[Al Jazeera] Mali's government has announced the sacking of top military officers and the dissolution of a militia, a day after the killing of more than 130 people.
Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga said on Sunday new military chiefs would be named, and that the Dan Nan Ambassagou association, comprising Dogon hunters, had been dissolved.
"The protection of the population will remain the monopoly of the state," Maiga told journalists.
Survivors of Saturday's attack said ethnic Dogon hunters carried out the raid in Ogossagou, a village in central Mali inhabited by the Fulani community.
Later on Sunday, Rooters news agency reported that army chief of staff General M'Bemba Moussa Keita was removed and replaced by General Abdoulaye Coulibaly, while chief of land forces General Abdrahamane Baby was replaced by Brigadier-General Keba Sangare.
The developments came hours after President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita called an emergency meeting in response to the attack, in which at least 134 men, women and kiddies were killed.
The victims were shot or hacked to death with machetes, a security source told AFP.
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This is what a 'Doggone' looks like. Imagine being pursued by this thing with a machete.
The tribe is a much valued cultural heritage and a prized community along with all its practices and beliefs, for Mali. They even touted it as a tourist attraction.
I don't know why civilized humanity keeps expecting noble or even remotely human behavior from that part of the world.
[AlAhram] The Egyptian State Information Service called on officials to boycott the BBC and has summoned the head of its Cairo office.
In a detailed statement issued on Sunday, Egypt’s State Information Service (SIS) accused the British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) of "promoting the lies of the Moslem Brüderbund terrorist group" in an "inflammatory article" published on the BBC's Arabic-language website.
The SIS has accused the BBC of "literally turning themselves into a propaganda tool of media outlets directly affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund," and has summoned the head of the BBC's Cairo office over the article, which is titled '#Rest_assured_you_are_not_alone campaign renews calls for protests against Sisi'.
"The Brotherhood are considered a terrorist organization by Egypt and several countries including the United Kingdom... which officially classified Hasm and Lewaa al-Thawra ...The Revolution Brigade, which along with Hasm (Decisiveness or Determination) is one of the fighting arms of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, established to fight back against the overthrow of President Morsi... ‐ two organizations affiliated with the Brotherhood ‐ as terrorist groups," the SIS said.
The SIS slammed the article for describing a call for protests on Twitter by a pro-Brotherhood TV presenter as a "campaign," adding that this call has not gained any traction in Egypt.
The SIS said that the article propagated false reports by posting videos from Brotherhood-affiliated media that purports to show anti-government protests in several Egyptian governorates.
The SIS said that the article propagated false reports by posting videos from Brotherhood-affiliated media that purports to show anti-government protests in several Egyptian governorates.
The statement also rejected the article's caveat that the authenticity of the videos had not been verified by the BBC.
"This violates universal professional codes of conduct, as the BBC’s Cairo office with its dozens of correspondents nationwide should have tried to actually investigate whether the content of these videos was authentic," the SIS stated.
"The BBC’s failure to take this necessary step before publishing the article seems intentional in order to legitimise the allegations of media outlets affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund -- a terrorist organization," the statement said, adding that not a single foreign correspondent from any other news outlet reported on any such protests in Egypt.
"It seems the Brotherhood are the only ones who witnessed [these protests] and the BBC is the only accredited foreign media outlet that has promoted them," the SIS said.
The statement also slammed the article for failing to include any comments from Egyptian officials about the matter.
The SIS said that the BBC should immediately give a formal apology for the article, and called on "all Egyptian officials and the intelligentsia to boycott the BBC and refrain from giving any interviews or statements to its correspondents until it formally apologises... and takes the necessary administrative and professional measures to undo the violations it has committed."
This is not the first time the SIS has accused the BBC of publishing false news about Egypt.
In March 2018, the SIS slammed the BBC over a TV report alleging torture and forced disappearances of Egyptian opposition members by Egyptian security forces.
