[DAWN] Days after word leaked that the Afghan Taliban had signalled willingness to enter into talks to end Afghanistan's long war, senior representatives of the Lion of Islam group visited Islamabad for secret discussions on the next step forward.
They left with a blunt message from Pakistain: the Taliban must end a rift between two top leaders, or talks might never get off the ground.
The warning was a reminder of how tough it will be to get bandidos krazed killers and the Afghan government on the same table, let alone agree on lasting peace, even with help from Pakistain-- the Taliban's erstwhile backer that still wields influence over them.
The two senior Taliban figures in question are political leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, who favours negotiation, and battlefield commander Abdul Qayum Zakir, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, who opposes talks with Kabul.
Mansour and Zakir, long-time rivals, met recently to resolve their personal differences, slaughtering sheep for a feast to mark the occasion, according to two Taliban sources.
But Mansour was unable to persuade Zakir to reverse his opposition to direct talks with Kabul, which he sees as "wasting time" because the United States holds real power in Afghanistan, the sources added.
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[Iran Press TV] Members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) have drafted a resolution to financially and logistically support a five-nation regional African force to fight the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... murderous Moslem group, which is based in Nigeria.
According to the draft resolution, which was obtained by AP on Thursday, the 15-member UN Security Council will provide financial aid, equipment, troops and intelligence "for the successful deployment of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF)" to "create a safe and secure environment in the areas affected by the activities of Boko Haram."
The text also calls for the immediate release of anyone kidnapped by Boko Haram, described as "one of the most serious threats to international peace and security."
The resolution is expected to be approved as early as next week, one of the Council members, Chad, said.
UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... (pictured below) is to establish a trust fund to receive contributions from the international community to help the regional force ahead of a UN-backed benefactor conference scheduled for next month.
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The Books Bad crowd will all be dead by the time the Ewe End agrees on its sternly-worded epistle.
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See also TOPIX > [Frog999.com] ISIS: BOKO HARAM NOW PART OF "CALIPHATE".
* BIGNEWSNETWORK, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Daily Caller] ISIS WILL BE AROUND FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER 15 YEARS: AUTHOR [Hassan Hassan].
Thru Year 2030 + possibly Year 2065.
PLENTY OF TIME FOR THE US-WORLD TO SEE THE RISE OF A "NEO-OTTOMAN" NUCLEAR TURKEY, + ULTIMATELY THE US-BORN, US-RAISED, CONVERT-TO-ISLAM ISLAMIC MAHDI/MESSIAH/HIDDEN IMAM.
UK in Year 2015 = Sole-Superpower-soon-to-be-CoSuperpower USA 2030-2050 = criticized as a Great Power or Co-Power "widout a Voice" andor an Army-Navy anymore??? THE US-BORN, US-RAISED ISLAMIC MADHI = US-BORN,US-RAISED UK QUEEN MADONNA + WORLD NAPOLEON WILL CHANGE THAT.
[AnNahar] The Nigerian Army and its allies have claimed a series of successes against Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , on the face of it handing President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... a trump card in upcoming elections.
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[Ynet] Thousands of Houthis, the Shi'ite Moslem militia which controls much of Yemen, are holding military exercises in the northern part of the country near the border with 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... , local tribal and Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... sources said on Thursday.
The drill in al-Buqa area, which lies in the Houthis' home province of Saada, involves using different kinds of weaponry, including heavy weapons acquired from the Yemeni army, the sources said. Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, regards the Iranian-backed Shi'ite group which seized control of the Yemeni capital Sanaa in September as a terrorist group. In 2009, Riyadh carried out a military operation including air raids against the Houthis after a number of cross-border incursions.
Nothing like Iran using the Houthis to poke the Saudi tiger...
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The deteriorating situation in Yemen with regard to the lack of political and economic stability have driven downward the value of the Yemeni riyal against the dollar and other key currencies.
This is set to negatively reflect upon the already weak economy in Yemen despite the recent assurances of the Central Bank of Yemen that currency exchange rates have actually remained relatively stable.
Nonetheless, global reports confirm the political upheaval in the country may inflict great harm on the Yemeni economy.
The exchange rate of the Yemeni riyal has declined against the US dollar to 215 riyals, and against the Saudi riyal to 57 Yemeni riyals.
Ahmad Ali, member of the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) said that the Yemeni riyal has been dropping for some time, adding that it may reach 250 against the dollar.
“This is a very strong and serious drop for the Yemeni riyal, which will negatively affect the country's economy,” he confirmed.
He dismissed the notion that the dropping value of the Yemeni currency will negatively affect the value of the Saudi riyal, mainly due to the weak mutual trade between the two countries which is mostly concentrated in agro-products.
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Yemen's Shiite Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels are still persecuting journalists, media outlets and media support institutions eight months after seizing control of the capital, Sanaa, and a large swathe of the country. Their methods include death threats, abduction and looting.
