[BBC] About 80 children rescued from a 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... camp in 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... cannot remember their own names or origins, according to an aid official who visited them.
The children - aged between 5 and 18 - did not speak English, French or any local languages, says Christopher Fomunyoh, a director for the US-based National Democratic Institute (NDI).
The children were found at a camp in northern Cameroon in November.
Nigeria-based Boko Haram gunnies have extended their campaign into Cameroon.
The gunnies are fighting to establish an Islamic caliphate in north-eastern Nigeria.
They control several towns and villages in the region and recently pledged allegiance to 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) bully boys, who have seized large areas of Syria and Iraq.
'Lost touch'
The children were rescued in Cameroon after security forces - acting on a tip-off - raided what was thought to have been a Koranic school.
Mr Fomunyoh told the BBC's Randy Joe Sa'ah in Yaounde that he had visited an orphanage that was helping rehabilitate the children.
He said the children had spent so long with their captors, being indoctrinated in jihadist ideology, that they had lost track of who they were.
"They've lost touch with their parents," he said. "They've lost touch with people in their villages, they're not able to articulate, to help trace their relationships, they can't even tell you what their names are."
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind... a suspected Boko Haram attack on Tuesday killed at least six people at a marketplace in the northern Nigerian town of Maiduguri.
The suicide kaboom was reportedly carried out by a middle-aged woman.
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[WSJ] Fiscal woes couldn’t come at a worse time, as country tries to fend off extremists ... sez the Wall Street Journal in an article hidden away behind the pay wall. Without having read the article, we might point out that:
When the WoT started back in 2001 the price of oil was around $40, if I remember correctly. The growth of terrorism was funded by Saudi princes, princelings, holy men, and enthusiastic contributors who were happily cheering for the home team as they killed infidels. Then things reached critical mass as salafism spun off takfir wal hijra, and the kiddie piranhas are the ones eating the parents.
Yemen's disintegrated into a state resembling where it was in 1975, only with takfiri vying for control in Aden while the Zaidis resume the Seat of All Power in Sanaa as Persian puppets.
Qatar owns and operates the Moslem Brüderbund and has simply shifted focus from Egypt to Turkey where the coup has been successful; I think we should start flagging the doings by the Porte and Erdogan Bey as Moslem Brüderbund, which would make Qatar the money behind the Erdogan throne.
Jordan has its own infestation with the Brüderbund forming a power bloc in parliament, and lots of wannabe takfiri running around without that much check, at least not yet. Remember Zarqawi was Jordanian, and al-Maqdisi, his mentor, was sprung by a court recently.
Then there's the Islamic State. Its rise showed that we wasted our time and resources "training" the Iraqi army, which was a corruption-riddled shell made up of ghost units whose pay was going into commanders' pockets, which is about what it was under Saddam only with different commanders. What units they had ran when somebody said "boo." The Syrian army is just as incompetent. They required Hezbollah, which remember is a militia, not a full-time army, and the direct participation of the Medes and the Persians. The same combination is required in Iraq--notice the yellow flags on the Shiite militias, which fully intend biting us and the Kurds in the butt when the IS has been dealt with.
The Kurds, not being Arabs, are the ones who're carrying the freight against the IS. There are problems there, too. The "military wing" of the Kurds is a combination of the PKK (Ocelan's commies, kinda--look for the red star and the hammer and sickle on their flag) and the Peshmerga. There are some pretty intricate politix holding the mix together that I can't really follow anymore for lack of sources. Barzani and his party are in power in Kurdistan, Talabani (who used to be his deadly rival) and his party appear to be the liaison with the Baghdad government. The (Moslem Brüderbund) Turks are trying to undercut the PKK, have Ocelan in jug, and smooth things with their domestic Kurds all at the same time, which means they usually look like they don't know what the hell hey're doing.
