[Tolo News] CEO Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... and a number of Ahmad Shah Massoud's relatives on Thursday laid a wreath at his grave in central Panjsher province to mark the 14th anniversary of his liquidation.
Hinting at Massoud's personality and life, Abdullah said: "Ahmad Shah Massoud was a symbol of national unity. He was a brave man who struggled for defending his country."
Addressing the event, former Vice-President Mohammad Yunus Qanoni criticized the National Unity Government's performance over the past year, calling for its leaders' attention to overcome hurdles.
"We don't expect anything from the government. The only thing that we want is that it should fulfill its promises which they had made to the people," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results... the first deputy chief of Senate Mohammad Alam Ezedyar said the government has internal problems despite its problems outside the administration.
"Unfortunately, challenges like insecurity, corruption and other problems outside the government are damaging the government from inside," he said.
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[Tolo News] In a recent statement, former Jihadi leader Abdul Rasul Sayyaf strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out attacks against civilians, and called the group's activities totally un-Islamic and against Afghan values.
"I want them [the Taliban] to free themselves of others' slavery. If they have any objections they should come and share them with us. They should not take commands from others," he added.
"The Taliban movement is neither an Islamic movement nor an Afghan cause. As a religious student I want to announce that they {Taliban} aren't dying as deaders," Sayyaf added.
Sayyaf's remarks on Pakistain and Taliban were widely hailed amongst various Afghan social segments as many inside the country believe that Islamabad is harboring the infamous Taliban group in a bid to destabilize Afghanistan and pursue its own strategic objectives.
On Thursday, some Afghan politicians in parliament and religious scholars come out in strong support of Sayyaf and urged that the remarks were based on reality.
"Sayyaf's statements illustrate the realities of the country, Taliban's deeds are neither Islamic, nor based on Sharia," Nejrabi said.
As rumors continue on Pakistain's so-called not so honest cooperation in the war against terrorism, public opinion in Afghanistan seems that the majority of Afghans want government to adopt a clear policy toward the neighboring country.
The National Unity Government (NUG) needs to come with a clear stance toward Pakistain, chairman of parliament's internal security commission, Mirdad Khan Nejrabi said.
Announcing support to Sayyaf's statement, a number of Afghan citizens have also slammed the Taliban for their atrocities and called them slaves of Pakistain that serve the policies of Pakistain.
According to members of the public, those who deliberately kill the people cannot be called Moslems, referring to the attacks by Taliban.
"Sayyaf's assertions are based on reality, he illustrated these things from the Koran and Hadees," religious scholar Waliullah Labib said. "Government in Afghanistan should deal with Pakistain as an enemy and talk with Pakistain from the point of enemy."
In addition, the religious scholars have called on the warring factions to stop killing each other as the people of Afghanistan are the main victims of violence and cannot tolerate more bloodshed.
"Stop killing the innocent people and halt the war, get instruction from Koran and Hadith," head of the Sharia faculty of Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... University Shaheedi said.
"How can they be deaders, even Allah has cursed Taliban," a Kabul resident Mohammad Nasim said.
"Those who are killing the innocent people and the children are not deaders, but deviants," another resident Sayed Nadir Amiri said.
"Those committing suicide kabooms and killing innocents aren't deaders, they are deviants, they even kill the people in the mosques," another resident Hafizullah said.
Sayyaf remains as one of the major critics of Taliban and his anti-Taliban outbursts have been welcomed largely.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former 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... has dismissed the presence of al-Qaeda terrorist network in Afghanistan by calling it a "myth".
In an excerpt of an interview with Al Jazeera English's "UpFront", Karzai said "I don't know if Al Qaeda existed and I don't know if they exist [in Afghanistan]."
The interview will be aired on Friday the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000.
In response to a question regarding the former president's opinion on whether the former Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... plotted the attacks from Afghanistan, Karzai said, "That is what I have heard from our Western friends. That is what the Western media says."
He also added "I have not seen them and I've not had any report about them, any report that would indicate that Al Qaeda is operating in Afghanistan."
In other parts of the preview, Karzai said pointed to neighboring Pak snuffies for fomenting the rise of 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.... in Afghanistan.
Denying any Afghan link to the group, Karzai noted that those who have been captured have been found with ID cards.
He said "There is no element, there is no medium, for them to grow, or to rise, or to strengthen."
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Also, Karzai stated that,
Man never walked on the moon
Himalayas were raised by aliens
Telly Savalas channeled him
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Afghan officials who have worked closely with General Campbell, and who generally approve of his authority, say it has resulted from a mixture of the general's take-charge personality and the dire situation that Afghanistan's military leaders have found themselves in.
Casualties among Afghan troops have increased by 50 percent in the first six months of this year, compared with the same period in 2014 ‐ and 2014 was already a huge increase over 2013. Taliban insurgents have opened new fronts in northern Afghanistan, and at times have been on the verge of overrunning the northern city of Kunduz. And the Afghan military has struggled to meet its recruitment goals, facing the prospect that its security forces may actually shrink in size this year.
Worst has been the recent situation in the southern province of Helmand, where on Aug. 26 the strategic district of Musa Qala fell to Taliban insurgents, who are on the verge of carving out a major territorial bastion in the area.
Afghan officials said that General Campbell's direction has taken on further importance as the Americans have greatly increased airstrikes to help support Afghan forces in crisis spots.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Tunisian opposition parties and independent figures have called for a demonstration Saturday against a controversial anti-corruption bill, defying a ban on public protests under a state of emergency.
The protest on Tunis's Habib Bourguiba Avenue, a focal point of the country's 2011 revolution, will "demand a withdrawal of the bill which creates impunity and divides Tunisia," said Al-Joumhouri party secretary-general Maya Jribi.
