[Dhaka Tribune] Zulifikar Haider hoped his daughter would live the American dream when she married a fellow Bangladeshi living in the United States, but that dream turned into a nightmare when the family saw pictures of her husband maimed after allegedly trying to set off a bomb in a crowded New York commuter hub.
Haider’s family had been worried when his son-in-law, Akayed Ullah, 27, missed a regular call to his wife on Monday. Their worry only worsened when his wife screamed as she found online pictures of Akayed, down on the ground with apparent injuries to his stomach after the bomb ignited but failed to detonate.
"Even in our worst nightmares, we could not have foreseen this," Haider, 62, told Rooters on Wednesday evening, following two days of questioning by Bangladesh’s counterterrorism police.
"Only God knows what happened to him in America," Haider said.
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... reiterated his call for tougher immigration rules following Monday’s attack, which came less than two months after an Uzbek immigrant killed eight people by speeding a rental truck down a New York City bike path.
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.... grabbed credit for the October attack, while Akayed claimed allegiance to the murderous Moslem group, according to US federal prosecutors.
Haider said he feared Monday’s incident could lead to a backlash against Bangladeshis living in the United States.
Jui finished her bachelor of arts degree in accounting from a Dhaka college in March. When Akayed last came visiting in September after their son was born, they planned to get a passport for her to possibly join him in the United States sometime in 2018.
"He spent most of the time with his 6-month-old son when he came down," said Haider.
"He is not much of a social person. He does not really have friends, not into gossiping. He has never brought any friend to our house."
Haider’s family has not been able to talk to Akayed since the failed bombing.
Bangladesh police, meanwhile, have questioned Haider as well as his wife, daughter and his 22-year-old son. Their phone call records have been scanned.
Bangladesh’s counterterrorism chief, Monirul Islam, told Rooters they have found no links of Akayed with any murderous Moslem group in his home country. But the chief added that investigations were continuing and the family was under surveillance.
"I no longer want my daughter to go to America," Haider said. "I just want our son-in-law back."
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[IsraelTimes] Damascus-born Saleh Ali released from custody; hasn't been charged with a hate crime, only vandalism and theft
The man released by Dutch police hours after he attacked a kosher restaurant while waving a Paleostinian flag is reportedly a Damascus-born ex-combatant in Syria’s civil war.
GeenStijl reported Wednesday that the perpetrator of the December 7 assault in southern Amsterdam is Saleh Ali, who has said that he participated in the war fighting against 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.... terrorist group, according to information obtained by the news site.
Police were aware of this information when they released him several hours after two officers placed in durance vile Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! him outside the restaurant, the report said.
A video of the incident shows Ali holding a Paleostinian flag and wearing a Paleostinian keffiyah on his head as he smashes the window and kicks down the restaurant’s doors as passersby and two coppers look on. The officers wait until he breaks into the restaurant before intervening. They pause as he returns to the street from the restaurant’s interior holding an Israeli flag that he took from the eatery. He throws it at their feet. They then overpower ALi and arrest him.
The incident happened one day after 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... signed a document recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Two Jewish buildings in Sweden, including a synagogue, were targeted by arsonists using Molotov cocktails in the days that followed, local police said. Demonstrations featuring chants about killing Jews were held in The Hague, Vienna, Berlin and London. Calls glorifying Paleostinian Lions of Islam were heard at a rally Saturday in Gay Paree.
The perpetrator of the restaurant attack, whose lawyer has denied that his client acted out of any anti-Semitic motives,
“He doesn’t have anything against Jews, y’r Honour, it’s just that shitty little country, Israel, that sets him off every time. So when he saw that shitty little flag in a restaurant... well, he didn’t know it was owned by Jews or has Jewish clientele when he smashed in the window, vandalized the place, and ripped that flag from the wall. The wonder is that all Amsterdam wasn’t there tearing down that flag alongside him.”
was charged with vandalism and theft, according to De Telegraaf, with no mention in that paper’s reporting of an aggravated element of a hate crime. Thus he was released shortly after his arrest.
A front man for the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, a Hague-based watchdog on anti-Semitism, wrote on Facebook that it was "shocking" that the perpetrator was released in light of the information reported by GeenStijl.
