[Khaama (Afghanistan)] On November 4th, Gullbudin Hekmatyar held a presser on parliamentary elections of Afghanistan which will be held in July next year. The presser was covered heavily by the media only to show Hekmatyar’s leadership as a Pashtun leader. Hekmatyar, a known warlord who earned fame during the Civil War, with undisputed loyalty to Pakistain, has misrepresented Pashtuns for decades. Hekmatyar’s imposed leadership as a Pashtun by domestic and foreign media has created many ethnic issues among Afghans in Afghanistan. Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, influenced by Sayed Qutb,
...leader and philosopher of the Muslim Brotherhood during the Nasser period, his writings inspired Al Qaeda and other jihadi groups as well. The two years he spent during his youth studying and travelling in America upset him greatly ...
was never a legitimate Pashtun leader.
A Brief Review of Groups and Their Leaders
The Afghan Civil War was devastating and it divided the nation, but it also raised many questions on the legitimacy of the leadership that had emerged during the war. Multiple groups were involved in the Afghan civil war supported by its own ethnicity. Major groups were, Jamaat -e- Islami, a group led by a Tajiks (some Tajiks were also pro-Sitam-e-Milli); Junbishi-e-Mili was mainly an Uzbek group led by Dostum
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[ARABNEWS] Former Afghan prime minister and chief of Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA), Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , said Iran’s role in his country "has always been negative."
Tehran "has always preferred continuation of war in Afghanistan... Iran has invested for at least 30 years (on war)," he told Pakistain’s Geo TV.
"Iran is a party to the war in Afghanistan and supports different groups... Most of the weapons came from Iran after the withdrawal of the former Soviet Union (from Afghanistan)," he said, adding that Tehran is providing weapons to the Taliban ...Arabic for students... "Many countries think their national interests are served by the continuation of the war," he said, adding that other countries should not bring their rivalries to Afghanistan.
"Unfortunately some neighbors don’t want an end to the war... so there’s instability, differences among Afghan leaders and a weak government. They’ve been spending on this war for 30 to 40 years," Hekmatyar said.
"Pakistain is the only country badly affected by the Afghan war. Pakistain... suffered the most. This war paved the way for the creation of groups that took up arms against Pakistain," he added.
"Pakistain wanted to import energy, gas, electricity and oil from Central Asia, but the war has blocked this and Pakistain faces a lot of problems due to an energy crisis."
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"Pakistain is the only country badly affected by the Afghan war. Pakistain... suffered the most. This war paved the way for the creation of groups that took up arms against Pakistain," he added.
Doesn't mention that it was a self-inflicted wound
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A certain lack of perspective, given that the war is still being fought across Afghanistan on orders from Pakistan, as it was from the beginning.
[RADIOSHABELLE] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) on Friday marked the ninth anniversary of its Operation Atalanta, the successful counter-piracy operation that has greatly contributed to curbing Somali-based piracy off the Horn of Africa and in the Western Indian Ocean.
During the past eight years, Operation Atalanta’s mission has been focussed on four main aspects. First, it protects vessels of the World Food Programme and 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... Mission (AMISOM) to Somalia through close escort protection by EU NAVFOR warships. It also is set up to deter and disrupt piracy and armed robbery at sea within the Gulf of Aden and along the Somalia Coast, and has the authority to arrest, detain and transfer persons suspected of intending to commit, committing, or having committed acts of piracy or armed robbery at sea. EU NAVFOR’s mission also includes protecting the variety merchant ships transiting through the busy and precarious sea lanes in the region. Finally, EU NAVFOR assets monitor fishing activities off the coast of Somalia.
Notable achievements have included the establishment of the International Recognised Transit Corridor in the Gulf of Aden. Other positive developments include International agreements that allow regional prosecution of pirates from Kenya and Seychelles and other states as well as the Shared Awareness and De-confliction Conferences (SHADE) that have been extremely successful in bringing together national navies not normally associated with the EU, NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... or the Combined Maritime Force (CMF).
The operation has also played a critical role reducing acts of piracy and preventing attacks before they happen.
At the height of Somali piracy in January 2011, 736 hostages and 32 ships were being held by pirates. By October 2016, however, those numbers have dropped zero thanks in part to the international naval forces patrolling the area and use of armed guards on merchant vessels.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The Kenyan government is disputing allegations in a new United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... report that its forces were responsible for 40 civilian deaths in Somalia during a 22-month period ending in mid-October.