She told a presser the protest, announced by five opposition parties, would also stand up for "freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate," in Tunisia.
President Beji Caid Essebsi has called on parliament to adopt a law pardoning people charged with or convicted of financial corruption if they confess and return any money obtained.
Corruption was endemic under long-time dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, who was driven from power nearly five years ago and whose close circle, especially his wife's family, had an iron grip on the economy.
Numerous people have been jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! over corruption charges or fled the country.
Police already dispersed a September 1 demonstration to protest what critics have called the laxity of the bill.
Interior Ministry front man Walid Louguini told AFP Saturday's demonstration was also unauthorised and that "the law will be applied."
A state of emergency, under which such gatherings are illegal, was re-introduced in the aftermath of an hard boy attack in June that killed 38 tourists at a beach resort.
But Zouhair Maghzaoui, who heads another opposition party, Echaab, said Saturday's demonstration would go ahead.
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[Libya Herald] The Libya Herald has learned from a source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... that female employees have been ordered to wear a khimar at work and that a scarf or hijab would not be sufficient. In many Moslem countries, a khimar is a long dress covering the head and body. Among some extreme Islamists, however, it means no only covering the head and body but the face as well.
The order did not come from the government officials, the source said, but from Islamist "advisers" who turned up at the ministry last week, ordering the female ministry staff to cover up.
They also told the ministry that it had to enforce gender segregation, with males and females in separate workspaces. Those who objected to the wearing of the khimar or the separation had be sacked, the Islamists declared. They also said they were going to other ministries with the same demands and that they would be back to ensure they had been implemented.
They further reportedly told officials that at schools and universities females should wear hijab, even those in primary school, and that there had to be full segregation in the education system.
Gender segregation in schools and colleges has become an issue in Libya, with Islamist forces trying and in some cases succeeding in imposing it in some universities.
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The order did not come from the government officials, the source said, but from Islamist "advisers" who turned up at the ministry last week,
[ALMANAR.LB] As many as 800 Egyptian soldiers arrived in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... late on Tuesday, Egyptian security sources said, swelling the ranks of a Gulf Arab military contingent launching a wide war on the country, Rooters news agency reported.
It was the second reported deployment of ground troops there by Egypt. The first was in 1962 when Cairo dispatched 70 thousand, while only half of them returned home in 1967, as the rest were killed by the Yemeni resistance fighters.
Egyptian security sources stated that four Egyptian units of between 150 to 200 troops along with tanks and transport vehicles arrived in Yemen late on Tuesday.
"We have sent these forces as part of Egypt's prominent role in this alliance ... the alliance fights for the sake of our brotherly Arab states, and the death of any Egyptian soldier would be an honor and considered martyrdom for the sake of innocent people," a senior Egyptian military source said.
Worthy to note that Yemen is a member-state of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... that combines all Arab states under one umbrella.
Yemeni officials put the number of foreign troops from 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 United Arab Emirates and 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... at least around 2,000, while Qatari-owned Al Jazeera TV said at least 10,000 foreign soldiers had arrived, including 1,000 from the UAE.
Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asseri, a front man for the coalition, told Rooters its forces were focusing on overcoming the Yemeni resistance in central and southern provinces, pounding their positions from the air across the country before beginning any thrust towards Sanaa.
Residents reported heavy air raids on military bases throughout Sanaa on Wednesday, the latest in a series of daily assaults which fishermen said killed 20 Indian nationals off a Red Sea port on Tuesday. At least 15 other non-combatants were killed throughout the country on Tuesday, medics said.
The alliance has increased air strikes on Sanaa and other parts of Yemen since Friday, when a 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 ... missile attack killed 300 coalition troops at a military camp in central Marib province.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for more than five months (168 days) now to restore power to runaway president Abed-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 5,788 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and kiddies.
Despite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi warplanes are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
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Wake up Washington, Field Marshall Sisi is your friend.
[DAWN] The Daesh or the self-styled 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.... turban group is extending its reach in 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 fears are that its determination to bring down the US-allied royal family has raised concerns it could threaten the annual Moslem Hajj pilgrimage later this month.
So far, the murderous Moslem group's presence in the kingdom appears to be in a low-level stage, but it has claimed four significant bombings since May, one of them in neighboring Kuwait.
And it has rapidly ramped up its rhetoric, aiming to undermine the Al Saud royal family's legitimacy, which is rooted in part in its claim to implement Islamic Shariah law and to be the protectors of Islam's most sacred sites in Mecca and Medina that are at the center of hajj.
"Daesh and its followers have made it very clear that Saudi Arabia is their ultimate target," Saudi analyst Fahad Nazer said, referring to the Islamic State group by its Arabic acronym. "Because of Mecca and Medina ... That's their ultimate prize."
An attack last month in which IS grabbed credit appeared to mark a significant spread in the group's reach.
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[Libya Herald] A £900-million fund stashed in London by Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... should be used to pay compensation to IRA terrorist victims maimed by weapons supplied by Libya, their lawyer has said.
Jason McCue told the Northern Ireland committee of the UK parliament that the cash could be diverted for victim claims dating back decades.
In the 1980s, Qadaffy supplied the IRA with arms and semtex for their armed campaign against British forces and some civilians in Northern Ireland, but Britannia has yet to obtain compensation for the victims.
The committee is examining why Britannia failed to do so.
McCue, representing 200 victims, said the cash for the compensation was right there, in the form of a fund which the late dictator parked in London, and which remains frozen.
"We have information that there is a fund of £900m here which has been sat, not earning interest, which is in management which we'd like used," McCue told MPs.
