[MAGHAREBIA] In a bid to fight extremism, Algeria will require imams to undergo a training programme, AFP reported on Wednesday. (September 17th).
"Anyone holding a higher diploma in Islamic studies can't preach in our mosques before they take the training, which lasts one month, followed by an exam," Religious Affairs Minister Mohammed Aissa told El Watan.
Aissa also noted that religious practices "specific to Gulf countries" had given rise to the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria. Picked right up on that one, didn't he?
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[MAGHAREBIA] An unknown Algerian terrorist group on Saturday (September 13th) announced its split from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and adherence to the Islamic State (ISIS).
"Djound Al-Khilafa en Algerie" (Soldiers of the Caliphate in Algeria) pledged allegiance to His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... 's group.
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The cancer was allowed to spread. I recommend radiation, chemo-therapy, and surgery.
[Libya Herald] Benghazi House of Representatives (HoR) member Tariq Geroushi has said that as soon as Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni's government is approved he will bring up the issue of an official dismissal of Libya's Grand Mufti, Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani.
Geroushi told local media yesterday morning that due to the serious nature of fatwas issued by Ghariani supporting the gangs that wreaked havoc 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... most HoR members are determined on the Mufti's ouster.
Geroushi expressed that he believes Ghariani's continued tenure in the position could only have a negative impact.
Members have previously told the Libya Herald that Ghariani's dismissal has already been approved in principle and that the only reason for the delay was a lack of consensus on the future of the Dar Al Ifta which he heads.
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[Libya Herald] The House of Representatives reaffirmed its wish to have Abdullah Al-Thinni as Prime Minister today with a fresh vote appointing him to the post. The vote was, moroever, significantly higher than for the initial decision on 1 September asking him to form a new government. Then, 64 out of the 106 members present voted for him. Today, it was 85 out of 103 members, a 30-percent increase in support.
Yesterday, the HoR rejected Thinni's proposed new 18-member cabinet, threatening to select a new prime minister if he did not produce a slimmed down government within three days and one composed of entirely new faces (apart from him).
Thinni now has a week to come up with a new government. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the HoR is reported to be sticking to its demands that there be no more than 11 members in the cabinet (including the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister) and that no previous holders of ministerial office or those nominated yesterday be included on the new list.
Today's vote of confidence in Thinni is seen as a hasty realisation in the HoR that events were getting out of hand and that they were losing public support as a result. Rumours that they were considering former Prime Minister Ali Zeidan ... served as a diplomat for Libya during the 1970s, serving in India under Ambassador Mohammed Magariaf. Both men defected in 1980 and went on to form the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. Zeidan spent nearly three decades in exile in Geneva after the defection. During the revolution Zeidan served as the National Transitional Council's Europe envoy, and is credited as having played a key role in persuading French President Nicolas Sarkozy to support the anti-Qadaffy forces... instead of Thinni, even if untrue, were widely circulated and added to public disillusionment.
"He is the only one who knows the game", Bengahzi HoR member Ziyah Daghim said of Thinni on TV last night, although he did not explain why other serving ministers did not also fit the description -- why they should all go but not the Prime Minister.
Whether the HoR's demands are met in full remains to be seen. Thinni has earned himself a reputation of political astuteness since becoming Prime Minister in March. He was initially appointed by Congress for a two week period. Despite its subsequent attempts to ditch him, he is still in post while it is legally extinct, although a small rump of its members refuse to accept the fact.
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[Al Ahram] 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... turbans are in charge of at least 25 towns and villages in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , the region's Roman Catholic bishop has claimed, warning of a deteriorating security situation.
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[AnNahar] Four assailants in a vehicle bearing the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) drove past the Maronite Our Lady of Leb Church in Sydney, shouting death threats to church-goers, media reports said on Thursday.
"Four youth in an unknown car and waving the flag of ISIL drove by the church threatening church-goers with murder and with slaughtering their children," the parish custodian, Monseigneur Shora Maree, revealed.
The assailants caused panic among people as the Australian police is investigating the incident to identify the four youth.
"This is now in the hands of police who are fully investigating. Please do not respond to or circulate any other version of the truth on social media as it creates unnecessary panic," Maree said in a statement.
