[Tolo News] Critics blasted government on Friday over what they claim to be their failure to destroy a major Taliban base in Pashtun-infested Logar province, which was reportedly active for nine years.
Afghan forces on Thursday managed to take control of the base and destroy it -- a base believed to also have had underground bunkers.
It is said that the camp which was located in Zarghon Shahr village in Mohammad Agha district in Pashtun-infested Logar, was used to train snuffies -- who were then sent from there to carry out subversive activities in Pashtun-infested Logar, 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.... and other parts of the country.
The base is said to have been one of the major Taliban bases in the province.
But on Friday critics blasted government.
Former Pashtun-infested Logar governor Niaz Mohammad Amiri said: "The base may have been in an area which was difficult to track or intelligence reports didn't reach us to discover it, however we destroyed many bases."
"I am confident that former officials of Pashtun-infested Logar province are responsible for this. Those responsible and who were negligent must be dealt with according to the law by the national unity government," head of Pashtun-infested Logar provincial council Haseeb Stanikzai said.
But deputy presidential front man Sayed Zafar Hashemi said that efforts are being made to eliminate such facilities.
"As it was pledged by the president, a special Afghan Defense Operations Coordination Center was formed, wherever there is a threat in any region of Afghanistan against our people and security forces, the center gives direction to launch operations to prevent the threat."
According to analysts, the existence of the Taliban base in Pashtun-infested Logar indicates that bully boyz exist outside Kabul and that they can pose threats to the capital city at any time.
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Probably took at least a year for the IS to 'scrub' the base.
[Tolo News] Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. residents said Friday they are determined to launch an uprising against Death Eaters and stand by and fight with the Afghan forces in order to oust the Taliban and Daesh.
According to Hajji Ghalib, district governor for Achin in the eastern province of Nangarhar, the ongoing insurgency and impact it has on the locals' lives is taking a toll on the people.
Ghalib said the people are tired of attacks and the oppression imposed on them by the Taliban and Daesh. He said they want to take up arms and fight both turban groups together with the Afghan forces.
"People are gathered here to reaffirm their support to the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), we are ready to collectively fight the group until their activities come to an end," he said.
Residents of Nangarhar blamed the central government for not taking effective steps to confront Daesh and Taliban with more force.
According to the residents, Daesh and Taliban have committed major crimes against the people in the area, adding that turban groups so far have killed dozens of civilians and set fire to their homes.
A youngster who recently lost his father as a result of Daesh said: "My father was innocent and they (Daesh) killed him."
"They are totally inhumane. Daesh burnt down our homes," a resident in Achin said on condition of anonymity.
The resident said: "Government has done nothing for us."
"Five to ten families live in a single house, at least government must establish a camp for us," the resident said.
"We call upon the international community to hear our plight and do something for us," the resident said.
This comes hours after a drone attack by U.S forces left at least five Daesh holy warriors dead including one of their commanders.
In a new development, the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) on Friday said it had placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! at least ten holy warriors in Nangarhar including two Daesh fighters.
Daesh is known for its brutality and its oppression of women and girls in particular.
According to some credible reports, Daesh has killed 600 innocent Afghan civilians in less than four months in Afghanistan's eastern regions. Currently an estimated 127 religious scholars and tribal elders are being held in so-called Daesh prisons in the province.
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This as opposed to just shooting at the neighbors.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The President Palace of Afghanistan strongly rejected the remarks by Pak officials alleging that the coordinated attack on a Pak Air Force base was planned and coordinated from Afghanistan.
A statement by ARG Palace said "The government of Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan strongly rejects reports alleging that the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. attack on Friday was planned and controlled from Afghanistan."
The statement further added that the government of Afghanistan dismiss the reports as baseless and reiterated 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.... 's stance that the Afghan soil would never be allowed to be used against other nations.
"Afghanistan feels the pain and agony inflicted by terrorism and offers condolence to the victims of the terrorist attack," the statement, said adding that terrorism is the enemy of the humanity and never recognizes good or bad.
