[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has said that a half-million-dollar police training center which was built by the US is literally melting.
The latest report released by SIGAR on Thursday said the training center which was built in cental Wardak province was badly constructed where substandard materials were used by the Afghan contractor.
The report further added that the roof was built of plastic with a concrete cap, instead of the sturdy gravel and contract called for under the contract. The sand bricks that were too small were substituted for the agreed-upon clay bricks and that support beams werent securely fastened to the structure, the report added.
They could have used a visit from an angry Chicago building code inspector...
SIGAR said the center began to disintegrate just four months after it was completed in 2012 due to shoddy construction that was allowed to happen because U.S. Central Command contracting commanders failed to oversee the project appropriately.
According to SIGAR, the government of Afghanistan is rebuilding the complex itself, calling it an embarrassment.
In the meantime, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said it would try to find and, if necessary, discipline the contracting commanders responsible. The CENTCOM has also promised to take corrective action, including seeking compensation from the contractor if appropriate.
How would it be not appropriate?
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According to SIGAR, the government of Afghanistan is rebuilding the complex itself, calling it an embarrassment.
The complex is symbolic of the greater 'embarrassment' of our involvement in Afghanistan itself.
BOSSASO, Somalia -- Somalia’s North Eastern State of Puntland has intensified security checks and night patrols in the Gulf of Aden Port City of Bossaso after second grenade explosion in a week, Garowe Online reports.
The Punties have been intensifying security in Bossaso all week. They intensified Monday, intensified it some more Tuesday, really intensified on Thursday, and turned the intensity meter to '11' today. Must be real intense there...
Security officials told Garowe Online that 20 people were arrested in connection with grenade attack on soldiers on Patrol at Afar Irdodka junction overnight on Wednesday. A soldier died and two others were wounded in the grenade explosion.
The massive security operation targeted Bossaso’s Raf and Raaho neighborhood, with officials disclosing that interrogations are underway.
Last Friday, two soldiers and a civilian bystander sustained minor injuries after suspected Al Shabaab assailants hurdled hand grenade into a police compound.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Security officers in Tunisia now have the right to keep their weapon at all times, in order to fend off terrorist attacks.
The interior ministry authorised the move on January 7th, soon after a Tunisian policeman was found in Zaghouan with his throat slit.
The ministry set restrictions on arming agents. Those allowed to carry weapons must have a record of good behaviour, and no psychiatric disorders or family problems.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Morocco is toughening up its laws to prevent citizens from leaving the country to join foreign terrorist groups.
A Moroccan parliamentary commission on Wednesday (December 14th) agreed to impose 5-15 year prison sentences on citizens attempting to join Daesh jihadists in Syria or Iraq,
Having already strengthened laws against money laundering, the government has been working on legislation to criminalise participation in 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.... (ISIS) and other foreign terror organizations.
Parliament last month transferred the bill to the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) for review.
In its written opinion, the CNDH called for the language in the bill to be made clearer, in order to adhere to international law.
The council also recommended that politicians add a provision to the draft to classify the recruitment of children by terror groups as an aggravating factor.
Furthermore, the council called on the government to consider introducing alternative sentences and court supervision measures, such as electronic tagging, to punish attempts to join terrorist groups and/or undertake foreign training.
When the text of the new law was referred back to the legislature for further discussion on December 24th, MPs agreed with the CNDH recommendations to adopt a complete and precise law to crack down on terrorism.
The bill amends the Code of Criminal Procedure to allow any Moroccan within the country or abroad, as well as any foreign national in Morocco, to be prosecuted for terrorist offences committed outside Morocco.
"It is essential to crack down on terrorism by strengthening the country's laws," said Mohammed Ben Abdessadak, an MP representing the Party of Justice and Development.
Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid told MPs that the purpose of criminalising the act of travelling to join terrorist entities abroad was to protect young Moroccans and maintain national security.
The government was also targeting propaganda intended to recruit young Moroccans and encourage them to wage jihad, the minister added.
Many young Moroccans have already been indoctrinated.
The justice minister said that of the 1,212 Moroccans who had joined the Islamic State (ISIS), 147 had returned home.
Given the large number of Moroccan fighters, as well as the number of cells dismantled in the kingdom in recent months, new legislation to combat the terrorist threat is imperative, Ramid said.
Morocco has no option but to toughen its counter-terrorism laws, especially since the country is a target, political analyst Jamal Farhani said. But the legislation must respect human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... and avoid falling into the trap of incriminating innocent people, he added.
Rahma Chatibi, a sociologist, argued that the government should do more than merely strengthen the law in its efforts to curb terrorism.
"We need to tackle the causes that spur young people to join the ranks of fighters," she told Magharebia.
"Some studies have shown that the main causes that motivate them to go and fight alongside jihadists in Iraq and Syria are social in nature and not related to religion, contrary to what one might think," she said.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Boys and girls will be segregated in schools located in areas under the control of Islamist militia Libya Dawn, Libya Herald reported on Thursday (January 15th).
Schools were ordered to ban the mixing of sexes "in accordance with Islamic teaching".
The new policy will also reportedly apply to teachers.
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[AnNahar]. Libya's warring factions have agreed on a roadmap to form a unity government after two days of U.N.-brokered talks in Geneva,
...worth as much as the paper it's written on...
Decent linen rag or that cheap Office Max stuff?
touted as the last chance to avert total anarchy in the country.
...until the next last chance, and the last chance after that.
The North African nation has been wracked by conflict since the overthrow of dictator Moamar Qadaffy in a 2011 uprising, with rival governments and powerful militias battling for control of key cities and the country's vast oil riches.
