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This comes from the Pakistan government, not the Pakistan military, which is not under the government's control. The Pakistan military (as corrupt as any in the world, perhaps with the exception of Mexico) has only been under "government" control when the Pakistan state was ruled by a former military commander.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Outraged with a series of deadly attacks in capital 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.... the Afghan religious holy mans declared Jihad against Pakistain by gathering in the scene of truck bombing in Shah Shaheed area where at least 15 people were killed and near 400 others were maimed last week.
The religious holy mans condemned the deadly attack and blamed certain elements in Pakistain for being involved behind the attacks.
A member of the religious holy mans council Mawlavi Ahmad Gul called on all parties involved in the ongoing violence and war in the country to let the Afghan people live in peace.
He said the Afghan people are Moslems and insisted that Jihad is eligible against Pakistain's military intelligence -- Inter Service Intelligence and Punjabi military, insisting the country's army and intelligence is directly involved in the ongoing violence and savagery in Afghanistan.
This comes as the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said Wednesday that specific elements within the Mighty Pak Army was behind the deadly attacks in capital Kabul, apparently gesturing towards the country's military intelligence -- Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
NDS front man Haseeb Sediqi told news hounds that the attacks were carried out by the elements of the Mighty Pak Army with the help of their mercenaries -- Haqqani terrorist network.
The former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... called on United States and the West not to support Pakistain's military intelligence -- Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), blaming it for sponsoring terrorism in Afghanistan.
Speaking among the gathering of Afghans youths to celebrate the International Youth Day, the former Afghanistan's Caped President said politicians and military leaders of the United States, United Kingdom and other countries admitted in the past that Pakistain's military intelligence is the founder and sponsor of terrorism.
Karzai further added that the US and Western leaders must stop supporting the sponsors of terrorism if they agree with the fact that ISI is supporting terrorism in the region.
A prominent Afghan military official Gen. Abdul Raziq has said the Taliban group is plotting and coordinating attacks in Afghanistan with direct support of Pakistain.
He was speaking to news hounds following the capture of Nawzad district from the Talibs in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province.
Gen. Raziq is the provincial police chief of southern Kandahar province and leads the fight against the Talibs in the neighboring Helmand province.
He said Punjabi faceless myrmidons and mercenaries of Pakistain are fighting in southern Afghanistan and the reason behind prolonged violence in Helmand is due to low number of the security forces deployed by the security institutions.
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i dont know why we send aid to pakistan as they are clearly our biggest enemy in the region.
[ARABNEWS] The Daesh group is operating in Afghanistan but does not appear able to coordinate their operations in the country, a top US military official said.
The holy warrior group is now considered "operationally emergent," said Brig. Gen. Wilson Shoffner, the front man for the US-led mission in Afghanistan.
"We do have reports of them operating in different part of the country but again not in a coordinated fashion," Shoffner said, speaking from 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.... He added that the US has recognized "the potential for them to evolve to something more dangerous, and we take that very seriously."
"We are seeing some fighting between Daesh and Taliban in Afghanistan. Usually this is the result of Daesh encroaching upon Taliban territory and interfering with established Taliban operations," Shoffner said.
General John Campbell, head of the US forces in Afghanistan, will brief the White House on the Afghan security situation this fall, a critical turning point in determining the future of US and international military operations in the country.
Shoffner said the growing threat posed by Daesh in Afghanistan will "clearly" factor into the Campbell's assessment.
For months, Daesh has been trying to establish itself in the eastern regions of the country and to recruit Taliban fighters.
The Taliban has repeatedly warned Daesh against expanding its operations in Afghanistan and a rivalry has emerged between the two groups.
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"General John Campbell, head of the US forces in Afghanistan, will brief the White House on the Afghan security situation this fall..."
Let's see, fall begins in late September. I guess there is no rush to give a briefing at which Obama will likely be missing.
Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has called on the United Nations to close the Dadaab refugee camp and relocate more than 500,000 Somalis. Dadaab, near the border with Somalia, is the largest refugee camp in Africa.
It's about the size of metropolitan Peoria...
On 2 April, Somali militants from the al-Shabab Islamist movement attacked a college in the Kenyan town of Garissa, killing 148 students.