The center, or CIDI, has called for the perpetrator, who is on a temporary staying permit, to be tried on hate crime charges.
[ConservativeTreehouse] By now everyone is likely aware of the Fake News story run by CNN on Friday surrounding an email received by Donald Trump Jr. The email was part of the investigative evidence shared with the House Intelligence committee; and later leaked from within that committee to CNN ‐ thereby initiating the false reporting on the content.
The central issue in the CNN story was the date of an email.
It was leaked from within the committee, and later reported by CNN, that the date was "September 4th, 2016"; a date convenient for a collusion narrative between Trump Jr and WikiLeaks.
However, the real date, on the actual email, was "September 14th, 2016"; a day after Wikileaks published the content of their DNC leaks and a date that makes the entire CNN report a ’nothingburger’.
However, CNN reports that two independent sources originally leaked to them the contents of what they had seen on the email in question. But CNN never saw the email, until later in the day.
Think about this carefully.
♦Two "independent sources" both looked at an email, and both came away from reading that email with the wrong date? How is that possible?
It has been CTH contention for several weeks that a counterintelligence sting operation has been going on within the IC community. False trails of information, seeded by ’White Hat’ investigators, intended to be captured by ’Black Hat’ leakers ‐ and delivered to their usurping allies in media. The stories are fake, the leaks are real.
All investigative documents, relating to the witness, are provided to the congressional committees prior to the interviews with the witnesses; or, if the information is classified, each committee member has an opportunity to review the documents via a controlled SCIF environment when no physical copies are allowed as part of the evidence.
The Don JR./Wikileaks email could very easily be part of a ’sting’. The date was intentionally seeded as incorrect. The resulting story is fake. The leak, however, is real.
Each nugget of disinformation exposes a specific leaker. Each trail used in the sharing of that disinformation exposes the enabling media. The White Hat plants the fake news seed, and then watches to see where, when, how, to-whom, and from-whom, it shows up.
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That said, it would not be the IG carrying out the counterintelligence operation to identify leakers. In actuality, no official IC agency would be empowered to place fake news in front of congress. Setting traps for congress is generally bad form, and for matters of trust ‐ bad politics. That reality, amid those who follow DC politics, is the central point to dismiss such the "Black Hat Hunting" theory.
However, few people were paying attention four months ago when Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates told us they were going to do exactly that:
04:30 ..."The FBI has created a new counterintelligence unit to manage these [leak] cases"...
08:17 ..."these National Security breaches do not just originate from within the Intelligence Community. They come from a wide range of sources within the government, including the Congress."...
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"During an appearance on Fox News, the South Carolina Republican ’predicted,’ that McCabe will be fired by the time he is scheduled to appear in front of the House next week.
"I’ll be a little bit surprised if he is still an employee of the FBI this time next week," Gowdy told Fox News when asked his thoughts on McCabe’s upcoming hearing.
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe abruptly cancelled an appearance before the House Intelligence Committee scheduled for Tuesday. Sources told Fox News reporter Chad Pergram that they believe McCabe canceled on the panel over fears he would be asked about recently demoted Justice Department official Bruce Ohr’s wife, who worked for Fusion GPS during the 2016 presidential election."
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McCabe's excuse was a scheduling mixup, which is ridiculous. What could possibly be more important than testifying before the House Intelligence Committee? He should be fired for insubordination.
[Dhaka Tribune] New York blast suspect Akayed Ullah visited a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar during his last visit to Bangladesh in September, his family have revealed.
Akayed’s mother-in-law, Mahfuja Akhter, told the Dhaka Tribune that the 27-year-old travelled to the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya to deliver aid to the displaced minority, though she could not recall the exact date.
"Akayed boarded a Cox’s Bazar-bound bus at night and then informed us about it through a video call," Mahfuja said during an interview at her Hazaribagh residence on Wednesday.
"He reached Cox’s Bazar in the morning and left for Dhaka on the same day. He did not even stay in a hotel during his short visit there in order to save money to purchase more medicine for the helpless people."
Officials of the Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes (CTTC) unit of police confirmed Akayed’s visit to Kutupalong camp, but said they were still to ascertain if he was accompanied by anyone else.
