[Iran Press TV] Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has blamed domestic "political networks" for the recent attacks in the coastal areas, rejecting claims of responsibility by Somalia's al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... group for the deadly violence.
In a televised speech on Tuesday, the Kenyan leader said the two attacks in the country's Lamu county had been "politically motivated" and the al-Shabaab group was not linked to the assaults that claimed 65 lives.
"Evidence indicates that local political networks were involved in the planning and execution of a heinous crime," added Kenyatta.
Late on Monday, armed assailants attacked the village of Poromoko, situated in Kenya's coastal island and popular tourist resort of Lamu, killing 15 people, including two coppers.
The assault came after armed attackers massacred nearly 50 people in the town of Mpeketoni, also located in Lamu county, overnight Sunday.
The Somalia-based group al-Shabaab grabbed credit for the attack and said, "We carried out another attack last night. We killed 20 people, mainly police and Kenyan wildlife wardens."
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Bombers make movies; their whiskery
Mugs evoke romance and mystery.
Smooth thugs in palaces
Excel them in malice:
It's callous politicians make history.
[Libya Herald] Vandals are smashing up historic sites and defacing ancient paintings in an apparently mindless campaign that is not only wrecking the country's rich heritage, but threatens future tourism business.
The Ministry of Tourism has condemned the destruction, which even extends to unmanned tourist offices.
It is not generally appreciated that Libya boasts the largest concentration of historic Greek sites in the world, more even, than Greece itself . The eastern town of Shahat, home to many of Cyrene's stunning Greek remains has suffered greatly at the hands of antiquities smugglers, as well as vandals.
Beautiful statues have been decapitated and forests have been burned down in the ancient Greek city designated by the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Organisation for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) as a priceless World Heritage site.
Historic buildings all along the coast, as well as ancient paintings found in the caves of southwestern Libya have been spray-painted with graffiti.
A deeply concerned tourism ministry has urged Libyans to take responsibility for the protection of these sites. One day, when safety is restored in Libya, these unique places will be very important to Libya's tourism industry, the Ministry said. It is proposing an "Honour Treaty" which locals along with their municipalities and civil society groups will sign, recognising the importance of these "exquisite national treasures" and promising to protect them.
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In 450 Cyrene's a pit;
With the silphium gone, people split.
Dust devils and scarabs,
Then camels and Arabs
And Allah's somniferous writ.
A siren in Cyrene, you hear it?
The old Apollonian spirit,
Already a ghost,
Exorcised from the coast
By the one faith on Earth that still fears it.
[Libya Herald] Operation Dignity played no part in the US seizure of Ahmed Bukhatallah on Sunday, nor did it know anything about the plan beforehand, the Dignity front man, Mohammed Hejazi told the Libya Herald this evening.
Hejazi denied any knowledge of the operation. When asked how this could be, when he had claimed several times that Operation Dignity had "eyes and ears" all over Benghazi, Hejazi declined to comment.
He said however that Ansar Sharia: "has no arms and no legs. They were powerless in the face of the US operation and were unable to resist".
This evening there were reports that Bukhatallah's family were claiming that he was still at his home in Old Leythi and had not been seized by the Americans. This story has been picked up and carried by both Aljazeera TV and radio.
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Saudi Arabia gave an apparent warning to arch enemy Iran on Wednesday by saying outside powers should not intervene in the conflict in neighboring Iraq.
Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal also said Iraq was facing a full-scale civil war with grave consequences for the wider region.
His remarks coincided with an Iranian warning that Tehran would not hesitate to defend Shi'ite Muslim holy sites in Iraq against "killers and terrorists", following advances by Sunni militants there.
Speaking at a gathering of Arab and Muslim leaders in Jeddah, Prince Saud urged nations racked by violence to meet the "legitimate demands of the people and to achieve national reconciliation (without) foreign interference or outside agendas".
"This grave situation that is storming Iraq carries with it the signs of civil war whose implications for the region we cannot fathom," he said.
[An Nahar] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... children's agency accused Yemen's al-Qaeda affiliate of sexually exploiting children, pointing to incidents in the south in 2012 in a report published Tuesday.
Al-Qaeda loyalists forced around 100 girls, some as young as 13, to marry its fighters in the southern province of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... in 2012, UNICEF said.
Taking advantage of a collapse of central authority during a 2011 uprising that forced veteran strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... from power, al-Qaeda seized large swathes of the south and east.
Al-Qaeda gunnies seized swathes of Abyan province, east of the main southern city of Aden, in 2012.
Both girls and boys had been "exposed to sexual violence in conflict situations in Yemen," the report said.
"One of the forms of this violence is the forced marriage of up to 100 girls in the province of Abyan, attended by the heads and fighters of Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libya, Tunisia and Yemen, with the Libyan and Tunisian versions currently most active... ," the U.N. agency said, using a front name adopted by al-Qaeda loyalists.
"Seven cases of forced marriage involving girls under 13 have been verified," UNICEF said.
In addition to that, "two girls were given as a gift" to members of the network by their brothers who had just joined the organization.
In other cases, fighters paid dowries of up to $5,000 (3,700 euros) to marry the daughters of families from the region, some of which earn little more than $12 per month, UNICEF said.
Most of the girls married off to al-Qaeda gunnies were abandoned by their husbands when the army retook the area in June 2012, the report said.
Some of them had given birth, the report added.
UNICEF said it was more difficult to document the sexual abuse of young boys recruited by the jihadists, but that it had recorded three cases in 2012.
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Well that's just the last straw, isn't it?
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What is wrong? They just followed Muhammad's example.
[CNN] U.S. special forces working with the FBI captured a key suspect in the deadly 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Libyan militia leader Ahmed Abu Khatallah was captured over the weekend near Benghazi, U.S. officials said. His is the first arrest and detention by the United States in connection with the Benghazi attack.