In October 2017, the SIS denounced the BBC and Rooters for reporting a false corpse count in a terrorist attack in Egypt's El-Wahat area.
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the anti Muslim Brotherhood policies of Egypt and the Saudis are among the most under reported significant stories of the past 5 years
western media aren't able to understand the problem the Egyptians and Saudis have (basically they regard the MB as an existential threat) because they (the media) have swallowed the MB's propaganda (we just want to support our spiritual community)
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In solidarity with the Egyptian SIS, I will continue my boycott of the BBC, which makes CNN look like Fox News from ten years ago.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A group of Algerian opposition parties and unions proposed on Saturday a "roadmap" to end a political crisis and weeks of protests sparked by the veteran president’s bid to stay in power.
President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term. Maybe it's the fifth.... said on February 22 he would run for a fifth term in April 18 elections, despite concerns about his ability to rule, triggering an outcry in the country which has since been gripped by demonstrations.
The 82-year-old, who uses a wheelchair and has rarely appeared in public since suffering a stroke in 2013, earlier this month said he would pull out of the race.
But he also postponed the elections, meaning he will stay in power until polls are held.
Bouteflika’s current mandate expires on April 28 and proposals agreed at a meeting between opposition parties and unions call for a six-month transition period from that date.
The roadmap stipulates the creation of a "presidential body" that would run the country during the transition period and which would be comprised of "national figures known for their credibility, integrity and competence."
But members of the body should not run in future presidential elections nor back any candidates in the poll, the statement seen by AFP said.
The proposals were made during a meeting attended namely by the party of Bouteflika’s key rival Ali Benflis, a former prime minister who has joined the opposition, and the main Islamist party, the Movement for the Society of Peace.
Algeria’s opposition however has been marginalized by the protest movement, which has been largely led by students angry with the country’s political system.
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[AlAhram] Oman on Sunday said it had signed an agreement with the United States that would allow American ships and warplanes to take advantage of ports and airports.
The state-run Oman News Agency said the "framework agreement" was aimed at bolstering "Omani-American military relations" in a report on its English-language website.
"It will allow the US forces to take advantage from the facilities offered at some of the Sultanate's ports and airports during visits of the US military vessels and aircrafts, particularly in the port of Duqm," it said.
Duqm port is located in southern Oman on the Arabian Sea and around 500 kilometres (310 miles) from the Strait of Hormuz.
At the mouth of the Gulf, the strait is crucial to global energy supplies, with about a third of the world's seaborne oil passing through it every day.
Shia Iran has repeatedly threatened to block the strait due to tensions with Sunni-ruled Gulf nations, including its main regional rival 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... The narrow waterway is also an international transit route where American forces routinely pass and which has seen tense encounters between them and Iranian forces in the past.
The United States has a number of military bases across the Gulf -- the largest 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... with about 10,000 troops.
The US-Omani deal was signed by the defence ministries of both countries.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The World Gymnastics World Cup held in Doha has been largely ignored by 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... i media while the Israeli national anthem was played and the country’s flag raised following the gold medal win by Israeli athlete Alexander Shatilov.
Shatilov won a gold medal on the first day of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) ART Individual Apparatus World Cup finals in Doha.
A video of Shatilov receiving his gold medal while the "Hatikvah" was being played was shared by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Twitter account in Arabic.
"Watch: the Israeli national anthem in Qatar... This is a great achievement for Israeli sports," the tweet read.
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[Voice of Europe] The Swiss Council of States voted for the expulsion of terrorists to their country of origin, even if they risk torture or the death penalty, reported the Tribune de Genève.
Many on the left who were against the decision argued such a plan was against Switzerland’s Constitution, the European Convention on Human Rights and the Geneva Conventions.
According to the Swiss Constitution, "no one can be returned to the territory of a state in which he is at risk of torture or any other cruel and inhuman punishment or treatment", the socialist Swiss Minister of Justice Pascale Bruderer recalled.
"Switzerland would play the game of executioners in contravention of the principle of non-refoulement", said Bruderer.