Now worth considerably less than half of its worth when they rose up.
U.N. special envoy to Syria, Bernardino Leon, had warned at the start of the talks that they were a last-ditch effort to prevent all-out chaos.
[AnNahar]. Chad's parliament voted Friday to send armed forces to Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... and Nigeria to fight 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 day after President Idriss Deby Itno announced his intention to join the fight against the Islamists.
Chad's parliament in NDjamena voted 150 to 0 to send an unspecified number of "Chadian armed troops and security forces to assist Cameroonian and Nigerian soldiers waging war against the bandidoshard boyz in Cameroon and Nigeria," a parliament statement said after the vote to join what is now a regional effort defeat Boko Haram.
Dozens of Chadian tanks headed out of the capital Friday south towards Cameroon to help fight Nigeria's dreaded Boko Haram holy warriors.
The convoy seen by an AFP journalist roared out of the city after Chad's parliament voted to send armed forces to Cameroon and Nigeria to fight against the Islamists.
Cameroon's President Paul Biya had announced Thursday that Chad President Idriss Deby had decided to send "a substantial contingent" of troops to help Cameroonian armed forces who have faced repeated attacks from Boko Haram. A source close to the army said the force had begun preparing for departure on Thursday.
Boko Haram is fighting to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... along the border with Chad, Cameroon and Niger.
Cameroon has been critical of the passivity of the Nigerian authorities and the international community in the face of Boko Haram aggression.
Since Boko Haram's insurgency began, around 135,000 people have fled the restive northeast of Nigeria country and at least 850,000 have been displaced inside the region.
So far Chad has been spared, but only a narrow strip of land separate it from the Islamists' headquarters in the Nigerian state of Borno.
The Cameroonian army says it killed 143 Boko Haram fighters who attacked a military base in the northern town of Kolofata on Monday, in what the government said was the militants' heaviest loss yet on its territory.
Update at 8:50 am ET from An Nahar, which is clearly taking an interest in the situation:
Tens of thousands of people rallied in the capital of Chad on Saturday in support of the authorities' decision to send troops to fight Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists.
...the women weeping proud tears and waiving dainty lace handkerchiefs, the men puff-chested at the courage of "our boys in uniform"... And rightfully so, as the troops go to face the vicious scourge of the region, though it has not yet come to their borders.
Prime Minister Kalzeube Pahimi Deubet led the demonstrators as they marched from city hall in the capital N'Djamena to the Place de Nation square, carrying Chadian flags and chanting in French and Arabic: "Kick the forces of evil out of our territory."
A large banner read: "We support our army. The people of Chad support their Cameroonian and Nigerian brothers in the fight against terrorism."
"Today's march is a strong signal, a warning to Boko Haram and above all a march for peace to protect our vital interests, to protect our economy, to protect Chad's security," Deubet said.
"The country is seriously threatened by Boko Haram," said Ouchar Tourguidi, head of the main party in parliament, calling the rally "important for boosting morale of our troops who are going to the front."
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[DAWN] Russia's media watchdog on Friday warned publications that printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PTUI!) was against the country's law and ethical norms following the Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... attack in La Belle France.
The publication in Russian media of such caricatures go against ethical and moral norms worked out over centuries, said the media and communications watchdog Roskomnadzor.
Disseminating caricatures on religious themes in the media can be considered insulting or humiliating to the representatives of religious confessions and groups, and qualified as inciting ethnic and relgious hatred, an offence under Russian law, it said.
The publication would also violate the Russian media and anti-extremism laws, the watchdog said, adding that it was asking Russian media to refrain from publishing caricatures that can be seen as a violation.
The watchdog published the statement as a response to the ongoing debate on the "legality of publishing caricatures depicting religious objects of worship which affect feelings of religious people."
Many newspapers and magazines around the world reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PTUI!) by Charlie Hebdo, whose Gay Paree office was attacked by Islamist gunnies on January 7, leading to the deaths of 12 people.
Although Russia's leadership extended its condolences to La Belle France, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov participated in the unity march staged at the weekend, pro-Kremlin commentators and Moslems accused the cartoonists of provoking the attack.
Russia's Council of Muftis - a top Moslem authority - condemned the attack but said that perhaps the sin of provocation... is no less dangerous for peace than the sin of those who yield to the provocation.
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[NYTimes]. o. Saïd Kouachi In an unmarked grave in the Muslim section of the city cemetary of Reims
o. Chérif Kouachi will be buried in a Muslim plot in Gennevilliers, a Paris suburb, at the request of his wif
o. Amedy Coulibaly’s body is believed to be in a police morgue in Paris
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Why didn't they just let him "sleep with the fishes" it would have caused less problems.
AND if you are going to shove a stick in the eye of radical (although I am beginning to believe that is redundant) Islam, why not go all the way and not bury him but toss him out of a plane at 20,000 feet over a convenient body of water?
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The Once, also known as Obama, issued a statement, I kid you not, "France needs to do more to integrate Muslim communities". Hey Dumbo. They don't want to be integrated.
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We learned here at RB that persons in France by law have to be buried in the community they lived.
Now if that suburb had a pig farm...
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Cremation and scattering in the nearest prison yard seems appropriate.
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There was a large systematic error in the polls prior to the Swiss minaret initiative referendum.
I'd expect this error to show up in opinion polls in all of Europe since there are good reasons to be reluctant to share one's true opinions about Islam with a stranger who knows where the interviewee lives. That is if the opinion is less than favorable.