But the head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR in Kenya told the BBC they had not been asked to close the camp.
Mr Ruto said UNHCR had three months to close Dadaab and make alternative arrangements for its residents – otherwise, Kenya would “relocate them ourselves”, he said.
To, perhaps, Minneapolis. Maybe that's why Champ visited last week.
Raouf Mazou, country representative for UNHCR in Kenya, said he heard about the government’s intentions in the news.
Dadaab was set up in 1991 to house families fleeing conflict in Somalia. Some people have been living at the site for more than 20 years.
So they're like Palestinians...
Kenyan MPs and governors have previously accused al-Shabab of hiding out in the Dadaab camp.
Speaking on Saturday, Mr Ruto insisted Dadaab should be closed down and its residents moved back to Somalia.
“The way America changed after 9/11 is the way Kenya will change after Garissa,” he added.
You do get the idea that the Kenyans consider the Somali refugees to be an ungrateful lot...
Macharia Munene, professor of international relations at a Kenyan university, told the Reuters news agency that moving hundreds of thousands of refugees across the border would be “a tall order”. But he said there were now safe areas within Somalia, from where al-Shabab militants had been chased out by African Union forces.
Somali refugees belong in Somalia. If it's safe to send them back, send them back.
Kenya has also started building a 700km (440-mile) wall along the entire length of the border with Somalia to keep out members of al-Shabab.
“We must secure this country at whatever cost. Even if we lose business with Somalia, so be it,” said Mr Ruto.
This man is a genius...
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MOGADISHU -- Somalia’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources dismissed as ‘quid pro quo’ allegations of improper payments made to individual government officials amid vote of no confidence in the President, Garowe Online reports.
Somalia Federal Government entered into Capacity Building Agreement with the British Oil Company, Soma Oil & Gas on April 25, 2014.
8-member panel of UN experts said in confidential report that Soma transferred payment totaling $490,000 to senior civil servants at Mogadishu Petroleum Ministry.
And that the UN overseers didn't get any of that...
“We are proud that our institutions are improving and progressing.Good governance, transparency and accountability are of greater essence to Somalia in the proper management of its resources. Transparency in public service pay and procurements are a national priority and monitored through our internal and international mechanism such as the Financial Governance Committee (FGC),” Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources unveiled on Thursday.
It also called the allegations of acting in a conflict of interest ‘misleading and inaccurate’, a few days after Soma Oil & Gas strongly contested confidential UN report.
"Lies! All lies!"
In response to the alleged payments, Soma insisted that UN monitors fundamentally misunderstood the nature of payments made under the terms of Capacity Building Agreement.
"It was a gratuity..."
Soma is in agreement to execute Seismic Option deal passed by Council of Ministers.
Somalia is also currently assessing its oil and gas potential, gaining the attention of investors keen on stake in the country’s oil and gas industry.
In the wake of the UN report, UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigated the company’s headquarters in London, Reuters reported.
Next time pay off the UN. It's less headache in the long-term...
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[AlAhram] 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 said on Thursday on its affiliated radio station that its Egyptian branch has killed the Croatian hostage.
This news comes a day after a photo purporting to show the captive's headless body circulated online.
In an audio broadcast of its Al-Bayan station the group said, "the soldiers of the Caliphate killed the Croatian captive whose country is participating in the war on the Islamic State. It said the slaying came after a 48-hour ultimatum, given to Egypt to free Moslem women prisoners, expired and both the "apostate Egyptian government and his own have abandoned him."
[AlAhram] Two separate groups were involved in the kidnapping of Croatian Tomislav Salopek in Egypt -- one that kidnapped him and asked for a ransom before handing him over to the Islamic State group, which reportedly killed him, Croatia's Foreign Minister said Thursday.
Speaking in the Croatian coastal town of Rijeka, Vesna Pusic said the captors requested money from the company Salopek worked for. Then contact was broken and on Aug. 5 a video emerged showing Salopek as a hostage of the Islamic State branch in Egypt.
"No money request was made then but rather the release of Moslem women from Egyptian jails -- which was a bad sign, as some 99 percent of the locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... women in Egypt are Moslem and the captors did not specify who they really wanted to be released," she said.
