[SHABELLENEWS] The EU naval force in Somalia is investigating reports of possible hijack of a fat merchantman over the weekend in the Gulf of Aden amid resurgence of piracy off the coast of Somalia.
"EU Naval Force is working with counter-piracy partners to investigate reports of a possible piracy incident involving a cargo vessel on Saturday in the Gulf of the Aden," it said in a statement on Sunday. "Further information will be provided by the EU Naval Force once facts about the incident are confirmed."
A merchant ship designed for the bulk transport of oil was briefly hijacked by Somali pirates on Saturday evening but later abandoned on Sunday before naval forces freed the vessel, reports said.
The latest incident came after the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... warned that recent attacks on fat merchantmen off the coast of Somalia highlight the continued threat of piracy.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) called on ships to follow advice of navies and that of the International Maritime Organization while planning passage through the region.
"After three attacks, following a lull of five years, it is clear that Somali pirates are resurgent and intent on continuing attacks on commercial shipping," UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said in a statement on April 4.
"I urge the international community to be vigilant, to work in close partnership and to hold the Somali pirates accountable," he added.
In March, Somali pirates attacked two vessels and a cargo ship. While the crews of the two vessels were later released, the cargo ship’s crew are still held hostage, reports said.
According to UNODC, large parts of the Somali coast remain beyond the reach of law enforcement authorities.
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[Libya Herald] The House of Representatives (HoR) has again called on the UN to lift its arms embargo on Libya so that the Libyan National Army can prevent terrorist attacks being carried out in the country similar to those in Egypt today. The international community was failing Libya by continuing its arms prohibition the HoR insisted. .
The statement accompanied an HoR message condeming today’s terror attacks on two churches in Egypt.
The suicide kabooms on two Coptic churches in Alexandria and Tanta in which at least 44 people were killed have been claimed by the 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.... (IS).
For its part, the Presidency Council deplored what it called a "heinous crime", describing the faceless myrmidons as "savage monsters" who "know nothing but destruction and devastation". Such people did not distinguish between religions and people it added.
Via social media, UN envoy Martin Kobler stated he was "shocked and dismayed" by the attacks and said his thoughts were with those affected. British Ambassador Peter Millett retweeted the condemnation issued by his counterpart in Egypt.
From Beida, the interim government’s foreign ministry said that "these innocent souls, who today ascended to the kingdom of heaven in the performance of their religious rites, were killed by a terrorist act contrary to values, morality and religion".
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[Libya Herald] The Libyan National Army’s success in defeating holy warriors in Benghazi has significantly reduced the dangers from terrorism and enabled Libya to reunite and solve its problems, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan said today.
The prince, who is deputy supreme commander of the UAE armed forces, was speaking during a visit to Abu Dhabi by Field Marshal Khalifa.
Expressing his appreciation for the role played by the LNA in fighting terrorism, which he called was a "disease" affecting the entire region, he spoke of the "co-ordination" between his country and Libya in fighting terrorist organizations. He added that the UAE would continue its efforts to unite Libyans and support their efforts to combat such extremism.
The crown prince and Hafter, who is expected to remain in the UAE for several days, also discussed ways of strengthening and developing relations between the two countries.
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[Libya Observer] Mayor Ahmed Araibi has resigned after 7 months in office, Benghazi Municipality reported on Sunday.
Brig. Araibi announced his resignation in a video post on the municipality’s official Facebook page. He said rumours were spread to obstruct his job while tricksters had exerted efforts to replace him.
"I won’t allow anyone to say I glued to my chair for personal interests that may have negative impact on Benghazi," he said in the resignation announcement.
He indicated that he would return to his previous job as deputy chief of Libyan Intelligence Agency.
Brig. Ahmed Araibi was appointed by the military governor of east Libya Abdelraziq al-Nathori as the mayor of Benghazi in August 2016.
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He said rumours were spread to obstruct his job while tricksters had exerted efforts to replace him.
[AlAhram] Nigeria's military on Monday released 593 people after clearing them of having ties with the Islamist krazed killer group 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... , a front man said.
The chief of army staff directed that those tossed in the clink Book 'im, Mahmoud! be "released unconditionally if found not to have anything to do with insurgency or Boko Haram", said Brigadier General Abdulraman Kuliya. He added that the 593 who were freed comprised elderly people, men, women and kiddies.
