[NDTV] Thirty thousand dollars and a house in Pakistain. That's what it took chef Sayed Mahboob Agha to set off explosives that killed six UAE diplomates and six others in the Kandahar Governor's guesthouse in January this year. This is what a joint Afghanistan, US (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and UAE probe has concluded, according to Afghan Intelligence service, the NDS.
Presenting the findings in Kabul on Thursday, the NDS head, Masoom Stanekzai said the chef travelled six times to Quetta and Chaman in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... to receive instructions from Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Quetta Shura ...Mullah Omar's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... leaders to specifically target the UAE Ambassador in Afghanistan.
Mr Stanekzai, who briefed President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. two days ago, said the chef's co-workers smuggled in the explosives - a mix of RDX and TNT - in bread baskets. The explosives were placed in a sofa and detonated by remote control, he added.
Afghanistan and the UAE have demanded Pakistain hand over three plotters. The UAE delegation was in Kandahar to discuss developmental projects.
The deadliest attack on UAE diplomats killed five of them instantly and was the first against diplomats from the Gulf in Afghanistan. The UAE Ambassador to Afghanistan Mohammed Abdullah al-Kaabi died of his injuries later. The Kandahar Governor, Humayun Azizi, also maimed in the attack was treated abroad for two months before returning.
Kandahar's notorious anti-Taliban police chief, General Abdul Raziq left the room moments before the blast. The Taliban, at the time, denied responsibility saying it was a "result of local rivalry."
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[Breitbart] Durham University’s Islamic Society has been handing out booklets advocating terror, which were written by an Islamist preacher banned from the UK.
Zakir Naik, who is wanted by counter-terror authorities in India for having inspired terror attacks, was refused entry to the UK in 2010 by then-Home Secretary Theresa May for making comments that were "on their face supportive of Osama bin Laden, anti-Jewish and otherwise unacceptable".
The preacher’s booklet, which was distributed during ’Discover Islam Week’ in March, states that "every Muslim should be a terrorist to anti-social elements in society".
"Alcoholism" has driven Western countries to high levels of rape, molestation, incest, and AIDS, according to Naik, who writes that "a true Muslim" ought to be a terrorist to "such people".
The booklet, entitled Answers to Non-Muslims’ Common Questions about Islam, also claims Western culture has turned women into "concubines, mistresses, and social butterflies who are mere tools in the hands of pleasure seekers".
It also states that women should wear hijabs to "prevent them from being molested". A stall erected for Discover Islam Week displayed a sign inviting non-Muslim students to "try a hijab", according to photographs published by the student online newspaper The Tab.
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As they say...if the radical literature is being distributed in the local Ahl al-Sunnah mosques...then you are always only two minutes away from a terror attack...no matter where you live. Whether it be Wahabbi, Qutb's Milestones, or Ibn al Tamiyah. Egypt passed laws to limit the radical propaganda and conduct screenings at the mosques to keep it out in order to limit the Brotherhood.
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Again, its not "radical" literature--its *literalist* literature. The things advocated in the leaflets are the same things Islam's "holy" book *literally* instructs its followers to do.
[RFE/RL] Kazakhstan has introduced a theological service in penitentiaries to prevent inmates from being radicalized. The Kazakh state corrections service said on June 13 that the service was introduced to curb the spreading of radical Islamism, extremism, and terrorism among inmates.
The service also said that local authorities and nongovernmental organizations are involved in programs to prevent the radicalization of inmates. According to the service, more than 500 Kazakh inmates have been convicted of terror-related crimes.
Officials said earlier that individuals convicted of other crimes sometimes get radicalized after coming into contact with inmates convicted of Islamic extremism. In neighboring Kyrgyzstan, inmates convicted of religious extremism and terrorism charges serve terms in separate penitentiaries to avoid inmates' becoming radicalized.
[IsraelTimes] The number of people arrested in Europe on suspicion of jihadist terror activities nearly doubled over the last two years, Europe’s policing agency says, adding that actual attacks have decreased.
