[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... local commander who was in charge of a group of at least 50 turbans was killed in an Arclight airstrike in northern Faryab province of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said the airstrike was carried out at around 12:20am on Wednesday.
The statement further added that the airstrike left at least seven turbans dead, including a Taliban Überstürmbannführer who was in charge of a group of at least 50 turbans.
According to 209th Shaheen Corps, the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Shakh area of Qaisar district.
The Taliban Überstürmbannführer killed in the airstrike has been identified as Mullah Daud Taimani, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.
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Napalm would have gotten more.
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It wasn't a schoolteacher leading a bunch of kiddies on a field trip?
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A Taliban demi-centurion
Once dallied who shoulda been hurryin':
Here, since his demise,
With his pupils he lies,
In the arms of a dead terpsichorean.
[Al Ahram] Two Kenyan teachers were killed when suspected al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... Death Eaters threw an bomb at a house at a school in Mandera county near the Somali border, police said.
Al-Shabaab grabbed credit for the attack overnight.
"Last night we killed two non-Moslem Kenyan teachers after we attacked their school in Arabow village of Mandera county", Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab’s military operations front man, told Rooters on Wednesday.
The teachers were killed in a fire caused by the kaboom in the attack at Arabia Boys Secondary School, police said on Twitter.
Police reservists guarding the school "engaged the attackers who then fled as more reinforcements were mobilised", police said.
The al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab aims to topple Somalia's U.N.-backed government and impose its own strict interpretation of Islam. They have intensified attacks in Kenya since it sent troops into Somalia in 2011.
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They were teaching knowledge, instead of the Koran. Why is blasphemy and unIslamic"
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Libyan coastguard fired shots at Italian fishing boats before seizing the vessels and detaining their crew, Italian media said Wednesday.
The boats, both from Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, came under fire some 29 nautical miles off the North African coast late Tuesday in an area that Libya insists is an exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the town’s mayor was quoted as saying.
Libyan officials boarded the boats and ordered the captains to head to the port of Ras Al Hilal, mayor Nicola Cristaldi said.
The vessels, with crews of six and seven respectively, were boarded "in waters that Libya unilaterally and illegitimately considers its own," Cristaldi said, adding that no one was hurt.
"The Libyans... opened fire on the crew... On defenceless and unarmed people," said Vincenzo Asaro, owner of one of the boats.
The Italian foreign office declined to comment.
Italia's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday said "the stabilization of Libya is a strategic priority for Italia and Europe," but made no direct reference to the fishing boat case.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Libyan National Army announced on Wednesday, that its forces nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! Egyptian terrorist Safwat Zeidan, a member of al-Qaeda terrorist group and the bodyguard of terrorist Hisham al-Ashmawy, a former Egyptian special forces officer, who was also captured on Monday, in a sting operation in Derna city, east Libya.
Egyptian security officials consider Ashmawy the Emir of Ansar al-Islam and another bully boy group, al-Mourabitoun.
Both groups have ties with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the terrorist network’s North and West African affiliate.
While Safwat Zeidan is a leader in Derna council for the group affiliated to al-Qaeda and is concidered one of the most wanted by both the Libyan and Eyptian authorities for his links to bushwhackes in those countries which he beat feet from in 2013 to take shelter in a hideout in Derna.
The Libyan National Army (LNA) deployed in Derna is surrounding other wanted terrorists, among them the military and security leader of al-Qaeda in the north African nation, Abdulaziz Abdulhameed al-Jeebani, and the terrorist organization’s media spokesperson, Mohammad al-Mansouri al-Diska, in addition to the Mufti of the terrorist group, Abu Hafes al-Mauritani, who replaced the former slain mufti Omar Rifae Soroor who was killed last Jume.
The LNA is the dominant force in Libya’s east. A separate UN-backed government rules in the county’s west, while multiple gangs compete for power seven years after autocrat Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... was toppled.
The LNA published a picture of Ashmawy with blood on his face, being examined before having bandages applied. It also posted a photo appearing to show his Egyptian military identity card.