The report issued on Sunday states that air strikes carried out by the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) were "allegedly responsible for 42 civilian casualties (36 killed, six injured)."
Casualties
The UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (Unsom) and the UN Human Rights Office, which jointly compiled the report, attribute those deaths and injuries to KDF units not affiliated with 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... Mission in Somalia (Amisom).
Kenya's Amisom contingent is meanwhile said in the report to have killed four Somali civilians and injured five others.
"Ultimately, civilians are paying the price for failure to resolve Somalia’s conflicts through political means," said Unsom chief Michael Keating. "And parties to the conflict are simply not doing enough to shield civilians from the violence. This is shameful."
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[AnNahar] Up to 6,000 Africans who fought for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) jihadist group in Iraq and Syria could return home, 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... 's top security official warned Sunday, calling on countries to prepare for the threat.
Smail Chergui, the AU's commissioner for peace and security, said African nations would need to work closely with each other and share intelligence to counter returning holy warriors.
"There are reports of 6,000 African fighters among the 30,000 foreign elements who joined this terrorist group in the Middle East," Chergui told a meeting in Algiers, according to the Algeria Press Service news agency.
"The return of these elements to Africa poses a serious threat to our national security and stability and requires specific treatment and intense cooperation between African countries," he said.
Tens of thousands of imported muscle joined the Sunni murderous Moslem group after it seized vast swathes of Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate in 2014.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] One of the senior sheikhs of the Yemeni Khawlan tribes revealed the reasons for the festivities that arose between their tribes and the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia late Sunday evening.
He stated that the militia surrounded the Khawlan tribes’ Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghader’s home and demanded that he surrender former slain President former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... ’s nephew.
Saleh’s nephew, Brigadier Tariq Mohammed Saleh, was also the head of his security and led several battles against the Houthis in Sanaa. The source confirmed that the militia insists that Brigadier Saleh is in hiding in Khawlan, and that he was not killed with his uncle as the General People’s Congress (GPC) Party’s news outlets had claimed.
The heads of the GPC Party said that Brigadier Saleh was killed right before the liquidation of former President Saleh, indicating that the former president had attended his nephew’s funeral before meeting his fate on the hands of the Houthi militia.
According to primary sources, the Khawlan tribes defended Sheikh al-Ghader and destroyed eight groups belonging to the militia in festivities that continued until late Sunday evening.
Tribal sources had said earlier that Houthi militias have been trying to arrest Sheikh al-Ghader, and announce his surrender to them while seizing his weapons. This was prior to the Yemeni army and Arab-led coalition forces liberating the Khawlan front as it is considered the eastern gate to the capital Sanaa.
Sources have also said that the Houthis were displeased with Sheikh al-Ghader and other leaders of the Khawlan tribe supporting the Yemeni army in their quest to free Sanaa, after the Houthis killed former President Saleh.
Tribal sources called on the legitimate Yemeni government and the Arab coalition forces led by 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... to stand with the Khawlan tribes in their battles against the Iranian-backed militia.
Sheikh al-Ghader was one of the faces of the tribe who worked in previous mediation committees between Saleh and the Houthis. He is known to be loyal to the former president.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A video showing the leader of Iraq’s Iranian-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, Qais Khazaali, appearing at the Lebanese-Israeli border earlier this week has prompted widespread debate.
He was seen in the footage in military uniform, meeting with Hezbollah factions and announced: "The whole country together with Hezbollah is ready to fight and prelude to the Islamic state that is ruled by the Awaited Mahdi."
This produced a wide discussion about the character of Khazaali who just a few months ago took over the task of announcing the Badr Organization, an Iraqi Shiite militia that is fully Iranian-backed.
Following the spread of a video of the visit that showed aKhazaali entering the country illegally, Leb’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri demanded to ban him from entering Leb. He also called on carrying out the "necessary measures and investigations to prevent any person from carrying out activities of a military nature on Lebanese territory," according to a statement released by his office.
His appearance attracted further widespread condemnation among other Lebanese government officials.
But who is Khazaali?
Qais al-Khazaali was born in the city of al-Sadr, east of Baghdad in 1974. He completed his highschool education in the Iraqi capital where he also went on to study Geology at university.