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Another way to spin this is that about 20% of Germans will admit to being concerned about the presence of Islam in their country. And as Elmeret notes in #1, serious systemic error.
[Ynet]. Italia's foreign minister on Friday denied media reports that Italia had paid $12 million in ransom to free two young aid workers held for five months in Syria, telling politicians "we are against paying ransom."
"... in theory. In practice, of course, one must be practical."
A report from Middle Eastern media that Italia had paid $12 million to free 21-year-old Greta Ramelli and 20-year-old Vanessa Marzullo sparked debate in Italia about financing terrorism through ransoms. Northern League leader Matteo Salvini said, if true, such a payment would be "grotesque."
Probably was only $11.9 million, making the statement true, though no less grotesque in encouraging future kidnappings.
[WashingtonFreeBeacon]. Top Jewish org petitions EU to permit Jews to carry guns
One of Europe’s most prominent Jewish organizations is petitioning the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to pass new legislation that would permit Jewish community members to carry guns “for the essential protection of their communities,” according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The European Jewish Association (EJA), which represents Jewish communities across Europe, says that gun license laws must be altered following a string of deadly attacks on Jews in La Belle France and other European countries, where anti-Semitism has been growing at an alarming rate.
The recent attacks, including one on a Kosher market that killed four, “have revealed the urgent need to stop talking and start acting” in a way that empowers Europe’s Jews, according to a letter sent Tuesday by EJA General Director Rabbi Menachem Margolin to EU leaders.
The EU, which has enacted very stringent gun control laws, should empower and train Jews to be proficient with guns in order to maintain their safety, according to Margolin.
“The Gay Paree attacks, as well as the many challenges and threats which have been presented to the European Jewish community in recent years, have revealed the urgent need to stop talking and start acting,” Margolin writes.
“We hereby ask that gun licensing laws are reviewed with immediate effect to allow designated people in the Jewish communities and institutions to own weapons for the essential protection of their communities, as well as receiving the necessary training to protect their members from potential terror attacks.”
Jewish community representatives should be armed and on guard at Kosher markets and synagogues, he said.
“We realize that we also have to do something to take responsibility in case it takes too long” for authorities to put the proper defenses into place, Margolin explained. This would include stationing armed Jewish community members at popular hubs.
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Not just the Jews should be packing heat in Europe.
Agreed. But nobody really reports on what happens to the non-Jewish unbelievers, unless it's a mass killing.
[AnNahar]. A teenager from Russia's Moslem region of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... , suspected of a suicide kaboom in Istanbul, was said Friday to have been 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.... jihadist and the widow of an Norwegian bad boy.
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[AnNahar]. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said up to 700 Turkish nationals have joined 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.... (IS) jihadist group, sounding the alarm over the risk of attacks inside Turkey if the Death Eaters return home.
"There are around 500-700 Turkish citizens who have joined the ranks of IS," Cavusoglu was quoted as saying by Turkish media.
"A common concern about the imported muscle is: What will happen when they return to their homeland? We have this concern too," he said as he returned from a trip to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) which is only recognised by Turkey.
He added that Turkey had barred entry to around 7,250 people from abroad who were planning to join IS and said 1,160 would-be jihadists were also deported.
His comments came a week after three gunnies claiming to act on behalf of the IS group and al-Qaeda killed 17 people in Gay Paree -- a deadly reminder of the threat posed by jihadists returning home.
Turkey has long been accused of not doing enough to stem the flow of jihadists seeking to join the IS group which has captured large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
Turkish government said on Monday that Hayat Boumeddiene, the wanted partner of one of the gunnies, crossed into Syria via Turkey days before the attacks, amid reports that she may have joined IS.
But Cavusoglu insisted that Turkey was not at fault for failing to detain her, saying French authorities had not acted on the intelligence provided by Ankara even before they asked for it.
"How can I know whether she will join IS? If they have such intelligence, why didn't they stop her before leaving La Belle France?" he asked.
He added that Turkey is taking "extreme measures" to ensure security along its 911 kilometre (566 mile) border with Syria but could never make it completely watertight.
"A passage (into Syria) can always be found."
Cavusoglu said Turkey was also an open target of IS because of its condemnation of the group as a "merciless terrorist organization that does not represent Islam in any way."
"A country that speaks like this is of course an open target of terror. We therefore have to be cautious and take the necessary measures," he said.
A female jacket wallah killed herself and a policeman last week in Istanbul's Sultanahmet district, home to the city's greatest concentration of historical monuments.
Authorities are now probing if the bomber -- named by the Turkish media as Russian citizen Diana Ramazanova from the Russian region of Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... -- had jihadist links.
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Did they count Erdrogan?
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Representative and Iraq War veteran Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) argued that the Obama administration refuses to recognize who our enemy is on Fridays Situation Room on CNN.
It sickens me, Wolf, like so many other people who I served with and service members, who served both in Iraq and in other places, unfortunately we lost friends there who paid that ultimate price, and what is so frustrating now as we look at the situation there, our administration refuses to recognize who our enemy is. And unless and until that happens, then its impossible to come up with a strategy to defeat that enemy. We have to recognize that this is about radical Islam, this is as much a military war as it is an ideological war, and weve got to understand what that ideology is and challenge it, understand it so that we can defeat it and protect our citizens, protect the American people. Thats something that has to be done, in order for us to look at places like Iraq, places like Syria, and places really, in different parts of the world, North Africa, Nigeria. This is not just about one group called ISIS, or another group called al Qaeda. This is about an overall threat posed by this radical Islamic extremist agenda that exists all around the world as were seeing, unfortunately, most recently in Paris and in Europe she said. And Im upset that the president and the White House, whether its today, or yesterday, or tomorrow, is not actually saying this is a war that the Islamic extremists are posing against the United States and against the West, and we recognize who our enemy is, and come up with a strategy to defeat that enemy. Its going to be slightly different in different places. It will be different in Iraq and different in Nigeria, but unless and until you recognize who our enemy is and understand them, then we wont be effective in defeating that threat and were going to continue to see the kinds of tragic incidents that weve seen most recently in Paris.
