Perhaps not such a hate crime, as the wrong side
The Brooklyn DA's office is investigating allegations that the two teens beaten to a pulp by an enraged boyfriend outside a Brooklyn Mosque were sexually assaulting his girlfriend, The Post has learned.
The probe was launched after the unnamed woman claimed that the teens were taunting and molesting her when her boyfriend, Christopher Vallaro, ran to her rescue.
Vallaro first made headlines after photos of the 16 and 17-year-old's battered faces surfaced, along with allegations that the 31-year old had called the boys "f‐king terrorists." first CAIR standard lie?
But investigators with the DA's office have scheduled a meeting with Vallaro and his girlfriend to look into the accusations that the teens reached through the car window and groped her breasts and body, sources said. Vallaro came to her rescue when he heard her screaming for help from floors above in his apartment, which is located adjacent to the Sunset Park mosque.
The July 2 beating was originally investigated as a hate-crime, but police later concluded the teens' Muslim faith was not a motivating factor. perhaps it was, just not in a way he wants to admit publicly
During a brief Wednesday appearance, defense attorney Sal Strazzullo submitted 20 letters from his client's neighbors, mostly Muslim-Americans, in Vallaro's defense. oops
"I'm glad that the District Attorney's office is taking a look at the entirely of the situation, and not just what the alleged victims said happened," Strazzullo said.
Vallaro declined comment as he left court.
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I looked at the pics. Looks like he used the kid's face like a drumstick on the car's hood. I'm guessing the kid will think twice before doing that again.
Burundian troops from the 32nd and 33rd battalions are returning home after a year in Somalia, under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The first batch of 1,891 officers left Somalia for home on last Thursday. Others will leave the country in the course of this week.
1900 officers? In two battalions?
“Our relationship with the Somali National Army has been good because we shared information about the enemy – Al-Shabaab. Also, during reconnaissance patrols, we were together. And it was the Somali National Army helping us because of the language barrier. It was them who told us the names of the localities, helped us with information and taught us how to communicate with the Somali populations,” said the commander of the 32nd Battalion Major John Manirakiza.
Major Richard Nikoyagize, the commander of the 33rd Battalion attributed the success of the Burundian troops to high discipline and a good working relationship with the Somali National Army.
Burundi is one of the troop-contributing countries to AMISOM, mandated to support the Federal Government of Somalia in defeating the militant group Al-Shabaab. Other troop contributing countries are Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.
The Burundi National Defence Forces are responsible for keeping security in Sector 5, which comprises areas such as El Baraf, Mahaaday, Balcad, Helman, Walshiq and Quorolow. The troops are also present in sector Kismayo as part of a multinational military deployment. The troops participated in various projects in liberated areas, including providing medical services and safe drinking water to vulnerable communities.
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[BLOOMBERG] A new commander took control of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force battling al-Qaeda-linked hard boyz in Somalia as Uganda said it wants to withdraw its troops from the war-torn nation by the end of next year.
Lieutenant General Osman Noor Soubagleh arrived Monday in the capital, Mogadishu, becoming force commander of the African Union Mission in Somalia, or Amisom, the organization said in a statement. The Horn of Africa country’s elections, due this year, are one of the mission’s main priorities, according to Amisom head Francisco Madeira.
Uganda’s foreign minister last week said the East African nation plans to remove its almost 7,000 troops from Somalia by the end of 2017. While a partial cut in European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... funding for soldiers has been a "handicap," it’s not the main reason for Uganda wanting out, Sam Kutesa said in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, where he was attending an African Union summit.
"What we are interested in is to make sure we create a situation where the people of Somalia take over the security because we cannot be there forever," he said in a July 15 interview. "Uganda is not interested in perpetuating peacekeeping missions without a foreseeable outcome."
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UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says Daesh fighters in Libya are facing the “distinct possibility” of defeat in their last stronghold and are likely to scatter elsewhere in the North African country and the region.
The UN chief said in a new report to the UN Security Council that member states estimate there are between 2,000 and 7,000 Daesh fighters from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Mali, Morocco and Mauritania.
Ban says one member state recently reported between 3,000 and 4,000 Daesh fighters in Sirte, the extremist group’s last bastion along Libya’s northern coast.
But he said as a result of the recent offensive against Daesh, by forces aligned with the UN-brokered government, “the current number of those in Sirte is now likely well under 1,000.”