He then began focusing on religious studies, and was taught under the mentorship of religious authority Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr. He later worked at al-Sadr’s office.
After al-Sadr was killed in 1999, Khazaali remained close to al-Sadr’s fourth son, and helped him with propaganda, security and finances.
After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Khazaali created the special groups to fight alongside Akram al-Kaaby, the leader of the al-Nujba Iraqi Shiite militia. Both men later created the Asaib Ahl al-Haq in 2006.
British forces tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... and imprisoned Khazaali, his brother and a number of their followers in 2007 for two and a half years. At the end of 2009, the Asaib Ahl al-Haq group captured five British employees from inside the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad. They were then exchanged for Khazaali the following year.
As time went by, and American and British forces withdrew from Iraq, Khazaali began to get involved in politics and ran for parliament in 2014.
The Asaib Ahl al-Haq group receives training and finances from Iran, and is composed of a number of brigades geographically distributed into combat missions. They fight with about 4,000 of those brigades in Syria to save the Bashir al-Assad regime, under the leadership of the Iranian revolutionary guard.
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[AA.TR] The purchase of the S-400 missile defense system from Russia will be finalized "this week", President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... said Monday.
"Our colleagues will come together this week to conclude this work," Erdogan told a news conference with 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... in Ankara.
The S-400 is Russia’s most advanced long-range anti-aircraft missile system and can carry three types of missiles capable of destroying targets including ballistic and cruise missiles.
The system can track and engage up to 300 targets at a time and has an altitude ceiling of 27 kilometers (17 miles).
On trade, Erdogan said cooperation between Ankara and Moscow was getting stronger "day by day".
"Our bilateral trade volume with Russia increased 30 percent as of the first 10 months of 2017," he said.
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Nobody tell Recep that Russians subcontracted S-400 software to an Israeli firm.
The mustache wax and Number 4 truncheon did not perform as advertised? Truly the Turks have degenerated under the rule of Sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I, known to himself as the much beloved.
[YAHOO] An Uzbek jihadist who confessed to killing 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub in a New Year gun attack refused to testify Monday on the first day of his trial as his wife denied any links to krazed killers.
Abdulkadir Masharipov, 34 at the time of the attack, went on trial at the Silivri prison complex near Istanbul along with 56 other suspects.
Masharipov, who was present in court, faces 40 life sentences, one for each of the victims and the massacre itself.
The others on trial include Masharipov's wife Zarina Nurullayeva who is a suspected accomplice and risks similar penalties to her husband. All but six are being held in jug.
Masharipov is facing charges ranging from "attempting to destroy constitutional order" and "membership of an armed terrorist organization", to "murdering more than one person".
According to the indictment, the order for the Afghanistan-trained Masharipov to carry out the attack was given by a senior Russian Syria-based IS krazed killer named Islam Atabiev, codenamed Abu Jihad.
Masharipov -- dressed in a sweater and jeans -- was seated between two members of the Ottoman Turkish gendarmerie and kept well away from the other defendants in court.
When given the chance to speak by the judge, he used his right to silence and refused to testify, speaking in Uzbek translated into Ottoman Turkish.
This article starring:
Abdulkadir Masharipov
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mustache wax and Number 4
Abjure your unworthy aspersion
Of wax and imagined immersion!
Pure, peaceful and calm
Is this isle of selam.
Sure, in Turkey occurs no coercion!
The alleged Port Authority bomber spent an hour spilling his guts to investigators at Bellevue Hospital on Monday ‐ saying he picked the specific hallway because of Christmas posters and that he was avenging violence against Muslims around the world, law enforcement sources said. Sounds like someone misses home.
Akayed Ullah mentioned President Trump and past administrations during the grilling, and said his anger was fueled by decades of anti-Muslim bloodshed in Gaza, Syria and Iraq.
Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant, said the attack was specifically inspired by ISIS ‐ "not al Qaeda" ‐ and also mentioned seeing Christmas posters before detonating the device in the underground tunnel between the bustling bus depot and the Times Square subway.
The seasonal imagery set him off ‐ inspiring him to follow ISIS Christmas threats, NBC reports.
ISIS propaganda released just weeks ago features a picture of Santa Claus in Times Square next to explosives and the phrase "We meet at Christmas in New York . . . soon," according to terror watchdog group Site Intel.
