Rough Translation: These are not visitors to a religious shrine, they are the the millions of volunteers at Camp Taji (Implication is that Shia are turning out in large numbers to fight ISIS)
Interesting side note: Camp Taji is where until very recently Iraq forces officer's and NCOs were trained by ahem contractors in security and tactical operations.
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FYI, from what I was told, these are mostly "former" militia members, so there is at least weapons familiarization and bit of training, with some of those actually having seen "combat". And, further data - basically this was a deliberate propaganda shot, with everyone in the region packed onteo the area shown, and not much anyone else off camera. Remember, that Iraq under Maliki has always maintained "outreach" to the regional militias across the Shia areas, so this includes very large numbers from the entire country. The Arabic in the picture captions says "millions", but I'm betting 100K+, which is in the realm of possibility for an "a;; hands" call up. Another bit of data is that this isn't just 18-329 - this is 16 to 66, so there are a LOT of why we would consider "old" guys here.
Still, its a good picture for the size of the fight the ISIS has chosen.
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One other thing - the Iraqis are set up to handle mass crowds due to the pilgrimages they see, so if they divert those supplies, they can handle large numbers. Its one of the few logistics exercises they do regularly as a society.
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No worries about the Arabic. I was posting it for the few who might be able to read the original captions that I was translating (and likely doing it inaccurately, my Arabic is so rusty that if it were a car, you'd see thru the floorboard)
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OK, so for a couple years the president of the united states has said this was a spontaneous event brought on by a video. We have the head of the state department validating the video theory and commenting that it does not matter. Literally mountains of evidence from our government leadership claiming it was spontaneous. Congress is in the middle of an investigation and the government has held their ground. Now we arrest the mastermind? The defense attorneys will make a circus out of the United States with this... They should interrogate him and throw him overboard...
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Nothing here regarding Khattala's anger of the video.
Ahmed Abu Khattala (born c. 1971) is a Islamist militia commander in Libya, a commander of Ansar al-Sharia militia. He is suspected of participating in the 2012 Benghazi attack on the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, in which the American Ambassador and three other Americans were killed.[1] In a December 2013 investigation of the attack, the New York Times described him as a central figure.[2] Abu Khattala denies killing the Americans or being part of the attack.[3]
Abu Khattala spent most of his adult life in Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, jailed by the Qaddafi government for his Islamist views.During the uprising against Qaddafi in Libya, he formed his own militia of "perhaps two dozen fighters", naming it Obeida Ibn Al Jarra for an early Islamic general.[3] He later became involved in Ansar al-Shariah, a "group of as many as 200 militants" who, had broken away from the other militias in 2012 in protest of those militia's support for parliamentary elections in Libya.[3] He opposes American involvement in Libya and in interviews with the New York Times stated that the enmity between the American government and the peoples of the world is an old case. In regards to the role of the air campaign of NATO that overthrew Colonel Qaddafi, he believes that if NATO had not intervened, God would have helped us. He also claimed that, We know the United States was working with both sides and considering splitting up" Libya.[3]
Witnesses of the September 11, 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi say they saw him leading the attack.[4] On 6 August 2013, U.S. officials confirmed that Abu Khattala had been charged with playing a significant role in the attack. According to NBC, the charges were filed under seal in Washington, DC in late July 2013.[5]
On the weekend of June 14 to June 15, 2014, U.S. special forces, in coordination with the FBI, captured him in a covert mission in Libya.[6]
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Hillary just indicated she wants the Benghazi leader tried in a US Court. These politicians are so terrorist friendly, they need to be tried in a US Military Court.
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It is not clear at the time of writing whether ISIS will launch a military attack on Baghdad, or even if it could take the heavily armed city in a pitched battle.
Unclear to some possibly. Most effective sieges leave an obvious exit and quick avenue to death. This may not end well.
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Can Iran allow this type of shit? I'd think that they would unleash pretty much anything to prevent ISIS from winning Iraq. Where is their air-force?
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Iran still has some time and it makes sense for them to wait a bit and see if we will do their job for them. That way we would both spend the money and blood and take the political heat. ISIS isn't even close to strong enough to take Baghdad. A siege might have worked in the absence of Iran, but Iran can easily break a siege when they choose to do so.
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Problem is, this has to get through the house (I predict it will), then through the Senate (where I predict it will die) and then through Obama's pen (where it will be Vetoed).
Future budget impasse and government shutdown ahead.
#2
At this point, the Dems have painted themselves in a corner. The scandals are out there. The malfeasance of the IRS is out there and since even leftists hate the IRS this issue will be difficult for the Dems to resolve without some backlash.
AND to think the compromise bill will be negotiated WHILE the Dems want to be out there campaigning and spinning and denying, this little gambit may have several tactical consequences the Dems are not going to like.
How do they defend funding of the IRS and enforcement of the individual mandate when the average guy thinks Obumblecare is a disaster and everyone wants to see the IRS strung up like Mussolini over their misuse of funds.
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There are similar bills stacked up like cords-wood at nasty Harry Rieds feet.
If you get a new Senate, they will fly like the wind.
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The next round of elections will change this, I pray. The next president will have to pardon Obama, gag-hack-choke, not unlike Ford did with Nixon. If the next president does not, we will spend the following eight years finger pointing and not moving forward.
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Harry can't pay for the IRS on his own. Let him defend their brazen lies and corruption. 15% OFF the TOP. No travel or meetings budgets. No raises. Subpoenas and jail time for obstructing justice/perjury. Take these assholes apart
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Energy costs and corn costs going up is what is adding to this. Feed is more expensive, lighting/cooling/transport is more expensive and the vet supplies (thanks to Obamacare duel use tax) is more expensive.
All that adds up to pricing meat and dairy out of more people's diets.
Of course the environmentalists and PETA will be pleased.
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These figures are not included when calculating inflation. Can't upset the Rubes, dontchaknow.
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No need to calculate food costs into inflation figures. The increase in food costs only impact those PAYING for food. The 'payers' generally vote republican anyway, so it's ok to kick them in the arse with higher prices.
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It affects (hell effects?) all of us, Besoeker, your SNAP card don't go as far. Allowances will have to be made totals upped and exceptions noted. The price of soft drinks is especially important. Warning link is to Topix. I've seen this with my own augens, at first I assumed massive Church parties. No. Incorrect.
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Champ does nothing. Holder does nothing. Congress does nothing. The FBI does nothing. There is only one thing one can conclude from this... nothingness.
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Criminals will always try to hide the evidence. What is beyond reason is the DOJ's response is accidents happen.
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Apparently Congress has cut IRS funding because they are covering up their malfeasance.
Also Congress is cutting funding to enforce Obumbletrainwreckcare for the individual mandate/looting of the middle class.
See the article on the cuts to IRS funding...heh heh heh, its going to be a hot time in the old town when the Democratic control Senate and the Republican controlled house sit down to negotiate the compromise funding bill...I'd love to be a bug on the wall as Reid goes apoplectic over that cut.
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The NSA was capturing all emails back then. Maybe they have a copy!
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Special Prosecutor. Those IRS employees responsible for the emails GO TO JAIL. The entire Fed Gov whoudl be scrubbed for emails to and from the IRS - Even in a worse case, every receiver or sender should have a copy of the emails so the only ones truly missing are those between these 6 and Lerner. EVERYONE else should be obtainable. And these 6 plus Lerner should be compelled to testify or go to jail as to exactly WHO they were emailing during that time fre - or else face obstruction of justice charges and JAIL TIME.
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I have the same look on my face over this as when I find my kids all covered in chocolate Ice cream and they are denying eating it while I was gone. Fortunately my kids grew out of it.
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"It was an accident, we left our automatic SPAM filters on, really."
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There are a lot of IT people on this blog, would you talk? Under penalty of perjury? I sure as hell would, a boss favor is one thing, perjury is an entirely different ballgame. I'd make that clear to my boss's in short order.
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They are going to line up and, in harmony, "Under advisement of my attorney, I am seeking protection under the 5th Amendment to our constitution and refuse to answer any question".
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strip them of their positions and pensions. PMITA prison time
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Offer the IT guys immunity for testifying. Those that don't accept line up against a wall and shoot. Keep working up the management chain.
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This is way too obvious; I feel like we're being set up for some kind of exculpatory documents on this one point, which will then be held as grounds for dismissing all accusations.
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Next question to ask. Does congress and doj have backups to their emails? If yes then search all those emails for the Lerner and company. The emails were sent to someone in congress and doj to iron out the shenanigans.
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There are a lot of IT people on this blog, would you talk? Under penalty of perjury?
It's easy for me to sit here and say I'd be singing like a canary but you never know what kind of threats have been issued. Then you start thinking about your wife and kids and grand kids. I could see myself sitting in front of a congressional committee all tied up in personal conflict knots and trying to summon the courage to do the right thing. Think about it. If your bosses are desperate enough to lie such a preposterous lie, what else might they do?
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Actually, I've given it some thought. My strategy would be to never go to work for those bastards in the first place. You know, you lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas.
The United States has misunderstood everyone in the world outside its borders and mismanaged everything. It has done so with a bipartisan consensus so broad and deep that it has no opposition except simple-minded isolationism. America gets unwanted results most recently in Iraq - because it wants the wrong things in the first place. And there seems to be no way to persuade Americans otherwise. The crumbling of the Iraqi state will provide yet another pretext for mutual recriminations among political parties. The trouble is that both parties wanted the wrong thing to begin with.
Very long. Some selected paragraphs
...On the left, we have the likes of Obama's so-called national security team, including human-rights dabblers like Samantha Power and Ben Rhodes. On the right we have the neoconservatives, who believe that Being Determines Consciousness (democratic institutions will make people into democrats), and Catholic natural law theory, which boils down to the assertion that unaided human reason will lead everyone to the Western idea of individual liberty and democratic governance.
...None of this will change in face of practical consequences, even the direst ones. The Republican foreign policy establishment will blame Obama for the stupidity of leaving Iraq without a modest American military force; there will be no introspection, no reflection of the errors that plagued American intervention from the outset. It isn't only that too many careers and too much political capital is at stake: Americans simply don't want to think about the world as it actually is.
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Americans simply don't want to think about the world as it actually is.
How can they? They're not taught real history. They have no record to go on other than what they recall in their own lifetime and what the Marxist infused academia/media tell them.
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FTA: "No-one could have gone to American universities and recruited the soldiers, spies and diplomats to execute a plan which preferred the slow and inevitable spread of human misery to a cataclysmic alternative."
Especially now when the domestic economy is faced with the same two miserable choices. Better to keep kicking the can down the road.
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Americans may not be taught real history, but the underlying problem is, they don't care about it, and would much rather pursue other interests. They are like perpetual children. 2000 years ago, Cicero nailed it: Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
I don't know how people can be taught to appreciate history. However, Cicero also said, Where there's life, there's hope.
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"It is a fool's errand to stabilize them [Muslim states]; the best one can do is to prevent their problems from spilling over onto us."
If only. Open borders and feel-good immigration standards don't do much for us or The U.S.
Uyghurs? Aren't they Harry Reid's bestest buddies?
I also doubt the framers could process our current predicament of importing Somali's just to have them go back and raise hell under the banner of Allen. And then come back.
#8
I'm doing my darnedest from deep in red-state Texas, writing historical fiction.