Abu Khatallah will be brought to the United States to face charges "in the coming days," said Edward Price, a front man for the National Security Council.
Abu Khatallah, who faces three federal criminal charges, will be tried in U.S. courts, said Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious...
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[DAWN] Being seen as an indirect support of Zarb-e-Azb military operation in North Wazoo, the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... (JI) has called upon forces of Evil active in the tribal belt and elsewhere in the country to shun their terrorist activities and instead join the national mainstream.
"I appeal to forces of Evil hailing from tribal areas and other parts of the country to give up the way of getting their demands met at gunpoint and instead use the people's force for joining the mainstream," JI emir Sirajul Haq said after a consultative meeting of the party on the army operation here on Monday.
"It's also need of the hour that they (the bad boys) play their role in protecting lives instead of confronting the state," he emphasised.
Syed Munawwar Hasan, former emir of the JI, became controversial after he declared forces of Evil being killed in festivities with security forces as deaders.
Rejecting the use of force, violence and war both by the state and non-state actors as against wisdom and prudence, Mr Haq said that the Nawaz government should have taken the national leadership and parliament into confidence before going for such a big decision (of army operation).
He called for keeping the talks option open despite the operation and seeking help and cooperation from tribal elders, who had been safeguarding interests of Pakistain since decades.
He said military operations in tribal areas were going on since 2004, but the situation there was becoming more complicated with the passage of time.
Recalling the unanimous mandate the politicianship of the country had given to the government in September last year for holding talks with bad boys, the JI leaders accused the government of not showing sincerity from the outset and that its stance had been like "one step forward and two steps back".
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[DAWN] Taking the nation into confidence through parliament over the government's decision to launch a military action in North Wazoo, 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... declared on Monday that the operation would continue till the achievement of the "ultimate objective".
Amid desk-thumping even from the opposition members, he expressed a resolve that the country would no more be a safe haven for terrorists.
"Let me make it clear that this country will no more be allowed to become a sanctuary for the snuffies at any cost," the prime minister said in a policy statement. He first read it out in the National Assembly and then in the Senate.
"As you know that a decisive action has been launched to purge the country of terrorism. Keeping in view all the sensitivities of a military action, a directive has been issued to start the operation that began yesterday," Mr Sharif said.
"The operation against terrorism, named Zarb-e-Azb, Insha Allah, will continue till the achievement of its ultimate objective," he declared.
"Yesterday, there could be two opinions about the operation and the talks, but now this chapter should be closed," he said, asking the nation to support the armed forces in a fight for the country's integrity.
"The whole nation, all segments of society, media and political parties should now be on the back of the government and the armed forces," he said.
In an apparent reference to reports in some political and media circles that the army and the government might not be on the same page over the military action, the prime minister claimed that the decision to launch the operation had been made after an understanding between the army and the government.
"I make it clear that during the negotiation process, the political and military leadership continued consultations and all the decisions had been made with complete harmony and mutual reconciliation."
He said the decision to launch the operation had also been made with "complete harmony and mutual consultation, following unabated terror incidents, particularly after the attack on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport".
Mr Sharif recalled that he had announced on the floor of the National Assembly on Jan 29 that the government had decided to start negotiations with the turbans to give peace a chance and a committee was constituted for holding talks with them.
At that time, he said that he had called for an end to terror activities with a belief that "terrorism and peace cannot go together".
"The nation is a witness to the fact that our sincerity and good intentions were not reciprocated."
The prime minister regretted that the negotiations spread over four and a half months could not make progress towards peace. "The world knows that on one hand, we were negotiating with these groups and on the other, our installations were being targeted through bombs," he said.
"On one hand, we were busy in pleading peace and on the other, our children, women and youths were being killed. On one side, we were peacefully talking to them while on the other, a game of fire and blood was being played from Islamabad courts to the Karachi airport," Mr Sharif regretted.
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"from now on we will be a terrorrist heaven"
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oh? disbanding ISI, are we?
(and no, I'm not Harry Reid, regardless of the pic-a-nic nym)
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Jeeez Henry, I'd respawn and hope for a Nimble nick.
[DAWN] Pakistain 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... has urged Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... to help stop hard boyz escape a major military offensive, as jets pounded Taliban hideouts in North Wazoo tribal region for a third day Tuesday.
Sharif asked his Kabul counterpart to seal their mostly non-existent border along a mountainous tribal area where the Mighty Pak Army has deployed troops and tanks in a long-awaited crackdown on murderous Moslems.
The Mighty Pak Army launched the offensive, named Zarb-e-Azb on Sunday, a week after an attack on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport killed dozens and marked the end of a troubled grinding of the peace processor.
Exodus of hard boyz from the area had been a concern ahead of the operation, with residents and officials reporting that the majority of Taliban and imported muscle had fled to eastern Afghanistan.
Pakistain's Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said Sharif had requested Karzai to help stop the flow of people.
"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called Hamid Karzai last night to request him for the closure of Afghan border to avoid exit of hard boyz to Afghanistan from Pakistain during the military offensive," she told AFP.
"The message was earlier conveyed via military sources and Afghan authorities were also requested for an action against hard boys' sanctuaries in Afghanistan which are being used for attacks inside Pakistain.
"I am not aware about the response of Mr. Karzai to these requests," she added.
Thousands of people have already fled across the border into the Gorbaz district of Afghanistan's Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... , according to provincial government front man Mobarez Mohammad Zadran, and are being provided with food and aid.
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[DAWN] The Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader, Farooq Sattar, on Monday claimed that Taliban control 25 per cent of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and warned that, if immediate steps are not taken, the commercial hub of the country could slip into a bigger crisis.
"Taliban are running a state within the state," the MQM parliamentary leader said.
Mr Sattar was speaking at a seminar on negotiations with Taliban and operation Zarb-e-Azb. The seminar was organised by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI).