The military has arrested thousands in its fight against an insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic caliphate in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... . The insurgency, now in its eighth year, has killed over 20,000 people and forced over two million from their homes.
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He added that the 593 who were freed comprised elderly people, men, women and kiddies.
It turns out lone wolf Khalid Masood was very connected indeed.
[PJMedia] The Sunday Times has revealed that last month's Westminster terror killer, who murdered five and injured another forty-nine more victims, was a bigwig at a known murderous Moslem hub, the Luton Islamic Centre.
The Sunday Times reports that their killer, Khalid Masood, has been identified as the public contact point for the Luton Islamic Centre -- a hotspot for extremism in the UK associated with several prior terror plots.
Summarizing the rest of the article, which is well worth reading:
Mr. Masood's boss at the language school was Farasat Latif, who assured all the reporters who asked him that Masood was completely apolitical. But it turns out Mr. Latif was also a trustee of the Luton Islamic Center, and this was not the first time he airbrushed the strong connection between a jihadi and the Luton Islamic Center. In December 2010 he had claimed the leadership of the mosque confronted one of their preachers for extremism -- a certain Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, whose car bomb blew up prematurely while he was driving through the Stockholm shopping district, killing only himself for the glory of the Isalmic State of Iraq. Nor did Mr. Latif mention that the two jihadis had been friends when they both lived in Luton.
[RT] Over a dozen people have been injured in the Grande-Synthe migrant camp following violent clashes between migrants and a subsequent blaze which reportedly reduced the facility to a “heap of ashes.”
The massive fire erupted at the camp outside the French city of Dunkirk at around 11:00 pm following clashes between the Kurdish and Afghan migrants. According to reports, the violence erupted over alleged accommodation discrimination. The Afghan refugees who came to Dunkirk after the dismantling of the Calais “Jungle” at the end of October 2016 were apparently unhappy about being housed in collective kitchens while the Kurds slept in chalets.
Scuffles between residents of the makeshift refugee camp began in the early evening and quickly escalated into a violent brawl in which knives came into play. As tensions soared, at least six people were rushed to a nearby Dunkirk hospital, most with stab wounds.
One of the migrants suffered “cardiorespiratory arrest” after apparently being run over by a car on the A16 motorway, as clashes continued outside the camp, Le Figaro noted.
Local police were dispatched to the campsite to intervene in the Kurdish- Afghani clashes which involved up to 150 refugees. According to reports, police fired over 20 volleys of tear gas grenades in an attempt to restore order both in and outside the Grande-Synthe shelter, Le Parisien noted.
The cause of the fire which broke out in the camp that is home to some 1,500 migrants is yet to be determined. Firefighters said at least ten people had been injured in the blaze, which involved about twenty wooden chalets that can accommodate up to four people, AFP reported.
“There is nothing left but a heap of ashes,” Michel Lalande, prefect of France’s Nord region, told reporters at the scene as firefighters continued to battle the flames. “It will be impossible to put the huts back where they were before.”
The migrants who lost their 'homes' were evacuated into emergency accommodation, the prefect said, adding that the city of Grande Synthe had already vacated two gymnasiums. By early Tuesday, at least 165 people had been relocated.
Last month, the French government said that it planned to dismantle the Grande-Synthe refugee camp built by the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity “as soon as possible” after camp residents had repeatedly clashed with police.
Up to 10,000 camp residents were dispersed across France after the Calais Jungle was cleared in October 2016. Many of those who were not granted asylum, deported or sent to overburdened reception centers have now resorted to sleeping rough across northern France as migrants continue arriving with hopes to reach the UK.
[DW] Nearly 1.2 million people have applied for asylum in Germany in the last two years. As the country struggles to integrate the newcomers, it faces another daunting task: of tackling crimes committed by refugees.
Last weekend, an asylum seeker from Uzbekistan drove a truck into a department store in the Swedish capital of Stockholm, killing several people and injuring many others. A week ago in Bonn, the former capital of Western Germany, an asylum seeker from Ghana raped a 26-year-old woman who was camping with her boyfriend.
The incidents, along with the mass sexual assaults in Cologne
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Well, they belong to a religion that tells them that everybody outside it is either a domestic (dhimmi) or wild animal. And the wild animals of Germany are not dangerous. What'd you expect?