Look, what most people take away from history classes in school is outright bunk ... politically-correct, chewed-to-mush grey goo muck. What they take away from the major pop-media organs is more of the same. What I would say is to support those creators who are working outside the box - indy-published authors, self-financed move makers, amateur historians of every stripe, right down to the local reenactors.
Despair is a sin. Lie down and bleed a bit if you must, but get up and fight again. Isn't our past, our people, our history WORTH fighting for?
*steps down from soap-box*
All right, back to the polite and well-meaning civil discourse.
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Once upon a time america knew those in other countries were messed up. We all come from folks that risked all to flee those places. It is only recently that we doubted that opinion but i believe the middle east has restored that opinion.
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I was unaware the average people of any country had any effing clue about anything. Apparently that's a uniquely American trait and we should all slit our wrists in angst over it.
2000 years ago, Cicero nailed it: Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
And the average Roman in the street during Cicero's time knew little more about history than the myths and legends he heard around the family hearth.
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The bad news for ISIL is no outlet to the ocean and, IIRC, that part of the country is not where most of the oil is. Skirting Baghdad and moving for Basra might be the best strategy. But then, IRGC might be waiting for them in Basra.
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that part of the country is not where most of the oil is.
Mosul has plenty of oil and Baiji has a very large refinery. whether or not ISIS takes over the oil fields, Iraq can kiss much of its oil revenue good bye.
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Borders of ISIS area are bit out of date - the Kurds have already pushed them back from Kirkuk and are pushing into Salaheddin. And Samarra is very much contested, not ISIS. Fallujah and Ramadi on the other hand,basically flipped sided without a shot being fired. Sunni generals there pretty much turned their troops over.
[MoscowTimes] An 18-year-old Russian student on exchange in Britannia has been charged with manufacturing an explosive, after a bomb scare sparked the evacuation of Newcastle University last week.
Chechen, perhaps? Or just a dumb college kid with a taste for explosives, the kind that goes on to become chemists?
The student, who also faces charges of possessing a blade in a public place, has been remanded in jug and will appear before magistrates in London on Tuesday, the regional counter-terrorist police were quoted as saying by Britannia's The Guardian.
The unidentified Russian man, who was studying at Newcastle University in Britannia, was detained following reports of "suspicious items" on Tuesday, prompting police to evacuate students from their halls of residence, before bomb disposal experts were dispatched to the scene, the report said.
A controlled kaboom was later carried out on a nearby moor.
Another evacuation was initiated two days later, but student were allowed to return to their accommodation shortly afterwards, the report added.
A second Russian man, also aged 18, was also tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in connection with the incident and remains on police bail pending further enquiries, the report said.
[Fox] A friend who served with Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi in Afghanistan said the Marines mother is working with American officials to secure him a new lawyer after the family fired a second attorney last week, and that Tahmooressi is growing increasingly despondent behind bars. I hope and pray he doesn't take his own life.
#1
Obama throws open the border to hordes of children, gang members, cartels, terrorists but he can't apply pressure on the Mexican government to get this Marine back. WTF?
#2
Be a shame if the Mesicans woke up tomorrow morning and discovered the Ready Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division enjoying a cup of hot joe in dug positions around that nice new prison.
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#3, something like that almost happened once, when they moved a cav regiment to Fort Bliss. Let's just say, it took the officers to shut down the motor pool where some engines where already running.
The sergeant is a pawn in a game. The Mexicans are mad with hundreds of deaths from Fast&Furious(tm DOJ). Maybe they want something. At this point, I don't think the WH is willing to ship Holder south. Maybe the next prez will honor an extradition request.
#7
No, unfortunately it won't happen Rich. American exceptionalism, national sovereignty, and pride must be extinguished under a new wave of Hope and Change. Americans must be harnessed with guilt, embarrassed, and belittled; made to pay for our oppressive, colonial racist past. Our once mighty industrial capability must be moved offshore, our energy industry nationalized. Jobs must be eliminated and replaced with gov't subsidy, dependence, and control. The oppressors must pay, their property seized and redistributed accordingly.
Those who cannot understand the regime's strategy and plan are the problem. Thankfully, they are growing old and will eventually die off. Few will remember the old ways. The 'new normal' will have arrived.
#8
The Mexican Government doesn't care about the Fast and Furious deaths enough to actually want to fight Obama and Holder. Since Obama and Holder are on their side in selling out the country to them. So they'll fuck over some honorably discharged sergeant with a politically motivated trial while they ignore the people who actually committed the crimes.
In 1954 Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million illegal Mexicans. The program was called Operation Wetback. It was done so WWII and Korean War veterans would have a better chance at jobs. It took two years, but they deported them! Presidents Hoover and Truman and conducted similar, orderly deportations as I recall.
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Want Mexico to release him? Do these two things tomorrow and he will be out in a few days: all western union money transfers from US to Mexico to an escrow account until released. All flights from US to Mexico cancelled until he is released.
#4
I respectfully disagree with Amb. Bolton. Too many decent Iraqis were willing to believe us; too many decent Iraqis just want to build their country. They need one more chance at it.
And second, this matter is correctly seen as a test of will and fortitude. Our country needs to rise above our current president in that regard.
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Why is Obama letting Congress know now? He had never liked doing that before. Lord, things are bad when you distrust the President as much as the enemy.
#6
So lemme get this straight: We like the Sunnis in Syria but not Iraq, is that it? Oh, but there were other Sunnis in Syria who were not ISIL? How's that working? I'm guessing not so well. Who do the Soddies like? But then we might need Iranians to help us in Iraq? What will the Soddies think?
I'm sorry about those Iraqis who believed us. We gave them a chance and they blew it. Next time they'll know better and maybe we will too...unless we have another dumbass president like Obama...or McCain...or Hildebeast...or Bush. I believed Bush then. Fool me once. Well, after 9/11 we had to smack somebody. But this time I'll pass.
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@6 - So lemme get this straight: We like the Sunnis in Syria but not Iraq
Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge, which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.
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We can dither, but in the end - convert, submit or die. We can chose the time and place or allow them to. Because: Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-harb: The House of Islam vs The House of War; Jiahad is Holy War, a divine right.
Dar al-harb, the House of War, who remain outside the Islamic frontier, and with whom therefore there is in principle, a canonically obligatory perpetual state of war until the whole world is either converted or subjugated.
We are at War with Global Jiahad. We're best served if we do not forget. We may avoid it for a time. But thinking this is simply a Middle East ploblem that will stay contained are forgetting lessons learned.
We are watching the largest mobilization in a generation of volunteers traveling abroad to join a war. An estimated 11,000 foreign fighters have been mobilized in Syria, according to a just-published study by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (PDF). More than a quarter of those combatants are from Western countries, mostly from Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Belgium. Australians, Canadians and U.S. citizen also have joined the ranks.
They pray for our destruction everyday. Multiple times. It's not just prayers, they actualize plans. Allowing jiahadi groups to fester, allows them to grow in strength. We are already late to the party and should have struck their bases months ago. The massacres and Civil War we're seeing are of no surprise and were telegraphed.
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We are not entirely blameless for the current situation. Our missteps in Libya and our fumbling in Syria helped to arm ISIS. Not to mention our freckless foreign policy. We can ignore it, but that doesn't stop the genocide. Vatican Radio: Mosul now emptied of Christians, says Archbishop. Nor will it stop global jiahad.
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If we'd stayed and forced a Status of Forces Agreement that we could work with, that would be one thing (ISIL would not be in the position they are now, and, perhaps, I'm dreaming, but Maliki would have been curbed), but at this point I'm not sure what we will gain. ISIL is going to run out of steam before long. I doubt they have the organization to rule that much territory and should fall to infighting quickly. Maliki and our president are turds for letting this happen, but happen it did. If we go back in, we lose with almost any plausible outcome.
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mossomo, on the larger global jihad issue, I am totally with you. But our willingness to address that in the scope and ferocity required will not happen until we take another major hit. It is too far away, too unreal for most in this country to even imagine and our local religious leadership don't seem to care much about the Christians around the world who are slaughtered each day. Impolite to raise objections about other religions don't ya know.
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#12 .. "Dar al-harb, the House of War, who remain outside the Islamic frontier, and with whom therefore there is in principle, a canonically obligatory perpetual state of war until the whole world is either converted or subjugated. " is correct. So: while Dar al-Harb is killing itself why should we interfere?
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If Champ had any intention of assisting the Iraqi's, he would not have put the 275 troops under command & control of the Ambassador. Some type of special Joint Task Force would have been established. My suspicion is the 275 are the ADVON for a Non-Combatant Evacuation (NEO), nothing more.
#5
Behold the sins of our fathers revisited. The unintended consequences of cheap labor, multiculturalism, and affirmative action. The demographic formula is well proven. We continue to embrace cultural suicide on our southern border. The pace of decline appears to be accelerating.
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For this critique to be sound the author is forced to mass credit to that of a leader. To be clear, President Obama is a sap, a stooge, and a patsy. Obama has no discernable convictions much less the passion and determination to carry them through. In marketing terms hes the message not the product. In a sense he is the slogan Hope and Change and all that rot. To attribute strategies and vision to a man with demonstrable symptoms of clinical narcissism is beyond naďve. Obama simply advances an amalgamation of policies that has festered for decades in the realm of progressive international statists. Current events mirror our history replete with failures as a result of such ideologies. By definition he is hardly a leader. One might say Mr. Obamas title is now best that of an international community organizer.
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#5 you forgot the over-zealous or manic protection + empowerment of the Soon-to-be-Global US Welfare-Nanny State + Marxism-based National, Global Socialism to the point of existentially risking the national security of the US + Western World.
* GROONG > [ICH = Global Research] THE DESTRUCTION + FRAGMENTTAION OF IRAQ: TOWARD THE CREATION OF A US-SPONSORED [Nuclear?]ISLAMIST CALIPHATE.
* GLOBAL TIMES > VIEWPOINT: US UNDER OBAMA RELUCTANT TO STOP MAKING MESSES ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
* RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > AMERICA'S TRUE GOAL IN THE MIDDLE EAST - CHAOS.
[DAWN] TWO important speeches yesterday came perhaps a day later than they ideally should have, but the remarks of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and army chief Gen Raheel Sharif ought to be examined closely for what was said as well as what was left out. To begin with, there does seem to be some kind of minimal consensus at last between the civilian and military leadership on how to tackle the threat of militancy. As Prime Minister Sharif himself admitted in parliament, months of trying to secure peace through dialogue have come to naught while Pakistain continued to bleed and hurt because of myrmidon violence. Similarly, the army chief reinforced earlier comments by the military's public relations wing that the North Wazoo operation is a broad-based one and not limited in nature and scope against only a subset of myrmidons. Taken together, the civilian and military leadership's comments suggest a turning point in the fight against militancy -- at least as far as state policy is concerned.
Yet, as ever, the country's leadership has been unnecessarily parsimonious in sharing real-time information and fleshing out rhetorical claims. For example, while the public should not realistically expect information on battlefield plans and actions, details on casualties, civilian and military, are a public right. Similarly, what of the hundreds of thousands of civilians believed to be in North Waziristan? Will they be left to fend for themselves or is there a plan to ease the suffering of the new IDPs? Even more fundamentally, perhaps details on who the hard boyz are, the names and identities of the various groups in North Waziristan and an explicit statement that the named and identified groups are to be targeted would go a long way in putting to rest much of the speculation about whether the country's security-policy architects have finally abandoned good/bad myrmidon distinctions.