"I cannot believe that he could be involved with militancy," said Akayed’s father-in-law, Julfikar Haider, who has been living Hazaribagh area for the past 22 years.
Julfikar said Akayed visited Bangladesh three times after marrying his daughter, Jannatul Ferdous Jui, in January 2016.
"He spent most of his time at our house during these visits (and) stayed busy with his little son throughout the day. He only went out to offer prayers five times a day at nearby Shahi Mosque," he said.
"He visited his maternal grandmother at Sandwip in Chittagong during his last visit. He also visited his uncle-in-law’s house in Uttara at that time, when we accompanied him."
Akayed’s brother-in-law, Hasan Mahmud Joy, said relatives and friends of Akayed had visited their house during the wedding ceremony, but that afterwards, "none of his friends ever visited back".
Akayed’s family members asked the Dhaka Tribune not to take any pictures or video of their family members to avoid harassment.
During the interviews his wife, Jui, stood behind curtains to veil her face. Fighting through an illness, she told the assembled media that her husband was "innocent" and sought help from the media and Bangladesh government to ensure justice in the matter.
Both Jui and her younger brother Joy told the Dhaka Tribune correspondent that Akayed had asked them to perform namaz five times a day, which is a requirement for every practising Moslem.
"When my sister had a talk with my brother-in-law on Monday morning [December 11], she did not notice any unusual behaviour," Joy said.
"We are now living in captivity. We cannot tolerate this anymore. We think Akayed might have fallen victim to a conspiracy."
The family is in shock after coming to know about Monday’s incident, when Akayed reportedly detonated a homemade bomb strapped to his body at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, injuring himself and three others.
After the blast, Akayed told police interviewers "I did it 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.... According to court papers filed by federal prosecutors, he also told Sherlocks that he had been motivated by American Arclight airstrikes on Islamic State targets.
The 27-year-old Bangladeshi migrant was charged at Manhattan federal court on December 11 with providing material in support to a foreign terrorist organization, bombing a public place, destruction of property by means of explosive and use of a destructive device.
On Wednesday, Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque said Akayed had no criminal record in Bangladesh and had last visited the country on September 8.
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[Ynet] Lawyers for a Ottoman Turkish banker on trial in New York on charges that he helped Iran evade US sanctions asked a judge on Wednesday to declare a mistrial, saying testimony by a former Ottoman Turkish police investigator should not have been allowed in court.
The lawyers for Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive at The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's majority state-owned Halkbank, said the jury had been "tainted" after hearing Huseyin Korkmaz testify in Manhattan federal court this week that he feared he would be tortured if he returned to Turkey, where he led an investigation involving Ottoman Turkish officials, Atilla and others.
"Associating the defendant with the specter of mindless and cruel political violence at the hands of his government-based alleged co-conspirators is almost guaranteed to inflame the jury against the defendant," the lawyers said.
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[DAWN] The federal government asked the concerned ministries and departments to take "requisite legislative, policy and administrative measures" in accordance with the recommendations of the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... (UN), calling for the termination of military courts and limiting the role of the army in civil spheres, DawnNews reported on Thursday.
The UN had urged Islamabad to ensure the implementation of 111 recommendations in accordance with its human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... conventions. The Ministry of Human Rights forwarded the recommendations to the relevant departments and ministries for further action.
According to an "office memorandum" issued by the human rights ministry, a copy of which is available with DawnNews, Pakistain has ratified seven "core human rights conventions". Subsequently, four progress reports were prepared and submitted before the relevant UN bodies through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A high-level delegation led by the human rights minister presented and defended these reports before the concerned UN committees in the review meetings, held during 2016 and 2017. The UN committees, while reviewing the obligatory reports, had made concluding observations and recommendations.
Based on the recommendations put forward by the UN committees in this regard, the human rights ministry compiled a matrix and forwarded it to all concerned ministries and departments, asking them to take "requisite legislative, policy and administrative measures".
According to the document, the UN asked Islamabad to immediately put a moratorium on the capital punishment and eventually "consider abolishing the death penalty ". In addition to this, if ineluctable, the death penalties should not be imposed by the military courts ‐ particularly in cases involving civilians.