The MQM parliamentary leader further stated that bully boyz and their sympathisers had made transactions of around Rs1.25 billion in various banks of Karachi, but the state was not paying any heed to this important issue.
Mr Sattar said that the whole nation is standing by the troops waging war against Taliban in North Wazoo.
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[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... on Tuesday claimed in the National Assembly that that the parliament was "helpless" before military establishment's decision of conducting a military operation in Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
"The decision regarding use of force is the domain of public representatives, not the military establishment," he added.
He said that the JUI-F was not in favour of militancy in the country but the use of force had not worked in the past.
"It is time to determine whether this operation is against forces of Evil or the people of Wazoo," Fazl added.
He said that the decision was taken by the Army while the parliament had merely given approval to it.
"How one can convince snuffies that democracy is the best option if the constitution and democratic norms will not be respected by state institutions," he questioned.
He said that the parliamentarians had not honoured dozens of parliamentary resolutions regarding restoration of peace through talks.
"I know I will be penalised for my independent opinion but I want to record my protest on the pages of history," he added.
Pakistain Army on Sunday announced it had launched a comprehensive operation against local and foreign forces of Evil in North Waziristan, sealing it off.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Taliban on Monday warned foreign firms to leave Pakistain and vowed retaliatory strikes against the government after the Pakistain Army launched a long-awaited offensive in a tribal area.
The statement came as Pakistain's major cities braced for a backlash by deploying thousands of soldiers and paramilitaries while placing hospitals on high alert for incoming casualties. The offensive on North Wazoo was launched a week after a brazen hard boy attack on the Jinnah International Airport in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... .
"We warn all foreign investors, airlines and multinational corporations that they should immediately suspend their ongoing matters with Pakistain and prepare to leave Pakistain, otherwise they will be responsible for their own loss," front man Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement. "This thing is clear to all that the capital gained (by Pakistain) through your activities and trade falls on innocent tribal women and kiddies like fire and iron," he added.
The group also vowed to take Dire Revenge™ on the government. "We hold 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... 's government and the Punjabi establishment responsible for the loss of tribal Moslems' life and property as a result of this operation," the statement said. "The retaliatory actions of the mujahedeen (militants) will make you a cautionary tale in history."
Shahid added the Taliban would 'burn your palaces in Islamabad and Lahore' referring to the capital city and the prime minister's hometown from where he derives his support base. "Remember that you will once again crave for negotiations and peace, but then it would be too late," he added.
The warning came as major cities beefed up their security, as troops were seen patrolling the streets of Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. "The security of the capital was already on alert, but a new alert had been issued," an Islamabad police front man told AFP.
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[Pak Daily Times] Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Moslemeen (MWM)'s leader Allama Aijaz Behishti joined the sit-in of Tehrik-e-Minhaj-ul-Koran/Pakistain Awami Tehrik of Dr Tahir ul Qadri in protest against the Lahore police action against party comrades outside Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Press Club on Tuesday Accompanied by the MWM's officials Ali Hussain Naqvi, Nasir Hussaini, Hassan Hashmi, Raza Naqvi and Asif Safavi, Allama Behishti remained with the protestors and expressed solidarity with the victims of the biased PML-N government of Punjab.
"The PML-N government is trying to target the pro-operation parties and figures because the rulers never wanted a military operation to eliminate the snuffies in Wazoo," said Allama Behishti.
He said Lahore action was a proof the PML-N government did so to divert public attention from Waziristan operation.
He said peaceful political opponents were sprayed with bullets, teargas shells and baton-charged.
He said Shahbaz Sharif-led Punjab government acted liked butcher demonstrating incivility.
He said even women were not spared and they too were thrashed and fired upon.
"We see this uncalled for brutal action against the anti-Taliban party by the pro-Taliban government who got $1.5 billion from Kingdom 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... to toe their line," he claimed.
Allama Behishti rejected the Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah's charges against the peaceful protestors of Minhaj ul Koran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik.
He said they were not armed but Punjab government was trying to understate police action against the peaceful protestors.
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[Pak Daily Times] LAHORE: Opposition in the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday took the government to task over killing of several people during a clash with the police in Model Town while Law Minister Rana Sanaullah adamantly announced that such police actions would continue in future as the government would not allow anyone to establish any "no-go area" anywhere in the province.
General discussion on 2014-15 budget was in progress on Tuesday when the news about brutal attack of police on the residence of Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) Chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri in Model Town reached there, prompting the opposition to burst into severe protest.
On a point of order, Opposition Leader Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed said that security situation of the entire province had become sensitive after eight innocent citizens were killed and over 60 others were maimed as a result of straight fire from the police.
He said that riots have erupted across the province after the incident. He demanded the law minister to inform the House about facts of the incident.
The law minister was not present in the House at that time so the speaker, gauging the sensitivity of the issue, assured the House that he would call the law minister to attend the session and reply to concerns exhibited by members.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... Labour and Human Resource Minister Raja Ishfaq Sarwar stood on his seat and said that the government was not denying the facts and that it was not interested in resolving the issue either.
When the opposition heard these remarks that the government was not going to resolve the issue, they resorted to sloganeering against the government and police. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the law minister joined the session at that point of time and informed the House that the police took action against PAT members in order to remove barriers installed or erected outside Dr Qadri's residence.
He said that they had received intelligence reports that suspicious activities were going on there and that oath on the Holy Koran was being taken from workers according to a text statement that, he said, was against the state of Pakistain. He further said that the government would not allow anyone to establish any "no-go area" anywhere in the province and that the government would take action against any such moves across the province.
He gave assurance to the House that the government would hold a judicial inquiry into the incident and would also take serious action against the culprits. He said that the government had actual footage of the incident where armed people opened fire and took anti-state oath on the Holy Koran and that the government would present it to the nation very soon.