Ultimately though, a coherent policy against militancy comes down to two factors: the army-led security establishment abandoning policies of old and the country's civilian leadership rallying the nation and political class together to hold firm against the myrmidon threat, even if it means intense short-term blowback. For now, perhaps the state is showing the unity that the country has long needed to see. But will the political unity -- even Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... has accepted the operation in North Waziristan -- hold firm in the weeks and months ahead when the natural ebb and flow of the fight against militancy causes second-guessing and doubts to be sown? As for the military, with one of the army's long-standing allies, the Haqqani network, firmly ensconced in North Waziristan, will the operation really be the all-out assault or will deals be cut on the side that will leave North Waziristan festering for years, much like parts of South Waziristan has since the major ground operation there at the start of the decade?
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[Ynet] Forces load concrete barricades loaded trucks, spread out bulldozers, prepares to impose closure on one of the largest cities in the West Bank
The IDF is making preparations for the siege of Hebron, as part of a massive manhunt led following the kidnapping of three Israeli teens who disappeared while hitchhiking in the West Bank on Thursday night.
IDF forces have loaded concrete barricades on trucks and spread out bulldozers in the city. In addition, Paleostinian sources reported Sunday that all the main entrances to the city were blocked by the IDF with concrete blocks.
A Paleostinian source told Ynet earlier Sunday that the IDF has set up a large number of roadblocks around Hebron. According to the same source, IDF forces are not allowing entry or exit to or from the city.
A senior General Staff source said on Sunday that in terms of professionalism, the kidnapping is of the highest level. According to him, the IDF estimate that the abductees were not transferred to the Gazoo Strip or to Sinai, "but we are prepared for that option." He added that "we are employing all the special units and means to locate them.
"We practiced scenarios of such kidnapping attacks in recent months, including six weeks ago in Ariel, together with the police. We also drew conclusions from the murder of IDF soldier Tomer Hazan.
The same source did not directly criticize the police, that did not begin searching for the teens or inform the IDF of the kidnapping possibility when it first received such information, shortly after 10 pm on Thursday night; however, between the lines, such criticism can be detected. "We in the IDF became aware of the missing boys in the early hours of Friday, and as soon as we receive such information we treat it seriously and work quickly to rule out the possibility of an innocent absence."
"We immediately realized that it was serious and hurried to activate the relevant systems. Whoever needs to investigate his moves should do so. It should be understood that the area in which these (teens) are missing is Judea and Samaria, and accordingly not use the 12-hour-wait procedure," the senior source said.
The senior source further added that "the legitimacy within the Paleostinian public and the motivation of terrorist organization to conduct kidnapping attacks is high. Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, is in a difficult position in Judea and Samaria and is struggling to launch attacks.
"Were it able to, it would have launched dozens of suicide kabooms, kidnappings, and shooting attacks in Israel. It is at a rough condition and under pressure from intelligence. We haven't seen foot dragging of the Paleostinian Authority towards Hamas, ahead of this incident. They don't work for us, but we identify common interests."
He added that: "I don't see any connection between the comprehensive processes of terror and the Fatah-Hamas unity government, and I don't identify any attempts by murderous Moslem Jewish activists to act now. Concrete appeals have been made to the communities about the threat of abductions, in recent months as well, and this attack has the potential of creating an escalation."
Israel has reportedly enlisted the aid of Egypt in the search for the three missing Israeli teens -- Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer, and Naftali Frenkel -- that have been missing since Thursday evening, Egyptian newspaper Ash-Shuruk reported Sunday morning.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that "Hamas people" are those who carried out the kidnapping of the Israeli three teens on Thursday evening. "This has severe repercussions," Netanyahu clarified.
"Those who perpetrated the abduction of our youths were members of Hamas -- the same Hamas that Abu Mazen (Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ) made a unity government with; this has severe repercussions."
Hamas denied the accusations made by Prime Minister Netanyahu that it was behind the abduction of the three Israeli teenagers.
Sami Abu Zohari, the Hamas front man in the Gazoo Strip, termed Netanyahu's statements as "foolish". He noted that while the arrests carried out by IDF troops of Hamas people intend to break them, Israel will not succeed in doing so.
IDF soldiers tossed in the clink Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! 80 Paleostinians in the West Bank overnight Saturday, including senior Hamas members and Paleostinian politicians, and placed a closure on Hebron and Bethlehem.
Among those arrested was senior Hamas activist Hassan Yusef, a former spokesperson for Hamas who is considered one of the organization's spiritual leaders, and members of the Paleostinian Parliament Fathi Muhammad Ali Qar'awi, Hassan al-Bourini, Abdel-Rahman Zidan and Khaled Abu Arafa.
[AnNahar] Jordan released a leading jihadist ideologist, who was once mentor to Iraq's now slain al-Qaeda leader, on Monday after he completed a jail sentence for recruiting fighters for the Taliban, his lawyer said.
Issam Barqawi, known as Abu Mohammed al-Maqdessi, "was released from jail today and he is with his family now," lawyer Majed Leftawi told Agence La Belle France Presse.
One of Maqdessi's brothers said he had "just arrived home."
Maqdessi was enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in 2011 for "recruiting people in Jordan to join the Taliban in Afghanistan as well as terrorist organizations."
He was also found guilty of "collecting funds for terrorist groups to carry out acts that would harm Jordan and its ties with other countries."
Maqdessi was a mentor to al-Qaeda's infamous Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before the two men fell out.
Zarqawi achieved notoriety for a spate of videotaped executions of Western hostages in Iraq before his death in in a U.S. air strike northeast of Storied Baghdad in 2006.
In 1992, Jordanian-born Zarqawi met Maqdessi and later joined his Sunni Death Eater group Jaish Mohammed (Mohammed's Army).
The pair was detained in Jordan for five years for membership of an outlawed Islamist organization but freed as part of a general amnesty in 1999.
The two later fell out over "ideological differences," and aides said Maqdessi repeatedly denounced Zarqawi.
Maqdessi was nabbed Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! again in Jordan in 2005 after remarks he made to Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... television, but was released in 2008 for "humanitarian reasons" after going on hunger strike.
[Iraq Sun] Iraq has claimed to have taken back much of the territory taken by forces of Evil who seized all of one province and some other parts of the country last week.
In an offensive that was launched last Monday, the myrmidons, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) over-ran vast swathes of land and infrastructure, including oil facilities, while Iraqi security forces performed badly, with some discarding uniforms to avoid violence and retaliation.
Many Iraqi soldiers are missing following a round of hostage taking.
Images of Iraqi soldiers were released on an ISIS Twitter feed on the weekend. In many cases the photographs were of soldiers being tortured by the bully boys.
Some photos were of dead soldiers being trodden on or violently kicked.
There have been many complaints to Twitter about the images as violent pictures and messages violate the site's policies.
There are fears the Sunni forces of Evil may have killed many Iraqi soldiers, possibly near the town of Tikrit, 150 kilometres north of the capital Storied Baghdad.
Militants seized Tikrit last week after first taking control of Iraq's second largest city, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , in the offensive that some prompted Iraqi soldiers to lay down their weapons.
Much of the crisis has been blamed on global neglect of Syria's civil war, which has seen the springing up of Sunni jihadist forces.
While Washington has responded to the sweeping crisis by deploying an aircraft carrier to the Gulf, Iran, which has become involved in helping Storied Baghdad, has warned any more foreign military intervention could lead to other conflict.
On Sunday, Storied Baghdad expressed confidence it would be able to repel the al-Qaeda inspired ISIS with the help of Iraqi commanders and its own forces.
It has been reported Iraqi soldiers recaptured two towns north of Storied Baghdad on the weekend with large myrmidon tolls.
Following the battles, security front man for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Lieutenant General Qassem Atta, appeared on television to say the government had managed to overturn the push by forces of Evil with the help of the army of volunteers, who had been spurred on by a call to arms.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... some volunteers were killed on Sunday in the town of Khales in central Iraq, when a recruitment centre came under mortar attack.
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[Iraq Sun] As Iraq struggles to stop an insurgency by Islamist murderous Moslems, its autonomous region Kurdistan is ramping up independent oil exports, with a third tanker set to load a cargo of crude from its disputed pipeline.
The third tanker is scheduled to depart Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan on June 22 carrying oil pumped through Kurdistan's new pipeline, which by-passes Storied Baghdad, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Monday.
Iraqi Kurdistan began independent pipeline exports via Turkey in May, despite protests from Storied Baghdad which claims it has the sole authority to sell Iraqi oil via state-marketer SOMO.
Oil flows through the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) pipeline to Turkey have continued uninterrupted despite a lighting advance by Sunni turbans in northern Iraq that threatens to dismember the OPEC country.
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#1
So maybe the Turks get a piece of the action, maybe they can come to a mutual with the Kurds, Turkish Kurds stay in Turkey, everything else open for business. You know? Turkish Kurds allowed to leave but not to take their land with them, a good deal for all parties. Money is made, life continues. There are Tomatoes.
The House Oversight Committee released a new report called "How Politics Led the IRS to Target Conservative Tax-Exempt Applicants for their Political Beliefs" The purpose of the report is to show how political rhetoric led led to the IRS scandal
#5
Perhaps next April we can all apply for a six month filing extension due to the loss of 1099's and electronic records. That should get someone's attention.
#6
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The very concept that the writers of the Constitution had in mind in accepting some social injustice to avoid absolute political corruption they had seen evolve in human history.
#7
As symbol of state, the bald eagle,
Though a scavenger, looks mighty regal;
For a sign you can trust
Of a nation more just,
Try the locusts who'll make us all equal.
[Ynet] Ali Abdel-Latif al-Awoor was riding cycle of violence with uncle, was maimed in a June 11 strike; uncle Mohammed al-Woor killed on the spot.
Score one more for the good guys!
A seven-year-old boy has died of wounds suffered in an Israeli air strike that killed his uncle, a Paleostinian turban, as they were riding on a cycle of violence in the Gazoo Strip, relatives and hospital officials said on Sunday.
Human shield. At least he took a relative, and not some fatherless child off the street.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the death of the boy, Ali Abdel-Latif al-Awoor, whom hospital officials said succumbed on Saturday to multiple shrapnel injuries from the June 11 strike that killed Mohammed al-Woor, 33.
Shortly after Wednesday's attack, the military said it had targeted the turban over his involvement in rocket strikes on Israel.
There'll be more where that came from for a while, but it doesn't hurt to get rid of the most skilled, affecting the quality of training of those that follow. Look for more rockets that miss Israel completely, hitting either Gaza or another country -- the longer range ones might land in Lebanon!
Relatives said Ali's father had asked the uncle to give the boy a ride on the cycle of violence to Beit Lahiya, the northern Gazoo town where the family lives.
Suuuure they did.
Militants said Awoor belonged to a pro-al-Qaeda Salafi group.
Al Qaeda in the Sinai Peninsula, then?
Israel has said it seeks to avoid civilian casualties in strikes against snuffies it believes are behind rocket attacks from the Gazoo Strip.
