[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The provincial governor of northern Balkh province and Chief Executive of Jamiat-e-Islami party Ata Mohammad Noor has warned that the Northern parts of the country will become second Syria if immediate steps are not taken to improve the security and eliminate threats posed by the terrorist groups.
Speaking during a gathering in capital Kabul, Noor said the government’s policies and steps to eliminate terrorism are not sufficient.
Noor also claimed that certain countries have changed their policies and are now supporting the Taliban group to counter the threats posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group having affiliates in Afghanistan.
In other parts of his speech during the gathering, Noor said the Jamiat-e-Islami party will continue to remain robust and no challenges will have any impact on its presence and activities.
The chief executive of Jamiat-e-Islami party also emphasized on the need of unity among the people and establishment of proper programs to defend from the rights of the people.
In regards to the appointment of the new chief for Jamiat-e-Islami party, Noor said a congress summit will be held and anyone receiving the highest support will be given the post.
The remarks by Noor came as Noor aims to further step up political activities, eying participation in the upcoming presidential elections.
Speaking a ceremony in Mazar-e-Sharif city on the eve of Nowruz, Noor said he has intentions to step into major political activities, emphasizing that the decision regarding his resignation will be taken once consulting with the elders, his political allies, and others close to him.
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[NEWS24] Libya on Thursday asked Italia to arm the patrol boats it uses in the fight against illegal immigration across the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe.
Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti this week handed over to the Libyan coastguard four patrol boats repaired in Italia as part of a cooperation deal against people traffickers.
Another six patrol boats are to follow soon after the training of their Libyan crews, he said.
"These boats are not fitted with arms. We can't used them for patrols when the traffickers are increasingly armed," Abdullah Tomia, a senior naval officer in charge of cooperation with Italia, told a news conference 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... "We've asked Italia to arm the patrol boats," he said, while noting that Libya was still under a UN arms embargo in force since its 2011 revolution that toppled dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can change an entire nation, usually for the worse... "Before the revolution, we were dealing with unarmed traffickers. But no we are up against fierce, armed gangs," Tomia said.
Libyan authorities have complained about lacking the means to deal with the floods of migrants colonists who try crossing the Mediterranean in makeshift boats.
Last year, a record 181 000 migrants colonists reached Italia, 90% of them from Libya.
[AlAhram] Some 2,300 migrants colonists headed for Italia in 22 barely seaworthy vessels were rescued off the Libyan coast on Thursday, the Italian coastguard said.
Coastguard and military vessels joined forces with others chartered by humanitarian organizations to come to the rescue of the migrants colonists, who were packed into 10 wooden boats and 12 rubber dinghies.
"About 2,300 migrants colonists were rescued in the Mediterranean today," the coastguard said in a statement.
Prudence, a vessel chartered by medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres, picked up 770 people, many of them young children -- one a baby aged just six weeks, it said.
SOS Mediterranee's and MSF's Aquarius vessel rescued 560 people and Phoenix, chartered by Maltese NGO Moas, hauled in another 360.
Some 46,000 migrants colonists had reached the Italian coast this year even before Thursday's drama, around a third up on the same period last year, according to the Italian interior ministry.
At least 1,229 people have drowned making the perilous trip, according to the International Organization for Migration -- one death for every 39 persons rescued.
The latest wave of people picked up comes as Italia beefs up security ahead of next week's G7 summit at Taormina in Sicily.
The summit poses a challenge given that local authorities on the island have banned migrants colonists from disembarking at Sicilian ports.
Southern mainland ports or and those in the of Sardinia will instead take the strain.
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[Al Jazeera] On May 3, Libya's two rival leaders, Fayez Serraj, the head of the UN- backed Government of National Accord 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... and strongman General Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... , whose Libyan National Army (LNA) keeps a tight grip on the East of the country, held a surprise meeting in the United Arab Emirates.
The encounter spurred fears among Serraj's supporters that the conditions discussed in the Gulf country, a powerful sponsor of General Haftar, may disrupt a UN-brokered peace plan, known as the Libyan Political Agreement (LPA), rather than help it.
The UN deal was signed in 2015 but is widely considered as insufficient to reconcile internal rivalries.
UAE officials hailed the meeting as a major breakthrough after 18 months of stalemate between Tripoli and Tobruk. But analysts have been left wondering if a real discussion between the two reluctant leaders took place at all and why the talks didn't produce any official documents.
Rumours have been swirling around about the results of the meeting and how binding they would be.