He alleged that Dr Qadri had no services for democracy in Pakistain but that the PAT chief was instrumental only in spreading anarchy; therefore, he could not be tolerated.
He made it clear that the government would launch action against the people, who would establish no-go areas anywhere in the province.
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[Pak Daily Times] ISLAMABAD: Opposition politicians in the Upper House of parliament on Monday extended full support to 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... and the military operation in North Wazoo Agency.
But they asked for special arrangements for the internally displaced people (IDPs) of the areas concerned. "The opposition supports the military operation launched in NW Agency and stands fully behind the government," opposition leader Aitzaz Ahsan told the House after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's address to the Senate over the start of a full-fledged military operation in North Waziristan. The entire House supported the military operation.
They were of the view that dealing with militancy is not the job of the government or security forces alone, and called for unity among all the stakeholders, setting aside political differences. They said it is a matter of the existence of Pakistain and observed that the government has wasted a lot of time and energy over peace talks with the Taliban, which has allowed them to re-organise. The senators said four neighbouring countries have also been complaining about terrorism activities in their countries whose main culprits are living in Pakistain.
They advised against distinctions of good and bad Taliban and called for action against turbans across the country, including south Punjab and Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... . Before the prime minister's speech in the Senate, the senators criticised the government for not taking parliament into confidence over such an important matter. Speaking on the occasion ANP's Senator Ilyas Ahmad Bilor said the government has handed over major installations and big cities to forces, but left Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. alone.
Being a front line province, he said the people of Peshawar should not be left at the mercy of the Taliban, and hand it over to the security forces. Supporting action against the turbans, PPP's Senator Farhatullah Babar demanded answers to a number of questions. He asked why the military, and not the civilian government, announced the operation. He said there is a widespread perception that the military decided to launch the operation, while the "foot-dragging" civilian government followed suit, which would only exacerbate the civil-military divide.
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Oh. I thought it might be the U.S. Senate.
Silly me!
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[Pak Daily Times] ISLAMABAD: Atwo-day International Ulema Conference on Polio Eradication to overcome the barriers to vaccination in the country concluded here on Monday.
Prominent Ulema and religious scholars from the country and aboard participated in the conference to make a strategy for having effective polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... immunization mechanism.
The purpose of the conference was to bring together the religious leaders and apprise them about the challenges of polio eradication in Pakistain, particularly with respect of mis-information in the name of religion, which has resulted fears in certain communities.
The participants in the conference discussed in detail the role of Ulema in reaching children in the inaccessible areas with focus on North and South Wazoo.
They also discussed the root-causes of the barrier between vaccinators and children with focus on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... besides discussion on current situation of polio eradication and why and where are children un-reached.
The participants also discussed how to eliminate the concerns of Ulema and ensure them that polio vaccine is not harmful for health and no element of harram is in its ingredient.
The conference also discussed guidance on strategies that can effectively overcome current situation and political challenges to polio eradication in Pakistain.
Addressing the participants, Minister of State for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, Saira Afzal Tarar said that polio eradication campaign can be made result oriented with the support and guidance of Ulema.
She said that Ulema's role is very important in making public opinion and creating awareness in masses.
Saira Afzal Tarar said that provision of health facilities is top most priority of present government and it is focusing on protection of citizens from lethal diseases and solution of various health problems including eradication of polio.
She said, "In order to make Pakistain a developed country we must emerge as a healthy nation." She underscored for administration of polio vaccine drops to children for becoming a healthy nations.
She said, "Safeguarding the health of our children is not only our social responsibility but a moral and religious obligation as well.
Islamic scholars can play a leading role in educating the parents to fulfil their obligations to ensure a healthy and happy life of their children.
"She said that it is high time to eliminate concerns of those circles, who consider polio eradication campaign as dubious thing and they never accepted campaign of polio eradication.
During two-day conference, an in-depth discussion was held with focus on specific issues to eradication and immunization of polio from Central, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , FATA and some areas of Karachi and Quetta.
A joint statement was issued at the end of the conference.
Those Ulema who attended the conference including Maulana Hanif Jalandhari and Allama Tahir Ashrafi.
President Islamic Development Bank, representatives of Islamic Fiqh Academy, Al Azhar, World Health Organisation (WHO) and Focal Person of Prime Minister's Polio Eradication Cell Ayesha Raza Farooq attended the conference.
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[Pak Daily Times] Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief mikister of Punjab... has said that he will resign if found responsible for the violent festivities between supporters of the Pakistain Awami Tehrik and the police on Tuesday.
Addressing a presser, he said that the deaths in the Model Town were unfortunate. "I have ordered formation of a judicial commission to probe the incident," He said that he would not rest until the commission ascertains who was responsible for the incident and that they would be punished according to the law.
The chief minister also offered condolences to Dr Tahirul Qadri and the families of the victims over what he said were unfortunate deaths. "I request the people of Punjab to please maintain patience and tolerance, even though emotions are high," he added. He also said that never engaged in the politics of bullets or batons and anyone was free to lodge an FIR against him.
On the other hand, Punjab Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah also said that Tahriul Qadri had deployed a private militia at his residence and created no-go areas. He said this (situation) would not be allowed. A case had been launched and a judicial inquiry of the incident would be conducted, he said.
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[Pak Daily Times] Tehrik-e-Minhajul Koran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran. 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... has called police action against his workers as 'state terrorism ... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ... ' and said it would not be tolerated.
Addressing the party workers via video link, he said the case of workers killing would be lodged against 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... and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief mikister of Punjab... . He said that the government does not want military operation in North Wazoo to be successful.
He said that barriers were placed four years back. He asked why these were not removed at that time. He also said that police opened straight fire on peaceful workers. He paid rich tribute to the workers on their courage. He said that the police attacked the workers when they were sleeping.
