[AnNahar] Feeling unfairly targeted by the government's anti-radicalisation drive, Britannia's Muslim community is rallying to find its own response to extremism and take a greater role in the fight against terrorism.
"Leave it to us. We'll handle it, yewbetcha!"
The Muslim Council of Britannia (MCB) has planned a series of conferences around the country where community leaders, activists and others will speak out against jihadist ideology, but also government security measures they say alienates Muslims.
Lots more at the link, none of it particularly illuminating.
And there lies the meat in the nut. They need conferences to speak out when all they need to do is turn the bastards in while calling for a reformation of Islam, start by getting rid of chapt. 9.
But no, they'll be bitching about people watching them.
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It really is sad. During WW2 we had a lot of kick-ass Japanese and Germans sign up to fight for America. After 9/11 we had maybe a handful of Muslims and a few of them ended up shooting at our troops.
North Korea's regime could collapse at any time due to the reign of terror of its young leader Kim Jong-un, a U.S. expert on Northeast Asian affairs said. Bruce Bennett, senior defense analyst at the RAND Corp., authored a report in 2013 that warned of the likely collapse of the North Korean regime.
Two years on, he said that the possibility remains as Kim continues to rule the country with an iron fist, executing his once powerful uncle Jang Song-thaek and changing his defense minister five times in less than four years.
"We have to think that sooner or later someone in that military chain is going to consider that if they don't do something about Kim Jong-un, they will be next," Bennett told South Korean journalists in a meeting Friday organized by the Korea Press Foundation and the East-West Center. "Even in Germany during World War II, where security was extreme, there was still an assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler by the military. So it could happen."
For a peaceful reunification, South Korea should take steps now to convince the North Korean elite that they will be granted amnesty for their crimes and have a better life, he said.
Bennett also challenged President Park Geun-hye's theory that inter-Korean reunification will be an economic "bonanza" for the two sides and a blessing for neighboring countries, saying China may have a different view.
"China will have many reasons for going into North Korea in such a situation," Bennett said, referring to the possibility of a North Korean regime collapse or a similar event that could lead to reunification.
If North Korea collapses, about 3 million North Koreans are expected to come into South Korea as refugees. As few North Koreans live close to the inter-Korean border, more of them -- some 5 million -- could try to cross the border into China, according to Bennett.
"For many reasons, China wants something less than zero of them coming in," he said. "The only way they can do that is by projecting military forces 50 to 100 kilometers into North Korea and setting up refugee camps in North Korea rather than in China."
Bennett questioned the idea South Korea will gain large economic benefits from tapping into future infrastructure projects in the North.
"China will want to continue to own all of the property Chinese companies have purchased in North Korea, which will undermine President Park's 'jackpot' or 'bonanza,'" he said.
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Wid the US' seeming "Return to Asia" vee Okinawa, SOKOR DMZ, + Subic, one should not presume that China won't be willing to formally annex a troubled or bankrupt NOKOR State in the wake of any de facto Kim Govt-Dynasty collapse.
The CCCC/CPCC has in fact brought the subject up for discussion in various Party Plenums, where NOKOR has been ascribed as all but a formally "un-annexed" Chinese province.
To the contrary, Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama will likely allow Co-Superpower China to annex NOKOR, iff it so chooses, ALA PUTIN + CO-SUPERPOWER RUSSIA'S ANNEXATION OF THE CRIMEA, OR CO-SUPERPOWER IRAN VEE THE IRAN-SYRIA ALLIANCE + THE PRO-SHIA/IRAN IRAQI GOVT-ARMY.
* IRRC TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > [Various] CHINA WANTS TO CONTROL ASIA/EAST ASIA.
North Korea has declared waters off Kangwon Province a no-sail zone from last Wednesday to Dec. 7, military authorities here said Sunday, probably for missile tests.
Military authorities here speculate that the North will test-fire ground-to-ship or ship-to-ship short-range missiles with a range of about 100 km.
The north has regularly declared no-sail periods in the East Sea since August but it has not yet actually fired any missiles.
A military spokesman here said if it does fire any missiles this time they are not likely to be medium- or long-range rockets given the short radius of the no-sail zone.
Just a friendly reminder that the Norks are charter members of the "Axis of Evil."