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Even if you accept the "sociology babble" in the article you are left with the following fact:
Single muslim men between 14 and 30 are much more likely to engage in rape and other crime than other people. In fact, you could cut down on the refugee crime problem by only letting married couples with children into Germany.
Another thing the countries of Europe should do is keep the families together. Right now single nuclear families are being sent to 3-5 countries.
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Well when you have cousins marrying cousins for almost 900 years you get the effects of inbreeding. Mental retardation. They are mostly dumb and under the thumb of anybody who claims he is a Mullah. So you let in retards who are uneducated and can't be taught. Good luck with that.
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During the medieval period they had an anti-pope. Anyone can claim to be a Mullah, perhaps we should start financing a bunch of Mullahs to spread the word that one must live within a days walk of Mecca or Medina to ensure a trip to heaven.
[DAWN] Wikileaks has given weight to a claim that the US National Security Agency (NSA) had compromised telecommunication networks in Pakistan. In a tweet, the whistleblower website referenced a new set of decrypted data leaked by notorious hacker group ShadowBrokers, which had leaked a huge tranche of alleged spy tools used by NSA for intercepting communications around the world.
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Enabling a perfect targeting opportunity!
Use the gatekeepers to sieve 'bad' arabs entering.
When the festivities are over all of the returnees massed in the 'show your identity papers' queue get blasted.
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The former Ukip leader suggested Western leaders were "losing sight" by targeting the Syrian government instead of "Islamic terror" which poses a greater danger to the UK.
President Assad was slammed after he allegedly launched a chemical weapons attack on civilians, killing at least 72 people in northern Syria.
US President Donald Trump launched his own attack in retaliation, destroying a government airbase, which is said to be involved in the alleged attack, with 59 Tomahawk missiles.
However, speaking on Fox News, Mr Farage warned against targeting Assad and said the real danger to the West is terrorism.
He said: "Are we not losing sight of something else ‐ often in history, it is the case that my enemy’s enemy is my friend?
"However bad a man Assad is, he is actually fighting ISIS every single day.
"I believe that the biggest threat we face in the West is from Islamic terrorism ‐ and we really must not lose sight of that."
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p.s. Anybody has info on "Swedish Doctors For Human Rights"? Sound ultra left, but they agree with me that the chemical weapons strike was pure Pallywood.
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I'm still voting fake, too. Weird thing about it, as Scott Adams has pointed out, even if it was fake, there are some benefits (real and perceived) to whacking the airbase:
1) Trump is no longer Putin's bitch
2) Unlike Obama's red lines, Trump actually does stuff
3) It gets Pudgy's attention in NKor
4) It makes the Chinese interested in dealing with NKor in order to get a trade deal
Lottsa wins, but it still doesn't mean going into Syria is a good idea. We don't want to fight the Russians and there isn't anyone to replace Assad that won't be worse or trigger a bigger massacre/civil war. As the article says, terrorism is the problem.
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there isn't anyone to replace Assad that won't be worse or trigger a bigger massacre/civil war
Dude, isn't that the point, induce havoc in the region and allow the collapse? Is Syria really anything more than Turkey's southern border, a banker for Saddam's chem and bullion or a provider for the Lebs?
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I agree that ISIS should be the target. If Russia can get the chemicals away from Assad we should leave the guy alone and concentrate on ISIS. Then when they are smashed we should fall back to bases in the Kurdish area and let the region fight as they alway do, as they always will.
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You guys are crazy. This was not a fake sarin attack. This was the real deal, done by the Syrian Air Force.
The Islamic state is a temporary thing well designed to concentrate, discredit, and kill Islamo-fascists. Like Illinois-Nazis everyone hates them. And they will go away soon enough.
The Syrian government on the other hand will be around for almost ever. So, taking a moment to school them on not using chemical weapons is always a good opportunity.
[Mirror] Vladimir Putin joins forces with the demoncrats and
has sensationally claimed that the US is preparing airstrikes on the Syrian capital - and will pin the blame on Bashar-al Assad's forces.
The Russian leader made the astonishing claim - that the US is planning to FAKE chemicals weapons attacks - during a joint press conference with the Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
Putin insisted Russia would tolerate Western criticism of its role in Syria but hoped that attitudes would eventually soften.