EGYPT CONFIRMS An Egyptian military source confirmed Ashmawy’s capture to Rooters, without giving further details.
Ashmawy has been convicted in absentia to death in Egypt for attacks in Egypt, including a 2014 raid in which 22 Egyptian military border guards were killed near the frontier with Libya.
The LNA declared that it had taken control of Derna in June from murderous Moslems and other opponents, though sporadic fighting has continued.
Egypt has close relations with the LNA, which is led by Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, 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... , and has in the past launched air strikes over Derna, saying it was targeting murderous Moslems linked to bully boy activity inside Egypt.
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[An Nahar] A mass grave containing 75 bodies has been found near the former jihadist bastion of Sirte in western Libya, an official said Wednesday.
Mohamad al-Amial, the coastal city's municipal council front man, told AFP the mass grave was uncovered in an agricultural area of al-Daheir, west of Sirte.
"Seventy-five decomposed bodies were recovered" in the presence of the public prosecutor, Sirte's security force and the Red Islamic Thingy, he said.
Amial said the find was made "a few days ago" and that the bodies were believed to be of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group members, although there was no confirmation.
IS jihadists overran Sirte, 600 kilometers (375 miles) east of 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... , in June 2015.
Forces of Libya's U.N.-backed unity government expelled IS from the coastal city in December 2016 after eight months of deadly combat. The group has since pulled back to desert outposts.
It grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom last month on the Tripoli headquarters of Libya's National Oil Corporation that killed two staffers as well as an assault in May on the country's electoral commission in which 14 people died.
IS took advantage of the anarchy in Libya after the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -backed overthrow and killing of longtime strongman Muammar Qadaffy ...The late megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... in 2011 to establish footholds in several parts of the country.
Since their defeat in Sirte, the jihadists have kept up the fight from rural areas of western Libya. In April, the Tripoli-based unity government launched a campaign to flush them out.
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[An Nahar] A Bangladesh court Wednesday sentenced a top opposition leader to life in prison and sentenced 19 more people to death over a 2004 grenade attack on the current prime minister.
"We thank God for the verdict," prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain told news hounds after announcing that Tarique Rahman ...the elder son of former President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman Bir Uttam, and Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He is the Senior Vice Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). His nickname is Pino. There are allegations that Pino took a rakeoff from every foreign investment into the country while Mom was in office... , the self-exiled acting head of the country's main opposition party, was jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for life while 19 others, including two former ministers, received the death penalty .
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Belgium has charged an Iranian diplomat and three other individuals with planning to bomb a meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in La Belle France in June, Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The diplomat, identified only by his given name as Assadollah, worked at the Iranian embassy in Vienna. He was tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in Germany on suspicion of planning an attack against the Gay Paree-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an umbrella bloc of opposition groups in exile.
On Tuesday, Germany transferred the diplomat to Belgium, where he was charged with preparing a terrorist attack, the state prosecutor said.
The other three alleged participants have also been charged in Belgium.
Two of them were arrested by Belgian police in June with 500 grams of TATP, an explosive that can be home-made from easily available chemicals, as well as a detonation device.
The fourth suspect was arrested in La Belle France and later transferred to Belgium.
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[Al Ahram] Eight people died after a boat filled with migrants colonists sank off the western coast of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and another 25 were missing, the Ottoman Turkishcoasties said on Wednesday.
It was not clear where the boat was headed or where it left from. Hundreds of thousands of migrants colonists crossed the sea channel from Turkey to Greek territory in 2015 before Ankara curbed the flow under a deal it struck with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... .
The coasties said the boat sank off the coast of Turkey's Izmir province after water began leaking shortly after its departure. There were initially around 35 migrants colonists on the boat in total, the coasties said in a statement.
Search and rescue operations for the missing migrants colonists were continuing, the coasties added.