The palace also insisted that the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistain must work jointly and honestly to eliminate terrorism from the region and called on Islamabad to fight all terrorist groups without distinction.
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[RFE/RL] A Taliban faction in Afghanistan says the Islamist movement may split into two groups because they cannot agree on who should be leader following the death of Mullah Omar. The dispute emerged after Afghan intelligence revealed in August that Mullah Omar had been dead for more than two years, an announcement later confirmed by the Taliban.
A hastily called meeting chose Omar's deputy, Mullah Mansur, to take charge. But a number of influential commanders were angered that Mansur had concealed Omar's death. Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, a spokesman for the anti-Mansur faction, said on September 19 that talks between Mansur and the dissatisfied commanders had failed.
They'd got on fine without a leader for two full years, after all. Under the circumstances, what need is there for a non-imaginary Number One?
Some analysts think the split could derail fledgling peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan's government, potentially giving Daesh an opportunity to expand its influence in the region.
Somalia’s Interim Jubbaland administration have deported 70 Al Shabaab militants’ wives from the port city of Kismayo lies 328 miles (528 km) southwest of Mogadishu, officials said.
Both of the husbands were mightily upset...
The deportees (the wives) were transported from the capital of Lower Juba region, Kismayo, to Bulogadud settlement, in a bid to be sent to the areas controlling by Al Shabaab militants.
The Al Shabab wives were detained in an operation carried out by Jubaland soldiers in the coastal town of Kismayo after roadside bomb explosion tore through a vehicle carrying soldiers.
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GAROWE, Somalia -- Islamic Scholars in Somalia’s northeastern state of Puntland have condemned Shiite books allegedly loaded from Iran which tries to gain foothold in the Horn of African nation, Garowe Online reports.
See? They know who their real enemies are. And if they don't, the sheiks in Arabia are more than happy to explain to them in lieu of the next bundle of banknotes...
Well-known clerics said that spreading of Shia Islam in Somalia is threat to social cohesion and could stir unrest if it is not confronted in early stage in a letter sent to Garowe Online News Agency on Friday.
The concerns come as Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation is trying to open armories study centers, especially Qur’an schools and weapons depots mosques in the overwhelmingly Sunni country.
Just what the Somalis need of course: not food or medicine but more preachifying...
The Islamic scholars called on the public to remain vigilant against the dangers of Shia Islam, asking national government and federal states to ban Shiite books encouraging racist religious ideologies. Books spotted in Somalia’s Puntland were largely authored by controversial cleric, Abdullahi Mohamed Yusuf (Al Harari), Sunni scholars said.
Iranian diplomats and Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation officials met with Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali during a secret stay in August.
Iran has been seeking to step up its involvement since late 2012 when Shiite power announced the opening of embassy in Mogadishu.
If Iran can't have Yemen, Puntland will do...
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[Libya Herald] A group of Ajdabiya residents gathered in the town's main square yesterday afternoon to protest at Khalifa Hafter's plans to set to a military council to run Libya. The grou said that Libya had to be a democratic state. Clearly federalists and waving Cyrenaica flags -- not a Libyan flag could be seen -- they also called for the restoration of the 1951 constitution.
There have been reports that Hafter plans to announce the council tomorrow, Sunday.
Suggestions that yesterday's protest was organised by the key military operator in the town, Ibrahim Jadhran, have been denied by a source close to him. The source claimed the protests had been spontaneous and no one was behind it.
Jadhran has come out firmly against Hafter, accusing him of trying to kill him. The new animosity is said to follow a visit by Jadhran to Tobruk last week at the invitation of the Obeida tribe. According to the Jadhran source, he Hafter's forces as well as military police and the security forces belonging to the House of Representatives president, Ageela Saleh Gwaider, tried separately to arrest him just outside Tobruk, but failed.
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[Libya Herald] On top of crumbling power supplies, health services throughout Libya are on the verge of collapse and officials are warning of an humanitarian disaster . . .
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[Ynet] The front man for 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 Interior Ministry says some 100,000 security personnel have been deployed to oversee the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage that begins on Tuesday.
Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki says among those securing the massive crowds during hajj are members of an elite counterterrorism unit, traffic police and emergency civil defense personnel. They are being supported by additional troops from the army and national guard. The pilgrimage comes as Saudi Arabia faces an expansion of 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 attacks that have killed dozens of people this year. Al-Turki vowed in an exclusive interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Saturday that holy warriors "cannot control a centimeter anywhere in Saudi Arabia." The hajj is expected to draw up to 3 million people from around the world this year to Mecca.
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A deployment and costly expense which could have been avoided if the U.S. had undertaken the correct kinetic action following 9/11.
[FoxNews] The alleged manipulation of intelligence to downplay the strength of terror groups is far more extensive than previously reported and goes back to at least 2012, according to the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee.
The Defense Department inspector general and congressional investigators are reviewing claims that intelligence on the Islamic State was manipulated to present a more positive picture of the U.S. strategy's effectiveness. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said these practices, though, extend to how intelligence on Al Qaeda was handled as well.
"I know for a fact this was going on in 2012 I'd be looking back at Gen.Berrier's career and assignments to get a feel as to when the payoffs for twisting the facts began.
, because I was told by informants that this was going on back then," Nunes, head of the intelligence committee, told Fox News. "We thought this was foolish, to pull all of our troops out of Iraq, because we thought, just from our own work, that this would be bad, but the administration was able to say, 'No, well, this is what the intelligence says.'"
While President Obama early last year, in an interview with The New Yorker, referred to ISIS as the "JV team," and has described Al Qaeda as "decimated," Nunes' suspicions were further confirmed by a 2013 incident at Florida's U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).
Analysts at CENTCOM -- which oversees 20 nations, including Syria, Iraq and Pakistan -- were tasked with reviewing the documents recovered from Usama bin Laden's compound during the Navy SEALs raid. In May 2013, Nunes went to Florida for a briefing on the documents, but the intelligence analysts he expected to meet were not there. Instead, the congressman was told the analysts were not working on a Saturday, which apparently was not true.
"We found out not only were they there, they were prepared to brief -- someone has to answer as to why they did not let us have access to those analysts," Nunes explained. The message that the analysts were not available was delivered by Maj. Gen. Scott D. Berrier, who headed the intelligence wing, but the congressman said the interference had to come from higher up.
A source close to some of the analysts indicated the manipulation of intelligence began on Berrier's watch. There was no immediate comment from Berrier, who is now commanding general, U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence "Center of Excellence?!" WTF?
& Fort Huachuca.
Nunes says the same group of CENTCOM analysts who handled the bin Laden documents are now lodging complaints that ISIS intelligence assessments allegedly hyped battlefield damage by the U.S. air campaign, and minimized the group's resilience. A military intelligence source close to the analysts, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said the CENTCOM atmosphere was one where a clear direction was implied, described as "daily rudder guidance."
Fox News is told the grievances were on a low boil until May when ISIS rolled through Ramadi with 30 car bombs, 10 the size of the 1995 Oklahoma City attack -- and the so-called happy talk about progress conflicted with the on-the-ground reporting.
The White House insisted Friday that no one in the administration pressured anyone Nope, nope...not us!
, and suggested blame may rest with the military that'll play well in some corners of the Pentagon./sarc
. "The inspector general, I believe it's a Department of Defense inspector general, that's considering actions that may or may not have been taken by a range of officials inside the Department of Defense. I don't think there are any accusations that have been made against the White House officials," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest but not truthful
said.
Nunes said the House intelligence committee is now working with the House Armed Services Committee, led by Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, to present a "united front." Their investigation is encouraging more whistleblowers to come forward, with the guarantee of full congressional protections.
[DAWN] The Counter-Terrorism Department Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... on Saturday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against unknown suspects on terror charges in relation to Friday's deadly attack on an Air Force camp in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Badaber area.
The Darra Adamkhel chapter of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) earlier grabbed credit for the attack.