Gabbard also said that while the US needs to focus our resources on those who are posing a threat to the American people, we may hear a lot more from people who will advocate for greater surveillance, greater NSA programs than weve seen already expanding those, which is not the right move. A. Because they havent been proven to be effective, that spying on and collecting phone call information on every single American is effective in capturing terrorists, but it also weakens our ability to focus our resources on those who pose a direct threat. And I think this has been a problem that we have seen in the Boston bomber attack, for example, that weve seen in Paris, where people fall through the cracks because our resources are not focused on those who are planning these attacks and who do pose that direct threat.
She also declared I have called for in the past and continue to call for, a suspension of the Visa Waiver Program until this is brought under control and these borders are controlled, in particular between Turkey and Syria.
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The refusal to recognize characterizes the entire Western political establishment. This has been true since at least 9/11/2001. Obama is a symptom, not the cause.
I hope Jindal's speech will start a controversial debate at least in the US.
Radical Islam i.e. Sharia brutality combined with open aggressive demands of Western submission is mainstream Islam. Radical Islam is normalcy by OIC standards.
The extremist, tiny and powerless fringe of Islam is true moderate Islam that would be compatible with a free and open society.
If Western occupation in Afghanistan and first and foremost in Iraq had consequently rewarded and empowered that fringe element and simultaneously humiliated and intimidated hostile radical mainstream Islam the outlook wouldn't be as bleak.
Such a policy, however could only have been conducted by a West with above-zero civilizational confidence.
[DAWN] US President Barack Obama I bowled a 129. Itâs like â it was like Special Olympics, or something... and British Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... agreed Friday to a joint effort to fight domestic terrorism after last week's deadly attacks in La Belle France.
Cameron said the shootings in Gay Paree were a reminder that Britannia and America face threats to national security from people who hate what the two countries stand for.
We must also fight this poisonous ideology, starting at home, Cameron said.
Obama, speaking at a news conference alongside Cameron after two days of meetings, said they spent much of their time talking about the fight against terrorism.
He called the Gay Paree attacks, which killed 17 people, vicious and said both the US and Britannia stand with the French and all allies fighting the scourge of terrorism.
He said the US and Britannia will "do everything in our power to help La Belle France seek the justice that is needed."
Fears of further violence by Islamic bully boyz are growing, with police in Belgium saying they killed two suspects in a raid Thursday to stop another major impending attack.
Cameron said, "We know what we're up against and we know how we will win."
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this worthless statement takes its place in line behind the rest this worthless waste of skin makes: Benghazi, IRS....
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Obama and Cameron probably think real justice would be locking up all the surviving Charlie Hebdos. After all Benghazi justice was locking up a guy that made a video.
[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan on Friday directed all relevant departments to take immediate steps to block bank accounts, financial transactions and all kinds of funding of banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations, NGOs and individuals having connection with murderous Moslems.
This was decided in a special meeting chaired by Nisar to review the implementation of National Action Plan (NAP) on counter-terrorism.
During the meeting, it was decided that all such business activities and bank accounts which are operating without due legal requirements will be blocked as well.
The participants of the meeting decided that over 100 million unverified SIMs would be verified within the next 85 days after which the possessing or sale of any unregistered and unverified SIM will be made a cognisable offence.
It will help not only in tracking down the unverified SIMs connected with terrorism but also to curb massive grey trafficking which is taking place in the communication sector, the minister said.
Nisar also asked officials of the Ministry of Information Technology to work in close collaboration with PTA, intelligence agencies and international monitors to close down all terrorism related websites; web based messaging services and other terrorism related material on the internet and social media.
The participants of the meeting decided that bank accounts of Afghan nationals will be filtered by the financial monitoring unit of the Ministry of Finance in coordination with the FIA and intelligence agencies.
All information would be shared with the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) for scanning all such accounts involved in suspected transactions, the meeting decided.
The minister directed the officials of the CDA to chalk out a detailed plan in consultation with the police and district administration within a week to identify illegal and unregistered Afghan refugees in and around Islamabad in order to facilitate their movement to their camps.
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[DAWN] During his address, General Raheel Sharif said that resolving the Kashmire dispute was a must for long term peace to be established in South Asia.
The army chief said that Pakistain was now focusing on the war against terrorism and aimed to uproot militancy from the country.
He said that implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) is underway in Pakistain and that the country would soon defeat terrorism successfully.
The COAS further stated that Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... was making good progress and that all bandidosbandidos myrmidons were being targeted. He clarified that Pakistain was not making any distinction among the terrorists.
He also urged the international community to understand Pakistains security environment.
Zarb-e-Azb was launched by the Pakistain Army on June 15 following a brazen bully boy attack on Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's international airport and failure of peace talks between the government and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) negotiators.
Nearly a million people fled the North Wazoo offensive, aimed at wiping out longstanding bully boy strongholds in the area, which borders Afghanistan.