Iran, of course, thinks the day of the Achaemenids is back only with turbans. They're actively working toward suzerainty over Iraq, Syria, Leb, Bahrain (at least among the Gulf States) and their finger in Yemen. The last would be the wedge to begin splitting off the Shiite-infested portions of Soddy Arabia, which equate coincidentally to the eastern oil fields if I recall correctly. They expect to do Cyrus the Great type things when the sanctions are lifted, despite the fact that their birthrate's dropping like a stone.
It takes lots of money to have your own army. For IS specifically, if they have a force of 30,000, and each of them gets an AK at an average (according to the most recent TWIG) of $567 apiece, and a turban ($15), face mask ($20), a pair of sneakers ($75) and a Combat Commander Gladiator Sword for cutting heads off ($25) that's $702 to turn out a light infantry fighter without a change of underwear. For 30,000 of them that works out to $21,060,000, which is a fairly hefty cut of the old zakat. Throw in a nifty camo suit for everybody -- they'll run you another fifty bucks apiece, or another $1,500,000 for only one apiece, to be worn until it falls off or the guy detonates. Black shirt and M.C.Hammer pants combos are probably similarly priced.
That's for foot cavalry, too. To transport them you've got to buy a fleet of Toyota pickups, confiscate a bunch of Humvees and 122mm self-propelled artillery pieces and BMPs and such from a fleeing Iraqi army. I don't know what the cash layout required for all that is, but you've got to put gas or diesel fuel in them to move them and you need mechanics to keep them running. If you mount DShKs (called "Dushkas" - Sweeties - from the abbreviation) or similar stylish hardware at $2250 apiece on a fleet of 1000 technicals that adds up to a mere $2,250,000.
Those are just acquisition costs. We haven't computed the gas and oil and maintenance costs. But we can take a crack at computing the cost of paying those 30,000 light infantry gathered from all the uncivilized quarters of the world a minimum of $300 every month: $9,000,000. Then you have to feed the little bearded darlings, which probably works out to around $10 a day or another $300 a month, which brings the beans cost up to $18,000,000 a month, or a bare subsistence cost of $216,000,000 a year.
That's the beans. I have no idea what 12.7mm ammunition costs for the Sweeties, but TWiG sez 7.62mm AK rounds go for .24 apiece, so every time somebody blows off a 30-round clip having gun sex he's shooting of $7.20. One session of gun sex a day for 30,000 Islamic heroes works out to $260,000 ejaculated in some direction or the other. Do that every day for a year and it's $78,840,000.
They do like using Katyushas for artillery support. At $1000 per rocket, a salvo of 24 Grad rocket should work out to about $24,000. I think the 107mm are cheaper than the 122mm, but you get the idea.
Total bare bones beans and bullets works out to $294,840,000, not counting fuel costs and artillery support.
Where's the money come from? Oh, dear. Oil prices are down. That means sell more drugs, run more whorehouses, rob more banks and heist more jewels. And soak Moslems living in the West for more "charity," because it's their religious duty and they have to cheer for the home team.
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The Bloomberg jewel heist article refers to an AFP article on the subject, but misses a key bit in the opening sentence of the An Nahar version:
A group of "battle-hardened" armed thieves...
I read that early this morning, thought it an odd description, but didn't think to connect it with jihadis.
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The "military wing" of the Kurds is a combination of the PKK (Ocelan's commies, kinda--look for the red star and the hammer and sickle on their flag)
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Filed under Fred Explains It All. If I had PrezBO's email address, I'd send him a copy. No, not the president@whitehouse.gov one, I mean his personal AOL account.
[NEWS.XINHUANET] Saudi King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... bin Abdulaziz Al Saud decreed the elimination of discrimination between segments of society and diversifying income resources to be less dependent on oil revenues, according to Saudi Press Agency on Tuesday.
He highlighted the decree in a speech addressing the nation in the presence of top government officials and citizens. He said he instructed the interior minister to call princes of districts to meet with citizens to eliminate reasons for discrimination.
