[AnNahar] Afghanistan on Tuesday vowed action against Taliban-allied Uzbek Lions of Islam after they posted a video purportedly showing the beheading of a former Afghan soldier, highlighting their apparent tilt towards 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.
A local commander of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which has so far held a low profile in Afghanistan, was recently reported to have pledged support to the Islamic State jihadists.
The Taliban have seen defections to IS in recent months, with some Lions of Islam voicing their disaffection with their one-eyed supreme leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... who has not been seen since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
IMU's footage, circulating on social media, bore the hallmarks of IS execution videos that have brought global notoriety to the group that captured swathes of territory straddling Iraq and Syria.
It shows a kneeling man who identified himself as an Afghan soldier and two masked men -- one of them brandishing a knife.
Just before the killing the gunnies warned that the ethnic Hazaras they were holding would meet the same fate if the government did not agree to their demands, which were not specified in the video.
The footage could not be independently verified by AFP and it was not clear whether the gunnies were referring to the high-profile abduction of 31 Hazara minorities in February in southern Afghanistan.
The kidnappings triggered speculation that the men had been seized by Afghan Lions of Islam who have pledged allegiance to IS.
"The (National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... ) has started its investigation into this inhuman and un-Islamic action and will find the perpetrators and bring them to justice," the Afghan intelligence agency said on Twitter, referring to the execution.
"This video is not linked to the kidnapping of 31 of our countrymen," it said, adding that the victim was a former soldier.
The video marks something of a departure for IMU, said Borhan Osman, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul.
"It used to operate in coordination with and under the eyes of the Taliban," Osman told AFP.
"Now IMU leaders appear to be tilting heavily towards the Islamic State and have started openly expressing doubts about the status of Mullah Omar's life and active leadership."
"Copying IS and even ultimately allying with it is a likely future trajectory for IMU in the region," Osman said.
The Afghan government has raised the ominous prospect of the IS making inroads into the country, though the group has never formally acknowledged having a presence in Afghanistan.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The umbrella body of Moslems in the country has pledged to start vetting preachers and what they teach in madrasas to tame radicalisation of youth.
The Supreme Council of Kenya Moslems (Supkem) on Tuesday unveiled its "emergency programme" to check the lure of Moslems youth into joining Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... , the Somalia-based terrorist group blamed for the Garissa massacre.
"We will respond to this problem with the seriousness it deserves," said Mr Adan Wachu, the Supkem secretary-general.
"We will be putting all our Imams and preachers, be it in Northeastern, at the Coast, in Nairobi or anywhere in Kenya, to speak with one voice with the view of taking inventory of all mosques and madrasas."
Mr Wachu, whose organizations is in charge of all mosques and Moslem educational centres in the country, said the new measures will weed out Imams who have been recruiting fighters for Al-Shabaab.
On Tuesday, Attorney-General Githu Muigai told the Nation that his office will continue meeting religious leaders to finalise regulations that will tame religious centres used by rogue preachers.
"Those (religious leaders) who want to be part of this, and they are many, have already joined us and we are having a very healthy debate one the way forward. Those who don't want to be part of this, we will leave the law to take its course on them," Prof Muigai said in a telephone interview.
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just like us they need to ban sharia
charge those who violate state laws by adhering to sharia with their crime then add the treason charge on top. they'll get the message
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Air strikes on Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... bases in Somalia on Sunday were not in retaliation to the killings at the Garissa University College, Kenya Defence Forces front man David Obonyo has said.
Col Obonyo on Tuesday said the two bases had long been identified for attack.
He also denied reports that civilians and livestock were killed during the attack.
Kenyan troops used helicopter gunships to destroy the operational bases which Al-Shabaab fighters use to organise themselves before sneaking into Kenya.
"The Garissa attack was just a coincidence because the bases had been identified earlier. And it is not also true non-combatants were killed in the bombing. Our actions are usually based on credible intelligence which also must go through verification," said Colonel Obonyo.
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[AnNahar] Libya's internationally recognized parliament said Tuesday it has uncovered "new elements" behind the 2012 liquidation of the U.S. ambassador when the American consulate was stormed in eastern city Benghazi.
"I have been tasked today with leading a team of inquiry," Tareq Saqar al-Jeruchi, deputy head of the parliament's security and defense committee, told AFP.
He said the team had "new elements on the real perpetrators of the attack" and would work closely with the FBI and Congressional commissions of inquiry, although he did not elaborate on the identities of the assailants.
A Libyan parliamentary delegation is to travel to the United States for consultations with members of Congress, Jeruchi said.
Christopher Stevens, the ambassador, and three other Americans were killed in the September 11, 2012 attack on the consulate that was said at the time to be the work of jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... , which Washington has branded a "terrorist" organization.
U.S. special forces seized a Libyan national, Ahmed Abu Khattala, as a chief suspect in a 2014 raid near Benghazi and handed him over to American judicial authorities.
Libya has been run by two governments and two parliaments since August, when an Islamist-backed militia alliance overran the capital 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... The government recognized by the international community fled to the country's far east and set up in the city of Tobruk.
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Evidently there's the possibility of stray facts out there, plus the need for 'choir practice' (i.e. the need to make sure that everybody sings the same song.)
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Islamic Movie Critics™
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Mystery Theatre 3100.
Inshallah, this movie is short.
If it's not short we'll cut off the headings.
LOLLOLLOL
I I must go!
Bang bang bang bang clatter clatter clatter clatter
[DAWN] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iran agreed on the need for a political solution to Yemen's war, which has raised tensions between them, Iran's president said Tuesday after talks with his visiting Turkish counterpart.
