The Taliban militants group has started regulating rates and prices of the food and non-food commodities as well services in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan, it has been reported.
According to a rate card obtained by BBC Persian, rates and prices from haircut to tailoring services and food items including meat and meal prices have been set by the group and is implemented in the restive Darqad district.
The price of the hair cut has been set at AFN 20 which is equivalent to 30 cents while the price in open market rats was AFN 100 (USD 1.50).
The group’s military committee chief Maulavi Shamsuddin Hemat has reportedly announced the rates in Darqad district.
According to the Rate Card, the prices of a kg of beef and baked fish have been set at AFN 180 (USD 2.6) and the rates of meal including Kebab have been set at AFN 100 (USD 1.50).
Tailoring services rates have also been set in the new Rate Card which includes AFN 80 for the tailoring of boys suits and AFN 130 for men suits.
The Taliban militants are still in control of Darqad district despite the Afghan security forces have launched numerous military operations to retake the control of it.
Local government officials are saying plans for a major military operation has been finalized but they can execute the operation due to bad weather in the area.
The provincial governor spokesman Sunatullah Temori has said the control of the district would retaken from the Taliban in a matter of 30 minutes once the weather condition gets better.
Meanwhile Talibunnies are re-packing their mags
Chief Executive of the National Unity Government (NUG) Abdullah Abdullah on Monday said at a Council of Ministers (CM) meeting that winter will be a good time to review the challenges that lie ahead for security forces in the country.
Abdullah said that lessons learned this summer will help government find solutions to future challenges.
"By using lessons from this year, summer, we must use winter as an opportunity to address challenges facing security forces," he said.
In addition, Abdullah said that the Council of Ministers has decided that retired officers will be paid monthly pensions.
"The Council of Ministers decided on Monday that monthly pensions for retired officers will be paid," said Abdullah.
Meanwhile, a member of the Wolesi Jirga's Internal Security Committee also raised the issue of challenges facing security forces and said the National Unity Government needs to urgently address the issue in order to avoid a repeat of security issues the country faced this summer.
"Besides mobilizing and equipping security forces, the government must strengthen the air force with the help of the international community because as we have seen there is a serious need for a strong air force," said Iqbal Safi, an Internal Security Committee member.
The comments follow in the wake of serious security issues that the country faced this summer, including the collapse of Kunduz city to the Taliban at the end of September.
KISMAYO, Somalia -- Jubaland administration in southern Somalia said, neighboring Kenya has stepped back from a controversial move to construct a security wall along border with Somalia, Garowe Online reports.
Kenya will come to regret this, I think...
Jubaland’s second Vice President, Abdulkadir Haji Mohamed (Lugadere) told VOA Somalia Service that Kenya relinquished its counter-terrorism strategy to bar off Al Shabaab threats through the implementation of ambitious wall project.
Kenya, which just last week began flattening down colonial border posts has not officially rescinded its decision. In weekly cabinet meeting, Somalia’s Federal Government expressed displeasure on the unilateral move.
On smuggling of sugar and charcoal sacks, Lugadere dismissed media reports as ‘propaganda’.
...though no doubt that is the reason.
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Abu Dhabi: Members of the Al Manara terrorist organisation smuggled weapons, ammunition and detonators into the UAE to kill people and overthrow the government, the Federal Supreme Court heard on Monday.
A total of 40 suspected members — including 38 Emiratis — of the terrorist organisation are facing trial at a security court here.
On Monday, two witnesses revealed that the Al Manara suspects had smuggled weapons, ammunition and detonators into the country. The weapons were obtained in collaboration with Syria’s Al Nusra Front and Al Ansar Front in Balochistan province in Iran.
Their intention was to overthrow the government, kill people, attack shopping malls and hotels and declare a Daesh-style caliphate in the UAE, the witnesses told the court.
The state security division of the Federal Supreme Court examined the weapons confiscated from the suspects and heard testimonies of security officers. The hearing was adjourned to December 8 when two videos on the groups’ meeting in Ras Al Khaimah and Dubai will be shown.
