[RADIOSHABELLE] The UAE has decided to disband its military training programme in Somalia which started in 2014 to build the capabilities of the Somali army.
The decision comes in response to Somali security forces’ seizure of a UAE-registered civil aircraft at Mogadishu Airport and confiscation of money destined to pay the soldiers.
The UAE and Somalia are bound by historical relations based on mutual respect and the UAE Forces had carried out a number of training missions for thousands of Somalis to build up their capabilities.
In addition, the UAE has been paying the salaries of 2407 Somali soldiers and built three training centres, a hospital, and dispatched Emirati medical teams for treating Somalis.
The UAE is supervising the counter-piracy maritime police force in Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... where the UAE has been effectively contributing to leveraging the capacities of the Somali military and security facilities while supporting efforts to fight terrorism in collaboration with a number of international parties and 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 forces in Somalia.
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Did that plane with the UAE 'trainers' and their heavy bags of gold ever get off the ground?
[PRESSTV] The UK participated in recent attack on Syria because it was the right thing to do and because 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... asked us to, says British Prime Minister Theresa May.
May made the remarks while addressing parliament on Monday, where she stressed that the strikes were carried out to "further prevent the use of chemical weapons."
"We have not done this because President Trump asked us to do so," she added.
Early on Saturday, the US, Britannia and La Belle France carried out a string of Arclight airstrikes against Syria over a suspected chemical attack against Douma. Washington and its allies blamed Damascus for the suspected assault.
The Syrian government has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! the allegation, calling on Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to send a fact-finding mission for investigations.
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So this is the counter-propaganda they have chosen to run with. Interesting. Classic FUD.
[GatesOfVienna] Last Friday, a brave Afghan attacked employees of a bakery in Fulda and police officers with stones and a baton, wounding them; some seriously.
After a policeman was wounded as well as a delivery man, the raging and extremely aggressive “seeker after peace” was shot by the police.
But in the minds of the invaders of all nations, protecting Germany and its citizens means resisting the conquerors.
That’s why an Afghan mob, carrying Afghan flags and shouting “Allahu Akhbar”, paraded through Fulda’s streets on Sunday, denouncing German state power and demanding “justice” — probably according to Sharia Law — because one of their warriors was killed after an armed attack on German “infidels”.
Abdulkerim Demir, chairman of the Invasion Advisory Council (politically correct: Foreigners’ Council) in Fulda explained that all the hayseed-Afghan wanted was to buy some bread rolls — in his slippers, with a bat!
Everything in the bakery was too slow for the demander of provisions, because the cash register was probably not even open that morning, [since] the delivery driver apparently only just arrived. The fact that the German mutts were not immediately at his service, was hard for such an Islamic Herrenmensch to tolerate, and so the Afghan Merkel-guest threw some stones, struck the employees and attacked the supplier with a rock. Demir does NOT think that’s “good”, but they [the police] could have simply captured him [the attacker], argues the representative of the invasion, and accuses the police of murder. It is intolerable that a “young man [he doesn’t say ‘Man’= a ‘man’ he insists on ‘Mensch’= a ‘human’; I’m sure because this sounds like Human Rights — translator] in Germany, who just wanted to buy two rolls,” is shot, we’re told.
The police also had to protect those marching from themselves, as during every demo, in the spirit of Freedom of Assembly and Freedom of Expression.
It is also very revealing, and a sign of the barely-initiated integration, that the intruders in our homeland demand a good life at the expense of the Germans, because at home in Afghanistan everything is supposedly so terrible, but here their flag in being carried as either a shield or a threat.
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Why post the propaganda laced borderline racist regurgitation of a translation of a german-language rant from a questionable euro site? Is that the standard here now?
It would be nice to read an unadulterated account. Surely enough outrage in the truth without resorting to this German ubermensch bullshit.
Police have shot and killed a man who attacked workers with a truncheon outside a bakery.
Officers in Fulda responded to an early morning call about the incident outside the business in the city about 100km (60 miles) northeast of Frankfurt.
When they arrived, they say the man attacked them with stones and a truncheon. He was shot dead.
Police said the bakery was not open at the time of the incident and that the victims were employees and a delivery driver. Some suffered serious injuries.
Hesse state police and Fulda prosecutors are investigating.
The "protest" the original article cits doesn't even crack the first pages of a google search for "fulda muslim" except for the rabble-rousing effort at GoV. The next entry is a dating site for Muslim men, LOL.