"The conclusion was that there is no specific request and that we were dealing with two different organizations. One that kidnapped him and the other that identified itself as the Islamic State."
Salopek's killing, if confirmed, would be the first of a foreign captive in Egypt, where the government has been struggling to project an image of stability and revive the economy following years of unrest.
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[LATIMES] The United Nations chief has fired the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the force's handling of dozens of sexual and other misconduct allegations, including rape and killing. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking with unusual force, said Wednesday that he has accepted the resignation of Babacar Gaye of Senegal and declared, “Enough is enough.” He has called a special session of the U.N. Security Council for Thursday to discuss the sexual abuse allegations that have rocked the world body.
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So I guess that it's a Babacar Gaye Sex Scandal then.
[ARABNEWS] A Saudi delegation will visit Baghdad in the coming days to follow up on the implementation of the agreement to release prisoners, confirmed Iraqi President Fuad Masum.
During a meeting with a number of writers, academics and journalists in Baghdad on Wednesday, he praised Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in helping his country combat terrorism, noting that the current phase requires extensive efforts from all neighboring countries in order to defeat terrorism.
"During my visit to the Kingdom and meeting with the Saudi leadership, they expressed their readiness to provide support to Iraq in all areas in order to combat terrorism," he was quoted as saying by Al-Watan newspaper. "They consider the Iraqi people as their brothers," he added.
In the coming days, he said a Saudi delegation will arrive in Baghdad to complete all investigations related to improving relations between the two countries and other economic and security issues.
With regards to implementation of the agreement between both countries to release prisoners, Masum said: "The implementation must be based on certain procedures and the presidency will propose to the head of the house of representatives its willingness in ratifying the decision.
"As for those prisoners who were convicted of crimes and were sentenced to the death but their death sentences were commuted to life sentences, there is no harm in transferring them back to their country."
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[ARABNEWS] Moslem and Arab countries are paying a heavy price in their fight against terror, observed director of Counterterrorism Implementation Task Force, Jehangir Khan.
He was speaking at a joint presser at the Royal Conference Palace in Riyadh on Thursday with Abdullah Al-Mouallimi, 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 permanent representative to 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... .
"It is sad that the largest number of victims of terrorism are from Moslem countries and Arab world and they are paying a heavy price in their fight against this scourge," he stressed, saying his visit to the affected countries was to seek their support to counter this problem and reach a unified stand against this issue.
Khan said his visit to the Kingdom was not only to appreciate the Kingdom's contribution to the fight against terror but also to learn from its experiences in tackling some of the terror-related problems.
Citing an example, Khan said the Prince Mohammed bin Naif Center for Counseling and Care is a unique rehabilitation program meant to provide a new life to those who were brainwashed and recruited by terror groups. "They are rehabilitated under a comprehensive program and re-integrated into society as useful citizens," he said, pointing out that this example can be emulated by other countries. The idea of the center is to share such experiences with member countries for mutual benefit.
Speaking about the center, he recalled that the late King Abdullah donated $110 million to the center.
The Counterterrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) was established by the UN secretary-general in 2005 and endorsed by the General Assembly through the United Nations Global Counterterrorism Strategy, which was adopted by consensus in 2006. It came into operation only in 2011.
The mandate of the CTITF is to enhance coordination and coherence of counterterrorism efforts of the United Nations. The task force consists of 36 international entities which, by virtue of their work, have a stake in multilateral counterterrorism efforts. Each entity makes contributions consistent with its own mandate.
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You made this and continue to do so. You will all die for it.
Your "religion" is offensive. It's Godless.
You will all burn and starve and be thrown in a lake of fire for YOUR FALSE DOCTRINE
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Blacks are the biggest victims of black crime and murder. However, they like the Muslims, have got to blame someone else for their situation other than the person in the mirror.
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Yemen's 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 ... movement is considering withdrawing from Sana'a and handing over government facilities to state authorities, Asharq Al-Awsat has learned.
The Houthis' Security Committee held a meeting in Sana'a on Monday to discuss the possibility of pulling out of the capital and handing over security checkpoints and government facilities to state authorities, a 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... source told Asharq Al-Awsat.
