[BBC] Millions of YouTube viewers have been captivated by the 'Syrian hero boy' who manages to rescue a little girl while under gunfire. Now a group of Norwegian filmmakers have told BBC Trending they are behind it. They say it was filmed on location in Malta this summer with the intention of being presented as real.
Lars Klevberg, a 34-year-old film director based in Oslo, wrote a script after watching news coverage of the conflict in Syria. He says he deliberately presented the film as reality in order to generate a discussion about children in conflict zones.
"If I could make a film and pretend it was real, people would share it and react with hope," he said. "We shot it in Malta in May this year on a set that was used for other famous movies like Troy and Gladiator," Klevberg said. "The little boy and girl are professional actors from Malta. The voices in the background are Syrian refugees living in Malta."
Were they comfortable making a film that potentially deceived millions of people? "I was not uncomfortable," Klevberg said. "By publishing a clip that could appear to be authentic we hoped to take advantage of a tool that's often used in war; make a video that claims to be real. We wanted to see if the film would get attention and spur debate, first and foremost about children and war. We also wanted to see how the media would respond to such a video."
In fact the film received funding from the Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) and the Audio and Visual Fund from Arts Council Norway in October 2013. The filmmakers say their application for funding made clear they wanted to upload the film to the internet without making it obvious it was real or fiction. They also claim that those who financed it were aware of, and supported, these intentions.
"The children surviving gunshots was supposed to send small clues that it was not real," said producer John Einar Hagen. "We had long discussions with the film's financiers about the ethics around making a film like this."
"It was not a cynical way to get attention. They had honest motivations," Ase Meyer, short film commissioner for the NFI told BBC Trending. "I was surprised people thought it was real. When I see the film, the little boy is shot but he keeps on running. There is no blood on the child." The NFI awarded 280,000 kroner (ã26,480) towards its production. "It was a really low budget film," says Ms Meyer. "People normally apply for more money."
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... when Ms Meyer heard that the film was online she contacted the filmmakers to encourage them to reveal it was fiction. When asked if the NFI had a responsibility to tell people the film wasn't real, Ms Meyer said "It was the responsibility of the filmmakers".
So once the film was made, how did it go viral? "It was posted to our YouTube account a few weeks ago but the algorithm told us it was not going to trend," Klevberg said. "So we deleted that and re-posted it." The filmmakers say they added the word "hero" to the new headline and tried to send it out to people on Twitter to start a conversation. It was then picked up by Shaam Network, a channel that features material from the Middle East, which posted it on YouTube. Then it began to attract international attention.
Since being uploaded to YouTube on Monday the video has been watched more than five million times and inspired thousands of comments. There has been a big debate about whether it is genuine. How those viewers will react to learning that it's a work of fiction remains to be seen. "We are really happy with the reaction," Klevberg said. "It created a debate."
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grom, I think you are right. I spent 2 years in Erbil, and was in frequent contact with the KRG. I never saw a female Kurdish soldier (not saying they don't exist), but they are certainly not prominent. Also Kurds have distinct features, and don't look anything like the female billboard posters. Saying that, think it was you who noted a week ago, this is still effective PR.
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Part of the Bodyguard of Lies Snowy?. I was certain a lot of the stuff coming out of ?Kurdistan was way overboard. Still good to see tho, we need more propaganda actually.
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A symptom of the Left, like the 'synthetic people' in Obama's bios.
Facts are what they want them to be, reality need not apply.
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They could have just as well made a real film instead of a faked film. There are plenty of atrocities to film. Of course, there might have been more risk to themselves.
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Nearly posted earlier but shelved out of fear ("Please don't kill me!") of the Kurdish lobby (whose reports I've read with great interest):
I don't say the she-Kurds are slouches;
I'm sure that their bullets make ouches.
I don't say they're iffy,
But they sure look spiffy
With those pristine magazine pouches.
[Tolo News] Prominent Pak holy man and leader of Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Islam Pakistain, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, met with President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. in Islamabad on Friday and warned that war would continue in Afghanistan until the complete withdraw of foreign troops.