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Injun Bucket8891, your AP article is indeed modifier-free, but it also fails to mention the key datum that would trigger our interest in the incident — that the perpetrator is an Afghan “migrant”. I’ve been following the subject of the invasion-by-invitation since Angela Merkel issued her invitation, and have found it very difficult in many cases to determine whether a report belongs under that heading. News reports deliberatedly soft-pedal bad behaviour, refuse to list the religion, national origin or legal status of the perpetrator, or even bury the incident altogether, as they did with the New Years Eve molestations in Cologne two years ago and for years at open air rock concerts in Sweden. The police in various places and times have had to admit to not accepting complaints of crimes and of fudging statistics, because to tell the truth is labelled racist. The Pakistani rape ganges in Britain, protected as they were for a full generation by the police, are only one aspect of this acquiescence to the egregious behaviour of non-natives by government and elites across Europe and Britain.
I’ve pretty much given up trying to figure out whether gang problems in Scandinavia are due to Moslem colonists going after natives or nativist biker gangs going after foreigners — I don’t even post those articles in the round-ups I try to do weekly (though I’ve fallen behind recently). Because neither police nor politicians, nor news media are honest, we haven’t more than a general idea of how bad the problem is — just that getting robbed and raped by people who consider themselves conquerors is now a common experience.
This Gatestone Report from 2012 limns the dimensions of the thing before the borders were thrown open::
I collect articles on the subject from Breitbart, the Daily Mail, The Local, and whatever pops up in my daily War on Terror article collections. If you have a better idea for English language sources on subject, please provide me with a sampling of articles. I’m just an amateur at this, without any training other than what I have picked up here at Rantburg over the years.
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I’m just an amateur at this, without any training other than what I have picked up here at Rantburg over the years.
Part of the fun of the Intelligence Analyst Junior Grade course at Rantburg U is you get to read sorts of traffic and try to separate the wheat from the chaff from the blathering nonsense. Often times, what is not said is as important as the story the media tries to push.
Yeah, it would be nice to read an "unadulterated account", but I don't know where on the planet you'd find it. So we have a lot of sources, some of them reliable and some of them wild propaganda outlets like Iran's PressTV and the New York Times. Only chumps believe everything they read, whether on newsprint or on the interwebs.
Compliments to Fred and the mods for their interesting selections.
I prefer to think of it as insightful commentary and savage snark. It's another thing that makes Rantburg so interesting. Wouldn't be the same without it.
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The "protest" the original article cits doesn't even crack the first pages of a google search for "fulda muslim" except for the rabble-rousing effort at GoV. The next entry is a dating site for Muslim men, LOL.
This is a scathing indictment of google and the mainstream media.
I submitted the GoV link because it provided an accurate summary of German mainstream media news reports. Commentary within the article is easily discernible.
The organized unapologetic protest against self defense against violent assault is what made this story newsworthy because this is a new development.
[Al Jazeera] Supporters of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... 's main opposition party have staged sit-in demonstrations across the country to protest against the state of emergency, a move criticised by the government.
The demonstrations held on Monday, reportedly in all of Turkey's 81 provinces, were organised as the government prepares this week to extend the state of emergency for the seventh time.
Turkey declared the state of emergency on July 20, 2016, and has extended it regularly after a coup attempt in July 2016.
Bekir Bozdag, the government spokesperson, criticised the protests, blaming the Republican People's Party (CHP) of using the methods of "terrorists" and not doing any work.
Bozdag said that for the CHP to be more successful than the ruling Justice and Development Party, it should start working, or running, instead of sitting down.
"They cannot stop the Justice and Development Party by sitting in. We will move on. My advice to them: Now is not the time to sit, now is time to rise," he said.
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Talks between U.S. and California officials about the duties the California troops would perform soured Friday and over the weekend after state authorities told federal officials that they would not participate in vehicle maintenance and the other jobs The Cali Rules of Engagement must be something else.
outlined for an initial phase across the border in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, the U.S. officials said. The other border-state governors ‐ all Republicans ‐ have openly embraced Trump’s plans. I was surprised when Brown originally agreed to the troops. Less so with this news. Somebody spoiling for a fight?
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So Trump federalizes the California NG, sends in some active duty generals to command. End of problem. First NG person to refuse a lawfulorder is court martialed and sent to Leavenworth. End of second problem.
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San Diego County Board of Supervisors just voted to side with Trump against CA. I'll post it for tomorrow
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[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad indefinitely postponed the hearings of cases against Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistain (TLP) chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi and others on Monday.
The ATC, hearing the cases filed against TLP leaders in connection with last year's Faizabad sit-in, postponed the hearings on prosecution's request as police claimed it was investigating the case anew and wanted to file a new charge sheet.
