The U.S. Air Force dramatically increased the number of airstrikes it carried out in Afghanistan in 2016, data released by the military shows, a further sign of growing U.S involvement in the war following the withdrawal of most coalition troops two years ago.
The increased engagement follows the U.S's decision last year to widen the military's authority to conduct offensive operations in Afghanistan amid gains made by the Taliban, its largest insurgency, and Daesh.
"The increase in the number of U.S strikes is a direct result of having those additional authorities," U.S Army Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland said Sunday.
"As we move into 2017, U.S forces retain those authorities and will use them aggressively to target [Daesh] and to help the Afghans achieve strategic effects."
The number of weapons dropped in Afghanistan in 2016 rose by around 40 percent to 1,337.
The U.S Air Force also conducted more than 600 aerial sorties that resulted in at least one strike, almost 50 percent more than the previous year, although the number of overall sorties was slightly lower.
The departure of international coalition troops in 2014 left a vacuum that has allowed the Taliban to escalate attacks on the Afghan government and gain territory.
Worsening security conditions and a growing Daesh presence in the country last year led President Barack Obama to broaden the U.S military's role in Afghanistan.
Since then, the U.S military has carried out near daily airstrikes on positions held by the country's nascent Daesh branch, and stepped up its efforts to help Afghan forces retain control over provincial capitals in other parts of the country.
Obama gave the U.S military legal authority to target Daesh in Afghanistan in January 2016.
The terror group emerged in the country two years ago as foreign forces were drawing down, establishing a foothold in several districts in eastern Nangarhar province.
Over the past year, the group's presence has spread to at least one other province, as it works to recruit members in other parts of the country.
Despite the increased military pressure, Daesh has managed to carry out a series of high-profile attacks targeting Shiite Muslims in Kabul, raising concerns about sectarian violence in the country.
In June 2016, Pentagon officials said Obama had also expanded the U.S military's authority to attack the Taliban and help Afghan forces retain control over provincial capitals, which have come under increasing threat since the withdrawal of coalition troops.
Also over the past year, U.S Special Forces have been dispatched to at least a half dozen provincial capitals to back up Afghan forces with airstrikes and other operations.
Some 9,800 U.S troops are stationed in Afghanistan, most part of an international training effort. Another several thousand are part of a counterterrorism mission, though details on the operation haven't been disclosed.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A Tanzanian national who was locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! while trying to enter Somalia through an illegal immigration point in Mandera Town has been released on a Sh500,000 bond
1 Kenyan shilling = US $0.0096, so Sh500,000 = $4,800...
with a surety of the same amount after denying the charge.
Rashid Rashid Mkumba was charged that on December 28, 2016 at Najma in Mandera Town, he was found unlawfully attempting to exit Kenya into Somalia through an illegal point.
Mkumba said he arrived in Mandera on the same day from Nairobi and was looking for a friend he only identified as Musa.
"I came straight from Mwanza after Musa invited me to come and join him in his taxi business and we were in communication since I left Mwanza only for his phone to be off once I arrived in Mandera," said Mr Mkumba.
He said he knew Musa as they sold mobile phones together in Mwanza.
"I was looking for a mosque he lived in when someone at a playfield called me and after interrogation took me to the police," he said.
Mandera Senior Resident Magistrate Peter Areri set the hearing of the case for January 11.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another kaboom... nine Somalis were separately charged in the same court with being in Kenya illegally.
Four of them -- Abdi Mohammed Abdille, Hussein Raggia, Abdi Ahmed Adow and Mohammed Ahmed Abdille -- were set free by the court as they were first-time offenders.
Police were ordered to repatriate them to Somalia.
The others -- Aftin Mohammed Sala, Hussein Adan Abdi, Mohammed Hussein Adow, Abdifatah Gabow Ibrahim and Ahmed Abdullahi Abdirahman -- pleaded guilty and were fined Sh10,000 each or in default serve three months in prison.
In mitigation, the nine said they were donkey-cart operators providing transport services between Somalia and Mandera Town.
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[Libya Observer] The Libyan Mufti, Sadiq al-Ghariani ...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt... , has called on all Libyan political parties to rally around a Libyan dialogue that stems from the will of the Libyans themselves to break off the current political impasse in the country.
In a televised statement on Monday evening, the Grand Mufti said all of the Libyan conflicting parties are invited to renounce differences and to let the bygones be bygones, so that they can form together a preparatory commission that collects their proposals for forming a political entity that is Libyan on the outside and the inside without any foreign intervention or dictation.