President Ghani arrived in Islamabad on Friday in order to meet with Pakistani officials and other stakeholders in an attempt to advance peace talks with the Taliban. The trip is Ghani's first to Pakistan since being elected president, and it is expected to be an important one in setting the tone of the relationship between his government and the one in Islamabad, which has often been charged by Afghan officials with aiding and abetting the Taliban insurgency.
In the first few hours of his trip, President Ghani met with Pakistan's National Security Advisor, Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan's Finance Minister, Eshaq Dar, in addition to Fazlurrahman, who is often cited as the spiritual father of the Taliban.
Although Fazlurrahman indicated support for reconciliation between the current Afghan government in Kabul and the Taliban, he made it clear that no peace will come to Afghanistan unless all foreign troops are gone.
"We believe that the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan is not permissible and defensive efforts will continue against it, we demand the internal security of Afghanistan," Fazlurrahman said.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's National Security Advisor, Sartaj Aziz, reaffirmed his country's commitment to helping establish peace and stability in Afghanistan, and denied stoking the fire of the conflict. "We never endorse civil war and the war, Afghanistan very much needs peace after suffering thirty years of civil war and the whole world must support Afghanistan in this area," Aziz said.
The Pakistani military and intelligence services are considered by experts around the world to be key allies of the insurgent groups operating inside Afghanistan. Former President Hamid Karzai travelled to Pakistan as part of his peace initiatives 20 times, but to no avail. On a number of occasions, Pakistani leaders made major proclamations and verbal commitments for helping reconcile the Taliban and the Kabul government, no doubt under pressure from the international community, but then never went on to follow up the words with action.
Nevertheless, Afghan officials for the most part remain convinced that Islamabad can be won over and that cooperation is possible. Acting Minister of Finance Omar Zakhelwal has suggested that increasing economic ties could be a step in that direction. "There is a good change in the spirit of cooperation and efforts have been accelerated to further strengthen our ties, we also strive to create an environment of cooperation in the economic sector," Zakhelwal said. As part of Ghani's delegation to Islamabad, he said the main difference from past trips is that they hoped to actually formulate formal written agreements.
In his first few meetings with Pakistani officials, President Ghani also reportedly talked about border issues, the expansion of trade and commercial ties between the two nations.
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All along we were fighting Pakistan in Afghanistan! what a shocker not!
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The PAK Frontier Corps gives them rats, bed down, and transport once they crossed the border. Been doing it for years.
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The FC also received extra funds that the half-trained constabulary corps never saw. It got laundered to the ISI and Pak army for supporting the Talibs.
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You know we're fok'd when you watch overhead of the a group of Taliban waving farewell to an Afghan Border Patrol (ABP) outpost, and a short time later sitting down to chia with the FC. We really are the odd men out.
[DAWN] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. on Friday assured Pakistain that Afghanistan will extend all possible cooperation to jointly curb the menace of terrorism.
During a high-level briefing given to him on the security situation along the Pak-Afghan border by the Pak military and national security teams at the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Ghani lauded Pakistain's efforts to fight terrorism and hailed sacrifices rendered by the nation.
"Afghanistan wants to bolster security and defence ties with Pakistain including cooperation in training and border management," Ghani remarked.
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White widow Samantha Lewthwaite is 'alive and well' and living in southern Somalia with her jihadist husband, a wanted al-Qaeda suspect who calls himself Marco Costa, Kenyan sources said today.
In a forged Mozambican passport obtained by MailOnline his picture clearly identifies him as Fahmi Jamal Salim who has been on the run from Kenyan police since he shot and killed two police officers in Nairobi in 2011.
Lewthwaite and Salim also appear in a 'selfie' taken at their home. Police are using these and pictures of their two children in a countrywide manhunt for the couple.
Counter-terrorism sources in Kenya revealed their updated profile of Lewthwaite in response to claims from a Moscow news agency earlier this week that she had been killed by sniper fire while fighting with a Ukrainian volunteer battalion against pro-Russian rebels.
Kenyan intelligence authorities are demanding to see Lewthwaite's body
The severed head will do.
and say they refuse to believe she has been part of any militia outside East Africa.
A senior source said: 'We believe we currently have an accurate profile of Lewthwaite's life and location. She has been linked to other jihad suspects in the past but we now know that she is in a stable marriage with Salim and has two young children with him.