Monday’s hearing witnessed defendants and witnesses exchanging accusations. Judge Mohammad Al Jarah Al Tunaiji ordered two defendants be sent back to prison.
The witnesses Rashid Abdullah Saif Al Shamsi and Rashid Sultan Al Niyadi told the court that Shabab Al Manara group, backed by Al Nusra Front and the Iranian Balochistan Liberation Front, smuggled weapons, ammunition, explosives and guns into the UAE.
Charges
The prosecutors have said the suspects are charged with setting up and running terrorist organisation Shabab Al Manara, ‘The Minaret’s Youths’, which upholds terrorist ideology with the intent to commit terrorist acts in the UAE and endangering the country’s security, peace and lives of its leaders and people.
Salem Saeed Kubaish, UAE’s Attorney-General, said that the suspects were also charged with planning to inflict damage on private and public properties to eventually seize power to set up a so-called caliphate state in line with their extremist ideology.
“To carry out their terrorist acts, the suspects procured firearms, ammunition and explosives using funds they raised for this purpose and communicated with foreign militants. These militants provided these suspects with funds and people to achieve their goals inside the country,” Kubaish said.
The State Security Prosecution presented five weapons, including Kalashnikov rifles, MP5 and M16 machineguns, explosives and detonators used in making bombs as well as a huge number of bullets and magazines.
The witnesses said police found these weapons and ammunition in a desert camp in the UAE. They said the group used Al Manara Mosque and Al Arqam School in Dubai to hold meetings and disseminate their terrorist ideology.
Evidence
The evidence consisting of seven boxes of ammunition and weapons was carried by three people into the court. One of the defendants admitted to possessing one of the rifles but said that his father owned it, adding that it was a hunting rifle and was at his father’s home and not with him. A witness testimony revealed that the main defendant, K.K., had lost a son while fighting with Daesh militants in Iraq.
Investigations revealed that the organisation’s members were giving youth lectures that criticise and attack the government and the ruling system in the UAE, criticising the raising of the UAE flag and the standing for the national anthem as these acts are considered blasphemous.
‘Committees, cells set up’
Prosecutors said the suspects set up an organisational structure, including committees and cells with specific tasks. “A leader was appointed to oversee the terrorist organisation, issue orders, instructions, roles and duties for each committee. He was also assigned to set policies. His deputy was assigned to follow up implementation of these policies,” Kubaish said.
The witnesses added these committees were assigned to recruit young Emiratis to instil extremist thought and train them in militant acts and manufacture of explosives at certain camping sites.
Prosecutors said the group also disseminated audio and video material on the internet.
Convicted terrorists face capital punishment, life imprisonment and fines of up to Dh100 million, according to a federal law to combat terrorism endorsed last year.
Multiple UN agencies issued a warning to European leaders who might use the tragedy to advance anti-migrant policies, stressing that many of those seeking refuge in Europe have also been the victims of extremists.
So Europe is beginning to show a little sense --a little-- but the hidebound UN is still operating as if there are no problems.
I used to advocate that the UN headquarters be moved to Tanzania. I now think the UN headquarters should be moved to Raqqa, Syria. Let the diplomats learn first hand the consequences of foolish thinking.
Of the estimated 1.1 million migrants who have landed in Europe via the Mediterranean since 2013, less than six "have raised questions in terms of possible links to extremism," said International Organization for Migration spokesman Joel Millman.
Millman noted that the IOM, which received that information from individual governments, has no evidence that any of those people were ever involved in acts of violence.
French sources have said that a passport found near the body of one of the Stade de France suicide bombers may have belonged to a Syrian -- possibly an ex-government soldier -- who registered on the Greek island of Leros on October 3. Using that information as a pretext to curb migration by vulnerable people into Europe could prove disastrous, UN representatives said.
Disastrous to whom?
"We are concerned about the reactions from some states to end programmes being put in place, backtracking from commitments made to manage the refugee crisis," said UN refugee agency (UNHCR) spokeswoman Melissa Fleming.
"Refugees should not be turned into scapegoats and must not become the secondary victims of these most tragic events," Fleming added.
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The UN is not a sovereign government. It is a debating society for sovereign governments and when it speaks it speaks as a consensus of those sovereign governments. Sovereign governments should tell the UN agencies where to stick it.