The two countries are at odds over Yemen. Ankara has accused Tehran of backing Houthis there and, in turn, being charged with fuelling tensions in the region.
"We talked about Iraq, Syria, Paleostine... We had a long discussion about Yemen. We both think war and bloodshed must stop in this area immediately and a complete ceasefire must be established and the strikes must stop" in Yemen, Iran's Hassan Rouhani said during a joint presser broadcast by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... made no remarks about Yemen, but talked at length about bilateral relations with Iran.
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Sorry, guys -- we don't even rescue our own ambassadors, so why would we care about unimportant people like you?
[AnNahar] The United States admitted Monday that it has no immediate plans to rescue its nationals stranded in war-torn Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... and urged them to flee the raging conflict by sea.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf could not tell news hounds how many American civilians are thought to be caught up in the conflict, as citizens of other nations take to ships.
But she said U.S. authorities would contact those that it could, and advise them of opportunities to board ships from allied nations docking to pick up their own nationals.
"At this point, we have encouraged all U.S. citizens to shelter and secure locations until they're able to depart safely. The airports are still closed, is my understanding," she said.
A protest website representing Yemeni Americans -- stuckinyemen.com -- has accused Washington of abandoning dual nationals last month it its haste to close its embassy in Yemen.
Asked about a claim that 200 U.S. citizens have signed up to the site, Harf said officials had been unable to confirm the figure and urged them to sign on to a State Department list.
La Belle France has evacuated 63 foreign nationals from the Yemeni port of Balhaf and frigates from the Chinese and Indian navies have rescued 450 and 100 people respectively from Hodeida.
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Yeah it's not like 'success' stories have anything but happy endings so there is no need for contingency rescue plans.
If bambi ran a cruise line the entire fleet would be named Titanic, and oh by the way, hold the lifeboats.
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Not a surprise. The State Department hates Americans abroad and will do nothing for them. This situation is not a surprise.
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Not a surprise. The State Department hates Americans abroad and will do nothing for them. This situation is not a surprise. Posted by: Big Jiper1622
Edited for brevity: The State Dept. hates Americans.
[ARABNEWS] The Council of Ministers on Monday said that the Saudi-led operation in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... has the support of Yemenis in the Kingdom and the international community because it seeks to restore the legitimate government and bring peace and stability to that war-torn nation.
The weekly meeting was chaired by King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques 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.... at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh.
It noted the heroic efforts of the coalition forces in neutralizing the military capacity of the Houthi myrmidons, said Minister of Culture and Information Adel Al-Toraifi.
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... appreciates the support of the Yemeni community for Operation Decisive Storm.
The ministers said the coalition does not seek a war but wants to protect the Yemeni people.
This is why the operation has been hailed by Arab and Islamic nations, and the wide international community, said Al-Toraifi.
The Cabinet also expressed hope that the nuclear framework agreement struck with Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , recently would ensure the safety and security of the region.
It said the Kingdom and the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... support nations wanting to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes in line with the standards and procedures of the ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency.
The aim would be to create a region free of all weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, said Al-Toraifi.
The Cabinet stressed that the security in the region requires a commitment to the principles of good neighborliness and non-interference in the internal affairs of Arab countries.
The ministers also welcomed the announcement of the International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (ICC) that it formally accepted the State of Paleostine as a full member.
They believe that Paleostine's accession to the ICC would help restore the rights of the Paleostinians.
According to Al-Toraifi, the Council of Ministers again called on the international community to end the "Syrian tragedy which has become a humanitarian catastrophe."
The meeting was inaugurated by Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, emir of Kuwait, who said the Kingdom has spared no effort in providing assistance to Syrian refugees. He said Saudi aid to the Syrian people since 2011 has exceeded $600 million.
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[ARABNEWS] Humanitarian aid was among the priorities of the coalition while providing protection to all nationals including India, China and Pakistain, the Saudi-coalition announced on Monday, reaffirming the evacuation of 11 Red Thingy workers.
Brig. Gen. Ahmad Al-Assiri, a consultant at the Defense Minister's office, said that they are facilitating additional flights to evacuate other nationals, emphasizing the coalition's commitment to facilitate the evacuation according to agreed procedures.
"The safety of Yemeni citizens remains our top priority," said the official.
Al-Assiri said: "The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias are still showing hostile acts against the population and citizens -- not military targets -- stressing that work is continuing with the People's Committees and tribes, who have begun heading to Aden to help the resistance there in defense of the city."
According to the front man, the murderous Moslems freed dangerous Al-Qaeda members in a desperate attempt to gain the group's support to fight with their side.
"They (terrorists) are fighting with hit-and-run tactics as they have no option except to mingle within the population to avoid coalition fire, while also under fire from regular Yemeni forces and the People's Committees," he noted adding that the Houthis are slowly becoming isolated and have no option but to cause panic in the community.
He said air operations are ongoing and logistical aid is also reaching its targets.
The Kingdom's borders are being strongly guarded and monitored by Saudi forces.
Al-Assiri said that within 24 hours they have destroyed military camps, ammunition stores and targeted the Oqan bridge leading from the north toward Aden, which was being used for militia movement, explaining that the coalition does not intend to totally destroy these bridges but some parts of them would prevent the Houthis from using them.
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Since the US won't take care of its own, perhaps they can help the Americans there, too.
[AnNahar] Fighting in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... over the past few weeks has killed more than 540 people and maimed 1,700 as the country sinks deeper into a multi-sided conflict, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday.