The UN also recommended that the death penalty should only be awarded for the most serious crimes, involving intentional killings.
The UN committees also recommended to "repeal or amend Actions in Aid of Civil Power Regulations 2011 in order to abolish the military's power to establish internment centres in the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata) and Provincially Administrated Tribal Areas (Pata)". It also urged Islamabad to ensure that no one is held in secret or incommunicado detention anywhere in the country.
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[DAWN] The federal government has ordered 21 foreign-aid groups to wrap up their activities and prepare to leave after they failed to re-register under tough regulations introduced two years ago, officials said on Thursday.
The officials said Open Society Foundations, the charity founded by George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... , and the South Africa-based ActionAid were among the groups informed of the decision this week, without providing a complete list.
The international non-governmental organizations (INGO) have been given two months to close their offices and vacate the country.
The government has been scrutinising the documents of another 19 foreign-aid groups to determine whether they should be allowed to work in the country or not.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to brief news hounds.
The government has long treated the foreign-aid groups in the country with suspicion, fearing they could mask efforts to spy on the country.
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[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday questioned the role of agencies ‐ in particular the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) ‐ in preventing human trafficking cases in the country.
A three-member bench headed by the CJP was hearing a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... case regarding the killing of 20 people 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... whose bullet-riddled bodies were found in Turbat and Buleda areas last month.
The victims had been brought to the province by human traffickers with the intention of making them cross the Pakistain-Iran border illegally.
Editorial: The path to peace in Balochistan
The director general of FIA as well as Balochistan's chief secretary and advocate general appeared before the bench as reports into the incident were submitted to the court.
"Are incidents like these a matter of pride for the institutions, agencies and the nation?" the CJP asked rhetorically at the outset of the hearing.
He questioned why the agencies of the country were "unaware" and what is the FIA's role in preventing such incidents.
"What must the families that received the bodies have gone through?" he asked.
The FIA chief conceded before the court that his agency had limited resources and tools required for investigation into incidents of this nature.
"If you don't have the resources, accept that you cannot do anything," the CJP replied.
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[IsraelTimes] Segments of projectiles launched at Soddy Arabia bear markings proving origin in Islamic Theocratic Republic, UN ambassador Haley says.
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 envoy to the United Nations
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[AnNahar] Iraq has begun reconstruction work at what was the country's biggest oil refinery before it was damaged by intense fighting between government forces and 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 jihadists, the oil ministry said Thursday.
The aim is to complete work early next year on one of the units that will produce 70,000 barrels per day at the Baiji complex which is currently shut, said ministry front man Assem Jihad.
Constructed in 1975 and located 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Baghdad, the refinery produced between 250,000 and 300,000 barrels a day before IS seized it in June 2014.
Government forces retook the facility and the city of Baiji in October 2015 during fierce festivities with the jihadists but the severe damage meant that the refinery remained closed.
"The rehabilitation will allow the distribution of refined products for the north of the country and reduce our imports," said Jihad.
Baiji was particularly hard hit by the devastation wreaked by Iraq's campaign to reclaim its towns and cities from IS.
In 2016 it was declared a disaster zone by the national parliament.
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[PRESSTV] The secretary general of Badr Organization, Iraq’s biggest Shia Moslem paramilitary group, has told his fighters to take orders from the national military and sever their relations with the group’s political wing, which holds 22 seats in the Iraqi parliament.
Hadi al-Amiri made the request in a speech delivered on Thursday, further calling on his fighters to withdraw from the cities under their control.
"I also call on all my brothers, the commanders of various formations, to clear cities of all signs of militarization," he said.
Badr Organization is the biggest constituent of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization composed of some 40 groups, which are mainly Shia Moslems.
The force reportedly numbers more than 100,000 fighters. Iraqi authorities say there are between 25,000 and 30,000 Sunni tribal fighters within its ranks in addition to Kurdish Izadi and Christian units. The fighters have played a major role in the liberation of ISIS-held areas to the south, northeast and north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, ever since the holy warriors launched an offensive in the country in 2014.
The move will pave the way for Amiri to stand in parliamentary elections due to be held on May 12, as the PMU members cannot run for office unless they formally resign their posts.