The Yemeni Journalists' Syndicate (YJS) has registered no fewer that 67 cases of such methods being used to prevent journalists from doing their work.
In one of the latest cases reported by the YJS, Houthi rebel snuffies kidnapped two journalists working for the daily Akhbar Al Yaoum -- Abdelwahed Nejjar and layout editor Fouad Zoubayri -- from the Ashoumwaa printing and publishing house on 5 March.
Printing equipment, tables and chairs were also looted and taken away in trucks that had been parked outside for 18 days or more. The YJS and other local NGOs have urged the Houthis to release the two journalists.
People who were staging a sit-in inside a camp to demand that the Houthi rebels withdraw from the Ashoumwaa centre were threatened at gunpoint and forcibly dispersed by rebels on 26 February.
Reporters Without Borders deplores the harassment of Yemen's media by the Houthi rebels, which increased in August and again since their arrival in the capital in September.
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) must take a firm stand against the ambitions and sinister plot of Al Houthis, 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... 's Al Yaum said. "The Gulf countries must put all their weight behind the Yemeni President [Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi] and Yemen's national powers to implement the outcome of the national dialogue, and that includes the borders of the six Yemeni regions. This will prevent Yemen from becoming a den for Iranian plots targeting Arab nations. Gulf countries have no choice; they must resolve the Yemeni crisis in a way that serves the interests of Yemen and the GCC.
"The Gulf nations must be clear and decisive with the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... and its envoy. Paying attention to the desires of Al Houthis, and giving them opportunity and time will only lead to a worsening of the crisis in Yemen, which will be more dangerous for GCC states."
The UAE's Al Bayan said that it was important to hold on to the GCC initiative for Yemen and abide by all its terms. . "The initiative serves as a roadmap for resolving the Yemeni crisis. All parties must honour the initiative, which was previously agreed upon by all groups, to save the country from sliding into a cycle of conflict and chaos.
"It is necessary to utilise the opportunity of dialogue to consolidate national unity, and avoid divisions that are now threatening the country in light of foreign intervention. It is the duty of everyone to ensure the success of the upcoming dialogue for the sake of Yemen's stability and security. Failure to do so will be a catastrophe for Yemen. The nation can no longer handle more political bargains and everyone has to come to an agreement that prioritises the interests of the people and country, and introduces solutions to current problems, most notably the security situation. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... exploiting the current situation in order to impose agendas and achieve partisan and personal interests will only further complicate the issue and lead Yemen into the unknown."
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[YEMENONLINE.INFO] The head of Yemen's Houthis accused Gulf Arab states on Tuesday of supplying weapons and funds to Islamist bully boys, in an effort to create an environment in the southern part of the country where al Qaeda could flourish.
Speaking in a speech broadcast on al-Maseerah television, a media outlet of Ansarullah, the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... political wing, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi also accused unnamed parties of recruiting al Qaeda murderous Moslems from abroad to justify a Western operation to occupy Yemen.
"Is there a just and equitable position for Gulf Arab states toward the Yemeni people?" Abdel-Malek said in the speech.
"Is there any position other than to send support, money and weapons, to the 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... elements, and to facilitate the atmosphere for al Qaeda in the southern provinces," he added, using an Arabic expression to describe Sunni Moslem bully boys.
Yemen, which shares a border with 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... , the world's top oil exporter, has been in turmoil since protests in 2011 forced President 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... to step down. The turmoil worsened in September when the Shi'ite Houthi captured Sanaa, Yemen's capital, a move that Gulf states condemned as a coup.
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[RT] 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... has reportedly agreed to let Israel use its airspace to attack Iran if necessary, in exchange for "some kind of progress" on the Paleostinian issue, Israel's Channel 2 TV station quoted an unnamed European official as saying.
An anonymous European? Golly. This reminds me of that "peace initiative" dreamed up by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times opinion stable, grown from a throwaway quip at a Saudi prince's dinner table into a complete Josephean coat of many glorious colours.
"The Saudis have declared their readiness for the Israeli Air Force to overfly Saudi air space en route to attack Iran if an attack is necessary," the report stated. In return for cooperation, Saudi Arabia wants to see some "progress" on the Paleostinian issue.
If progress were possible outside of the world of imagination, it would have happened long since, without the intervention of those so bold they hide their identities.
The move will reportedly allow Israel to bomb targets in Iran by offering a shortcut, which will save fuel and time.
It would, indeed.
The Saudi position was confirmed during multiple diplomatic talks, according to the TV report. "The Saudi authorities are completely coordinated with Israel on all matters related to Iran," the European official from Brussels was quoted as saying.
In which case, Israeli concessions are unnecessary.
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In which case, Israeli concessions are unnecessary.