According to diplomatic sources, the talks focused on reducing the Presidential Council from nine to three members, to include the head of the Armed Forces, Khalifa Haftar, the head of the House of Representatives Aqila Saleh, and the head of the unity government, Fayez Serraj.
The controversial Article 8 of the Shikrat agreement submitting the army to civil authority would be abolished. Serraj and Haftar also allegedly agreed to work on presidential and parliamentary elections in the Spring of 2018.
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[IraqiNews] La Belle France and Germany are resisting a plan by U.S. officials for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... to take a bigger role in the fight 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.... in Syria and Iraq, in line with calls from President Donald Trump
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Why would we be confronting Russia?
They're ALSO fighting ISIS (and doing a much better job of it).
[ARANews] An 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.... (ISIS) suspect, who was incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! by the Dutch authorities in December, was allegedly planning an attack on the Turkish consulate in the city of Rotterdam, the Dutch media reports.
The suspect, 31-year old Jaouad A., talked with others about this, as shown by evidence of the Dutch intelligence service AIVD.
The evidence was presented this week at a meeting where the trial against the suspect was discussed.
Jaouad A. was arrested in December 2016 following a tip of the Dutch intelligence. During a security raid on his house, the Dutch police found a Kalashnikov with ammunition, large amounts of firework and a painting of an ISIS flag.
Moreover, a manuel was found on the suspect’s computer showing how to make bombs from firework.
In October 2016, the suspect in a conversation with people discussed attacking the Turkish consulate as a target. It’s unclear with who the ISIS suspect spoke, and most likely his voice was recorded by hidden microphones.
According to lawyer Silvis, who reprents the suspect, not much is clear about the recorded conversation.
"A lot of it is not audible, so the context is not clear," she said.
The court case is expected to continue for three more months.
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the father of a Muslim boy who was arrested after taking a homemade clock to his high school in Texas.
Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed sued the city of Irving, the Irving Independent School District and the principal of MacArthur High School on behalf of his son Ahmed Mohamed, whose arrest and three-day suspension for taking a clock ‐ mistaken by a teacher for a bomb ‐ to school on Sept. 14, 2015, attracted national headlines.
Charges later were dropped, but Mohamed filed a lawsuit claiming his son's civil rights were violated by discrimination on the basis of his race and religion. The suit, which sought unspecified damages and attorney fees, also claimed city officials violated the then-14-year-old boy's rights under the Fourth and Fifth amendments during his interrogation and arrest.
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pretty obvious from the start that this was a CAIR put-up act to keep dhimmis afraid to spot the terrorists among them
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I would hope that a losing plaintiff who sought compensation for attorney's fees would have to pay defendant's attorney's fees. Clockboy's family got off light.
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I always call him 'Fake Bomb Boy' because that is what he is. He didn't 'invent' a clock. I doubt he even built it ( his father probably did or someone from CAIR).
Somehow should ask him to build a second one. Under observation and without his father 'helping'.
[Al Jazeera] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has called for the removal of the US diplomat coordinating an international coalition fighting 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 Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group in Syria and Iraq, accusing him of backing Syrian Kurdish fighters.
Ankara regards the Kurdish Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) as an extension of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group, which has been fighting a decades-old armed campaign in southeast Turkey and is considered a "terrorist organization" by Turkey, the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Yet the US views the YPG, a central part of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as its main ally in the battle on the ground against ISIS. Earlier in May, US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... pledged to arm the group ahead of a planned attack on Raqqa, ISIS's self-proclaimed capital in Syria.
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[THEHILL] New video captures Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... watching members of his security detail violently clash with protestors in Washington on Tuesday.
The Hill confirmed that the video, uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, was shot by a staff member at VOA Turkish, a multimedia Internet and TV service.
In the video, Erdogan emerges from a car in the driveway to watch the incident before heading inside the Turkish ambassador’s residence. His bodyguards are visible from Erdogan's car kicking and punching protesters.
Roughly two dozen protestors had gathered outside of the embassy to protest the Turkish leader’s policies.
Nine people were maimed during the demonstration. The Turkish Embassy said on Wednesday that Erdogan's bodyguards were acting in "self-defense" during the incident and the protesters were affiliated with the terrorist group PKK. A protest leader denied that anyone involved had any ties or sympathies to the PKK.
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Remember the DC pols make sure the 2d Amendment is never permitted in their town. Try that in some other places and a good old Tombstone shoot out would have been viral on the Net.