'They pose a major threat to security, working at a high level in the al-Shabaab terror group and planning bombing raids in Somalia and Kenya in retaliation for Kenya sending troops to Somalia to defeat al-Shabaab.'
By marrying Salim Samantha Lewthwaite has joined a family steeped in Muslim extremism and the jihad. Salim's brother-in-law was notorious al-Qaeda recruiting officer Musa Dheere, shot dead at a roadblock in Mogadishu in 2011 alongside Fazul Mohamed, a terror suspect with a $5m bounty on his head. Dheere was wanted for the bombing of American embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam in 1998 when several hundred were killed.
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Fred i think the 48-hour rule was yours... right again
The United States has threatened to make significant cuts in the financial assistance it gives to Somalia because of political bickering by its leaders, officials said.
Because we don't have enough problems in the world right now...
The top U.S. representative to Somalia, James P. McAnulty, recently threatened an aid cut unless the country's bickering president and prime minister begin working together, a Somali official said Thursday. The international community is losing confidence in the Somali government, and the United States has threatened to pull military and financial support from Somalia, said a United Nations official.
The U.S. Embassy declined to comment on the reported threat of an aid cut. In a statement this week, Washington said it was concerned about "recent political turmoil" in Somalia and that plans for a no-confidence vote "do not serve the interests of the Somali people."
Washington also this week announced it would not attend an international conference on Somalia next week in Denmark, saying political divisions are distracting Somalia's leadership.
"I think they're basically saying if you want more money and support from us, you need to fix these problems," said E.J. Hogendoorn, an Africa expert at the International Crisis Group.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed have feuded since Mohamud last month rejected a Cabinet reshuffle by the prime minister. The president has been trying to call a no-confidence vote in parliament, and the U.N. has said it's concerned about vote buying allegations surrounding the vote.
The U.S. gave $58 million to Somalia in development assistance in this fiscal year and an additional $271 million in military assistance for the Somali national army and the African Union force in Somalia.
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Political bickering in Afrika, who knew? $ 329. million by my count. How many guard towers and miles of fence along the Mexican border would that purchase ?
[IsraelTimes] Egypt's deadliest myrmidon group, which has pledged allegiance 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.... jihadists, on Friday grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom last month that killed 30 soldiers.
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ...Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula... , which has spearheaded an insurgency in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, made the claim in a video posted on social media.
The group has killed scores of coppers and soldiers since the army overthrew president Mohammed Morsi last year, but the October 24 attack in which a jihadist rammed a military checkpoint in northern Sinai with an explosives-packed car was the deadliest such incident in years.
It said it was acting in retaliation for a crackdown on Islamist supporters following Morsi's removal from power.
At least 1,400 people have been killed in the crackdown, while more than 15,000 have been tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! and hundreds sentenced to death.
In the video, the group promises further attacks against the security forces and said it was speaking directly to President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, the former army chief who toppled Morsi and unleashed a crackdown on Islamists.
Earlier this week, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State organization in Iraq and Syria in a bid to boost recruitment and bolster its fight against the Egyptian army, according to analysts.
[Iran Press TV] Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth. He'll likely die in office of old age... has reportedly been hospitalized in La Belle France months after the ailing leader managed to secure a fourth term in office amid concerns over his health condition.
A French government source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said Bouteflika, 77, was taken into care at a clinic in La Belle France's southeastern city of Grenoble on Thursday, adding that the reason for his new hospitalization is still unknown.
The Algerian government did not confirm the report, but announced that it would issue a statement in the coming hours.
Pictures released by French media showed that the area near the clinic was cordoned off by police.
The Algerian president has been in poor health since 2013, when he suffered a mini-stroke and received 80 days of treatment at a hospital in Gay Paree.
In July 2013, Bouteflika went back to his country as he looked frail in a wheelchair and was not seen in public for months. He travelled back to the French capital for more minor treatments in January.
Earlier this week, Bouteflika met French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Algeria's capital Algiers to discuss bilateral relations.
"He has a small problem with his speech, but intellectually he is working very well," the top French diplomat said after the meeting on November 10.
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"If I saw an American or British man wearing a soldier's uniform inside Iraq, I would kill him because that is my obligation ... I respect this as the main instruction in my religion for jihad."