He claimed Britannia has dragged its feet on demanding compensation from Libya for the carnage caused by weapons in the hands of the IRA, in contrast to the more robust stance of other governments.
The United States obtained a $1.2 billion Libyan payout to victims of the 1988 Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, and La Belle France was given $250 million after 170 people were killed when a French jetliner was blown up over the Sahara the following year.
McCue rejected claims from British officials that simply taking money from the Qadaffy fund to pay the victims was illegal under international law.
Libya has paid compensation to British victims of Lockerbie, in which a Libyan, Abdel Basset Magrahi, was convicted of responsibility, and also to the family of police officer Yvonne Fletcher, shot and killed outside the Libya embassy in London in 1984.
McCue's testimony highlights the continuing controversy over Qadaffy's role in supplying the IRA for its campaign in the 1980s, and whether Libya's current government should be financially liable for paying compensation to the victims.
McCue said successive British governments had downplayed the issue because of other concerns. "Documents and testimony show that a policy existed that put arms and oil and partnership ahead of justice," he said.
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Northern Ireland’s power-sharing assembly teetered on the brink of collapse Thursday after the administration’s first minister resigned amid a crisis sparked by a murder allegedly linked to the disbanded IRA.
Several prominent figures were recently arrested in the case, including Bobby Storey, a prominent regional chairman of Sinn Fein, the nationalist party that shares power with the pro-British DUP.
Sinn Fein, a political party linked to the disbanded IRA, has said it would be shocked if Storey were to be charged over the murder.
Officials said some 2,000 Syrians have arrived in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria and are seeking asylum. A spokesman for the Caucasian territory's leader, Yury Kokov, said that most of the refugees who arrived in the republic are "Syrian Circassians whose ancestors used to live in the Caucasus."
Kokov said in a statement that "we have to take into account that militants from international terrorist organizations" could "infiltrate the country disguised as refugees". He added that the republic needs "a set of special" measures to stop such people from coming to Kabardino-Balkaria.
The comments came on the same day that Maksim Shevchenko, a member of the Russian president's Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, said that Russia could accept some 5,000-10,000 Circassian refugees.
Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Circassians ,Abkhaz, Ubykhs, and Abaza were forced from their homelands in the Caucasus by Russian forces after the Russo-Circassian War, with many of them settling in what is now Syria.
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The former Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU) has sounded the alarm: The decision to let the refugees from Hungary uncontrolled and unregistered in the country was "an unprecedented political blunder" of the federal government and would have "devastating long-term consequences," Friedrich said in an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse. Despite all the touching gestures of society shown upon the arrival of the refugees, it is "the task of politicians to think beyond the present and make decisions for the future". Given the streams of refugees moving though Germany without police checks, one has to constate: "We have lost control."
According to Friedrich, it is "totally irresponsible that right now tens of thousands are streaming into the country unchecked and unregistered, and one can only unreliably estimate how many of them are IS fighters or islamist sleepers". He hoped, the CSU politician continued, "that this will not lead to a rude awakening. Anyway, I'm convinced that no other country in the world would be so naive to expose itself to such a risk."
Friedrich demands that the refugees be registered and, to the extent possible, checked outside of Europe's borders."For safety reasons, but also for monitoring the application of refugee quotas in Europe, we will soon have to introduce border controls again. Even if official statements still oppose this the federal government at present would be well advised to prepare (the public) for this situation ," warned the former Interior Minister.
Meanwhile according to information obtained by PNP(the newspaper), intelligence services have identified "29 proven Syria fighters" among the asylum seekers.
Daily, they are receiving information on putative IS-fighters from initial refugee housing facilities.
BND chief Gerhard Schindler is being criticized. He had said in an interview that there was no evidence of terrorists among the refugees. Berlin security circles: "The interview no longer corresponds to reality." Was this an honest mistake or an intentional lie to support Merkel's pollyannaish propaganda?
When you're letting into your country tens of thousands of brutalized and brutal people who sincerely hate you, bad things are going to happen.
Merkel is acting like a mixture of Jim Jones and Timothy Treadwell. Who will stop this madness?
I've read recently that Chancellor Merkel is bringing in these people because the aging German population has resulted in a worsening labour shortage. But if so, why not encourage hardworking and ambitious Eastern Europeans to come, instead?
The Germans haven't forgiven the Slavs for beating them in World War Two...
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I've read recently that Chancellor Merkel is bringing in these people because the aging German population has resulted in a worsening labour shortage.
We have a few million illegal migrants who speak a European language and are largely Christian we could provide (also largely composed of young males). Instead of busing to large (Democratic Party dominated) metros, we can fly them charter from points in the southwest to Frankfort.
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The way demographics go, Germany will be like Kuwait, with some Kuwaitis and a big load of Palestinian workers. And we know how Kuwait turned out.
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"Always good to keep in mind her upbringing was NOT in West Germany."
True. She was born in Hamburg though.
Her father Horst Kasner aka "Red Kasner" moved to East Germany in 1954. There he was part of a protestant church faction that promoted the assimilation of the church into the regime.
1954 was one year after the 1953 East German uprising. The demarcation line between the Soviet Zone and the West had already been fortified in 1952.
In 1954 no one living in Germany could harbor any illusions about communism. Only a very dedicated follower would actually move from West to East.
Merkel grew up in a communist dictatorship in a very pro-regime family. She's among the reddest of red diaper babies.
Fun fact: Merkel was introduced to politics by a friend of her father's, Church lawyer and Stasi spy Wolfgang Schnur.
I still think it highly unlikely that Merkel will play a role similar to Ukraine's Yanukovich, but my estimate of the likelihood of a Maidan like development in Germany has increased by a couple of orders of magnitude.