He stressed that all citizens are equal in their rights and duties.
The high oil prices in previous years contributed to the booming economy and implementation of substantial projects, therefore work will continue as a strong economy that is based on diverse income resources, he said, stressing that the effects of low oil prices on development will be addressed.
He clarified that modernization will continue in accordance to the religious and social values and the safeguarding of security.
He added that there are many plots against the nation, particularly its youth, hence citizens and residents must be cognizant of the fact that security is everyone's responsibility.
King Salman became ruler of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in January following the death of his brother King Abdullah.
He promised to maintain a similar approach as his brother's and other Al Saud rulers before him.
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Next comes defining 'citizens'.
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They all are learning they cannot count on the US anymore so King Abdulla, General Sisi and the new Saudi King are going to form a new compact that while it wont recognize Israel, they will not be hostile to it. Their real enemy is Iran and they know it.
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[Dhaka Tribune] At least five youths in jeans pants and T-shirts hacked writer-blogger Avijit Roy to death on Dhaka University campus. His wife, who was severely injured while trying to defend herself, also says she will be able to identify them.
In their mid-20s, the youths were clean-shaven, Avijit's wife Rafida Ahmed Bonna told her father-in-law Prof Ajay Roy over the phone recently.
Detectives earlier said two youths had carried out the pre-planned attack on Avijit on a footpath near the TSC intersection while a dozen others, suspected accomplices, tailed the couple as they left the book fair premises.
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[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] The families of the three London girls who flew to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to join Isis in Syria told MPs of their anger that police failed to tell them that a close schoolfriend had already linked up with Lion of Islam fighters.
They told MPs they had no idea the teenagers had been radicalised, but protested that they might have been able to act if they had been warned that a fellow pupil had recently travelled to the warzone.
The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, apologised that his officers had failed to communicate more directly with the families.
But he insisted there was nothing more the force could have done to prevent the departures of Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15.
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Wasn't our fault we raised our kids wrong and didn't have a clue. And weren't watching. And stuff.
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Personally I think the family knew and supported the girls.
[CBC.CA] A Russian human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... activist says that one of two men charged in the murder of vocal opposition leader Boris Nemtsov showed signs of torture and may have offered a confession under extreme duress, the BBC reported Wednesday.
Zaur Dadaev Related to Djokar Dudaev?
was locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in Ingushetia, a region in the North Caucasus, on Saturday and taken to Moscow, where he was formally charged along with another suspect, Anzor Gubashev.
Russian state-controlled media reported earlier this week that Dadaev had confessed his guilt in a verbal statement, though the judge residing over his first hearing said that confession was not made in court.
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[NEWS.XINHUANET] Forensic tests indicate that a former Chechen police official, now under arrest, is the man who rubbed out Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
Russia's Interfax news agency has quoted a source in law enforcement authorities. But the source says the perpetrator could only be confirmed when the murder weapon is found.
The Chechen ex-policeman, Zaur Dadayev, with another man, has been charged by Russian authorities. They are among five men, all ethnic Chechens, now in jug. Dadayev has confessed to involvement in the crime.
Interfax said Sherlocks are pursuing the line that the killing may have been motivated by Nemtsov's controversial remarks about Islam. Investigators have also identified foreign contacts of the suspects, and are investigating phone records.
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Weren't there some questions long ago that some of the outrages (including the one in a theater) that were blamed on Chechen rebels, were actually the work of the police?
Could this murder be a similar thing, just a different faction of Chechens?
[Ynet] Chinese officials said Tuesday that members of the country's Moslem Uighur ethnic minority have gone overseas to fight with 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.... group, which controls sections of Syria and Iraq, and returned to take part in plots at home.
Authorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistain, will strengthen their crackdown on terrorism and extremism as a result, regional representatives said at a discussion on the sidelines of China's legislature.