[AnNahar] Investigators probing the deadly Gay Paree attacks have so far identified five of seven gunnies and jacket wallahs whose bodies were found at three sites across the city, while the hunt is on for others.
Here is a look at the men behind La Belle France's worst-ever terror attacks, which struck a concert venue, bars, restaurants and a stadium.
[AlAhram] The Gay Paree attacks were decided in Syria, prepared in Belgium and perpetrated with French help, French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said Monday.
Friday's "acts of war... were decided and planned in Syria, prepared and organised in Belgium (and) perpetrated on our soil with French complicity," he said, speaking to an exceptional joint gathering of parliament in Versailles, south of Gay Paree.
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If Hollande was Obama, he'd bomb Brussels instead of Raqqa.
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To be fair, unless Belgium takes steps to prevent it from happening again, bombing that neighborhood would be fair and within France's legal and moral rights.
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Not the first time Belgium has popped up on the radar. Our word for today is Molenbeek.
[AlAhram] La Belle France has listed more than 10,000 people suspected of being radicalised or potential security threats, including homegrown assailant Omar Ismail Mostefai who killed scores of people at Gay Paree's Bataclan music on Friday.
No doubt it is much the same in the US and elsewhere. No wonder they're losing track of people.
According to police sources, the so-called "fiche S" ("S file" in French) is updated daily to include individuals suspected of links to a terrorist movement or group.
The "S" stands for the suspects' potential to endanger the "security of the state".
The list has 15 categories spanning everyone from football hooligans to battle-hardened jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria.
The suspects come into the spotlight if they are tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! or subject to a check after which they are immediately on the radar of the intelligence services.
"There are more than 10,000 people who are on the fiche S list," Prime Minister Manuel Valls said over the weekend.
Some of them are already known to security forces or sentenced for acts of terror, while the others are suspected of either having been radicalised or susceptible to it.
More and more cases of radicalised assailants have surfaced recently including the Al-Qaeda-linked gunman Mohammed Merah who killed seven people in and around the southern city of Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... in 2012.
The same was true of the attackers who targeted the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... and a Jewish supermarket in February this year, killing 17 people.
And Yassin Salhi, who killed and decapitated his employer in Isere in southeastern La Belle France in June had been on the S list for two years but had never come to the attention of the police.
This can happen because the suspects are not automatically subject to surveillance.
"It's more or less an indicator, like a thermometer that one has to monitor and feed all the time for it to be efficient," a police officer said.
There is cross-border cooperation and intelligence-sharing on drawing up suspects to be added to the list.
Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani who in August attacked passengers on a train travelling from Amsterdam to Gay Paree before being overpowered by three Americans, was on the list, thanks to warnings from Spanish and Belgian authorities who had alerted the French. Khazzani had lived both in Spain and Belgium.
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Of course, you could publish names and addresses to let their concerned neighbors know. Might get a bit uncomfortable for some. Maybe enough to move to more a accommodating cultural geographical location that they seem to prefer.
The transformation of Turkey, a frontline state which possesses the second-largest army in the Atlantic Alliance, into something like a frenemy on a good day, from any Western viewpoint, has led to awkward questions about what's really going on in Ankara. These have been asked for years, with whispers mounting about covert Iranian influence at the highest levels of politics and security in Turkey, but it's been easy to dismiss much of this as evidence-free conspiracy-mongering of the sort beloved by Turks of all political colorations. Yet there is now convincing proof that Tehran indeed has a disturbing degree of secret influence in Turkey's ruling circles.
There's no small irony in this, as Erdogan's governance has feasted upon allegations of a Turkish "deep state," a shadowy cabal of secularists termed Ergenekon that the AKP claims have been pulling the secret strings in Ankara for decades. Belief in this "deep state" has provided the AKP with the excuse to jail and otherwise harass hundreds of political foes who deeply oppose the country's Islamist turn under Erdogan. Yet it turns out that Turkey's real "secret team" is the AKP's own, which serves the party's religiously-based agenda and is tightly connected to Iranian intelligence.