However, the argument that Switzerland’s security was more important than the fate of deported terrorists found favour with a majority of the house. The vote was marginal, but the motion was finally passed by 22 votes to 18.
Independent Thomas Minder noted that "it is about the sovereignty of the country".
The text specifically concerns persons convicted of terrorist acts who still represent a danger to the security of Switzerland after the execution of their sentence.
Posturing in the face of America’s veto. Because powerless and ineffective is such a good look for a neo-Ottoman sultan.
[ALMASDARNEWS] Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara will take the issue of the Golan Heights to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... 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... said Washington would recognize the territory as part of Israel.
He didn’t go into details during the interview to broadcaster TGRT Haber.
Erdogan called Trump’s actions a "gift" to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of elections there. Israel occupied the Golan Heights, a Syrian territory, during the 1967 Six Day War, and effectively annexed it in 1981.
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Erdogan and the UN - yet another example of Blair's Law: "the ongoing process by which the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force."
My compliments to whoever did that coffee-spritzing graphic!
[IsraelTimes] Former church and mosque, now a museum, often sparks tensions between Christians and Moslems over Islamic activities held there.
Erdogan, who is a former mayor of Istanbul, is campaigning for votes for his Justice and Development Party (AKP) ahead of municipal elections on March 31.
The Hagia Sophia was first built as a church in the sixth century under the Christian Byzantine Empire as the centerpiece of its capital Constantinople, today’s Istanbul.
Almost immediately after the conquest of Constantinople by the Moslem Ottomans in 1453, it was converted into a mosque before becoming a secular museum in a key reform of the new post-Ottoman Ottoman Turkish authorities under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the 1930s.
Ataturk was the founder of the Ottoman Turkish republic.
Since Erdogan’s AKP came to power, critics and advocates of secularism fear the government harbours a hidden agenda to reconvert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
Nothing hidden about it, guys. He is riding the tram of democracy until he gets to his Moslem Brotherhood station, then he will get off. In the meantime, prepare to be arrested and your property confiscated, you secular Gulenists! (Yes, of course that’s contradictory, but when it comes to excuses, any insult that pushes buttons will be used.)
But The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... ’s top court in September last year rejected an association’s demand that the Hagia Sophia be opened for Moslem prayers.
The museum, a UNESCO World Heritage site, receives millions of visitors every year.
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not really 're-islamification'
it's part of neo Ottoman ethnic cleansing -
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[Twitter] Romania PM: "I am pleased to announce today that Romania will move our embassy to Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel"
Bless you, President Trump, for moving the Overton Window, even if the president of Romania chooses, in a fit of pique, to disagree with his stunningly beautiful prime minister:
[IsraelTimes] Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández tells the AIPAC Policy Conference that his country will “immediately” open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem.
“Honduras will immediately open our official diplomatic mission and this will extend our embassy to the capital of Israel, Jerusalem,” Juan Orlando Hernández tells the crowd.
In the long term, Hernandez says his country will move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem once Israel opens an embassy in the Honduras capital of Tegucigalpa.
Last year, Honduras was one of only eight countries that opposed a UN General Assembly resolution condemning US President Donald Trump’s December 2017 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, along with Guatemala, Israel, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Togo
[IsraelTimes] Israeli envoy to the US tells crowd of 18,000 at AIPAC’s annual confab that re-entering the JCPOA means giving ‘hundreds of billions of dollars to people who are committed to Israel’s destruction’.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s 2019 Policy Conference kicked off Sunday. This year’s motto — “Connected for Good — is a rebuke to the controversy that has ensured the organization over the last month, after freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar accused the lobby of paying politicians to support Israel.
AIPAC is committed to emphasizing that both sides of the aisle support Israel, and perhaps mitigating the perception that Israel has become a Republican cause. “The conference will focus on further strengthening bipartisan support for the US-Israel relationship,” an AIPAC official told The Times of Israel.