A pious sentiment. But now is the time to clear the decks of both Palestinian entities, while Iran and Hizb'allah are otherwise occupied. Remember, the original plan was an encirclement by Hizb'allah on one side and Hamas on the other, together shooting off some 150,000 rockets currently staged for the event. if I recall the big number correctly, while Iran readied the coup de gras of those first nuclear bombs. Or so it seems to me, in my ignorance of matters military.
[Libya Herald] In a swinging attack on Ansar Al-Sharia, Operation Dignity leader General General Khalifa Hafter warned today that foreign bully boyz who did not quit Libya would die here.
"All gunnies who have entered Libya should leave it or they will be buried in it" he said in an interview on the Al-Arabiya TV channel.
He also accused Qatar of being behind a plot to kill him. "The liquidation attempt that targeted us was carried out by Ansar Al-Sharia and supported and planned by Qatar and Libyan Fighting Group. It was an unsuccessful attempt".
Hafter told the interviewer: "We are stronger than before in the level of equipment and forces and we do not need any support because the men and munitions are available".
He added:"I assure you that 80 percent of the members of the Libyan air force, naval and army, are all with Operation Dignity. Very few who are working in the state cannot contribute and our numbers are increasing every day."
Later at a presser Hafter assured Libyans that Operation Dignity was gaining ground in its battle against terror and pledged to support democracy as the country moved toward the parliamentary election on 25 June.
He asked for border closures everywhere to contain the militias.
"We are progressing swiftly and gaining huge victories on the ground," he said. "All that we ask for now is to close the borders to prevent the gangs from fleeing or receiving support from outside."
He said that he recognised the efforts of Chad, Niger, Egypt and Sudan over the past few months, who, he maintained, had all tightened up security at their borders, making it difficult for gangs to move in and out.
"We are taking the gangs step by step," he explained. "They have not yet experienced the true meaning of war," he threatened.
The general also lauded the Supreme Court of Libya, "which proved that it has the final call on all disputes across the country," and expressed his appreciation for the Court's decision on 9 June.
Greeting President Sisi and the Egyptian people, he expressed confidence in the new president, a man who "has come at just the right time--the perfect man in the perfect place".
Claiming to be watching its every move, the general reminded Libyans that Ansar Al-Sharia has done nothing but kill, pointing out that, besides the security forces the group had targeted doctors, journalists and farmers. "Therefore," he said, "we shall speak the same language that they do".
He ended by assuring the public that Operation Dignity had not received any funding from outside of Libya.
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[Ynet] IDF's wave of arrests continues as 40 Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members have been placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Monday night throughout the West Bank, said a military source. According to him the number is expected to reach 50.
[Ynet] Finance minister reaches deal with defense officials: NIS 1 billion to IDF in exchange for vacating Sde Dov base to build apartments.
And about bloody time, too. Literally.
The long budget battle between the security establishment and the Finance Ministry ended on Monday when finance officials announced that they settled on a compromise with the Defense Ministry.
The Defense Ministry agreed to vacate the military section of Tel Aviv's Sde Dov airport by 2017 and in return will receive a billion shekels injection to the 2014 budget.
Some 16,000 apartments will be built on the civilian and military sections of the small airport.
The Defense Ministry also announced that it agreed to refrain from requesting additional budget injections during the 2014 fiscal year, but due to the kidnapping in the West Bank -- and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz expected an extended operation -- there is no guarantee this commitment will hold.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!... the billion shekels transferred to the IDF will allow training sessions to resume as planned, including the training and operational flights cancelled because of the budget crisis.
A defense source stressed that there was no connection between the large-scale operation to return the three kidnapped boys and the agreement reached between the two ministries: "The agreement was settled as part of both ministries' determination to prevent the prolonged media brawl."
He emphasized the billion shekels will allow the IDF to "complete its planned trainings and operations for 2014 in a sufficient manner."
For several months, the two ministries conducted a mudslinging campaign over the IDF's request for NIS 2.75 billion injection to its budget for the year. In recent weeks defense officials announced the cancellations of training sessions, cutbacks for career soldiers, grounding of flights, and a significant decline in the Israeli military's ability to combat future threats.
Last month, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz broke his silence on the affair. "As of now, planned reservist trainings will be cancelled for the rest of year."
Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) hit back against the defense establishment, saying "There will be never be efficient management in the army if they'll get more money every time they yell, 'Daddy, Daddy'."
[DAWN] Seven more Death Eaters were killed in exchange of fire when trying to flee from cordoned off area in North Wazoo on Monday evening, taking the total toll to 187 since Saturday night when operation Zarb-e-Azb was launched.
"Fire exchange took place in which two soldiers also embraced shahadat (martyrdom)," said a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
Earlier in the day, 13 bad boyz were potted in the Shawal area of North Waziristan tribal region. Six soldiers were also killed in the tribal agency when a planted bomb went kaboom! on the Pak-Afghan border.
The operation was launched against foreign and local gunnies hiding in sanctuaries in North Waziristan, a week after a brazen myrmidon attack on the country's busiest airport in 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... .
Seven more Death Eaters killed in fire exchange
Seven more Death Eaters were killed in exchange of fire when trying to flee from cordoned off area in North Waziristan on Monday evening, said the ISPR blurb. Two Pakistain Army soldiers were also killed in the fire exchange, it added.
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[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: Militants in Bara on Sunday slaughtered a local resident after abducting him from Matani area of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
Sources in Akkakhel area of Bara said that activists of Bara-based krazed killer group Lashkar-e-Islam had kidnapped Khayal Mohammad from Matani area of Peshawar a few days ago.
They said that beheaded body of Mr Khayal was found near a petrol pump in Akkakhel on Sunday morning with a written warning that those not following the orders of Kamdar, a local LI commander, would meet the same fate.
The sources said that the dear departed belonged to Zaodin Zakhakhel tribe and was a resident of Sheen Qamar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking... health authorities postponed the planned two-day anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... campaign in Bara till Monday.
They had earlier announced to conduct polio vaccination in all parts of Bara on the pattern of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... 's 'Sehat ka Insaf' programme.
They had then said that around 35,000 children under five years of age would be vaccinated in the two days campaign to be carried out in four phases on every Saturday and Sunday.
The first phase on June 7 and 8 was successfully completed, but the second phase which was scheduled for June 14 and 15 would now be conducted on Monday and Tuesday.
Agency Surgeon Dr Rehman said that though they were not given any specific reason for the change in vaccination schedule, they intended to achieve their target of vaccinating 120,000 children across Bara in next three phases.
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[Ynet] As the IDF scours the West Bank for missing teens, Jerusalem worries that extremism has found a partner in Paleostinian unity.
Dear Palestinians,
You blew it. You kept refusing to close the deal, hoping the world would force us into an agreement that was unsurvivable, and now it's too late. The world is much, much too busy facing real problems of their own, and no longer have any attention or money for you.
And we have more urgent concerns.
So stew in your own juices, guys. Because we simply do not care.
Most sincerely,
Israel
In Israel, the general consensus is that Thursday's kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers near Hebron was carried out by local Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operatives and that these operatives had no connection to the leaders of Hamas in Gazoo. It appears as though investigations are already in very advanced stages although there is no certainty among Israel's leaders of the outcome.
In any case, the security apparatus assumes that the boys are alive and is acting accordingly. This assumption also has clear implications in the field of military operations - for example, searches and arrests are carried out with the teens' safety in mind preventing certain actions that could be taken if the end goal was only to catch the perpetrators.
It's presumed that the kidnappers and those who worked with them are afraid that the IDF and Shin Bet are closing in on them, getting closing every moment, and therefore they are doing their based to hide beneath the radar.
This could be the reason that the perpetrators aren't going public with any demands, a move that would be expected in the case that the kidnap was successful and the teens were still alive. Meanwhile security officials suspect that the kidnappers are still holding the captured teens in Judea and Samaria.
While searches and arrests continue based on intelligence information, a "counterterrorism" operation is being executed against Hamas' civilian foundation in the West Bank and Jerusalem. A security bigshot explained that these actions are carried out in the presence of a rising wave of murderous Moslem Islam in Syria and Iraq.
The rapid spread of forces in Iraq that originated in unity with al-Qaeda leads to the great fear in Israel that global jihad will find its way into the territories of Judea and Samaria. Some senior politicians can be heard suggesting that the abduction and the events in Iraq prove that the security arrangements that the Americans insisted upon in peace talks with the Paleostinians, especially those connected to the IDF's presence in the Jordan Valley, won't be enough to ensure security.
The abduction of Israeli teenagers is testament that similar developments could progress in the West Bank as a result of actions from the murderous Moslem Islamists, especially now that a reconciliation agreement has been reached between Fatah and Hamas, now controlling territories in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem.
The action against Hamas' civilian base serves a few purposes. These include applying pressure to give up intelligence information and to punish Hamas for their support and performance of kidnapping. The arrests of senior politicians linked to Hamas are intended to give Israel a sustainable bargaining position if they are forced to negotiate for the teens' release.
Finally, government officials in Jerusalem openly admit that the abduction provides a rich opportunity to de-legitimize the Paleostinian reconciliation deal on the international stage.
[AnNahar] The UAE and the United States agreed on Monday to cooperate to prevent "terrorist" groups from using the Gulf state's finance sector, according to a statement from the U.S. Treasury.
This could prove amusing... for some parties.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan agreed to cooperate more closely "to disrupt terrorist support networks" in talks in Abu Dhabi.
They "stressed the importance of ensuring the United Arab Emirates' financial system is closed off to the broad range of terrorist and criminal groups," the statement said.
The meeting comes as nine men stand trial in Abu Dhabi for allegedly forming "al-Qaeda cell" accused of supporting al-Nusra Front, the jihadist network's Syrian affiliate.
Among other charges, the men are accused of having "financed al-Nusra Front," state news agency WAM said.
The officials also discussed improving economic ties between the countries, the Treasury statement said, as well as the situation in Iraq, where a krazed killer offensive led by jihadists has seen chunks of the country fall out of government control.
Sheikh Mohammed and Lew "underscored the importance of Iraqi leaders unifying the country and close cooperation throughout the region to confront terrorist groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... ," the statement said.
The UAE's has so far not issued an official statement on the situation in Iraq, but 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 Qatar have blamed the unrest on what they called the "sectarian" policies of the Shiite-led government in Storied Baghdad against the Sunni Arab minority.
Lew also thanked the UAE for its "cooperation on Iran," saying the United States and other world powers who began a new round of nuclear talks with the Islamic Theocratic Republic in Vienna on Monday "are focused on reaching a comprehensive solution that prevents Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon."
Iran's Gulf Arab neighbors have been wary of Tehran's nuclear ambitions but have officially welcomed talks aimed at striking a long-term compromise.
[Ynet] At Israel's request, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi gave national security forces in Egypt the green light to intervene in Israel's abduction crisis and contact anyone connected to the abduction of the three Israeli teens, reported Ma'an, the Paleostinian news agency, quoting government officials in Cairo.
According to the report, al-Sisi's orders were to "cooperate with legitimate Paleostinian sources to solve the crisis".
[AnNahar] Some 100 men from the Syrian city of Homs, who turned themselves in after escaping an army siege, have been sent to perform their military service, the governor said Monday.
Activists expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the fate of the men, with one warning that "there is a real chance they might get assassinated".
Homs governor Talal al-Barazi told Agence La Belle France Presse that the 118 men, who had been held at the city's Al-Andalus school, had been "freed" under a government amnesty announced last week.