"More than 540 people have been killed and some 1,700 others maimed by the violence in Yemen since 19 March," WHO front man Christian Lindmeier told journalists, specifying that the toll was up to April 6.
UNICEF meanwhile said at least 74 children have been confirmed killed and 44 maimed since March 26, but added that it believed the toll to be far higher. More than 100,000 people have been displaced by the violence, UNICEF said.
"Children are paying an intolerable price for this conflict," UNICEF Yemen Representative Julien Harneis said in a statement.
"They are being killed, maimed and forced to flee their homes, their health threatened and their education interrupted. These children should be immediately afforded special respect and protection by all parties to the conflict, in line with international humanitarian law."
A UNICEF front man said an estimated one million children have been unable to attend school.
The front man, Christophe Boulierac, explained that the corpse count for children included those killed by direct combat and those from indirect causes, with fighting affecting health services, vaccinations and access to drinking water.
Fierce festivities raged Monday between rebels and loyalists in southern Yemen as the Red Thingy faced delays to urgently needed aid deliveries.
Relief workers have warned of a dire situation in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, where a Saudi-led coalition is waging an air war on the Iran-backed Huthi Iranian catspaws.
[AnNahar] The United States has stepped up weapons deliveries in support of a Saudi-led coalition resisting the advance of Iranian catspaws in Yemen, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
"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... is sending a strong message to the Huthis and their allies that they cannot overrun Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... by force," Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken told news hounds in the Saudi capital.
"In support of that effort we have expedited weapons deliveries," he said after talks with Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman and other Saudi officials.
"We've increased our intelligence sharing, and we've established a joint coordination planning cell in the Saudi operations center."
[AnNahar] British police said Tuesday they were investigating a report that two teenagers, who come from the same town as one of the 2005 London jacket wallahs, may have joined 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.... jihadists in Syria.
The two 17-year-olds from Dewsbury in northern England are believed to have boarded a flight from Manchester to Dalaman in southwest The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on March 31, the regional police force said in a statement.
"We are extremely concerned for the safety of these two boys," the statement said. "Our priority is for their safe return; their families are gravely worried about them and want them home." How about if the priority becomes protection of Britain from the likes of them?
Assistant Chief Constable Mark Milsom said: "Syria is an extremely dangerous place and the public will be aware of the dangers these boys may face. The "boys" are the same age I was when I joined the Army.
"The choice of returning home from Syria is often taken away from those that come under the control of Islamic State, leaving their families in the UK devastated and with very few options to secure their safe return," Milsom said. On the other hand, once they're experienced head choppers you really don't want them back in dear olde Yorkshire or wherever it is.
British media reported that one of the teenagers is a relative of Hammaad Munshi, who is the grandson of a leading Islamic scholar in Dewsbury. In 2008, Munshi became the youngest Briton ever to be found guilty of terror offenses. Runs in the family, does it?
He was 16 when he was nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in a police crackdown on an turban cell and was found guilty of distributing detailed instructions online on how to make napalm, explosives, detonators and grenades. Normal Islamic 16-year-old hi jinx.
Dewsbury was also the hometown of Mohammad Sidique Khan, the ringleader of four homegrown suicide bombers who carried out the July 7, 2005 bombings which killed 52 people on three Underground trains and a bus in London. Nice place, Dewsbury.
The news comes just days after six people were arrested leaving the seaport of Dover on suspicion of Syria-related terror offenses. Nine Britons were also arrested trying to cross over from Turkey to Syria last week. Hundreds of Britons are believed to have joined the Islamic State group in Syria in recent months despite a new law that reinforces security checks at airports. Maybe it's because your priority's getting them back instead of keeping them the hell out.
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Apparently, as per NEWS KERALA > MUSLIM LAWYER SAYS ISLAMIC STATE JIHAD AKIN TO "BEATLES, ONE DIRECTION, AND [Justin] BIEBER FOR BRITISH TEENAGERS.
So IIUC this is the Obama Generation's idea of running away from home to be a Famous Rock-n-Roll Groupie or other Wannabe???
[Ynet] About 190 people have traveled from the Netherlands to fight in overseas "jihadi conflicts," some 35 have returned home and 30 have been killed, the Dutch justice ministry said Tuesday.
The ministry published the latest figures without a specific breakdown of what countries the 190 had traveled to. Most are believed to have gone to Syria and Iraq. It also maintained its terror threat level at the second-highest: "substantial."
According to the latest threat assessment, although there are no "concrete signs" of possible attacks, deadly terror incidents in Paris and Copenhagen and a foiled plot in neighboring Belgium "underscore ... the threat against Europe and therefore also against the Netherlands."
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And how many of peace-loving tolera,t Muslims have left to fight those who are supposed not to be Triue Muslims (tm) and Defilers of Isalm(R)? Zero?
[AnNahar] The EU's top immigration official on Tuesday said the bloc was "concerned" by its existing asylum regulations and was looking at ways to amend them with large numbers of migrants fleeing conflict crossing the Mediterranean.
"I know the Greek government is concerned by (the regulations) -- the European Commission is also concerned," European migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said during a visit to Athens.
"There is a collective conscience that something must now change," the commissioner, who is also Greek, said after talks with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
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[Ynet] The German government plans to spend millions of euros on boosting security at its embassies and consulates in crisis regions to provide greater protection from the threat of attacks by bully boys, Spiegel Online reported on Monday.
It cited an internal paper from the foreign ministry as saying the security situation for German representations abroad had recently worsened.
It also said the situation in Iraq was "dramatically" coming to a head and also mentioned the consulate in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region.
