[WASHINGTONPOST] Representatives of the Taliban were meeting with an Afghan government delegation Tuesday in the Pak capital of Islamabad, in what Afghan officials hope will be a step toward negotiating a peace deal with the Lion of Islam group and ending the country's protracted war, according to Afghan and Pak officials. I thought this might happen, with the Islamic State rearing its ugly turban in Nangarhar. Now they've got a common enemy.
The gathering, under discussion for several weeks, is not the first time both sides have met to discuss a cease-fire. Several other meetings between Taliban representatives and Afghan officials have taken place in recent months in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , China and Norway.
But the meeting in Islamabad carries more significance because of Pakistain's long-standing ties to the Taliban, as well as Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. 's efforts to persuade Pakistain to play a significant role in convincing the Taliban to come to the negotiating table. It would mark the first time that such a senior-level delegation was meeting face-to-face with the Taliban.
"We have always had a pretty clear view of what Pakistain can and cannot do in terms of delivering the Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table," a U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss the peace efforts, said in a recent interview. "But we see, at this point, a sustained effort by the Paks to support President Ghani's effort."
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[Libya Herald] Nuri Abu Sahmain, the head of the continuing General National Congress, has approved plans to reorganise the Libyan army into 11 brigades located across the country. According to the 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... offices of the Libyan news agency LANA, a resolution approving the reorganization was adopted by the GNC. It was then signed at a ceremony attended by Tripoli "prime minister" Khalifa Ghwell in his role as its defence minister.
As president of the GNC, Abu Sahmain is regarded by Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... and its supporters as supreme commander of the Libyan armed forces. At the session, he was quoted saying that the move would create a more effective army, allowing for it to be better trained and organised, and that its ranks would be open to the regular army and the revolutionaries.
The decision is, however, seen as largely meaningly gesture in the current fractured state of Libyan politics, given that the forces under Abu Sahmain's authority are only in the west and south, that it is a nominal authority in the best of cases and that, with the local reconciliation movement spreading in both areas, it also appears a diminishing authority.
It also indicates, however, that Abu Sahmain, the GNC and the Ghwell "government" are turning their backs on the UN-brokered Diloague process and the recent drafts provided by UNSMIL. In none of them are Congress's decisions viewed as legitimate once a Government of National Accord is established.
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[RUDAW.NET] Thousands of supporters of the al-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 ... rebel group demonstrated 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... on Monday in protest of the continuing war and humanitarian crisis in the country.
The protest came during a visit by the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... envoy to Yemen for talks with the Houthis and other leaders in a bid to forge a truce in the war-ravaged country.
The demonstration condemned the position of the UN towards the Yemenis and blamed the envoy for not doing enough to stop the war and lift the siege imposed by the Arab coalition.
"We condemn the international weakness. The United Nations has failed to achieve anything except for what was reached in Geneva. Beyond that it has done nothing to make 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... stop the bombing," said Ibrahim al-Obeidi, a Houthi commander in the Ansar Allah militia.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Seven Ansarullah Bangla Team members, who the Detective Branch of police claims killed science writer Avijit Roy, had also allegedly instigated the murder of secular activist Oyasiqur Rahman Babu.
"In our investigation, we have so far found that these seven people are not directly involved in Babu killing. But they motivated the killers to do it," DB Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
He also claimed that the two killers, caught just after killing Babu on March 30, did not belong to Ansarullah but were followers of its chief Jasim Uddin Rahmani who professed to kill atheists.
"We also suspect that some of these seven killers were present when Babu had been attacked [at Begunbari of Tejgaon]," said Monirul, also the chief of DB police, who are investigating both the cases.
On February 27, US citizen Avijit was murdered near the TSC intersection of Dhaka University after he came out of the Amar Ekushey Book Fair. His wife, Rafida Ahmed Bonya, lost a finger in the attack.
Babu, who was vocal to demand justice for Avijit murder, was killed while going to office. The two detained killers in interrogation earlier said they had seen Avijit's killers at a mess in Jatrabari area.
Monirul hopes that they will be able to solve mystery behind the killings after the arrest of the seven suspects. "Two of them launched the attack on the couple with machetes while the five others took position around the spot," he said.
"We have verified their identity and photos by analysing the evidence with technological help."
One of them is a medical student while the others are also highly educated. "Their age is below 30. They learnt about Avijit through Facebook."
The DB chief says all the members of the team were highly expert in making bombs, operating arms and other technical issues.