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[Libya Herald] La Belle France has vehemently denied allegations that its planes bombed the so-called Benghazi Defence Brigades (BDB) overnight at Al-Jlidiya, near Magrun, killing 13 of them.
In a short statement this afternoon, the French authorities said that they had carried out no Arclight airstrikes at all and that the accusations against it aired by some TV stations in Libya served merely to "sow doubt and division in the country".
A French official meanwhile told the Libya Herald that the French government did not support Hafter or the Libya National Army. Its strategy was the destruction of the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... and terrorism in Libya.
The French statement (see below) followed a call earlier during the day by Libya’s controversial holy man, Sadek Al-Ghariani, for mass protests against La Belle France after it admitted the death of three French military officials in a helicopter crash on Sunday and the presence of French security forces in the country. On his Islamist Tanasah TV station, he accused it of effectively declaring war on Libya. He said people should take to the streets and demonstrate against its unacceptable intervention in Libya.
There was, he claimed, a "conspiracy" by foreign countries and their ambassadors together with their supposed Libyan agents to destroy the Libyan revolution.
On the equally Islamist Al-Nabaa TV, an organization calling itself the League of Displaced Benghazi Families similarly called on people to go to Martyrs’ Square in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and protest.
Other protests came from Misratan politician Fathi Bashaga, the Moslem Brüderbund and the now generally invisible General National Congress (GNC).
In the event, there were demonstrations this afternoon in Tripoli, Benghazi, Misrata and Gharyan. The biggest was in Misrata where several hundred turned out and a French flag was burned. In Tripoli, numbers were muted and in Benghazi even smaller.
In his denunciation, Ghariani also attacked the entire Libyan Political Agreement and the Presidency Council which he accused of failing to solve the electricity and cash shortages and of being responsible for the the crash in the Libyan dinar and inflation. He also called the takeover of ministry building by the PC as illegal.
He further demanded the rump of the GNC to hold a session as soon as possible to discuss the situation. Those who had joined the State Council must return to the Congress, he insisted.
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[Libya Observer] Derna Shura pays blood money to 10 people killed by mistake including Bangladeshi worker
Derna Shura Council has paid blood money to the families of 10 people who were killed during the city's 8-month-long war against ISIS. A Bangladeshi national was among the victims, the council said.
Each family was offered LYD 177.500 in compensation for the killing of their beloved ones by mistake according to the Islamic Sharia law. The families accepted the money and pardoned the killers.
The money was donated by a businessman from Benghazi, the Shura Council revealed.
The Bangladeshi worker was identified as "Mohammed Israfil Mimar Ghazi," the council said, adding it had contacted his family in Bangladesh to send the money to them as soon as possible.
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[BREITBART] London’s new and first Moslem mayor Sadiq Khan has refused to back a request for the terrorist outfit Hezbollah to be a proscribed organization.
Following a question from UK Independence Party (UKIP) London Assembly member David Kurten, Mr. Khan said that he would not back a ban on the group which has recently had supporters and sympathisers protesting with its famous yellow jihadi flag at ’Al Quds Day’ in London.
Mr. Kurten asked the question in the discussion following Assembly member Kemi Badenoch’s question: "What action is the Metropolitan Police Service taking against the use of flags representing designated terrorist organizations as seen during the recent al-Quds Day march in London on July 3rd?"
While Mr. Khan said he understood "the concerns of the Jewish community, and the distress these flags cause many Londoners", he also said "It would not be appropriate... to comment on an ongoing police investigation" and that he would not commit to pushing for a ban on the "political wing" of Hezbollah.
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Pictured in a pink wig at a music festival this is the ISIS fanatic who went on an axe rampage on a German train and may have lied about being an Afghan refugee in order to secure asylum status after claims he is Pak.
The terror group released a video yesterday featuring the attacker, who is claimed to be 17, who was rubbed out by police after the attack, which left four people critically injured near the city of Wurzburg.
ISIS used the name 'Mohammed Riyadh' to describe him, however, sources close to the investigation in Germany said that he registered in the country as Riaz Khan Ahmadzai.
He lived on a farm with foster parents in the village of Gaukoenigshofen where the local Catholic priest set up a special room in his church for Moslems like him to pray.
As well as an ISIS flag and a suicide letter being found among his belongings, a Pak document was also found in his room, telling him where to go in Germany to increase his chances of being allowed to stay.