But he added that all the men would be sent to the army to either begin or complete their military service.
"One hundred and eighteen men who were being held in the Al-Andalus school were released last Thursday as part of the amnesty decree" issued by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... , he said.
"Around half of them were defectors from the army, and the other half were civilians who had not yet performed their military service," Barazi said.
"Those who defected from the army (and joined the armed rebellion) will return to the military," he said.
"Those among them who were civilians and had failed to perform their military service are now being dealt with by the concerned military authorities and will also perform their military service."
The men were among hundreds of people who had turned themselves in before the rebels' withdrawal from the Old City of Homs in May.
Most of the others were later released, although some 60 of them have since disappeared, including prominent activist Khaled al-Tellawy, according to fellow activists from Homs.
One activist who recently left Syria said the families of the Al-Andalus school detainees had become increasingly concerned about their whereabouts.
"Some of them have been in touch to say they are alive, and that they have been sent to military bases. But most of them have disappeared, their families know nothing about them.
"We are very worried that they will be sent to especially violent battlefronts, and that the officers in charge will themselves eliminate them, and then claim they were killed in fighting," the activist, who identified himself only as Thaer, told AFP.
Assad last week issued a wide-reaching amnesty decree, but activists have been able to confirm the release of only some 1,200 prisoners.
Two days before Mosul fell to the Islamic insurgent group Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), Iraqi commanders stood eyeballing its most trusted messenger. The man, known within the extremist group as Abu Hajjar, had finally cracked after a fortnight of interrogation and given up the head of Isis's military council.
"He said to us, 'you don't realise what you have done'," an intelligence official recalled. "Then he said: 'Mosul will be an inferno this week'.'
Several hours later, the man he had served as a courier and been attempting to protect, Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, lay dead in his hideout near Mosul. From the home of the dead man and the captive, Iraqi forces hoovered up more than 160 computer flash sticks which contained the most detailed information yet known about the terror group.
The treasure trove included names and noms de guerre of all foreign fighters, senior leaders and their code words, initials of sources inside ministries and full accounts of the group's finances. Traitors within the ministry. It would suckbe unfortunate to have uncommon initials.
"We were all amazed and so were the Americans," a senior intelligence official told the Guardian. "None of us had known most of this information."
Officials, including CIA officers come on say it, N-S-A
were still decrypting and analyzing the flash sticks when Abu Hajjar's prophecy was realized. Isis swept through much of northern and central Iraq over three stunning days, seizing control of Mosul and Tikrit and threatening Kirkuk as three divisions of the Iraqi army shed their uniforms and fled.
The capitulation of the military and the rapid advances of the insurgents have dramatically changed the balance of power in Iraq, crippled prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, allowed Kurdish forces to seize control of the disputed city of Kirkuk and galvanized a Shia fightback along sectarian lines, posing a serious threat to the region's fragile geopolitics. On Sunday Isis published photographs that appeared to show it capturing and killing dozens of Iraqi soldiers.
"By the end of the week, we soon realized that we had to do some accounting for them," said the official flippantly. "Before Mosul, their total cash and assets were $875m [515m]. Afterwards, with the money they robbed from banks and the value of the military supplies they looted, they could add another $1.5bn to that." All that just to rob banks?
Whether the intelligence haul can do much to reel in Isis after the fact seems a moot point, with the group having already wrought so much carnage in such a short time. "We will eventually find them," said the Iraqi official. "We knew they had infiltrated the ministries and the most frustrating thing about that flash [stick] was it only had initials. We are focusing on the initials that had the annotation 'valuable' next to them."
Other names were clearly of lesser use, he said. They were marked with "lazy", "undecided" or "needs monitoring". "Obama appointee"
More than ever before is now known about how Isis has gathered steam. The past week has also been an advanced education in its capabilities and ambitions. "Now we have to catch up with them," the official said.
[Ynet] Dozens of right-wing activists and Paleostinians clashed near Huwara village in the West Bank. There were no casualties and no damage was caused. Security forces have arrived on the scene.
There'll be more of that, no doubt, as the Palestinians press the issue, hoping for something that can be blown up into an atrocity libel.
[Ynet] At least 15 people were killed when suspected Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gunnies stormed a market in northern Nigeria late on Sunday, witnesses and a security source said.
Villagers in the farming community of Daku, in Borno state, described how they were surrounded by at least 20 gunnies who fired indiscriminately and threw petrol bombs, engulfing the market in flames.
"Sunday is normally a market day and people from neighboring villages had gathered at the local market in Daku when the Death Eaters laid siege," said grocery seller Laraba Simon.
"Scores of people escaped with bullet wounds while dozens of shops, stalls, houses, vehicles, cycle of violences and assorted foodstuff were set ablaze by the rampaging attackers."
Laraba said the Death Eaters "surrounded the village with sophisticated weapons and petrol bombs".
Attacks by Islamist hard boyz from Boko Haram have increased in recent months, with the military apparently incapable of preventing the almost daily bloodshed exacerbated by the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in April.
The group has killed thousands during its battle against the government since 2009, but the conflict has received unprecedented global attention since the abduction of the schoolgirls.
But Zaka Sama'ila, another trader, said the latest attack was the first of its kind in Daku.
"It seems the snuffies are extending their frontiers every day. About 20 of them stormed the market area around 11.15am (1015 GMT) with one (jeep) and some cycle of violences.
"There was serious pandemonium because they shot randomly, forcing unsuspecting people in the market to scamper for safety."
Sama'ila said villagers found 15 bodies among the market stalls after the gunnies left.
Residents said 10 others were found dead after being shot in their homes or as they were fleeing the violence.
Neither the police nor the army have commented on the attack but a senior security source in the state capital Maiduguri confirmed that it took place.
Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, all in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , have been under emergency rule since May last year.
Around 20 gunnies on cycle of violences stormed a mosque in Yobe less than two hours after the Borno market attack and seized the local chief, residents said.
The gunnies set fire to the cop shoppe and a telecom mast in the village of Gumsa before fleeing.
"They took away a four-wheel van belonging to the chief and kept firing shots in the air," said a resident.
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[Ynet] An Iron Dome missile defense battery intercepted two rockets fired towards Ashkelon from Gazoo. Fragments of the rockets fell across the city. There were no reports of injuries or material damages.
The hope that Israel's attention is too-firmly fixed on the hunt for kidnapped schoolboys, perhaps? Or simply the need to show the Palestinians and the world that despite giving up official control of the Gaza Strip to the PLO, Hamas is still committing jihad against the juices? Or, possibly, because they've got plenty of flying explosive things, and it just feels so good to shoot them off? In susceptible people that feeling becomes addictive, 'tis said.
[Ynet] US and Iranian officials discussed Iraq on the sidelines of separate negotiations about the Iranian nuclear program in Vienna, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to provide further details of the discussion. A State Department spokeswoman declined comment on the matter.
[DAWN] MINGORA: An anti-terrorism court remanded three alleged bully boyz for 10 days in police custody here late on Saturday night.
According to sources, the police jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! three alleged bully boys, including two Afghan nationals, from Mingora city near the general bus stand.
They claimed that the suspects were trying to enter the city's central areas through Mingora stream. Police sources identified the suspected bully boyz as Waheedullah and Sajid, both residents of Jalalabad, and Mohammad Karim of Hayatabad area of Mingora city.
They said that they also recovered two hand grenades, two pistols and silencers from the possession of the three.
The police said that they registered an FIR against the three suspected bully boyz under the Anti-Terrorism Act and had produced them before a special anti-terrorism court, which granted their 10-day physical remand. The sources said that the suspects were handed over to Mingora cop shoppe for interrogation.
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[Ynet] Bulletproof bulldozers reinforce large forces deployed in area, impose stricter closure of West Bank city.
The IDF continued to seal off Hebron on Monday in an attempt to locate the 3 Israeli teens kidnapped last week, reinforcing with bulletproof bulldozers called in from the 601st Engineering Brigade's base near Jerusalem to help impose a stricter closure on the West Bank city.
While the defense establishment has yet to pinpoint the location of the kidnapped boys, a senior military source said Monday afternoon that "the closure is beginning to bear fruit."
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[Ynet] Israel Prison Service notified the International Committee of the Red Thingy that due to recent events
That means the three boys kidnapped by Hamas...Did anyone catch whether the Red Thingy publicly condemned that?
and because of restrictions on Paleostinians' movement, visits by family members to security and criminal detainees will be canceled in prisons across the country.
The prisoners' relatives arrive in organized trips that leave the West Bank and Gazoo to prisons throughout Israel. The visits are coordinated through the Red Thingy.
[Iraq Sun] Bahrain Monday recalled its envoy from Iraq as Al Qaeda-backed militant groups have consolidated their positions and are moving close to Baghdad. Bahrain's foreign affairs ministry said in a statement that it has instructed Bahrain's Ambassador to Iraq Salah Al Malki and his staff to leave Iraq immediately as the country is on the brink of a civil war, Xinhua reported. "The Kingdom of Bahrain has decided to pull its diplomats out of Iraq due to the unfolding security situation," said the statement. Similar moves were taken Monday by the US, Australia and other countries.
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[Ynet] In first call since abduction, prime minister stresses Paleostinian Authority's responsibility to kidnapping, expects help capturing perpetrators.
Almost four days since the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers, and for the first time in many months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... on Monday, the PMO said.
"I expect you to assist in returning the kidnapped youths and in apprehending the kidnappers. The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, kidnappers came from territory under Paleostinian Authority control and returned to territory under Paleostinian Authority control," Netanyahu said.
The three teenagers -- Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gil-Ad Shaer, 16, and Naftali Frenkel, 16 -- have been missing since Thursday night, and a massive manhunt has been in ongoing since. The current assessment is that the boys were kidnapped, but are still alive and somewhere within the West Bank.
The prime minister stressed that Fatah's pact with Hamas was "bad for Israel, bad for the Paleostinians and bad for the region," adding that "this incident exposes the true face of the terrorism that we are fighting against."
"Terrorists abduct innocent Israeli children while we save the lives of ill Paleostinian children in our hospitals. This is the difference between our humanitarian policy and the murderous terrorism that is attacking us," he added.
A statement from Abbas' office stressed the need "for neither side to use violence, especially when Abbas' stance is that the Paleostinians must continue working incessantly to bring to the release of Paleostinian prisoners, whose release was agreed upon in every signing of a permanent accord with Israel."
Abbas denounced the abduction and the "Israeli violations that followed," while the Paleostinian government has already indicated that it "was not responsible for areas outside the Paleostinian security control that are occupied by dozens of Israeli settlements" in the West Bank.
Many politicians and public figures arrived in Gush Etzion on Monday to visit the junction from which the three yeshiva students were kidnapped, as well as the "Makor Chaim" yeshiva, where two of the teens study.
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett stressed that "the gunnies ought to know that if one hair falls off their heads, we will come after them and capture anyone who was involved or aided directly or indirectly in the abduction. We won't stop."
After placing the responsibility for the kidnapping on the Paleostinian Authority, the prime minister accused Hamas of orchestrating the attack.
"This morning I can say what I was unable to say yesterday, before the extensive wave of arrests of Hamas members in Judea and Samaria," Netanyahu said at a special cabinet meeting on Sunday. "Those who perpetrated the abduction of our youths were members of Hamas -- the same Hamas that Abu Mazen (Paleostinian President Mahmoud Abbas) made a unity government with; this has severe repercussions."