Sources told DawnNews that on the complaint of camp commandant Flight Lieutenant Muhammad Hussain, the FIR was registered against unidentified suspects. Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and other terrorism-related charges were framed against the suspects in the FIR, they said.
In wake of the brazen assault, search and strike operations were initiated in Badaber and Matani areas during which police incarcerated Please don't kill me! at least 28 suspects, including 8 Afghan nationals.
Ten educational institutes, including four colleges, which are located in areas adjacent to the camp stormed by gunnies were closed on Saturday owing to security reasons. Security sources said the institutions will remain closed till the end of Eidul Azha holidays.
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[DAWN] The big shots of Pakistain People's Party (PPP) held deliberations for adopting different measures to deal with recent issues as they met in Dubai on Saturday with party's chairman Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... in chair.
Sources privy to the development told Dawn.com that deliberations are mainly aimed at measures to be taken to deal with the increasing decline of party's popularity in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and adopting the role of 'real opposition' at the federal level.
According to further details, the PPP leaders in Punjab namely former federal minister Qamar-uz-Zaman Kaira and Senator Aitzaz Ahsan presented a working paper in this regard. The working paper is titled 'revival of PPP in Central and South Punjab,' said a source familiar with this development.
The source revealed that the working paper contained proposals for changing party leadership in both central and south Punjab, besides making alignment and realignments for forthcoming local body elections in the province.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Defence Minister of Pakistan has said that his country and the region won’t be safe until there is insecurity in Afghanistan. Slip of the tongue? Or mistranslation?
It could be a typo...
Khwaja Asif, has told Pakistan’s Geo news that Pakistan has shown its resolve in fighting the terrorism.
He said Pakistan has targeted Afghanistan’s enemies in its territory but Afghanistan has not shown its resolve in this regard.
His remarks come after a deadly attack at a Pakistani Air Force base that left 29 people killed and 29 others wounded in Peshawar on Friday.
23 of those killed belonged to the Air Force.
Pakistan’s military spokesman told reporters after the attack that it was carried out by a splinter group of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
He claimed that the attack was organized, executed and operated from Afghanistan.
“We have recordings which reveal the attack was planned executed and controlled from Afghanistan,” ISPR’s Asim Bajwa told reporters in a press conference.
However, he said that there is no believe that Afghan government would be involved in the Attack.
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[IraqiNews] Salahuddin -- The president of Salahuddin Provincial Council Ahmed Karim denied on Saturday the presence of U.S. troops in the province, stressing that all stationed troops are consisting of Iraqi security forces and al-Hashed al-Sha'bi militia.
Karim stated for IraqiNews.com, "There is no presence of foreign troops in Salahuddin province, and all the rumors in some media outlets that there are U.S. troops in the province are not true," adding that, "All existing troops are from the security forces and al-Hashed al-Sha'bi."
[StrategyPage] In Iraq the Shia militias, many of them with Iranian advisors, are increasingly being seen as a problem by the new Iraqi government and Iraqis in general. The previous Maliki government had long worked closely with Iran but lost power because Maliki and his allies would not do anything about the corruption that is largely seen as the main reason ISIL made such rapid advances in 2014. Iraqis are discovering, as the anti-corruption efforts now accelerate, that a lot of that corruption, especially in the military, was encouraged, and sometimes paid for, by Iran. This has caused public opinion among the majority Shia Arabs in Iraq to turn against Iran. Another reason for that is the Iran supported (and often armed and paid) Shia militiamen are seen as fanatics and undisciplined who are mainly loyal to Iran. These Shia militiamen are largely motivated by revenge (for years of Islamic terrorist attacks on Shia civilians) and their Iranian advisors encourage that. The Iran backed Shia militias are now seen as a potential threat to the Iraqi government. While the Shia militiamen have less training they are more fanatics and undisciplined. To the Americans the biggest risk is the Shia militiamen terrorizing (kidnapping, murdering, looting and so on) Sunni civilians in areas ISIL (al Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant) is driven out of. The Americans realize that the key to regaining control of Anbar is gaining the support of the Sunnis (who comprise nearly all the Anbar population).
