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OK Louie, but last I checked, most black homicide victims (around 90% if memory serves) are killed blacks, not whites. If you are going for the low-hanging Fruit (of Islam. heh), I suggest you start there. More bang for the buck, pardon the expression.
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Kill those who kill black people would be too radical, because it would involve black communities accepting responsibility for cleaning up black on black crime, instead of eternal victimhood.
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ISLAMIC/MUSLIM HISTORY suggests that, when all is done, IT WON'T BE BLACK MUSLIMS WHOM WILL DOMINATE OR HOLD POWER IN THE FUTURE OWG/GLOBAL CALIPHATE INCLUD ANY DE FACTO ISLAMERIKA.
So what then, is FARRAKHAN hoping to achieve for his race???
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Typhoid fever cases has increased recently in Southern Damascus region especially with summer season and hot weather.
Dr. Abdul Rahman in Yarmouk Camp for Paleostinian refugees told Zaman al-Wasl they had hundreds of confirmed Typhoid cases last July.
The General Medical body in Southern Damascus had a week ago issued an appeal to warn from the disease.
The body confirmed 5844 cases of Typhoid, 938 of them in July only.
The Medical Body described the disease elevation as "worrying and scary". The statement held the siege responsibility for that as the Syrian regime prevented any medication from getting inside the camp.
The main reason according to Dr. Abdul Rahman is lack of clean water leading to less hygiene besides the high temperature and unavailability of medication and antibiotics because of the siege.
Hepatitis A had before spread for the same reasons
Dr. Abdul Rahman mentioned that 35% of people in Yarmouk camp had fever of many reasons during the last two months, especially among children, he warned of increasing these diseases and infections to epidemic levels and demanded the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and the Paleostinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) to interfere to let in medications and antibiotics yarmouk camp to stop spreading of disease.
Yarmouk camp has witnessed lack of clean drinking water for more than a year because of cutting water supply by the Syrian regime as people have to drink water from wells' water instead.
Escaping of medical staff from Yarmouk camp towards other areas especially those had truce with the regime camp has exacerbated the crisis, especially after invading the camp by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), as less than 5 doctors has stayed in the camp with small number of nurses and paramedics. The camp suffers of severe scarceness of medical equipment and tools as well.
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[Tolo News] A senior Afghan government official told TOLOnews on Sunday that not only did the CIA and the NDS know 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... was dead but that the Taliban themselves broke the news on Wednesday because of a dispute over who would have the final say with regards to peace talks.
The news of the Taliban leader's death came only two days before the second round of peace talks were scheduled to take place in Pakistain. On Wednesday afternoon the news broke that the elusive one-eyed leader had died in April 2013 in a Bloody Karachi
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[Tolo News] First Vice-President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... on Monday arrived in Maimana, the capital of Faryab province, and called on residents to support security forces who he said would soon clear the province of anti-government Death Eater groups.
"You people had more than half a million votes in the presidential election and we are addressing your problems. Once I secure Faryab province and dispel the armed oppositions, and when I go back to Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , I will discuss your problems with the Security Council," said Dostum.
Meanwhile Dostum said he is taking Faryab's security problems seriously and acknowledged that residents have criticized government.
"Yes your criticisms are right for the government and the insecurities have spread in the province and we will solve your problems and soon you will see your problems are solved," he said.
Dostum visited the insecure Qisar district of Faryab under heavy protection -- protection that included land-based security and air support.
Faryab province has witnessed several heavy battles these past few week and Death Eater activity has reached an all-time high in the area. As a result, many parts of the province have collapsed to the Taliban.
But Dostum's visit comes at a time when ongoing festivities rage across the northern parts of Afghanistan -- battles many claim are being led by foreign Death Eaters. But Dostum said that a new push by Afghan cops would help to stabilize the region.
Previously, Dostum issued an ultimatum to Talibs in Faryab province, warning them that they would have two days to either join the government or face serious repercussions. On Sunday he said government forces are ready to confront the holy warriors with full force.
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[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... on Sunday said that news of the death of the Taliban's supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has raised numerous questions, particularly in relation to the ongoing war in Afghanistan.