The key player in this plot is a shadowy terrorist group termed Tawhid-Salam that goes back to the mid-1990s and has been blamed for several terrorist incidents, including the 2011 bombing of the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, which wounded several people, as well as a thwarted bombing of the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, in early 2012. Tawhid-Salam, which also goes by the revealing name "Jerusalem Army," has long been believed to be a front for Iranian intelligence, particularly its most feared component, the elite Quds (Jerusalem) Force of the Revolutionary Guards Corps (Pasdaran), which handles covert action abroad, including terrorism in many countries. It also is believed to be behind the murders of several anti-Tehran activists in Turkey in the 1990's, using Tawhid-Salam as a cut-out.
For years, Turkish investigators who have tried to determine who stands behind Tawhid-Salam haven't gotten very far, meeting obstruction at every turn, reportedly from the highest levels in Ankara, leading to suspicions that Erdogan and the AKP have something to hide. In recent months, however, the terror group's covert mask has begun to fall, thanks to mounting evidence that Iran indeed is pulling the strings behind Tawhid-Salam, which plays a key role in the Quds Force's global terror campaign against Israel and Western interests.
Similarly, Tawhid-Salam operatives have been observed surveilling an important NATO radar base in Turkey, a sensitive site that monitors possible Iranian missile launches, while other members of the group were witnessed conducting surveillance on the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, apparently in preparation for a possible terrorist attack. The group's interest in nuclear research materials, discovered during a raid on a Tawhid-Salam safehouse, caused notable alarm in certain circles. Yet, despite the fact that Turkish counterintelligence has repeatedly witnessed Tawhid-Salam members meeting with known Qods Force operatives, nothing was ever done to crack down on the group.
This may have something to do with the fact that Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkish intelligence, is apparently on the Pasdaran payroll too, and may have secret ties to Tehran going back almost twenty years. Rumors about Fidan, a member of Erdogan's inner circle, who has headed the country's powerful National Intelligence Organization (MIT) since 2010, have swirled in counterintelligence services worldwide for years. Israeli intelligence in particular, which once had a close relationship with MIT, has long regarded Fidan as Tehran's man, and has curtailed its intelligence cooperation with Turkey commensurately, believing that all information shared with Fidan was going to Iran.
Privately, U.S. intelligence officials too have worried about Fidan's secret ties, not least because MIT includes Turkey's powerful signals intelligence (SIGINT) service, which has partnered with NATO for decades, including the National Security Agency. As an NSA document stolen and leaked by Edward Snowden explained: "U.S. intelligence reporting in recent years indicates possible Iranian connections with Dr. Hakan Fidan, the head of the MIT/SIB. The possible impact of these connections to the US SIGINT relationship is unknown at this time."
With Hakan providing top-cover, it's no surprise that Turkish investigations into Tawhid-Salam never get very far. Other top figures assessed as being part of the conspiracy include Interior Minister Efkan Ala and ruling AKP spokesperson Besir Atalay. Officials who possess hard evidence of ties between the group and Tehran's spies -- including video and audio surveillance in abundance, as well as the testimony of Tawhid-Salam members who have defected to the police -- have found themselves thwarted, harassed, and even jailed by the AKP. In a typical case, Ali Fuat Yilmazer, former head of the Istanbul police's intelligence unit, conducted an extensive investigation that revealed Tawhid-Salam had penetrated the Turkish government and the AKP at the highest levels, and was a tool of the Pasdaran. For this, he was thrown in jail on trumped-up charges.
Members of the opposition have publicly stated that the AKP is directly linked to Tawhid-Salam and Erdogan's cadres are covering for the group -- and for its Iranian masters -- by stopping investigations, arresting those who speak out, and spreading disinformation while allowing known Iranian intelligence agents to escape Turkish dragnets. Of the 251 suspects named in the thwarted official investigation into Tawhid-Salam, twenty-eight were Iranians, all of them suspected Qods Force operatives; none were called to testify and the AKP did its best to prevent press coverage of the matter. For his part, Erdogan has dismissed the entire issue, terming Tawhid-Salam "fake" and "imaginary."