An Islamic State militant also drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market last year, killing 12 and injuring 56.
"He acknowledges he purposely set it off then and there," a senior law enforcement official said.
He says he acted alone, building his crudely constructed bomb from commercially available parts based on instructions he found online, sources said.
Fortunately, the homemade pipe bomb didn’t detonate properly ‐ and only wounded the wannabe suicide bomber and those around him.
Ullah was allowed to stop several times to pray during the interview, and was later taken to the intensive care unit for treatment of internal injuries suffered in the blast, sources said.
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No, the hallway was targeted because of his beliefs.
BTW, is he one of those wonderful Rohingyas I keep hearing about?
Are there Christmas lights out there which play music, but not the hook of 20 different Christmas songs - like pirate shanties, or the hook of 20 80s songs, anything. The former is driving me bongos and would like to replace them and see how long it takes for somebody to notice.
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swksvolFF, here's a couple links to help you out, first is how to make your own (if desired) and the second is a controller that use Bluetooth, I.e. play your own music.
An on line search for musical Christmas lights will reveal more stuff you can do.
[AlAhram] Dozens of Paleostinian protesters were maimed
...almost all by tear gas, which is a short-lived problem...
and at least 200 detained by Israeli occupation forces on Monday in a fifth day of festivities following 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... 's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel last week.
The announcement on Wednesday sparked protests in Jerusalem, Gazoo and the West bank, with protesters throwing stones at Israeli security forces who fired tear gas, rubber bullets and live rounds.
The Paleostinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs confirmed the arrests, saying that many arrests took place in Jerusalem during the protests, with Paletinian activists being targetted.
The Paleostinian health ministry said on Monday that at least 1,175 Paleostinians had been injured since the protests started,
In Ramallah on Monday, dozens of Paleostinians threw stones at Israeli soldiers in the latest such clash.
Paleostinian demonstrations have declined in number and intensity since reaching a peak on Friday, but there are concerns they will again increase later this week.
[IsraelTimes] Factions trade blame over failure by Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", to transfer power in Gazoo to PA; unity agreement could collapse.
[IsraelTimes] Largest controlled kaboom to date part of plan to remove thousands of devices from 2-3 square kilometers
Israel cleared 300 landmines in the Golan Heights on Monday in the largest controlled kaboom to date in an ongoing project to secure the strategic platuea.
The operation began in August and is expected to continue for two to three years.
The plan is to clear thousands of mines from an area of two to three square kilometers (0.7-1.15 square miles), which makes up some 10 percent of the total mined area in the Golan and on the bank of the Sea of Galilee.
The mines were laid by the Syrian army some 50 years ago, prior to the 1967 Six Day War.
Israel has thousands of fields that are off-limits due to both anti-personnel and anti-tank minefields. Some were placed there by Israel but are no longer necessary for security. Others were laid by the Syrian, Jordanian and Egypt armies. Other areas are dangerous due to the mines shifting due to the soil moving.
To date, some 200,000 mines have been cleared from a total of some nine square kilometers (3.5 square miles) across the country.
[aisraelTimes] PRCS disputes army's account of video, says one of the figures seen leaving the ambulance was receiving first aid
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy Society denied transporting masked demonstrators to clash with Israeli security forces during a West Bank protest rebuffing a claim made by the Israel Defense Forces earlier Monday.
In a statement, the PRCS disputed the IDF’s account of what occurs in the video, saying one of the girls who can be seen exiting the ambulance was receiving medical care.
To support its assertion, it released photographs of masked demonstrators who appear to be the same protesters in the IDF video, one of whom who is being lifted into the ambulance.
It did not say what the other two masked figures, one of whom it said was also a girl, were doing in the ambulance.
The PRCS, a member of the International Red Thingy and Red Islamic Thingy Movement, denied violating the umbrella group’s principle of neutrality.
"PRCS affirms that it abides and shall always abide by its fundamental principles in general, and the principles of neutrality and impartiality in particular. PRCS affirms that it has done nothing but discharge its humanitarian mission and provide treatment to those who need it," it said.
In the video, filmed at a major junction near the entrance to the Beit El settlement, a Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy ambulance is seen parked at the side of the road. A uniformed Red Islamic Thingy medic opens the rear doors and three masked protesters, carrying Paleostinian and other flags, emerge.