It's a cover story. The Saudis would be more than happy to let the Juice wax the Pesky Persians in exchange for not talking about it.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The rising tide of Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... in the UK, stoked by the mainstream media, poses a direct threat to the country's $190 billion tourism economy and Moslem investment in Britannia, experts warn.
The United Kingdom is currently one of the most popular global destinations for Moslem travellers, while Gulf investors have lavished billions of dollars on prime London real estate and stakes in key British businesses.
But some warn that the UK stands to lose this favored status due to a rise in Islamophobic sentiment, public support for anti-Moslem right-wing groups, soaring hate crime figures and antagonistic media coverage.
One U.S.-based academic, who studies Moslem communities in the West and spent his childhood in the UK, said that Islamophobia in the UK is no longer confined to extreme neo-fascist groups -- and was actually becoming part of the 'establishment.'
Saeed Khan -- lecturer in the Department of Near East & Asian Studies at Wayne State University in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , Michigan, where he teaches Islamic and Middle East History, Islamic Civilizations and History of Islamic Political Thought -- said this stands to impact tourism and investment.
"Islamophobia is no longer confined to just these fringe elements. We find politicians, opinion-makers and journalists who are not simply doing the bidding of these fringe groups, but in many ways are championing their rhetoric in demonizing Moslems," Khan told Al Arabiya News. "That's deeply disturbing and it will have an impact."
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Maybe they blame their brothers in Islam for the rise in islamophobia.
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Napoleon must be spinning in his grave: who'd believe that Britain can be conquered without a single shot fired?
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... but in many ways are championing their rhetoric in demonizing Moslems,
That's it, Khan - it has nothing to do with killing British soldiers, the no-go areas, diddling hundreds or thousands of children, Muslim Rage Boys going to fight with ISIS, etc.
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Welcome to Friday the 13th. This is the 2nd Friday 13th of 2015, the first was last month, February and your next and last Friday the 13th will be in November. So you many want to learn a few new words if you have a fear of Friday the 13th or the number 13.
AnotherPhobia Fear of Friday the 13th pronounced by radio listeners.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia – The fear of Friday the 13th
Triskaidekaphobia – The fear of the number 13
Friggatriskaidekaphobia – The prefix frigga is based on the name of an ancient Scandinavian goddess who was associated with witchcraft and Friday making it similar to the fear of the number 13 on Friday.
[Iran Press TV] The parliament of Kosovo has introduced a piece of legislation forbidding the citizens of the Southeastern European country to travel to other countries and participate in armed conflicts, including in the terrorist activities of 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 must be killed... group in the Middle East.
On Thursday, Kosovan politicians adopted the legislation and warned that anyone violating the ban will be sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The ruling particularly outlaws joining a foreign army, and police or paramilitary forces in any form of conflict outside Kosovo.
The Kosovan Interior Ministry has announced that an estimated 300 Kosovars have joined the ranks of the ISIL Takfiri Death Eater group in Syria and Iraq, and that half of them have been prosecuted.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The emir of Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... on March 12 met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... for surprise talks in the capital Ankara, a Turkish presidential official said. Just there to look over the property...
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was holding closed-door talks at Erdogan's newly built presidential palace in Ankara, the official told AFP, without elaborating further.
The meeting, which was not on Erdogan's official daily schedule, comes amid renewed tensions stemming from the presence of 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 the Levant (ISIL) jihadists in Iraq and Syria right up to the Turkish border.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Qatar, both overwhelmingly Sunni Moslem, have emerged as close allies in the last years during the conflict in Syria and Arab Spring uprisings.
They have closely aligned their policies on Syria and have also both intensively engaged with the Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
Qatar has been one of the main supporters of the rebellion against Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... and has allowed demonstrations against him to be held in its capital, Doha.
However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... some have accused the country of backing jihadists, a charge denied on several occasions by officials in the oil rich Gulf state, which joined the US-led coalition against gunnies in Syria and Iraq.
A vocal outspoken of the regime in Damascus, Turkey has similarly backed opposition rebels fighting to topple Assad and plays host to nearly two million refugees.
But it has remained reluctant to take robust action against the jihadist threat in a US-led coalition, further straining ties with Washington, its NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ally.
US special envoy John Allen, who is coordinating international efforts against ISIL, is due to travel to Ankara this week to meet with Turkish officials after a visit to Italia, the US State Department said in a statement.
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Its getting to be time to get our airforce out of Qatar. Then Israel could obliterate the place in response to its notorious support for Hamas.
[Hurriyet Daily News] An intelligence officer from a coalition member country has been detained in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for helping three British teenage girls join 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 the Levant (ISIL), Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on March 12.
"We have learnt that the British girls were helped by an intelligence officer from a coalition member country," Cavusoglu said in a televised interview without stating the country. The person who aided the crossing has been captured, he added.
The country is neither an EU member nor the United States, said Cavusoglu, adding that he had briefed British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond about the case.
Hammond responded by saying "as usual," Cavusoglu stated.