Some 718 were arrested on offences relating to jihadist terror last year as opposed to 395 in 2014, while jihadist attacks dropped from 17 in 2014 to 13 last year — of which six were linked to the Islamic State group, Europol says in a new report.
Imagery of violence and weapons alone are not the way to go if you want to attract young Westerners to join Isis. Instead, the violent extremist group pushes its 'Jihadi Cool' subculture to draw in people from the West, according to a group of Swedish researchers who have studied Isis propaganda
Italian police bust migrant trafficking ring in Sicily
6 June
[TheLocal.it] The Italian police said on Tuesday that they had broken a smuggling ring between Tunisia and Sicily which was preparing to bring migrants with suspected jihadist links to Europe. The "Scorpionfish" operation had been shadowing the group since January, targeting 15 Italian or Tunisian citizens sought by arrest warrants.
The traffickers carried about 15 migrants paying 2,000 to 3,000 euros each and dozens of kilos of cigarettes, with each crossing generating around 40,000 euros ($45,000).
With summer approaching they were preparing to increase the number of trips to two a week, using speedboats to cross from northeast Tunisia to the Trapani region in western Sicily in about four hours.
The group was apparently willing to bring over people sought by Tunisian authorities for serious crimes or possible links with jihadists, but the police broke up the network before a trip carrying these suspects could be made.
The Tunisian coast guard has struggled to keep up with smuggling gangs using high-performance vessels to ferry people across the Strait of Sicily.
Man who murdered young child in refugee home was ex-convict
6 June
[TheLocal.de] Prosecutors in Regensburg revealed on Monday that an Afghan asylum seeker who stabbed a five-year-old boy to death on Saturday was wearing an ankle monitor at the time.
The man had been convicted of arson by a Munich court in 2009 and sentenced to five years and ten months in jail, the prosecutors revealed. Since then he had been wearing an electronic ankle monitor, which was intended to prevent him leaving the refugee camp in Arnschwang, near the Czech border, where the crime took place.
Munich tried to have the man deported in 2014, but he fought a successful legal case against the expulsion, claiming that he had converted to Christianity and that his life would be in danger in Afghanistan as a result.
Clearly he doesn't understand what being a Christian entails.
Austrian court jails parents who took kids to live under IS
3 June
[TheLocal.at] An Austrian court on Friday sentenced to up to 10 years in jail two couples who took their children to live in an IS-controlled part of Syria and showed them execution videos.
The two men and their wives travelled to Syria with their eight children -- the youngest of whom was two years old -- in December 2014, the trial in the southern city Graz heard.
Defendant Hasan O., 49, denied in court being a member of IS and said that he worked as a masseur treating injured fighters.
"I heard in the mosque (in Graz) that you can live according to Islam there, with freedom for the women and children," he told the trial.
The dream soon went sour, however, and the families fled Syria in April 2016. Turkey then extradited them to Austria and the children were taken into care.
All four -- Hasan O. and his wife Kata O., Enes S. and his wife Michaela S. -- were convicted of belonging to a terrorist organisation and of mistreating and neglecting children. All except Austrian-born Muslim convert Michaela S. were from Bosnia but all had Austrian citizenship.
The new law officially makes 18 the minimum age for marriage. Previously, 16-year-olds were allowed to marry adults in certain cases with court permission.
The legislation also nullifies any existing marriages in which at least one spouse was under the age of 16 at the time of the wedding. This is particularly aimed at marriages done outside of Germany.
Courts will also be able to nullify marriages where a spouse was 16 or 17 years old.
Norwegian Officials Deny ‘No Go Zones’ in Migrant Suburb Despite Weeks of Arson, Attacks on Police
15 June
Oslo city representatives have blamed three weeks of arson and violence against police by “youths” in the migrant-dominated Norwegian suburb of Stovner on young people feeling “rootless and restless”.
Sweden: Migrant Stabs Passengers When Woman in Hijab Asked to Show Train Ticket, Blames ‘Racism’
15 June
An Iraqi man travelling from Stockholm to Hallsberg by train launched a brutal attack on passengers after a Muslim woman was asked to show her ticket, accusing them all of racism.