Punjab Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah said that Tahriul Qadri had deployed a private militia at his residence and created no-go areas. He said this (situation) would not be allowed. A case had been launched and a judicial inquiry of the incident would be conducted, he said.
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I have to assume we did train some guys, and that they learned something. But Iraqi corruption wore away all of the benefit? Would the corruption have taken hold had we left 10,000 troops under a SOFA?
To put it another way, is the rout to be blamed on Obama for running away, or is the corruption an inevitable outcome of the Iraqi culture?
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We did train them. Lots of them. I know some guys who were there on contract as recently as 6 months ago. The problem isn't them men, its the tribalism. The Sunni for the most part folded up and left the Shia unsupported in mixed units, causing the units to rout. ISIS leveraged this by executing Shia but telling the Sunni to change into civilian clothes and go home (or else joint up ISIS). This put a wedge into the units split and fell apart 0- the Sunnis figured "why fight, these guys will just let me go instead of dying for Maliki and Shias", and the Shias figured they were going to get backstabbed by the sunnis, so better to retreat and get to a Shia friendly area.
The way this was changed in 06 was that US forces were there, and the Sunni "I can just go home to my tribe" didn't work out so well - they got dug out, exposed and killed brutally efficiently by US troops. So sunnis started sticking to their units. No such ting exists now. So the Iraqi Army will have units disintegrate, until they get down to purely Shia units, which will stand and fight - and do well with their weapons and training. Sunni units and Mixed units? Not so much. And the Kurds have always tended to be Peshmerga no matter what unit they were in - they are fighters.
As far as the tribes go, from what I know (and this i sparely my OPINION and that of a few contractor friends as well), The Shia hold grudges but can be very loyal, and the Sunni are simply unreliable and very tribal. I wouldn't trust either of them as far as I could throw them, but if we do have to grab one or the other, ironically, its the Shia who I would side with (in spite of Iran). The Sunni in this region are the ones that feed the Salafists, Wahabbis, and their Takfiri offshoots - you know, the bastards that struck us in 9/11 and who fought us so hard in Iraq. Tater and the Shia militias got a lot of press, as did the Quds force support they got from Iran - but those were mainly guerrillas, not the sort that can actually hold terrain and hold towns and create a power base. Those types were the Sunni tribes. The hardest fights were the Sunni AQI fighters, and the Sunni militias in Ramadi, Fallujah, etc).
That being said, above any and all of those, I would back the Kurds if the US has to choose any side over the others.
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A lot of the reports you hear of regarding commanders retreating are 1) Sunni's who were bought or disloyal 2) Shia who bought their rank )pr traded family favors for it), and allowed corruption to roll in and were consequently rank cowards not military men.
For the latter the command position was a reward for loyalty or a family relationship or (worst case) a payoff. When training groups, you could tell who the real officers were, and which of them "had an uncle" working in the IA. The better officers got pulled to the better units, leaving the politicals to be billet fillers. In training, the real soldiers got the training which was hard, hot and dirty field work for a good portion of it, and the political ones somehow managed to be indoors drinking a lot of tea in the air conditioned classrooms to get their certificates. Contractors kew who was who - and trained them accordingly.
Also, from what I hear, many of the Sunni officers in Sunni units that evaporated got bought off.
Think about a typical 3rd world military - and now mix in that stupid Arab false pride and enshallah attitude, with the innate corruption of Arab culture. Now imagine how that affects how a unit operates - they tend to be very Top-down,officer centric, with no real history of a professional NCO corps, and no initiative at any below a battalion commander (excepting a few special units).
Now think about this:
Saddam (not all that an uncommon name) is a battalion commander. He got his position because he is related to the district commander, and his family has money to buy him this job and the prestige that comes with it. Saddam figures that sine the Americans are gone, but the contractors are still here, there is probably not any big fighting left to do, so why put yourself out for that kind of thing? Plus, all that sweating and field duty is beneath him - he is upper class, leave it to the lower class, all Saddam needs to do is give them orders and tell them to be on their way as a loyal subordinate should. But Saddam is contacted by someone letting him know that the ISIS knows who he is and where he lives - but they also will pay him if he will simply leave, which will give him a head start in evacuating his family. He also hears through his family connections that others in the district are being approached, and that the money is real, and others are taking it too. So, rather than left being the one holding the bag, Saddam takes the money, gives an order for his company commanders to prepare to fall back if anything happen the next day. Then Saddam goes home, packs everything, and gets out of town ahead of the ISIS coming in. The battalion no longer has a commander. Saddam isn't a total jerk - he lets his XO, friends since they were schoolmates, know that he should be leaving but warns him not to let anyone else know because the panic would cause the 2 of them to get swept up and unable to get their money and families out. The next morning at 0600, the staff shows up, but there is no XO, no Commander. Higher headquarters claims to know nothing - and why the hell are they bugging higher HQ, thats improper, have the commanding officer or XO call, not some lowly staff member. Given that the men know this commander, know that ISIS is known to be coming, and the rumors of bribes have ben circulating... its easy to do the math. The headquarters staff and soldiers all take an early breakfast break and simply do not come back. The Birgade now has lot the battalion - and the battalion no longer has a HQ.