Three teenage girls from London feared to have run off to join ISIL are believed to have crossed into Syria from Turkey, British police said.
Close friends Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-olds Shamima Begum and Amira Abase boarded a flight from London Gatwick to Istanbul on Feb. 17.
Turkey, which has been accused by its Western allies of failing to do enough to stop jihadists crossing into Syria from its territory, had earlier accused Britannia of failing to provide information about the girls sooner.
Turkey is ready to support the establishment of "local guards" in Iraq, Cavusoglu also said.
Three British girls who crossed into Syria to join 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.... (IS) jihadists were helped by a Syrian national working as an intelligence agent for one of the countries in the U.S.-led coalition against the Lion of Islams, the Turkish foreign minister said Friday.
The person "is a Syrian citizen," he told news hounds alongside his Macedonian counterpart without specifying further.
The Milliyet daily reported Friday that the individual was working for Canadian intelligence but this has already been denied by Ottawa.
A bigwig in Ottawa told Agence La Belle France Presse Thursday the suspect "is not a Canadian citizen" and "was not employed by" its spy agency.
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CNN AM had the scoop this AM ...
* CNN, TOPIX > CANADA LINK [Canuck INTEL] TO MISSING GIRLS AND ISIS?
[IsraelTimes] Senator Bob Corker says submitting agreement to Security Council and not Congress would be 'affront to American people'
US Senator Bob Corker warned President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... Thursday against a reported plan to take a nuclear deal for approval to the United Nations
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Me thinks there is more to this agreement than they are willing to admit.
I bet there are some real doozies in the fine print.
I wonder if the agreement includes gun and ammo control, solar energy, a bail out of the Iranian automobile industry and a "reform" of the Iranian health care system?
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The first six years Obama played the part of an American campaigner in chief. Now the last two years he intends to leave the pre-recorded teleprompter speeches behind and embark on satisfying his deep anti-American tendencies.
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D *** NG IT, clearly only an archaic, 20th Century, Wears-a-Bow-Tie-Like-Orville-N-Paul-Simon NATIONALIST would NOT take the deal to the OWG GLOBALIST UNO???
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The UN Security Council has permanent member nations China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States. Non-permanent members include Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain, and Venezuela.
Under our present regime, would the U.S. vote with Russia, China, and Venezuela?
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Powerline Blog - US law trumps any International Law
"NOTHING in international law can alter U.S. law, except to the extent it is made part of U.S. law, by virtue of being lawfully adopted as a treaty or U.S. statute. The president may make “executive agreement” deals with foreign nations, and these may have some status as international law, but they only possess the U.S. law status of a presidential deal — they are not part of the binding “Law of the Land” for the USA.
Nothing in international law — not made part of U.S. domestic law — can prevail over US federal law. An international law determination — by whatever body — cannot trump the U.S. Constitution, a U.S. statute, or a U.S. treaty. "
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I look forward to the treaty being shot down by Congress and then correcting leftests for the next two decades when they claim the US isn't following the treaty.
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Or what?? What will Congress do? Boener will cry on national TV? McConnell will bitch and moan then add some pork to it and approve it? They wont do crap, Our congress is full of cowards..
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I'm sure France wants a nuclear armed Iran within missile distance. /sarc off
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I my humble unbacked-up-by-facts opinion, O had Justice and FBI dig up a bushel of dirt stored in a basket on each and every congress critter, ready to dump out in public if any of them gets too frisky in opposing O&Co's agenda.
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Paul and I have discussed this for awhile. The FBI/IRS/NSA data comprises the lot of them. Traitors all.
[BOSTONHERALD] A carjack victim has described his harrowing ride at gunpoint with the Boston Marathon bombers and the moment he made "the most difficult decision" of his life to bolt from the car.
Dun Meng testified Thursday during the federal death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Prosecutors say Tsarnaev and his late brother, Tamerlan, planted two bombs that killed three people and injured more than 260 at the 2013 marathon.
Three days later, Meng said Tamerlan Tsarnaev jumped into the front passenger seat of his car, pointed a gun at Meng's head and ordered him to drive.
Meng says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev later got into the car.
Meng says he jumped out of the car and ran across the street when the Tsarnaevs stopped to get gas.
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This was the one with the Coexist bumper sticker?
[AnNahar] Three major bully boy groups in Pakistain's troubled northwest have put aside their differences and pledged support to the main Lion of Islam group confronting a full-scale military offensive, commanders said on Thursday.
Pakistain's military has stepped up its fight against murderous Moslems since Taliban gunnies massacred more than 150 people, most of them children, at a school in 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. in December.
On Thursday, leaders of Taliban splinter group Jamat-ul-Ahrar and murderous Moslems belonging to Lashkar-e-Islam ...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver.... pledged allegiance to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), which grabbed credit for the deadly school shooting.