On Thursday, Australia's largest ever counter-terrorism raids detained 15 people and foiled a plot by Islamic State jihadists to conduct "demonstration killings", reportedly including beheading a member of the public on camera.
The Australian government believes up to 60 Australians are fighting alongside jihadists for Islamic State, while another 100 were actively working to support the movement at home.
The latest raids followed the arrests of two people last week in Brisbane who were charged with allegedly recruiting, funding and sending jihadist fighters to Syria.
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Aussies let the cockroaches in...now they pay the price. USA is next - letting tens of thousands of Somalies in - that's not even including the other non-Somali crew in Dearborn. We, too, will pay the price. Not to mention that we'll be speaking Spanish in the near future also. We live in 'interesting times'.
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Reading a good book on Reconquista teaches you a looooot about the oh so wonderful islamic tolerance in what is supposed their golden age.
If you cna read Spanish then in Amazon you will be able to get several good e-books.
A very good one is
http://www.amazon.com/aventura-Asturias-Historia-Esfera-Spanish-ebook/dp/B00692A95O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411129052&sr=8-1&keywords=la+gran+aventura+del+reino+de+asturias
it is not from a historian but from a journalist but I like it because of the way it cuts into progressive non sense ("Such historian has his thepry but in fact there are very few records and none substantiates his theory"). This volume (of three) begins with a rebellion of three hundred men in Spain's far norh and how it evolved into a kingdom powerful enough to strike Sevilia into the very own heart of Muslim Spain.
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Four assailants in a vehicle bearing the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL) drove past the Maronite Our Lady of Leb Church in Sydney, shouting death threats to church-goers
Wonder why so-called peace loving Muslims never seem able to detect and neutralize the fascists of the so-called tiny minirity.
There is a big hole in my history concerning the reconquista, only that evictees were actively courted by pirates for their knowledge of coastlines and interior.
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At least I get a good laugh when I see the supermarket shelves in Tucson filled with 'BIMBOBread'. My mind always imagines a full figured female blond as the trademark. (No disrespect meant to same.)
[AnNahar] La Belle France's lower house National Assembly Thursday approved an "anti-terrorism" bill which will usher in a travel ban on anyone suspected of planning to wage jihad abroad.
The bill comes as authorities are increasingly concerned about the number of French citizens traveling to fight in Iraq and Syria who could potentially come back and stage attacks in their home country.
It includes the travel ban, which would see suspects have their passports and ID cards confiscated for six months, renewable for up to two years, as well as punishment for "lone wolves" who plan terrorist attacks on their own.
According to a police source, one of the suspects was linked to Forsane Alizza (Knights of Pride), an Islamist extremist group that had called for France to become an Islamic caliphate and was banned in 2012.
The bill also allows authorities to ask Internet service providers to block access to sites that praise "acts of terrorism" -- modeled on existing rules against child pornography sites.
It was approved by most political groups at the National Assembly and will be debated by the upper house Senate next month.
But the Greens abstained on the vote because they believe there are not enough legal guarantees in the bill that freedoms will be respected.
According to Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, around 930 French citizens including at least 60 women, are either actively engaged in jihad in Iraq and Syria or are planning to go there, a 74-percent increase in eight months.
Earlier this week, six people were detained in eastern La Belle France on suspicion of recruiting candidates for jihad.
According to a police source, one of the suspects was linked to Forsane Alizza (Knights of Pride), an Islamist holy warrior group that had called for La Belle France to become an Islamic caliphate and was banned in 2012.
[Ynet] Turkey's foreign minister says his country is resolved to stop the flow of European gunnies trying to join the Islamic State group.
Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey has a no-entry list with 6,000 names and has already turned back some 1,000 people attempting to reach Syria or Iraq.
Speaking after a meeting with his German counterpart in Berlin on Thursday, Cavusoglu said he was "saddened by unjustified accusations" that Turkey has failed to do it all could to prevent foreigners joining the Sunni murderous Moslem group.
He said Turkey could only act if it receives tips from other countries and urged foreign governments to improve the exchange of information on would-be jihadists.
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Let the fighters in, just stop the flow of everything else & don't let the fighters back out.
[Al Ahram] There is no evidence that Arab Bank executives supported terrorism, a defense lawyer told a US jury Thursday at the end of a month-long trial.