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Yaaasssss. All the internal terror, shootings, bombings and assassinations that occurs in Pakland can only be solved if the damned Hindooos would just kill themselves in Kashmir
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[DAWN] Uzma Qayyum, the 26-year-old girl who is allegedly detained at the Jamia Hafsa ... the Islamic nunnery maintained by Lal Masjid.... against her will, appeared before a sessions court on Thursday and said she did not want to return to her family.
The girl was accompanied in the courtroom by Umme Hassan, head of the seminary and wife of Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... holy man Abdul Aziz, as well as other men and women from the seminaries.
The court then ordered her to appear again on Jan 20.
Through the courts intervention, Uzmas father, Sheikh Muhammad Qayyum, was finally able to meet his daughter after seven months. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... he still could not convince her to come back home.
High Court Advocate Haider Imtiaz, who is representing Mr Qayyum, told Dawn that although the girl appeared before court, she was accompanied by a number of people who appeared to be associated with Jamia Hafsa ... the Islamic nunnery maintained by Lal Masjid.... , which was why she has been summoned again.
Mr Qayyum told Dawn that as soon as the hearing began, the judge instructed Umme Hassan, her associates and his family to leave the courtroom. The judge then spoke to Uzma, in the presence of court staff, for about half an hour. He then proceeded to invite her mother inside the courtroom and fifteen minutes later, he was also asked to join them as well.
As we were meeting our daughter after so many months, it was a very emotional scene and everyone had tears in their eyes. During our meeting, the judge and court staff all urged Uzma to return to her family. They said that no one could take the place of ones parents and Islam also taught us to obey their wishes, he said.
Mr Qayyum said that the family also tried to convince Uzma to come back to them, but in vain. It seems that Umme Hassan has brainwashed my daughter. The judge offered to have her sent to the Darul Amaan or to a relatives house, but my daughter refused. She repeatedly said that she wanted to go back to Jamia Hafsa, he said.
The court then ordered that Uzmas statement to be recorded on Jan 20. Her father said that he would again try to convince her to return home at the next hearing. Mr Qayyum alleged that during the hearing, Umme Hassan was in constant contact with someone on her mobile phone.
On Wednesday, Umme Hassan had told Dawn that no one from Jamia Hafsa would accompany the girl to the hearing on Thursday and she would have no objections if the girl chose to return to her family.
On December 29, 2014, Mr Qayyum had filed an application with the Human Rights Cell (HRC) of the Supreme Court of Pakistain to have his daughter recovered from Jamia Hafsa.
In his application, he alleged that his daughter was being held captive by the Jamia Hafsa administration on the premises of the seminary.
The Supreme Court had ordered Sessions Judge Nazir Ahmad Gujana to investigate the matter and submit a report. On Wednesday, the court had ordered Islamabad Police to produce the girl in court on Thursday.
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[DAWN] The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted a resolution Friday which strongly condemned blasphemous cartoons disrespecting Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) by French magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
The committee sent a copy of the resolution to the Foreign Office so that the latter could convey it to European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) Ambassadors in Pakistain.
The meeting was chaired by Senator Haji Muhammad Adeel at the Parliament House today.
The resolution said:
"The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, representing the sentiments of the Paks people and all civilised humanity strongly condemns the willful slander and insults hurled in a section of the French media towards Islam and the core beliefs of all Moslems."
It further states:
"Such an approach reflects hypocrisy and double standards among some in the West who justify this provocation in the name of freedom, while jailing those who deny the Holocaust".
The resolution welcomed the statement of Pope Francis-II who also said there were limits to free expression. It urged the government to take up the issue with the European Union in Brussels, and criminalise Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... in a manner similar to laws regarding the Holocaust.
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[DAWN] An antiterrorism court asked the police on Thursday to initiate proceedings of proclamation and attachment of property of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain chief Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , then front man for the TTP Shahidullah Shahid and six others in the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... airport attack case.
Sarmad Siddiqui, Asif Zaheer and Nadeem, alias Burger alias Mullah, were jugged You have the right to remain silent... in October for allegedly providing logistical support, funds and weapons to around 10 attackers who stormed Karachi airport in June last year and were killed in a swift operation by government security forces.
Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso of the ATC-I asked the investigating officer to initiate proceedings against the absconders under Sections 87 (proclamation for persons absconding) and 88 (attachment of property of person absconding) of the criminal procedure code when the IO submitted that the warrants issued by the court against them were not executed as their whereabouts were unknown. The court told the IO to complete the process and submit a report by Jan 26.
The investigation officer had charge-sheeted the three detained suspects and shown Fazlullah and Shahidullah Shahid, who were named in the FIR as the outlawed TTP grabbed credit for the attack, Malik Mumtaz Awan, Asim Sharif, Abdul Rasheed Siddiqui, Akhtar, alias Plumber, Iqbal, alias Thekedar, and Abdullah Baloch as absconding accused in the case.
According to the prosecution, around 10 heavily armed gunnies stormed Karachi airport on the night of June 8 and were killed by army commandos and personnel of other security forces during an operation lasting about five hours. Around 25 people, including personnel of the Airport Security Force, police and Rangers were also killed, it added. The police claimed that the detained suspects belonged to Al Qaeda and the TTP.
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[DAWN] The Punjab government says it has received threat alerts for airports, prisons, schools and sensitive installations, besides assassination of known personalities and kidnap for ransom.
It has also pledged to take action against the madressahs found involved in terrorism.
Security has been put on red alert after reports of terrorists attacks on airports, prisons and other sensitive installations, Home Minister retired Col Shuja Khanzada told a presser at the Chief Ministers Office here on Thursday.