TTP is led by 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... , who is believed to have ordered the 2012 shooting that gravely injured Pak schoolgirl Malala Yusefzai, last year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
"We congratulate the Ummaat-e-Moslema (Moslems across the world) and especially the Mujahideen (holy warriors) of Pakistain for the coalition of strong Jihadi groups," Ehsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... , a Jamat-ul-Ahrar front man, told Agence La Belle France-Presse in an emailed statement.
Lashkar-e-Islam, led by warlord Mangal Bagh ...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency... , has also joined the alliance, Ehsan said.
The group is feared for kidnappings and extortion in Khyber, one of seven tribal districts along the Afghan border.
Jamat-ul-Ahrar split from TTP last year but has claimed many attacks against Pak troops and Shiite Moslems.
TTP main front man Muhammad Khorasani confirmed the re-alliance in a separate statement sent via email.
Both the spokesmen threatened to carry out more attacks against Pak troops "jointly."
A Taliban capo in the country's northwest told AFP that representatives of the three bully boy groups met somewhere in eastern Afghanistan and decided to align after holding several meetings.
Pak troops have been engaged in a full-scale offensive against Taliban and other murderous Moslems in North Wazoo and Khyber tribal districts along the Afghan border since last year.
The school massacre, Pakistain's deadliest ever terror attack prompted the government to announce a tough crackdown on bully boy groups.
A moratorium on executions in terror cases was lifted and the constitution was amended to set up military courts for the speedy trial of terrorism cases.
The government extended the order on Tuesday, directing provincial governments to proceed with hangings for all death row prisoners who had exhausted their appeals and clemency petitions.
Twenty-four people have been hanged since executions were restarted in December.
[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl's Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri ...Central Secretary General of JUI-F, member of the Pak senate, formerly provincial minister of Balochistan. He has a master's degree in Islam and runs a madrassah... took oath as Senate Deputy Chairman on Thursday evening.
Earlier. Raza Rabbani took oath as Senate Chairman and will also be serving as acting president for the duration of President Mamnoon Hussain's four-day visit to Azerbaijan.
"I have to perform the functions of the president under clause two of Article 49 of the Constitution of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Pakistain," said Rabbani while addressing the Senate.
During his speech, the Senate Chairman thanked various senators for their support. He also thanked the opposition and government leaders for coming to a consensus and selecting him as Chairman of the senate.
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[DAWN] There is no confrontation between Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) and any security agency including the Rangers, said MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar while addressing a presser at the party headquarters in Nine Zero -- which was raided by Rangers a day earlier.
While discussing Wednesday's operation, he said "The raid -- according to the Rangers -- was conducted in order to apprehend notorious criminals. But among the 110 people placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... , there were those with no affiliation to the MQM."
"The MQM maintains that Waqas Ali Shah was killed by Rangers personnel and we have enough evidence to prove this," said the MQM leader, commenting on the killing of MQM's activist during the Ranger's raid on Wednesday.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Iran is playing a helpful role against 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.... og Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq now, but once the turbans are vanquished, Tehran-backed militias could undermine efforts to unify the country, the top U.S. military officer said on March 11.
Army Gen. Martin Dempsey told politicians that any move to counter ISIL is a 'positive thing." But he said there are worries about whether those Shiite militias will later turn against Sunni or Kurdish Iraqis and hamper efforts to bridge ethnic and political divisions that have made peace elusive in Iraq.
"We are all concerned about what happens after the drums stop beating and ISIL is defeated, and whether the government of Iraq will remain on a path to provide an inclusive government for all of the various groups within it," Dempsey said, using an acronym for the Death Eater group.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said officials are watching to see whether the militias, after recapturing lost ground, "engage in acts of retribution and ethnic cleansing." At this point, "there no indication that that is a widespread event."
Dempsey joined 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 Defense Secretary Ash Carter in testifying for more than three hours at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing called to examine President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... 's proposal for new war powers to fight ISIL, which holds about one-third of Iraq and neighboring Syria.
The Republican committee chairman, Sen. Bob Corker,, lamented that Obama's proposal does not give the U.S. military clear authority to defend moderate forces training for the Syrian fight from the bombing risk by troops loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... .
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Post-ISIS/ISIL agendas, as like RAND "GIVE THE KURDS A COUNTRY" PAUL.
[Iran Press TV] Iraq's Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi says the Iraqi army has the upper hand in the fight for liberating Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit from Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIL krazed killers.
"Now we are moving to the second phase of our plan," Obeidi said on Thursday, adding, "Time is on our side, we have the initiative."
He said the Iraqi forces along with volunteer fighters are approaching the heart of the city cautiously to avoid casualties.
"We are very keen for our losses to be as low as possible," Obeidi said.
Iraqi Police Staff Major General Bahaa al-Azzawi also said the city is under the siege of the Iraqi forces.