Spiegel Online cited the document as saying that increasing dangers meant it was necessary to adjust security arrangements and that the country's representative offices abroad urgently needed improved protection.
It said new threats, such as attacks where jacket wallahs clear the way to well-secured buildings and are then followed by gangs and attacks using unmanned drones, had been identified as additional challenges that required immediate action.
The German foreign ministry did not give any immediate comment when contacted by Rooters.
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What!
Not just run away?
Certainly they need some counseling from Marie Harf at the US State Dept about the subtle nuances of fair weather, passive engagements!
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Why wasn't that sort of thing done during construction? Its is not as if the high-risk areas haven't always been high-risk.
Didn't we learn anything during the Boxer rebellion? Embassies should be within well defended foreign compounds in this unstable nations. They should also put embassies in coastal cities or near the boarder when required. No need to be in the Capital far inland if that means you can't get help. Convenience be damned.
Confessed murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will now be the one pleading for his life after a federal jury took just 11 hours to find him guilty of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and aftermath that left four dead and 260 maimed and injured.
A clerk ordered "complete silence" in the courtroom before the verdict was read finding Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of charges including conspiracy, use of a weapon of mass destruction and the murders of restaurant manager Krystle Marie Campbell, 29, Boston University graduate student Lingzi Lu, 23, and Martin Richard, 8 at the marathon finish line, as well as MIT Police Officer Sean Collier three days later.
The jury's work is far from done. As early as next week, the same 12 deliberating jurors will reconvene for the start of Tsarnaev's sentencing trial, where they will decide if he is to serve out his days behind bars or be ordered put to death.
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I'm seeing some of the youngsters with missing limbs and wondering about a sentence that involves amputation of body parts until there are no more body parts.
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To go with the last comment: I wonder if the US federal prison system will have any trouble betting injectables for performing executions, as the states have had...
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getting, not betting. Like Mr. Rogers, I'll go out on a limb and say "Midazolam. Can you say that? I knew you could..."
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Thousands of students across Turkey have demanded that their universities build Jedi and Buddhist temples on campus, in response to a surge in mosques being built for Muslim students. Brave secular Muslims fighting the Islamists
The demands were sparked last month, when the rector of Istanbul Technical University (ITĂ), announced that "a landmark mosque", would be built on campus due to "huge demand", making it the first mosque to be built on the university site.
In response, more than 25,000 people signed an online petition demanding that a Buddhist temples be built as well, in order to cater for the university's Buddhists. Meanwhile in your own Western countries, leftards bow down to Islamists as if they speak for all Muslims. Now they are taking payments from your groceries called "Halal Certification" and using it to fund the spread of Islamism
* "JEDI Temple" > D *** NG IT, WOMAN, NOW THE KIDS ARE TELEKINETICALLY FLYING OVER THE WATER AT MALESSO LAGOON - I'M STILL NOT SEEING ANY MATH HOMEWORK!
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I have a memory from my military days, reading the book "Soldier" by Anthony Herbert. He wrote about his days as a young enlisted soldier fighting in the Korean war, and ending up initially on the losing side of some rout of his unit. He ends up separated from his unit. and finds himself on a hilltop defended by an elite battalion of Turkish troops.
My memory is fuzzy about the specifics - if I recall correctly, they are surrounded, and eventually run out of ammo - so the Turkish commander decides to execute a bayonet charge - not in the direction of friendly lines (to the rear), but directly toward the enemy's headquarters - who they proceed to destroy.
What I do remember clearly is Herbert's final analysis of the battle: "If you ever have to be in battle, out-numbered, surrounded and out of ammunition - you want to be so in the company of an elite Turkish battalion."
[ARABNEWS] A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted the last 62 military officers jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! over an alleged 2003 plot to oust then-prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, after the prosecutor said digital evidence was inadmissible, a defense lawyer told Rooters.
In 2012 a court sentenced the officers to jail over the alleged "Sledgehammer" conspiracy dating back to 2003, a year after Erdogan's AK Party came to power. Erdogan is now president.
The constitutional court ordered a retrial last April, and last week an Istanbul court acquitted 236 other officers in connection with the alleged plot.
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[AnNahar] The United States Treasury said Tuesday it and 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... were imposing sanctions on a charity fund alleged to provide financing to "terrorist" groups including al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... The sanctions aim to disrupt the financing and operations of al-Furqan Foundation Welfare Trust, a charity group based in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , Pakistain.
The Treasury said al-Furqan is the successor to the Pakistain branches of the Afghan Support Committee and Revival of Islamic Heritage Society.
Both were designated as global terrorist entities and listed on the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... 's al-Qaeda sanctions list in 2002.
The Treasury said the operation had changed its name to skirt sanctions and "continue its terrorist financing activities."
Some of the funds for the group came from individuals in the Gulf, it said.
Saudi Arabia designated al-Furqan under its Law of Terrorism Crimes and Financing and the Royal Decree A/44, the Treasury said in a statement.
The sanctions freeze any assets of al-Furqan under the jurisdiction of each country and generally bars Americans and Saudis from doing business with it.
"Today's joint action reflects the strength of U.S. and Saudi cooperation on countering the financing of terrorism," said Adam Szubin, the Treasury's acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, in the statement.
"We are committed to exposing terrorist financiers, especially those who masquerade as charities."
The U.S. alleged that al-Furqan is a major pipeline of financial and material support for terrorist groups and their activities in Pakistain and Afghanistan.
As of November 2013, it was providing funding for the U.S. designated terrorist training center Ganj Madrassa, which was controlled by al-Qaeda controller Shaykh Aminullah. And as of mid-2014, Al-Furqan provided tens of thousands of U.S. dollars to the leaders of the Pak turban group Lashkar-e-Taiba, the department said.