Schools may be hit; there may be (indiscriminate) firing incidents, while murder of prominent personalities and kidnap for ransom are also feared.
Threats existed and all security forces had been put on high alert to counter the terrorists, Mr Khanzada said.
Appealing to the masses to help the law-enforcers in pre-empting the nefarious designs of the terrorists, he said there was an extraordinary do or die like situation prevailing in the country that called for extraordinary measures and the citizens should share the responsibility of maintaining peace.
The minister said all the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations had been stopped from operating and lists of NGOs and seminaries working against national interests as well as the person delivering provocative speeches had also been prepared and action would be taken against them on solid evidence.
Urging landlords and proprietors of hostels and guest houses to provide details of the tenants or guests to police and take care while renting out their properties, he warned them that otherwise they could also face trouble.
New laws had been enacted and the existing ones were being amended to tighten noose around the snuffies and anti-state elements, he added.
Replying to a question about the religious schools involved in extremism, the minister said that action would be taken against terrorists, their financiers and controllers in the light of reports of secret agencies.
He told a questioner that availability of funds for the law-enforcers, whether civilians or army, had been ensured as the finance secretary had been issued directions in this respect.
He said that citizens were happy over the setting up of military courts which would soon start functioning.
Punjab police Inspector General Mushtaq Sukhera said the National Action Plan was being seriously implemented in the province and gave figures about the arrests made in a search-and-sweep operation, seized weapons and vehicles and registration of cases.
Police have registered cases against 650 people, recovered more than 8,000 weapons in the general holdup and impounded over 25,000 vehicles.
He said a number of foreigners were among those enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! , most of them from Afghanistan and they also included terrorists.
Law Secretary Syed Abul Hasan Najmi said the government had issued five ordinances and the laws regarding tenancy, security of sensitive places, illegal weapons, wall-chalking and loudspeakers had been amended and their violation had been declared non-bailable offense. Similarly, sentences and the amount of fine had also been increased, he added.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a senior Iraqi army officer stated, that the armed forces are ready for an offensive operation to fully liberate al-Fallujah.
Major General Fadel Barawi said in an interview with IraqiNews, The Golden Division has prepared for a full offensive to liberate the district of Fallujah from the ISIS group elements permanently.
The attack will be conducted in coordination with Anbar Operations Command, he added.
Noteworthy, Anbar province is constantly witnessing violent festivities between Iraqi forces and the ISIS group gunnies who have taken over large swaths of land in the province.
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Want to bet the ROE are a bit loser than the US had? The words "smoking rubble" come to mind.
[Iraq News] The Parliamentary Culture Committee urged on Friday to set reliable strategies to face extremism. "Mahmoud!"
"Yes, Your Odorousness!"
"Eliminate the extremists!"
Head of the Committee Maysoun al-Damlouji stated to IraqiNews.com The Iraqi society is well known of its Anti- Extremism nature but it was subject to a fierce terrorist attack that targeted all countries of the region. "[CHOP! CHOP! HACK! SLICE!]"
"Aaaaiiiieeee!"
We need to set clear strategies to fight corruption and establish secure society for the young generation in Iraq to keep the strange ideas away from our society, she added. "The extremists have been eliminated, Your Ponderousness!"
"Ew. Nasty."
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[Iraq News] The head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council Led by Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI, formerly the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, pronounced Scarey)) is not nearly as supreme as it touts itself. The al-Hakim family business is merely another political party, this one Shiite and with its power base in the south of the country. The Iranian government sponsored the party's creation in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war after the leading Iraqi Islamist group was weakened by a government crackdown. Designed as an umbrella organization to unite Iraqi Shi'a groups, the party supports Islamic government controlled by holy men. In post-Saddam Iraq ISCI has worked closely with other Shi'a organizations to provide social services and humanitarian aid. Though accused of receiving money and weapons from Iran, ISCI leaders maintain that the party is committed to democracy and peaceful cooperation. The Badr Brigade initially acted as ISCI's armed wing but later to split to form the independent Badr Organization.,
Ammar al-Hakim, discussed with the Governor of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Najim al-Din Karim, the situation in Kirkuk province.
A statement by the SIIC received by IraqiNews.com cited Hakim received Karim at his office in Baghdad where they discussed the situation in Kirkuk province and the situation of the displaced citizens.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, a local source in the Diyala province announced, that the ISIS organization replaced lashes for violators with a financial penalty in U.S. dollar east of Baquba, noting that the organization is trying to insure new resources to fund its operations.
It sounds like we're hurting them where it matters.
The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, ISISnow holed in Hawd Sherwin (46 km east of Baquba)replaced lashing offenders of orders with a fine, in an unprecedented move as part of its attempt to insure new financial resources to fund the armed operations.
The source, who requested anonymity, added, The terrorist group fined $25 for each lash for anyone able to pay the fine, pointing out that, Many of the detainees families were forced to pay the fine in gold jewelry or Iraqi currency.
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[IraqiNews.com]. On Thursday, a source in Nineveh province has revealed information about the death of the ISIS leader, known as His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , influenced by his wounds after he was hit in an air strike in Nineveh.
The source informed IraqiNews, that an information has reached the people in Nineveh indicating that the leader of the ISIS group, known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed after he was hit in an air strike by the international coalition in the area of al-Salamiyah, located southeast of Nineveh.
For his part, a tribal leader in Nineveh province has confirmed, that al-Baghdadi is currently alive, and that he was moved to a hospital in the town of Deir al-Zour, located in the ISIS-controlled territory in Syria.