Xinjiang has seen repeated violence as members of the Moslem Uighur minority group have bristled under what they say is repressive Chinese government rule. Attacks blamed on Uighurs have also occurred in other parts of the country, including a car which plowed into Beijing's Tiananmen Gate in 2013, killing five people.
"There are Uighurs that have fled overseas and joined the Islamic State," said Zhang Chunxian, Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang. "The organization has a huge international influence and Xinjiang can't keep aloof from it and we have already been affected. We have also found that some who fought returned to Xinjiang to participate in terrorist plots." He didn't elaborate.
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Well if anyone knows what to do with them itcwould be the Chinese.
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Gives them the excuse they wanted to go after the Uighurs. Not saying its unjustified, but that it is rather convenient.
[AnNahar] A westerner pictured alongside 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.... group fighters and dubbed "Britannia's white jihadi" is in fact an Australian teenager who converted to Islam, a report said Monday.
A photo of the meek-looking youth, holding a rifle and sitting in between two jihadists with a black IS flag in the background, emerged on Twitter in late December.
At the time the krazed killer group, which has run rampant through swathes of Iraq and Syria, hailed his recruitment as "a major coup" with the British media dubbing him "Britannia's white jihadi".
Doubts about the authenticity of the picture subsequently emerged after a blogger claimed he had fabricated the image to hoax the British press.
But Australia's Fairfax Media said the photograph had now been positively identified by friends of the teenager and members of two mosques in Melbourne.
It identified him as a former high-achieving 18-year-old student called Jake, declining to reveal his full name at the request of a family member.
He was described as a maths whiz who attended the Craigieburn Secondary College in Melbourne but dropped out in the middle of last year after converting to Islam and buying a one-way ticket to Istanbul en route to Iraq and Syria.
His identification came after Australia stopped two teenage brothers at Sydney airport believed to be heading to the Middle East to fight, amid growing concern in Western countries over young people joining jihadist groups.
That case followed three British schoolgirls leaving their London homes to join IS in Syria in February.
"He used to come here when we had a big lecture," Abu Zaid, a committee member of the Hume Islamic Youth Centre in Coolaroo, told Fairfax Media of Jake.
"He was a very quiet guy, he stuck to himself. We weren't close to him. I didn't see any of the people (getting) close to him."
The newspaper said the youth now goes by the Islamic names Abdur Raheem or Abu Abdullah.
It said that two months after his disappearance, he contacted his family to tell them he was in Iraq training for a "martyrdom mission" with a boom jacket.
He later called again to say he was "too scared to do it and he prefers being a soldier" and was planning to travel to Syria.
Around 140 Australians have traveled to fight with IS and other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, with another 150 supporting them at home, the government has said.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said indoctrination was happening in unexpected places and that the government was dealing with the issue.
"Too many Australians, it seems, are being brainwashed online by this death cult," he said, referring to IS.
"Very importantly, we are about to begin a very big campaign to try to counter the influence that the death cult has, particularly online on vulnerable Australians."
Abbott did not provide further details, but last month flagged changes to immigration laws to allow the government to revoke or suspend Australian citizenship for dual nationals implicated in terrorism.
There are also plans for returning imported muscle to be prosecuted or monitored under control orders, while Canberra has pledged a crackdown on organizations that incite religious or racial hatred.
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The Teenies are repor claiming that their Jihad will make the 9-11 attack on NYC look like Kiddie play.
Love that picture, bieberended by the two harhar boyz doing that same mouth thingy the runway models do. So bad somebody claimed they photoshoped it. And that isn't an elbow, its a hinge.
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Down by the Euphrates, that's where I want to be,
Lying in the sand with the Isis company:
A comrade at me front and another one in me rear
As we hiss Koranic verses into one another's ears
[Breitbart UK] A former French interior minister has said that dangerous jihadis should not be kept in prisons on France's mainland but shipped off to islands to "isolate" them and prevent prisons becoming a breeding ground for radicals. Appears the advancing years have not negatively impacted his ability to arrive at workable, common sense solutions.