One helicopter, an aircraft and three boats were carrying out the operations off the coast of Izmir's Karaburun district, it said, adding that gendarme and security forces were also carrying out efforts on the ground.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Ottoman Turkish military continued their security operations across the country this week, arresting several people believed to be members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
According to a report from the Ottoman Turkish Interior Ministry, their military forces tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at least 158 suspected members of the PKK organization across the country.
The Ottoman Turkish Interior Ministry said that among the 158 arrested on October 9th was the provincial head of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Mehmet Serif Camci.
Among the provinces targeted by the Ottoman Turkish military this week were Batman, Diyarbakir, and Mardin.
This large scale security operation against the PKK comes just a week after the latter carried out a deadly attack that killed at least five Ottoman Turkish soldiers.
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[NBCNEWYORK] Three package bombs left on doorsteps in suburban Austin neighborhoods have killed two people and maimed two others in under two weeks in Texas' capital city, leaving Sherlocks searching for any possible motive.
Three package bombs left on doorsteps in suburban neighborhoods have went kaboom! in less than two weeks, killing two people, wounding two others and leaving Sherlocks vowing to look at any possible explanation for a motive.(Published Tuesday, March 13, 2018)
Police said the bombings in east Austin ‐ two on Monday and one on March 2 ‐ are likely linked. Investigators are looking into whether race was a factor, police said, because all the victims have been minorities. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... they backed off initial suggestions that hate crimes could be a core cause and are not ruling out any possibilities.
Austin Police announced on Tuesday a $50,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. Texas Governor Greg Abbott had previously announced a $15,000 reward, bringing the total amount to $65,000.
The detonations prompted warnings from police departments across Texas, including Dallas Police, which published a bulletin urging people to be vigilant of unexpected package deliveries.
Austin Police say since the investigaton started, they have responded to 265 calls for suspicious packages at homes but all were deemed safe.
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[NBCNEWYORK] Police and FBI agents searched a Hudson Valley home Wednesday after learning about a man who was allegedly building a bomb in order to blow himself up in Washington D.C., two law enforcement officials told News 4 New York.
Investigators said they were concerned the man, identified as Paul Rosenfeld, at the home on Slocum Avenue in Orangetown was in the process of acquiring bomb parts.
Officials tell News 4 Rosenfeld had no criminal history but had told a news hound in Pennsylvania he planned to blow himself up on the Washington Mall around Election Day because he was angry about the country's direction.
He had no plans to hurt anyone else, officials said. He is believed to be a lone actor not affiliated with any international terror group or ideology.
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He is believed to be a lone actor not affiliated with any international terror group or ideology.
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“draw attention to his political belief in ‘sortation.’” Sortation is an ancient Greek method of randomly selecting government officials.
Can't approve of his publicity methods, but could Sortation give us any worse than we have now? I've always thought that wanting an elected office was prima facie evidence that you were unfit for that office.
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I do appreciate the fact that he reached out to a journalist. No doubt thinking they were like minded and very supportive of the notion of blowing up something in Washington DC.
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"Sortition?" The guy might have a point about sortition (I didn't know about it before this or that there was a name for it). However, no need to get all blown-up about it. Just get a soapbox and try to sell your pet cause.
[An Nahar] The most notorious passport and currency forger in the Ein el-Hellhole Paleostinian refugee camp was tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Wednesday in a special army operation.
"Following surveillance and follow-up, the Intelligence Directorate managed today to arrest Paleostinian runaway Hassan Nawfal, aka Hassan al-Hakim, and an accomplice," the army said in a statement.
It described the detainee as "one of the most notorious forgers of passports, identity cards and foreign and local currencies."
An investigation has since been launched under the supervision of the judiciary.
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I thought this was a Hogan's Heroes episode there for a second.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A high ranking jihadist commander was assassinated in the northwestern countryside of the Idlib Governorate this week, pro-opposition activists reported on Tuesday.
According to the pro-opposition activists, the Ottoman Turkish jihadist Mohammad Abu Islam was assassinated in front of his home in the town of Ahsem.
The reports claimed that Mohammad Abu Islam was assassinated by unknown assailants on Tuesday, when an unknown assailant shot the jihadist in the head.