"Tikrit is sealed off from all sides," Azzawi said, adding, "We don't want to be rushed because we want to avoid casualties."
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[AnNahar] Iraq's first Christian-only brigade of regular forces graduated Thursday to help retake the community's towns and villages from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The new brigade will answer to the government of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, whose peshmerga fighters are playing a leading role in the war against the jihadists.
Fighters paraded and jumped through 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... rings in front of Kurdish and Assyrian officials in the northwestern town of Fishkhabur, near the borders with Syria and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Most of Iraq's Christians lived in the Nineveh plain, an area between the main IS hub of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and the Kurdish capital of Arbil, before IS fighters swept in seven months ago.
"Around 600 peshmerga from our Christian brothers in the Nineveh plain joined this course, which focused on physical training, military lectures and shooting exercises," said Abu Bakr Ismail, the commander of the training academy.
"All the participants are volunteers... and want to liberate their land from IS and then protect it," the Kurdish special forces major general said.
The new brigade is called the "Tiger Guards" and was formed out of the remnants of an Assyrian force first created in 2004 to protect churches in the region.
Up to 100,000 Christians fled their homes overnight in early August when IS fighters who had already conquered large parts of Iraq thrust into areas controlled by the peshmerga.
The exodus has been described as the worst disaster to befall the minority, which is one of the world's oldest Christian communities.
Iraq's Christians have not traditionally had strong home-grown militias and adopted a low profile when sectarian violence flared across the country a decade ago.
But those who haven't already fled the country have in recent months shown a willingness to take up arms and take their future into their own hands.
Several other Christian groups have formed in recent months in northern Iraq. They do not fall under the peshmerga's command but are hosted and supported by Kurdistan.
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"During the past five thousand years, the Christainist Crusaders have not ceased in the ceaseless bloodletting in diverse, peaceful Moslem democracies." (part of next years prayer breakfast harangue)
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Jumping through burning hoops? What is this - a circus act? It's becoming clear why the Kurds were steamrolled by ISIS - they're almost as worthless as the Shiites.
[RT] Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has rejected an offer to implement a five-year ceasefire in exchange for Israel's termination of the Gazoo Strip blockade, a senior Hamas official said.
The proposal -- which was crafted by Israeli and Paleostinian officials, as well as Western middlemen such as outgoing UN special coordinator for Middle East Peace Robert Serry -- would have also seen the opening of an airport and seaport in the Strip.
Deputy chairman of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzouk, explained Wednesday the reasoning behind the rejection, saying the deal would have widened the divide between the West Bank and Gazoo. Executing the proposal would allow Israel to "swallow" the West Bank with further settlements, he said in a statement on his Facebook page.
Perhaps that makes even a scintilla of sense in the original Arabic, but it makes none whatsoever in English.
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The blockade of equipment to dig terror tunnels was blocked in crossings.
Hamas dominant military wing is not buying it, but most Gazans want this crap to end.
[Bloomberg] The war against the Islamic State has killed thousands of fighters and even some mid-level battlefield commanders, but the organization's senior leadership and nerve center remain largely untouched, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.
These officials and other experts tracking the terror group tell us that the Islamic State's Shura and Sharia councils, the advisory bodies that help inform the major decisions of the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, remain intact, notwithstanding one close call in November for Baghdadi. Although airstrikes and military campaigns have killed several regional administrators and designated "governors," the Islamic State has quickly replaced them and maintains its command-and-control capabilities.
This assessment of progress against the Islamic State differs sharply from public statements by top Obama administration officials as recently as last month, including Secretary of State John Kerry and retired General John Allen, the president's special coordinator for the coalition against the Islamic State. In February, Allen said that half the group's leaders in Iraq had been killed.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference also in February, Kerry expanded that claim to account for the group's leadership in Syria as well.
"We've disrupted their command structure, undermined its propaganda, taken out half of their senior leadership, squeezed its financing, damaged its supply networks, dispersed its personnel, and forced them to think twice before they move in an open convoy," Kerry said.
Kerry and Allen haven't since repeated that claim about the group's senior leadership. U.S. military officials tell us no consensus intelligence estimate supports the claim that half the Islamic State's leadership has been eliminated.
When asked about Kerry's 50 percent claim, Army Captain John J. Moore, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, told us: "We currently don't have a percentage attached to that statistic."
Experts told us Kerry's estimate is tough to understand, because defining the Islamic State's "leadership" is subjective. Cole Bunzel, a Princeton University scholar of Near Eastern Studies who closely follows Islamic State, said its leadership structure is opaque, and not much is known about the true membership of its Shura and Sharia councils, which play an important role in the organization. When the Islamic State has announced major decisions, such as its decision to expand into Syria or declare itself a caliphate, said Bunzel, it has made clear that one or both of those councils were consulted by Baghdadi.