Hamas denied the accusations, terming Netanyahu's statements as "foolish". Sami Abu Zohari, the Hamas front man in the Gazoo Strip, noted that while the arrests carried out by IDF troops of Hamas people intend to break them, Israel will not succeed in doing so.
In a statement to foreign press on Sunday afternoon, the prime minister insisted that "these teenagers were kidnapped and the kidnapping was carried out by Hamas members. Hamas' denials do not change this fact."
[VOA News] The Somali murderous Moslem group al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... has grabbed credit for an attack on a Kenyan town that killed at least 48 people.
A statement posted to a pro-Shabaab website says gunnies attacked hotels, cop shoppes, banks and other public places in the coastal town of Mpeketoni. Some of those killed had gathered to watch the football World Cup.
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If I read the map right, Kobane is a river in Syria on the border with Turkey and the other side of Euphrates from Aleppo. So the ISIS has their backs up to the Turkish border in this spot with Kurds attacking. Does this imply ISIS support from Turkey?
[DAWN] LAHORE: As electricity shortfall surges to 3,400MW on Sunday, the distribution companies (DISCOs) have resorted to implement a six-to-ten-hour loadshedding schedule across the country.
According to a report of the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC), the total power generation and demand on Sunday (at 12:30pm) was 14,000MW and 17,400MW, respectively, that forced the DISCOs to carry out 6 to 10 hours loadshedding. "The generation includes 5,240MW, 2,070MW and 6,690MW received by the national grid through hydel, thermal and IPPs (Independent Power Producers), respectively," the report added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible... people in major cities of the country, mainly Lahore, continued facing massive loadshedding, besides problems like tripping and low voltage with fluctuation.
To save their appliances from the impact of low voltage and power fluctuations, many in Lahore have no other option but to buy stabilizers.
"Since our air-conditioner was not working under these conditions, we recently purchased a power stabiliser," says Imran, a resident of Johar Town.
According to the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) Chief Executive Officer Rao Zameerud Din, the loadshedding in the city has been reduced to six hours due to effective monitoring of the grid stations' operations.
"We have devised an effective monitoring mechanism under which everything, right from the quota of megawatts received from the national grid through NTDC to their distribution through grid stations is being watched. This has caused reduction in loadshedding," he claimed while talking to Dawn.
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[Iran Press TV] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... says drone strikes "may well be" an option to help stop the al-Qaeda-linked murderous Moslems' advance towards the Iraqi capital Storied Baghdad.
In an interview with Yahoo! News on Monday, Kerry called the gunnies from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) "an existential challenge" to Iraq and a threat to the stability of the entire Middle East region.
He said President Barack Obama Because I won... was considering "every option that is available," including drone strikes, adding that "we are deeply committed to the integrity of Iraq as a country."
"They're not the whole answer, but they may well be one of the options that are important," Kerry said. "When you have people murdering, assassinating in these mass massacres, you have to stop that. And you do what you need to do if you need to try to stop it from the air or otherwise."
The ISIL gunnies have taken control of some key northern Iraqi cities including djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the country's second-largest city, and Tikrit, the birthplace of former Baathist dictator Saddam Hussein.
The murderous Moslems, who have posted pictures of their atrocious acts against Iraqis online, have vowed to continue their offensive towards the capital Storied Baghdad but Iraqi armed forces have advanced toward their strongholds.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... has warned that the gunnies have nowhere to hide.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , during a speech delivered in the National Assembly on Monday, justified the government's decision to initiate a full-scale operation in North Wazoo tribal region and said that the 'Zarb-e-Azb' operation would continue until terrorism is eliminated from the country.
Sharif added that the government had tried patiently to pursue peace talks but It was unfortunate that after four and a half months of trying peace, dialogue could not be fruitful.
He further said that the world knew that "On one hand we were pursuing dialogue, and on the other we were being targeted.We were pursuing talks, but from Islamabad courts to 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... airport we were attacked."
Addressing the Speaker of the National Assembly, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, the prime minister said "Our places of worship and mosques were targeted, our schools were targeted. We will change the fate of this country and under no circumstances will the country be allowed to serve as a safe haven for terrorists."
Sharif said that all important decisions were taken with mutual agreement between civilian and military leadership.
"Despite the sacrifices of our soldiers, we gave peace talks first priority but our efforts were rendered in vain, This operation will be the start of a peaceful beginning of the country," he added.
Following his speech in the National Assembly, Prime Minister Sharif proceeded to the Senate where he delivered a statement on the ongoing operation.
The full scale operation commenced in North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday, and the move was welcomed by most political parties including the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM), Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI).
The Pak-Afghan border was also sealed off while the Afghan National Army was also requested to plug possible escape routes across the border.
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[Ynet] The USS Mesa Verde with 550 Marines on board entered the Gulf on Monday to support possible US action to help Iraq's Shi'ite-led government combat a Sunni Islamist insurgency that has overtaken large areas of the country's north, CNN reported.
The USS Mesa Verde joins the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, which the Pentagon ordered on Saturday to move into the Gulf. President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... has said he is considering military action, short of putting US troops in Iraq, to aid that government's efforts to stop the insurgency.
[Hoover Institute] The many apparent turns, nuances, and shifts in the administration's Syria policy-for instance, repeated promises of enhanced military aid to the rebels, the red line drawn over Assad's use of chemical weapons, the threat to strike regime targets after Assad used his unconventional arsenal, and the decision not to-were parts of a messaging campaign intended to further protect Obama's steel-like determination to stay out of the Syrian conflict no matter what.
Regardless of what one may think of his policy, the fact that Obama deflected every argument, entreaty, enticement, and forecast of impending doom to preserve that policy cannot fail to impress. However, history offers conflicting evidence as to whether single-mindedness and obstinacy are necessarily desirable character traits in a man whose job also requires flexibility, the willingness to listen to seasoned advisers, and the ability to change course-in short, the practical talent of democratic politics.
He owns his decisions on the Syrian conflict so singly and so starkly that perhaps the judgment on his policy can only be equally absolute: either he was right and kept the United States clear of a prolonged conflict in Syria and built the foundations of a new Middle East; or he was wrong and in ruining Washington's decades-long position in the region ushered in an era of instability whose ripples will reach far past the Persian Gulf littoral and affect all the world. Great. Just great.
[Ynet] Information cleared for publication highlights lack of timely police response to the kidnapping of three Israeli boys in the West Bank.
The fog of peace claimed three victims that day.
One of the boys kidnapped Thursday evening near Gush Etzion called the police seconds after entering the vehicle, yelling "We've been kidnapped." The information was cleared for publication on Sunday -- two days after searches began for 16-year-olds Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Frenkel, and 19-year-old Eyal Yifrach.
According to reports by Channel 10 News, which cited senior police sources, a soldier serving her mandatory military service with the police took the phone call from the kidnapped teen. She reportedly called on her commanding officers to hear the conversation, but they arrived at the conclusion that the call was from a prankster.
The call came in at 22:25pm, but police failed to inform the IDF and Shin Bet. Suspicion of a real situation was only evident after the father of the one of the kidnapped boys arrived at a cop shoppe at 03:00am.
Judea and Samaria police declined to comment on the veracity of the report.
"There are many details related to the investigation into the kidnapping," the police said Saturday. "At present, we are not confirming or denying any details of the investigation, and are focusing on the massive effort underway together with the IDF and Shin Bet."
Meanwhile the IDF continued its search operations in the Hebron region. The IDF has deployed northwest of the city since being informed of the possibility of a kidnapping -- several hours after police received the initial details.
Soldiers manned security checkpoints at the entrances and exits to Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank. The increased activity is intended to pressure the local population and prevent the movement of the terror cell that conducted the kidnapping and any possible transfer of the victims.
The checkpoints deployed by the IDF have allowed passage to Paleostinian pedestrians and vehicles, but only after soldiers conduct thorough searches.
The IDF said the intention was not to harm the Paleostinian population or to disrupt daily life. Additional arrests are expected Sunday night, as the IDF attempts to breach the inner circles of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, cell behind the abduction.
[DAWN] THIS year so far, Pakistain has recorded 82 cases of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... . Of these, 64 cases emanate from Fata with 53 reported from North Wazoo alone. An overwhelming number of cases come from children under two years, implying they never received a single dose of the vaccine due to the Taliban ban in effect since July 2012. Fata alone accounts for more than 60pc of worldwide polio cases this year.
As of June 1, travellers from Pakistain must produce government-issued polio vaccination certificates. Far from implementing the decision, the federal and provincial governments have wasted time deciding who the responsibility falls on. The polio drops are free and must be obtained from a government hospital, with a certificate issued by a health official.
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[Iran Press TV] A Ukrainian delegation is set to travel to Hungarian capital Budapest in attempt to purchase gas from European firms.
Who will get it from .. wait for it .. Russia...
Andriy Kobolev, chief executive of Ukrainian state gas company Naftogaz, said the delegation will travel to Budapest on Tuesday after Russia cut off gas supplies to Kiev.
"European companies are ready to provide gas to Ukraine. They have offered gas at a good price of $320" per 1,000 cubic meters," he added.
Kobolev also said that Naftogaz is currently a client of German group RWE and French firm Gaz de La Belle France.
"We also have offers coming from other similarly large companies," he said.
Alexey Miller, chief executive of Russia's state-run energy giant Gazprom, has said that it would be illegal for European firms to sell gas imports from Russia to Ukraine.
Totally illegal, you betcha...
Russia turned off the gas to Ukraine on Monday as a deadline for Kiev to settle its debts passed without a payment.
Kiev has refused to pay for natural gas upfront as a protest to Russia's decision in April to almost double former gas prices. Gazprom raised the price of gas for Ukrainian consumers to USD 485 per 1,000 cubic meters from USD 268 for the first quarter of 2014.
Ukraine says Kremlin increased the price after former Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, was ousted in February. Kiev calls the move politically motivated, but Russian authorities reject the claim
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[AnNahar] Chinese authorities executed 13 people on Monday for "terrorist attacks and violent crimes" in the violence-wracked northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media said.
The announcement by Xinhua news agency said the 13 were involved in seven different cases connected to Xinjiang, home to forces of Evil from the mainly Mohammedan Uighur ethnic group blamed by Beijing for a string of attacks that have rocked China in recent months.
"In one case, three defendants were convicted of organizing and leading bully boyz to attack cop shoppe, hotel, government office building and other venues, killing 24 coppers and civilians and injuring 23 others at Lukqun Township in Shanshan County of Turpan Prefecture on June 26 last year," Xinhua said.
The announcement came hours after state media announced that three people had been sentenced to death over a suicide car crash in Beijing's symbolic heart Tiananmen Square, in the government's latest move against Xinjiang myrmidons.
One other person was given life in prison for the "violent terrorist attack" that killed two tourists last October, said state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), citing the Intermediate People's Court in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi.
[DAWN] LAHORE: The Shahdara police claim to have tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! three constables who were involved in looting valuables from the passengers coming to their home from abroad at the Lahore Airport on Sunday.
Police uniforms, booty and illegal weapons have been recovered.