Abdullah questioned the context of the war and raised the question of who the Taliban contingent represent in the peace talks.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Intelligence -- National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) has said the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad was mysteriously killed in a hospital in 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... city of Pakistain.
A statement was issued by NDS earlier tonight and strictly prohibited participation in any gathering aimed at mourning the death of 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... .
The statement further added that Mullah Omar was killed in the month of April 2013 in a hospital in Karachi city.
NDS said Mullah Omar played a key role in ongoing war and violence in the country by establishing the Taliban group which resulted in death of thousands of innocent Afghan people.
The statement by NDS also added that participation in gatherings mourning Mullah Omar's death and other gatherings aimed at spreading propagandas in favor of Mullah Omar would be a major misery against thousands of innocent Afghans who have bit the dust.
NDS said the Afghan security institutions have been instructed to raid any gatherings organized for Mullah Omar and insisted that such gatherings would be legitimate military targets for the Afghan cops.
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[By: Guillaume Decamme - News Daily] A self-proclaimed kingmaker and bulwark against the Taliban with a penchant for creating friends out of yesterday's foes, the colourful General Abdul Rashid Dostum, vice-president and former warlord, makes his call to arms from his imposing concrete redoubt in northern Afghanistan.
We will clear out the Taliban from Faryab! booms the moustached 61-year-old, a Macy's jacket slung over his shoulders despite the sweltering heat of Jowzjan province, a stone's throw from Turkmenistan and neighbouring Faryab province where Islamist insurgents have been plaguing government forces.
Faryab is where the general has decided to make his next visit as vice-president -- a position far removed from his days as a feared warlord with a reputation for brutality earned during the civil war of the 1990s.
Once I go there, God willing, I will encourage the people and they will get it back from the hands of the Taliban, he bellows. You will see - even the women will be throwing rocks at the Taliban. I have more than a million supporters there.
Even among an Afghan political class that has welcomed several warlords into the fold, Dostum, the uncontested leader of the Uzbek ethnic minority, stands out for his showmanship.
Guests at his headquarters in Sheberghan, the capital of Jowzjan, are greeted by two-by-three metre portraits of the general hung on the walls -- as well as smaller versions on patches stitched onto the shoulders of his personal guard.
MOGADISHU -- Somalia owes the International Monetary Fund (IMF) $328 million and no new loans will be given until some arrangement is agreed upon on how this debt is to be serviced. Recently an IMF mission led by Rogerio Zandamela was in the country. He said last week, “The IMF is for now precluded from providing new loans to Somalia, pending clearance of the country’s arrears of about $328 million.
“But we can advise the authorities on appropriate macroeconomic policies, including in the context of a staff-monitored program, which is a kind of ‘shadow program’ involving a dialogue with the IMF on economic policies but which offers no financing.”
Zandamela said Somalia has much potential. “They have natural resources, including gas and petroleum, fisheries, and more. Proper management of these natural resources is vital to the country’s success.”
Killing all the Shaboobs would help, as would ferreting out a significant proportion of the graft and corruption.
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The IMF has loaned them money in the past? WTF product would make the loan payments? Kidnapping?
GAROWE, Puntland Somalia -- Puntland government in northern Somalia has marked its founding day with colorful event in the state capital of Garowe and parades in the Gulf of Aden port city of Bossaso on Saturday, Garowe Online reports.
Puntland Defence forces, police, custodial corps and units from Maritime Police Force paraded around a popular spot in Bossaso in the presence of cabinet ministers, parliamentarians, Bari Governor and Bossaso Mayor.
In the capital Garowe, Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Vice president Abdihakin Abdullahi Haji Omar, Parliament Speaker Saed Hassan Shire, Puntland Army Chief Gen. Sead Mohamed Hirsi (Saed Dhere), Police Commander-in-Chief Gen. Mohamed Saed Jaqanaf, Custodial Corps Chief Gen. Ali Nur, women and youth groups, Diasporans and bands singing for 17 years of governance gathered for a major event at Puntland State House on Saturday evening.