To say that Ankara seems to be working at cross-purposes in the matter of Tawhid-Salam is too kind. A special prosecutor's investigation of the group, which lasted three years, recently wrapped up with no findings. Prosecutors did not call a single relevant witness to testify, although many suspected Pasdaran/Tawhid Salam operatives have been identified in Turkey, while AKP higher-ups took over the investigation, ensuring it would go nowhere, instead turning it around as a vehicle to harass the AKP's enemies who ask questions about the party's linkages to Tehran. None of the 103 suspects believed to be directly involved in terrorism, including known Qods Force members, who were identified by police inquiries into Tawhid-Salam, were called to share their information with prosecutors.
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This article is hardly preposterous. It is recalled that the Terrorist Internationale founded in Khartoum in 1991 had Turks in attendance then and afterwards. Bin Laden, Turabi of Sudan, Ghannouchi of Tunisia, Zindani of Yemen, Mughniya of Lebanon, and other Islamists (qua Muslim Brothers) sought to square the circle and achieve an Islamist rapprochement that would unite Sunni and Shia. That was also the ideal of Ayatollah Khomeini, a Muslim Brother in his youth, until he was attacked by Saddam Hussein. That Erdogan would be in bed with Iran should surprise no one; That he remains an ally of the pro-Iran cabal in Washington also should surprise no one.
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And since The Usual Suspects always love insinuating about the connections between Turkey and ISIS, does this strong connection from Turkey to Iran and therefore Iran's sponsors mean they're supporting ISIS?
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Well, the way it's looking... in the "deep game" ISIS is simply Iran and Russia's way of blackmailing the west into supporting Iran and Russia in their quest to keep their Lebanese/Syrian missile launch base.
Oh, but people are gonna tell us Putin's the adult and all the people he's using against us, like (for instance) Erdogan and Choom boy are "immature."
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Turkey was certainly supporting the most radical Islamists after the Clinton putsch eliminated Mo. Qadafi. It was also behind the movement of arms from Benghazi to the Turkish ports north of Syria. Realistically, Turkey under Erdogan has been outstanding in initiating chaos but lousy at controlling it.
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Turkey was willing to turn off the refugee spigot to the EU for billions and billions of Euros. One can honestly call this whole situation a SHAKE DOWN in the MAFIA sense.
[DailyMail] o President Obama said the United States needed to 'step up and do its part' admitting refugees from Syria
o He said that the issue of refugees and terrorism should not be equated in the aftermath of the Paris attacks
o A handful of Republican governors have publicly pronounced that their states would not accept Syrians
o Obama made a swipe at those GOP leaders - asking them to be more like President George W. Bush in the aftermath of 9/11
Governors of these states have said no to Syrian refugees:
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
Georgia
Florida
Idaho
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
Nebraska
New Hampshire
(the single Democrat)
New Jersey
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Wisconsin
Since Friday's attacks, Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan said his state is postponing efforts to accept Syrian refugees. Yesterday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said he would refuse Syrian refugees trying to enter the state. Today Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered that his state's refugee resettlement program not accept any more Syrians. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson tweeted that he opposed Syrian refugees being relocated into Arkansas. And Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, another GOP presidential contender, issued an executive order to prevent Syrian refugees in the state of Louisiana, according to 4WWL in New Orleans.
Several Democratic governors voiced support for the refugees and echoed Obama's words. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said his state 'will continue to be a state that welcomes those seeking refuge from persecution, regardless of where they come from or the religion they practice'. Democratic Govs. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania and Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut also said their states will have open doors.
“We’re at the receiving end,” Chad Aguillard, executive director of Catholic Charities, says. “We receive them, we welcome them into our community and help them resettle (apparently not.). There has been a lot of commotion and fear with Syrians. The fear is justified, but we have to check that against reality.”
Thank you Catholic Charities! Btw, you may want to check your Latin-to-English dictionary for "Non sequitur."
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My hometown and current residence is on the list of 108 cities slated to take part. Unfortunately, I'm in CA. I've already acquired the contact info for the individuals associated with the USCCB who are tasked with coordinating resettlement services, as well as those for neighboring communities so we can get the spotlight aimed at the cockroaches
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"Only twenty five? Ha! fell short of half by four!"