Iran is not happy with this new attitude. It got worse recently when Iraq got its first few F-16s into service. While being used mainly for attacking ISIL on the ground, the F-16s can also use air-to-air missiles and the Iraqi pilots can go after Iranian cargo aircraft transiting Iraqi airspace on their way to Syria and force them to land or turn back. Iraq could never do this before and Iran was able to pretty much use Iraqi air space for these flights without any fear of the transports being threatened. Iraq has always tolerated this Iranian use of Iraqi airspace to rapidly supply the Assad government in Syria. Iraq did this despite constant pressure from the United States to block the Assad aid. Now the Iraqis are paying more attention to their American allies than their Iranian neighbors. Any truth to that last sentence?
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Any truth to that last sentence?
Perhaps a grain. Maliki was removed because the Shia religious leadership in Iraq deemed it necessary for the survival of the government. However, that leadership doesn't operate in a vacuum and likely got some input from the mullahcracy in Iran.
Arab intellectuals have noticed? Hell must be freezing over!
[AlAhram] It has become impossible to overlook the fact that Arab interest, both public and official, for the once central "Paleostinian cause", has dwindled. It has reached the point that it seems that the issue is almost off the agenda entirely, though there is still the possibility of this being reversed, according to Nahawand Elkadry Eissa.
A professor of Media Studies at the Lebanese University, Eissa is not just an academic. She is also an activist following the projection of the Paleostinian issue in the media, before and after the IT revolution.
Eissa, who was in Cairo this week to take part in the "Oral History in Times of Change," jointly organised by the Women and Memory Forum and the Supreme Council for Culture to run for three days, told Ahram Online that the first step towards rectifying the current state of disinterest in the Paleostinian ordeal is to recognise the reasons for this.
"I think we are talking about several factors here -- some Paleostinian, some Arab and some related to the issue of globalisation," Eissa said. "And collectively they forced a receding interest in the issue that was once really in the hearts of minds of the Arab peoples and certainly a top interest for Arab governments," she added.
On the Paleostinian front Eissa is convinced that the internal squabbles have been detrimental to the issue as it took the focus away from the real plight to the confrontation between two Paleostinian groups.
"Then there was this incremental and very unfortunate stereotyping of the cause. This means that we kept talking on and on for decades about our relation with the enemy, which is perfectly legitimate and should be done but which is no longer capturing the minds of the people given that it is in a sense amounting to déjà-vu," Eissa said.
This attitude, she added, inevitably means that the Paleostinians for the most part decided to overlook all their mistakes and shortcomings.
"This caused a considerable decline in Paleostinian strength living up to the fast-growing challenges that are facing their cause," Eissa suggested.
On the Arab front, Eissa argued that most ruling regimes who had for decades used the Paleostinian cause to justify their dictatorship under the pretext of 'the Arab national security interest does not allow for any disagreements' are now more worried by the opposition they are facing from their own people.
On the public Arab front, she said, the growing "deconstructing discourse offered by Arab satellite channels are redefining the peoples' identity away from the collective Arab personality into an ethnic based entity -- so we are no longer talking about the Arabs but about the Sunnis and Shias, the Kurds and Druze and so on".
"This is creating new conflicts that are taking away the energy and interest of the people from what used to be the 'Arab struggle', Eissa argued. She added that the longer this ethnic-based discourse continues there would be a moment whereby the rational for a 'Jewish state' could be established in the Arab world.
"I think the pursuit of dividing the Arab world into religious and ethnic groups is precisely designed to serve this particular cause of justifying the need for a "Jewish state." This was probably the reason that the civil war in Leb ignited and it was also probably the reason to project Iran as the new enemy of the Arabs," Eissa said.
"Arab societies are firmly driven away from any sense of collectiveness into excessive individualism, this is not a mindset that could help the Paleostinian cause which is based on collective consciousness," Eissa argued.
She added that in this sense globalisation has not been at the service of the Paleostinian cause.
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No one gives a rat's patoot about the Paleos except as a means to annoy the Israelis. Right now, most of the Arab world has more existential issues to deal with, like all that war stuff going on.