Last week, Al Monitor solicited leading Democratic candidates as to whether they would rejoin the deal that Trump pulled out of. Five said they would, including Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, and California Senator Kamala Harris.
The Democratic National Committee also passed a resolution in February calling for the United States to re-enter the agreement.
[IsraelTimes] Joan Ryan says her party sank ‘so low, so fast,’ and urges lobby group to confront politicians ‘who question Israel’s right to exist, engage in anti-Semitic tropes about loyalties’.
[IsraelTimes] Steny Hoyer says comments by freshman lawmaker on dual loyalty is not representative of Democrats when it comes to Israel.
That’s certainly one perspective. But if it’s so, why was she not punished by being stripped of her committee memberships?
Hoyer also appeared to criticize Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., a Palestinian American who backs ending assistance to Israel and who plans to lead a lawmakers’ tour of the West Bank to rival the one Hoyer leads to Israel every year with the assistance of an affiliate of AIPAC, as well as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, D-N.Y., who has defended Tlaib and Omar.
“This August I will lead what I expect to be the largest delegation ever” to Israel, Hoyer said. “There are 62 freshman Democrats,” he said, and cocked his ear. “You hear me? 62 — not three.”
All the more reason to punish the three who are out of line. But y’all have not done so.
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Bless you, President Trump, for moving the Overton Window,
Dude is like the Worst Hitler Ever(tm). Interesting how a bunch of other countries are making pro-Israel moves now that our Prez has started the game. I'd hesitate to call it a preference cascade (yet!) but there does seem to be some pent-up demand.
[DAWN] Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday paid a visit to the residence of prominent religious scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani and expressed solidarity with him.
A Sindh government front man said Mr Shah told Mufti Usmani that the attack on him was actually an attack on the peace of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... "They [attackers] cannot see Karachi developing, flourishing and emerging as a peaceful place, and for terrorising people they attacked a humble, non-political, widely respected and renowned scholar like you," Mr Shah said, adding, "Almighty Allah saved you and your children."
He assured Mufti Usmani that those who attacked him would be jugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! shortly.
Mufti Usmani informed the chief minister about details of the attack he had survived.
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[DAWN] A complete shutdown was observed in India-Indian Kashmiree against the banning of Jammu and Kashmire Liberation Front (JKLF) by the Indian government, the Kashmire Media Service reported on Sunday.
New Delhi had announced a ban on the pro-independence group yesterday, as part of a crackdown on what it calls "separatist organizations".
A statement issued in Delhi said the Indian government had declared JKLF an "unlawful association" as it was trying to curb the activities of "secessionist organizations" posing a threat to the country’s unity and integrity.
The group’s leader, Yasin Malik ...chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region... , was tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! recently in a counteroffensive against dissent following a Feb 14 suicide kaboom that killed over 40 Indian soldiers in the disputed region. Over a thousand people have been arrested since then.
The call for a strike was given by the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) comprising Syed Ali Gilani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Muhammad Yasin Malik.
All shops and other business establishments were shut in Srinagar and other cities of the valley.
Indian police and paramilitary forces set up checkpoints at several places, while troops were deployed to foil possible protests in downtown Srinagar.
"The order to ban Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and JKLF is nothing but an act of political vengeance and an oppressive tactic to suppress the just movement of people of Jammu and Kashmire. The Indian government’s decision to ban the organizations peacefully striving for the resolution of Kashmire dispute, will not cow down the people," a statement from the JRL said.
The statement added that the Indian government wants to "push people towards the wall for raising the demand to get their rights but it will not make pro-freedom leadership to crumble".
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The wheels of Indian govt. turn slower than those in a moslem's brain.
[PRESSTV] The Paleostinian resistance movement Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, has rejected Israel's claim that it launched a rocket which hit a house north of Tel Aviv and maimed seven settlers.
"No one from the resistance movements, including Hamas, has an interest in firing rockets from the Gazoo Strip towards the enemy," a Hamas official, who asked not to be named, told AFP on Monday.