President Barack Obama ruled out a shift in strategy in the fight against Daesh on Monday despite the deadly attacks in Paris, saying putting more US troops on the ground as sought by his political critics "would be a mistake."
Speaking after a G20 summit in Turkey, Obama described the attacks in France that killed 129 people as "a terrible and sickening setback" and vowed to redouble efforts to destroy Daesh, even as the group threatened to strike Washington.
Mindful of the difficulties that the United States had in controlling Iraq after its invasion in 2003, Obama is very reluctant to commit American ground forces to Middle East conflict zones.
"We are going to continue the strategy that has the best chance of working," he told a news conference, adding that there would be "an intensification" of the effort against Daesh.
Obama pushed back against Republicans and said some were only recommending what the administration had already done against Daesh while others seemed to think if he were "just more bellicose ... that would make a difference."
"This is not a traditional military opponent. We can retake territory and as long as we keep our troops there we can hold it. But that does not solve the underlying problem of eliminating the dynamics that are producing these kinds of violent, extremist groups," Obama said.
A majority of Americans want the United States to intensify its assault on Daesh following the Paris attacks, but most remain opposed to sending troops to Iraq or Syria, where the militant group is based, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Obama told reporters that US intelligence agencies had been concerned about a potential attack on the West by Daesh for more than a year, but he said none of the warnings they had received were specific enough to have prevented Friday's attacks in Paris. Even so, the United States is streamlining the process by which it shares intelligence and operational military information with France.
Obama criticised as "shameful" the idea that Christian refugees should be given preference by the United States in decisions over admitting people fleeing violence in Syria.
I think that makes his own biases very clear...
October 17, 2006, "The Audacity of Hope" [pg. 261]: Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
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As per BIGNEWSNETWORK, the good news is that the Bammer says that 10,000 allegedly well-vetted Syrian Refugees will still be taken in by the US.
* NEW YORK TIMES > OBAMA DEFENDS [his Anti-]ISIS STRATEGY, REJECTS BLOCKING MUSLIM REFUGEES.
IOW, NO NEED FOR THE DEBT-BURDENED USA TO HAVE THE USDOD GO TO SYRIA-IRAQ OR OVERSEAS TO FIGHT THE ISIS/ISIL THERE, AS THE LATTER WILL INSTEAD BE "COMING TO AMERIKA" LIKE NOT-EDDIE-MURPHY???
As "illegals" they automatically qualify for US Citizenship-Residency + massive Public Assistance, then afterwards Washington can shoot them wid all the mysterious "hollow-point" bullets they'd purchased time back, THUS "JUSTIFYING" MOE DOMESTIC SOCIALISM = BEYOND AMERIKA'S ALREADY "BIG[GEST] GOVT"???
IN Which Vladimir Putin tosses the cat among the pigeons. This is the meeting in Istanbul in preparation for which Turkey has been so assiduously hunting down ISIS jihadis.
[Rudaw] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... said Monday that 40 countries around the world are financing 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), including some that are part of the G20.
What odds one of the quietly accused is our own US of A?
Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the G20 summit in the Turkish tourist city of Antalya, Putin said he had provided proof of his claims to leaders at the meeting.
"I provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic State units by private individuals. This money, as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them," he said.
Putin warned world leaders that the illegal oil trade with ISIS should be halted.
"I have shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products," Putin added.
"The motorcade of refueling vehicles stretched for dozens of kilometers, so that from a height of 4,000 to 5,000 meters they stretch beyond the horizon," he disclosed.
Heading toward Turkey, are they?
Putin ruled out competition among countries over which was seen to be doing more or less against ISIS. "A united international effort is needed against the terrorist group," he urged.
A statesmanlike approach...
Putin explained that Russia is helping the Syrian opposition in its fight against ISIS.
"Some armed opposition groups consider it possible to begin active operations against IS with Russia's support. And we are ready to provide such support from the air. If it happens it could become a good basis for the subsequent work on a political settlement," he said.
"Let's you and him fight. We'll help."
He urged that other countries, including the United States and Mideast nations, should get behind the effort.