Something fundamental has changed, and people are only slowly realizing the magnitude of the change.
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For a rough analogy of what has been happening in German politics:
Imagine Margaret Thatcher in 1985 calling a press conference, tearing off 'her' mask, revealing 'herself' to actually be Michael Foot in drag and declaring that henceforth the Longest Suicide Note will be implemented by Her Majesty's Government.
It isn't as if Merkel has made a mistake she's trying to correct, either. She's doubling down.
Her declaration that there's no numerical limit to asylum seekers will bring in an estimated further 50000 'refugees' over the coming weekend.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned a second physical attack in less than 48 hours targeting daily Hurriyet's HQ in Istanbul, as well as an attack on daily Sabah, with the group's national committee calling for an "end to impunity."
"The repeated attacks on media outlets by violent mobs clearly demonstrates the principle that impunity breeds more violence," IPI Director of Advocacy and Communications Steven M. Ellis said in a written statement on Sept. 10.
Several suspects who were taken into custody in connection to the attack on Hurriyet were subsequently released.
The IPI also condemned the incident in which a separate group of demonstrators pelted the combined offices of pro-government daily Sabah and broadcaster ATV with stones and water bottles, and tried to enter the building in Istanbul.
"We urge authorities not only to condemn these attacks, but to take concrete action to hold the perpetrators accountable and show that they will not be tolerated," Ellis said.
The IPI's Turkish National Committee, meanwhile, also condemned a death threat delivered by daily Star columnist Cem Kucuk targeting Hurriyet columnist Ahmet Hakan.
"If an attack on the largest media group of a country remains unpunished and faced with silence, then it becomes a symbol and it may lead to the silencing of the media by those who use violence," the statement said.
"First of all, the government is responsible for stopping this dangerous escalation, eliminating the threats against democracy and ending the continued impunity," it added, calling for "urgent and deterrent sanctions" against those who assault media outlets.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Former President Abdullah Gul has criticized recent violent attacks on the office of daily Hurriyet.
"Violence on the media, such attacks, will give The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... unforeseeable damage," Gul told news hounds on Sept. 10, in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri, his hometown.
"Such incidents cause unbelievable damage to Turkey's image, our government's image, and the image of Turkish politicians," he added, stressing that such attacks must not be allowed.
"Everybody may have different opinions, and you may not accept them. But in democracies protests are held in democratic ways," Gul said. "In particular, attacks on the press and the media will hurt Turkey's image in the world."
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[TODAYSZAMAN] Journalist Cem Kucuk threatened Hurriyet daily columnist Ahmet Hakan Coskun, a widely read columnist known for his critical stance toward the government, in a column in the Wednesday edition of the pro-government star daily.
"Like a schizophrenic, you think you are still living in the era when The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was ruled by the Hurriyet daily. If we [pro-government members of the media] want, we can smash you like a fly. You are still alive because we have shown mercy," Kucuk wrote in his column.
Kucuk also blamed Coskun for being the leading propagator of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) before the June 7 election in his column "Portrait of a schizophrenic and pro-PKK thief: Ahmet Hakan."
The threat came after Coskun spoke out on CNN Turk's "Tarafsiz Bölge" TV show against Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Istanbul deputy and party youth branch head Abdurrahim Boynukalin, saying: "Who are you? Are you a bandit?" in reference to Boynukalin telling protesters during a demonstration in front of the Hurriyet daily headquarters on Sept. 6, "No matter what comes out of the election on Nov. 1, we will make you [Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... ] president [under a presidential system]."
On Nov. 24, 2014, Kucuk mentioned Dogan Media Group Honorary President Aydin Dogan's construction business in a column for the pro-government Yeni Safak daily, saying he would face permit problems from the government unless he fired Coskun from the daily.
Kucuk's threats have not only been directed at Coskun but have also covered a long list of writers critical of the government. He has published lists of "suspects," including well-known journalists, and said mass arrests would be carried out. Regarding the government's critics and opponents, he said everyone will reap what they have sown.
In an effort to put pressure on journalists covering the corruption probe of Dec. 17, 2013 that implicated senior government officials, Kucuk has singled out independent and critical columnists like Cengiz Candar, Cuneyt Özdemir, Mumtaz'er Turköne, Ihsan Yilmaz and Ihsan Dagi by name, saying they are involved in a plot against Turkey.
Also, on Wednesday pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtas filed a criminal complaint against the Yeni Safak daily over a lead story run by the daily after 16 soldiers were killed by the terrorist PKK in Daglica, Hakkari province, on Sunday. In its headline on Tuesday, Yeni Safak called Demirtas a "murderer," accusing him of being responsible for the attacks on the security forces and the deaths of 16 soldiers. The daily acts as a government mouthpiece.
A major graft investigation implicating President Erdogan and other top AK Party figures was made public on Dec. 17, 2013. Then-Prime Minister Erdogan accused certain media groups and civil society organizations of being behind the graft claims and attempting to bring down his government.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has said he disapproves any attacks on premises of political parties and condemned the perpetrators, after the hundreds of bureaus of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were stormed across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... following recent deadly terrorist acts.
"I certainly disapprove the attacks on political party buildings and I condemn the perpetrators. No matter which political party or non-governmental organization it is, attacking their members is wrong. No doubt a judicial process will be implemented after these attacks," Erdogan said at a presser with the visiting president of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Council, Donald Tusk, late on Sept 9.
His statement came after two nights of violence targeting HDP offices across Turkey. On the night of Sept. 8, the HDP's Ankara HQ was attacked by a large group attempting to burn the entire building down. The party's archives were burned in the incident, which HDP officials blamed on the government.
President Erdogan also repeated his strong criticism of the leaders of the HDP for alleged links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and repeated claims that a HDP politician was caught transporting weapons to the terrorist group.