Poland, Czech Rep. Slam Forced Migration Plan as EU Imposes Sanctions
14 June
Poland and the Czech Republic have slammed the European Union’s (EU) decision to ‘sanction’ them for rejecting compulsory migrant quotas, with the later citing “security” issues and promising to defend the right to reject migrants.
Priests Demand Sweden Stop Celebrating ‘Poisonous’ National Holiday
14 June
A pair of Swedish priests has demanded the country and church stop celebrating the Swedish national holiday “National Day” saying nationalism and patriotism are “poison”.
Hungarian Government: Islam and Europe ‘Incapable of Coexisting Without Conflict’
13 June
Threatened with sanctions for refusing to accept the compulsory migrant quotas being imposed on European Union member-states by Brussels, the Hungarian government has declared that Islam and Europe “are incapable of coexisting without conflict”.
Three Times the Unemployment Rate of Native Swedes, Migrants Still Take Eight out of 10 New Jobs
15 June
The Swedish Public Employment Service projects that by 2018, eight out of 10 new jobs will be taken by foreigners – despite unemployment being set to increase from 50 to 60 per cent amongst migrants.
Scabies Cases Drastically Rising Amongst Migrants on Paris Streets
15 June
NGOs working with migrants on the streets of Paris have warned that cases of scabies are on the rise, claiming there are well over a hundred cases so far.
Three Syrians Allegedly Sent to Germany by Islamic State Go On Trial
14 June
BERLIN (AP) — Three Syrian men alleged to have been sent to Germany with forged passports by the Islamic State group have gone on trial in Hamburg.
Stricter Border Controls Halve Asylum Seeker Applications in Austria
13 June
Austria has seen a 53 per cent decrease in the number of migrants applying for asylum over the past year after strengthening border controls.
Hungarian PM Orbán: ‘The European Union Is on the Side of Terrorists’
13 June
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused the European Union of favouring terrorists after Brussels protested the terrorism trial of an asylum seeker in Hungary.
Broadcasters Cancel Documentary on Anti-Semitic Attacks by Muslims
12 June
Franco-German broadcasters have been accused of censorship after shelving a documentary film about European Jews facing persecution by Muslim migrants, saying it was not “balanced” and the topic was “very sensitive”.
Some 3,000 African Migrants Arrive in Italy, Amid Growing Tensions Between Libya and NGOs
12 June
Between Saturday and Sunday, some 2,850 African migrants were shuttled to Italy in 23 different rescue operations carried out by the Italian Coast Guard and various NGOs.
80 Per Cent of Migrants Deported from Berlin Last Year Were from the Balkans
12 June
Despite there being many illegal migrants and failed asylum seekers from North Africa and the Middle East, the Berlin government has overwhelmingly deported only migrants from the Balkan states.
Top French human rights official demands the RETURN of Calais migrant camps after fresh influx of people setting up blazing roadblocks to stop trucks in a bid to climb aboard and head to Britain
15/06/17
Human rights chief Jacques Toubon said migrants are 'in a state of physical and mental exhaustion' and suggested the reinstatement of sprawling camps akin to Calais Jungle (pictured).
Sex crimes by migrants in Germany have doubled to over 3,000 in a single year, official figures show
15/06/17
A new report issued by the German Government states that there were 3,404 sex crimes involving migrants last year compared with 1,683 in 2015.
Rome's mayor says 'no more migrants' can move into the city as fight erupts over where influx of people should be housed in Italy
14/06/17
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi is challenging the centre-left Italian government's policy of distributing across the country the thousands of migrants arriving at southern ports each year.
No let-up for the European migrant influx: Greater numbers of people are risking their lives to cross from Libya to Italy as route between Turkey and Greece is almost closed
13/06/17
Although the crossing between Turkey and Greece is practically closed and the EU has beefed up its border agency Frontex to check mass migration, criminal industry is flourishing.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli minister says Modern Language Association’s vote is a ’major blow’ to divestment efforts against Israel.
The Modern Language Association ratified a resolution opposing academic boycotts of Israel in a vote by its members, drawing praise from the Jewish state, which called it a major blow to boycott efforts.