The prosecutor requested the the court to not hold hearings until the new charge sheet is filed, which was accepted by ATC Judge Shah Arjumand.
The move comes in the backdrop of recent negotiations between the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government and TLP leaders protesting in Lahore. The organization had called off protests after being assured that the cases against its leadership, including Rizvi and Pir Afzal Qadri, and workers would be dropped, and the Faizabad agreement would be implemented.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Nearly three million Iraqis have been repatriated to their home regions, a U.S. agency said as Iraq struggles to recover from war against 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.... USAID’s deputy director in Iraq, William Patterson, was quoted by Alghad Press saying that nearly three million Iraqis returned to their regions, while two million others await.
He stressed that the agency favors a voluntary, rather than forcible, repatriation of those affected.
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This is certainly an innovative approach...But with all the other calls on the European purse, where will they find the funds?
[Jpost] If accepted, the European offer would mean Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, would refrain from any violence against Israel for at least five years.
European groups recently passed on to Hamas a wide-reaching proposition to solve the Humanitarian crises in Gazoo, The Jerusalem Post's sister publication Maariv reported on Monday.
If accepted, Hamas would relinquish armed struggle against Israel for at least five years. In exchange, an EU-created institution would pay the salaries of the Gazoo strip civic administration and run all humanitarian affairs there.
While the concept of connecting together wide-scale humanitarian and financial aid to Gazoo with Hamas rejecting terrorism and violence is not new, this offer is unique for including an assumption of comprehensive authorities by a European body that would operate in the Gazoo strip.
For Hamas, it may be tempting that the financial aid for health, education and developing public administration would come directly from a European body and not via the Paleostinian Authority in the West Bank, currently controlled by the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , as is currently the practice.
Another important aspect of the European proposal is that it marks a different direction form that of the Paleostinian effort of national reconciliation. The report says that the offer is meant to provide a possible scenario should Abbas make good on his threat to withdraw all support to the Gazoo strip under Hamas. The Hamas negotiation team is reportedly still studying the European offer before responding to it.
It is also possible that the European offer is useful for Hamas as it provides them with one more bargaining chip as negotiations with Abbas, conducted with the help of Egypt, continue with the eventual goal of national Paleostinian reconciliation.
In a round of talks held in the Gazoo strip on Saturday, Hamas refused to the demands made by Abbas and passed on by the Egyptian negotiation team. The demands were that the security, legal and tax collecting powers in the Gazoo strip be handed over to the PA as a condition for national reconciliation.
Hamas also insisted that the Hamas delegation set to meet in Cairo next week to continue the negotiations will be composed of Hamas Political Bureau members residing in Leb and 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and not those based in the Gazoo strip. It would seem this is Hamas making a statement that matters on the ground, such as the weekly protests along the Israel-Gazoo border, are too pressing to send Gazoo-based staff abroad for negotiations. Hamas has refused to comply with Egyptian requests to halt these protest marches.
[IsraelTimes] Military liaison says sanctioned firms 'aided in transporting Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",gunnies and violent rioters to the border' during recent riots
Israel’s military liaison to the Paleostinians announced sanctions on Monday against 14 Gazook transportation companies that bused protesters to demonstrations on the coastal enclave’s border with Israel that at times turned violent.
The Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of the Government’s Activities in the Territories, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, said Israel had learned of 14 companies that "aided in transporting Hamas gunnies and violent rioters to the border. As such, sanctions will be imposed on the owners of those companies."
The sanctions come after previous Israeli warnings for Gazook bus companies to refrain from driving protesters to the border.
"As previously reported, COGAT sent notices to the owners of transportation companies in the Gazoo Strip, warning them not to aid in the transport of Hamas gunnies and violent rioters to the Gazoo Strip border with Israel," Mordechai wrote in a statement.
He listed the 14 companies by name in a separate Arabic Facebook post.
Addressing the recent demonstrations on the Gazoo border, Mordechai asserted that "the violent riots that have been taking place are fueled by Hamas and are an attempt to mask terror activities."
Earlier this month, COGAT released a phone recording purporting to show that Hamas, the terror group that rules the strip, had forced drivers to bring protesters to the protest sites.
In the clip of a phone conversation between a COGAT official and a bus company owner, the Israeli security official could be heard warning the Paleostinian against "taking part in terror" by driving Gazooks to the protest as the companies had done the week before.
The driver responded by insisting that he and others had heeded Israeli warnings, but that those who refused to comply with Hamas pressure were jugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! and replaced by other drivers willing to ferry Paleostinians to the protests.