"There are some who even carry weapons in coffins," he said. "I call once again on this party that has difficulty in putting a distance between itself and terror: Make you choice. Are you on the side of democracy or terror? Are you going to continue your struggle through politics or weapons, violence, terror and blood?"
Erdogan said he would "certainly support" those who choose a political struggle, although he won't endorse their political views. "But if you side with terror you must be ready to pay the price," he added.
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And on the day before 9/11, too. A perfect symbol of President Obama's Democratic Party.
[Ynet] The disapproval resolution fell only two votes short of the 60 needed to push it forward in the Senate due to opposition from Democratic and Independent senators, marking a major win for Obama.
US Senate Democrats voted to uphold the hard-fought nuclear accord with Iran on Thursday, overcoming ferocious Republican opposition and delivering President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... a legacy-making victory on his top foreign policy priority.
A disapproval resolution for the agreement fell two votes short of the 60 needed to move forward in ther 100-member chamberd as Democratic and independent senators banded together against it. Although House Republicans continued to pursue eleventh-hour strategies to derail the international accord, the outcome in the Senate guaranteed that the disapproval legislation would not reach Obama's desk.
In the House, Republicans had not given up on blocking the deal against all odds. After backtracking on plans to vote on the disapproval resolution when it began to look short of support in the Senate, House Republicans lined up votes on several related measures.
President Barack Obama welcomed the vote, saying it was a victory for diplomacy and US and international security.
"I am heartened that so many senators judged this deal on the merits, and am gratified by the strong support of politicians and citizens alike," Obama said in a White House statement.
As a result the nuclear deal will move forward unchecked by Congress, an improbable win by Obama in the face of unanimous opposition from Republicans who control Congress, Republican candidates seeking to replace him in the Oval Office and the state of Israel and its allied lobbyists in the US
Beginning next week, Obama will be free to start scaling back US sanctions to implement the agreement negotiated by Iran, the US and five other world powers. The accord aims to constrain Iran's nuclear ambitions in exchange for hundreds of billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions.
"We have one goal in mind, shared by many nations around the world: to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon," said Sen. Dick Durbin ...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois.... of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate Democrat. "I believe this agreement comes as close to achieving that as we can hope for at this moment."
Frustrated Republicans railed against Democrats for using a procedural vote to block final passage of the disapproval resolution, and issued grim warnings about a deal they contend could serve only to enrich Tehran and leave it closer to building a bomb when constraints begin to ease in 10 or 15 years.
"To my Democratic friends: You own this. You own every 'I' and every 'T' and every bullet, and you own everything that is to follow," said Sen. Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... , a Republican. "And it's going to be holy hell."
In the House, Republicans had not given up on blocking the deal against all odds. After backtracking on plans to vote on the disapproval resolution when it began to look short of support in the Senate, House Republicans lined up votes on several related measures.
Late Thursday they expected to pass a measure specifying that Obama had not properly submitted all documents related to the accord for Congress' review, and therefore a 60-day review clock had not really started.
That would be followed Friday by votes on a bill to approve the accord - which is doomed to fail, but Republicans want to force Democrats to go on record in favor of the agreement - and on a measure preventing Obama from lifting congressionally mandated sanctions on Iran.
"This debate is far from over, and frankly, it's just beginning," said House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... , a Republican. "This is a bad deal with decades-long consequences for the security of the American people and our allies. And we'll use every tool at our disposal to stop, slow, and delay this agreement."
Some House Republicans, buoyed by a favorable ruling this week in a lawsuit they filed over Obama's health care law, have begun suggesting a lawsuit to stop the accord. Boehner called that "an option that is very possible."
Yet the House Republican maneuvers seemed to have little chance of bearing results, and White House officials sarcastically branded them the "Tortilla Coast Gambit," a reference to a Capitol Hill restaurant where tea party politicians plan their moves. Even before the Senate voted, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was boasting of the administration's success.
"Look, if we were sitting here just a month ago, back in mid-August, talking about how things would be resolved in Congress ... and I told you that neither house of Congress would pass a resolution of disapproval for this agreement, you'd be shocked," Earnest said. "That's an indication of the kind of progress that we've made."
With a 58-42 vote, Democrats filibustered the disapproval resolution that Republicans and other deal opponents had tried to send to Obama's desk, where it would have been vetoed. But with more than enough support from Democrats to sustain that veto, the fight largely turned to the minutiae of Senate procedure and the suspense of whether Democrats would halt the bill from reaching the White House altogether.
Republicans immediately branded Democrats as obstructionist for using the Senate's supermajority requirement to kill the disapproval resolution. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) moved to set up a do-over for next week, but Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... (D-Nev.) said the result will be the same.
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"I am heartened that so many senators judged this deal on the merits, and am gratified by the strong support of politicians and citizens alike,"
We know which senators judged this 'on the merits' but I am at a loss as to how many citizens supported Champ. I'll do a little research and get back to you.
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21% approve, 49% disapprove, 30% not sure/didn't answer.
I'd spin that little bit of data as "Over twice as many disapprove of the deal as approve of it."
Or try this on for size - "Of those who answered, 70% of Americans polled disapproved of the agreement."
Who will tell Champ? I think he knows.
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You knew it would.
Again, SHIA RISING IRAN is now Amerika's BFF/BFRF + OWG Co-Superpower.
US-GLOBAL SOCIALISM + SOCIALIST ORDER IS THE PRIORITY OR FOCII, NOT NATIONAL SECURITY, nor by extens not even GEOPOL SECURITY.