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Again, as a reminder China would like to see the US influence-n-presence in East Asia + WESTPAC-CENTPAC, i.e. 1/2 of the Pacific, mucho reduced or out by 2020 NLT 2025 wid the US isolated or contained to Hawaii-EASTPAC + US West Coast.
Whats happening in the SCS is only the beginning, as China also desires to de facto permanently-n-forevar! recover Taiwan + attain strategic access for the PLA ASAP AMAP AFAP ALAP vee the East China Sea agz Japan + SOKOR.
Both MSM-Net Perts + Bloggers-Netters have duly noted or pointed out that POTUS Obama had sent only one USN Warship, the USS "Lassen", to the SCS whereas his POTUS predecessors sent entire USN Fleets or Task Groups. NEARLY ALL AGREE THAT UNLESS OBAMA TAKES STRONGER ACTION, CHINA WILL COMPLETE ITS RECLAMATIONS, MILITARIZE THE ISLANDS, + ULTIMATELY ASSUME DE FACTO CONTROL OF THE SCS.
Israel on Monday condemned as "shockingly hostile" comments by Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom which seemed to link the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the ISIS-backed terror attacks in Paris.
After the Paris attacks, Wallstrom was asked the following question on Swedish television:
"How worried are you about the radicalization of young people in Sweden who are fighting for ISIS?"
According to a translation provided by the Foreign Ministry, Wallstrom answered, "Obviously, we have reason to be worried, not just in Sweden but across the world -- because there are so many that are being radicalized. Here, once again, we are brought back to situations like the one in the Middle East, where not least, the Palestinians see that there is not a future. We must either accept a desperate situation or resort to violence."
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has said his country's intelligence services shared information they had which indicated that France, the United States and Iran were among countries being targeted for attack.
He did not elaborate, but the comments came after 129 people were killed in Paris on Friday by gunmen and suicide bombers in attacks claimed by Islamic State.
"Information has been obtained from Iraqi intelligence sources that the countries to be targeted soon, before it occurred, are Europe in general, specifically France, as well as America and Iran," Jaafari said from the sidelines of talks in Vienna on ending the war in Syria on Saturday. He said the countries had been informed. A video of his comments was posted on his website.
Though he did not specify the threat was from Islamic State militants, who control large areas of Iraq and Syria, Jaafari said recent attacks in Egypt, Lebanon and France required a global response to the jihadist group.
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French President Francois Hollande said Sunday he wanted the state of emergency declared after the Paris attacks to last three months, parliamentary sources told AFP, a move that would cover the upcoming UN climate conference.
Roman dictators got six months to do their work...
"He told us he wanted the state of emergency to last three months," one of the sources said.
Any extension to a state of emergency beyond 12 days requires parliamentary approval.
The 12-day UN conference, which will be attended by dozens of heads of state, begins on November 30.
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Wouldn't it save a lot of time, money, and CO2 to just cancel the climate-change meeting?
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[Jpost] "The way people look at us will change again, and not for the better ... Sometimes it's preferable to be mistaken for a Jew and not a Muslim because then there are fewer problems."
For the second time this year La Belle France's Muslims have seen carnage brought to the streets of Gay Paree by a few radical Islamists and fear that they will now suffer as a consequence.
The shocking wave of violence on Friday, when heavily armed bandidossnuffies killed 129 people and injured 352 in attacks at a concert hall, bars and a stadium, immediately turned the spotlight on Europe's largest Muslim minority.
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I will believe that Islam is a religion of peace when the imams and other Muslim leaders condemn attacks like this unequivocally, not by ending it with "please don't hurt us".
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Considering there are huge no go areas in Paris where if you aren't a muslim, you will get beat up or killed, I have very little sympathy for these barbarians.
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Yeah, so far the worldwide backlash has been one Sikh in the US killed by a moron after 9/11. Anyone that falls for the 'don't hit us back' nonsense should have their head examined.
The European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker,
Who is as big a member of the nomenklatura and elite as you'll ever find in Europe, and as a result as lacking in common sense as can be found in the elites of that continent...
said on Sunday that there was no need for a complete review of the bloc’s refugee policy after the terrorist attacks in Paris, Agence France-Presse reported.
“Those who organized, who perpetrated, the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing, and not the opposite,” Mr. Juncker said before a Group of 20 summit meeting in Antalya, Turkey. “And so there is no need for an overall review of the European policy on refugees.”