The guy doesn't show a bit of repentance. Another religion-fueled jihadist. There are 4.4% Muslims in the UK. There are probably many like him.
The results of a very liberal immigration policy are what we are seeing in the UK. Many of these extremists don't mind sucking off the welfare teat of the UK. Suppose the police do cozy up to the extremists? Some of these latent jihadists are most likely 2nd and 3rd generation born in the UK. It is hard to deport them. At least they [the police] can keep an eye on them--if the police should want to do this.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The UK's BBC Radio 1 recently came under fire for airing an interview in which a British fighter who joined 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) said combat was "fun" and compared it to the Call of Duty video game, British media reported.
Regulation body, Ofcom, said the comments made by Kabir Ahmed, who allegedly killed himself in a suicide kaboom last week, had "clear potential for causing offence" and shouldn't have been aired.
The watchdog also said that the BBC should have warned authorities about its content given the growing number of citizens travelling to join ISIS.
In the interview, Ahmed said: "It's actually quite fun, better than, what's that game called, Call of Duty? It's like that, but really, you know, 3D. You can see everything's happening in front of you, know. It's real, you know what I mean?"
"This idea of us wanting to go back and plot terror attacks in our own countries and so on and so forth, I think is absolute rubbish," Ahmed, who is also known by his nom de guerre of Abu Sumayyah al-Britani, said in the interview which was aired last June.
The BBC Trust has also criticized the airing of Ahmed's interview saying it was harmful and offensive.
The governing body of the BBC said that the program should have criticized the joining of ISIS instead of portraying it as "quite fun."
The Newsbeat has a "responsibility to protect children and young people from unsuitable content," BBC Trust said.
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"...the comments made by Kabir Ahmed, who allegedly killed himself in a suicide kaboom last week, had "clear potential for causing offence" and shouldn't have been aired." The problem has taken care of itself. Clean up called for at this point--or not. I have heard radical imams speak on U.S. TV who have made equally offensive comments. Let the jihadists talk so that people can see their true psychopathic nature.
[Al Jazeera] David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... , UK prime minister, has outlined tough new measures to prevent British nationals fighting in Iraq and Syria from returning home. Good idea. You join the Islamic State, you're no longer a citizen of wherever the hell you got there from.
A new counterterrorism bill would also prevent airlines that do not comply with Britannia's no-fly lists from landing on its territory. Chop their heads off. That's what they'd do to you.
Under the proposals, Britons thought to be heading abroad to fight could be prevented from leaving, while fighters returning from conflicts could be denied entry for two years, with an option to extend that, unless they agree to certain, strict, conditions. If it was good enough the Duke of Essex it should be good enough for a bunch of Islamic louts.
Decisions would be made on the basis of what the proposal calls, "reasonable suspicion of involvement in terrorist activity". "Allahu Akbar!"
"[Thump!] Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
Cameron unveiled the proposed measures in an address to Australia's parliament in Canberra on Friday. "Dat infidel thumped me, he did!"
"Here, we'll make it all better. Just put your head right here!"
He said "we will shortly be introducing our own counterterrorism bill in the United Kingdom: new powers for the police at ports to seize passports, to stop suspects travelling and to stop British nationals returning to the UK, unless they do so on our terms, new rules to prevent airlines that don't comply with our no-fly lists, or our security screening measures from landing in the UK". "Cedric!"
"Yes, m'lord?"
"Did you put that Islamic fellow's head on a pike like I told you to?"
"We're out of pikes, m'lord! I had to use a garden rake!"
Critics are concerned the new law could violate human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... , and compromise existing laws on immigration and citizenship, with the potential of leaving suspects stateless. Oh, dear. Tut tut. And tut. I feel so sad for them. [Snort!]
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US Army COL(Ret) Aleksander Einseln become the Estonian Secretary of Defense back in the early 1990's. He was an Estonian emigrant who came to the States with many other Eastern Europeans back in the 1950's and 60's. He enlisted in the Army and eventually migrated to Fort Bragg and Special Forces. Early U.S. Army Special Forces was fully of multi-lingual patriots like Eiseln, Myer, Jakovenko, and Olchevik. Einseln applied for and received permission from the U.S. State Department for his appointment.