Charles Pasqua, 88, made the suggestion amid warnings that up to 10,000 Europeans could join Islamic State forces in Iraq and Syria by the end of this year, the Telegraph reports.
He made the comments on France 2 during a discussion about Cherif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly, two of the three gunmen who killed 17 people in two attacks in January, who had met in prison.
In a rare piece of good news for Greek leaders, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) confirmed Tuesday that it has been forced to throw the cash-strapped country a half-billion-euro lifeline.
After a week in which the Eurogroup of finance ministers and the European Central Bank turned the screws on Athens, the 555 million euros ($593 million) will give its radical new government a brief respite from its creditors.
In the increasingly fraught battle of wills with Brussels and Berlin, the decision is a rare victory for Athens with economist Edward Hugh tweeting, "Eurogroup just blinked."
The Luxembourg-based ESM had initially been reluctant to part with the money, according to the semi-official Athens news agency.
But with Greece having to find eight billion euros in March alone to meet its debts -- 1.5 billion of that to the IMF -- the relief the sum gives to the anti-austerity coalition is only relative.
Athens' surprise new windfall comes from prefential shares the Greek government took to recapitalise banks at the height of the financial crisis and from money later poured into the Hellenic Financial Stabilzation Fund (HFSF) as a part of a Europe-wide effort to guarantee the banks.
The facility fund was set up in 2010 to help keep banks afloat in EU countries initially worst hit by the crisis, including Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
ESM director general Klaus Regling had hinted after a crunch Eurogroup meeting in Brussels on Monday night that "we will certainly not have any claim on that amount" before the final confirmation came that the money could go back to Athens.
"The EFSF does not have a stake in this as this sum is related to activities that took place before the EFSF disbursed money to Greece," a spokesman for the fund said Tuesday.
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Wasn't something like this going on the last time civilization collapsed? Whatta they got besides the usual Avars, Huns, Vandals, Ostrogoths, and that sort of riff-raff?
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So the next Greek-Turk war will occur in Germany?
[Ynet] Austrian police have charged eight participants in the country's first protest against perceived "Islamization" with yelling "Heil Hitler!" and other actions that contravene Austria's anti-Nazi laws. Police say the suspects, seen on photos and videos, have yet to be identified.
And to think that the real Nazis loved their Moslem pets.
Beyond shouting slogans, police front man Roman Hahslinger said Tuesday that some suspects flashed the Hitler salute or other gestures associated with the Nazis during last month's demonstration, which was modeled after Germany's PEGIDA movement. Austrian law prohibits gestures, words and actions linked to the Nazi regime.
After speechifying about the Senators that sent "the letter" to Iran, Ms. Clinton spent beaucoup time looking down at something while "formulating her answers" (see 12:11, 12:26, 12:48, etc.). Then, towards the end of the speech, she began putting away papers (see 15:25 and 16:31.).
If you are going to hold an "impromptu" presser, it is best for both the press and the official to be properly prepared? (We used to call it "salting.").
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Infidel Oppression by cutting off their welfare and EBTs
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Was Papa fleeing possible prosecution?
Not that I'm aware of, Deacon Blues. He seems to have just given up on the American Dream for himself and his family after the boys went so bad. Mama fears coming back to answer for shoplifting charges, but he divorced her. The daughters stayed in America, where they've gotten in trouble for shoplifting, involvement with petty money forgers, and threatening to sic bombers on the new girlfriend of an old boyfriend, and one is sharing an apartment with Tsarnaev's widow and baby daughter, who chose to cling to her husband's religion rather than stay with her parents and return to their Christian faith. Not everyone can figure out how to catch America's gold (or silver or even brass) ring.
[The News (Pak)] FAISALABAD: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday issued death warrants for two convicted murderers.
Sources said that the two convicts would be executed in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... 's Central Prison on March 13.