The Jordan-based multinational went on trial in New York on August 14, accused of aiding terror by transferring support funds to the families of Paleostinians who died in the conflict with Israel.
In more than three hours of detailed concluding arguments, lawyer Shand Stephens disputed that the institution made payments to designated gunnies and that those funds were used to bankroll terror attacks.
"There's not one word of testimony in this case that would lead you to conclude that any one of those people deliberately supported terrorism. Not a word," he told a district court in Brooklyn.
The families of several Americans killed in attacks in the early 2000s allege the bank violated the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act when it served as a conduit for money from a 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... n fund to the Paleostinian families.
But Stephens said Arab Bank provided routine, internationally approved banking services and that none of the charities, which the plaintiffs claim were Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, fronts, were on any terror blacklist.
"None of them, not one, nada is on the US, UN or EU list during that very time. Not one," he said.
The plaintiffs filed their suit in 2004, four years into the Second Intifada, a Paleostinian uprising that left thousands dead.
They said Arab Bank was the conduit by which the Saudi Committee for the Support of the Intifada Al-Quds fund sent money to the families of Paleostinians who died, including jacket wallahs.
They also claimed that Hamas, which the US officially designates as a terror group, directed the distribution of the money from the Saudi fund.
Stephens said that between 2000 and 2004 no government blacklisted the Saudi Committee for terror activity and that its payments to 15,000 people each month were public and approved by Israel.
For example, families of Paleostinians who died or were crippled received $5,300.
The plaintiffs have questioned 180 of the payments to 24 families of purported Hamas operatives, or about one percent of payments totalling $35 million, Stephens said.
"It's not the bank's place to stop payments that have been approved by everybody involved," he said.
"You do not punish the family of someone who commits a criminal act. We don't do that in the United States... and they don't do it in the West Bank and Gazoo."
No, in Gaza they celebrate and reward them. In the West Bank, too, which American and European governments have been exceedingly careful not to notice.
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[ARABNEWS] A Pakistain-born neuroscientist has become a rallying cry for turban groups demanding her release from a US prison. But in a little-noticed move she is trying to abandon her legal fight for freedom, saying the US court system is unjust.
Militants in Syria, Algeria, Afghanistan and Pakistain have made Aafia Siddiqui ...American-educated Pak cognitive neuroscientist who was convicted of assault with intent to murder her U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan. In September 2010, she was sentenced to 86 years in jug after a three-ring trial. Siddiqui, using the alias Fahrem or Feriel Shahin, was one of six alleged al-Qaeda members who bought $19 million worth of blood diamonds in Liberia immediately prior to 9-11-01. Since her incarceration Paks have taken her to their heart and periodically erupt into demonstrations, while the government tries to find somebody to swap for her... 's release a condition for freeing certain foreign hostages. Islamic State (IS), for example, proposed swapping American journalist James Foley for her, but he was executed after their demands, which also included an end to US Arclight airstrikes in Iraq, were not met.
A 42-year-old mother of three with degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University, Siddiqui is serving an 86-year sentence in a prison medical center in Texas. A jury in 2010 convicted her of attempting to shoot and kill a group of FBI agents, US soldiers and interpreters who were about to interrogate her for alleged links to Al-Qaeda.
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She find Jesus or something?
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[Ynet] Moderate Syrian rebels, once they are made battle-ready by a US-led coalition, may be asked to help restore the border between Syria and Iraq that Islamic State group bully boyz have effectively wiped out, the top American military official said Thursday.
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey cautioned, however, that it may be a year before the Syrian rebel force that President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... calls a key element of his strategy for destroying the Islamic State group is ready for action.
"We think if we can restore the border, it goes a long way to beginning to put the kind of pressure on ISIL that will lead to its ultimate defeat," Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, using a common acronym for the group that U.S. intelligence officials estimate has up to 31,000 fighters.
[DAWN] MUZAFFARGARH: MNA Jamshed Dasti along with his 70 supporters on Thursday surrendered to police after they were booked under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) for attacking police team and interfering in official work, DawnNews reported.
On Tuesday, police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Dasti and his 200 supporters under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The FIR was registered by the City cop shoppe on the complaint of the district police officer.
According to the complaint, Dasti and his men attacked police teams and interfered in official work. The accused damaged police vehicles and created terror and harassment.