The meeting was chaired by Jalal Al-Ruwaishan, the Houthi-appointed interior minister, and attended by members of the so-called Revolutionary Committee.
The step comes after the Iran-backed group has suffered a series of defeats at the hands of forces loyal to Yemen's exiled President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, who recently retook the strategic city of Aden and much of the country's south.
The Houthis overran Sana'a in September 2014, toppling the government and placing the freely elected President Hadi and other senior members of his cabinet under house arrest. After fleeing his Houthi captors, Hadi established a temporary base in Aden before he eventually fled to Riyadh in the face of a rebel advance.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start on his third quart... Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdulah Saleh reportedly issued directions to his followers in the General People's Congress (GPC) party not to follow Houthis' orders in a fresh sign of the widening rift between the former president and the Houthi murderous Moslems.
President Hadi 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... accuse Saleh, who wields strong influence within Yemen's army, of facilitating the Houthi control of Sana'a and other parts of Yemen.
The new instructions, a Sana'a political source maintained, came after Saleh began to feel that his party members "have drawn closer to the Houthis than to [the GPC]."
"The GPC lacks a political strategy and is mainly based on [personal] gains," the source added.
Saleh, over the past months, has been trying to secure a safe exit for himself and his family, the source said, "But he does not want to look defeated."
"[Saleh] wants the war to stop so that he can remain GPC leader which he thinks should participate in the future political process," the source added.
In a letter attributed to Saleh, the former president urged his followers not to believe rumors about disputes arising between the GPC and the Houthi Ansar Allah group.
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Hubris! When the Houthi rebels moved south of Sanaa they sealed their fate. Now that their forces are retreating north the Saudi military will not be content until it flattens the Houthi homeland in the north. Already impoverished and suffering from water shortages, if all goes as planned in Riyadh, the Shiites will be decimated and will pay a dreadful price for crossborder attacks on Saudi Arabia.
[AnNahar] North Korea's vice premier Choe Yong-Gon has been executed for voicing frustration at the policies of leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-Un, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Wednesday, citing an anonymous source.
Now he's not so frustrated. How did they kill him, put a funnel down his mouth and force feed him?
Choe, who took the job in June 2014, was executed by firing squad in May after voicing opposition to forestry policies promoted by Kim, Yonhap said, citing the source "with knowledge of the North".
Choe was last seen in the North's state media last December at the death anniversary of the late leader Kim Jong-Il, South Korea's unification ministry said Wednesday.
Seoul was "closely monitoring the possibility of any changes in Choe's circumstances", said the ministry, which is in charge of cross-border affairs.
Choe's death, if confirmed, would be the second reported this year. Defense minister Hyon Yong-Chol was said to have been executed in April by anti-aircraft fire for insubordination and dozing off during formal military rallies. Such a violent method of execution has been cited in various unconfirmed reports as being reserved for senior officials who the leadership wished to make examples of.
The North has not officially confirmed Hyon's execution -- reported in May by Seoul's intelligence agency -- but announced his replacement, Pak Yong Sik, in July.
Kim, believed to be in his early 30s, has repeatedly reshuffled senior army officials in a move analysts say was aimed at forcing them to remain loyal to the young ruler. The Kim dynasty has ruled the impoverished and isolated North for more than six decades with an iron fist, a pervasive personality cult and almost no tolerance for dissent.
[ARABNEWS] CCTV footage from an IKEA store in Sweden where two people were stabbed to death earlier this week, show the alleged attacker trying to commit suicide, the Aftonbladet daily reported.
Monday's attack saw a mother and her adult son stabbed to death at a store in the central town of Vasteras, with police arresting two Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n asylum seekers.
One in his mid 30s was found at the scene with serious knife injuries while the second, aged 23, was waiting at a bus stop outside IKEA.
According to Aftonbladet's website, the images appear to show that the perpetrator was the injured Eritrean who was evacuated to hospital at death's door.
The footage shows a man grabbing two knives from the kitchenware section "several seconds before the murder" then attacking the two shoppers, a 55-year-old woman and her 28-year-old son, the paper said.
"The attack ends when the alleged murderer stabs himself in the stomach," it said.