GET READY FOR LEGAL SHARIA LAW IN THE US, JIHAD + CALIPHATE IN AMERIKA, AS WELL AS RISE OF AN ISLAMIC NAPOLEON 2030-2050.
The Secular Marxists-Socialists-Globalists may indeed succeed in forcibly imposing Socialism-Govtism on the US-World, JUST NOT THE KIND OR TYPE THEY DESIRED.
All these Waffling, Super-PCorrect, Self-serving, Profiteering Lefties are going to do is bitch-n-complain, etc. about the very same demographic + national changes they themselves wrought on their own country + loved ones.
[AlAhram] The US Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned four Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, officials and financiers and a Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... -based company controlled by one of them for providing financial support to the Paleostinian bully boy group.
Among those named by the Treasury Department were Salih al-Aruri, a Hamas political bureau member who it said was responsible for Hamas money transfers, and Mahir Salah, a Hamas financier based in Saudi Arabia and dual British and Jordanian citizen who Treasury said leads the Hamas Finance Committee in Saudi Arabia.
Also named were Abu Ubaydah Khayri Hafiz al-Agha, a Saudi Arabian citizen, and Mohammed Reda Mohammed Anwar Awad, an Egyptian national.
The Treasury Department also sanctioned Asyaf International Holding Group for Trading and Investment, a Saudi Arabia-based company that it said is managed by al-Agha and used to finance Hamas.
[AnNahar] New U.S. Treasury sanctions Thursday took aim at financial links between 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 Paleostinian Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which the U.S. labels a terrorist group.
The Treasury named Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, political bureau member Saleh Aruri; Saudi-based Hamas financier Mahir Salah; Abu-Ubaydah Khayri Hafiz Al-Agha, a Saudi citizen and "senior Hamas financial officer"; and al-Agha's company Asyaf International Holding Group for sanctions.
It said Aruri has since 2013 "overseen the distribution of Hamas finances" and works closely with Salah. Salah, a dual British and Jordanian citizen, has led the Hamas Finance Committee in Soddy Arabia, which the Treasury called "the largest center of Hamas's financial activity."
"As of late 2014, Salah managed several front companies in Soddy Arabia that conducted money laundering activities for Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,," it added.
Al-Agha and his company, meanwhile, are "involved in investment, funding, and money transfers for Hamas in Saudi Arabia."
The Treasury also named Egyptian Mohammed Reda Mohammed Anwar Awad, a money exchange owner who has transferred funds to Hamas, to the sanctions blacklist.
The sanctions freeze all assets of the designated individuals and company that are in the United States and forbid any U.S. individual or company from doing business with them.
That could put pressure on any Saudi or other financial institutions processing dollars through US offices or associates for those on the blacklist.
[BREITBART] President B.O.'s plan to resettle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. next fiscal year carries real national security risks, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) warns.
"The President wants to surge thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States, in spite of consistent intelligence community and federal law enforcement warnings that we do not have the intelligence needed to vet individuals from the conflict zone," McCaul said in a statement Thursday.
Earlier Thursday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the U.S. would "accept at least 10,000 refugees in the next fiscal year." Obama's plan represents a dramatic increase over the 1,800 the U.S. is slated to accept this year.
McCaul has been warning about the potential security risks of accepting high volumes of Syrian refugees for months.
"We also know that ISIS wants to use refugee routes as cover to sneak operatives into the West. I implore the President to consult with Congress before taking any drastic action and to level with the American people about the very real security challenges we face," the McCaul said.
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Yep, and there were/are communists in Hollyweird, but both are now 'protected groups' officially classified as 'victims'.
[DAWN] Pakistain on Thursday clarified its stance for talks with India saying there would be no talks with India without the 'all important Kashmire Issue' included in the agenda.
"Pakistain will also not accept any pre-conditions for talks with India," Foreign Office front man Syed Qazi Khalilullah said during a weekly news briefing held in Islamabad today.
The front man added that there is no proposal under consideration for a meeting between National Security Advisers of India and Pakistain on the sidelines of UN General Assembly meeting.
According to UN website The 70th Regular Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 70) is scheduled to open at UN Headquarters on Tuesday, September 15, 2015.
The General Debate of the 70th Session of the UNGA will take place from September 28 to October 6.
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"Our preconditions only!"
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Who needs whom more? If I was India I would tell the paks to take a working tour of Kashmir.
[DAWN] Former Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... minister for mines and mineral development, Ziaullah Afridi, who was placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! in July by the provincial anti-corruption body, made an appearance in the provincial assembly on Thursday, where he alleged that the KP cabinet was full of "smugglers who were not being apprehended."
Speaker Asad Qaisar had issued a production order for the detained former minister so he could attend the assembly sittings on Thursday and Friday.
In his speech on the assembly's floor, the ex-provincial minister from Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) alleged that KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak was "responsible for the failure of PTI's Islamabad sit-in last year."
He said that the chief minister had restricted him from inviting people to the capital during last year's sit-in, adding that the provincial police chief was a "fake person," who "only talks but does not take action".
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[DAWN] Following a meeting of the apex committee held at the PM House to review the progress of the National Action Plan, Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... announced on Thursday that those challenging the writ of the government will be crushed.
Addressing a presser in the federal capital, Chaudhry Nisar said that key terrorist leaders were willing to lay down their arms.
He added that more time was required to eliminate terrorism from the country.
The federal interior minister also emphasised on the need of bringing various non-government organizations (NGOs) under a uniform system. He said that thousands of NGOs were operating in the country but there is no available information regarding who is doing what and how they (NGOs) are funded.
Nisar also proposed the formation of a database of NGOs with cooperation of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra).
The minister clarified that the government did not intend to bar NGOs entirely; it wishes to facilitate them.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan ambassador to Pakistain Janan Mosazai said the faceless myrmidons of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) are shifting over to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.