DPO Rai Zameerul Haq said Dasti had reached Thatta Sialan on Monday where some people were trying to plug a breach and he tried to stop them.
Dasti on the other hand said he was innocent. He said he was rather attacked by local Pakistain Mulsil League-Nawaz (PML-N) men present at the breach site.
It was the second FIR under the 7-ATA against Dasti. He was booked earlier in 2009 for attacking doctors of DHQ Hospital.
After surrendering to Katcheri Police, Dasti said despite the 'fake FIR' registered against him, he was surrendering to uphold the law.
Security across the city has been put on high alert after the arrest.
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[DAWN] The name of a new director general for the Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) is likely to be announced next week along with the appointment of five new lieutenant generals in the Pakistain Army, a report published in the BBCUrdu said.
The prime minister has been considering a couple of names for the top intelligence slot, sources close to the premier told BBCUrdu. Those being considered for the position are Lahore corps commander Lt-Gen Naveed Zaman and President National Defence University Lt-Gen Javed Iqbal Ramday. Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase... names for the slot circulating in military circles are Maj-Gen Nazeer Butt and Maj-Gen Rizwan Akhtar.
Sources privacy to the development told BBCUrdu that Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif wanted to promote certain military officials from the rank of Major General to that of Lieutenant General. These appointments are likely to come before the naming of the new ISI chief so that one of these Lt-Gens may be considered for the top intelligence slot.
The development is expected as current ISI chief Lt-Gen Zaheerul Islam and five lieutenant generals are scheduled to retire from service in the first week of October.
The appointments are coming at a time when the army has been accused of meddling in politics and although the retirements and subsequent appointments do not appear suspect, they are drawing much interest particularly on account of their timing.
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[DAWN] An opposition jirga seeking to resolve the 34-day standoff between the government and protesters besieging parliament is close to a workable solution and wants a five-day 'ceasefire' between the two sides and release of detained activists to help achieve its goal, a key member of the group told parliament on Wednesday.
Senator Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. of the PPP, which is backing 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... in parliament against the protesters' demand that he resign, said the formula his six-man group was working on would provide a solution to contentious issues within the bounds of the Constitution and reflect the "voice of the people".
Restricting himself to what he said the jirga had authorised him to say, the senator said the formula would have a solution to the protesters' demand for resignations by the prime minister and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Shahrif and contain a definition of election rigging and propose what should be done if riggings were proved.
He was referring to the allegations by protesting 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.... (PTI) and Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) of massive rigging in last year's general elections at the behest of present-day ruling PML-N.
"It will be in accordance with the Constitution, in accordance with the rule of law and in accordance with the voice of the people," he said about the formula which would be given to the combined opposition.
Calling for what he termed a ceasefire for five days between the rival sides, he said: "Perhaps we will give you some results."
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[AnNahar] The Israeli army on Thursday continued fortifying its posts opposite the southern Lebanese town of Adaisseh in order to conceal the movements of its troops and vehicles, Leb's National News Agency reported.
It "cemented and fortified the military posts along the border with Leb facing the Adaisseh-Kfarkila road," NNA said.
"A crane placed cement blocks and walls on the makeshift military road separating the electronic fence and the groves of the Metula settlement," the agency added.
The measures are aimed at "concealing the movements of the enemy's troops and vehicles," NNA explained.
The Israeli army also installed "a boom barrier that can be opened and closed when needed amid heavy deployment by its troops who stood guard in the vicinity of the works and in the apple groves."
The moves were accompanied by intensive overflights by drones and helicopters over the occupied Shebaa Farms and in the nearby Arqoub area villages all the way to Marjeyoun and Hasbaya.
Israeli troops had at dawn fired several flares over the heights of Mount Hermon and over the road that refugees fleeing Syria usually take to reach the Janaam area, east of Shebaa, NNA reported.
In the morning, Israeli vehicles patrolled the border from Miskav Am in the west to Abbasiyeh and Wadi al-Asal in the east, while passing through al-Wazzani, Ghajar, al-Himmari and al-Dahra, the agency said.
On Friday, the Israeli army set up a reconnaissance air balloon near the southern Lebanese town of Mays al-Jabal.
And on September 5, a Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... military expert was killed as an Israeli drone remotely detonated a spy device he was dismantling in the southern coastal town of Adloun.