[DAWN] KARACHI: The Korangi police on Monday claimed to have incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... a former policeman who remained associated with a political party, assisted assassins in their work and also leaked sensitive information to faceless myrmidons about deployment of police commandos leading to the August 2011 Chakra Goth attack that had left four officials dead and many others maimed, a senior officer said.
He added that head constable Ausaaf Baig, who had been dismissed from service over a year ago, was arrested in Zaman Town after a suspected killer recently disclosed to police Sherlocks that Baig was the key member of the entire 'target-killing chain'.
The policeman used to pass information to gunnies taking advantage of his professional position and also assisted the assassins in their tasks, said SSP Korangi Junaid Sheikh.
"Being a policeman he was never questioned for carrying arms so he used to supply arms to his party members for killings," said SSP Korangi Junaid Sheikh.
"He directly looked after transfer and postings of SHOs and DSP in Korangi with the support of his party leaders in the government. Between 2008 and 2013 he was the man behind these services, too, as the party he was associated with was a key coalition partner in the provincial government."
But the most 'serious' charge the ex-policeman faced was providing assistance to gunnies in the August 2011 attack on a bus carrying police commandoes in Korangi's Chakra Goth, he said.
The SSP said it emerged during investigation of a case that Ausaaf Baig had leaked information about the arrival of police commandoes in Chakra Goth in a bus for an 'operation' that led to an attack on the vehicle by gunnies of his party.
"Ausaaf Baig in fact passed disinformation to his party members, as the commandoes were not going for any operation but moving in a bus through the area to some other place for regular duty. The attack was one of the worst assaults against 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... police in recent history," said SSP Sheikh.
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[DAWN] After the government informed a stormy joint session of parliament on Monday 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... 's request that Pakistain join a coalition fighting rebels in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... by contributing jets, navy ships and ground troops, parliamentary foes and allies alike demanded more details.
Speakers from the main opposition PPP and PTI and the government-allied Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F) labelled a prepared statement, read out by Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif, as ambiguous, though none of them asked the government to say "no" to the Saudi demand while calling for a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the crisis in Yemen.
But the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) was more explicit, demanding that Pakistain refrain from jumping into what it called "an internal power struggle in Yemen".
Referring to the talks between Saudi authorities and a Pak civil-military delegation he led to Riyadh last week and the assurances conveyed to them, the defence minister said: "In response, the Saudi leadership appreciated Pakistain's unreserved support to Saudi Arabia's territorial integrity and expressed hope that Pakistain would join the coalition for Operation Decisive Storm by contributing aircraft, naval vessels and ground troops."
Though Saudi state media has been citing Pakistain as one of more than 10 mainly Gulf countries in the coalition, the defence minister's statement was the first time Pakistain officially confirmed the Saudi request and specified the three services from which help is sought.
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COMBAT, that is.
At last check, as per DEFENCE.PK?FORUMS IIUC the PAK Parliament scheduled a day or session to debate on joining the Saudis, but then adjourned until further notice widout making any official or final decision.
[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued an order to register a First Information Report (FIR) against former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief Jonathan Banks over the death of two rustics in a dronezap.
Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of IHC issued the order while hearing a petition filed by Haji Abdul Karim Khan, a resident of the North Wazoo tribal region.
During today's in-camera hearing, the IHC ordered for the third time Inspector General (IG) Islamabad Tahir Alam Khan to register an FIR against former CIA station chief Jonathan Banks on a petition filed by Karim Khan, who has been seeking registration of a case against the American official for killing his son and brother in a drone attack.
IG Khan was of the view that if an FIR was registered against the former CIA station chief, Pakistain and America's diplomatic relations may suffer. He also maintained that the Foreign Office was also a party in the matter and it was important to know its stance.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the IHC asked IG Khan to register the FIR with Islamabad's Secretariat Police Station and submit a report to the court within two days.
Karim Khan, a native of Mirali, North Waziristan, had filed an application in the IHC in 2010, seeking registration of an FIR with the Secretariat Police Station against Banks for killing his son and a brother in a 2009 drone attack. The cop shoppe had earlier refused Karim's request to register the FIR.
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[DAWN] Omer Shahid Hamid, son of slain Managing Director of then named 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... Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) Shahid Hamid, has urged the government not to delay the execution of his father's convicted murderer and former Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) activist Saulat Mirza.
In an interview to Geo television on Monday, the former Superintendent of Police said records of the phone used by Mirza at the time of his father's murder showed that the first call made after the incident was to the then office of the MQM's international secretariat in London.
He was of the view that the phone records were enough proof to establish the linkage between MQM and his father's killers and hence no further probe was required into Mirza's statements.
Omer said he was not disclosing any new facts and neither had Mirza revealed any information that was not already part of the court record submitted before the Supreme Court of Pakistain.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... said Pakistain is "not in a hurry" to decide whether to join the Saudi-led coalition against rebels in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... as Parliament resumed discussion on the issue.
The premier addressed a joint session of the Parliament a day after Defence Minister Khawaja Asif revealed 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... wanted Pak warplanes, warships and soldiers. Not a single politician has spoken in favour of sending troops.
Saudi Arabia, the Gulf's main Sunni Moslem power, has asked Pakistain to join a Saudi-led military coalition that began conducting air strikes last month against largely Shia Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces in Yemen.
Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif begins a two-day visit to Pakistain on Wednesday and discussions on Yemen are expected to dominate the meetings. The premier also said he welcomed Iranian input.