“We’re not against the assistance of the foreign powers and the international community, but rather we urge them to stand by us and help us through the decisions that we make, however; without any dictations.” Libya’s Mufti indicated.
He also slammed Skhirat agreement as an “illusion”, saying he is afraid that those parties, which are still following in its footsteps, would bring the country’s irrevocable downfall.
“The parties that are supporting the UN-proposed government and the political agreement have failed to provide it with proper support and could not establish it firmly on the ground across Libya, or maybe it did not want to establish in the first place, so all Libyans must fathom that a Libyan-Libyan reconciliation, away from the foreign hegemony, is what they need.” Mufti Al-Gharyani added.
He also called on all Libyan revolutionary fighters to get together under one command as they did in Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos operation, which proved effective and successful, pointing out that they should prioritize supporting Defend Benghazi Brigades to other issues so that they can defend Benghazi residents against Khalifa Haftar’s forces.
“Haftar is fighting all Libyans nowadays under the pretext of terrorism and so are some Tripoli-based brigades, so we need to agree on a definition for “terrorism”.” Libya’s Mufti remarked, saying that contrary to what he advocates, Haftar and his forces did not target IS militants in Benghazi, but rather, they gave them a safe corridor out of Benghazi toward the south so that they can rebuild their terror state after being defeated in Sirte.
"The international community – and Haftar likewise – wants to keep the revolutionary fighters busy fighting IS terrorists," Libya’s Mufti underscored, adding that all the revolutionaries have to be aware of what conspiracies are being plotted against them.
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Response testing, or just threatening them with threats?
[IsraelTimes] All-clears given as no explosives found at facilities from New Jersey to Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,; similar hoax calls made to Jewish institutions in UK.
Bomb threats were called in at no fewer than 16 Jewish community centers in at least seven US states on Monday, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of students and staff.
Threats were reportedly received in Miami Beach and Jacksonville, Florida, as well as Rockville, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee; South Carolina and California. Authorities were also investigating a bomb threat in a New Jersey JCC, a New York NBC affiliate reported.
The calls were prerecorded in some cases and live in others, with the caller using voice disguising technology, and likely came from a single source, said Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Network, the group affiliated with the Jewish Federations of North America that coordinates security for the Jewish community.
All the alerts were false, Goldenberg said, and designed to produce maximum disruption.
Similar threats were phoned in to several Jewish schools in Britannia. Community officials responded by sending out a national alert that saw emergency procedures implemented at some institutes.
Police and emergency services in both countries combed through buildings, but no explosives were found.
It was not clear if the calls were a coordinated hoax.
The JCC Association of North America, the convening organization of JCCs across the continent commended the staff around the affected centers who "responded quickly, calmly and professionally by implementing well-practiced evacuation procedures and ensuring that no one was harmed," said David Posner, the organization’s director of strategic performance, according to a blurb.
Posner further thanked "federal and local law enforcement for their quick and thorough response today."
The JCC Association said it was working with the Secure Community Network, which focuses on security for Jewish institutions throughout North America, and the Department of Homeland Security to determine the source of the calls.
In Britannia, the Jewish Chronicle daily reported on its website that threats were telephoned in to schools in Roehampton, Ilford and Brent, all in London.
According to UK Jewish Chronicle, at one Jewish elementary school, pupils were told to go into the "sleeping lions" position -- a safety precaution used in emergency situations. Other schools went into lock-down preventing anyone from entering or leaving the premises.
Pupils were not evacuated from any of the UK schools.
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement that "police were alerted at around 10:30 a.m. on Monday, 9 January, to phone calls made to schools in Roehampton, Ilford and Brent, in which bomb threats were made."
"Police officers attended the schools. All three incidents were stood down a short time later. An investigation into the threat will be conducted."
The Community Security Trust, the organization that oversees security for British Jewry, put out a national alert.
"A small number of Jewish schools across the country received bomb threats, as did a small number of non-Jewish schools," the CST said. "The Jewish schools followed security procedures, and CST and police immediately responded. All of the sites have been searched, and declared safe and secure. CST thanks school staff, pupils and parents for their calm response to these calls."
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Bet SD would fare pretty well. I always wonder whether the cops could cut through the block, or would they have to run around the corner. And then there are the Marines a couple of minutes away, theoretically, at least. Shoot, if you picked the right day you could have the Blue Angels fly over.
