preparation for next week's truculence.
In a weekly media briefing at the Foreign Office in the federal capital, Foreign Office spokesperson Qazi Khalilullah said, "We are committed to having good relations with all neighbours in the region but the serious issues between India and Pakistain should be resolved through dialogue."
Referring to the recent telephonic conversation between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 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... , the front man said Pakistain welcomes all efforts to normalise bilateral relations.
Referring to some statements, the spokesperson said Pakistain will take all appropriate actions and measures to protect its national interest.
Replying to a question about Modi's offer to release Pak fishermen detained in India, the spokesperson said logistical arrangements are being finalised in this regard, and exchange of detained fishermen will be made very soon as it had taken a while to complete the process.
Answering a question about cooperation to fight against terrorism, the spokesperson said Pakistain has been making sincere efforts in this regard and is already cooperating with the international community.
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[Rudaw] Humanitarian organizations are out of resources to respond to the staggering crisis of forcibly displaced people whose numbers rose to a record 60 million at the end of last year, most from the war in Syria.
"To those that think that it doesn't matter because humanitarian organizations will be there and able to clean up the mess, I think it's important to say that we are no longer able to clean up the mess," UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday.
"UN agencies, NGOs, the Red Thingy -- we no longer have the capacities and the resources to respond to such a dramatic increase in humanitarian needs," he told news hounds in Istanbul.
Guterres issued the stark warning a few hours after UNHCR had issued its annual Global Trends Report: World at War, showing worldwide displacement was at the highest level ever recorded.
The report said the number of people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014 by war, conflict and persecution had risen to a staggering 59.5 million, compared to 51.2 million a year earlier and 37.5 million a decade ago.
In the last year, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has become the biggest refugee-hosting nation in the world, with more than 1.77 million Syrians fleeing there from the violent conflict in their country. Turkey now hosts more than 2 million refugees in total and spends more than $6 billion on helping Syrians alone, said the report.
In recent days more than 23,000 people surged across the Syrian--Turkish border crossing at Akcakale to escape brutal fighting around Tel Abyad in Syria.
Turkey continues to keep its borders open, and continues to house some of the arriving refugees in 24 camps, but Ankara has intensified its security in the border, according to local newspapers.
"That has a special meaning in a world where so many borders are closed or restricted," Guterres said, "and where new walls are being built or announced."
The report noted that the main acceleration in the number of refugees has been since early 2011 when war erupted in Syria, propelling it into becoming the world's single largest driver of displacement.
In 2014, an average of 42,500 people became refugees, asylum seekers, or internally displaced every day, representing a four-fold increase in just four years. Worldwide, one in every 122 humans is now either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum, said the report.
"We are witnessing a paradigm change, an unchecked slide into an era in which the scale of global forced displacement as well as the response required is now clearly dwarfing anything seen before," said Guterres. "It is terrifying that on the one hand there is more and more impunity for those starting conflicts, and on the other there is seeming utter inability of the international community to work together to stop wars and build and preserve peace."
The report underlined that, alarmingly, over half of the world´s refugees are children.
"With huge shortages of funding and wide gaps in the global regime for protecting victims of war, people in need of compassion, aid and refuge are being abandoned," said Guterres. "For an age of unprecedented mass displacement, we need an unprecedented humanitarian response and a renewed global commitment to tolerance and protection for people fleeing conflict and persecution."
The report said Syria is the world's biggest producer of both internally displaced people (7.6 million) and refugees (3.88 million at the end of 2014), making the Middle East the world's largest producer and host of forced displacement. Adding to the alarmingly high totals from Syria was new displacement of least 2.6 million people in Iraq, where as a result 3.6 million people were internally displaced as of the end of 2014, as well as 309,000 people newly displaced in Libya.
The Kurdistan region, the only stable part of Iraq, has been struggling to provide adequate humanitarian assistance to an overwhelming number of Iraqi internally displaced persons, IDPs, and Syrian refugees.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has appealed for further assistance from United Nation agencies and the international community to step in and help provide assistance to an estimated 1.7 million refugees and IDPs whose numbers grow with every spike in violence in Syria or other parts of Iraq.
[DAWN] Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... is criticising Israel for the death and suffering of many Paleostinian children during last summer's conflict in Gazoo and is urging the Israeli government to take immediate steps to prevent such killings.
The UN chief referred to the controversy over his decision not to include Israel on his annual list of parties that kill or injure children in armed conflict.
Nonetheless, he singled out Israel's actions in a speech Thursday to a Security Council meeting on children and armed conflict.
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What most Americans don't realize is that people like Sharpton are just little shits. To achieve real stature in the field, one must go international.
[Ynet] The US military dismissed 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.... claims on Thursday it had shot down an Iraqi aircraft, saying all U.S.-led coalition aircraft as well Iraqi aircraft had been accounted for.
Rooters had previously reported the claim, made on one of the Islamic State's Twitter accounts, saying a Russian-made Su-25 was seen crashing in flames after being shot down north of Ramadi. Major Curtis Kellogg, a front man at the US military's Central Command, said the claim was inaccurate.