But his claims that Russia has information strikes are being planned by the US on the southern Damascus region - the aim of which is to blame the resulting devastation on the subsequently discredited Syrian government - will not go down well in the White House.
When asked whether he expected more US missile strikes on Syria, Putin said: "We have information that a similar provocation is being prepared ... in other parts of Syria including in the southern Damascus suburbs where they are planning to again plant some substance and accuse the Syrian authorities of using (chemical weapons)."
He did not offer any proof for that claim however. Never stopped his useful idiots from spouting shit
Meanwhile it's emerged America's top diplomat is set to warn Russia to abandon its support for Syria's President Bashar Assad - insisting there is no future for his regime following the latest chemical weapons attack his own people.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is to hold talks in Moscow after a G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Italy called on Russia to promote a "real and genuine" political process in Syria and to use its influence to end the country's bloody six-year civil war.
Following the gathering in the Tuscan city of Lucca, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said there was now an opportunity for Russia's Vladimir Putin to "reset" relations with the West and to join the US-led coalition against Islamic State. And this time it won't include the idiotic "reset" button.
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I wonder if the Russians hacked Trump as well as Clinton?
Probably don't need to. NSA wiretaps Trump. Passes staff to Democrats. Russians hack Democrats.
That I meant is: I'm pretty sure the chemical attack was pure Pallywood - there is some support for my view (notice there are no swarms of international doctors flooding the purported attack site). But Russians know for sure. And, if a fake incident can cause USA intervention, then more fake incidents...
Sarin confirmed as the nerve agent used via testing on victims as well as symptoms. Secondary responders also suffered exposure symptoms.
Su-22s from Shayrat airfield dropped the sarin on Khan Shaykhun; conventional weapons were dropped about six hours later on hospital treating sarin victims - "no comment" from officials on if Russia did latter.
No ISIS or other terrorists in area have sarin (just mustard gas) - attack was "not a terrorist holding of sarin or a terrorist use of sarin"
WH official on if Russia, present at airfield, knew of sarin attack: "We don't have information on that per se... still looking into that." Adding: "We do think that it is a question worth asking" Russians how they were with Syrian forces at airfield "and did not have knowledge" of the attack in planning/prep stages.
"Leakage inconsistent" with Russians saying sarin came from opposition stocks on ground - "we don't see a building with that chemical residue"
On Syria hoax conspiracy theories: Body of evidence "too massive" for anyone to fabricate. Official added that videos released of attack did correspond with that date, time, location.
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It's the kind of claim you'd expect from a former mid-level member (and now leader) of the organization that pulled off Operation Infektion, blaming the CIA for creating the AIDS virus. If there's one thing you can rely on, it's lies from the Russian officialdom. What's amusing is that they not only pulled off the inside job of the Moscow apartment bombings to get a pretext to invade Chechnya a second time, they managed to convince a good chunk of the world that 9/11 was an inside job. If they channeled their talent for disinformation into more productive activities, they might eventually become something other than the petrostate of the north. Too bad that's not on the agenda.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Hezbollah’s Media Relations released a statement on Sunday that offered condolences to the Egyptian people and to the families of the Coptic Christians killed in the Tanta terrorist attack.
"This continuous and escalating killings carried out by criminal gangs in the name of religion is one of the greatest catastrophes our Ummah (nation) has been witnessing," the statement read.
The Lebanese organization accused major powers and regional countries for aiding terrorist groups specifically disrupting the peace between the heterogeneous religious entities in the Middle East.
Hezbollah stressed that targeting Christians in their place of worship is a savage act that deviates away from the teachings in the Koran.
"This crime is part of a large scheme to displace Christians from the Sinai Peninsula and other areas across Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Leb, paving the way for sectarian and ethnic federalization in favor of the Zionist entity," Hezbollah warned.
Hezbollah concluded by reaffirming its support for the Egyptian people and peace inside the country.
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Following on from my comment on another topic, Hezbollah get that there is no mileage in antagonizing the West or Western friendly states like Egypt.
When you are fighting an enemy, don't go out of your way to find a new enemy.
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[DW] Nearly 1.2 million people have applied for asylum in Germany in the last two years. As the country struggles to integrate the newcomers, it faces another daunting task: of tackling crimes committed by refugees.
[Mirror] Vladimir Putin