"We suspect that they belong to a single sleeper cell of Ansarullah and this is why a Twitter account named Ansar Bangla 7 took responsibility of the murder."
The DB official said the turbans had tried to kill Avijit several times after the couple came to Dhaka on February 16.
He said they had all necessary evidence to prove the case against the seven holy warriors. "We are now trying to trace their location. Their names can be fake too, but we have their photos." Asked about the involvement of Buet teacher Farseem Mannan Mohammedy, Monirul replied in the negative.
Earlier, Rapid Action Battalion members incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Shafiur Rahman Farabi, a leader of banned holy warrior outfit Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... , for instigating the murder of Avijit. He had been threatening to kill the writer, professionally a biomedical engineer, since 2012.
Asked about getting any feedback from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Monirul said: "We are yet to get the lab results of the evidence collected from the murder spot. But they have expressed contentment with our findings."
He said the DB contacts with Bonya through the FBI officials in the US.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Tens of displaced families from ancient city of Palmyra have arrived Gaziantep, Turkish border city, fleeing ISIS-captured city and to escape daily barrel bombs attacks by Syrian regime, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday.
People who managed to escape Palmyra reported that Syrian regime had handed the city to ISIS last month without fighting.
Other sources mentioned that regime had left huge storage of arms and ISIS seized them, while in other areas, regime used to transfer all arms in advance from any area it withdrew from, or destroy them in that was not possible.
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.... had completely seized Palmyra in Homs countryside, while the regime mentioned that it had withdrew from the city after securing safe escape to most civilians.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq says the salaries and perks paid to 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.... MNAs for the period they had been staging sit-in would be recovered if the motion seeking their disqualification is passed by the House.
"A motion seeking disqualification of PTI MNAs has been submitted to the National Assembly secretariat...and if the motion gets passed by the House all the amount paid to them as salaries and other perks will be retrieved from them," Mr Sadiq said while inaugurating an infrastructure development project in his constituency here on Monday.
The PTI politicians had boycotted parliament's proceedings during their 126-day Islamabad sit-in without submitting their formal leave applications. Under the National Assembly rules of business a politician absenting himself/herself for consecutive 40 sittings without approval of the House may be disqualified to be a member if a motion to that effect is adopted by it.
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[DAWN] Another key witness in Benazir murder case retracted his earlier statement during cross examination before the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC).
Earlier, witnesses like former director general National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) retired Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema and SSP Yasin Farooq had disowned the statements attributed to them by the prosecution.
ATC Judge Rai Mohammad Ayub Marth commenced hearing in the Benazir murder case in Adiala Jail when a prosecution witness, retired SSP Maj Imtiaz -- a key security official of Ms Bhutto -- withdrew his earlier statement.
Earlier, in a statement attributed to Maj Imtiaz it was claimed that Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... was killed due to inadequate security arrangements at Liaqat Bagh where former chairperson of Pakistain People's Party (PPP) had delivered his last speech. Major Imtiaz also alleged that the then city police officer Syed Saud Aziz and other high ups were not on duty when the attackers targeted Benazir.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... Imtiaz told the ATC on Monday that foolproof security cover was provided to Ms Bhutto outside Liaquat Bagh on December 27, 2007 the day she was killed in a gun-and-kaboom afte a public meeting.
He said that all the coppers including the then CPO Aziz were also present on the scene to provide security to Benazir Bhutto.
He added, "Had Benazir not appeared from sunroof of the vehicle, she might not have been killed," he said.
After the cross-examining, the ATC special Judge Rai Mohammad Ayub Marth adjourned further proceedings till July 8, 2015.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... directed National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) to prepare a national counter-terrorism database in addition to the one on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in the country.
During his visit to Nadra headquarters on Tuesday, Nisar took notice of the difficulties faced by people due to long queues at Nadra offices. He directed the Nadra chairman to put in place an online CNIC application system. This, he said, would not only benefit the citizens of the country but also overseas Paks.
Talking about long queues of people in front of Nadra offices, the interior minister said every effort should be made to provide people relief from standing in long queues.
He further ordered to ensure that all the processes involved in getting CNIC were completed within shortest possible time.
Discussing pay package and perks of Nadra employees, Chaudhry Nisar said Nadra employees should be given their due share from the profit the body earns.
In this regard, Nisar announced that every Nadra employee of grade 1 to 15 would be given Rs15,000 as Eid bonus.