"I am very skeptical of the claim that the coalition has killed 50 percent of the leadership of the Islamic State, whatever that means," said Bunzel.
He later added, "The Islamic State has publicly announced when senior members of the group have been killed. But they have never talked about anyone in the core leadership being killed since 2010."
Michael Smith, a principal of the counterterrorism consulting group Kronos Advisory LLC, told us there have been some reports of Islamic State officials being killed in airstrikes. The Lebanese journalist and documentary film-maker Ali Hashem reported that in mid-November, Baghdadi was injured in an airstrike on his convoy.
But Smith said his group, which monitors the Islamic State's official communications and social media accounts, has yet to come upon any acknowledgement that members of the group's Shura Council have been killed. "Jihadi groups typically eulogize slain leaders," he told us.
"If the administration is confident about these claims. It should name names. Because highlighting such kills demonstrates the efficacy of our counter-campaign, and that can deter individuals from joining or supporting the Islamic State. But lying about our achievements plays right into the Islamic State's P.R. game."
This week, Kerry was more cautious. At a Senate hearing Wednesday, he acknowledged that the Islamic State was still picking up supporters and that its savage attacks continue. (Just this week the leaders of the Nigerian terrorist organization, Boko Haram, declared their fealty to Baghdadi.
But Kerry didn't repeat his previous claim about the U.S. killing half the group's leadership or taking back territory it had captured. State Department officials said Kerry's change of tone when talking about the effectiveness of the airstrikes did not signify any change in his confidence that the mission was succeeding. One State Department official told us that Kerry's claim that half the group's leadership had been killed was based on internal State Department deliberations. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told us Kerry's remarks about progress against the Islamic State at Munich and his statement about the same topic this week "are entirely consistent."
Reliable statistics about the deaths of Islamic State leaders are hard to come by in part because different elements of the government disagree on the definition of a "senior leader." For some inside the U.S. intelligence community, senior leadership refers to members of the Shura council and other ministers that have been named for the Islamic State. Other analysts, however, consider regional commanders and local governors also to be senior leaders of the group.
The Islamic State has given these regional leaders much autonomy. But these officials are easily replaced. As one U.S. military official told us: "We've killed the emir of Mosul multiple times, and he has been replaced multiple times."
Another issue with the statistics on senior leadership is that the U.S. is relying heavily on the Iraqi and Kurdish security services for intelligence, including the interrogation of captured Islamic State fighters. "If we are getting a lot of our intelligence from the Iraqis, it's probably inflated," Bunzel said, "We should also remember that the Iraqis said for years that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq was an actor playing a fictional character. This turned out not to be true."
After six months of war, the U.S. arguably would have made a much bigger and more verifiable dent in the Islamic State's leadership if the Obama administration had been less reluctant to get involved on the ground in Syria. Members of the Syrian opposition and U.S. officials tell us the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the loosely organized group of moderate brigades fighting the Islamic State, has been cut out of the process for selecting targets for U.S. airstrikes in Syria. The FSA's leadership has complained that the U.S. has ignored its offers to share intelligence. Syria is where most of the Islamic State's leaders are based. If the U.S. really wants to kill them, there are a few Syrian rebels who are willing to help.
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This regime lying about their accomplishments?
Did I miss the sun rising in the west this morning?
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We all were sure the US was exaggerating the enemy casualties in Vietnam, but interviews with a North Vietnamese general long after the war indicated the numbers were pretty close. Overestimated the direct combat losses and underestimated the B-52 effect, IIRC, but came out about right.
[Iran Press TV] The United States has once again called on Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... to step down accusing his government of being authoritarian and brutal against Syrian people. Draw them one of those patented Obamaredlines, fer sher, Jen.
"For four years the Assad regime has answered Syrians' calls for freedom and reform with unrelenting brutality, authoritarianism and destruction," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State... told news hounds on Thursday. Toadally.
The Syrian government has been fighting murderous Moslems and murderous Moslems from various countries. The United States and its regional allies - especially Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , 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... , and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... - are supporting the murderous Moslems operating inside the country.
The foreign-backed opposition and its Western supporters have insisted that Assad must step down and a transitional government be formed in Syria as part of any peace deal aimed at ending the crisis in the Arab country.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Damascus has rejected such demands, arguing that the groups backed by foreign powers and based overseas do not represent the true Syrian opposition.
Psaki extolled the murderous Moslems fighting against the Syrian government saying Syria won't be stable as long as Assad is in power. "As we have long said, Assad must go and be replaced through a negotiated, political transition that is representative of the Syrian people."
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Sure, bet he will just jump at the chance.idiots
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Assad calls on UN to get their collective head out of their a$$?
* TOPIX > [NewsMax] CIA: US DOES NOT WANT TO SEE SYRIAN REGIME "COLLAPSE".
IMO unless both US-Allies + Russia can agree on a common replacement, Baby Assad is going to be around for a long time to come yet.