Mohammad Abu Islam was a high ranking commander of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham before he was assassinated in the Jabal al-Zawiyah region of the Idlib Governorate.
No group has grabbed credit for this latest liquidation.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Lebanese Internal Security Forces managed to foil a terrorist attack that was going to be carried out 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.... " (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) in the ’Akkar District this morning.
According to the statement released by the Lebanese Internal Security Forces, their troops tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the ISIS member while he planting an bomb along a road used by the army.
"Based on information about orders to [ISIS members] to carry out terrorist acts in the countries they reside in, and following observation and tracking operations, a special force from the Information Branch conducted a swift security operation and managed to apprehend A.D., born 2002, in Akkar," the ISF statement read.
They said that the arrest came shortly before the ISIS member was able to finish planting the bomb.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Russia has information on the attempts to re-deploy hard boyz from Syria’s Idlib to Iraq but these actions are being cut off, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said on Tuesday.
"There are the attempts of redeployment [of hard boyz from Idlib] to Iraq but they are being cut off. Iraq is dealing with that and it clearly does not need extra terrorists," the senior Russian diplomat told TASS.
At their September 17 meeting in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Russian and Ottoman Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... and Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... agreed to create a de-militarized zone in Idlib along the line of the engagement of the Syrian troops and the opposition.
Heavy weapons must be withdrawn from it while Russian and Ottoman Turkish military patrols will exercise control of that territory.
Idlib is the sole large region in Syria, which remains under the control of illegal armed formations.
In 2017, the northern de-escalation zone was established there to allow bully boyz with their families who had refused to reconcile with the authorities and voluntarily surrender their arms to move to that area.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A Saudi national that served as a military commander of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham was reportedly assassinated in the Idlib province this week.
According to pro-opposition activists, Abu Yusef al-Jazrawi was assassinated this week, when unknown assailants opened fire on the jihadist commander inside the Idlib Governorate town of Ma’aratah.
Jazrawi was considered a security adviser to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani before he was assassinated.
His death came just hours after a Chechen commander from the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham jihadist organization was assassinated in the northwestern countryside of the Idlib Governorate.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] A video posted online by Sputnik, shows Syrian government forces flushing out the remaining terrorist fighters from the rocky Tulul al-Safa area.
The natural rocky fortifications created by the lava once belched by an ancient volcano and precipitation are ideal for guerrilla warfare. Because the terrain is off limits to vehicles, soldiers are scouring every rock, cave and underground tunnel where hard boyz might be hiding.
According to legend, Tulul as-Safa is exactly the place where the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah once stood before they were destroyed by fire and brimstone.
Indeed, archaeologists have found hundreds of human skeletons inside the huge basalt layers who were literally incinerated by a sudden volcanic eruption.
The Syrian Army has been fighting in the Suwayda Desert in an effort to liberate the area from ISIS terrorists.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] 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) chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart... has called on hundreds of followers to be executed for disloyalty to his terrorist organization.
Citing intelligence reports, Shafaq News stated that Baghdadi ordered 320 members of the terrorist group to be executed for disloyalty in Syria and Iraq.
The Shafaq News site said Baghdadi "issued an order to kill 320 of his followers for their betrayal of the so-called Islamic State and their recklessness, a matter which inflicted heavy losses on the group in both Iraq and Syria."
According to the sources, there are high-profile commanders on Baghdadi’s list, including Abu al-Baraa al-Ansari, Sief al-Din al-Iraqi, Abu Otham al-Tal Afari, Abu Iman al-Mowahed and Marawan Hadid al-Suri.
This execution order comes just a week after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) carried out a large-scale assault on the Islamic State’s positions near the key border-city of Albukamal.
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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
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A 
the personification of Somali state failure...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, 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...
[An Nahar] A Bangladesh court Wednesday sentenced a top opposition leader to life in prison and sentenced 19 more people to death over a 2004 grenade attack on the current prime minister.
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