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[DAWN] MQM chief Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... on Tuesday asked Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and all members of the Sindh Assembly to pass a bill to "send back the oppressive Rangers."
Talking to party office bearers via telephone from London, Hussain said:
"We will hold a sit-in at the Chief Minister House against the repressive actions, arbitrary arrests, torture, and extra-judicial killings by Rangers. If they open fire on the participants of the sit-in, the Rangers and their 'captain' will be responsible for the consequences."
Interestingly, this demand by Hussain comes a day before Rangers' special powers in Sindh are due to expire. While the duration of these special powers has been extended multiple times in the past, it is not clear whether the provincial government will go ahead with the move this time around.
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Looks like Alfat is going to sit around the Chief Ministers house.
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[RUDAW.NET] A tribal leader in Anbar province said 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.... , or ISIS, is actively trying to lure local children into its ranks as jacket wallahs and has asked Baghdad to take action against the bad boy group.
"The Islamic State entered many areas of Anbar and started recruiting children from the local tribes of Anbar. They have camps in Raqqa and Hiit where they train them," Sheikh Khalid Awad al-Shabani told Rudaw on Tuesday.
"We ask the government to expedite the process of liberating the areas under ISIS control and destroy the camps that recruit children," he added.
The sheikh also stressed that the bad boys' radical interpretation of Sunni Islam was not welcomed in Sunni-majority Anbar province.
"We all know that bad boy ideology of ISIS is not related to Islam. They make up verses that do not exist in the Koran," he added,
According to the sheikh, ISIS brainwashes the newly recruited children in their camps in Rutbah and al-Qaem in Iraq and teaches them how to carry out suicide kabooms against military checkpoints and civilians.
"The government has the responsibility to direct the parents to prevent their children from joining ISIS. The government should use all its forces in order to prevent recruiting children," Shabani said
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[Ynet] Southern Command's intelligence officer tells Ynet that isolation has led Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to cooperate with its rival as it lays the groundwork for its next campaign against Israel -- and that this was the motive for last week's assault on Egyptian troops.
A year after Operation Protective Edge, an IDF Southern Command's intelligence officer says the isolation of Hamas has led it to forge an alliance with its rivals -- such as an agreement between the rulers of Hamas and 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.... 's affiliate in the Sinai to create a smuggling route for rocket-building materials.
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[AlAhram] Syria's parliament on Tuesday approved a deal with Iran under which Tehran will provide the government a new line of credit worth $1 billion, state media said.
The credit line will be the third that Tehran has extended to Damascus since the conflict in Syria erupted with anti-government protests in March 2011.
"The People's Council today approved a deal on a line of credit of $1 billion," which was signed on May 19 in Damascus by Syria's Commercial Bank and the Export Development Bank of Iran, the official SANA news agency said.
It said the credit would be used for "importing merchandise and carrying out projects," without giving further details.
Iran is the key regional ally of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's government, and has provided him with military and financial support through Syria's conflict.
In 2013, Tehran extended Damascus two lines of credit worth a total of $4.6 billion, with much of that devoted to the purchase of oil.
After more than four years of conflict that has left some 230,000 people dead, Syria's government has become increasingly dependent on credit and other aid from allies like Iran.
"It is one of the rare sources of currency that remains for the Syrian government," said Jihad Yazigi, director of the economic news website The Syria Report.
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Iran's also offered a $500 million line of credit to Venezuela.
[DAWN] Global powers wrestling for a historic nuclear deal with Iran gave themselves yet more time Tuesday after foreign ministers failed to bridge what one diplomat called "very, very, very tough" remaining issues.
Iran and the P5+1 group -- the United States, Russia, China, La Belle France, Britannia and Germany -- effectively gave themselves until Friday to agree a deal by extending the terms of a 2013 interim accord under which Iran has been curtailing its nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.
"Removing the remaining brackets (in the text of the agreement), this seems to be very, very, very tough," the senior diplomat said as an 11th day of talks stretched late into the night in Vienna.
But the envoy insisted the negotiations are "not an open-ended process".
"We've given ourselves a couple more days because we think it can be done."
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as of tonight, the Congressional deliberation period for the agreement goes from 30 days to 60 days
of course the real key is whether Obama can persuade 34 Senators, presumably Dems, to back him in voting to support an appeasement.
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Anybody think that even if Champ gets his 'legacy' that the Mad Mullahs would abide by even their interpretation of the 'agreement'?