Hashd al-Sha’abi, officially made part of the Iraqi security establishment by law, formally answers to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Amiri is the second top commander of the PMU, who decided to separate the military and political wings of his organization. Qais al-Khazali, commander of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq volunteer forces of the PMU, announced a similar move On Wednesday, when he said he would place his fighters under Abadi’s command.
On Saturday, Abadi declared the end of military operations against ISIS after a three-year hard campaign by government troops and PMU fighters against the terror outfit.
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[Rudaw] The Hashd al-Shaabi played a "pivotal role" in the Iraqi takeover of the disputed areas, a high ranking commander in the mainly Shiite force claimed on Thursday, praising the Hashd role in fighting for Iraq.
Hadi al-Amiri, leader of the Badr Organization that operates under the umbrella of the Hashd, said they "played a pivotal role in imposing security over the disputed areas, especially Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and persuading Peshmerga brothers to not fight security forces."
Amiri said security was imposed in the areas "without spilling the blood of Iraqis."
Most Peshmerga forces were pulled out of the disputed areas, leaving their positions without a fight in the face of advancing Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Hashd forces. Some festivities took place, however, and at least 60 Peshmerga were killed across the disputed areas.
Elements within the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) have been accused of colluding with the Iraqi forces, allowing them to enter Kirkuk ‐ a charge they have denied.
Thousands of civilians, mainly Kurds, who fled the Iraqi and Shiite forces are unable to return home, fearing assassinations, especially Tuz Khurmatu.
Amiri praised the role the Badr militias took on, assisting in "liberating many cities and towns" from ISIS, but said it was now time of the murderous Moslems to sever their ties with the Badr organization, in an apparent attempt to prepare the organization for elections next May. It is forbidden for members of the military to hold elected office.
"We currently have a large number of military forces operating under the command of the Hashd al-Shaabi and military references of the armed forces," Amiri said, explaining his men "are defending many delicate and important places in Diyala, Salahaddin, Kirkuk, Nineveh, Anbar, and Baghdad."
The arms in the hands of his men all belong to the state, Amiri asserted. "We do not have special weapons, because we believe arms must be in the hands of the state."
He urged all the armed forces to leave the liberated areas.
Iraq’s influential Shiite holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... recently warned no party should run under the banner of the Hashd al-Shaabi in the country’s upcoming elections and reiterated his call for Shiite militias to hand their weapons back to the state.
He also instructed his men from the Saraya al-Salam brigade to leave the liberated areas to the Iraqi army after the proclaimed end to the war with ISIS.
The Hashd al-Shaabi was formed after a fatwa by Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the summer of 2014 when ISIS captured several Iraqi provinces. He urged civilians to take up arms and fight. There were formally brought under the umbrella of the Iraqi armed forces in December 2016.
[Rudaw] Germany’s parliament on Tuesday voted to continue training Peshmerga through to April 2018, allocating 6.9 million euros funding for the program.
Up to 150 German soldiers will continue to train the Kurdish forces in Erbil.
Niels Annen from the Socialist Democratic Party (SPD) stated that training and arming the Peshmerga is "a difficult mandate in a very complex security environment," adding that the training program has been a success in the war against ISIS.
He stressed that Germany must make clear that its support for the Peshmerga should not be used to jeopardize the territorial integrity of Iraq.
Deadly festivities, triggered by Kurdistan’s independence vote, erupted between Iraqi and Kurdish security forces in disputed areas in October.
Germany briefly suspended its training program citing fears of sending a signal that it supports one side over the other.
Germany has trained more than 16,000 Kurdish soldiers since February 2015.
Up to 150 German soldiers will be based at the international anti-ISIS Combined Joint Operations Command Center, where they have worked with Iraqi and Kurdish commanders, in addition to Peshmerga units through the Kurdistan Training Coordination Center (KTTC).
A ceasefire has been in place between the Kurdish and Iraqi forces since the end of October, but Kurdistan’s National Security Advisor Masrour Barzani told German Ambassador to Iraq Dr. Cyrill Nunn on Monday of "frontline reporting in recent days indicating Iraq has not yet ruled out military options to settle political disputes."