Voting on MLA resolution 2017-1 concluded at midnight June 1 and the results were posted on the MLA website on Wednesday.
In January the annual MLA Delegates Assembly rejected a resolution calling for a boycott of Israel and also approved a call to refrain from boycott activities. To be accepted as policy, the latter resolution required approval by at least 10 percent of the MLA’s 18,279 eligible voters.
The proposal eventually squeezed by with 1,954 in favor and 885 against.
Established over a century ago, the MLA is the principal US body for scholars of literature and language, and has some 24,000 registered members.
Resolution 2017-1 states that "endorsing the Paleostinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel contradicts the MLA’s purpose to promote teaching and research on language and literature" and contradicts an earlier resolution that condemns boycotts against scholars.
Boycotting Israeli academics could also "curtail debates with representatives of Israeli universities... thereby blocking possible dialogue and general scholarly exchange," the resolution noted.
Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan congratulated the MLA and said the decision represented "a major blow to ongoing efforts by the BDS movement for an academic boycott of Israel."
"This victory is a major blow to the BDS campaign in the academic arena," added Erdan, who is also public security minister, in a statement early Thursday. "Universities and academic associations are increasingly rejecting BDS as being opposed to the most basic values of academic freedom."
Erdan’s Strategic Affairs Ministry deals with boycott efforts against Israel.
Pro-Paleostinian groups campaign around the world for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel in what is known as the BDS movement. The activities include calls for academic boycotts that have had mixed success with universities and other institutes stressing the importance of academic freedom and dialogue.
[DAWN] Police have placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 12 jail staffers, including a superintendent and deputy superintendent of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's central prison, following the escape of two high-profile Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LJ) holy warriors on Tuesday, police sources said.
Under-trial prisoners, Sheikh Muhammad Mumtaz alias Firoon and Muhammad Ahmed Khan alias Muna had beat feet from the judicial complex of Central Prison Karachi on Tuesday in what was described as a daredevil move.
Startling revelations about the incident indicate that the prisoners had escaped on Tuesday by breaking its grill while the jail staff came to know about their escape on Wednesday when they were supposed to be presented before the court inside the jail, officials said.
Gulshan Superintendent of Police (SP) Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto told Dawn that the apprehended jail staff told the police that they had presented both prisoners belonging to LJ before the 'court' located in the judicial complex inside the jail premises on Tuesday but they "escaped" by breaking the grill of the court.
He added that the arrested officers said they had not "realised" that the prisoners had escaped for a whole day, only to find them "missing" on Wednesday when the convicts were to be presented before the court.
The Gulshan SP said the police were further investigating the case.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian rights group head: Decision ’harms our people, putting us among the few states that block internet sites.
The Paleostinian Authority’s Attorney General Ahmad Barak on Thursday ordered the blocking of 11 news sites belonging to political rivals, including Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", -- drawing ire from the Gazoo-based terrorist organization and from a Paleostinian rights group.
The decision, reported by Paleostinian media, came amid a series of measures taken by the PA intended to force Hamas to cede control of the Gazoo Strip -- which it seized in 2007 after a violent conflict with Fatah -- including substantially reducing the funding for electricity and medical aid.
The sites affiliated to Hamas that are to be blocked include Pal Info Center and al-Shehab.
Some of the sites are reportedly connected to Mohammad Dahlan, a rival to PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... in the Fatah party, who was expelled by Abbas from the PA in 2011. These sites include Fatah Voice and Amad.
The PA has not officially commented on the decision to block these sites, nor could a representative of the PA Attorney General’s office be reached for comment.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the Paleostinian news agency Ma’an, which is not affiliated with Hamas or Dahlan, said Paleostinian officials confirmed the decision.
The Hamas outlet al-Shehab reported that its hosting company received orders to block the news site.
Ammar Dwaik, head of the Paleostinian rights group The Independent Commission for Human Rights, which is based both in the West Bank and Gazoo, slammed the decision.