Swedish police have remained tightlipped since Monday over the exact circumstances of the murder.
On Wednesday, the prosecutor's office said in a statement that Sherlocks were still holding the 23-year-old who was staying at the same center for asylum seekers as the injured man.
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"The attack ends when the alleged murderer stabs himself in the stomach," it said.
[AnNahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has enjugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and expelled more than 700 "foreign terrorist fighters" so far this year as they were trying to enter Syria, a top official said on Wednesday.
Cemalettin Hasimi, head of media relations for the Turkish prime minister, told news hounds in Gay Paree that the rate of expulsions was increasing -- 520 suspected jihadists were intercepted in the whole of 2014.
In total, since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, more than 1,800 suspected fighters have been prevented from slipping into that country from Turkey, said Hasimi.
Turkey has also drawn up a list of 16,000 "foreign terrorist fighters banned from entering Turkey" from 108 countries, said the official.
He urged greater international cooperation to prevent these suspected fighters from leaving their home countries to wage jihad in Syria in the ranks 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.... (IS) group.
Hasimi's comments came after Turkish authorities detained at least a dozen suspected IS members in coordinated dawn raids on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, they had announced the arrest of 23 foreign nationals, including women and kiddies, seeking to cross into Syria to join IS holy warriors via the southeastern border town of Kilis. The suspects were reported as coming from China, Indonesia, Russia and Ukraine.
The issue of imported muscle is an "international problem that requires an international response," Hasimi said.
"It is much easier for the countries of origin to intercept them before they leave the country than to wait for the Turkish authorities to intercept them," he stressed.
Turkey attracts around 40 million tourists every year and "there's no question of carrying out security checks on everyone that comes to our country," he said.
Ankara has long been accused by its Western partners of failing to properly control the frontier and even of colluding with IS -- allegations it fiercely denies.
In places, the border has been marked only with a crude wire-mesh fence ridden with holes that has provided easy passage to holy warriors and smugglers.
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Ask, and ye shall receive. An Nahar reports that Israel arrested two, one arrested in Turkey on his way to ISIS, the other turned back at the Turkish border. Link So it does happen.
[ARABNEWS] Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's efforts to forge a coalition alliance with the country's pro-secular party have failed, edging the country closer toward new elections. Davutoglu told news hounds Thursday that the two party leaders had not reached common ground for a power-sharing deal.
The development pushes The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... into political uncertainty at a time when it is faced with a sharp surge of violence and the country is taking a more front-line role in a US-led campaign against the Daesh group.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... was reported to favor renewed elections in the fall, in the hope that the ruling party, which he founded, can regain the parliamentary majority it lost in elections in June.
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Turkey has launched a series of aggressive airstrikes against Kurdish militants but has yet to turn its firepower on Islamic State in Syria as expected, increasing concerns in Washington about the Ankara government's intentions.
Three weeks ago, the countries announced a breakthrough agreement to allow the U.S. to use bases in Turkey to launch airstrikes against Islamic State, and the Ankara government said it would join in the bombings. On Wednesday, the Pentagon said U.S. jets now based at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey had hit their first targets in Syria, which American officials cheered as a significant step forward.
The use of the base has strategic value for the U.S., making it easier to hit Islamic State targets just across the border in northern Syria. But some U.S. officials suspect Turkey is using its recent agreement with the U.S. to fight Islamic State as cover for a new offensive against Kurdish separatist group PKK.
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[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... -Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... on Thursday was tasked with the responsibility to convince 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) politicians to withdraw their resignations submitted a day earlier.
Earlier, 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... chaired a meeting of the parliamentary leaders to discuss the matter of resignations submitted by MQM politicians.
After the meeting, Maulana Fazlur Rehman addressed mediapersons outside Parliament House and said that Khursheed Shah had tasked him with the responsibility "to contact the increasingly corpulentAltaf Hussain ..The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him,he may be a Hutt... and MQM leadership so that they agree to take back their resignations and return to parliament."
He said MQM's actions could cause a political crisis and that he will make efforts to defuse the situation.
The JUI-F further said that he will consult constitutional experts before approaching MQM politicians and added that positives signs had also been received from the MQM.