Not the worst place in the world. Sometimes I kinda like it.
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The puppy just wanted to nuzzle him.
Or not. The attack seemed to puzzle him:
"Yo, whuffo my hustle
Offends this Jack Russell?
I'm BLM, biaaatch, not Muslim!"
[BREITBART] Law enforcement officials have yet to confirm that Esteban Santiago Ruiz, the shooter allegedly responsible for killing five people and injuring another six at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport last week, posted any content linked to radical Islam or jihad on his social media platforms.
Officials have not dismissed radical Islamic terrorism as a potential motive for the mass murder, however, as Santiago had previously reached out to the FBI, insisting that the CIA was forcing him to join 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.... (ISIS) and watch propaganda videos.
"It’s way too early in the investigation. We’re looking over all of his social media, things like that. It’s giving us a picture of the individual, but it’s way too early for us to rule out anything," George Piro, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Miami field office, told news hounds on Saturday. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named notes that Piro’s illustrious FBI career includes interrogating late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein following his capture. Say George old boy, did your FBI colleagues have a look at his 'social media' accounts when he presented himself to the bureau as an armed, ISIS dream troubled, nut case walk-in? Evidently his social media account has been removed or taken down. If there was nothing there, you surely won't mind if we have a look as well ?
Santiago was deployed to Iraq in 2010, reportedly working to diffuse improvised bombs. He received a Meritorious Unit Commendation award following his deployment, though he was subsequently discharged from the Alaska National Guard for "unsatisfactory performance."
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FBI: We Have Not Found Jihadi Content on Ft. Lauderdale Shooter’s Social Media
Aaaaand of course we are still supposed to trust the intelligence report they put together on Russian hacking and influencing of the US election, right?
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Esteban Santiago Ruis aka “Aashiq Hammad.” Thank you Jihad Watch, Bob Flimbers, and TW.
Fort Lauderdale Airport terrorist Esteban Santiago registered on MySpace under the name “Aashiq Hammad” and recorded Islamic religious music on the site, 3 years before he ever deployed to Iraq as a U.S. soldier, destroying the lying mainstream media’s narrative that he was just a mentally disturbed veteran and that “Islam had nothing to do with it.”
[Indian Express] A National Investigative Agency court Monday declared all the four accused in the Pathankot terror attack case as proclaimed offenders. The investigative agency had earlier chargesheeted Jasih-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar, his brother Rauf Asghar and two handlers. Four Death Eaters scaled the wall of an Indian Air Force base in Pathankot and killed eight security personnel in January 2016. They were later identified as s Nasir Hussain, Hafiz Abu Bakar, Umar Farooq and Abdul Qayum, all residents of Pakistain.
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[al-Monitor] In an exclusive interview with al-Monitor, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",' foreign relations chief Osama Hamdan revealed that several weeks ago in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , the movement's leadership met a delegation of high-ranking European diplomats. He expressed optimism about a European decision to strike Hamas from its list of terrorist organizations.
In a telephone interview from Beirut, Hamdan, one of Hamas’ emerging politicians, said the movement seeks to mend ties with Iran after they had significantly deteriorated in recent years. He discussed the frosty relations between Hamas and 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 revealed that a Hamas leadership delegation is getting ready to visit Egypt soon.
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[FOXNEWS] Israeli authorities have charged two Paleostinians with helping to smuggle hundreds of cameras to the Gazoo Strip for the Islamic murderous Moslem group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and others.
They're into selfies as they dig their tunnels now? No wonder it's taking so long.
The Shin Bet security agency says authorities jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! the suspected smugglers last month. It says cameras, model airplanes, communications cables and other goods were smuggled by a West Bank merchant through Israel's border crossing into Gazoo, hidden in televisions, washing machines and refrigerators.
Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade on Gazoo in 2007 after Hamas seized power from forces loyal to Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... . Israel checks goods passing its border into Gazoo, and halts what it calls "dual-use materials," which could be used by Hamas for military purposes.
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[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] The military will crush the Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... and Maute terrorist groups in six months to one year to put an end to kidnappings and kabooms in the South once and for all, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Monday.
Lorenzana said the timetable set by the military was just right and that Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Gen. Eduardo Año was convinced the military could contain the two terrorist groups during that period, although an additional six months would be a big help.