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[AnNahar] A top U.S. official on Wednesday denounced "false" assertions by a former Israeli ambassador that the B.O. regime has abandoned Israel, a traditional ally of the United States.
"Nu-uh! And anyone who says so is a stupid poopy-head!"
In an op-ed piece earlier this week, former Israeli envoy to the United States, Michael Oren, said President Barack Obama If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon... had dropped the core principles guiding Israeli-U.S. ties of "no daylight, no surprises."
Oren, ambassador from 2009 to 2013, acknowledged that Israel blundered in many instances, but added that "while neither leader monopolized mistakes, only one leader made them deliberately."
"From the moment he entered office, Mr. Obama promoted an agenda of championing the Paleostinian cause and achieving a nuclear accord with Iran. Such policies would have put him at odds with any Israeli leader," Oren wrote in Monday's Wall Street Journal.
State Department front man John Kirby insisted however that as Oren had only been the ambassador, he "had limited visibility into many of the private discussions and deliberations that he describes."
Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... believed that Oren's account, "particularly the account of President B.O.'s leadership in the U.S.-Israeli relationship, is absolutely inaccurate and false, and doesn't reflect what actually happened in the past," Kirby told news hounds.
Oren had pointed to Obama's first meeting in May 2009 with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he abruptly demanded that Israel freeze settlement construction and accept a two-state solution.
Only weeks later, Obama traveled to the Middle East to address the Moslem world but did not make a stop in Israel, and broke with tradition by not giving Israeli leaders an advance copy of his speech.
The ultimate betrayal of the core principles was the discovery that U.S. officials had held secret talks with arch-enemy Iran, Oren wrote.
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Israel is traditional ally of USA People, and traditional enemy of USA Mandarinate. The only difference between Obama and his (hers?) predecessors, is that the efforts to fool the People are (a lot) clumsier.
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The first thing the prez did after entering office was shipping Churchill's bust back to (formerly'Great') Britain. Being a trained historian, I knew then for certain that our republic was headed toward a hard left ideological dumpster. Thank G-D for term limits. (And hopefully no presidential dynasties - that's how Rome ended up suffering thru Nero, Caligula,
Domitian & etc.
[Haaretz] Prime Minister Netanyahu orders accelerated investigation of fire and vandalism, saying, 'Hate and intolerance have no place in our society.'
A fire broke out late Wednesday night to put out a fire at the historic Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish at Tabgha, located on the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. Sixteen yeshiva students were arrested Thursday morning over suspected involvement in the arson.
Israeli police's West Bank settlement division is investigating the incident. Police said they initially tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! 16 youths, all religious Jewish seminary students from West Bank settlements, but released them shortly after. Their lawyer, Itamar Ben Gvir, told Army Radio the police had no evidence against the youths and that they were under suspicion simply for looking like young settlers.
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the police had no evidence against the youths and that they were under suspicion simply for looking like young settlers
Won't stop newspaper headlines around the world. Christians' "plight" in Israel is always a frontpage material.
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Christians are treated a heckuva lot better in Israel than they are in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, et cetera, ad nauseum.
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And womyn are treated heckuva lot better in USA then in the most of the rest of the World---can you find this fact by reading newspapers?
[Ynet] The US effort to build a moderate Syrian opposition force that can stand up 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.... rebels is moving more slowly than expected due to complications vetting volunteers and bringing them out of Syria for training, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Bummer.
Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Defense Department front man, said between 100 and 200 Syrian fighters were undergoing training in the region, while hundreds more were still being screened or waiting to be brought out of the country. "As of now, none have completed training," Warren said.
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USA training Al-Qaeda affiliates to fight ISIS---which, some claim, USA trained & equipped through Turkish/Saudi proxies. Marvelous are the ways of affirmative action.
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Personnel 'screening' is made infinitely more difficult when little is known about the applicant, academic and travel records are unavailable, place of birth data and parentage are cloudy, and multiple names have been used.
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expected by whom? This is the military training people that STATE DEPT picked out. Stop this and take all that money and give it as equipment to the Peshmerga. They know how to train and they have proven they can fight and kill ISIS quite proficiently.
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In Woody Allen's flic "Bananas" there is a 'revolution' in a Central American 'republic. U.S.A.sends a planeful of battle geared CIA sponsored U.S. soldiers. Their leader sez that 'this time'we're going to do it right! Half of us will fight for the revolution and other half against!'
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As per #8, so under the Bammer the US is once again "attackatreating" in Iraq???
Well there ya go - the smell of Victory in the Mornin'.
Oh, wait ...
* TOPIX > GENERAL VALLELY: US WON'T GET 24,000 IRAQIS TO FIGHT/BATTLE ISIS.
Something has to significantly change iff the Bammer Admin = USA expects its current policies to prevail or succeed agz the ISIS/ISIL.
* WORLD NEWS > [USNWR] OBAMA PLAN TO DEFEAT ISIS WON'T SUCCEED, EXPERTS SAY.
It taint enuff to win, sezzes the US Pentagon + Other.