They said Sajid alias Talu and Muhammad Akhtar were handed down death sentence in 2001 and 1999 respectively after being proven guilty in murder cases.
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[ARA] 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.... group (IS/ISIS) issued a statement threatening any civilian leaves the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Nineveh province, northwestern Iraq, will be considered an "apostate" and will be consequently beheaded, and his private property will be confiscated by the group, locals reported on Tuesday.
Speaking to ARA News, a local source from Mosul said (under the condition of anonymity) that the IS bully boyz have provided residents of the city with new instructions over loudspeakers in the military cars and in the city's mosques, as well as through public posters.
"Now we are under house arrest. Nobody is allowed to leave the city," he said.
He explained that these warnings came one day after the U.S.-led international coalition's warplanes dropped scraps of paper advising residents to evacuate the city and stay away from the radical group's locations, especially with the imminent launch of military operations against the group in the city.
A military operation by the Iraqi government forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga is expected in the coming days, aimed at regaining the city of Mosul --which has been under IS control for nearly nine months.
The source also added that the civilians' living conditions are unbearable, and unemployment reached the highest rates in the city, "due to the ongoing restrictions and suppression by the group".
"All civilians in Mosul have turned into human shields by the IS terrorists," he told ARA News.
Noteworthy, the Iraqi central government in Baghdad had announced that they are going launch a military operation in cooperation with the Kurdish Peshmerga and some allies to regain the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group. The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a press statement last week that the operation of regaining Mosul has begun.
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[NEWS.XINHUANET] King Abdullah II of Jordan called on Moslems Tuesday to join the fight against 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.... during a speech at the European Parliament (EP).
The Jordanian monarch said the terrorists' acts ran counter to basic Islamic values, such as mercy, peace and tolerance. "These gunnies have made the world's Moslems their greatest target," he said, "We will not allow them to hijack our faith."
"Our world faces an assault by gunnies with a ruthless ambition," he added. "The motive is not faith, it is power pursued by ripping apart countries and communities in sectarian conflicts and inflicting suffering across the world."
The King also stressed the need for respect in creating an inclusive society. "Attacking and excluding others, insulting other peoples and their faith and convictions, this is no way forward," he told MEPs. "The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes."
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My truck is this jihad shows up every hundred years or so. They kill a bunch of people and then have to be put down like dogs.
Having seen no up-side of Islam makes it difficult for me to help the moderates"".
It is, after all, a cult.
An Arab Marauders cult with tainted Scripture from Pharasi.
90 percent of the docket is the moslem world in some stupid or brutal bullshit in a daily cycle.
I AM torn.
It is not cool to just cancel a religion that most zombies believe in, even in most just do it to get by or cash - it is so GD CORRUPT.
To express this massive fraud isolates such Leaders we need.
So, do the re-define it, or is this just corrupt beyond ability of control?
I Am in favor of rolling with them to see if they have the moxie to put a dent in this.
Until the time is called, they have a chance to create their own fate from this point forward.
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is there freedom of religion in Islamic countries?
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How can they hijack it when they're following it?
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Dog chasing tail, it only hurts when he catches it.
King Abdullah II of Jordan probably one of the sanest rulers in ME, the Amir of Dubai is a close to the top and a few others.
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[TEHRANTIMES] Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi was elected as chairman of Iran's Assembly of Experts on Tuesday.
Ayatollah Mohammad Momen and Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ... the fourth President of Iran. He was a member of the Assembly of Experts until he was eased out in 2011 He continues, for the moment, as Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council. In 2005 he ran for a third term as president, ultimately losing to rival Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Khamenei's graces back then. In 1980 Rafsanjani survived an assassination attempt, during which he was seriously injured. He has been described as a centrist and a pragmatic conservative without all that much reason. He is currently being eased out of any position of actual influence or power and may be dead by the end of 2012... were the other contenders for the post.
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was also among the candidates, but later he withdrew his candidacy.