[Ynet] Full cost of reconstruction expected to be around $4 billion over three years, Palestinian PM says; rebuilding Strip will require 10,000 tons of cement a day coming into Gaza over the next 6 months. That compares with just 30 tons a week entering the territory before the war.
The ability to press ahead with reconstruction depends not just on raising the money but on Hamas, the Islamist faction that dominates Gaza, allowing the Palestinian Authority to resume civil administration and border controls in the enclave.
Hamas and Fatah, which leads the Palestinian Authority, agreed in April to form a "unity government", but efforts to put that agreement into force have so far failed. Unless progress is made on forging a unity deal that works, donors are likely to be reluctant to commit money to Gaza.
"All donor countries have made a condition, they want to deal with the unity government," said Hamdallah. "If the government is not enabled in the Gaza Strip, there will be problems over reconstruction."
Mahmoud al-Zahar of Hamas dismissed the unity government idea, describing it as a "government of failure", an indication of just how hard it will be to reconcile the factions and make progress on rebuilding Gaza.
Bottom line: No Gaza reconstruction until further notice, which is why Gazans have started quietly emigrating in their hundreds.
[ABNA.IR] Snowden told James Bamford from the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that the intercepts included communications of Arabs, and Paleostinian-Americans, whose relatives in Israel and the Paleostinian territories could become targets based on the information.
The material included "unevaluated and unminimized transcripts, gists, facsimiles, telex, voice and Digital Network Intelligence metadata and content," according to documents leaked by Snowden.
The whistleblower said the data was routinely transferred to the Israeli intelligence organization known as the Unit 8200.
The Israeli intelligence used the info to force the Paleostinians into becoming collaborators.
The snooping has been carried out based on a deal between the US spy agency and the Israeli intelligence since 2009.
Snowden began leaking classified intelligence documents in June 2013, revealing the extent of the NSA's spying activities.
He revealed that the spy agency has been collecting the phone records of millions of Americans and foreign nationals as well as politicians around the world.
Following the revelations, Snowden fled the United States to avoid espionage charges.
In August 2013, Russia granted him asylum for one year and last month it granted him permission to stay in the country until August 2017.
A US Department of Defense report said the extent of damage to the US national security from the leak of secret NSA documents by Snowden is staggering.
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Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990). March 22, 1990.... a date and fellow the young Mr. Snowden might wish to remember.
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At this point why would anyone not suppose that the Shadow Broker NSA supplied info is being shared with whom ever the lever pullers want to manipulate?
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The snooping has been carried out based on a deal between the US spy agency and the Israeli intelligence since 2009.
....which was an update of a previous agreement penned in 1994, which was part of blanket intelligence sharing initiatives dating from 1961, 1957, and 1949. They get some, we get some, everyone leaves happy.
The European Union said on Thursday it was disappointed with a lack of progress by Iran in addressing concerns about its suspected atomic bomb research, pressuring Tehran to cooperate with a long-stalled UN watchdog inquiry.
The 28-nation EU made the statement at a board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which for years has been investigating allegations that Iran has worked on designing a nuclear weapon. An IAEA report in early September showed Iran had failed to answer questions about what the UN agency calls the possible military dimensions (PMD) of the country's nuclear programme by an agreed Aug. 25 deadline.
“The EU is disappointed with the very limited progress on PMD,” the EU statement said. “It is essential and urgent that Iran cooperates fully and in a timely manner with the agency regarding all relevant issues.”
“We urge Iran to demonstrate its cooperation by providing the agency with access to all the people, documents and sites requested, and encourage it to facilitate this cooperation through the issuance of visas.”
That's not even a strongly worded complaint...
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Someone could speed along the progress a little faster. We have been diddling around with these mullahs for a long time--at least since Jimmy Carter's days.
[Ynet] At least one unmanned surveillance aircraft has been seen over Islamic State-controlled areas of the Syrian province of Aleppo, where the radical group has evacuated most of its bases, a group which tracks the war in Syria reported on Thursday.
Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said multiple sources in northeastern Aleppo had spotted at least one drone over towns including al-Bab and Manbij. "They hadn't seen them before," he told Rooters by telephone.
US President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... last month authorised surveillance flights in Syria. Unmanned surveillance aircraft have already been spotted over the city of Raqqa, the Islamic State's stronghold in Syria 450 km (250 miles) northeast of Damascus, activists have reported.