I doubt the State Department would look favorably upon Einseln's application today.
[Iraq News] The organization of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) announced that a player from a Dutch football club, Feyenoord, joined its ranks. He is called Imad Maghribi.
On Thursday, a jihadist media forum which belongs to the organization ISIS, published the image of the player wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the organization and self-proclaimed caliph.
Members of the organization celebrated in their accounts on Twitter the newest member and wrote âGod bless Morocco and its men.â
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Being a Nobel laureate and an education campaigner who is based in the West appear to have earned Malala Yousafzai ...a Pashtun blogger and advocate for girls' education from Mingora, in Swat. She started blogging at age 11-12. She was 15 when a Talib boarded her school bus and shot her in the head in 2012. She was evacuated to a hospital in Britain and the Pak Taliban vowed to kill her and her father. Among other awards, she received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, which she deserved more than Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Yasser Arafat, or Rigoberta Menchu... some backlash at home in Paks.
An association of Pak schools held an "I am Not Malala" day and organized walks, seminars and pressers to condemn the renowned activist they see being used to spread Western values in the conservative Moslem Pakistain.
The All Pakistain Private Schools Federation (APPSF), a group that claims to represent 150,000 schools across Pakistain, has called for banning Malala's memoir because it "offends Islam" and the "ideology of Pakistain," the Huffington Post reported.
Mirza Kashif Ali, the organization's president, denounced Malala's book as offensive.
"We are all for education and women's empowerment," Kashif Ali told New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... . "But the West has created this persona who is against the Constitution and Islamic ideology of Pakistain."
The group claimed that the memoir supports the controversial British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie who angered the Moslem World in 1988 with his novel "The Satanic Verses. The group reportedly accused the young activist as a member of "Rushdie's Ideological Club."
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Question to the Mods.
The text modifying options on both posting and commenting stopped working for me---is there something I can do?
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Question to the Mods.
The text modifying options on both posting and commenting stopped working for me---is there something I can do?
They aren't working for me when commenting, either, g(r)omgoru. I'll pass the information on to Fred. I think Shipman means to type out the HTML code. Each within angle brackets"< >", at the beginning of the desired text plain, at the end a second one with a / in front:
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Five times welcome, g(r)omgoru. Fred is still chasing down bugs from his latest upgrade, and sometimes fixing one problem causes a different one. Fortunately, he's very clever.
[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Syed Kausar Abbas Zaidi on Friday declared 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) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... and Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... as absconders in a case relating to the attack on senior police officer SSP Asmatullah Junejo.
SSP Junejo was maimed on Sept 1 when PTI and PAT protesters penetrated law enforcers turf and stormed the PTV headquarters and the precincts of the Parliament.
Junejo was maimed following his arrival at the scene where he sought to lead his men in confronting the protesters. He was not wearing protective gear and raced ahead of his own squad of more than a dozen coppers and was surrounded and thrashed by the onrushing, stick-wielding protesters.
At the time of attack, the senior police officer was accompanied only by his Constable Sajjad Ahmad, who had later started the paperwork but haven't done much else with the Secretariat police over the incident.
An ATC on Wednesday had issued non-bailable warrants against Imran, Qadri and other leaders belonging to PAT and PTI, including Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, PTI Vice-Chairman Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi, PTI leader Asad Umar and PAT leader Raheeq Abbasi for attacking the PTV building and Parliament.
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[DAWN] The Pakistain government is set to launch FM radio stations in all seven tribal agencies with an apparent plan of disseminating information to counter bully boy propaganda in the militancy-hit area bordering Afghanistan.
In a statement issued here, the Federally Administered Tribal Area (Fata) secretariat said that a central production house will also be set up at the secretariat.
Additional Chief Secretary Fata, Azam Khan has directed the authorities to make arrangements for setting up the radio stations in all tribal agencies of Fata.
The decision came against the backdrop of ongoing military offensives against local and foreign faceless myrmidons in the northwestern tribal regions of North Wazoo and Khyber.
Militant oraganisations use local radio stations to propagate their agenda besides threatening rivals.
Commander Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... of Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... has been using radio stations to broadcast his fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches despite the ongoing Khyber-I military operation in the area.