We really need support from the US, European nations, 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... , The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Iran," the Russian president added.
The two-day summit in Antalya brought leaders of the world's most powerful countries to meet on the recent world issues, especially to agree on a plan to defeat ISIS in retaliation for last week's deadly Gay Paree attacks.
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Well whoever drops the first bomb on one of those oil convoys will definitely be taken off the list of usual suspects.
You don't suppose Vlad was talking about most of the EU do you?
[Rudaw] Two mass graves in Shingal have reportedly been discovered since Saturday, with one found Saturday containing 80 Yezidi women and the other from Sunday containing the remains of 50 Yezidi men, Rudaw has learned.
"Fifty bodies, all men, are in the mass graves," a Peshmerga eyewitness told Rudaw Sunday.
A Rudaw news hound, speaking live on the scene, said "the mass graves are located on the Grozir road, the last Peshmerga-ISIS point."
"The bodies are buried in eight separate graves close to each other," said the news hound.
A Peshmerga soldier told Rudaw that "the corpses of my uncle and a few cousins are contained in these graves."
"Killing these innocent people is one of the crimes ISIS perpetrated against the Yezidi Kurds," Qasim Simo, head of Shingal security, told Rudaw.
Saturday's mass grave was found only meters away from the Shingal Technical Institute.
Video footage of the mass grave filmed by a Rudaw cameraman shows women's clothes, long hair and other outfits unique to the Yezidi community.
According to Simo, ISIS Death Eaters buried the bodies of the Yezidi women in what used to be the technical institute's fish pond.
He added Kurdish forces had prior information about several mass graves in the town and the one discovered Saturday is believed to be one of the largest.
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They'll never give them back -- Lebanon cannot just give away bits of the Syrian landscape.
[AnNahar] Al-Qaeda's Syria branch al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front has demanded control over two regime-held Syrian towns near Leb and the release of five women from Lebanese jails in return for freeing the captive Lebanese servicemen, a front man for the hostages' families said on Monday.
"Al-Nusra's emir in Syria's Qalamoun, Abou Malek al-Talli, has sent a new demand with the families who visit their sons every now and then in the vicinity of (the Lebanese border town of) Arsal," Hussein Youssef, the father of captive soldier Mohammed Youssef, told The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's state news agency Anatolia.
Al-Talli wants "control over the towns of al-Maara and Flita and the release of five women from Lebanese jails in return for freeing the captives who are in his custody," Youssef said.
He revealed that the families had passed on the new demands to Prime Minister Tammam Salam during their meeting with him on Monday.
"We have full confidence in the premier and in General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim and High Relief Council chief Maj. Gen. Mohammed Kheir, who are following up on the case with notable seriousness," the front man added.
Asked about the families' channels of communication with al-Nusra Front, Youssef said the messages are being exchanged through "mediators."
He however noted that contacts have been severed with the holy warriorIslamic 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 for months now.
"We don't know anything about our sons who are in the custody of this group," he added.
The towns of al-Maara and Flita are currently under the control of the Syrian regime and Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... , according to Anatolia.
Syria's civil war has regularly spilled over into Leb, with Nusra and IS jihadists briefly overrunning the town of Arsal in August 2014 after gunbattles with the Lebanese army.
The jihadists withdrew after a ceasefire, but took with them several dozen hostages from the army and police, four of whom have since been executed.
Can they really carry it off, or is it all hot air?
[Jpost] Anonymous, a loose-knit international network of activist hackers, is preparing to unleash waves of cyber attacks on 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.... following the attacks in Gay Paree last week that killed 129 people, a self-described member said in a video.
A man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask appeared on a video posted to YouTube and said the Islamic State bully boyz who grabbed credit for the Gay Paree attacks were "vermin" and Anonymous would hunt them down.
"These attacks cannot remain unpunished," the man said, speaking in French.
"We are going to launch the biggest operation ever against you. Expect many cyberattacks. War has been declared. Get ready," the man said, without giving details of what the attacks would involve. "We don't forgive and we don't forget."
The video posted to YouTube had attracted more than 1.1 million views by 14:30 GMT on Monday.