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[ABNA.IR] Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Wednesday that the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... terrorist group cannot be destroyed by Western bombing attacks.
Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Zarif said the best thing a U.S.-led coalition can do to fight ISIL, also known as Islamic State, is to cut off the sources of assistance and financial support that go to the myrmidon group.
"ISIL will not be eradicated by aerial bombardments," he said, adding that the threat posed by the group cannot be contained to Iraq and Syria alone. It is "a global threat," he said.
He said Iran doesn't trust the U.S.'s willingness to fight Islamic State across the region.
Zarif said the U.S. cannot successfully fight the Syrian government and ISIL simultaneously in Syria.
He said Iran didn't hesitate to offer help to Iraq when the terrorist group made gains but said neither Tehran nor Western countries should send troops into Iraq. "Foreign forces will not be able to uproot this menace from the region," he said. "As a principle, we don't believe that injection of foreign forces -- either air or ground -- solves our problem."
"ISIL holy warriors are an outcome of foreign invasion in the Middle East," said Zarif. He said the states that took part in a Gay Paree conference on the US-led coalition against the ISIL earlier this week, had supported the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s in the past.
The Iranian foreign minister noted that Iran was the first country to take measures to help Iraq in the face of the Takfiri threat.
On Iran's nuclear program, Zarif slammed the United States for its obsession with sanctions against Tehran.
"Iran has lived up to its obligations regarding the nuclear program and is determined to resolve the issue," he stated. He said Iran wouldn't accept a nuclear deal lasting 10 or 15 years, "but I'm willing to live with less."
Zarif said Iran has already allowed the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency to visit Parchin twice and if it allows a future visit, we will be "having a very serious conversation with them about the limits of this [search]."
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[ABNA.IR] In his advanced jurisprudence class at Qom's Masjid al-A'dham, Ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi told his students that many Westerners seek to deliberately defame Islam by falsely linking the so-called Islamic State with Islam and by stating that this Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group is a model of an ideal Islamic government.
Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi asked "How can anyone consider them an Islamic State? They are a terrorist group which is not a state which has done nothing but aggression. They have violated the honour of the Moslems, they have destroyed, created insecurity and fear, and have nothing to do with Islam and its teachings!"
His Eminence added that these snuffies have created the worst form of prostitution imaginable and have given it the name of "jihad an-nikkah" [marriage/sex jihad], a concept which does not exist in Islam. Recently, the Grand Mufti of 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... stressed that this Takfiri group are alien to Islam and called them a terrorist group which they have brought disgrace to Islam, but unfortunately even some in the media call this group an Islamic State.
He added that this group was formed by the United States in order to serve its interests in the region. He also slammed the Turkish government for its role in supporting the Takfiri snuffies in Syria and Iraq and for lying by saying that they are not involved. The Takfiris have themselves admitted to having an office in Turkey! Due to these countries' involvement in Iraq and Syria, Ayatollah Makarem-Shirazi stated: "who from among the international organizations has given them permission to forcibly enter another country? ISIL's actions show that they do not recognize any international laws and that they are only looking out for the interests of the West and themselves. They are attempting to deceive the world. We are hopeful that the Almighty God will rid the world of evil."
The renowned Shi'ite source of emulation added that human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... laws are tools in the hands of the oppressors and that the West uses this phrase to knock out the weak. He described the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran and the sacred system of Wilayat al-Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurisprudent) as a trust of God upon mankind and a right which must be properly implemented.
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[ARABNEWS] US 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... on Thursday accused Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... of breaking the terms of a global pact on chemical weapons by unleashing chlorine gas this year. Crossed a red line, did he? Tut.
"We believe there is evidence of Assad's use of chlorine, which when you use it -- despite it not being on the list -- it is prohibited under the Chemical Weapons Convention," Kerry told US politicians. The US also had "some questions about a couple of other items" which were being investigated "so he's in violation of the convention," Kerry added.
Washington was studying ways to hold Assad to account, after the world's chemical watchdog earlier this month confirmed the systematic use of chlorine as a weapon in war-torn Syria.
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... an international aid group says that nearly three million Syrian children are not attending school due to the war raging in their country. The report by the Britannia-based Save the Children adds that hundreds of thousands of displaced children are struggling to enroll for school in their host countries and in Syria.