He added that the same message had been conveyed to Egypt, which intervened to broker a ceasefire and prevent Israel from launching another war on Gazoo after tensions escalated last year.
His remarks evoked the possibility that the rocket strike may have been caused by "bad weather."
Earlier on Monday, Israeli authorities said a long-range rocket launched from the Gazoo Strip had struck Mishmeret, a settlement north of Tel Aviv, wounding seven settlers.
Israel's military said the rocket was fired by Hamas from the Rafah area in the south of Gazoo.
The incident had forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut short his trip to Washington as he pledged to "respond with force" to the rocket attack.
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Hamas lies. Even if it wasn’t their boys and their toys — which it apparently was — they have not shut down Islamic Jihad’s boys and toys.
[IsraelTimes] Suspects charged with throwing Molotov cocktail, shooting fireworks at cops earlier this month amid soaring tensions over sacred site.
Prosecutors on Sunday indicted two Jerusalem teenagers for Molotov cocktailing a police post on the Temple Mount holy site in the capital’s Old City earlier this month.
The suspects ‐ a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old ‐ were charged with four counts of terrorist activity: using a weapon for terrorist purposes, terrorist arson, aggravated terrorist assault and aggravated attempted assault on a police officer.
The names of the teenagers and any identifying details have been barred from publication as they are minors.
On March 12, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at officers standing guard on the Temple Mount, known by Moslems as the Haram al-Sharif, leading to several arrests and low-level festivities on the platform.
Following the attack, police ordered the holy site closed until the following day, amid already high tensions at the site.
According to prosecutors, the teenagers had decided on March 5 that they would carry out an attack on the Israeli security forces guarding the Temple Mount "from a nationalistic-ideological motivation."
On March 12, one of the two teenagers approached the police post on the Temple Mount and threw the Molotov cocktail from approximately a meter away, setting fire to the reception desk, prosecutors said. One officer suffered smoke inhalation and sustained light wounds.
The suspect bravely ran away from the officers, who began chasing him, and signaled to his friend with a thumbs up to set off fireworks at the coppers.
"His friend lit the fireworks and fired them at the officers from a distance of 15 to 20 meters," according to prosecutors.
The two teenagers were placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! shortly after the attack, along with eight other people, as officers scuffled with worshipers.
Prosecutors are requesting they remain in jug through the trial.
A terrorist from Jaish Al Izza in #Idlib was raped by Turks while he was crossing Syria-Turkey border illegally. There is a chance to identify the rapists through DNA as they left themselves inside him. pic.twitter.com/napQYM1jhz
[Rudaw] Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) did not die in their thousands to defeat 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 (ISIS) in eastern Syria only to lose Kurdish-controlled Rojava to invaders, an SDF front man told Rudaw Saturday.
Kurdish-led SDF fighters were euphoric when the US-backed force announced its complete territorial victory over ISIS in the group’s last holdout of Baghouz, Deir ez-Zor province on Saturday.
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[PULSE.NG] For the millions forced to endure 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's brutal rule, life in the "caliphate" was a living hell where girls were enslaved, music was banned and homosexuality was punishable by death.
The jihadists applied an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islamic law across the swathes of Syria and Iraq that they captured in 2014, torturing or executing anyone who disobeyed.
The fall of the last sliver of IS territory in eastern Syria marks the end of their proto-state, once the size of the United Kingdom and home to more than seven million people.
The fate of prisoners used by the jihadists as human shields remains unknown, but more than 3,000 Yazidis are still missing.
The jihadists singled out the minority, followers of an ancient religion, for particularly harsh treatment which the UN has said may amount to genocide.
They slaughtered thousands of Yazidi men and boys, abducting women and girls then selling them at slave markets.
Many suffered years of sexual abuse.
"We did everything they demanded," said Bessa Hamad, an Iraqi Yazidi sold six times by jihadists before escaping their last redoubt in Syria. "We couldn't say no."
Yazidi boys who were not killed were forced to fight and indoctrinated to hate their community, leaving families struggling to reconnect with those who were rescued.