"We are not helping. Hamas came, tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! us, and filed a complaint against us," he contended. "What are we supposed to do in such a situation?"
Hamas said that several owners of bus companies had received the phone calls warning them not to assist in the organization of the protests. The terror group added that Israeli security officers had threatened to take punitive measures against the owners and their companies, including banning them from operating at border crossings with Israel.
[Ynet] Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has declared the Iliyah Institute in east Jerusalem as a terror group, following a Shin Bet recommendation made after months' surveillance showing that the youth center was in fact a front for the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic... The institute carried out activities intended to promote the actions of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, as per the security agency's suspicions.
[IsraelTimes] Senior source reportedly admits strike on airbase to NY Times, says drone incursion into Israel 'opened new period'; Iran: Israel will regret actions, we'll respond 'at right time'
An Israeli military official confirmed Monday that Israel carried out last week’s strike on Iranian forces in a Syrian airbase, the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Continued on Page 49
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[BusinessInsider] My personal opinion is that Trump only wanted to give them a black eye and to put the fear of Trump into them, not to definitively destroy their CW program or depose Pencilneck. In that regard, mission accomplished. They will think three times about what will come next before they do it again, and they might just do it again if they figure the benefits outweigh the risks. In my mind, the Syrians accomplished what they wanted in Douma, and they also gained knowledge about how well their air defense works against out latest stuff. So everyone wins.
• Israeli intelligence officials have concluded that the US, UK, and France's missile strikes on Syria's suspected chemical weapons sites were a failure.
• Multiple Israeli government and military sources criticized the strikes effectiveness in hurting Syria's ability to conduct chemical attacks.
• These officials also criticized President Donald Trump talking about the strikes beforehand.
• The US and allies' strikes on Syria likely didn't change anything on the battlefield, and it's hard to know how much of the chemical weapons stockpile was hit.
The US, UK, and France's missile strike on Syria's suspected chemical weapons sites involved 105 missiles fired from air and sea to rain down thousands of pounds of explosives on three sites across the country‐ but Israeli intelligence officers reportedly called it a failure.
"If President Trump had ordered the strike only to show that the US responded to [Syrian President Bashar] Assad's use of chemical weapons, then that goal has been achieved," a senior defense official told Israel's Ynet News. "But if there was another objective ‐ such as paralyzing the ability to launch chemical weapons or deterring Assad from using it again ‐ it's doubtful any of these objectives have been met."
An intelligence officer who talked to Ynet wasn't as forgiving.
"The statement of 'Mission Accomplished' and (the assertion) that Assad's ability to use chemical weapons has been fatally hit has no basis," the source said, likely referring to a recent tweet from President Donald Trump.
Unlike the strike in April 2017, the US and its allies did not target Assad's jets or airfields, though that attack was also apparently of low impact, as Assad's jets took off from the damaged airfield within 24 hours and reports of chemical warfare by his regime persisted.
Israel apparently not impressed with Trump's tough talk
The Israelis seemed to take particular issue with Trump talking about his plans to strike before the military action took place. In comparison, Israel is suspected of carrying out a silent but lethal air war against Iranian-aligned militias in Syria, though it seldom ever comments on whether it took part in specific strikes, and always after the fact.
"If you want to shoot ‐ shoot, don't talk," an Israeli diplomatic source told Ynet. "In the American case, this is mostly talk. They themselves show actions are not going to follow."
After Trump tweeted that Russia and Syria should "get ready" for incoming missiles, it appears they moved assets to more protected locations, potentially limiting the available targets for the strike.
Nobody knows how much chemical weapons Assad has left
The US said the strike had hit the "heart" of Assad's chemical weapons infrastructure, but admitted some residual capabilities remained. The strike certainly did not deal any damage to Assad's air force, which is suspected to deploy the chemical weapons.
While the Israelis estimated that the strikes didn't hit the bulk of Assad's chemical weapons, it's hard to know exactly how much or where the weapons stores could be, as international inspectors certified that Syria had removed their weapons of mass destruction as a result of a deal between then-President Barack Obama and Russia in 2013.
But reports of chemical attacks have regularly surfaced since then, and recent reports from Islamist rebels fighting Assad in Douma, the town where the most recent suspected chemical attack sparked the US and allies' strike, said Assad is using the terrifying weapons to win on the battlefield.
"They bombed and bombed and we weren't defeated by conventional weapons so they found the only way was to use chemical (weapons)," a rebel told Reuters.