According to a blurb a police team was constituted to arrest the suspects. The team on the basis of information received from the victims arrested Muhammad Adeel, Kaleem Irshad and Ali Akbar who during investigation disclosed that they were police constables and committed robberies after duty hours.
They also confessed to depriving more than 17 citizens of cash and other valuables.
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[DAWN] The security forces on Saturday locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... more than 40 suspected Death Eaters in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency during a search operation conducted in collaboration with the local political administration.
The exercise was conducted in light of the growing incidence of assassinations, kidnapping for ransom and kabooms in the region, said an official in the know.
According to the official, the administration used loudspeakers of mosques to ask the people to stay indoors before the forces imposed curfew in the tehsil for the house-to-house search in Sur Kamar, Nawayabad, Gharreeza, Gudar and Ghundi areas.
All entry and exit points of Jamrud were plugged, while the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. -Torkham Highway was sealed for traffic. The operation lasted for around nine hours.
Early in the morning, security officials announced the curfew would be in effect until 5pm.
Official says crackdown planned due to high incidence of assassinations, kidnappings However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... they lifted it at around 1pm after 'achieving the search operation's objectives' as put by a security official.
Another administration official said security forces took them on board about the operation and that the Khasadar and levies personnel collaborated with the forces during the exercise.
He said more than 40 suspected Death Eaters were taken into custody for interrogation.
The official said the forces faced no resistance during the operation and the situation remained under control by and large.
He said arms, ammunitions and three vehicles allegedly used by Death Eaters were seized.
Local residents said security personnel were deployed in the area at around midnight and that they used ladders to scale the walls of some houses, where suspected Death Eaters were believed to be hiding.
They said hundreds of people had left Jamrud for Peshawar, Mardan, Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... , Islamabad and other safer cities due to the growing Death Eater activities in the region, especially in the wake of death threats over refusal to pay extortion money.
Local JUI-F leader Kabeer told Dawn that the people in the tehsil lived under constant threat of action by 'unidentified gunnies'.
He said many had already left the area for safer places as the administration had miserably failed to ensure protection of their life.
The JUI-F leader said the gunnies flouted the ban on cycle of violence riding with impunity for assassinations, kidnappings and attacks on forces.
Kukikhel ...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government... elder Malik Fazlullah Jan said he was hopeful that the forces would clear Jamrud of all 'undesirable elements' during the operation, which was supported by local residents.
Peace volunteer killed
A member of the Shalobar peace committee was killed in a roadside kaboom blast in Qambarabad area of Bara tehsil on Saturday.
Local officials said unidentified people blew up an bomb planted along the road when the committee members patrolled the area.
They said the blast left a peace volunteer dead instantly.
There followed a search operation by security forces in TD Bazaar, Sur Kamar, Nawayabad, Gudar, Lashurra, Patay Owba, Gatto Ghar, Madathu Kuta, Spelano Kas, Gul Rehman Kalay, Bakarabad, Malakabad, Gharreeza, Pump House, Sakhi Pul and Ghundi areas.
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[DAWN] Polio virus detected in a sewerage line in Quetta on Monday was traced to Sukkur, an official said.
An official of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef), who requested anonymity owing to sensitivity of the matter, told Dawn.com that the samples found in a sewerage line in Western Bypass area of Quetta were linked to Sukkur city of Sindh province. "We collected the sample and are investigating it," he said.
He said scorching heat in Sindh had forced many people to migrate to Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... every summer. "Chances of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... virus double after migration of people from Sindh," he added.
The Secretary Health government of Balochistan called an emergency meeting of Unicef and other stakeholders to discuss all ways and means to eradicate the polio virus from the province.
The Unicef official said the government decided to re-launch an emergency anti-polio campaign in Quetta, Naseerabad, Jaffarabad, Bolan, Jhal Magsi and Dera Bugti districts of Balochistan starting from June 23.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer... on Monday endorsed the military operation underway in North Wazoo, the party's deputy secretary general and media advisor to PTI chairman told Dawn.com.
Imran Ismail said that in a core committee meeting in the capital, Imran Khan maintained that the party stands by the army and endorses the operation. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... he said the chairman expressed reservations regarding the government's failure to inform the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... government prior to the announcement.
Last week, reiterating his party's stance on peace talks with turbans, Imran had said that an offensive in North Waziristan would unite turban forces against the Pak state.
"Conducting such a military operation when most of the groups in NWA want talks is suicidal," Imran said in a statement, adding that most groups in North Waziristan desire peace talks with the government.
He also criticised the US Congress' move to link aid to a military offensive in North Waziristan, terming the move as an effort by the US to "purchase" the government's favour to carry out a military operation in the tribal region.
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[DAWN] The criminal mastermind of the 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... airport attack, Abu Abdul Rehman al Maani was killed during the overnight air strikes carried out by Pakistain Air Force (PAF) fighter jets and the Pakistain Army jointly in North Wazoo early morning Sunday, military sources told Dawn.com.
Intelligence and military sources told Dawn.com that Abu Abdur Rehman Almani is considered a key commander of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), also now famous by the name of Islamic Movement of Turkestan. The IMU, an organization of gunnies mostly from the central Asian Uzbek state, had claimed that its jacket wallahs carried out the attack on the Karachi airport.
There are also reports of some East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) forces of Evil also killed in the strikes, considered a big blow to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) and the ETIM network in the North Waziristan Agency. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... there was no confirmation from the military on the identity of the dear departed.
The ETIM is a separatist turban outfit blamed for numerous terror attacks in China's restive western region of Xinjiang.
The Chinese government had recently pressed Pakistain to take action against the Uighur separatists based in North Waziristan.
The movement's principle aim is to establish an independent Islamic state called East Turkestan.
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Philippine authorities captured two members of the Abu Sayyaf group believed to be involved in several kidnappings, including those of former Australian soldier Warren Rodwell and American Kevin Lunsman, but failed to capture their primary target.
Security forces mounted an operation in Zamboanga City on Monday to serve arrest warrants for kidnapping and illegal detention charges on a certain "Walid" in Barangay Sangali. Although Walid managed to evade the dragnet, the team captured Jimmy Nurilla, alias "Doc", and Bakrin Haris, allegedly members of an Abu Sayyaf branch operating in Zamboanga City with links to groups in Basilan commanded by Furiji Indama and Khair Mundos, who was captured in Manila recently.
In addition to Rodwell and Lunsman, Nurilla and Haris were also thought to be involved in the kidnapping of elementary teacher Cathy Casipong and businesswoman Sabrina Voon. Voon is still in captivity.
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[Ynet] New legislation would restrict government's ability to release unrestricted number of prisoners in exchange; MK Stern: Israel has handed over 7,500 prisoners for 14 living Israelis and six bodies.
With almost chilling timing, the Knesset has in recent days been dealing with a new bill to limit the government's authority to decide freely on releasing security prisoners. The bill could hamper any prisoner swap for the three Israeli teenagers believed kidnapped by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operatives in the West Bank on Thursday night.
Past experience shows that despite the fact that the kidnappers have not yet made any demands, they will probably expect the release of Paleostinians murderers tossed in the calaboose
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[AnNahar] Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition-held districts of the northern city of Aleppo on Monday, killing at least 31 people including several children, an NGO said.
Some of the maimed were in a serious condition after the strikes on the Sukkari and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Two bombs hit Sukkari minutes apart, with the second catching helpers who had gone to the assistance of the casualties from the first.
"We were sleeping safely when the first barrel dropped around midnight," said resident Abu Mohammad.
"And when people came to the rescue, a second barrel dropped, so all those people who were on the site were dead.
"We don't have military bases in our area. All people here are civilians. Why is he (Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... ) attacking us?" he asked.
Syria's regime has waged a fierce aerial offensive against rebel-held areas of Aleppo since December.
The Observatory said in May that the campaign had killed nearly 2,000 people -- more than a quarter of them children -- since the beginning of 2014.
Tens of thousands of people have fled rebel-held districts of Aleppo in the face of the bombing.
Elsewhere, eight children were among 13 people killed by rebel shelling of a government-held area of Idlib province on Sunday night, the Observatory said.
An activist in Idlib told Agence La Belle France Presse that among the children killed were two five-year-old boys, two aged seven and one aged eight.
More than 162,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising against Assad's rule erupted in March 2011.
[Ynet] If kidnapped teens are located in West Bank, government will probably decide in favor of military operation to release them.
It's not easy writing about the three missing teens, as very little is known right now, and it's possible that the circumstances will change by the time this article is published. Nonetheless, there are three insights which should probably be mentioned right now.
The first is actions taken against abductions. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon noted that in the past 18 months there had been 44 kidnapping attempts, and those are only the attempts the army knows about. The fact that all the attempts to kidnap soldiers failed means that the IDF was very efficient in its mission to prevent soldiers' abductions and succeeded in teaching them not to hitchhike.
In light of this success, the lightheadedness of many citizens living in Judea and Samaria is difficult to comprehend. The three teens who were probably kidnapped left their yeshiva in order to hitchhike in the middle of the night. What are this educational institution's instructions about hitchhiking in general and at night in particular?
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[Tolo News] Election observers from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) and the Free and Fair Elections Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA) held a joint presser in Kabul on Monday where they released their preliminary reports on fraud in the presidential runoff election.
While the EU delegation reported no fraud from the sites its monitors were located at on Saturday, the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA), one of the country's largest monitoring groups, said its observers documented a large amount of fraud across various regions.
Thijis Berman, the head of the EU's delegation, corroborated the Independent Election Commission's (IEC) claims that Saturday's vote saw a higher turnout than the first round, pointing out that the actual voting process was much easier than the one in April because voters only had to choose between two candidates and there was no Provincial Council ballot.
The IEC on Saturday night said over seven million voters participated in the runoff, despite most experts originally estimating the number to be significantly lower than the first round.
The senior EU observer emphasized that his delegation documented no fraud on Election Day, and praised Afghan voters for their participation. "Anyone who tries to change the results by illegal means, by violence or by fraud, shows nothing but a shocking contempt of all the thousands of Afghan citizens who have cast their votes honestly and courageously," Berman said on Monday.
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[Iraq Sun] Iraq has invited Iranian troops into the country to help attack non-government Sunni jihadist forces from the Isis network, otherwise known as the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
On Saturday Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said Iran was ready to support Iraq from the fast spreading insurgency.
Shortly after the Rouhani declaration Major General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards elite Quds Force, arrived in Storied Baghdad to help with the defence of the capital.
President Rouhani also said Tehran would cooperate with the B.O. regime in Washington to defeat the Sunni bad boy group.
While the US and Iran were foes throughout the US occupation of Iraq, Iran has expressed no objection should the US send in military reinforcements.
On Friday, US President B.O. renewed his promise for US support should Iraq not be able to handle the serious issue. While he ruled out sending US troops into combat in Iraq he said that other options were being reviewed.
Since then, the military option has been placed on the table again with President B.O. insisting that any US intervention would need to be accompanied by an Iraqi government effort to bridge divisions between Shiite and Sunni communities.
The US ordered an aircraft carrier into the Gulf on Saturday, in case of a military Washington decision by Washington.
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The US ordered an aircraft carrier into the Gulf on Saturday
The official Pentagon line is that "SecDef Hagel gave the order to move the G.H.W. Bush into the Gulf."
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With Champ on the links and the potential for activating a NEO very near, Hagel probably figured it would be better to ask forgiveness than permission. The Champ is totally combat ineffective.