Bagh is not the only bully boy commander to have used the tactic as current chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... became famous for his fiery radio speeches in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... Valley before Pak armed forces pushed him and other accomplices out of the valley through targeted operations. He was once known as "FM Mullah" or "Mullah Radio".
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[Ynet] Israel has denied a request by Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin to access Ramallah for a meeting with her Paleostinian counterpart, Riyad al Maliki, demanding a prior visit to Israel, said Bogota on Thursday.
Currently touring the Middle East, Ms. Holguin wanted to go from Jordan to the West Bank to meet with Mr. al-Maliki. Thee Colombian Embassy in Israel requested right of passage on November 3.
Israel would allow Ms. Holguin to visit Ramallah, the administrative capital of the Paleostinian Authority,after meeting with Israeli Foreign Minsiter Avigdor Lieberman.
Unable to include a visit to Israel, the head of Colombian diplomacy finally met Mr. al-Maliki in the Jordanian capital of Amman on November 10, said her ministry.
[Ynet] Mads Gilbert, who treated patients in Gazoo Strip for over decade and repeatedly condemned IDF's actions, banned from entering Gazoo Strip for life.
Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor who treated thousands of Paleostinians injured during the Gazoo conflicts, has been banned from entering the Gazoo Strip for life, Israeli authorities announced Friday, the Norwegian edition of The Local news website reported.
Security reasons were cited as Israel authorities' motivations for the ban.
The 67-year-old activist, who has repeatedly condemned the IDF's actions in Gazoo, worked at Shifa Medical Center during the previous round of fighting between Israel and Paleostinian bandidosbully boyz and during Operation Cast Lead in 2008.
Gilbert was preventing by Israeli officials from entering the region during his attempt to return to the area in order to aid medical teams in the Gazoo hospital, the Norwegian website reported.
"When we came back to the Erez border station, the Israeli soldiers told me that I could not go in to Gazoo," the website quoted Gilbert as saying.
The news site further reported that Gilbert believes the ban was imposed due to his outspoken critical comments against Israel.
Following the announcement, the doctor announced that he would work to overturn the ban, the site said. "I'm a doctor, I'm no security threat. I have done nothing wrong, I have never broken Israeli law or taken part in illegal activities. I have had valid travel documents from the state of Israel." Gilbert told NRK.
During the military offensive in 2009, Gilbert gave dozens of interviews to leading television networks such as ABC, CNN, al-Jazeera and Sky News. Wearing a white robe and standing at a corridor of Shifa Hospital in Gazoo City, the doctor reported of the IDF's "deliberate attacks" against women and kiddies. He also blamed Israel for waging "an all-out war against Gazoo civilians."
Gilbert was one of the authors of a letter published in the prominent medical journal Lancet during the recent Gazoo conflict, which accused Israel of massacring Paleostinians and overwhelmingly targeting women and kiddies. The British journal's editor Prof. Richard Horton later said -- following a trip to Israel -- that he regretted the letter and that it "did not convey the level of complexity that is the reality in Israel."
In a 2001 interview with the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, Gilbert stated that 9/11 occurred because of Western foreign policy and that he supported terror attacks within the framework of that "context," claiming that "the suppressed have a moral right to attack the United States."
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And coming from Norwegian heritage, I don't blame him a bit.
You don't blame him a bit for what, Elmeregum Gravique7215? For going to Gaza to doctor the wounded? For spouting vicious anti-Israel lies for various news outlets? Or for combining with several other blatant antisemites to write a letter full of lies about Israel for publication in the still prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet?
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"...lies about Israel for publication in the still prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet?"
Should read: ...in the once prestigious British medical journal...
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TW: Meant to type "them," not "him." Exceeded my 1-glass of wine rule by 100% and got sloppy. Apologies.
Given how many misstatements as well as typos I've had to apologize for over the years, I understand completely, Elmeregum Gravique7215. I hope it was good wine!
Should read: ...in the once prestigious British medical journal...
[Ynet] For first time in many months, men of all ages will be allowed to attend the main Friday prayers at al-Aqsa, following meeting between Netanyahu, Kerry and King Abdullah in Amman.