President Ali delivered a keynote speech touching on achievements heralded since the state’s inception, security, economy, democratization and national politics.
“Puntland has achieved success in various fronts, Puntland has a stern governance flourishing in financial and military muscles,” Ali began with his speech.
He noted that Puntland is a mother for Somalia federalism, alleging that [Somalia Federal Government] became disobedient to its parent in reference to Puntland’s role in transition into a more permanent government in 2012.
Ali raised that overwhelming majority of Puntland people may think of ceding Somali unity: “Many people in Puntland believe that Puntland needs to give up on Somalia and not to waste more time on [a united federal Somalia] but you should be clear with the intentions of the enemy who wants this to happen, alone Puntland can be Somalia”.
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[PREMIUMTIMESNG] Jihadist group, Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , says its fighters remain in areas they were years ago, despite an aggressive military effort against it by Nigeria and neighbouring countries.
The group made the claim in a new video, in which its leader, Abubakar Shekau, was again missing.
In the eight-minute video, an unidentified young man speaking in Hausa with Kanuri accent, said Boko Haram members remain on the ground.
"We are still present everywhere we had been before," he said.
The video shows the group launching attacks on the security checkpoint, seizing weapons, and cutting the throat of unidentified middle aged man dressed in a police uniform.
The absence of Mr. Shekau in the new video raises question again about whether he is still alive or dead.
He was absent in an earlier video from the group in July.
The group also called on Moslems to reject the Muhammadu Buhari government.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Yemeni Ansarullah leader Sayyed Abul-Malik 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 ... stressed on Sunday that the Saudi-US aggression on 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 failed to defeat the will and the steadfastness of the Yemeni people, noting that the people of Yemen are engaged in the battle of honor, independence and the legitimate defense.
During a televised speech aired live, Sayyed Houthi stated that no one can mislead the Yemenis in their battle against the injustice whatever the aggressors' capabilities are.
"In spite of thousands of air raids, and after all that long time of aggression on Yemen, the position of Yemen's people, army and Popular Committees are the one that is now taken into consideration," he said.
Moreover, Ansarullah leader stressed that "what has happened in Aden was a limited advance for the aggression and not a gain it obtained, despite all its capabilities," adding that developments in Aden are not a win-win situation for the aggressor, but they represent "sliding to the swamp."
"Definitely, such steps do not resolve the battle with the people who do not accept slavery and humiliation," Sayyed Houthi emphasized, indicating that any failure or limitation by the national military does not mean that the enemy has won the battle."
"As long as you continue the aggression against Yemen, you are getting stuck more and more," he told 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... and allies.
Houthi also warned of the real ambitions of the enemy in Yemen, who wants to directly control some areas in the country, noting that "the free people will be always victorious regardless of the aggressor's efforts."
The Yemeni leader highlighted that "executions and mass killings are taking place in Aden without any justification," stressing that the so-called 'Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group, the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, the Saudi turbans and the armed mercenaries are fighting on one front in Aden, pointing out that "the aggressor is seeking to humiliate the Yemenis and to impose his decisions over them."
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Its slogan is “God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews”
I prefer "God is great, beer is good, people are crazy."
[ALMANAR.LB] Saudi Defense Minister Mohammad bin Salman threatened to launch war on Kuwait after differences between the two Persian Gulf Arab states escalated over Khafji oilfield.
"Mohammad bin Salman threatened that his country would attack and occupy Kuwait, claiming that not only Khafji oilfield but also entire Kuwait is part of the Saudi territories based on historical documents," Middle-East Panorama quoted on Sunday intelligence sources of the Persian Gulf Arab littoral states as saying.
Kuwait has complained that the continued shut down of Khafji oilfield it shares with 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... will incur huge losses Riyadh must compensate for in the future.
Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali Al Omair in a letter to his Saudi counterpart Ali Al Naimi urged him "to take adequate measures to resume production at Khafji.
By keeping production and exports shut, Kuwait will incur huge losses which will be borne by the Saudi government for violation of the (50-year old) agreement and the 2010 operations agreement".
The sources referred to Salman's harsh reaction to Kuwait's claims, and quoted him as saying that "we saved Kuwait from Saddam's claws and now who is there to free it from our claws".