Osama is a company commander - He is the last real level in the chain of command with any inherent authority in the IA. He is taught to lead, but never really has the tools or cultural wherewithal to command. He is utterly dependent upon the Battalion commander in terms of initiative and orders, and has done so when fighting the small rebellions out in the countryside - its how he got promoted. He is capable of directing his company in combat fire and maneuvering,, but not in setting any real objectives or what to do after orders have been carried out. What happens when he no longer can reach that Battalion HQ? He has no way to get any orders, and is incapable of setting objectives and generating orders past the old ones he has been acting on, which no longer match the reality of the situation, Even worse, the last orders passed down were to fall back if pushed - which he knows to be a recipe for failure, but which he must obey without question. Furthermore, he figured it out long ago that his battalion commander got the job because he is a nephew of the brigade commander's cousin, and is known to be easy to buy out in terms of paying him off to avoid tough duty (another company commander bought is way out of a protl exercise, which his company ended up having to do instead). Now Osama can no longer get the BN commander on the phone, or the XO - and the HQ seems to be empty when he drives up there to see whats going on. Pretty obvious to Osama that the BN commander has been bought off or else ran away. Either way, this company commander knows he has no support p the chain of command, and quite possibly laterally (that company commander who bought off his duty is useless). thinking about it. even if he stands and fights, or if his men refuse to fight (they belong to a different tribe) he might become a prisoner of ISIS. So he does the Arab thing - he quietly leaves the company area, folds up his uniform, gets his civilian clothes on, and heads for home to get his wife and kids the hell out of the city. Just like his commander did, no bribe neccesary. So this company, and others like it are headless - the neighboring commander got wind of it and leaves tot.
Hassim is an infantryman. He is fairly competent with his weapon, and can lead a fire team in combat. Good basic grunt. But what does he do if he sees his company commander disappear? He know ISIS are rolling, and executing soldiers and threatening their families. The last order he heard about was that the LT was ordered to fall back if the ISIS comes. If he is Shia, he knows his head may end up on a pike by the Takfiri. If he's sunni, he knows that they are likely to give him a pass if he's not a policeman or soldier in uniform. So what do he and the guys in his platoon do when they company commander is long gone? They bug out too. He is a good man, so he warns his squad mates what he thinks is going on, and tells them to get out. Once the men in the other platoons see this, they will drop their stuff, put their civilian clothes on and beat feet - after all if the guys over there are going then there must be something bad going on. SO now this entire company is gone along with the corrupt company to its left.
Next thing you know, the neighboring company to the right sees these guys are literally running away in civilian clothes after abandoning their weapons and positions. They panic and visibly rout themselves. Now the battalion adjacent to these finds out the battalion next to them is gone, leaving their flanks wide open. And the same dynamic plays out, from the bottom up, no corruption needed. All without firing a shot or even getting a whiff of the enemy. They are headed home to protect their wife and kids.
And that brigade that existed this morning? Its gone. No longer exists. ISIS rolls in that afternoon, and has the run of the place, producing even more IA units collapsing as they realize the units they were depending on have evaporated.
And that is how you have an entire region disintegrate - Arab culture, corruption, and nepotism in the ranks of the military - and in the Maliki government, which was where the rot started.
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No, the District Commander is likely on the lam too - Matter of fact, the 2 most senior commanders in Mosul have warrants out for their arrest on bribery, corruption and treason charges now.
And as for Lt Col Saddam, hey, family/tribe trumps all. And the way he tells it, the briber was a rumor, started by those disloyal subordinates just like the battalion that disintegrated next to his. He will tell the story similar to this
they were all disloyal. I tried to run the ship properly, by the book, but they fought me at every turn. The crew wanted to walk around with their shirt tails hanging out, that's all right, let them. Take the tow line, defective equipment, no more, no less. But they encouraged the crew to go around scoffing at me, and spreading wild rumors about steaming in circles, and then old yellow-strain. I was to blame for Lt. Maryk's incompetence and poor seamanship. Lt. Maryk was the perfect officer, but not Captain Queeg. Ah, but the strawberries, that's where I had them, they laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, with geometric logic, that a duplicate key to the ward room icebox did exist, and I've had produced that key if they hadn't pulled the Caine out of action. I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officer . . .
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region -- The Kurds of Iraq have the right to decide the future of their land, said Huseyin Celik, a spokesman for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Friday.
"The Kurds of Iraq can decide for themselves the name and type of the entity they are living in," Celik told Rudaw in an interview to be published soon.
This is an interesting comment to say the least, but you can bet it doesn't extend to the Kurdish region in Turkey.
The AKP is the party of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan under whom Ankara and Erbil have built strong economic and diplomatic relations.
In case Iraq gets partitioned, said Celik, "the Kurds, like any other nation, will have the right to decide their fate."
Celik believes that Iraq is already headed towards partition thanks to "Maliki's sectarian policies."
Maliki hasn't done a united Iraq any favors. He's a Shi'a semi-Saddam...
In the past several days fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have occupied most of Iraq's Sunni areas in the center of the country. They have declared war on Nouri al-Maliki's Shiite government whom they accuse of persecuting the Sunni population.
"Turkey has been supporting the Kurdistan Region till now and will continue this support," said Celik.
Turkey and Kurdistan have signed a 50-year energy deal and Kurdish oil is exported via a pipeline that connects the autonomous region to the port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean.
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The Kurds are exporting oil via Turkey. Perhaps the Turks appreciate the business and see the current Iraq festivities as likely to result in increased future flows.
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Turkey's Kurds, on the other hand, are a simple people who don't understand what's best for them, and frequently must be jerked into line disciplined.
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Mountain Turks? Do tell, how is the Queen's writ enforced there? Are they perhaps simple, albeit well armed, law enforcement types? Have they a sign of their official capacity?
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This may mean a couple of things. The optimistic part says the Turks have finally come around and realized they can't continue to alienate and repress the majority of the population of 1/3 of territory. Yeah, and next they'll be shaving off their mustaches as unfashionable.
This is a power play of some sort. First off, Kurdistan is a reality in all but the fficial law. The Kurds have established and maintain autonomous regional government, and now a military to go with it. The turks for now may just be buying time until the ISIS stuff lays out and they have whatever angle they are after.
There are some benefits: if they do recognize the small Kurdistan, that Kurdistan will probably be shipping its oil out via Turkish pipelines rather than giving in to the ISIS dominated Sunni or the Shia in the south. Thats a very nice money stream, and adds to Turkish de-facto control over more oil/gas that's going to the EU.