Speaking during a seminar on Countering Violence Extremism, Mosazai insisted for regional cooperation to fight terrorist group, particularly the self-styled ISIS terror group.
Mosazai said the region should have a common collective response against this common enemy, insisting that "there is no single country strategy or solution to the menace of terrorism today..."
"An example of this is the attempt by some former TTP faceless myrmidons to infiltrate into Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province and switch over to the black flag or Daesh, which we have been containing," Mosazai quoted by local media reports said.
He also added that the terror group was spreading "its propaganda and obscurantist worldview" also in Pakistain, similar as other parts of the world.
Mosazai warened that "Networks of terror have shown that they are fast, they are quick, they are better at coordination, communication and cooperation. On the contrary, states, including in this region, are still a lot slower. We have not developed and agreed upon a set of rules and mechanisms required to make our collective response and actions effective."
He also emphasized that the countries would have to take actions on national level to "shut down rallies, meetings, gatherings and fatwa centres that provide an essential underpinning or raise motivation for the senseless violence that continues to blight our region."
The remarks by Mosazai comes as the activities by the loyalists of the terror group have been rampant during the recent weeks with reports suggesting ISIS affiliates are also operating private prisons in eastern Nangarhar province where they keep over 120 prisoners which mostly includes members of the Afghan cops.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Iraq denounced as a 'clear violation' Turkish ground incursion into its territory in reported pursuit of Kurdish murderous Moslems.
The Iraqi "foreign ministry condemned The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for dispatching number of Turkish military units into Iraqi territory," front man Ahmed Jamal said in a statement on Thursday.Iraq and Turkey flags
"It represents a clear violation of Iraqi illusory sovereignty and a clear offense to bilateral relations between the two countries," he said.
Two units of the special forces crossed into northern Iraq on Tuesday after at least 14 Turkish coppers were killed in a roadside kaboom in the eastern Igdir Province the same day.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said 150 Turkish troops have entered northern Iraq with the aim of "destroying" two dozen snuffies with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The PKK and Turkish forces are again trading attacks on the ground and from the air, upending a 2013 ceasefire between the two sides.
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Everyone else is violating Iraqi territory. Might as well join the party.
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Seed capital.
Saudi Arabia has reportedly responded to the growing number of people fleeing the Middle East for western Europe – by offering to build 200 mosques in Germany.
Syria’s richer Gulf neighbours have been accused of not doing their fair share in the humanitarian crisis, with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the UAE also keeping their doors firmly shut to asylum-seekers.
According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which quoted a report in the Lebanese newspaper Al Diyar, Saudi Arabia would build one mosque for every 100 refugees who entered Germany in extraordinary numbers last weekend.
It would be unfair to suggest that the Gulf Arab states have done nothing to help the estimated four million Syrians who have fled their country since the start of the conflict in 2011.
Just this week, the al Hayat newspaper reported that 500,000 Syrians had found homes in Saudi Arabia since the civil war began – as workers, not refugees.
There have also been significant contributions from rich individuals towards the upkeep of refugee camps round the Syrian border, estimated by the BBC to total around $900 million (£600 million).
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Great idea. Just send the money to the German government. We'll build your mosques right after we finish a few construction projects.
Wait, you said: Build mosques for 200 refugees, right? Sorry folks, next time don't write in Arab. Things get lost in translation, sorry...
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I still think the best thing ive heard people propose is to relocate the whole kit and kaboodle to some underpopulated sustainable islands, set them up with basic water, power, sewer, farm equipment, a factory or 2, roads and buildings, and let them figure it out from there.
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You don't need an island. Siberia is underpopulated and Putin could make up for some of his recent troubles by building them a city or two to live in/take over.
Meanwhile Germany should be planning on removing a few Mosques until Saudi Arabia changes their own policy on churches.
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Instead of sending Mosques why not counter with Saudi Arabia taking 200 * 100 refugees. Germany can sweeten the deal by offering to build 200 churches in Saudi Arabia.
Maybe Trump wouldn't be such a bad idea after all.
[PressTV] A Philippine court has declared the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist entity, intensifying an ongoing government crackdown on the insurgent group operating mostly in the south and west of the country. Prosecutors that the designation could help the government hunt down Abu Sayyaf militants and impose sanctions on its supporters.
State prosecutor Aristotle Reyes said, "This is one more way to turn our country into a hostile ground for terrorists," adding that the ruling came after some top Abu Sayyaf commanders pledged their allegiance to Daesh.
The decision was a rare use of Philippines’ anti-terrorism law, with many saying it was apparently influenced by a previous such designation in the United States. Abu Sayyaf is now the first militant group to be officially banned in the Philippines while authorities said they will follow the same procedure for at least three other militant entities.
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[Guardian] Syria has rejected a British proposal that Bashar al-Assad could lead a transitional government for up to six months before stepping down. The idea of a transitional government was mentioned in the 2012 Geneva principles for ending the war, but this was the first time a time-period had been mentioned.
In a sign of intensifying diplomatic activity, British foreign secretary Philip Hammond on Wednesday said the UK would take a pragmatic approach. He said, "We are not saying Assad and all his cronies have to go on day one."
Syrian information minister Omran al-Zoubi asked, "What gives the British foreign secretary the right to decide for Syrians how long their president should stay in power?"
Zoubi said Britain was following "irrational and illogical" policies by attacking the only country seriously fighting Daesh and urging its leader to step down. He said, "We will not allow Syria to become an extremist emirate. It will not be another Saudi Arabia," describing the kingdom as "the General Motors of terrorism [which] exports it to the rest of the world" and as the perpetrator of the September 11 attacks on the US.