"Blocking Internet sites (especially news sites) is contrary to the principles of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... , specifically the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the right to information," he said in a statement on Facebook.
He added the move would "harm our people, putting us among the few states in the world that block internet sites." He also argued it would harm the Paleostinian economy, as it would drive Paleostinians to seek Israeli internet providers.
Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum said the decision "reflects Abbas’s dictatorial approach... in dealing with the Paleostinian people." He called on Paleostinians to "thwart all of Abbas’s schemes to confiscate freedoms."
[IsraelTimes] The administration of US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said it was "concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gazoo," but placed the blame for the unfolding crisis on the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, terror group that rules the Paleostinian enclave.
In a State Department news briefing on Tuesday, spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the administration was "aware that the Israeli cabinet approved the PA, the Paleostinian Authority’s, request to reduce electricity in Gazoo. Beyond that, I’m not going to weigh in, but we do remain deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation right there."
She said however that "no one should lose sight of the fact, of this fact, that Hamas bears the greatest responsibility for the current situation in Gazoo."
"We continue to underscore the need for international support for Gazoo’s recovery and humanitarian assistance to the Paleostinian people," she added.
[IsraelTimes] Lawmakers pass legislation blocking funding to groups involved in anti-Semitic incitement or supporting boycott of Israel.
Clearly these are the end times.
The foreign minister of Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... vowed to tighten his ministry’s oversight of funding for Paleostinian groups after politicians passed critical motions on the subject.
Didier Burkhalter made the promise during a debate in the Swiss Senate on Tuesday after the federal upper house of Switzerland adopted parts of a motion passed by the lower house earlier this week, the RFJ broadcaster reported.
’We are going to take a series of measures" to prevent the use of Swiss funds for activity deemed conducive to the incitement of hatred against Jews and Israel, Burkhalter said. Contracts on cooperation with non-governmental organizations will be revised to contain more explicit stipulations, and review of "political risks" will be reinforced and detailed in a report to the federal government, he added.
The Swiss government will have a more active role in supervising the dispensation of funds on the ground globally "and more particularly in the Middle East, where the risk of abuse is elevated," the minister was quoted as saying.
Whereas Burkhalter acknowledged that the current terms of funding for Paleostinian and some Israeli NGOs needed revision, he emphasized that "Switzerland does not in any way support organizations that incite hatred or anti-Semitism, or organizations associated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel."
The motion calling for "better oversight on the funding of NGOs in the Middle East" passed by the Senate is a softened version of the motion passed earlier this week in the lower house, RFJ reported. It omitted the explicit reference to the rejection of BDS by Switzerland present in the motion passed by the lower house.
According to NGO Monitor, an Israel-based organization that reviews the funding given to NGOs deemed hostile to the Jewish state and some of the policies of its government, the vote in the lower house was the first time a European country has passed legislation to end funding for NGOs that are vehicles for incitement and hate speech and that specifically include anti-Semitism.
The Swiss Foreign Ministry had in the past refused to review or even disclose information pertaining to its funding of organizations focused on the Paleostinian-Israeli conflict and Israel.
Christian Imark, a lower house politician, proposed the original resolution. Reporting by Dominik Feusi, a journalist from Beisler Zeitung, was pivotal in placing the issue at the forefront of the debate in Switzerland, NGO Monitor said.
On Saturday, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said it had launched an audit of the Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Secretariat, which is the primary funding mechanism for Switzerland, alongside Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.
The Secretariat disbursed over $14 million to NGOs from 2014 to 2016, with $7.3 million in core funding being distributed to groups involved in BDS campaigns against Israel, according to NGO Monitor.
Specifically, 15 of the 24 core funding recipients and a further 11 out of 20 project grant recipients in this period support BDS, the group said Tuesday in a statement.
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.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
[RFE/RL] Kazakhstan has introduced a theological service in penitentiaries to prevent inmates from being radicalized. The Kazakh state corrections service said on June 13 that the service was introduced to curb the spreading of radical Islamism, extremism, and terrorism among inmates.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli minister says Modern Language Association’s vote is a ’major blow’ to divestment efforts against Israel.