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A professor of Media Studies at the Lebanese University, Eissa is not just an academic. She is also an activist following the projection of the Paleostinian issue in the media, before and after the IT revolution.
i.e.: she's a Paleo activist.
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A Paleo Activist sounds like a treatment for constipation.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said on Saturday Syria's Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... has to go but the timing of his departure had to be decided through negotiation.
Speaking after talks with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond he called on Russia and Iran to use their influence to convince al-Assad to negotiate.
He said there is an urgency to renewing efforts to find a political settlement to end the four-year war and worsening refugee crisis in Syria.
"We need to get to the negotiation. That is what we're looking for and we hope Russia and Iran, and any other countries with influence, will help to bring about that, because that's what is preventing this crisis from ending," said Kerry.
"We're prepared to negotiate. Is Assad prepared to negotiate, really negotiate? Is Russia prepared to bring him to the table?"
He said of Assad's removal: "it doesn't have to be on day one or month one ... there is a process by which all the parties have to come together to reach an understanding of how this can best be achieved."
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More interesting than the timing of his departure is the question of who The Next Guy is. Not a lot of George Washingtons floating around loose in the region.
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Basically the entire Champ "strategy" in the mid-east has crumbled into dust at the first sign of pressure from Putin.
This was a total farce designed, loosely, to save face after the infamous red line faded to white as in feather. I cannot imagine a more total humiliation the US could have suffered diplomatically than the ME as brought to you by our vile regime.
In which an Iranian fast talker attempts to bamboozle the gullible Yanks.
[AnNahar] Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has tried to reassure a skeptical American public that when crowds in Tehran chant "Death to America!" they don't mean it personally.
In an interview with the CBS show "60 Minutes" to be broadcast Sunday in the United States, the Iranian president said the famous Friday ritual is a reaction to previous Washington policy decisions that hurt Iran.
In April, U.S. President Barack Obama's administration signed a deal with Rouhani's government to release Iran from many of the economic sanctions harming its economy in return for tight controls on its nuclear program.
But many in the United States are still convinced that Iran, which is ultimately led not by Rouhani but by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, remains bent on their country's destruction.
In the fierce domestic American debate over the deal, opponents have often cited the regular appearance of chanting anti-American crowds as evidence of Tehran's true intentions.
But Rouhani, seen as a moderate reformer by the standards of the Islamic republic, attempted to reassure his CBS interviewer Steve Kroft and the wider audience.
"This slogan that is chanted is not a slogan against the American people. Our people respect the American people," he insisted, in an extract from the interview released Friday.
"The Iranian people are not looking for war with any country," he said.
"But at the same time the policies of the United States have been against the national interests of Iranian people, it's understandable that people will demonstrate sensitivity to this issue.
"When the people rose up against the Shah, the United States aggressively supported the Shah until the last moments. In the eight-year war with Iraq, the Americans supported Saddam.
"People will not forget these things. We cannot forget the past, but at the same time our gaze must be towards the future."
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Rouhani, seen as a moderate reformer by the standards of the Islamic republic
Page down to p. 15 for English which is implied as accurate. A bit of "preaching to the choir" on this site, but it seems to serve as confirmation of "The Plan."
One of the exhibits in the government's case against the Holy Land Foundation back in the day. The Dallas News provides more recent background here. It is important to remember that, just as some Muslims are working to conquer this or that bit of the world for Islam, other Muslims are working just as hard to prevent that. The Dallas News link is about some of the latter.
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Richard Dawkins has provoked outrage by belittling the 14-year-old Texas teenager who was arrested on suspicion of building a hoax bomb that turned out to be a homemade clock.
The scientist and writer slams Ahmed Mohamed for claiming the clock was his 'invention' and hits out at tech firms that have rushed to offer him invitations and freebies.
Dawkins also questions whether the teenager was, in fact, trying to get arrested.
'He disassembled & reassembled a clock (which is fine) & then claimed it was his "invention" (which is fraud),' Dawkins wrote on Twitter.