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The "great Moslem vampire" (yes, I mean Tayyip) is thirsty for Kurdish blood. What happened in Washington is nothing compared to what will happen in Iraq and Siria if Trump does not reign in the "Mad dog of Turky"
Erdogan is an enemy of the west, clad in a Sheep's skin.
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[DAWN] The situation in North Wazoo Agency (NWA) is reportedly returning to normality as the internally displaced persons are returning to their homes and peace has prevailed, but life remains difficult for them due to the lack of basic facilities.
According to the NWA General Officer Commanding Maj Gen Hassan Azhar Hayat, who hosted journalists for a briefing on the area's overall situation on Thursday, all no-go areas have been cleared by the Army and 80 per cent of the people displaced from the areas have now been resettled.
He said that around 80 per cent of the displaced people from the area had returned and were "contributing to the development of the agency".
Major Gen Hayat told news hounds that the era of operations has come to an end and an era of development has started in the agency with the launching of new projects.
Sharing the details of these projects, he informed news hounds that four army public schools have been established in NWA. A model town is also in final stages in main Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... city.
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The percentage of Jewish Israelis who consider US President Donald Trump more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian has taken a nosedive since his inauguration, according to a Smith Research poll published on Thursday and taken for The Jerusalem Post.
The poll of 500 Israelis representing a statistical sample of the adult Jewish population found that, just days ahead of Trump’s arrival in the country, he will need to take steps to persuade Israelis that he is on their side.
Only 56% of Jewish Israelis said they considered the Trump administration more pro-Israel than pro-Palestinian, down from 79% on January 11.
IMO, USA policies in ME will always be screwed: the result of refusing to admit that Islam & Democracy don't mix - not without explosive results.
However, as long as frackers keep fracking ...
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The man elected in good measure due to the excessives of the Left. What better play than to game the system and deep state and wait till 2020 to move the embassy. The Left will go nuts, they can't help themselves, its in their nature. Meanwhile the people who elected him will still be there and would vote as they did, against the Left so publicly displayed. Meanwhile, its a fait accompli just like Obama pulled with so many petty actions.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Hamas has banned people walking dogs in Gaza in order to protect women and children. Because the Prophet said so.
The hardline Islamic group claims women and children feel scared when confronted by large dogs while strolling in the street.
The ban will impact dog owners who want to walk their pets in populated areas such as towns and villages or on the beach.
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Mohammedan matrons out walking:
"This dog business..." "Isn't it shocking!"
"Permitted to nuzzle!"
"And not wear a muzzle."
"The next thing you know, they'll be talking!"
[NEWS24] A military court in Gazoo on Thursday concluded the trial of three men accused of assassinating a Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", military leader and will deliver its verdict at the weekend, an official said.
The trial of the alleged killers of Mazen Faqha opened on Monday and the court held its fourth and final session on Thursday.
The chief suspect, Ashraf Abu Leila, 38, and two accomplices are charged with shooting dead Faqha, a senior Hamas official, next to his home on March 24.
"The verdict will be delivered on Sunday," Hamas-run interior ministry spokesperson Iyad al-Bozum said. "It will be final and under Paleostinian law the accused have no right of appeal."
"The sentence will be the death penalty and execution will be carried out as quickly as possible," said a source close to the military court system.
Hamas has accused the men of colluding with Israel to set up and commit the murder.
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In the wake of the killing it launched a large-scale campaign against all "collaborators" in which it said it made 45 arrests.
Hamas hanged three men on April 6, convicted by the military court of past acts of "treason and collaborating" unconnected to Faqha's slaying.
The liquidation in the middle of the Hamas-run Gazoo Strip shocked the Islamist movement.
Hamas immediately blamed its arch-enemy Israel, with which it has fought three wars since 2008, and implemented strict border restrictions on those seeking to leave the Paleostinian enclave.
Abu Leila was enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... about two weeks after the liquidation and his detention was publicly announced by Hamas's leader Ismail Haniya last Thursday.
Faqha had been in charge of forming cells for Hamas's military wing in the occupied West Bank.
He had spent years in an Israeli jail before being released as part of a 2011 prisoner exchange deal.
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"The verdict will be delivered on Sunday," Hamas-run interior ministry spokesperson Iyad al-Bozum said. "It will be final and under Paleostinian law the accused have no right of appeal."
"Under Paleostinian law" meaning, we do what we want, "hang them all, ahmed and be quick about it..."
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... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all...
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the father of a Muslim boy who was arrested after taking a homemade clock to his high school in Texas.
[THEHILL] New video captures Turkish President 
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[NEWS24] A military court in 