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Red line crossed, bunky? Whatcha gonna do about it?
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Disagree; if the shit was swallowed UK, France, and USA would have gone air war at the Red Line Crossing.
This looks like a sales pitch to me; Assad is a very naughty person, and if we kill him it is so kids can go back to school. This is my Tough Face, when lawyers go to war, when a peter snowflake who made his name by diplomating with the enemy, sacrificing at the altar of anti-war, married privilage, called the military a bunch of rampaging barbarian imbeciles, and is tasked to cause harm using the US military.
Its like a Chiefs fan hoping the Broncos pick up Herm Edwards as offensive coordinator.
#7
Born in KC, I'm a lifelong Chiefs fan - which is a hard thing to be - Herm is right up there with Hezbollah in my thinking - he is an engine of destruction (destroying offenses that is).
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(borgboy, you can appreciate this then - lots of new blue Royals ball caps. Wearing mine, bit faded, was asked, "Wow, Royals are having a good year aren't they!?"
"Yeah, haven't been this optimistic about a division win since Pena took the team into a fair lead into August."
"???...who? when was that?"
"Back when the Chiefs averaged 38 points per game.")
#10
swk-Several years ago I made the mistake of wearing my blue Royals cap to Candlestick Park. In the parking lot after the game, a group of Giants fans menacingly walking behind me - I turned around and seeing it wasn't a Dodger cap they backed off. Two days later I was driving down I-5 to San Diego. There was a detour off the freeway to a rough side of town. The natives had taken down all the detour signs to return to the freeway. I stopped in a convenience/liquor store to ask directions back to I-5. I was still wearing my blue Royals cap. The natives were all wearing red caps. I literally had to slowly back out of the store while keeping a stern face since the natives already had their knives out. Once I got to the store, my then girlfriend said she was ready to use the car to is all 100% true - thankfully I now live in a 'blue' area of Tucson. Having said all that - GO ROYALS!
[Ynet] Report claims Islamic State released a new video in which captured journalist John Cantlie promises to expose the 'truth behind Islamic State'
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According to different reports, the Islamic State has launched a new video with captured journalist John Cantlie. But instead of decapitating their victim, the Islamic State indents to use him for promotional purposes.
Cantlie, a former war photographer and report for a number of UK publications, addresses the camera from behind a table in a dark room.
In the video, Cantlie says he was "abandoned" by the UK government and claims he will seek to counter the "manipulated truths" told by world media against the Islamic State in a number of videos.
"I know what you're thinking. You're thinking 'he's only doing this because he's a prisoner -- he's got a gun at his head and he's being forced to do this," Cantlie says.
"Well, I am a prisoner -- that I cannot deny -- but seeing as I've been abandoned by my government and my fate now lies in the hands of the Islamic State, I have nothing to lose."
"Over the next few programs, I am going to show you the truth as the Western media tries to drag the public back to the abyss of another war with the Islamic State," he concludes.
In the new video, titled "Lend Me Your Ears, Messages from the British Detainee John Cantlie," the man identified as Cantlie says he was captured by the Islamic State after arriving in Syria in November 2012.
He says he worked for newspapers and magazines in Britannia including the Sunday Times, the Sun and the Sunday Telegraph.
"After two disastrous and hugely unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, why is it that our governments appear so keen to get involved in yet another unwinnable conflict?" the man says in the video.
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Touches on something rattling about in me: prisoners are already dead, other than the occasional VIP auction/execution block. We should be steeling ourselves for such propaganda. And as the natural order of things, such as Madonna to Spears to Cyrus, they (being all who jocky for the blue chip jihadi all stars) will try to out-do each other.
If there is a constant for all peoples through all history, it is what we would call brutality.
#5
There should be an effort in the West to counter this kind of propaganda. Better yet, we should be killing these cowardly boneheads who love death so much.
Parachute in [similar to the French in Zaire years and years ago, and elsewhere more recently], kill as many as can be seen. Keep international media and press at bay. Airlift or exfiltrate via Unimog, or leather Cadillacs. Rearm/refit, steak and beer, tell jump stories, and move on to the next insertion.
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There is. Hashtags and Kerry's World of Islam lectures.