"Kuwait has no superiority over us and is a country stretched over a piece of land one-fourth of Riyadh," he added, according to the sources.
The field has been shut since October last year for non-compliance with new Saudi environmental standards. It is operated by Al-Khafji Joint Operations Co (KJO), a joint venture between AGOC, a subsidiary of state oil firm Saudi Aramco, and Kuwait Gulf Oil Co (KGOC).
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One likely Saudi Arabian response to the deal Iran has struck with world powers is to accelerate its own nuclear power plans, creating an atomic infrastructure it could, one day, seek to weaponise.
Gee, really? Rooters put the A team on this article...
But while it has recently made moves to advance its nuclear programme, experts say it is uncertain whether it could realistically build an atomic bomb in secret or withstand the political pressure it would face if such plans were revealed.
Political pressure? From who?
"I think Saudi Arabia would seriously try to get the bomb if Iran did. It's just like India and Pakistan. The Pakistanis said for years they didn't want one, but when India got it, so did they," said Jamal Khashoggi, head of a Saudi news channel owned by a prince.
And like the Paks, the Saudis won't wait for the Iranians to announce success...
The kingdom is engaged in a contest for power with the Islamic republic stretching across the region and fears the nuclear deal will free Tehran from international pressure and sanctions, giving it more room to back allies in proxy wars. So far its response has been lukewarm public praise for the deal coupled with private condemnation, a reaction that follows a more muscular approach to Iran evident in its war against allies of Tehran in Yemen and more help for Syrian rebels. However, some Saudis close to the ruling family have also warned that if Iran still manages to weaponise its nuclear programme, then the kingdom will have to follow suit despite the cost of becoming a pariah state and rupturing ties with the United States.
Would that happen? Would we disown a nation that still sells the oil we need, particularly if the Medes and Persians start getting full of themselves?
Analysts who follow Saudi Arabia are divided as to whether it really does constitute a proliferation risk, given its newly assertive stance towards the United States and the life-and-death import it places on the struggle with Iran, or whether it is bluffing.
They are also split on whether international pressure via meaningful sanctions could be imposed on a country whose economy depends almost entirely on trade, but whose ability to maintain massive oil exports is critical for global energy markets.
I'll take the latter and give the points...
What senior Saudis have consistently said about the Iranian nuclear deal is that they will demand exactly the same terms. That would allow them a nuclear fuel cycle that could produce material for a bomb, but would also impose a tough inspections regime.
The kingdom's atomic power plans, like those of Iran, are based on the economic principle that it is better to use crude oil for revenue-generating exports to maintain social benefits than fritter it away on soaring electricity consumption. Its nuclear body, the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy (KACARE), recommended in 2012 that Saudi Arabia install 17 gigawatts of nuclear power but it has not yet laid out plans to do so.
Riyadh has signed nuclear energy cooperation agreements with several countries able to build reactors, but recent deals with France, Russia and South Korea go beyond these by including feasibility studies for atomic power plants and fuel cycle work. Daunting technical obstacles would still hinder any Saudi attempt to build a bomb, something that would most likely be achieved via a uranium enrichment process for which technological transfer between countries is closely regulated.
"It's very technically challenging to obtain the fissile material needed for a weapon and with the enhanced safeguard measures of the model additional protocol, the risk of detection is great," said Karl Dewey, the Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear analyst at IHS Janes.
The additional protocol is part of a stronger regime of inspections and safeguards that Iran has adopted and would likely be a condition of any Saudi nuclear programme.
At present, the United States is so closely entwined with Saudi Arabia's political and security infrastructure that it would be hard to envisage Riyadh embarking on a nuclear weapons project without Washington finding out.
Going behind Washington's back to build a nuclear bomb would cause massive ruptures in a strategic security relationship that will remain vital to Saudi Arabia despite its efforts to create alternative alliances. The pair's relationship has weakened in recent years.
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Methinks they've been mulling this since the first time Jawn flew to Teheran for a chat.