Pray for sepsis -- either before or after death.
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[IsraelTimes]. Radical secret wing targets Fatah in the Strip; attempts to reconcile with Iran and Hezbollah rebuffed
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, interior minister in Gazoo, was his usual blunt self last Wednesday as he pointed fingers at the unity government and the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... for the situation in Gazoo: The [unity] government and the president are part of the siege on the Gazoo Strip, and are part of the stumbling blocks on the way to its rehabilitation.
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Something has to give, sooner rather than later.
Probably, one of the Gaza Hamas factions will have a bloody purge of the other. The likely winner being the hardline faction, which could well trigger an Egyptian invasion.
[DAWN] The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... launched a preliminary probe Friday that could clear the way for a full-scale investigation into possible war crimes in Paleostinian territories, plunging the court into the most politically charged conflict it has ever investigated.
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement she will conduct the preliminary examination with "full independence and impartiality."
The announcement comes after the Paleostinian Authority acceded to The Hague-based court's founding treaty and recognized its jurisdiction dating back to the eve of last summer's Gazoo war.
That move opened the door to an ICC investigation that could target possible crimes by both Israel, which is not a member of the court, and Paleostinians.
A preliminary examination is not an investigation, but weighs information about possible crimes and jurisdiction issues to establish whether a full investigation is merited.
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... signed documents to join the ICC a day after the UN Security Council rejected a resolution Dec. 30 that would have set a three-year deadline for the establishment of a Paleostinian state on lands occupied by Israel.
Joining the ICC is part of a broader Paleostinian strategy to pressure Israel into withdrawing from the occupied territories and agreeing to Paleostinian statehood.
Abbas had been under heavy domestic pressure to take stronger action against Israel after the 50-day war between the Jewish state and bully boyz in Gazoo over the summer, tensions over holy sites in Jerusalem and the failure of the last round of US-led peace talks.
Bensouda cast the decision to open a preliminary probe as procedural following the Paleostinians' recognition of the court. It is unclear how long the preliminary examination might take.
Bensouda said there are no timelines set in the court's founding treaty.
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[Ynet]. Diplomatic tensions between Israel and Sweden continue to peak after Paleostinian recognition, with Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom saying Israel has 'crossed all limits,'
Isn't Malmö in Sweden? What can people who accept that know of limits?
Sweden's foreign minister said on Friday Israel had irritated close allies by over-reacting to Stockholm recognizing the state of Paleostine, saying its rhetoric over the issue had "crossed all limits".
Swedish rhetoric -- and actions -- most certainly have, your excellency.
The Swedes are offended? How can you tell?
"It is unacceptable how they have been talking about us and everybody else," Margot Wallstrom said in an interview in daily Dagens Nyheter. "It has irritated not only us, but the Americans and everyone who has anything to do with them right now."
"That stiff-necked people (See? Even God doesn't like them, which proves we aren't antisemites!) is pissing everyone off by refusing to leave existence gracefully."
Relations between Israel and Sweden have nose-dived since Social Democrat Prime Minister Stefan Lofven used his inaugural address in parliament last year to announce that his country would recognize a Paleostinian state.
Israeli said the move was ill-considered, would not contribute to peace and called its ambassador back to Jerusalem for discussions. The United States said recognition was premature.
In the interview, Wallstrom said Sweden supported Israel, Paleostine and peace, but was sharply critical of Israel's policies. "Israel has been extremely aggressive," she said.
"They have continued with their settlement policies, they have continued demolitions, they have continued with their occupation policies which entail a humiliation of Paleostinians, which makes the (peace) process difficult."
Wallstroem was scheduled to arrive in Israel in mid-January in order to attend a memorial service for the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who saved Jews during the Holocaust. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... prior to the visit, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced he would boycott the Swedish Foreign Ministers visit.
"We said that it is difficult to put these meetings together, diplomatic meetings of any kind, as we approach the elections," Paul Hirschson, front man for Israel's Foreign Ministry, told Rooters.
"I would add that the atmosphere between Israel and Sweden is not exactly the best right now and that factors into the decision. But the primary issue is the timing, more than anything else."
On Thursday, Israeli officials were slightly more blunt, saying "Do not wait to travel to Israel until the Swedish foreign minister comes here, because that could take a long time," Israeli foreign ministry front man Emmanuel Nahshon told public broadcaster Swedish Radio.
"The Swedish foreign minister would not have been given any official meetings in Israel if she had traveled here. What Sweden did was an utterly unfriendly action," Nahshon added.
"It is basically an insult," Per Joensson, an editor with the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, told AFP. "That is not a way to treat a sovereign foreign minister, unless you really want to punish her."
Precisely, my dear editor. Tit for tat. Or, sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander. Or... there are so many similar sayings, I will let you choose your own.
Despite the furor, Sweden said Wallstroem would visit Israel after the March 17 election there.
"It's in everybody's interest to have good diplomatic ties and we respect that there is an election campaign in Israel now and that there is a heightened debate," foreign ministry spokeswoman Annika Soeder told Swedish Radio.
Other than to be polite, why should Israel care what Sweden thinks?
According to the Paleostinian Authority, around 135 countries have recognized the state of Paleostine including several that are now EU members.
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As I said in the past: the real enemy are not Muslims---who are just vermin needing to be reintroduced to "Fear of God"---the real enemy are Tranzi western elites.
An Islamist group that made a peace deal with the Philippine government has sent a delegation to meet with Pope Francis to discuss religion and related issues on Sunday.