Fazl said that he had already stated obvious his stance on the situation that once the resignations are submitted or are sent to the speaker's chamber, then the resignations cannot be taken back as per rules of constitution.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has sacked a senior cabinet official who was a close aide to his predecessor and rival Nuri al-Maliki, the premier's office said in a statement Wednesday.
Abadi issued an "order to relieve the secretary general of the cabinet and his two deputies from their positions", the statement said, referring to Mohammad Khalaf Ahmed, who headed Maliki's personal office during his premiership.
The statement did not provide a reason for the dismissals, but the announcement comes during a major reform drive by Abadi aimed at curbing rampant corruption and streamlining the government.
In televised remarks a day after parliament signed off on his proposed measures, Abadi said that implementing reforms to curb graft and streamline the government "will not be easy," and corrupt people will fight to hold back change.
This was Abadi's first effort to manage expectations for the reform program he rolled out Sunday in response to widespread public anger over corruption and poor services.
"The process will not be easy; it will be painful. The corrupt will not sit by without lifting a finger."
Those who have "interests and privileges will defend their privileges and interests, and some of them will even fight for them," he said.
"They will try to sabotage each step we take".
The Iraqi premier also said that, while some want him to make "unrealistic demands," he "will not demand anything that cannot be implemented."
The anti-corruption drive will be carried out without favor, including within his party, Abadi said.
"If there is a corrupt person in my party, I am against them, and if there is a good person in the party of my enemy, I am with him," he said.
Khalaf's responsibilities included providing advice and support to the premier, administrative services to the cabinet and managing state properties,according to a description of the post on a government website.
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[RUDAW.NET] The Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi militias say joint Iraqi forces are in the final stages of preparations to launch a final offensive 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.... positions in Anbar province.
Karim Nouri, a spokesperson of the group, said Shiite and government forces will continue their joint operation to push back bully boyz who captured large swaths of central Iraq beginning last year, including the Anbar thriving provincial capital Ramadi.
More than 10,000 armed forces members took part in July operations to retake the Sunni province amid an escalating refugee crisis as thousands of families migrated towards Kurdish borders in the north fearing Shiite retaliation.
"Security forces are in full control of almost all key roads to the city of Ramadi," Nouri told Rudaw, adding that ISIS bully boyz were on the defensive and had retreated from vast areas without major festivities.
Despite Nouri's claims, Iraqi forces have made multiple attempts to retake Ramadi since it was taken by ISIS in May, with little discernible success.
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[RUDAW.NET] Iraq's Ministry of Defense announced Thursday it will launch the second phase of military campaigns to liberate the city Ramadi from 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.
"We concluded the first phase of the operation with a security siege on the city and ISIS has no power to move," Defense Minister Khalid Obaidi said in a statement.
Obaidi added, "The first phase of military campaigns to liberate Ramadi started in May with the cooperation of security forces, Sunni tribes, the Hashd al-Shaabi and the US-led coalition. It was successfully concluded."
Obaidi said the second phase of liberation is underway and Iraqi security forces are in control of Anbar. The defense minister stressed that ISIS has lost its once-formidable military power.
Farhan Mohammed, a member of the Anbar provincial council, told Rudaw in June that there was little cooperation between the disparate Iraqi forces. He said the delay in the campaign was to allow for US military advisers to train Sunni tribal fighters and Iraqi forces.
ISIS seized Ramadi in May in what is considered one of the jihadists' most important victories.
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[RUDAW.NET] General Raymond Odierno said Wednesday that the partition of Iraq into separate administrative regions "might be the only solution" to the country's crisis, although the outgoing US Army Chief of Staff was careful to soften his position.
"I think its [reconciliation] is becoming more difficult by the day and I think there might be some alternative solutions that might come sometime in the future, where Iraq might not look like what it did in past," said Odierno, the US Army's 38th Chief of Staff, at his last presser at the Pentagon.
"[Partition] is something that could happen and might be the only solution, but I am not ready to say that," he said.
Odierno will be replaced Friday by General Mark Milley, concluding a 39-year career in the US military.