Pro-government fighters in Yemen have received weapons shipments in the war-torn city of Aden, as rebels scramble to deploy reinforcements, military officials from both sides of the conflict said on Sunday.
Military and port officials in Aden said new heavy and medium weapons and ammunition arrived in Aden in late July by sea to support pro-government army divisions and militias against the Houthi rebels and allied military units. The officials said tanks, artillery, missiles and armoured vehicles were included in the shipment from some Gulf states.
So mostly British and American origin, some French and German.
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The U.S. on Monday called for an end to a series of attacks in Turkey that have been blamed on PKK, Anadolu agency reported.
That should do it...
“We want to see these attacks cease; we want to see the PKK renounce violence and reengage in talks with the government of Turkey,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. “These attacks are only exacerbating the continuation of the cycle of violence here.”
Turkish security forces have come under attack across the country since the July 20 Suruc bombing in southeastern Turkey, which killed 32 people. The bombing was believed to be the work of Daesh.
At least two Turkish soldiers were killed and 24 others were injured in a suspected suicide attack in Turkey’s eastern Agri province early Sunday, which has been blamed on the PKK. Separately, a Turkish soldier was killed and four others were injured when a landmine hit their patrol around the Kirkuk-Yumurtalik oil pipeline in Turkey’s southeastern province of Mardin late Saturday, Turkish security sources said.
Following reports that retaliatory Turkish military airstrikes killed at least eight civilians in northern Iraq, Turkey said Saturday that it would launch an investigation into the incident.
Toner said the U.S. takes reports of civilian casualties "very seriously", adding that Washington does not "want to see any civilian casualties”.
“We want to see the PKK stop its attacks against Turkey and then for the Turkish government to respond proportionately,” Toner said.
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How about stopping the Turkish bombings of Kurds in Iraq? And FYI, these attacks didnt start big time until the Turks basically declared war by arresting hundreds, and bombing the Kurds who were fighting ISIS fairly indiscriminately.
This is all about giving a fig leaf to Erdogan's repression of all Kurds as part of his political ploy, and Obama/State's apparent attempt to prop up Erdogan's regime.
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That being said, the PKK has got to get control over its people - and go after the faction that decided to run amok and screw up the prep work and nation base they are laying in Iraqi Kurdistan, and parts of Syria. Dont get greedy.
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This is why you need to target the whole family over there - raze the house, bomb the village, and done be precise. Beat the hell out of them, kill enough of them until they are incapable of any actions at all. WW2 Japan taught this lesson. War is hell, and we need to realize that - and treat it as such or it will come to our homes; better to put the hell of war on them, over there, than us, here.
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...Now we know who got those hacked personal data lists...
Mike
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Sounds like a tactic designed to create a Muslim martyr, killed by a serviceman, to justify a campaign to disarm all servicemen. The question is whether it is an Islamist tactic or a US government tactic.
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Screwing with the security of their loved ones, screwing with their pay, demoralizing the ranks (check the enlistment and reup rates), have one of the lowest levels in public confidence in government in generations. That bodes ill by historical standards in what happens next.
[DAWN] Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani asked the government on Monday to brief the house on the suspended dialogue between the Afghan government and Taliban as well as the death of 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... .
Mr Rabbani directed Leader of the House Raja Zafarul Haq to ensure presence of Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... in the Senate on Tuesday or Wednesday for giving a policy statement on the issues.
"Call the adviser to come to the house tomorrow or a day after to give a policy statement and brief the house on 2+1+2 dialogue and related developments," the Senate chairman asked Mr Haq.
He issued the directive after Senator Farhatullah Babar, speaking on a "matter of public importance", questioned the "silence" of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the "institutions concerned" over the death of Mullah Omar which, according to him, was creating suspicion about Pakistain among the international community.
The talks between the Afghan government and Taliban, which began in Murree last month, have been suspended after the reports of the death of Mullah Omar last week. The term, 2+1+2 initiative, refers to the two Afghan delegations representing the government and Taliban, Pakistain and the two international backers -- US and China.
Mr Babar said the Afghan government had announced that Mullah Omar had died in 2013 and that it was informed about it by Pakistain. "Our institutions are not denying it."