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See also TOPIX, WORLD NEWS > "NEVER THREATEN AN IRANIAN": NUKE TALKS TURN FEISTY IN VIENNA.
After being openly criticized by a major EU Big Boss/Vienna Rep as being a "destabilizing influence" + aggressor in the ME, Iran in retaliation openly threatens to take EU to UN + World Court for supporting Saddam Hussein during 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
The U.S. has begun training only 60 fighters to take on the Islamic State in Syria, Defense Secretary Ash Carter acknowledged in a heated hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday morning. And not only is the number “much smaller than [the 15,000] we hoped for at this point” — three months into the program — but the U.S. has not yet determined what it will do when those fighters are attacked by the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Carter said.
“I can look at your faces and you have the same reaction I do, which is that’s an awfully small number,” the defense secretary told the senators. It will, he said, “get larger over time.”
Some 7,000 volunteers are awaiting approval to begin the training, Carter said. The defense secretary explained that U.S. law sets a high bar for the vetting, which includes counterintelligence screenings to ensure trainees won’t “pose a green-on-blue-threat to trainers.” Potential fighters must also pass a background check for atrocities and display a willingness to abide by the laws of armed conflict.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., is generally deferential to Carter but hostile toward Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, who testified with him. Yet on Wednesday, McCain did little to hide his frustration about the effort to train and equip moderate Syrians to fight the Islamic State.
The train-and-equip program is meant to enable Syrians to fight the Islamic State, as an alternative to inserting American and coalition forces into the country. Such an intervention is opposed by Assad, who is battling both the Islamic State and rebels amid a four-year civil war believed to have killed more than 200,000 people. The Obama administration’s stated position is that Assad does not have a role in Syria’s future, but it has been ambiguous on its strategy to achieve that end.
“We know from our history in the region that putting U.S. combat troops on the ground as a substitute for local forces will not produce enduring results,” Carter said in his opening statement Tuesday.
Carter, who had promised in his February confirmation hearing before the committee to give unvarnished military advice, later added, “I wanted to tell the truth and I did tell the truth. We expect that number [of Syrian fighters being trained] to improve, but you deserve to know where things stand.”
Carter said the military is way behind its interim goal of training 3,000 fighters by year’s end, 5,400 by May 2016. But even if the military meets its ultimate goal of training more than 15,000 fighters over three years, few expect this strategy to defeat the Islamic State and lead to a political solution that would remove Assad and restore a stable Syria. The revelation that a mere 60 fighters are being trained did little to assuage concerned lawmakers who, after some debate, approved the $500 million train-and-equip program last September.
Carter said Wednesday that a similar effort is also struggling in Iraq, which is the main theater of the U.S. fight against the Islamic State because of Baghdad’s request for help.
Some 3,550 American personnel at six locations across Iraq are working to build the capacity of Iraqi forces and advise and assist them. But that effort too is suffering from a lack of trainees, Carter said. As of June 30, the coalition has received enough volunteers to train roughly 8,800 Iraqi Army soldiers and Peshmerga fighters, along with 2,000 counterterrorism service personnel. Another 4,000 are undergoing training.
Carter and Dempsey’s appearance on Capitol Hill followed a rare visit from President Obama to the Pentagon Monday to meet with his national security team and receive a briefing on the Islamic State fight. In brief comments, the president defended the strategy and again urged patience.
“This will not be quick,” Obama said. “This is a long-term campaign.”
Wednesday’s hearing is likely to be one of Dempsey’s last before he retires this summer. Last week, in releasing a new National Military Strategy, he warned, “We are more likely to face prolonged campaigns than conflicts that are resolved quickly.”
Obama’s pick to replace Dempsey, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Joseph Dunford, will receive his confirmation hearing before the Armed Services Committee on Thursday. Dunford’s nomination is expected to be the first of several shakeups to top brass with a year and a half left in Obama’s term and nearly a year into the Islamic State fight.
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Dempsey: “We are more likely to face prolonged campaigns than conflicts that are resolved quickly.”
Back when our great Nation finally escaped the yoke of the BushHitler regime, our New President said we had to shift away from a permanent war footing. I guess that statement is no longer operative.
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[DAWN] Global powers wrestling for a historic nuclear deal with Iran gave themselves yet more time Tuesday after foreign ministers failed to bridge what one diplomat called "very, very, very tough" remaining issues.