To borrow a Mark Steyn analogy: mix a gallon of ice cream with a pint of horse-poop. What will be the taste of the resulting concoction?
Still, reports that one of the attackers may have entered Europe by traveling with the huge wave of migrants fleeing conflict zones could emerge as a divisive point as Europe tries to come up with a coherent plan to deal with the influx.
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Dr Guillotine to the white courtesy phone please.
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There's one big difference, P2k. The Japanese in America didn't bomb and kill Americans.
The Moslem invaders of Europe, not so much.
Round up some of the military-age male "refugees" and deliver them to Mr. Juncker's home and office for "refuge." With cameras rolling.
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Declass of the pre-war Japanese diplo traffic in '95 indicated that the consulates were reporting 'friends' in the community. They didn't have the means or manpower to sit back and 'observe' like the FBI does today. (See - Hasan and the Boston boys) Draconian, yep. Unfair, yep. However, they weighed the fact that 90 percent of the nations aircraft production was in Seattle and LA and decided not to chance it.
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I'm not knocking FDR's actions, P2k - hindsight is always 20-20, but we had been attacked and were in the middle of a war not of our choosing.
I'll knock the EU-idiocrats, though. We KNOW what these clowns do, and they want to let them in to take over, anyway. What happened in France was a surprise to no one except the "elite" "leaders."
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French Muslim leaders gathered outside the Bataclan concert hall on Sunday to honour the 89 people who died there in the bloodiest attack by jihadi terrorists France has known. They carried white roses, which they laid among the hundreds of candles and bouquets left by members of the public and were accompanied, as a show of inter-faith solidarity, by representatives of the French capital’s Jewish community.
As the group stood at the barriers around the music venue where heavily armed gunmen went on a murderous rampage on Friday night, they broke into a ragged rendition of La Marseillaise.
The message and symbolism was perfectly clear: the four gunmen who stormed the Bataclan, cutting down concertgoers in a hail of bullets then picking survivors off one by one with cold-blooded precision, may have claimed to be killing on behalf of Islamic State, but their actions had nothing to do with Islam.
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“Anyone who uses hate speech has no place in France and those places that preach hate are not places of prayer but are those of a sect. After this tragedy and the more than 100 deaths, now is the time to close these places of hate,”
Who gets to define whatever 'hate speech' might or might not be?
Is this actually an attempt to criminalize criticism of Islam?
Is it possible that the Imams' president is actually a totalitarian theocrat who does not condone terrorism but who nonetheless wants to impose Sharia on the West?
This was wasn't a 'tragedy.' It was a pre-planned massacre that unfolded largely as planned.
Very, very long Daily Mail piece on how at least a couple of the hard boyz got into Europe.
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As per BHARAT RAKSHAK + TWITTERATI/TWITHEADS, up to 12 Terrorists or Suicide Jihadis may had been involved in the Paris attacks, whereas the new ISIS Video celebrating same indics eight.
[NYTimes] The Department of Defense announced on Sunday that it had transferred five lower-level Yemeni detainees from the GuantĂĄnamo Bay prison in Cuba to the United Arab Emirates. The United States had held each for nearly 14 years as wartime prisoners, and none had been charged with a crime.
The transfers reduced the detainee population at the prison to 107. As many as 17 other proposed transfers of lower-level detainees are in the bureaucratic pipeline, an official familiar with internal deliberations said.
The resettlement of the Yemeni detainees was the first of its kind to the United Arab Emirates, which had previously taken in just one former GuantĂĄnamo detainee, in 2008 ‐ its own citizen. "and ISIL is contained"
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Any bets Champ closes Gitmo before he leaves office? How many are left, I wonder?
Do you suppose the NYT author has any idea that most Prisoners of War are not charged with crimes?
Or that they would care, if they did know?
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I'd say he's a traitor: putting campaign promises and Legacy™ ahead of American safety
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By the end of the article, they referred to him as Mr Obama..."Congress voted to tighten those standards as part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act, which Mr. Obama is expected to sign this month."
[DefenseOne] In an unprecedented move tucked into the defense authorization bill, Congress ordered U.S. Cyber Command to carry out simulated 'war games' against Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.
KARACHI: Friday’s attack in the Phool Patti Lane and Shah Waliullah Road areas came in the wake of a statement of PPP MPA Jawed Nagori in which he vowed to “take action against rogue elements within Lyari”, said sources in the Pakistan Peoples Party.