"There should have been a clear official statement about the death of Taliban chief Mullah Omar. Was the Pakistain government aware of it? Did the Afghan authorities get information about it from Pakistain," Mr Babar said.
Earlier, he recalled, Pakistain had taken the position that it was not aware of the presence of Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... in the country until May 2, 2011, when he was killed by US forces in an operation in Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... . "Now again Pakistain is under discussion in connection with Mullah Omar's death," he said.
Mr Babar said if Mullah Omar had died two years ago, then who had issued the statement (on his behalf) before Eidul Fitr welcoming the Afghan talks. "Who was impersonating Mullah Omar?"
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[DAWN] Finance Minister Ishaq Dar told the National Assembly on Monday that like the main opposition PPP the ruling PML-N too would oppose two motions due to come before the house on Tuesday seeking to deseat 28 members of the opposition 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.... if the move was not withdrawn by then.
The finance minister, who often acts as 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 political trouble-shooter, said he was making the announcement beforehand because he would leave on Tuesday morning to attend an International Monetary Fund meeting in Dubai.
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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... has rejected rumours about an in-house conspiracy in the army and said there is no room for success of such a plot within the disciplined and professional force.
Talking to news hounds on Monday after inaugurating an online application system introduced by the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), he said it was not possible for a few officers to replace the army chief. "The army has neither been a victim of an in-house conspiracy in the past nor could it happen in the days to come," he added.
Chaudhry Nisar dismissed as "ridiculous and baseless" the rumours suggesting that a plot had been hatched up by some army officers to replace Army Chief General Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... during the days of PTI's sit-in in Islamabad last year.
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ISLAMABAD -- Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan dismissed on Monday rumours that the government was considering replacing Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif.
“It is a baseless speculation; we have complete trust in the incumbent top command of our military,” he told reporters at the inauguration of an online system for the renewal of national identity cards, at the headquarters of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). “We need an army chief like General Raheel Sharif, who has earned national and international fame and because we need him to fight militants,” he said, adding that such “baseless rumours” are being spread by the “enemies” of Pakistan. Earlier, the interior minister inaugurated an online system for the renewal of ID cards.
Nisar expressed displeasure over the implication of Pakistan Army into politics. Responding to a question about media reports regarding alleged involvement of some army officials in last year’s sit-in by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, he said that the Pakistan Army was a disciplined and highly professional force. In the war against terrorism and extremism, Pakistan Army needed full support of the nation and such baseless allegations, he said, should not be levelled. Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif is a thoroughly professional soldier and is leading his force from the front in the war against terrorists and he has the confidence of the entire nation and the government, the minister added.
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Iraqi army and popular forces will take full control of Anbar province in the coming weeks Al-Alam News Network reported citing security experts. Soon. Real soon. Really.
"The Iraqi army and popular forces have made considerable advances in Al-Anbar province, Western Iraq, an indication that the ISIL will be fully defeated in the next few weeks," Iraqi security expert Saeed al-Jayashi told FNA on Sunday in reference to the so-called 'Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant' takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group.
He underlined that the status of affairs in Anbar province is moving on a course that had been planned by the government.
Last week, the Iraqi volunteer forces and army managed to seize back several strategic regions in the city of Ramadi, including Al-Anbar University, from Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorists' control.
Iraq's counter-terrorism units announced that the Iraqi flags have been hoisted now over Al-Anbar University's buildings.
Tens of ISIL turbans have been killed and dozens more injured in heavy festivities with Iraqi troops.
Meantime, the Iraqi army and the volunteer forces won back control over strategic hilltops in the Eastern parts of the city of al-Ramadi.
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The Russian president purportedly went into a long diatribe criticizing the Turkish foreign policy and its malevolent role in Syria, Iraq and Yemen by supporting Saudi-backed al-Qaeda terrorists, reported the Moscow Times, which escalated the conversation with the Turkish ambassador to a fierce polemic.
Another missed diplomatic opportunity for our feckless 'wrong side O'history' tyrants in Washington.
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What Turkey has learned from the Paks is that you can play loose with the terrorists and not have to pay the price for doing so. Putie has his hands full with the Ukraine and just trying to jump start his Black Sea Fleet. A bit too early to back anything with real force.