Anonymous is an international network of activist computer hackers which has grabbed credit for many cyberattacks against government, corporate and religious websites over the past dozen years.
Since the attack on French weekly Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... last January, which led to the deaths of 17 victims, Anonymous activists have waged an online vigilante campaign to force the shutdown of Twitter profiles suspected of belonging to ISIS supporters.
The group says it has identified more than 39,000 suspected ISIS profiles and reported them to Twitter. It claims to have had more than 25,000 of these accounts suspended, while nearly 14,000 more on the targeted list remain active, according to a list posted to a site calling itself Lucky Troll Club.
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It claims to have had more than 25,000 of these accounts suspended, while nearly 14,000 more on the targeted list remain active
There are hundreds of thousands more potential accounts, I suspect the list is endless.
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Anonymous declares war on ISIS? "Looks like ISIS will be fucked by a bunch of virgins after all" - Th3j35t3r
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Anonymous is more concerned with self promotion. They may inflict a couple of wounds, but will then be off chasing the next shiny object. If they truly had the desire/ability to make a contribution they would have done so already
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So. Guess we now know some of the more senior members were in / near Paris recently. Sounds like a bunch of liberals that have been mugged, raped, & sodomized by reality.
I give them 2 weeks before the ADHD kicks in and they are off after something else.
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Correct Linker, I employ ctrlsec quite a bit, just see it as a diff discipline. Getting 1st report of Anonymous taking down around 5000 Twitter accts.
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[NBCNews] NBC News has learned that ISIS is using a web-savvy new tactic to expand its global operational footprint -- a 24-hour Jihadi Help Desk to help its foot soldiers spread its message worldwide, recruit followers and launch more attacks on foreign soil.
Counterterrorism analysts affiliated with the U.S. Army tell NBC News that the ISIS help desk, manned by a half-dozen senior operatives around the clock, was established with the express purpose of helping would-be jihadists use encryption and other secure communications in order to evade detection by law enforcement and intelligence authorities.
The relatively new development -- which law enforcement and intel officials say has ramped up over the past year -- is alarming because it allows potentially thousands of ISIS followers to move about and plan operations without any hint of activity showing up in their massive collection of signals intelligence.
Authorities are now homing in on the terror group's growing cyber capabilities after attacks in Gay Paree, Egypt and elsewhere for which ISIS has claimed credit.
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serves the authorities right for thinking they can spy their way out of an ideological war
take the medicine please
do the difficult thing
acknowledge the religious nature of this war,
then ban sharia
and declare war on the caliphate
and use treason laws against its promoters.
there will be howls and yells of islamophobia. Dont care
the people who are yelling are the enemy and do you give a sh*t what they think of you? no. So take action stop trying to be delicate about it
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Seems the sort of thing Anonymous could have fun with.
"Yes, of course you must test the suicide vest first to make sure it works. Have your fellow cell members nearby so they can provide pointers and tell you if they see anything amiss."
"By all means avoid plastic explosives and C4 as they are unclean and use the grease of the swine in their makeup. Instead use what the West calls Play-Dough when constructing your device."
"French intelligence sources have infiltrated a number of terrorist cells. If you have a member of your cell named Mohammad do not trust them, in fact kill them immediately."
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The Taliban militants group has started regulating rates and prices of the food and non-food commodities as well services in northeastern Takhar province of Afghanistan, it has been reported.
Abu Dhabi: Members of the Al Manara terrorist organisation smuggled weapons, ammunition and detonators into the UAE to kill people and overthrow the government, the Federal Supreme Court heard on Monday.
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The transformation of Turkey, a frontline state which possesses the second-largest army in the Atlantic Alliance, into something like a frenemy on a good day, from any Western viewpoint, has led to awkward questions about what's really going on in Ankara. These have been asked for years, with whispers mounting about covert Iranian influence at the highest levels of politics and security in Turkey, but it's been easy to dismiss much of this as evidence-free conspiracy-mongering of the sort beloved by Turks of all political colorations. Yet there is now convincing proof that Tehran indeed has a disturbing degree of secret influence in Turkey's ruling circles.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
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