The general said the United States has trained 16,000 Iraqis, including Sunnis and Kurds, as a part of coalition efforts to enable local forces to take on 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 of this morning when I was briefed, about 16,000 [Iraqi forces] have been trained by US forces in Iraq since the beginning of the year," said Odierno.
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Should have considered the option ages ago. Even as an idle threat it would have value.
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Iff the US-Allies fail to defeat or destroy the ISIS/ISIL/Daesh, "Iraq" or even so-called "SyrAQ" [Syria-Iraq] won't be the only Nation(s) facing partition + incorporation into any ISIS-desired Caliphate.
* SPUTNIK NEWS > US WOULD TREAT THE ISLAMIC STATE AS AN ALLY IFF IT WERE FIGHTING RUSSIA [China?].
Again, IMO there is little to no evidence the Secular-loving Lefties + aligned Marxists-Globalists, etal. can control, let alone stop or destroy, the Soon-to-Be-Nukulaar Hard Boyz + their Global Jihad.
IFF AS THE ARTIC SUGGESTS THE US INTENDS TO KEEP THE ISIS/ISIL + ALIGNED, SIMILAR "ALIVE" AS A COVERT MILPOL "HEDGE" AGZ RISING RUSSIAN STATE, GEOPOL POWER [Chinese? India? Other?], IT MAY BE SOWING THE SEEDS OF ITS OWN DESTRUCTION.
* US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM = THE US IS HELPING ITS POTENTIAL MILPOL OR GEOPOL ENEMIES, RIVALS, OR WANNABES BECOME STRONGER RELATIVE TO THE US ITSELF.
THE US-N-ONLY-THE US IS THE PROVERBIAL TIP-OF-THE-SPEAR IN SETTING UP ANTI-US OWG-NWO, AS WELL AS THE TIP-OF-THE-SPEAR IN MAKING SURE ITS FUTURE OWG GLOBALIST "CO-SUPERPOWERS" ARE AS MILITARILY, ECON, + POLITICALLY STRONG = "PAR" [albeit "rough"
, not "perfect"] WID THE US ITSELF.
Again, the US has to accomplish the above while somehow NOT being EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED OR DESTROYED BY SAME, ALA THE NEVER-ENDING, OWG OR NO OWG, TAKE-NO-PRISONERS "GREAT GAME".
Machiavelli, Mahan, Sun Tzu, ... ... and all that.
* WORLD NEWS > [Fox News] PURPORTED ISIS MILITANTS [Cyberhacking] POST [Hit] LIST OF 1400 "TARGETS".
American, British, + Australian.
MESSAGE REPOR DENOTES THAT THE "ISIS + ISLAM WILL ENTER/COME TO YOUR LANDS, YOU WILL BE BEHEADED".
As I've said or inferred times before, IFF THE OWG GLOBIES MISCALCULATE, THE PRICE/COST TO PAY WILL LITERALLY BE THE HEADS OF THE US + WEST = ENTIRE NON-MUSLIM/ISLAMIC WORLD.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF is reorganizing its cyber-defense system to meet a slew of unprecedented challenges
The attempted hack attack against the Defense Ministry that was revealed this week is only manifestation of the ongoing cyber-war that Israel faces every day. In an exclusive interview, an IDF major who insisted on anonymity for security reasons said that Israel has been attacked by enemies of all kinds -- and in all kinds of ways.
"While we've had cyber attacks all along, it really picked up last year, during Operation Protective Edge, when we were faced with new challenges that we have not faced before," he said. "Attacks were conducted by all the players -- Hezbollah, Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, Paleostinian hacker groups, and Iran, and they displayed strong capabilities that have gotten considerably better over the years."
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[Ynet] Fences around Gazoo-adjacent communities can now automatically detect possible infiltrations and instantly alert troops, as concerns rise over Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, attack tunnels; drill checks effectiveness.
Israel has installed new "smart" fences around Gazoo-adjacent communities in the wake of Operation Protective Edge, featuring the ability to recognize suspicious activity and send troops to the scene in seconds.
Reports have surfaced in recent days, both from Israeli and Paleostinian sources, that Hamas has accelerated its construction of hidden attack tunnels. On Tuesday, Ibrahim Adel Shehadeh Shaer, a Hamas operative in Israeli custody, told the Shin Bet of the organization's plans to use tunnels in a future conflict. Hamas also claimed on Wednesday that it had captured an Israeli drone and made it operational.