The October festivities erupted when Iraqi forces took over the disputed areas following Kurdistan’s independence vote.
Baghdad has not yet committed to talks, despite concessions from Erbil.
Germany is a member of the US-led anti-ISIS Global Coalition.
[PRESSTV] The leader of the Paleostinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, has strongly condemned the recent decision by 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... to recognize Israeli-occupied Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of the Tel Aviv regime, stressing that the so-called ’state of Israel’ does not exist and cannot have a capital of its own.
Addressing Hamas supporters on the 30th anniversary of the founding of the movement in Gazoo City on Thursday afternoon, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... lauded the sacrifices made by members of the resistance movement to keep the Paleostinian cause alive.
"Hamas was created in order to defend Paleostine; and occupied Jerusalem al-Quds in particular," he pointed out.
Haniyeh went on to say that all freedom-loving people of the world supported the cause of Paleostine as well as al-Quds.
The senior Paleostinian political figure then hailed Paleostinians’ resistance against the new Israeli-US plot, saying, "Unity in the face of the US scheme on [Jerusalem] al-Quds is a victory for the Paleostinian nation."
"Al-Quds Jerusalem belongs to the entire world," he noted, calling for mass protest rallies worldwide in order to force Washington to reverse its decision on the city.
"No power in the world can change the identity of al-Quds. The state of Israel does not exist and therefore cannot have a capital. We will sacrifice our blood and life for al-Quds and al-Aqsa Mosque," Haniyeh pointed out.
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...Man, talk about your 'projection'...
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There goes 4,000 years of history.
I wonder what other kinds of crap they teach in history class.
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Pretty sad to be on the losing end of constant warfare with a non-existent state. You'd think you could rack up at least one victory if they don't exist.
[AnNahar] Leb and Syria said Thursday they will reopen a border crossing closed five years ago, in another sign of the Syrian government's increasing control over its territory.
The crossing, called al-Qaa in Leb and Jussiyeh in Syria, was closed in 2012 as fighting raged between Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... 's forces and rebel fighters seeking his overthrow.
Assad's regime has since reclaimed most of the territory once held by the rebels, thanks to a Russian military campaign in support of his forces and deep divisions among the rebels.
Jihadists from 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 had moved into the border area but were pushed out in offensives by regime forces in Syria and the Lebanese Army 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... on Leb's side of the frontier.
Ceremonies were held Thursday on both sides of the al-Qaa/Jussiyeh crossing, which is set to re-open on Friday morning.
It was the only one of the five crossings between Leb and Syria that was permanently closed by the war.
The head of Leb's General Security agency, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, said the re-opening of the crossing was a moment for celebration after it was closed by "terrorism that targeted the entire region."
The mainly Christian al-Qaa area in Leb was targeted several times in cross-border attacks, including suicide kabooms in June last year that killed five people.
[PRESSTV] Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... has accused 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... and Western states of sabotaging the latest round of peace talks held in Geneva in a bid to end the crisis in the Arab country.
Bashar Jaafari made the remarks on Thursday after the eighth round of the UN-mediated discussions ended without face-to-face talks between representatives of the Syrian government and the opposition.
Jaafari said a statement issued at the Riyadh II conference of the Syrian opposition in November, demanding Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... 's departure before any peace deal in Syria, was a "blackmail of the Geneva process."
The statement was meant to undermine the Geneva process by setting preconditions, he said, adding "those who drew up the Riyadh communiqué are the ones who sabotaged this round" of the Geneva talks.
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[PRESSTV] Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has censured the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the ISIS terrorist group, saying the military alliance is indeed targeting civilian facilities and providing the murderous Moslems with cover.
In two separate letters addressed to United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the rotating president of the UN Security Council, Koro Bessho, on Thursday, the ministry stated that the US-led coalition has been pretending to fight ISIS, but it has, in fact, been transporting the bully boyz from one part of Syria to another and securing them.
The letters further noted that ISISbully boyz have been purged from most regions in Syria only through counter-terrorism operations conducted by government troops and allied fighters from popular defense groups.
They also criticized the so-called advocates of human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. and rule of law for turning a blind eye to the atrocities the US-led coalition is perpetrating in Raqqah and Dayr al-Zawr provinces.
Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported on Thursday that US-led air raids had claimed the lives of at least 23 civilians, mostly children and women, in the al-Jurze Sharqi village of Dayr al-Zawr province the previous evening.
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[PRESSTV] Iran's UN mission has categorically dismissed as "unfounded" US Ambassador Nikki Haley ...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... 's claim that a missile fired at 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... from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... last month was supplied by the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
In a statement released on Thursday, the mission denounced the US allegations as "irresponsible, provocative and destructive," saying "this purported evidence ... is as much fabricated as the one presented on some other occasions earlier."
"These accusations seek also to cover up for the Saudi war crimes in Yemen, with the US complicity, and divert international and regional attention from the stalemate war of aggression against the Yemenis that has so far killed more than 10,000 civilians, displaced three million, crippled Yemen's infrastructure and health system and pushed the country to the brink of the largest famine the world has seen for decades, as the UN has warned," the statement read.
It went on to accuse the US government of being "constantly at work to deceive the public into believing the cases they put together" to advance its agenda.
"While Iran has not supplied Yemen with missiles, these hyperboles are also to serve other US agendas in the Middle East, including covering up for its adventurist acts in the region and its unbridled support for the Israeli regime," the statement read.
It also stressed "the Yemenis' right to self-defense" and reiterated that the conflict in the impoverished country had no military solution.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also took to twitter to compare Haley’s allegations against Iran to those of former US secretary of defense, Colin Powell, who alleged in 2003 that former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, was hiding weapons of mass destruction in order to make a case for attacking the country.
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[Rudaw] Syria's Kurds fear the steadfast ally they found in the US to successfully take 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.... group jihadists may now leave them to face threats from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Damascus alone.
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Give them credit - the Kurds are not stupid when they assume we will sell them out.
Ideally, move ops to the Greek part of Crete, Hungary and Bulgaria and Romania where we already have basing rights, forward base in Kurdistan, and tear down all our buildings in Turkey on the way out, including the runways at the big airbases.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Bashar al-Jaafari, the head of the Syrian regime delegation at the Geneva-8 talks, said there will be no negotiations with the opposition without cancelling the Riyadh statement.
Jaafari said in a presser following his meeting with UN envoy Staffan De Mistura that there will be no negotiations as long as the opposition adheres to its position that Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... be excluded from any transitional government.
"We told De Mistura that we reject his recent statements," Jaafari also said, adding that the UN envoy’s "mistakes" undermine his task.
Asked who is obstructing the negotiations, he said: "Yusuf’s brother threw him in the well. We all know this story in the Koran," adding that the opposition is the party obstructing the negotiations.
Jaafari also held "those who formulated the Riyadh statement" responsible for the collapse of the Geneva-8 talks.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Leb’s political scene is again engulfed in controversy for the past two days, particularly within Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if 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... has him bumped off, too. ’s coalition government.
It all erupted after Hariri circles accused some of their partners in government and Future Movement figures of treason.
On Monday, Hariri, who heads the Future Movement, wrote on Twitter that he "will reveal everything" during a television interview with Marcel Ghanem. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the tweet was later deleted.
According to the official Future Movement website al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... , Hariri said while receiving members of his party that he will reveal many details about the recent crisis he has been through and noted that some political parties tried to find themselves a foothold during this crisis "via backstabbing."
"In all cases, I will come out with everything during the interview at Kalam Ennas with Marcel Ghanem," Hariri said on Twitter.
After Hariri deleted the tweet, Marcel Ghanem tweeted: "Upon Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s wish who announced his intention to (say everything) via Kalam Ennas, the episode has been postponed for now to another day which will be announced later."
However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... the situation eventually became clear when Future Movement Secretary General Ahmad Hariri said on Wednesday during a television interview that "Saad Hariri knows everything about what happened in the past three weeks."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The House of Representatives approved a draft resolution stating that the Treasury Department is required to publish a list of the assets of Iranian leaders, more specifically the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei.
This comes amid congressional calls for investigations on how these resources are spent on supporting and spreading terrorism.