"Iran should also join the discussion and evaluate whether their policy is correct or not," PM Nawaz said.
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Both Egypt and Turkey are seemingly hard-pressed to commit major forces to the Saudi-led military effort in Yemen, which for the US-West is good because to do so would more likely invite Iran mil intervention than not - ditto as per PAKISTAN.
IMO as long as the ISIS per se doesn't intervene, or the Saudis don't launch a major or total ground campaign [as oppos to "limited"], both Iran + the KSA will accept the current situation "as is" + attempt some kind of pro-reform compromise.
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) leader Faisal Vawda presented a charge sheet against Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... on Tuesday, saying the latter was an absconder who should be brought back to Pakistain and tried according to law.
Talking to media personnel in Karimabad -- flanked by PTI's candidate for NA 246 by-poll Imran Ismail and PTI Sindh Chairman Nadir Leghari -- Vawda presented three demands in front of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... 's government.
Vawda said since Altaf was an "absconder" and a "proclaimed offender", authorities should issue a red warrant to bring him back to Pakistain so that he could face appropriate legal consequences.
He also demanded that the MQM chief's assets, including his Azizabad residence -- Nine Zero -- be seized and that Pemra implement a ban on airing his speeches.
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[WashingtonExaminer] In the last few months, U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey have discussed the political aspects that eroded the will of the force -- the loss of faith between Iraq's Sunni population and the Shia-dominated government. But there also were practical factors that led to last summer's collapse, Grinston said, namely that when U.S. personnel left in 2011, continuous training came to a halt.
"They were mostly just sitting on checkpoints, not doing good maintenance on their weapons, and not doing training. If you took any force [and let its skills erode] for a number of years, they would not be able to defeat an enemy," Grinston said.
Grinston's first class of about 1,500 infantry recruits went through six weeks of basic training, on how to shoot, maneuver and communicate on the battlefield, and basic medical responses. Then they received three weeks of advanced training that focused on more complex maneuvers.
He also incorporated two new elements so the forces will stand their ground against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... fighters. First, he copied the "real-world" pre-deployment training scenarios that the U.S. military ran its soldiers through at Fort Polk, La., during the later years of combat. In that training, soldiers run though fake villages and encounter threats that mimic what they would experience in battle -- from kabooms to buried IEDs to civilian interaction.
"We do opposing forces...We use the same type of IED they've found in the past, so they learn how to defeat these techniques the enemy is using -- to get them used to voices of battle so that the first time they hear the 'boom' it doesn't scare them to death and they don't run away."
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Grinston's first class of about 1,500 infantry recruits went through six weeks of basic training, on how to shoot, maneuver and communicate on the battlefield, and basic medical responses. Then they received three weeks of advanced training that focused on more complex maneuvers
What - no diversity awareness? No sexual harassment seminar? No training on driving safety, substance abuse, or the value of recycling???
[AnNahar] Malaysia's national police chief said Tuesday that 17 people detained over the weekend in a suspected Islamic bully boy plot had planned to kidnap high-profile figures and launch terrorist attacks.
Khalid Abu Bakar said the plotters tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on Sunday were believed to have been inspired by the hard boyIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group and its bloody jihad in Syria and Iraq.
He said they also planned to rob banks to raise funds, and to raid armed forces' installations and cop shoppes to obtain weapons.
Those arrested included a 49-year-old senior Islamic State group member, who had undergone military training in Afghanistan in 1989 and in Indonesia in 2000, Khalid said.
"Seventeen people between the ages of 14 to 49 were arrested while they were holding a secret meeting in the dead of night to plan terror attacks in the (Kuala Lumpur area)," he said in a statement.
"The aim of this new terror group was to form an IS-like Islamic state in Malaysia.
"Their plan included the kidnapping of high-profile people."
Khalid did not provide details on whom the group was targeting, but in February, Zahid Hamidi, home minister in charge of internal security, warned that IS members in Malaysia had planned to kidnap tycoons and rob banks to finance terrorist activities.
The attacks were supposed to be carried out in the capital Kuala Lumpur and in nearby Putrajaya, the location of Malaysia's federal government apparatus.
But their campaign was thwarted after police raids in the capital and in the northern state of Kedah, said Khalid, who had announced the arrests on Monday without giving details.
Others arrested included a 38-year-old religious teacher who had visited Syria last year, two Malaysian military personnel, and an Indonesian arms expert formerly with the Southeast Asian bully boy group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).
The latest arrests bring to 92 the total of people detained for suspected involvement in the IS jihad in Syria, Khalid added.
Malaysia's parliament on Tuesday passed a tough anti-terrorism law to counter the perceived IS threat, which allows authorities to detain terrorism suspects without charge virtually indefinitely, according to its critics.
The law's passage was denounced by the political opposition and rights groups as a blow for civil rights.
Police had said in January they had arrested a total of 120 people with suspected Islamic State links or sympathies, or who had sought to travel to Syria or Iraq, and that 67 Malaysians were known at the time to have gone abroad to join IS jihadists.
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[Jerusalem Post] CAMBRIDGE - Opponents of Iran's initial agreement to curb its nuclear program are being "disingenuous" when they say the deal could still allow the Middle Eastern state to build nuclear weapons, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency said on Tuesday.
The initial accord reached last week between Iran and major world powers - which would lift crippling economic sanctions in exchange for Iran's agreement to step back from developing nuclear weapons - is likely the most realistic deal that could be reached, CIA Director John Brennan told an audience of students and faculty at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just outside Boston.
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Did he withdraw his head from Obama's ass while saying this?