On Friday, the MILF sent a delegation led by Abu Hurraira Udasan, Grand Mufti of the Philippines, and other Muslim scholars. MILF spokesperson Ghadzali Jafaar said, "Religious issues will most likely be the topic of concern... But there is really no set agenda on what will be discussed but we are glad that this meeting will happen."
Jafaar said that the grand mufti will be accompanied to the meeting by at least three Muslim scholars, sometime around the publicly held mass to be conducted by the pope. Jafaar refused to say whether the Bangsamoro Basic Law will be discussed, or if they will seek support for its passage in Congress.
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[AnNahar]. Fugitives Ousama Mansour and Shadi al-Mawlawi are reportedly recruiting youth to join al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front by running an operation cell at the southern Paleostinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hellhole.
Security information obtained by al-Akhbar newspaper on Friday reported that the two dangerous suspects are residing at the refugee camp.
The daily said that Mawlawi is the link between the emir of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front in Qalamoun, Abou Malik al-Talli, and the recruited jacket wallahs.
Mawlawi and Mansour are recruiting suicide bombers to attack certain areas in Leb and carry out al-Nusra Front's scheme in Leb, the daily added.
The two runaways have been charged in absentia with belonging to an armed terrorist group in order to stage terrorist acts.
On Thursday, the army announced the arrest of three men who were plotting to carry out terrorist operations against army posts and residential neighborhoods, noting that investigations revealed they were affiliated with the group led by Mansour and Mawlawi.
Reports also said that the executors of Saturday's twin suicide kaboom in the neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern city 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... , Taha al-Khayyal and Bilal al-Meraayan, are linked to al-Nusra Front.
Al-Nusra Front claimed the attack on a crowded cafe in the Alawite region that killed nine people and maimed 37 others.
Khayal and Meraayan had reportedly disappeared when Mawlawi and Mansour went into hiding following the deadly gunbattles with the Lebanese army in and around Tripoli in October.
Iran's Foreign Ministry denied Israeli media report about wounding Iran's Qods force's commander in Iraq. The report published by Israel’s Ch. 2 News on Jan. 13 says that Iranian Revolutionary Guards Maj.-Gen. Qassem Solaimani, who heads the Qods Force "was seriously wounded in an Islamic State (IS) suicide bombing attack near Baghdad several days ago".
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told IRNA Jan.16 that Soleimani hasn't been wounded in Iraq and is in complete health now.
Iran has confirmed its military aims to Iraq for combating against "Islamic State", formerly called ISIL.
General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said on September 24, 2014 that Soleimani have traveled to Iraq to help combating against ISIL.
"Without Soleimani's help, Da'esh (ISIL) would have taken over Kurdistan," he said.
If he's wounded, we pray for sepsis.
If he's not wounded, we pray that he's wounded, then we pray for sepsis...
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"Without Soleimani's help, Da'esh (ISIL) would have taken over Kurdistan,"
Sure, whatever you say to make you feel good about yourselves.
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[MAGHAREBIA] "They were looking for paradise, but only found hell."
Such is the condition of imported muscle in Syria, according to a Moroccan analyst. "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.... won't allow them to leave, so they won't be able to tell the world what's really happening."
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The Romans had their "Decimation", Stalin + Red Army their "Kommissar Corps", + now the ISIS/ISIL have this.
Better ISIS removing the detritus of societies than them going Sudden Jihad back home. It has a certain karma to it. Life is tough, it's a lot tougher when you're stupid.
As long as the Iraqi government remains committed to inclusivity of all the various groups inside the country, then I think Iranian influence will be positive. Followed by James Taylor singing "Gaia."
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OTOH WORLD NEWS > [Harretz News] FORMER PM [Ehud] BARAK: TO GO NUCLEAR, IRAN IS WAITING FOR THE WORLD TO BE PARALYZED.
Methinks ole' Ehud means to say Iran is waiting for the Bammer's red-line luvin FP to effec paralyze both the US + the World???
Not absolutely paralyzed, but just enough = minimally "sufficient" to justify or allow Amerika's fellow OWG Co-Superpowers to rise and define their respective "spheres of influence" in world regions formerly held, controlled, or dominated by the US-Allies.
'TIS THE REASON THE US-VS-CHINA IN ASIA-PACIFIC IS NOW US-VS-CHINA-VS-NUCLEAR-ISLAM IN SAME.
FEAR NOTTETH, OWG GLOBIES, ARGENTINA PREZ-BABE CHRISTINA WILL MAKE SURE THE MERCUSOR BLOC = OWG SOUTH AMERICAN UNION? IS KNOWN + FEARED THROUGHOUT ASIA-PACIFIC.
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.
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
[NYTimes]. o. Saïd Kouachi In an unmarked grave in the Muslim section of the city cemetary of Reims
Representative and Iraq War veteran Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) argued that the Obama administration refuses to recognize who our enemy is on Fridays Situation Room on CNN.
David Cameron
Wazoo
[DAWN] The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted a resolution Friday which strongly condemned blasphemous cartoons disrespecting Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) by French magazine 
Led by Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI, formerly the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, pronounced 
[IraqiNews.com]. On Thursday, a source in Nineveh province has revealed information about the death of the ISIS leader, known as 
International Criminal Court
[Ynet]. Diplomatic tensions between Israel and Sweden continue to peak after Paleostinian recognition, with Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom saying Israel has 'crossed all limits,'
[MAGHAREBIA] "They were looking for paradise, but only found hell."
As long as the Iraqi government remains committed to inclusivity of all the various groups inside the country, then I think Iranian influence will be positive.