On his Facebook page he wrote in English: 'Life is too short to learn German.'
He was also pictured on his Facebook account wearing a pink wig for a festival at Ochsenfurt near to where he lived.
It was snapped at the Fasching Carnival in February, where events such as concerts, comedy sketches, parades and feasts took place over a four day period.
He also claimed he missed his mother, once posting on the social network site: 'I love you mama. I can forget everything, but not you. I miss you mama.'
Meanwhile in the video released yesterday by ISIS, the attacker, who appears to be older than 17, uses phrases in Pashto, a dialect spoken in Pakistain and not Afghanistan.
German TV station ZDF also noted that experts indicated his accent is clearly Pak.
Locals described the Khan as 'calm and even-keeled' and a 'devout Moslem who did not appear to be radical or a fanatic', according to Joachim Herrmann, interior minister of Bavaria state.
'According to the investigation thus far, there was no evidence on site to point to him belonging to the Islamist network,' Mr Herrmann added
Police however later found a farewell letter he apparently left for his father in which he said the world's Moslems 'must defend themselves.'
'Now pray for me that I can take Dire Revenge on non-believers, pray for me that I can get to heaven' the note said.
Prosecutors said he shouted 'Allahu Akbar' (God is greatest) three times as he made his way through the carriage.
An eyewitness told DPA news agency that the train, which had been carrying around 25 people, looked 'like a slaughterhouse'.
The assailant had arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Germany in June 2015 and had been staying with a foster family in the region for the last two weeks, Herrmann said.
'We must determine what the motive was and to what extent he really belonged to the Islamist scene or self-radicalised very recently,' Mr Herrmann said, adding that the assailant had no criminal record in Germany.
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[Ynet] Italian police have broken up a criminal ring which smuggled at least 100 migrants colonists from the northern city of Milan to other European countries in what authorities described as one of the biggest operations of its kind.
Italia has been on the frontline of Europe's immigration crisis. About 170,000 migrants colonists reached Italia by sea in 2014 and 153,800 came in 2015. So far this year, more than 79,000 migrants colonists have arrived, the vast majority of them Africans.
Police said they enjugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! and charged 10 people with smuggling offences, including the suspected ringleader, a 37-year-old Egyptian man. The arrests were made in raids across four northern provinces this week.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The authorities in Germany have reportedly expressed doubts regarding the country of origin of the train attacker who was alleged to be an Afghan asylum seeker.
According to local international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, the authorities have doubts regarding the identity of the attacker.
Emaq news agency which is close to 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group published a video of the attacker who introduces himself as Mohammad Riyad speaking in Pashto language.
Riyad claims he is a soldier of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and informs regarding his so called sacred operation in Germany.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... doubts regarding the exact identity of the attacker and if he was an Afghan have increased after his accent was noted.
The Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) TV network citing the security sources reported that the attacker was using Pak words in his speech.
Language experts have also said that the attacker’s accent was Pak and in the video he has been identified as Mohammad Riyad but the authorities in Germany have said he was recorded by a different name in Germany.
The Sherlocks have also said they believe the attacker has used the Afghan identity to increase his chance to claim asylum as police has found a Pak document from his room as well.
Under the circumstances, the question arises whether the claimed lad of seventeen wasn't actually a man of much more mature years.
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Turkey has said it will suspend the European convention on human rights during a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of last weekend’s coup attempt.
"Turkey will suspend the European convention on human rights insofar as it does not conflict with its international obligations," the deputy prime minister, Numan Kurtulmus, was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency.
The state of emergency will allow the government to rule by decree, passing bills that have the force of the rule of law unless they are overturned by parliament, where the majority of MPs belong to the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party.
Kurtulmus said Turkey would take the step "just like France has done under article 15 of the convention," which allows signatory states to derogate certain rights during times of war or major public emergency.
Article 15 and other international rights treaties allow governments to restrict certain rights, including freedom of movement, expression and association during states of emergency. However, the article stipulates that measures must be strictly proportionate and not discriminate against people based on ethnicity, religion or social group.
Can Dundar, the editor of the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, said the emergency state meant Turkey now had "an oppressive regime where the law and liberties will be suspended, press will be censored, and the parliament eliminated".
Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, urged the Turkish government to maintain both the rule of law and a sense of proportion in its response to the coup attempt.