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So who are you going to trust? An administration that has not released the full text of an agreement they are telling everyone is best thing since sliced bread and Sunday morning sex or a bunch of guys who cut their chops negotiating with some of the baddest and toughest in town?
Lurch negotiates like a teenaged boy trying to get a quick feel from his girl friend in a movie theater.
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Lurch negotiates like a teenaged boy trying to get a quick feel from his girl friend in a movie theater. Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom
Respectfully disagree SPOD, far too genuine, contains no deception. He's actually the one with his johnson through a hole in the bottom of the popcorn box.
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I'm sorry but these idiots cannot be so willfully blind to reality unless they are flat out evil. The futile belief that the left is misguided or ignorant cannot be supported. They are willful in their actions and their actions show their evil intent.
Assad's problem is he can't trust his Sunni troops and Alawites are in increasingly short supply.
In the Assad regime's heartland, dead officers are sent home in ambulances, while the corpses of ordinary soldiers are returned in undecorated pick-up trucks.
Then come the press gangs: military recruiters raid houses to find replacements by force for the dwindling ranks of Syria's military.
Sharing their sect with President Bashar al-Assad, Alawites have long been the core constituency for the Syrian regime. As the civil war drags into its fifth year, the minority sect is seen by opposition rebels as remaining unwaveringly loyal. But from inside the community, the picture looks very different: as their sons die in droves on the front lines, and economic privileges -- subsidies and patronage -- cease, Alawites increasingly feel they are tools and not the beneficiaries of the regime.
In a series of exclusive interviews, Alawites from the coastal province of Latakia, the sect's heartland, have told the Telegraph of how they are now trapped between jihadists who consider them apostates, and a remote and corrupt regime that told them the war would be easy to win.
"Most don't have salaries now, and some don't even have food to eat," said Ammar, a businessman in Latakia. "My friends ask me: 'Mr Ammar what shall we do? The regime wants to take us as soldiers. We will die. But we don't have the money to get out'."
The scale of the sect's losses is staggering: with a population of around two million, a tenth of Syria's population, the Alawites boast perhaps 250,000 men of fighting age. Today as many as one third are dead, local residents and Western diplomats say. More at the link.
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Alawites pay heavy price not to be massacred to the last man, women, child & household pet---you little pommy moron.
[Ynet] State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf responded Monday to criticism issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a CNN interview Sunday against the framework agreement struck between world powers and Iran, saying that Netanyahu "said that Iran would not dismantle any of its centrifuges; but under the JCPA, Iran will physically remove about 13,000 centrifuges from where they stand today in Iran's nuclear facilities."
This sounds like one of the items Iran claims the White House lied about.
"All of the pipework that connects these centrifuges to actually enriched uranium -- they have to be connected in order to enrich -- will be dismantled and also removed. This dismantling will ensure that these centrifuges cannot be brought back online for a long time."
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13,000 that's way more centrifuges than the current administration has been willing to admit Iran had.
I know the French and the Israelis tossed that number around and Lurch said they were grossly inflated.
Is this one of those oh by the way, the French were right and Iran has lots and lots more centrifuges than a peaceful program needs.
Hmmm, now let's see one Harf equals three Psakis which equals nine Pinocchio's?
[ARABNEWS] The White House said on Monday that details about when and how quickly to lift sanctions on Iran had to be worked out in upcoming negotiations and noted the B.O. regime opposed lifting the penalties on the day a potential pact goes into force.
"Details of the phase out of the sanctions have not been agreed to," White House front man Josh Earnest told news hounds. "It is the strong view of the administration that it would not be wise ... to simply take away sanctions on day one."
A senior Israeli government minister on Monday warned that taking military action against Iran's nuclear program is still an option -- despite last week's framework deal between world powers and Iran. The comments by Yuval Steinitz, Israel's minister for strategic affairs, reflected the alarm in Israel over last week's deal.
Israeli leaders believe the framework leaves too much of Iran's nuclear infrastructure intact and could still allow it to develop the means to produce a nuclear weapon.Steinitz, a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's, said the government would spend the coming months lobbying the world powers negotiating with Iran to strengthen the language in the deal as they hammer out a final agreement.
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"It is the strong view of the administration that it would not be wise ... to simply take away sanctions on day one."
[RUDAW.NET] Dozens of Iranian hard-liners rallied on Tuesday against the framework deal struck last week between Iran and six world powers on curbing Tehran's nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The rally coincided with a closed session of parliament during which Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who led Iran's negotiating team in the intense talks in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , appeared before politicians to explain the framework agreement.
The gathering of about 200 hard-liners took place in front of the parliament in the Iranian capital without permission by authorities, IRNA reported.
Protesters carried banners calling the agreement a "defeat" -- despite the establishment's overwhelming backing of the deal, including by President Hassan Rouhani.
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Just doing their part to make it seem like the Ayatollahs don't like this.
[IRISHTIMES] Relief officials at the UN have expressed growing alarm about the deepening humanitarian disaster in Syria's Yarmouk Paleostinian refugee camp, which was invaded last week by 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.... gunnies and their allies.
Roughly 18,000 people, including 3,500 children, have been trapped by fighting in Yarmouk, which is on the southern outskirts of the capital, Damascus, and is less than 10 miles from the presidential palace.
Pierre Krähenbuhl, commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) , which administers aid to Paleostinian refugees in the Middle East, said the residents are slowly starving.
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Doing their part to support that recent UNreport about depopulating the world......
[RUDAW.NET] Through village chiefs and tribal leaders, 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) has apparently been appealing for a ceasefire with Kurds in Iraq, following numerous battlefield wounds inflicted by the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga forces.