Gazoo-adjacent communities have been preparing for another round of escalation. Since the end of last year's conflict, residents received a new "protection package" suited to the threats they faced during Operation Protective Edge.
New smart fences have been built and made operational around communities that lacked them. The smart fence permits immediate detection of infiltrations, triggering deployment of the community's security coordinator and military units stationed in the area.
Eyal Hajbi, chief security officer for Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, observed the fence construction over the last few weeks. "Currently all the fences surrounding the communities have been upgraded, and lighting and technological measures have been installed to complete the defenses," he said.
"This was a mission we worked on in cooperation with the Home Front Command and the Southern Command," added Hajbi. "It's a project in which a large amount of funds was invested, and all parties banded together in order to advance it and reach the point we're at now."
[ALMANAR.LB] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday announced a major deal between Tel Aviv and a consortium including US firm Noble Energy on natural gas production in the Mediterranean Sea.
"The agreement will bring in hundreds of billions of shekels (tens of billions of dollars) to Israeli citizens over the coming years," Netanyahu said in a televised statement, without providing details.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu"I shall bring this agreement to the cabinet on Sunday. I'm sure it will pass by a large majority of votes."
Negotiations have been under way with a consortium including Noble and locally based Delek Group, with talks involving natural gas pricing for Israeli reserves and future production.
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So that hoary old joke about the Jews wandering in the desert for 40 years before they finally found a place without any petroleum has officially reached it's expiration date, eh?
[RUDAW.NET] One year has passed since the fall of Mosul. Many of the Christians who were forced from their homes in the city sought refugee in Jordan have gathered outside a Church in Fulhis city in Jordan not to celebrate, but to ask the Lord to save them. Some of them believe, no matter how hard the life of a refugee may be, they will never go back to Iraq.
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[Ynet] Indian refiners have got the green light to prepare to pay Iran $1.4 billion in oil dues, two sources with knowledge of the issue said, in one of the first signs that last month's nuclear deal is helping Tehran unlock frozen funds.
The landmark nuclear deal between Iran and six major world powers was struck on July 14 and sanctions could begin to be removed later this year if UN inspectors confirm Tehran is complying with its provisions. Indian Finance Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi asked refiners this month to prepare to pay Tehran two installment of $700 million, part of the money owed for oil imports, said the sources, who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue.
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[RUDAW.NET] The German military on Thursday confirmed a possible chemical weapons attack on Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers fighting 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 (ISIS).
The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq had asked for international help to determine whether chemical weapons had been used in an attack late Tuesday on the Peshmerga on the Makhmur front, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) southwest of Erbil.
There was a "possible chemical weapons attack on the Kurdish frontlines at sector six," the German defense ministry said.
Muhammad Khoshawi, a Peshmerga commander, told Rudaw on Wednesday that a group of Western experts had arrived in the area to take samples and establish facts after a Tuesday night mortar attack on Kurdish positions in Makhmur, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) southwest of Erbil.
"Last night at least 45 mortar rounds were fired at our positions, which we believe were loaded with chemicals, since the wounds are different," Khoshawi, whose forces patrol the area, had said.
Burn wounds on the bodies of a number of Peshmerga were examined by the experts and sent to a laboratory for further studies, according to Khoshawi.
He said Peshmerga forces in the area were instructed to use gas masks in case of mortar attacks until results are verified in the laboratory.
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I wonder where ISIS got chemical weapons? Via the late Ambassador Stevens or even later Saddam Hussein?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has called on the United Nations to close the Dadaab refugee camp and relocate more than 500,000 Somalis. Dadaab, near the border with Somalia, is the largest refugee camp in Africa.
[LATIMES] The United Nations chief has fired the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic over the force's handling of dozens of sexual and other misconduct allegations, including rape and killing. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, speaking with unusual force, said Wednesday that he has accepted the resignation of Babacar Gaye of Senegal and declared, “Enough is enough.” He has called a special session of the U.N. Security Council for Thursday to discuss the sexual abuse allegations that have rocked the world body.
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