Men of all ages will be allowed to attend the main weekly Moslem prayers Friday at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound for the first time in "months and months," a police front man said.
"No age limit on the Temple Mount, we're hoping things will be calm and quiet today," front man Mickey Rosenfeld told AFP.
The decision to lift restrictions on Temple Mount entrance came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 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... and Jordan's King Abdullah II met Thursday evening in Amman to discuss the rising tensions in Jerusalem.
Furthermore, the barricades blocking the path from the Arab neighborhood of Isawiya in Jerusalem to the French Hill were also lifted.
"In the trilateral meeting we discussed specific and practical actions that both sides can take to restore calm. The Jordanians and the Israelis have agreed, the Jordanians as the historical cushioned of the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount), and the Israelis have worked to... make sure they deescalate the situation and that the steps they take will instill confidence the status quo will be maintained," Kerry said at a presser Thursday.
"There are firm commitments from (Jordan) and Israel that they will take these steps," the secretary said, adding that "Netanyahu strongly restated his commitment to maintain the status quo to prevent further escalations."
A senior diplomatic source spoke to Ynet and said the meeting between Kerry and King Abullah lasted three hours, and included direct meetings between Kerry and Netanyahu, as well as Netanyahu and the king, in addition to the trilateral meet.
Netanyahu reportedly said that there was a need to stop incitement and fabrication regarding Israel and the Temple Mount which he said were the source of violence. The source said Netanyahu vowed to maintain the status quo but also said Israel would continue to protect its citizens, and urged local leaders to work for calm and stop incitment.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hezbollah, a radical Islamist movement, is recruiting Druze, Christian and Sunni men to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Lebanese daily news website the Daily Star reported Wednesday.
The recruitment process, which is taking place in east Lebanon, is reportedly still ongoing.
The new recruits are offered weapons and trainings to âto counter the threat of ISIS and its affiliates.â
Lebanon is engaged in a battle against jihadists from ISIS and the Nusra Front along its northern and northeastern border with Syria
Hezbollah has not officially announced any role in Iraq, according to Reuters news agency.
Most recently, insurgents including members of Islamic State seized the town of Arsal at the Syrian border, battling the Lebanese army for five days before withdrawing with 19 soldiers and 17 policemen as captives.
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[CNN] ISIS is planning to mint its own currency in gold, silver and copper, the group said Thursday.
Its aim is to stay away from the "tyrant's financial system," ISIS said in a statement. It said it would issue another statement to explain the new currency's exchange rate, and where it can be found. motto: In God's Name We Behead
The currency will include seven coins: two gold, three silver and two copper.
The move is "purely dedicated to God" and will remove Muslims from the "global economic system that is based on satanic usury," ISIS said. probably they don't think much of bitcoin
The terror group, which calls itself the Islamic State, has seized large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria.
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Give 'em a little time. They'll soon enough debase the metal purities.
Gotta' be careful about the minted images, however.
IS leaders liable for war crimes on a 'massive scale' in Syria, the UN said
Experts said they must be brought before the International Criminal Court
'They are individually criminally responsible,' a UN report stated
'ISIS has beheaded, shot and stoned men, women and children,' it said
I don't suppose there's anything like a "reciprocity" clause in international law? IS kills people indiscriminately? Take no prisoners. Make sure joining IS is a death sentence.
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"I don't suppose there's anything like a "reciprocity" clause in international law?"
There used to be---before Tranzis started on the subject.
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So someone needs to run out and arrest them for us. Be a good prole and get right on it.
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Ah, this was the original intent of things like the Geneva and Hague Conventions. That was till people started making up 'international law' for political points and theater rather than the real documents. Of course, contagious pan-epidemic diseases were the basis for the CDC which like most bureaucracies decided to meddle into social things like fat and guns rather than spend their time and resources on their original mission. Now no one can do the basics.
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What P2K said. I don't think the UN has the inclination or will to bring IS/ISIL/ISIS leaders to justice. Most likely, that would fall upon the U.S.
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[Ynet] Israel has denied a request by Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin to access Ramallah for a meeting with her Paleostinian counterpart, Riyad al Maliki, demanding a prior visit to Israel, said Bogota on Thursday.
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