* PAYVAND NEWS > IRAN VP WARNS OF SPREAD OF EXTREMISM BEYOND THE MIDDLE EAST, iff the US-Allies/West fail to contain or defeat it in Iraq.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Sputnik] US PENTAGON SAYS IRAQ LIKELY TO BE SPLIT INTO THREE [Sovereign]STATES, as in contrance to the Bammer's stated desire to keep Iraq whole.
SURRENDER NOW, ALL YE FEDERALISTS WHOM ENTER HERE!
* SAME > US HOUSE REJECTS MEASURE [288-139 HR vote] TO PULL OUT ALL US TROOPS [3,500 tote] FROM IRAQ IN 30 DAYS, or in altern by EOY 2015.
VERSUS
* BIGNEWSNETWORK, TOPIX > [Telegraph.UK] CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: THERE IS MILITARY STRATEGY AGZ THE ISLAMIC STATE - THIS IS IT, FORGET ABOUT SUPPORTING BAGHDAD AND [Re-]TRAINING IRAQI ARMY, WE MUST PROMOTE [give = push] MORE ASSETS TO OUR REAL ALLIES WHOM CAN WIN [Unilaterally-Asymetrically agz the ISIS/isil, AQ] ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
E.g. the hard-fighting, ISIS/ISIL-defeating Kurds, + stalwart Jordan, for starters.
* PAYVAND NEWS > THE NEW WORLD ORDER REBOOTED.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [US DepState] US REFUSES TO GIVE OSAMA BIN LADEN'S SON [Abdullah] DEATH CERTIFICATE FOR EX-AL QAEDA LEADER.
No DC = the US Govt. officially "cannot confirm or deny" Osama is actually dead.
ZOOOOOOOMG, MAYBE MY FORMER AFGHAN WAR ASSOCIATE/CO-HORT OSAMA IS SSSHHH ...PCCCCC ALIVE + LIVING IN THE PHILIPPINES???
OR RIDING THE GUAM MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM LIKE JAPANESE-CHINESE NINJAS???
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] New leaked documents are being published, but this time from Yarmouk camp for Paleostinian refugees and the surrounding areas.
The documents show levels of chaos in the hottest area in Damascus, as far as battles are concerned. Many groups have commitments to outsider agendas, moreover, loyalty of fighters is unclear in some cases, as fighters may change their loyalty from a force to another, even sometimes to Syrian regime.
An official document was forwarded from militias of the National Defence Forces (NDF) in Yarmouk Camp to the headquarter in Damascus, in July 2014, it detailed an incident, seemed to be frequent to happen, when hostile fighting groups attacked areas of controlled by the National Defence forces, led to clashed and sniping resulted in injuries, one of them from Ahmed Jibril's Militias, the pro-regime Paleostinian group.
The document reveals that during drawing the injured, a member from the National Defence forces heard Abo Khalid Nazmi, one of Jibril's militia, talking to of the attacking gangs and demanding him to withdraw their snipers, which provoked the NDF's members to arrest Abo Khalid and question him about the person he was talking to.
Abo Khalid sought help from members Paleostine branch, the most hated intelligence branch, to prevent NDF from arresting him, who came and had row with the NDF's militias and prevented them from arresting him, even the interference of Hasa al-Sa'adi, the head of the militia in Yarmouk camp, was not able to detain Abo Khalid.
Th report mentioned that the al-Sa'adi and other members were rebuked and sworn to with very bad words, and threatened of sacking and expulsion of their houses.
"moreover, the officer from Paleostine branch ordered NDF's militia to leave the first trap positioned in Paleostine street and to stay only in the advanced traps and threatened the militia of shooting if they broke his orders" the report detailed.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] While the exodus from Syria has become the world's biggest refugee crisis, the United States is being criticized by relief organizations and some within President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... 's Democratic Party for allowing only a limited flow into America.
Since October fewer than 800 Syrian refugees have been admitted into the United States, only a fraction of nearly 4 million displaced from the war-ravaged Middle Eastern country, according to State Department data.
An annual report by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... High Commission for Refugees released on Thursday found that the Syrian refugee problem has for the first time become bigger than that in Afghanistan.
A U.S. State Department official said the total admitted in the last eight months was dramatically higher than in earlier years since the Syria crisis began in 2011. In the whole of 2014 only 249 Syrian refugees were let in.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said protracted and thorough security checks were in place, which meant an average wait of between 18 months and two years.
Senator Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... , the leading Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, joined 14 other senators who signed a letter to Obama in May calling for more to be allowed in.
David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, said 99 percent of the Syrian refugee burden was being born by neighboring states like The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Leb and Jordan, although they had been helped by U.S. and other funding.
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Its off to Mexico + Canada + Cuba? they go, on the scenic tour before they enter the US.
So much for the anguished cries about evil Kurdish ethnic cleansing.
[AnNahar] Syrian refugees in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... began returning to their homes in Tal Abyad Wednesday after Kurdish forces seized the border town in a major blow to 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.
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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
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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.
[Tolo News] A recent report released by the Pentagon in Washington D.C. states that Daesh is expanding in Afghanistan and preparing to confront the Taliban.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[Ynet] The US effort to build a moderate Syrian opposition force that can stand up to 