While conceding that the police should not have arrested Ahmed, he questions: 'what was his motive?' You don't read 'Rantburg' professor?
#1
Somebody at ArtVoice did a bit of detective work on the "clock"
tl;dr: the clock was an old Radio Shack Micronta alarm clock that was disassembled and put in a new case. Clever, but nothing worth getting invited to the White House over.
From what I can tell, no one seriously thought it was a bomb, but if little Ahmed had been more forthcoming with the cops about why he brought his toy to school, the whole mess could have been avoided. Given the outrage and lecturing from the usual Islamo-suspects (including the kid's dad), a cynical person might conclude the whole incident was contrived.
#4
Sure were a lot of pieces in place for the story to blow so quickly, what was it, mere hours?
I would like to know what occurred during the initial questioning, if the kid even jokingly or dismissively said anything about it being a bomb, then the administration had to do this, even if absurdly obvious it was an apple.
Calling the police was probably a bit much but I have read that the brat was very passive aggressive when questioned. He's plenty old enough to be a willing pawn in the PR games of the Muzzies.
#7
A counterfeit student STEM-winder
With Sudanese activist minder?
You find this alarming;
Barack Hussein, charming...
Like clockwork: Post-racial reminder!
1) the engineering teacher strongly advised him not to take it to other classes. He did anyway.
2) The alarm went off in English class. When the teacher asked about it he pulled out what appeared very much (to his/her untrained eye) to be a suitcase bomb.
3) His father is a Muslim Advocate who goes back to Sudan and runs for President regularly.
4) He refused to answer police questions.
5) The 'Alarm' was not an assignment of any kind, there was no science fair or anything. He just took what looked like a alarm wired to a suitcase to school. It was entirely unsolicited.
Yup - it was a setup from the start. I wouldn't be suprised if ValJar was involved in it.
#9
According to Steyn, his uncle runs a company called Twin Towers Transportation. Edgy!
I'd like to know if the alarm that went off was part of the original clock, or separately wired to it.
Meanwhile, the offers are rolling in! Facebook and Twitter internships! MIT is showing interest!
Take an old digital clock out of its case, put it in a miniature briefcase, have it go off in English class (had to plug it in), wait for the expected uproar, profit!! Of course, you have to be Muslim to get away with it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[RFE/RL] A Taliban faction in Afghanistan says the Islamist movement may split into two groups because they cannot agree on who should be leader following the death of Mullah Omar. The dispute emerged after Afghan intelligence revealed in August that Mullah Omar had been dead for more than two years, an announcement later confirmed by the Taliban.
[FoxNews] The alleged manipulation of intelligence to downplay the strength of terror groups is far more extensive than previously reported and goes back to at least 2012, according to the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee. 
[StrategyPage] In Iraq the Shia militias, many of them with Iranian advisors, are increasingly being seen as a problem by the new Iraqi government and Iraqis in general. The previous Maliki government had long worked closely with Iran but lost power because Maliki and his allies would not do anything about the corruption that is largely seen as the main reason ISIL made such rapid advances in 2014. Iraqis are discovering, as the anti-corruption efforts now accelerate, that a lot of that corruption, especially in the military, was encouraged, and sometimes paid for, by Iran. This has caused public opinion among the majority Shia Arabs in Iraq to turn against Iran. Another reason for that is the Iran supported (and often armed and paid) Shia militiamen are seen as fanatics and undisciplined who are mainly loyal to Iran. These Shia militiamen are largely motivated by revenge (for years of Islamic terrorist attacks on Shia civilians) and their Iranian advisors encourage that. The Iran backed Shia militias are now seen as a potential threat to the Iraqi government. While the Shia militiamen have less training they are more fanatics and undisciplined. To the Americans the biggest risk is the Shia militiamen terrorizing (kidnapping, murdering, looting and so on) Sunni civilians in areas ISIL (al Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant) is driven out of. The Americans realize that the key to regaining control of Anbar is gaining the support of the Sunnis (who comprise nearly all the Anbar population).
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