"Only provable involvement in illegal acts, not suspected political leanings, should trigger governmental action," Steinmeier said. "It’s also critical that the declaration of emergency be the truly necessary length of time, and to end the measure as quickly as possible."
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[Al Jazeera] WikiLeaks has published 294,546 emails along with thousands of attached files from 762 mail boxes that allegedly belong to the primary email domain of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
The most recent email in the trove released by the whistle-blowing organization on Tuesday was sent on July 6, 2016. The oldest dates back to 2010.
"It should be noted that emails associated with the domain are mostly used for dealing with the world, as opposed to the most sensitive internal matters," WikiLeaks said on its official website.
WikiLeaks said it obtained the emails a week before Friday's attempted coup.
"WikiLeaks has moved forward its publication schedule in response to the government's post-coup purges. We have verified the material and the source, who is not connected, in any way, to the elements behind the attempted coup, or to a rival political party or state," the organization said.
[AlAhram] Access to the Wikileaks website in Turkey has been blocked after the group announced, following a failed coup by Turkish military units, that it would release a trove of documents on the country's power structure. Wikileaks said on Twitter that Turks who are blocked from accessing its website can "use a proxy or any of our IPs" to get access to the documents on Turkey's ruling party.
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[NYTIMES] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's president on Wednesday declared a three-month state of emergency following a botched coup attempt, declaring he would rid the military of the "virus" of subversion and giving the government sweeping powers to expand a crackdown that has already included mass arrests and the closure of hundreds of schools.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , who was accused of autocratic conduct before the insurrection, said the measure would counter threats to Turkish democracy. Possibly anticipating investor jitters, Erdogan criticized Standard & Poor's for downgrading its credit rating for Turkey deeper into "junk" status and said the country would remain financially disciplined.
The president did not announce details, but the security measure could facilitate longer detentions for many of the nearly 10,000 people who have been rounded up since loyalist security forces and protesters quashed the rebellion that started Friday night and was over by Saturday.
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Gee,
that runs right up to the US election.
Huh.
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I was thinking more about "state of emergency": suspension of Habeas Corpus, suspension of 22nd Amendment, etc.
He recently voted himself a retirement pension increase. His wife is unhappy with D.C., and the hours are too long. I'm reasonably confident he's leaving.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has banned all academics from leaving the country, cancelling their annual leave, as President Tayyip Erdogan's post-coup crackdown escalated to "exceptional proportions".
Teachers were told on Wednesday they could not travel abroad on any work-related trips for the foreseeable future and those currently overseas were ordered to return.
One British academic at a state-run university in Istanbul told the Telegraph that foreign nationals had also been told to come back to work.
The education ministry said it decided to close 626 private schools and other establishments that are under investigation for “crimes against the constitutional order and the running of that order,” the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The agency said the schools are linked to Gulen.
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[DAWN] ndian security forces on Wednesday removed dozens of black and Pak flags in India-held Kashmire hoisted by residents observing "black day" on the call of Pakistain government to protest the killing of a top pro-independence Death Eater leader.
Indian administration feared fresh trouble in the tense region after 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... called for observing a "black day" to express solidarity with "Kashmiris facing atrocities at the hands of Indian forces".
In a statement, Nawaz said, "India should realise that when people decide to do something, the weapons cannot stop their way."
Rubbishing Indian claim of Kashmire being its internal matter, Nawaz said: "Kashmire cannot be accepted as an internal matter of India as it has been declared a disputed territory by the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... ."
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[Ynet] An Iraq donor conference on Wednesday raised more than $2.1 billion in aid, surpassing the estimated $2 billion organizers had expected, US State Department front man John Kirby said.
"The conference raised in excess of $2.1 billion, with a number of additional pledges still being finalized," Kirby said in a statement. Defense and foreign ministers from 24 countries met in Washington for a pledging session to help Iraq in its fight against ISIS murderous Moslems.
Now to see which and how many actually pay up -- promises are easy.
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[Beirut Daily Star] Prime Minister Tammam Salam Wednesday discussed with head of Hamas’ Political Bureau Moussa Abu Marzouk ongoing efforts to improve security in Palestinian camps in Lebanon.
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[ENT.SITEINTELGROUP] Al-Qaeda demanded 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) leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... produce evidence for the allegations made by his front man, Abu Muhammad al-'Adnani, about its "apostasy" and that of other fighters.
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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
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.
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