Despite the US and allies' missile strike on Syria, Assad's regime has only strengthened and fortified its position by clearing out more rebel strongholds.
The UK has admitted that the strike did not intend to turn the overall tide of the war, and was essentially meant as a punitive action to compel Assad not to use chemical weapons.
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Not a surprise. It was designed to hit targets that were painful for Assad, but not regime ending and in areas where no Russians were to avoid international issues.
For what they were they performed to mission success as defined above.
Also they let Russia know we can hit them any time, any where and you won't see it coming. So don't fuck with us.
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With all the defensive forces and media scrambling and counting missile strikes and misses it made a pretty nice diversion for their own attack on the Iranians, didn't it.
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it made a pretty nice diversion for their own attack on the Iranians, didn't it.
Except it turns out there wasn’t an attack last night after all — either someone spoofed Syria’s radar or the operators are teetering on the edge of hysteria, shooting at things that aren’t there.
[Guardian] Russia and the Syrian regime have been accused by western diplomats of denying chemical weapons inspectors access to sites in the town of Douma, where an attack killed dozens and prompted US-led missile strikes over the weekend.
Russia and Syria had cited "pending security issues" before inspectors could deploy to the town outside Damascus, said Ahmet Üzumcu, the director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), at a meeting of its executive council.
Syrian authorities were offering 22 people to interview as witnesses instead, he said, adding that he hoped "all necessary arrangements will be made ... to allow the team to deploy to Douma as soon as possible".
Meanwhile, the Trump administration delayed action on sanctions against Russians suspected of helping Syria’s chemical weapons programme, contradicting remarks on Sunday by the US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley.
Haley had said in a television interview that sanctions would be "coming down" on Monday. But the White House spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, said on Monday that "a decision will be made in the near future. We’ll keep you guys posted."
[PRESSTV] The political adviser to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... has praised Syria’s air defenses for intercepting most of the missiles fired by the US and its allies at the Arab country on Saturday.
Bouthaina Shaaban said in remarks published on the Leb-based al-Mayadeen website that the victory marks the beginning of the end of the American empire.
"The breaking of their evil aggression is the beginning of the vanishing of their empire, which will be replaced by new forces which respects the humanity, illusory sovereignty and safety of peoples," she said.
In the early hours of Saturday, the US, Britannia and La Belle France launched a barrage of missile attacks upon 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 order in response to what they claimed a chemical attack in the myrmidon-held town of Douma.
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Bouthaina Shaaban = Baghdad Bob after gender reassignment.
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[DailyBeast] The targeting of Michael Hayden drives home how aggressively the Obama administration pursued leaks—following a relatively thin lead to a former spy chief’s private email account.
The search warrant application filed in November 2012, unsealed Monday, shows the bureau suspected Hayden of being a source for a June 1, 2012, New York Times article about the Stuxnet computer virus, a groundbreaking piece of nation-state malware crafted to sabotage one element of Iran’s nuclear program in 2010. The virus targeted equipment at Iran’s uranium enrichment facility in Natanz. The article, written by reporter David Sanger, confirmed suspicions that the U.S. was partly responsible for the attack, which the story said was part of a top secret American-Israeli program called Olympic Games.
Hayden was not cited as a source on the Olympic Games revelation in the Times article, but was quoted on the apparent significance of the Stuxnet virus, which was widely known. “This is the first attack of a major nature in which a cyberattack was used to effect physical destruction,” Hayden said in part.
The search warrant affidavit was filed by special agent Craig Moringiello in the FBI’s counterintelligence division. It shows that the FBI first obtained transaction records for Hayden’s AOL email account. Those showed that he’d exchanged email messages with Sanger 10 times in the months before and after the story. The bureau then used that as evidence in a Nov. 15, 2012, application to obtain the entire contents of Hayden’s AOL account.
The FBI found no evidence that Hayden did anything wrong. But using similar tactics, the FBI eventually tracked the story to retired Marine Gen. James Cartwright. In 2016 Cartwright acknowledged he was a source for the article and pleaded guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI. Cartwright’s prosecution was widely criticized by freedom-of-the-press groups and government insiders, and Obama pardoned Cartwright shortly before leaving office.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[GatesOfVienna] Last Friday, a brave Afghan attacked employees of a bakery in Fulda and police officers with stones and a baton, wounding them; some seriously.
...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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
[Guardian] Russia and the Syrian regime have been accused by western diplomats of denying chemical weapons inspectors access to sites in the town of Douma, where an attack killed dozens and prompted US-led missile strikes over the weekend.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