Third, this is a small, land-locked nation which will be at the mercy of hostile powers on all sides. This particular version of Kurdistan is no real threat to Turkey in the short run, and if they start supporting the PKK and other things inside Turkey, the Turks can then feel free to take military action against Kurdistan - which is a rather large threat.
The one thing they would worry about prior to this would be US support for Kurdistan, both economic and military - like basing and overflight rights. Under Bush that might have been a problem. But under Obama, its not going to happen since Obama seems to be all about appeasing Iran, and supporting Kurdistan would be seen by Iran as a threatening move. So the Turks get to "play" being the good guys, even as they tighten a noose around Kurdistan.
Obama being such a douchebag incompetent coward iranian-ass-kisser is having massive negative repercussions throughout the region, and this is one of them.
ISIS would likely welcome deeper involvement from the IRGC.
During the second Iraq war, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was one of the United States' fiercest foes. The IRGC was responsible not only for organizing, training and equipping Shiite militants who fought U.S. troops, but also for manufacturing and importing into Iraq so-called explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, one of the chief banes of American forces there. Also courtesy of Tehran: mortar and rocket attacks on the Green Zone in Baghdad, designed to speed the American departure.
For this reason, in addition to the deep distrust that has characterized U.S.-Iran relations since 1979, it is more than passing strange to hear both American and Iranian officials mooting the possibility of U.S.-Iran cooperation in Iraq today. The U.S. and Iran share an interest in preventing further advances by the extremist Sunni militia that calls itself the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS. Nevertheless, accepting Iran's offer of assistance in Iraq would be a grave mistake.
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[An Nahar] 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... should be held responsible for murderous Moslem financing and crimes committed by bully boy groups in Iraq, the Storied Baghdad government charged on Tuesday.
Comments from Riyadh indicates it is "siding with terrorism", the cabinet said in a statement issued by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office.
"We strongly condemn this stance," the statement read.
"We hold it (Saudi Arabia) responsible for what these groups are receiving in terms of financial and moral support."
It continued: "The Saudi government should be held responsible for the dangerous crimes committed by these terrorist groups."
The statement came just days after Saudi Arabia and Qatar blamed "sectarian" policies by Iraq's Shiite-led government against the Sunni Arab minority for the unrest that has swept the country.
The unrest "could not have taken place if it was not for the sectarian and exclusionary policies implemented in Iraq over the past years that threatened its stability and illusory sovereignty," the Saudi government said in a statement.
In March, Maliki accused both Saudi Arabia and Qatar of supporting terrorism in Iraq.
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[Iran Press TV] 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... (ISIL) is a plot by the Israeli regime to drive away revolutionary forces from Israeli borders and provide a safe haven for the Zionists, a high-ranking Iranian military commander says.
"The government, army and Moslem and revolutionary people of Iraq can strengthen the Iraqi revolution... through unity and solidarity," Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said on Tuesday.
He added that the US, which is now angry with the result of Iraq's elections, was founder of terrorist groups.
The US aims through any kind of military intervention in Iraq to foil the positive result of the country's elections, the Iranian commander said, adding, "They are still an ally to supporters of snuffies in the region."
On April 30, Iraq held parliamentary elections - its first nationwide polls since the US troops withdrew in 2011 - despite threats by al-Qaeda-linked snuffies to ruin the election process.
Iraq's electoral commission put the turnout from the elections at about 60 percent. Results from the vote showed that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... 's State of Law alliance had won the largest share of votes, garnering 92 out of 328 parliamentary seats.
Firouzabadi further called on the Iraqi people to remain united to suppress the ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... murderous Moslems.
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Iranian military commanders should stop smoking crack.
[Iran Press TV] More than two million Iraqis have volunteered to join the fight against Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... gunnies of the al-Qaeda splinter 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).
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain al-Shahristani made the remarks in the capital Storied Baghdad on Tuesday.
Shahristani said Storied Baghdad did not have the capacity to process more volunteers, adding, "No one knows when this battle will end, but we will win it."
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... voiced concerns over reports of war crimes committed by the bad boys.
"There is a real risk of further sectarian violence on a massive scale, within Iraq and beyond its borders," UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said at a presser in the Swiss city of Geneva.
The UN chief called on leaders of all Iraqi factions to "ensure that their followers avoid acts of reprisal."
"I hope that with the strong support of regional countries and the international community in a broader sense, we will be able to help the Iraqi government first of all to restore peace and stability in their country," Ban added.
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Nuke a ring around them,if they leave, they die.
(Or are sterilized, either way.)
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JERUSALEM -- Members 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... , or ISIS, were trained in 2012 by U.S. instructors working at a secret base in Jordan, according to informed Jordanian officials.
The officials said dozens of ISIS members were trained at the time as part of covert aid to the insurgents targeting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. The officials said the training was not meant to be used for any future campaign in Iraq. Whoopsie!
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But BUSH!
They'll start an FBI investigation, but the DOD will have lost all the emails, and there's no paper trail (god knows they don't make you fill out forms in the mil).
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Back when Al-Qaeda began flooding into Syria it became clear that no matter how much we may detest Iran and Syria, we had to focus our smiting on Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda is a criminal syndicate. You do not train members of a criminal syndicate because, they are murderous murdering criminals. You smite criminals. This is who the smartest guy in the room decided to back?
And what did the murderous murdering criminals do? They robbed banks in Mosul and murdered thousands.
[REUTERS] The United States will provide urgently needed assistance to Iraq's security forces, but Iraqis must pull together to fight the "vicious" insurgency that threatens to break up the country, U.S. Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... said on Tuesday.
"Urgent assistance is clearly required," said Biden during a visit to Brazil. "The bottom line here is that Iraqis have to pull together to defeat this enemy."