Jawed Nagori’s brother Akbar was killed in a similar attack in Khadda Market about six months ago and with this statement published in a local newspaper a day ago Mr Nagori once against appeared to have stirred up a hornet’s nest, said the sources.
Mr Nagori confirmed to Dawn having given the statement and said: “The attack is definitely in reaction to it and by the same group of gangsters who don’t want to be held accountable for their actions.”
He said the spot near the Shah Waliullah water filtration plant was an informal place for party workers meetings. “I’m usually part of such meetings with other workers and had to miss it yesterday due to some other engagements. I was later informed of the attack,” he said.
“Firing into the air was also reported from Khadda Market, where one of the PPP candidates, Haji Abdul Majeed, was gathering workers for a party meeting. They dispersed eventually.”
Mr Nagori added: “The people behind these groups are sitting abroad. Until they are arrested, the area will continue to see similar attacks in future as well.”
Asked about the whereabouts of Uzair Jan Baloch, he said: “There is no credible news of his presence in Pakistan though some reports say that he is in the custody of security agencies in Peshawar. I don’t know more than that.”
The group of gangsters, according to sources, was the same opposing the ongoing Rangers-led operation that has been carried out in Lyari for the past two years. Only a few days after the operation began in September 2013, disagreement between gangsters over the operation and suspicions over its being ‘one-sided’ led to an attack on a key figure of the now defunct Peoples Amn Committee, Zafar Baloch. He was shot dead near Bizenjo Chowk.
Though the operation further divided the two splinter groups — led by Uzair Baloch and Noor Mohammad, alias Baba Ladla — and led to their escape from Lyari and later the country, they have smaller groups operating in the area and their subordinates keep them present through newspaper headlines that appear in a widely read local newspaper published from Lyari and distributed in Keamari, Gadap, Shershah and Malir.
“They (the splinter group) have the same grudge as before. They accuse their high command of taking refuge abroad, leaving the lower cadre to bear the brunt of the operation,” said the sources.
The latest attack triggered gun battles between the two groups within Lyari. Last year, the fighting had stopped for a while after a consensus was reached but the area residents believe the precarious peace in Lyari maintained by the operation will be short-lived until the handlers of the groups are brought to justice.
QUETTA: Pakistani officials lodged a protest with Iranian border authorities on Sunday over firing of mortar shells into Pakistani territory reportedly from across the Iranian border.
Several mortar shells fired from the Iranian side landed and exploded in Kachao, a small town along the border in the Chagai district, on Saturday evening. Gunshots were heard soon afterwards, officials said.
According to Deputy Commissioner of Chagai Khuda-i-Nazar Bareach, the mortar shells were fired from across the border. No casualty was reported, he said.
Mr Bareach said that Assistant Commissioner of Taftan Murad Kasi and senior officials of Frontier Corps held a meeting with the Iranian authorities and informed them about the incident.
He said the Iranians were told that frequent incidents of firing from across the border were causing panic among residents of Chagai and other border areas.
According to Mr Bareach, the Iranian authorities agreed to conduct an investigation into the incident. However, they rejected the notion that Iranian border guards were involved in border violations.
Thousands of mourners chanted "Death to America, Death to Israel" during the funeral Thursday of a Jordanian police captain who killed five people, including two American instructors, in a shooting rampage at a police training center this week.
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If memory serves Jordan is a Palestinian population with non-Palestinian rulers. Sometimes it shows.
Lebanon has arrested nine people, mostly Syrians, over last week's Beirut bombings that killed 44 people, an attack whose original target was a hospital, the interior minister said on Sunday.
"The detained include seven Syrians and two Lebanese, one of them a (would-be) suicide bomber and the other a trafficker who smuggled them across the border from Syria," Interior Minister Nuhad Mashnuq said in a televised Press conference.
The Daesh group claimed responsibility for Thursday's attacks, which hit a busy shopping street in Burj Al Barajneh, a suburb where the Shiite movement Hezbollah is popular.
"The whole suicide bombing network and its supporters were arrested in the 48 hours following the explosion," Mashnuq said, calling the arrests "an extraordinary achievement".
He said the Syrians were detained in a Palestinian refugee camp located in Burj Al Barajneh and a flat in the capital's eastern district of Ashrafieh that had been used to prepare the explosive belts.