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The Soviet Union had an excellent understanding of the Muslim Brotherhood activity, and the role Erbakan and Erdogan, both Turkish brothers, played in the growth of radicalism in the "Stans", and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The successor to the KGB must have a dossier an inch thick on Erdogan, and while Obama kisses his ass, Putin never will.
All sides in the Syrian conflict are at least associated with terror sponsoring, totalitarian theocratic states.
Putin is siding with Iran/Hezbolla/Assad-Syria which is posing a far more formidable threat to Western civilization than ISIS, courtesy of the Western powers' surrender to Iran.
There are no good guys in this. If ISIS gives Hezbollah a taste of their own medicine or vice versa there's no reason for civilized people to be outraged.
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Pragmatically, wid Turkey's rival IRAN already on the shores of the Med + Turkey via its Syria + Lebanese allies, SHORT OF WAR AGZ IRAN THE ONLY WAY TURKEY HAS TO "BREAK OUT" OF ITS CONTAINMENT + ACHIEVE ITS AMBITION OF "PAN-TURKIC UNION" IS TO DESTABILIZE + GO AGZ ANY + ALL ITS SURROUNDING NON-IRANIAN NEIGHBORS, INCLUD BUT NOT LIMITED TO RUSSIA.
Putin = Russia is rightly fearing BOTH the ISIS + the New Ottoman.
(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced the killing of at least 12 people in the crash of a fighter jet belonging to the Syrian Air Force in a crowded market near the border with Turkey.
The British news agency “BBC” quoted the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as saying: “a fighter jet belonging to the Syrian Air Force crashed in a crowded market in the town of Jericho controlled by the opposition northwest of the country near the border with Turkey, which resulted in the killing of at least 12 people.”
The observatory added that “The incident also resulted in the wounding of dozens,” while Syrian army have not issued any comment yet.
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Sock, you may want to ask the Indian Air Force about that. The MiG-21 has a reputation as a widow-maker...
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All Soviet block fighters have poor engine life. Running MIGs like the Syrians have been doing is asking for them to start konking out and falling from the sky. Usually over populated areas.
[ALMANAR.LB] The United States has decided to allow airstrikes to defend Syrian terrorists trained by the US military from any attackers, even if the enemies hail from the Syrian regular army, US officials said on Sunday.
The decision by President Barack Obama, which could deepen the US role in Syria's conflict, aims to shield a still-fledging group of Syrian fighters armed and trained by the United States to battle ISIL militants -- not forces loyal to Assad.
The first batch of US-trained forces deployed to northern Syria came under fire on Friday from other militants, triggering the first known US airstrikes to support them.
US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to confirm details of the decision, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, said the United States would provide offensive strikes to support advances against ISIL targets.
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Besides inferring that the US = Obama Admin is moving away or abandoning its ideal of a unified, Federal Iraq + any post-Assad Syria, THIS RISKS PUTTING THE US ON A COLLISION COURSE WID IRAN GIVEN THAT ASSAD IS IRAN'S ALLY + BFF, + IRAN = RUSSIA = HAS HOPES OF O-T-H MILBASES FOR THE PROJECTION OF POWER + "SPHERE OF INFLEUNCE".
The Bammer + Globies support Iran being a OWG Co-Superpower to the "weak/declining" USA, but still have to PCorrectly "go thru the motion(s)" of overtly pretending its working agz same???
* Lest we fergit, BIGNEWSNETWORK > [New American] OBAMA'S NUCLEAR IRAN DEAL: CFR GLOBALISTS VERSUS SOVEREIGNTY AND THE US CONSTITUTION.
"New American" to devol into "THE NEW AMERIKAN"???
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Typhoid fever cases has increased recently in Southern Damascus region especially with summer season and hot weather.
[Tolo News] First Vice-President Gen. Abdul Rashid 
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One likely Saudi Arabian response to the deal Iran has struck with world powers is to accelerate its own nuclear power plans, creating an atomic infrastructure it could, one day, seek to weaponise.
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