The US House of Representatives approved law number HR 1638 on Wednesday titled "Iranian Leadership Asset Transparency Act". The law gained a majority vote of 289 votes for, and 135 against.
The draft resolution also needs to be approved by the Senate, and signed by the President in order to become a law.
Personal fortunes
About 70 Iranian officials have acquired a vast amount of personal wealth and are using it to support terrorist groups and militias, said Republican representative Bruce Poliquin.
He had said: "This bill will allow the world to see how the top Leadership in Iran facilitates human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... abuse through funding pilfered from the Iranian people. It will allow financial institutions to see in public form the type of assets associated with these individuals and hopefully better focus anti-money laundering efforts."
He also stressed that senior Iranian government officials, including Iran's supreme leader and key political and military officials, have acquired enormous wealth through dictatorship and corruption.
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"As the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, Iran has consistently violated its people’s basic human rights and has ignored United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... sanctions against its dangerous weapons programs," said Congressman Poliquin. "They simply cannot be trusted."
The bill was passed by the finance committee of the House of Representatives last November, which called for the American government to reveal all the assets of Iran’s leaders and officials, and how they attained such wealth.
The law also requires the US Treasury Department to create a full report about movable and immovable property of prominent figures including the Supreme Leader of Iran, President Hassan Rowhani, members of the Council of Guardians, members of the Expediency Council and the top military leaders.
Corruption and embezzlement
The bill reaffirms that these political figures, military leaders, governmental heads and Revolutionary Guard officials in Iran have received vast amounts of wealth through corruption and embezzlement
The Borgen Project, a non-profit organization that works with US leaders to improve their response to the global poverty crisis, had released a report last November stating that poverty in Iran has reached record-breaking levels with the spread of government corruption and the dominance of ruling figures over the wealth of the country.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Western security officials have warned of the progress made by members of ISIS terrorist organization in the arms industry, which is now a risk in other countries and is no longer limited to the areas controlled by the organization in Syria and Iraq.
According to the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , members of ISIS after successive strikes to expel them from some areas in Syria and Iraq, are now moving to other countries.
Foreign members of the terrorist organization return to their home countries to share knowledge and techniques over the Internet. They gather along with their veterans forming a network for weapons production and sharing techniques over the Internet.
Improvised chemical rockets were the latest in a procession of weapons developed by ISIS militia on an arms-manufacturing spree without recent precedence, said the news site.
With limited access to global arms markets, ISIS routinely manufacture their own weapons.
But now ISIS took the practice to new levels, with outputs "unlike anything we’ve ever seen" from a nonstate force, said Solomon H. Black, a US State Department official who tracks and analyzes weapons.
Among the weapons found by Iraqi forces that fought ISIS in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , three rockets were not fully completed.
The examination of these shells showed that they had an unusual advantage, namely, heavy liquid inside their warheads.
The tests later revealed that the warheads contained one of the crude oil derivatives like sulfur mustard, a forbidden chemical weapon that burns the victim's skin and respiratory system.
ISIS progressed from the stage of basic bombs used in the Brussels terrorist operation of March 2016, which killed at least 31 people and maimed 270 others.
Investigations have also uncovered the use of the same type of explosives, dubbed the "Mother of the Devil," in other terrorist attacks by the organization, the latest of which was an kaboom inside a subway train at Parsons Green Station in Britannia last September.
The danger of "mother of the devil" is that it can be made with items sold on supermarket shelves.
A statement issued by the US military in Baghdad said that the international coalition forces against ISIS succeeded in destroying explosive puppets and toys.
Many members of teams involved in demining in Iraq have accounts of varied forms of booby traps planted by ISIS, ranging from toys such as dolls, stuffed animals and plastic trucks, as well as electric teapots, fire extinguishers and light bulbs.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[ConservativeTreehouse] By now everyone is likely aware of the Fake News story run by CNN on Friday surrounding an email received by Donald Trump Jr. The email was part of the investigative evidence shared with the House Intelligence committee; and later leaked from within that committee to CNN ‐ thereby initiating the false reporting on the content.![]("https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.politico.com%2Fglobal%2F2015%2F03%2F03%2F150303_trey_gowdy_gty_629.jpg")
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Moqtada 
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if 