For a start, he said, there will be big organizational changes at the Western Mindanao Command, which has jurisdiction over areas where the Abu Sayyaf and Maute groups operate.
Innovative approach
"We are going to do something new or innovative to finish this problem once and for all," Lorenzana said, but declined to divulge details of the plan.
"We will prevent them from kidnapping more [people] and we will try to recover those [whom they are still holding captive]," he said, adding that the two groups are holding 27 local and foreign hostages.
President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to crush the Abu Sayyaf since the bandit group killed two Canadian hostages -- Robert Hall and John Ridsdel -- last year.
Changing view
Mr. Duterte apologized to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the killings and promised to arrest the "criminals and exact justice."
But how he viewed the Abu Sayyaf became uncertain in July when he said during Hari Raya Eid al-Fitr celebration in Davao City that the kidnappings carried out by the group were not crimes.
"You’ve never heard me say [they are] criminals. It is a different setup there because these are the guys who were driven to desperation," he said.
On Aug. 12, however, he said he did not know who the Abu Sayyaf bandidos were and what they stood for, but "we have to destroy them."
On Aug 26, he said he once admired the Abu Sayyaf and he had ordered the police and the military to "destroy them because they are criminals."
He said the government had all the resources to finish the Abu Sayyaf in one week.
In September last year, speaking at a side event to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Laos, Mr. Duterte vowed to make the Abu Sayyaf pay for their crimes, saying he would "eat" the bandidos "alive."
Maute Group
The Maute Group is believed to be responsible for the kaboom on a night market in Davao City that killed 15 people and injured 70 others on Sept. 2 last year.
The group is also a suspect in the two kabooms that injured 32 people in Hilongos, Leyte province, on Dec. 28.
Mr. Duterte has ordered the Philippine National Police to crush the Maute Group as soon as possible.
In the case of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters ...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State... (BIFF), which broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), with which the government is talking peace, Lorenzana said he was satisfied with support and cooperation from local residents in combating the violent group.
To beef up its forces, Lorenzana said, the AFP will recruit 10,000 soldiers this year. President Duterte approved the recruitment last year, he added.
Lorenzana said the recruits would be trained for one year then would be deployed in 2018.
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[FREEMALAYSIATODAY] Police have told state religious departments to be more aggressive in monitoring Islamist preachers to ensure they do not promote radical ideologies that could inspire terrorist acts.
Bukit Aman’s anti-terrorism chief, Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, said a lack of enforcement by religious authorities had given room to foreign and local preachers to engage with the public unmonitored. Some of them were spreading teachings that were not in line with mainstream Sunni beliefs, he added.
“We have noticed that some of these teachings lean towards extremism although the contents do not directly tell the listeners to cause harm to fellow Muslims,” he said.
He gave the example of preachers who would not directly tell their audiences that some Ahli Sunnah Wa al-Jamaah (SWJ) teachings were blasphemous but would call them “bid’ah (innovative)” instead.
Some of these preachers’ followers, being aware of prophetic traditions that condemn innovation in religion, might conclude that it would be permissible to kill the so-called innovators among SWJ adherents, Ayob said.
He said his department’s role did not include monitoring preachers, but added that it nevertheless had a list of suspects.
“If the teachings are against true Islamic teachings, we will advise the religious departments on the preachers and it is up to them to take further action,” he said. “By right, the preachers should get permission from the state religious department, but apparently many do not.”
He said the department’s current list included some preachers hailing from West Asian and African countries.
Ayob spoke of a Singaporean preacher, 64-year-old Rasul Dahri, who was arrested for the third time last year. He had been active in the Klang Valley and Johor for a few years although the National Fatwa Council, as well as the Penang Religious Department, had banned seven of his books.
He also spoke of terror suspect Mas Selamat Kastari of Singapore, whom Malaysian police arrested in April 2009, more than a year after he escaped from detention in his home country. He said Mas followed Rasul Dahri’s classes in Johor between between 1987 and 1989 before deciding to join Jemaah Islamiyah (JI).
Citing other examples, Ayob said JI leaders Abu Bakar Bashir and Abdullah Sungkar managed to sneak into Malaysia in 1985 because of lack of monitoring by religious departments.
“This resulted in the recruitment of almost 300 Malaysians and citizens of other Asean countries as JI members.”
Ayob said the Johor religious department was one of the strictest in the country when it came to enforcing the law. “It is very stern and would not allow preachers without credentials and approval to teach in the state.”