Qatar and other "backward and demented" Gulf states, and Turkey, were all supporting Daesh, Zoubi said. "Is it credible that a member of NATO is part of the system of terrorism in the region?"
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Western states have provided counter-terrorism training in Syria to Kurdish security forces that are battling 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.... , the head of the force said, in a significant expansion of support to the Kurdish administration in northern Syria.
The internal security force, known as the Asayish, is part of the Kurdish administration that has emerged in areas of northern Syria where the Damascus-based state has lost control since the eruption of the Syrian war in 2011.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Russia has lifted its objections to a UN investigation into chemical attacks in Syria after getting assurances that the international team will coordinate with Damascus over the probe, diplomats said Thursday.
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution August 7 approving a joint investigation by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Russian ambassador at UN Vitaly Churkin UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon had followed up by proposing that the mission be entrusted to three independent experts, and asked the Security Council for the go ahead to recruit them.
But Russia, which heads the council in September, delayed in responding.
According to diplomats, Moscow wanted guarantees on several points, notably that the illusory sovereignty of the Syrian government would be respected and on the mission's financing.
On Wednesday, Ban addressed a letter to Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin giving assurances that the United Nations would "expeditiously consult" with Damascus on an agreement governing how the mission will function and that there be "reasonable grounds" for its demands for access.
The Syrian government is supposed to cooperate fully with the Sherlocks.
The Russians also wanted the Sherlocks to weigh in on the use of chemical weapons in Iraq by snuffies of 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... group, ISIL (so-called 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.... in Iraq and Levant). But that would require a new resolution and the agreement of the Iraqi government.
Credible reports repeatedly said that ISIL had attacked Kurdish fighters with sarin gas last month in Iraq and in northern Syria.
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An interesting approach, given the previous threat to send in a wave of jihadis among the migrants flooding Europe.
[AlAhram] Syrians and Libyans fleeing to Europe are committing sin by exposing their children to atheism, drugs, alcohol and sexual permissiveness, according to a magazine published by 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.... holy warriors.
Hundreds of thousands of people have fled wars in the Middle East this year, often from areas seized or threatened by Islamic State hard boys. They have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe on flimsy boats that have sometimes capsized, killing hundreds, in one of the biggest waves of migration since World War Two.
Most of the refugees come from Syria, Iraq and Libya - states ravaged by conflict frequently involving Islamic State.
"Sadly, some Syrians and Libyans are willing to risk the lives and souls of ... their children, sacrificing many of them during the dangerous trip to the lands of the war-waging crusaders ruled by the laws of atheism and indecency," Islamic State's Dabiq magazine said.
It said that most families fleeing to Europe come from areas under Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... 's control or from Kurdish areas that had been fighting Islamic State.
But the magazine of Islamic State, which controls territory in Iraq and Syria where some 10 million people live, said those who leave its domain were committing a "major sin".
"It should be known that voluntarily leaving Drul-Islm (lands of Islam) for drul-kufr (land of unbelievers) is a dangerous major sin, as it is a passage towards kufr (disbelief) and a gate towards one's children and grandchildren abandoning Islam for Christianity, atheism, or liberalism," it said.
Dabiq magazine added that migrating to Christian lands exposed children or grandchildren to "the constant threat of fornication, sodomy, drugs, and alcohol".
"If they don't fall into sin, they will forget the language of the Koran - Arabic - which they were surrounded by in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and elsewhere, making the return to the religion and its teachings more difficult."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Tolo News] In a recent statement, former Jihadi leader Abdul Rasul Sayyaf strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out attacks against civilians, and called the group's activities totally un-Islamic and against Afghan values.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former 
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Tunisian opposition parties and independent figures have called for a demonstration Saturday against a controversial anti-corruption bill, defying a ban on public protests under a state of emergency.
[Libya Herald] The Libya Herald has learned from a source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 
[ALMANAR.LB] As many as 800 Egyptian soldiers arrived in 
Wake up Washington, Field Marshall Sisi is your friend. 
[DAWN] The Daesh or the self-styled 
[Libya Herald] A £900-million fund stashed in London by 
[Hurriyet Daily News] The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned a second physical attack in less than 48 hours targeting daily Hurriyet's HQ in Istanbul, as well as an attack on daily Sabah, with the group's national committee calling for an "end to impunity."
[Hurriyet Daily News] Former President Abdullah Gul has criticized recent violent attacks on the office of daily Hurriyet.
[TODAYSZAMAN] Journalist Cem Kucuk threatened Hurriyet daily columnist Ahmet Hakan Coskun, a widely read columnist known for his critical stance toward the government, in a column in the Wednesday edition of the pro-government star daily.
[Hurriyet Daily News] Turkish President 
Lindsey Graham
Harry Reid
[BREITBART] 
[DAWN] Pakistain on Thursday clarified its stance for talks with India saying there would be no talks with India without the 'all important 
[DAWN] Former 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan ambassador to Pakistain Janan Mosazai said the 
[ALMANAR.LB] Iraq denounced as a 'clear violation' Turkish ground incursion into its territory in reported pursuit of Kurdish
I nominate Monrovia, Liberia. Ample parking and Roberts International could use the business. 
[PressTV] A Philippine court has declared the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist entity, intensifying an ongoing government crackdown on the insurgent group operating mostly in the south and west of the country. Prosecutors that the designation could help the government hunt down Abu Sayyaf militants and impose sanctions on its supporters.
[Guardian] Syria has rejected a British proposal that Bashar al-Assad could lead a transitional government for up to six months before stepping down. The idea of a transitional government was mentioned in the 2012 Geneva principles for ending the war, but this was the first time a time-period had been mentioned. 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