Ayatollah Yazdi was elected as chairman by winning 47 votes out of a total number of 73 in the second round of election.
Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani won 24 votes.
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Which removed one of the obstacles for naming a replacement for Supreme Leader Khamenei (part of the Assembly of Experts' duties.)
Background: Ayatollah Yazdi is a hardliner (surprise,) but he is a fundamentalist scholar rather than a politician. He is, or was, considered an outside chance to replace Khameini:
Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, 80. Professor “Crocodile” (or Temsah, which mockingly rhymes with Mesbah), is close to Khamenei and spearheads the fiery fringe of the ultraconservative right, also known as the Principlists. At one stage, he ardently backed then president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the rising star of the younger generation of neoconservatives (other than their generally lay, security backgrounds, “neoconservatives” are almost ideologically indistinguishable from the clerical “ultras”).
Mesbah-Yazdi presides over the Haqqani seminary, a leading hardline institution in Qom where notable pro-regime clerics – especially ministers of Intelligence – have been schooled, and openly abhors democracy in favor of an absolutist interpretation of clerical rule. More than this, he publicly encourages violence against reformers, whom he infamously likened to the AIDS virus. Among the clerical ultras, Mesbah-Yazdi also possibly represents such figures as secretary of the Guardian Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who might have been a candidate himself but for his advanced age (87).
However, Mesbah-Yazdi’s extreme comments disturb even some among the hardline conservatives and little evidence exists to suggest he enjoys widespread support in general, let alone for the top job. Besides, there is also his starting age. (Khomeini, exceptionally, became Supreme Leader at the age of 77.)
[RUDAW.NET] The liberated Kurdish town of Kobane has opened its first school after coalition-backed Kurdish fighters liberated the town from ISIS militant earlier this year, sources in the area said.
According to reports, the Kurdish militia known as the People’s Protection Unit (YPG) reopened a local primary school with 10 teachers and an estimated 250 children. Many of the students returned to the city with their families after the liberation.
The school, named Shahid Osman primary school, consists of eight classes and has basic educational facilities. It provides educational materials designed for children from age 7 to 15.
The ethnically Kurdish city, in an area known as Rojava, was liberated from ISIS militants in January. Before ISIS was driven out, the city was almost completely destroyed and most civilians fled to neighboring countries.
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The Assassins had their hashish to provide dreams of Paradise. ISIS, the new and improved jihad, has juiced up meth to give the users courage and block pain, while coming down from the high is a nasty encouragement to remind any dhimmis within reach of their place in the universal order.
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I don't think that is your daddy's Moslem faith...if half of this is true no wonder the Saudis have their robes in a knot.
[RUDAW.NET] There is no coordination between US and Iranian forces in the war against 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) in Iraq, the US State Department said.
Asked if Washington is opposed to the presence of Iranian forces fighting in Iraq, State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State... told news hounds in Washington Monday that the best way for Iraq to counter the threat from the group -- known as ISIS or ISIL -- is to strengthen its own security forces.
"Iraq can best counter the threat from ISIL with a government and security forces that are inclusive, and if the interests of all groups are respected," she said at a media briefing.
"With respect to the activities of any country in Iraq, including Iran, we believe strongly that Iraq's illusory sovereignty must be respected and the Government of Iraq must focus on strengthening its internal political and security situation -- institutions in an inclusive way," she added.
"We're not coordinating with the Iranians; nothing has changed in that regard," she said.
Psaki refused to elaborate on any US or coalition role in the current military offensive to recapture Tikrit, the administrative center of Salahaddin governorate, an ongoing battle that is now in its ninth day.
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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.
[BBC] About 80 children rescued from a 
[WSJ] Fiscal woes couldn’t come at a worse time, as country tries to fend off extremists
[RUDAW.NET] The liberated Kurdish town of Kobane has opened its first school after coalition-backed Kurdish fighters liberated the town from ISIS militant earlier this year, sources in the area said.