The three protesters then head toward crowds across the junction who were facing off against IDF troops. The ambulance drives off to join other ambulances parked close to the main body of demonstrators, apparently to collect any injured protesters.
The IDF said the video was taken Monday, the fifth straight day of demonstrations against 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... ’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The short clip did not indicate where the ambulance had come from before dropping off the protesters.
On Saturday, the IDF accused Paleostinians rioters of using an ambulance as a shield to protect themselves while they attacked soldiers.
According to the military, the Paleostinian rioters hid behind the ambulance as they believed it would prevent the soldiers from retaliating.
Photographs released by the military showed Paleostinians on at least two occasions throwing rocks while standing behind an ambulance. The Times of Israel could not independently verify where and when the pictures were taken.
[Inquirer] The Philippine government will use the full force of martial law to counter possible intensified attacks from the New People’s Army in Mindanao, after the cancellation of peace talks with the communist militants. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said, "For as long as there are acts of rebellion being committed in the island province of Mindanao, yes he will use the full force of martial law against the New People’s Army as well."
Roque said the communist insurgency “is a continuing crime, so for as long as they don’t lay down their [arms], they are committing a criminal act.”
In his letter to Congress, President Rodrigo Duterte included the attacks of the NPA in justifying his intent for to extend martial law in Mindanao for one year.
Duterte said that while the government was busy addressing the threats posed by other terrorist organizations, the NPA “took advantage of the situation and intensified their decades-long rebellion against the government and stepped up terrorist acts against innocent civilians and private entities.”
Asked why Duterte did not expand the coverage of martial law in view of the fact that NPA rebels are active in other parts of the country, Roque said, “He could have but he did not.”
Duterte had earlier signed a proclamation labeling the Communist Party of the Philippines and the NPA as a terrorist group after the cancellation of peace talks.
“The martial law administrator is empowered to order the arrest of individuals and because the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus they would have to wait for the lifting of martial law for judicial remedy,” he said.
[Al Jazeera] The leader of Leb's Hezbollah has said his group and its allies in the region would renew their focus on the Paleostinian cause after what he called their victories elsewhere in the region.
Hassan Nasrallah called on Hezbollah's allies on Monday to put in place a united strategy "in the field" to confront Israel.
His speech came as thousands of Hezbollah supporters demonstrated in Beirut, chanting "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" in protest against 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... 's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Lebanese Shia political bloc with a powerful military wing, has been fighting in Syria alongside regional allies to defeat both anti-government rebels and 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 the Levant (ISIS) group.
Protesters marched through Hezbollah's south Beirut bastion, carrying banners reading "Jerusalem, Eternal Capital of Paleostine" and "Jerusalem is Ours".
Nasrallah said he hoped the "foolish [US] decision" would mark the "beginning of the end" of Israel.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] As the Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... documents continue to reveal more of the inner-workings of al-Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Ladin, the letters found in his Pakistain compound in 2011 show how the criminal mastermind behind the September 11 attacks took such care of his portrayal throughout the West by focusing on British journalist Robert Fisk ...British journalist who is invariably on the other side of any question. The logic of his prose is so shaky, the ideas so predictable, that he has given his name to the process of mocking a piece of poorly reasoned hackery. He was once beaten up by an Islamic mob and decided they had every right to thump him because he was so Western... The dossier has raised several key questions regarding past articles written by leftist journalist Fisk, who wrote extensively on bin Ladin and al-Qaeda especially during the 10-year anniversary of the Twin Tower attacks in 2011.
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If you drill deep enough you might find that there are those on the left who actively assisted the 9/11 hijackers as they moved from place to place.
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.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
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...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...
The alleged Port Authority bomber spent an hour spilling his guts to investigators at Bellevue Hospital on Monday ‐ saying he picked the specific hallway because of Christmas posters and that he was avenging violence against Muslims around the world, law enforcement sources said.
[Inquirer] The Philippine government will use the full force of martial law to counter possible intensified attacks from the New People’s Army in Mindanao, after the cancellation of peace talks with the communist militants. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said, "For as long as there are acts of rebellion being committed in the island province of Mindanao, yes he will use the full force of martial law against the New People’s Army as well."
[Al Jazeera] The leader of 
...British 