Children who went to IS-run schools learnt to count with maths books featuring guns and grenades, but pictures of people were banned.
As well as frontline fighters, IS ran its own police force, whose officers could impose fines or lashes on men whose breath smelt of cigarettes or alcohol.
Books were burned, while dancing and music were banned. Instead the jihadists broadcast propaganda via their own radio station.
The jihadists used sledgehammers to destroy priceless ancient artefacts they deemed idolatrous.
A strict dress code forced even maiden of tender yearss to wear a full black Islamic veil.
Beards and traditional robes were compulsory for men.
THROWN FROM ROOFTOPS
The snuffies ran their own courts, sentencing people to death by beheading and hanging.
Men and women accused of adultery were stoned to death. Men were shot or thrown from rooftops for the "crime" of being gay.
The jihadists even introduced their own currency, minting coins that veterans of the battle against IS now keep as trophies.
Jail terms were imposed on those unable to pay IS taxes.
Iraq's major northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Raqa in Syria were transformed into the twin de facto capitals of the "caliphate".
Raqa become a byword for atrocities carried out by the jihadists, and it was from there that IS organised devastating overseas attacks.
Human heads were displayed on spikes in the city along with crucified bodies, to sow terror.
IS initially won support from some residents who felt abandoned and abused by corrupt state authorities.
But today, those who survived its rule accuse the jihadists themselves of graft -- as well as extreme acts of violence.
IS left more than 200 mass graves in Iraq and thousands of bodies are expected to be uncovered in Syria.
Numerous women interviewed by AFP said they received IS-stamped death certificates for their executed husbands, but the jihadists would not return their bodies.
It could take years to discover what happened to some of their victims.
Some IS members leaving the group's last redoubt of Baghouz in eastern Syria have cricitised the group's leadership.
"God's law was applied," said Abdel Moneim Najia, a jihadist who stayed in what was left of the "caliphate" until its final days.
But he voiced the same grievances as Iraqis and Syrians expressed about their governments ahead of the IS takeover.
"There were injustices," he said. "Officials stole money and abandoned the people."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] As the last remnants of 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.... ’s ’caliphate’ is dealt a severe blow on the ground, sleeper cells from the group are already planning devastating Dire Revenge attacks in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and Syria, recently discovered files reveal.
The documents, obtained by the Sunday Times, show that Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) operatives are supporting jihadists to plan fresh attacks in European cities, while sleeper cells within Syria have formed hit-squads to assassinate its enemies.
The cache was contained in a hard drive dropped by an IS sleeper cell during a firefight with local forces in the Syrian desert in February.
Attesting to its authenticity, the paper said the files contained the types of meticulous detail that have become a hallmark of the group’s record keeping and bureaucracy. Lists of fighters’ names and allotted weapons were joined by budget spreadsheets and payments to fighters and their wives. Others lament the lack of availability of jacket wallahs and vehicles for use as boom-mobiles.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... more startling are letters from a senior IS leader who goes by the name Abu Taher al-Tajiki, claiming he has fighters willing to conduct operations "far away from the Islamic State" and would be in touch with them to "carry out the operations." To facilitate these attacks, he requests the setting up of a Bureau of Foreign Relations for the Department of Operations in Europe.
Other letters addressed to group leaders in Iraq and Syria by al-Tajiki proposes the establishment of what he calls "crocodile cells," called such to represent IS killers who hide beneath the surface before attacking. Their missions would involve "killing the enemies of God and taking their money." Online hackers and technicians were also available for missions without the need for weapons.
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..to be carried out by whom? Christians? Buddhists?
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The Revolution Brigade, which along with Hasm (Decisiveness or Determination) is one of the fighting arms of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, established to fight back against the overthrow of President Morsi...
Bouteflika
...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...
[Twitter] Romania PM: "I am pleased to announce today that Romania will move our embassy to Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel"
chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
PRESSTV] The Paleostinian resistance movement 
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