He also commended the religious departments of Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Perak, Terengganu, Pahang, Sabah and Sarawak for strictness of enforcement.
A counter-terrorism expert from Universiti Malaya said yesterday that religious departments should work harder to filter the activities of preachers in the country to curtail the spread of “salafi jihadi” ideologies.
Balakrishnan RK Suppaiah acknowledged that countering the extremist ideology was difficult, but he said Malaysia could do it because it had the “right foundation” and a good police force.
“People will question you for monitoring places of worship,” he said. “But we have to do it because we are a moderate country where religion is concerned.”
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[Breitbart Israel] Critics of the Iranian nuclear deal charged that the Obama administration was not sufficiently concerned with how Iran would spend the money from its post-sanctions windfall. Evidently, departing President Obama and his team thought domestic political pressures would oblige the Iranian government to invest more heavily in constructive economic pursuits.
Reuters reports that, on the contrary, Iran is looking forward to more military spending, including more funding for ballistic missile tests that were supposed to be banned by the nuclear deal.
Iranian media announced that lawmakers voted for a five-year development plan that "requires government to increase Iran’s defense capabilities as a regional power and preserve the country’s national security and interests by allocating at least five percent of annual budget" to military spending.
The plan includes funding for "long-range missiles, armed drones, and cyber-war capabilities."
Also still a spending priority for Tehran: arms for terrorists. Despite the nuclear deal, an arms embargo from the United Nations is still nominally in effect, but outgoing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "expressed concern that Iran may have violated the embargo by supplying weapons and missiles to Hezbollah," according to Reuters.
Ban’s concerns are based, in part, by senior Hezbollah officials loudly boasting in public that all of their expenses, including weapons, are paid by Iran. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah also spent the weekend praising recently-deceased Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani as a "great supporter and backer" of his movement.
Hezbollah has benefited greatly from Iran’s patronage. Newsweek pronounced Hezbollah the "real winner of the Battle of Aleppo" because fighting for Iran in Syria has enormously increased its prestige.
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Evidently, departing President Obama and his team thought domestic political pressures would oblige the Iranian government to invest more heavily in constructive economic pursuits.
Yeah. Like the widows and orphans fund. For the terrorists' families.
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...but outgoing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "expressed concern that Iran may have violated the embargo by supplying weapons and missiles to Hezbollah," according to Reuters.
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Iran is looking forward to more military spending, including more funding for ballistic missile tests that were supposed to be banned by the nuclear deal.
[ALMASDARNEWS] In an interview with a French media outlet, President Assad said that his government will offer Death Eaters amnesty, in a bid to deescalate the conflict.
He explained that the Syrian government has already offered amnesty, as he believes it is an effective way to stabilize Syria.
Specifically, he said "From what we’ve been implementing during the last three years, because you want genuinely to have peace in Syria, the government offered amnesty for every hard boy who gives up his armaments, and it worked, and they still have the same option if they want to go back to their normality and to go back to their normal life."
On a separate note, Mr Assad also indicated his readiness to send a delegation of Syrian diplomats to the peace talks in Astana.
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[STARTRIBUNE] The B.O. regime says it has added two senior members of Hezbollah to its terrorism sanctions list.
The State Department said Monday that Ali Damush and Mustafa Mughniyeh have been named Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
Mughniyeh is a Hezbollah commander with extensive family links to the Leb-based myrmidon group. He's the nephew of Hezbollah's previous military commander, Mustafa Badreddine, who was killed in an kaboom near the Syrian capital in last year, and the son of military commander Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in a 2008 boom-mobileing in Damascus that Hezbollah blamed on Israel.
Damush is an aide to the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. He heads the group's foreign relations department, which the State Department says "engages in covert terrorist operations around the world."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...Libyan Moslem Brüderhood Grand Mufti since 2012. Issued a fatwa forbidding Libyan women from marrying foreign men. Issued a "fatwa against a UN Commission on the Status of Women's report because it urged governments to protect women and girls against violence" Aligned with the GNC govt...
[Breitbart Israel] Critics of the Iranian nuclear deal charged that the Obama administration was not sufficiently concerned with how Iran would spend the money from its post-sanctions windfall. Evidently, departing President Obama and his team thought domestic political pressures would oblige the Iranian government to invest more heavily in constructive economic pursuits.
[ALMASDARNEWS] In an interview with a French media outlet, President Assad said that his government will offer 