Biden said this would require setting aside sectarianism, building an inclusive security force and ensuring that all communities in Iraq have their voices heard.
The opportunity to do this exists now after the Iraqi Supreme Court certified the election results on Monday, he said in a statement to news hounds after visiting Brazil's president.
Washington has made clear it wants Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to embrace Sunni politicians as a condition of U.S. support to fight a lightning advance by forces from 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...
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Can't wait to see "Joe of Arabia" at the drive-in.
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LOL Joe of Arabia hahahaha, I like the olde boy, but I can see him prancing on the roof of his Amtrak special. WHEEEEE! Now JOE! of Guam, now babes that would require Burton, Taylor, Wayne, Okawa, Katsumoto and Bruce Lee. The screen credits would take an hour to roll if done correctly. I can see it. I can see it! I suspect CGI might be necessary as well as a goodly portion of the Pacific Fleet.. Money well spent if you ask me.
Seizure of 160 computer flash sticks revealed the inside story of Isis, the band of militants that came from nowhere with nothing to having Syrian oil fields and control of Iraq's second city
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Our inept CIA might finally have something to work with.
[An Nahar] Some 5,000 Iranians have pledged online to defend Iraq's Shiite Mohammedan holy sites against Sunni gunnies who are waging war against the Storied Baghdad government, a report said on Tuesday.
The pledges were made on the harimshia.org website, which was launched by a group naming itself the Popular Headquarters for the Defense of Shiite Shrines, the conservative website Tabnak reported.
"Those who sign up are organized into units... and if the order is given by the supreme leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei) they will go to Iraq to defend the sites," the harimshia.org page said.
Volunteers can sign up on the harimshia.org site or by SMS message.
The Iranian pledges follow a call by top Shiite holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for Iraqis to volunteer to resist the onslaught spearheaded by the jihadist 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).
Iran is mostly Shiite and it supports the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite who spent years in exile in Iran when now executed Sunni Arab dictator Saddam Hussein was in power in Storied Baghdad.
President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Iran was ready to assist Iraq if Maliki's government asked, but no such request has so far been made public.
The major Shiite shrines in Iraq are in Najaf and Karbala, south of the capital, in Storied Baghdad itself and in Samarra to its north, which the hard boyz have made repeated, but so far unsuccessful, efforts to enter.
ISIL considers Shiites to be apostates.
Iraqi officials said Tuesday that ISIL fighters briefly held areas of Baquba, a short drive from Storied Baghdad, and took control of most of Tal Afar, a Shiite-majority town in the north.
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[An Nahar] 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... leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... has said that jihadists 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) would have reached Beirut had his party not sent its fighters to Syria.
"Had we not interfered in Syria at the appropriate moment, ISIL would have been in Beirut now," he told the leaders of al-Mahdi Scouts Association during a meeting on Sunday.
The Hizbullah secretary-general wondered why the party's critics have not condemned ISIL's advance on the Iraqi capital.
In the latest fighting, the snuffies took control of several neighborhoods of Tal Afar, a mainly Shiite Turkmen town between the rebel-held second city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and the Syrian border, officials and residents said.
The Iraqi government has insisted it is making progress in retaking territory from the murderous Moslems, who currently hold most or parts of four provinces north of Storied Baghdad.
The security forces will be joined by a flood of volunteers after a call to arms from top Shiite holy man Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
Nasrallah lauded al-Sistani's call, saying it "aims at protecting Iraq and not just a single sect."
The Hizbullah chief hinted that some regional and Gulf countries were involved in the fighting in Iraq.
"Who is benefiting from what's going on there?" he asked.
He also raised doubt about Washington's stance as it weighs possible drone strikes against the murderous Moslems.
Nasrallah expressed relief over the improvement of the security situation in Leb. But warned that "this does not mean things have gone back to normal."
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They also kept the bad guys from reaching Tokyo. For now.
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And this is the place that spawned Christianity?
I think thy are all flawed.
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probably the al Nusra vs ISIS infighting had a lot to do with the weakness of the anti Assad forces the past 6 months or so
also, it seems obvious that ISIS withdrew some of their forces to Iraq for the recent push through Mosul and beyond
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[An Nahar] The stable security situation in Leb was marred on Tuesday after 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... obtained news that a terrorist group is seeking to attack two hospitals in Beirut's southern suburbs.
Al-Joumhouria newspaper reported that Hizbullah members and the Lebanese army deployed heavily on the entrances of Dahiyeh on Monday night and boosted security measures after the bombing reports circulated.
The newspaper said that the party obtained information that a "terrorist group will attack al-Rasoul al-Aazam and Behman hospital with kabooms."
"Hizbullah implemented a precautionary deployment plan," the daily said.
Al-Jadeed television reported on Monday night that the army detained three suspects, who are currently being interrogated.
Security sources told al-Joumhouria that the bombing threats come in light of the violence in Iraq as Sunni Mohammedanforces of Evil captured large swaths of territory collaring Storied Baghdad, the capital.
In fighting on Monday, the forces of Evil seized the strategic city of Tal Afar near the Syrian border, and an Iraqi army helicopter was shot down during festivities near the city of Fallujah west of Storied Baghdad, killing the two-man crew, security officials said.
Hizbullah sources expressed fear in comments published in al-Liwaa newspaper from a rebellion in Leb similar to that in Iraq.
"Despite the stable security situation after the formation of the cabinet, dormant terrorist cells still exist," the sources said.
Informed sources denied in remarks to As Safir newspaper that the army has detained jacket wallahs, seized booby-trapped vehicles or has uncovered under ground tunnels.
On Monday, media reports said the army discovered a tunnel in one of the Paleostinian refugee camps reaching out of it.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[CNN] U.S. special forces working with the FBI captured a key suspect in the deadly 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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