Security forces arrested the Lebanese would-be suicide attacker in the northern port city of Tripoli after he had failed to detonate his suicide belt, Mashnuq said. The initial plan was apparently to send five suicide bombers to a hospital in the neighbourhood, he said, but heavy security forced them to change the target to a densely populated area.
Mashnuq hinted that he expected further attacks: "When they send five suicide attackers to one place, it means... it won't be the last."
The bloodshed in Beirut came a day before a string of bomb and gun attacks in the French capital, also claimed by Daesh, that left at least 129 dead and more than 350 people wounded. The blasts were the first to target a Hezbollah-dominated neighbourhood since mid-2014, after a string of such attacks rocked the capital in 2013 and 2014.
Those explosions were ostensibly in revenge for Hezbollah's military support of regime forces in neighbouring Syria's civil war.
Thursday's was the largest Daesh attack ever in Lebanon, and among the deadliest bombings to hit the volatile country in decades. It sparked an outpouring of sympathy for the victims, with people sharing photographs of those killed on social media accounts.
In a televised address on Saturday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah
...who is too afraid to be seen in public...
urged supporters not to retaliate against the over one million Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
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[PublicIntegrity] The presence of identical fissile materials in three smuggling incidents indicates someone has a larger cache and is hunting for a buyer A "dirty" bomb, assuming a lack of kaboomski expertise, would close NYC down for how long?
If you put the EPA in charge of the cleanup, forever...
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In the days shortly after 9/11 I remember reading a statement from some environmental official stating the air around the wreckage of the twin towers was just fine to breathe. People believed that until the area workers started getting sick. That's a role the EPA could play.
[Newsweek] Amerine ran afoul of the FBI when he told Representative Duncan Hunter, a Marine veteran and Republican member of the House Armed Services Committee, how bureaucratic politics had scuttled a deal he had worked out with the Taliban for Bergdahl's release. When the FBI learned of Amerine's criticism, it complained to the Army's chief of staff for intelligence, General Mary Legere, who prompted the Criminal Investigation Command to open an investigation. Amerine's pay was halted, he was booked and fingerprinted, and his retirement was put on hold. Bergdahl, meanwhile, was released on far worse terms than Amerine worked out, according to a Newsweek investigation in September.
On Monday, Hunter blasted the FBI and top Army brass, saying " the FBI wanted Jason out of the way...and the Army took the bait, investigating Jason for reasons that were unsupported by any of the facts." But in the end, Hunter added, "the Army did the right thing and cleared Jason of any wrongdoing, and allowed one of its decorated heroes to retire" with the Legion of Merit, "an award that is a fitting capstone to his distinguished career."
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When the FBI learned of Amerine's criticism, it complained to the Army's chief of staff for intelligence, General Mary Legere...
Be advised: The turf sensitive Bureau has a long and frequently documented record of dislike for the military. They have an office and representative at 'FBI Main' in D.C. who is specifically tasked with DoD liaison. Cross them and they will definately disturb your comfort level.
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Again, Hunter is my Congresscritter and the only one I contribute $ to. He's as loved in his district as his Dad was
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0bean is trying to close Gitmo by hook or by crook. Or both. He got rid of five more prisoners this way. Oh, and he'd have you believe he was looking out for our interests.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
North Korea's regime could collapse at any time due to the reign of terror of its young leader Kim Jong-un, a U.S. expert on Northeast Asian affairs said. Bruce Bennett, senior defense analyst at the RAND Corp., authored a report in 2013 that warned of the likely collapse of the North Korean regime.
[NYTimes] The Department of Defense announced on Sunday that it had transferred five lower-level Yemeni detainees from the GuantĂĄnamo Bay prison in Cuba to the United Arab Emirates. The United States had held each for nearly 14 years as wartime prisoners, and none had been charged with a crime.
KARACHI: Friday’s attack in the Phool Patti Lane and Shah Waliullah Road areas came in the wake of a statement of PPP MPA Jawed Nagori in which he vowed to “take action against rogue elements within Lyari”, said sources in the Pakistan Peoples Party.
QUETTA: Pakistani officials lodged a protest with Iranian border authorities on Sunday over firing of mortar shells into Pakistani territory reportedly from across the Iranian border.
Lebanon has arrested nine people, mostly Syrians, over last week's Beirut bombings that killed 44 people, an attack whose original target was a hospital, the interior minister said on Sunday.