"ISIS has requested the Peshmerga to halt their attacks and reach a kind of ceasefire with them," said a Kurdish commander speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... He added that Peshmerga victories, coalition air raids and the ISIS rout in Tikrit at the hands of Iraqi forces and Shiite militias has severely erdoded the power of the religious radicals.
"ISIS sends messages to the Peshmerga through local chieftains, claiming they will not attack the Peshmerga if the Peshmerga do not fire at them," the commander said. "But we don't take such demands seriously. We have experience with them."
All they'd get is a hudna anyway, until ISIS was ready for the next round.
Kurdish authorities remain wary of any ceasefire offer, remembering how the religious zealots turned on the Kurds and attacked them last August.
See? Hudna.
Kirkuk Police Chief Sarhad Qadir described ISIS as "blind snakes." He believes "it is wrong to negotiate with ISIS."
Jafar Sheikh Mustafa, former minister of Peshmerga and a military commander, said he is unaware of any ceasefire request by ISIS. He emphasized that "ISIS has been contained."
"Peshmerga forces have been able to weaken ISIS during the last few months. They are ousted from Tikrit as well. People and tribal leaders under the control of ISIS frequently contact us and they are willing to put down their weapons," he explained.
Kurdish military officials say they have turned the tide against ISIS. But their common lament is a plea for advanced heavy weapons from Western allies, including the United States: Washington has maintained a policy of supplying the Peshmerga through Baghdad, which the Erbil government does not trust.
In the nine months that the Peshmerga have been locked in fighting along their 1,050 kilometer border with the Islamic caliphate, there have been many ups and downs.
In the beginning, ISIS made huge advances towards Kurdistan, getting dangerously close to Erbil, then Kirkuk and Garmian. But the faceless myrmidons were pushed back on all fronts after the Peshmerga went on offense.
Since then, they have regained nearly all of the territory lost to ISIS last summer: the Kurdish parliament's Peshmerga Commitee has visited the fronts to verify reports.
"ISIS has been weakened," said committee head Ari Harsin, explaining the faceless myrmidons had lost ammunition, as well as the ability to attack and move freely.
"We have regained control of 95 percent of the territory that was lost to ISIS," he said.
Harsin emphasized the importance of controlling roads, noting that ISIS still controls the strategic djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... -Tel Afar road. "But they cannot use it very effectively because the Rabia, Aski and Mosul roads are under the control of the Peshmerga," he explained.
Other than Shingal, Hawija, Rashad and some villages, all Kurdish areas that were lost to ISIS are under Peshmerga control.
"We are certain that ISIS has been weakened, but we have to remain vigilant; they are dangerous," Qadir warned.
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[RUDAW.NET] The Kurdistan Regional Government has established a special commission to document the crimes of 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.... against Kurdish Yezidi civilians in the Shingal area and other Kurdish enclaves outside the Kurdistan region.
The commission will draw on crimes committed in Kosovo, Rwanda and Darfurin order to prevent the mistakes of the past, said Judge Ayman Mostafa, who since September has been chief of the Investigation and Evidence Commission in the Kurdish city of Duhok.
Mostafa, 38 , studied in forensic criminology in the UK and public policy in South Korea. After 15 years as a criminal investigator, he is now a judge of Deralook First Instance Court.
As Mostafa pointed out, the Anfal campaign carried out against the Kurds by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has not been officially declared a genocide by the international community because of lost evidence and procedural errors.
But this time, he said, the KRG aims to have the Islamic State's crimes against the Yezidis recognized for what they are.
Rudaw: What is the Investigation and Evidence Commission doing exactly?
Ayman Mostafa: We are working to gather and document the evidence that recognizes and identifies the crimes committed by Daesh [the Arabic acronym for Islamic State] members against the civilians in Shingal and surrounding areas, everything that might be identified as genocide and crimes against humanity.
As we are not a court, we do not determine whether genocide has been committed. We depend on the statements of victims and eye witnesses.
The victims come to register a complaint against Daesh members and we record the details of their suffering during the abductions, attempted murder, sexual enslavement, rape, displacement, forced conversion to Islam and child soldiers.
When victims mention names of people who were with them, those can be used as witnesses.
These are people who have been imprisoned together, or given as gifts or sold to Daesh members, or have been in sexual slavery together.
The victims fill out an application form. We take their statement, and if they need a medical checkup we send them to hospital. We have a psychological unit that listens to the stories and makes a recommendation about further medical treatment needed.
In Azadi Hospital [Dukok] a team of psychiatrists will then follow the victims. The medical and psychological reports and documents can all be used as evidence.
How many people have you seen up to now?
We cannot give numbers [and] because it is a very sensitive, we work in secrecy. We can say that we have more than 200 people who have finished all the procedures. We have about 300 people waiting in the queue. We work slowly, in order not to leave out any details of crime. We don't have a time limit or even a deadline.
How did the commission develop its methods of work?
We don't have our own system. We get benefit from the experiences in Rwanda, Kosovo and Darfur [where genocides were committed]. We are following some of the procedures that have been proven there to be useful.
We are working for the High Commission for Identification of Genocide Crimes in Erbil, headed by Mahmmud Haji, the minister of Martyrs and Anfal, and monthly report to them. If we face an obstacle, we ask them to solve it.
Last month, we had information about possible sites of mass graves. As our commission does not have the tools or the staff, the ministry sent its specialized team. We have dozens of remains of bodies at the scene of the crime. They are collected and sent to Azadi Hospital for DNA tests to identify them.
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