Moreso given ...
* SAME > NORTH CAUCUASUS MILITANT HARDEN [deny] LINKS AGZ ISLAMIC STATE.
Fine on the surface, but we must not forget that AL-NUSRA was once the ISIS/ISIL's deadly or mortal enemy before it became the lstter's BFF.
One of the major reasons, but not the only one, as to why Darth Vlad took the Crimea from Ukraine + repor intends massively expanding the scale of the Russian military presence in Russia's West.
AGZ WILY DASTARDLY US + NATO-EU - YOU KNOW, SSSHHHH ... CCCCCC THE HARD BOYZ.
[AnNahar] Security measures have been boosted near the Egyptian embassy in Beirut's Bir Hassan area after receiving threats from 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 the Levant (ISIL).
Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq confirmed in comments published in al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... newspaper on Thursday the threats.
"The Egyptian embassy informed the ministry in an official letter that it received threats from ISIL," Mashnouq pointed out, saying: "The concerned security apparatuses took precautionary measures near the mission's building."
On Wednesday, Egyptian Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffer warned in a speech that his nation is facing an "existential war" in its battle against "terrorist groups."
Speaking to a meeting of Arab interior ministers in Algeria, Ghaffar stressed that the danger posed by ISIL has escalated after local-area terror groups pledged allegiance to the organization.
The Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis ...Supporters of Jerusalem, the current pen name of al-Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula... and similar local groups in Libya are now linked to ISIL, with Ansar having since changed name to "Sinai Province."
Egypt proposed creating a joint Arab force to preserve Arab national security.
So the Mamluk Pashas present themselves as the military saviours of the Sunni Ummah? That's how they came to rule Egypt, as I recall...
For his part, Egypt's Ambassador to Leb Mohammed Badreddine Zayed urged in an interview with An Nahar newspaper on Thursday regional and international countries to cease their negative intervention in Leb's affairs, which is impeding its political life.
He called on the political arch-foes to immediately elect a new head of state to safeguard the country.
Asked if his country will engage in a dialogue with 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... , Zayed said that Egypt is open to any positive stance by the Lebanese rivals.
"Egypt welcomed the dialogue between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement... the foreign ministry issued a statement that supports (Speaker Nabih) Berri's efforts to defuse tension," he remarked.
He stressed that "the success of dialogue would end the presidential vacuum."
Hizbullah kickstarted in December dialogue with al-Mustaqbal Movement under the auspices of Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... in Ain el-Tineh.
President Michel Suleiman ...before assuming office as President, he held the position of commander of the Leb Armed Forces. That was after the previous commander, the loathesome Emile Lahoud, took office as president in November of 1998. Likely the next president of Leb will be whoever's commander of the armed forces, too... 's term ended in May without the election of a successor. Ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps have thwarted the polls.
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[RUDAW.NET] Australia's government was trying to confirm reports that an Australian teenager was among a group of jacket wallahs from 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.... movement that struck Iraq's embattled Anbar province.
The Islamic State group claimed in an online statement that it used imported muscle from Australia, Belgium, Syria and Uzbekistan in Wednesday's attack, in which at least 13 suicide boom-mobiles went kaboom! almost simultaneously in Ramadi, the historic provincial capital of Anbar, killing two soldiers and wounding eight. One photo that was posted featured a white van driving down a dusty street, alongside an image of a young man who closely resembles 18-year-old Australian Jake Bilardi sitting behind the wheel.
"I can confirm that we're seeking to independently verify that he was part of this suicide kaboom attack," Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Thursday. "The news appears very grim, but we are seeking to independently verify it."
The British press labeled Bilardi the "White Jihadi" in December after images of him armed with a rifle in front of Islamic flags appeared on social media sites.
The teen left his home in the southern Australian city of Melbourne in August and headed to the Middle East. Bishop said he had been on Australia's radar for several months, and in October, she canceled his passport on the advice of the country's security agencies.
Last year, the Australian government passed sweeping counterterrorism legislation that made it easier for officials to cancel the passports of people they suspect of engaging in extremism. The law also makes it a crime for Australians to visit certain terrorism hot spots overseas.
"If these reports are confirmed, this is another tragic example of a young Australian being lured to a senseless and violent death by a brutal terrorist organization that is intent on imposing suffering and misery not only in Iraq and in Syria, but beyond," Bishop said.
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"The news appears very grim, but we are seeking to independently verify it."
grim? I hope he's dead and it was painful. Now cancel his passport
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I'm with you frank. Hope he still feels it. What is with governments wanting to save the ENEMIES lives these days.?What world do they live in , were they think these ppl would not kill thrm without a second thought?
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Now cancel his passport
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[Bloomberg] The war against the Islamic State has killed thousands of fighters and even some mid-level battlefield commanders, but the organization's senior leadership and nerve center remain largely untouched, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.