France in CAR - other than some neat video of them making an air base from scratch I didn't come across anything other than blips. I kind of remember much moaning about the lack of info from the typicals, which I took as a good sign.
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*The first best chance to counter the ISJV media blitz was when they were trolling World Cup coverage. Our (USA) public digest media was completely focused on getting our VIPs onto the soccer team's coattails. Meanwhile, the ISJV twits were directing potential recruits to some if not good productions, effective ads and why we fights.
[AnNahar] The Islamic State group poses a smaller global threat than Al-Qaeda despite its recent beheadings of three Westerners, although battle-hardened fighters returning home remain a concern, analysts said on Thursday.
U.S. President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... is gathering an international coalition to fight the jihadist group based across Syria and Iraq following the release of videos showing the murders of two US journalists and a British aid worker.
But analysts at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think-tank in London warned against overestimating the threat.
"Despite its spectacular acts of violence, including against Westerners, (IS's) short- and medium-term objectives appear to be local and transnational rather than global," the institute said in its annual report.
Middle East expert Emile Hokayem told a presser that the IS organization's "very ambitious" goal to create a fully-functioning Islamic state may be at odds with its ability to continue fighting on a number of different fronts.
"We shouldn't exaggerate its potency. It is a very serious security threat to the region -- as a global threat it's still limited," he said.
"I think the various Al-Qaeda affiliates are probably the more potent ones in terms of global ambitions."
Nigel Inkster, the think-tank's director of transnational threats and political risk, confirmed that IS fighters were focused on the "near enemy" unlike Al-Qaeda's "far enemy".
"It's not obviously the case that you would see orchestrated attacks against a Western state by the leadership of Islamic State," he said.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Inkster cautioned that individual and small groups of murderous Moslems might launch attacks, highlighting the Frenchie Mehdi Nemmouche who fought in Syria and is the sole suspect in the killing of four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May.
Western governments have voiced strong concern about the risks of returning fighters and the IISS report concurred that "galvanised Western jihadis could pose a serious security threat on their return".
Inkster added that unlike Western fighters who trained with Al-Qaeda in Pakistain, who had "very little hands-on experience", those returning from Iraq and Syria were "well-trained, disciplined, battle-hardened".
Other analysts raised doubts about how the U.S.-led coalition against the IS organization could work.
"It's difficult to overstate the disappointment and distrust of Middle Eastern states towards the B.O. regime, which springs directly from the failure to back up the red line over the use of chemical weapons in Syria," said Middle East expert Toby Dodge.
He added: "The solution to this lies in empowering and reintegrating the Sunni communities in Iraq and giving some hope to Sunni communities in Syria that change is around the corner."
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however Islamist fascists pose a massive threat worldwide no matter what name is on the wapper
so best we outlaw islamist fascism. Secular Muslims please stand up as you are the only Muslims who should be allowed entry to Western countries
should be forced to sign document renouncing Sharia, endorsing equal rights for women and gays, affirming the primacy of secular law and affirming the freedom to leave Islam.
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ISIS what it is. Or something. Need Imam Kerry to explain it again. Odds of someone in this administration converting to Islam to show sincerity or something?
Anyways, with all the bandwagoning I thought, myself - what is going on east asia wise? and walked through WZ. Apparently Abu Sayeff is now on the JV team. With the new cauliflower in Algeria I believe the roster has gone from basketball to baseball.
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[MAGHAREBIA] In a bid to fight extremism, Algeria will require imams to undergo a training programme, AFP reported on Wednesday. (September 17th).
[AnNahar] Four assailants in a vehicle bearing the flag of the 
[Ynet] Turkey's foreign minister says his country is resolved to stop the flow of European 
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[DAWN] MUZAFFARGARH: MNA Jamshed Dasti along with his 70 supporters on Thursday surrendered to police after they were booked under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) for attacking police team and interfering in official work, DawnNews reported.
[DAWN] The name of a new director general for the 
[AnNahar] The Israeli army on Thursday continued fortifying its posts opposite the southern Lebanese town of Adaisseh in order to conceal the movements of its troops and vehicles, 
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[AnNahar] The Islamic State group poses a smaller global threat than Al-Qaeda despite its recent beheadings of three Westerners, although battle-hardened fighters returning home remain a concern, analysts said on Thursday.