From: Tom Jensen, Director of Public Policy Polling
Subject: Voters support Obama approach in Iraq over NeoCon Republicans
Date: June 17, 2014
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds that Americans strongly prefer President Obamas approach to handling the situation in Iraq over that of NeoCon Republicans like John McCain, and that voters across party lines continue to be strongly opposed to sending combat troops to Iraq.
Key findings from the survey include:
-Only 20% of Americans think that the renewed fighting in Iraq is due to the United States withdrawing troops from the country before the job was done, whereas 67% think its more rooted in centuries of internal conflict that was exacerbated by the US invasion during the Bush administration.
-Only 16% of Americans would support sending combat troops to help deal with the crisis in Iraq, compared to 74% who are opposed. Theres a bipartisan consensus on that issue with with Republicans (28/57), Democrats (10/86), and independents (9/86) all strongly opposed to sending combat troops.
-Asked specifically whose vision they agreed with more about having US troops in Iraq between Obama (no troops under any circumstances) and John McCain (troops should have remained in Iraq after 2011), voters side with Obama by a 54/28 spread. In addition to Democrats strongly siding with Obamas perspective, independents (53/28) and Republicans (49/30) do as well.
-What a majority of Americans do support doing in Iraq is providing intelligence to the Iraqi government (56/30) and a major diplomatic initiative aimed at mobilizing the international community to stabilize the situation there (52/30). Both of those courses of action have support across party lines.
Voters continue to repudiate the way NeoCons handled the situation in Iraq, and considerably prefer the approach President Obama has taken there.
PPP surveyed 790 registered voters on June 14th and 15th on behalf of Americans United for Change. The surveys margin of error is +/-3.5%
FULL RESULTS: http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/page/-/IraqPollResults61614.pdf
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OTOH WAFF > VIDEOS: [Mostly Iraqi]SHIAS CREATE THE BIGGEST MILITIAS IN THE WORLD COMPRISED OF 1.0MILYUHN VOLUNTEERS.
ARTIC = indics that ROUGHLY ONE-HALF will go to Baghdad, ostensib to help protect the Shia-led Malicki Govt. of Iraq, while the other half will begin ANTI-ISIS FIELD COMBAT-SECURITY OPERATIONS.
IMO Artic read, OPPORTUNITY FOR ANKARA = TURKEY + ASYMMETRIC/SELECTIVE GEOPOL AGENDA TO SEND TURKISH ARMY FORCES INTO IRAQ.
AKA TURKEY FINALLY GETTING OOPORTUN TO EXPAND GEOPOL SPHERE OF INFLUENCE IN THE NAME OF GOOD OWG GLOBALISM = "VICHY" OBAMA/AMERIKA???
Still leaves CHINA over in East-Asia-Pacific.
As said before, US-VS-CHINA aka CHINA-VS-EVERYBODY + INDIA in East Asia-Pacific will be the litmus test for Obama + Globalists. Unlike the US-VS-RUSSIA/OBAMA-VS-PUTIN over the Ukraine + CRimea region of same, the US will have mutliple sovereign countries to deal wid as poetntial strategic or military battle fronts, + a China that is most likely uninterested in any Crimea-style partition or secession = geopol "sharing" wid the US = US-Allies/West. IMO OWG GLOBALIST CO-SUPERPOWER CHINA WILL DEMAND CHINESE-N-ONLY-CHINESE "SOLE" CONTROL OR DOMINATION OF EAST ASIA + WESTPAC WHILE THE US UNILATERALLY WITHDRAWS + CONFINES ITSELF TO EASTPAC [Hawaii] + US WEST COAST.
PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY, OF COURSE.
* JAPAN TIMES > OPINION: A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY OPENS FOR IRAQI KURDS.
* SAME > NO GOING BACK FOR IRAQ [pre-ISIS/Fall of Mosul status quo] AFTER ISIS OFFENSIVE, KURDISTAN PM.
Kurd PM Nechirvan Marzani.
* IIRC RUSSIA TODAY > "AMERICA CAN'T BE PART OF ANY SOLUTION TO END ISIS VIOLENCE IN IRAQ".
A mighty Kelly Bundy-ian "The Hell You Say"! is heard again over Asia-Pacific from a Madonna Fan on Guam.
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Americans United for Change is a liberal group whose message closely mirrors that of the Obama White House... The groups leaders include: acting Executive Director Tom McMahon, a former executive director of the Democratic National Committee and former deputy national campaign manager for Howard Deans 2004 presidential bid; and Deputy Executive Director Caren Benjamin, a former aide to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Brad Woodhouse was the groups executive director, before leaving in 2009 to become the DNCs director of communications.
What's the saying about the Devil being able to quote Scripture when it suits him?
Homo palestinus. Digging Man. Wherever he finds himself, he just gotta dig.
[AnNahar] The Army uncovered a tunnel in one of the Paleostinian refugee camps reaching out of it, As Safir newspaper reported on Monday.
According to the daily, an army unit raided on Sunday the tunnel and placed it under strict surveillance.
Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq expressed fear in comments published in As Safir over the "worrying conditions in some Paleostinian camps."
"Frankly, I am not at ease," the minister said.
He stressed that "tampering with security is prohibited and we will deal firmly with any offenders."
The minister called on Prime Minister Tammam Salam to call for a session for the Higher Defense Council "away from any political disputes over the presidential vacuum."
"We should take precautionary measures that suit the looming dangers" in the region.
Mashnouq considered that if the Higher Defense Council can not meet, then an "emergency cell should be formed" to maintain stability in Leb.
"This is more important than any debate over power-sharing," he concluded.
Paleostinians living in Arab countries -- including the 450,000 in Leb -- are descendants of the hundreds of thousands who fled or were driven from their homes in the war that followed Israel's creation in 1948.
They remain in Leb's 12 refugee camps because Israel and the Paleostinians have never reached a deal that would enable them to return to their homes that are now in Israel.
[Iraq Sun] The man once known as Bradley Manning, but who now prefers the name of Chelsea, has told of more lies involving the US government and the US foray into Iraq. Who gives a rat's ass what this traitor thinks?
Chelsea Manning,
Someone could do something really dreadful with the combination of lately, Chelsea and Manning, but I am not that kind of person.
who was convicted of leaking confidential Pentagon information to Wikileaks, has warned Americans they are still part of a conspiracy of lies.
In a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Op-Ed article on Saturday, the former US Army intelligence analyst said: "As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan."
Speaking about his incarceration, he wrote: "I understand that my actions violated the law. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... the concerns that motivated me have not been resolved."
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Since when are federal prisoners at Leavenworth allowed to write Op-Ed pieces in the New York Times?
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..cause they both work for the 'other' side by releasing classified documents? Chelsea just got time for it versus the owners and editors of the rag. It's that way for the 'little people'.
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The NYT is posting opeds from a cross dressing sp4 that was sent to jail for integrity issues that resulted in a felony conviction??? All the news thats fit to print means something completely different to me...
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[Iraq Sun] Turkey has temporarily pulled its diplomatic staff out of the Libyan city of Benghazi and urged its nationals to leave the east of the country amid mounting security concerns, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Saturday.
Turkey is one of the last countries to maintain a diplomatic presence in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador was killed during an attack by Islamist forces of Evil on the American diplomatic mission in the port city in 2012.
The foreign ministry said its diplomats would continue to work from Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... while the Benghazi mission was closed.
The move comes after a huge kaboom likely caused by a jacket wallah at an army checkpoint in Barsis, 50 km (30 miles) east of Benghazi killed the attacker and maimed six others late on Wednesday.
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[Iraq Sun] The United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... chief today condemned the reported "cold-blooded" mass execution in Iraq in recent days, while Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... urged that the perpetrators of those crimes be brought to justice while also calling on Iraqi leaders to prevent sectarian reprisals.
Navi Pillay, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that UN staff and other sources on the ground reported the executions of hundreds of Iraqis following last week"s capture of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and other population centres by forces allied with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL), including disarmed soldiers as well as religious leaders and other civilians.
"Based on corroborated reports from a number of sources, it appears that hundreds of non-combatant men were summarily executed over the past five days, including surrendered or captured soldiers, military conscripts, police and others associated with the Government," said Ms. Pillay.
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"Who should we mail the memo to?"
(Hand deliver only; delivery boy never seen again...)
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No mention of climate change; must of only been a 2 day meeting to craft this stern message.
If the message was not written in Arabic then they missed their target audience.
[Iraq Sun] Spain's Interior Ministry said police have detained eight people suspected of forming a group that recruited jihadist militants to fight in Iraq and Syria.
The ministry said the eight were arrested Monday in Madrid. A ministry statement said the Islamic cell found and dispatched recruits for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
The government statement said the group was led by a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who was arrested in Afghanistan in 2001.
Spain's press said the arrested ringleader was Lahcen Ikassriem, a Moroccan who was held for three years in the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
The suspect was reportedly extradited in 2005 to Spain where he was held in preventative detention for more than a year before being freed by the Spanish courts in 2006. The interior ministry was not immediately available to confirm these details.
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[Libya Herald] Ethnic violence in the southern town of Germa was eventually contained yesterday evening as ethnic festivities broke out in Sebha, killing two and injuring nine others.
"Elders and army units managed to broker a ceasefire between the Tuareg fighters and Arabs," head of the Obari joint-security room, Adam Saydi told the Libya Herald.
The festivities erupted in Gerrma on Friday when the imam of an Arab-community mosque allegedly called on his listeners to force out Tuaregs from a compound where they had recently taken up residence.
"We've received one corpse and five maimed from the Germa festivities," Murzuk hospital spokesperson Mohammed Whamer said.
It is also reported that eight dead and seven maimed arrived at Obari hospital and another three maimed were transported to Al-Rageeba hospital.
"Things have calmed in Germa. With the blockaded roads re-opened, we are expecting a number of elders and wise men to arrive from nearby towns to broker a more lasting peace agreement," explained Saydi.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... even as tensions began to calm in the Obari area, armed festivities between Arabs, Tuaregs and Tebu erupted in Sebha in the Burday district yesterday evening.
"The fights sparked in the Burday district between the district's resident Tebu and members of the Awlad Suleiman tribe," Tebu elder Bazinka Molimi told this paper.
"Two dead and nine injured were taken to the hospital last night, including a woman maimed in the festivities," Sebha Medical Centre officer Abdullah Owheda confirmed.
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[Dhaka Tribune] When Antonia Gradillas and his friends set off for a hike in New Mexico to celebrate a friend's upcoming wedding they were probably expecting a certain amount of craziness -- but certainly not the discovery of a three-million-year-old elephant skull.
The group chanced across the archaeological wonder in Elephant Butte Lake State Park 150 miles from the city of Albuquerque after seeing a tusk sticking out from the ground.
"As we were walking we saw a bone sticking out about one or two inches from the ground," Gradillas, 33, told ABC news. He and his friends started digging and soon uncovered uncovered another tusk, then a row of teeth and a massive cranium
Gradillas suspected that the skull might belong to a woolly mammoth and called a friend who worked in a museum for more advice.
The pair then got in touch with Gary Morgan, a paleontologist with the nearby New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, who rushed to the scene the next day after seeing pictures of the find.
Morgan announced that the skull belonged to a stegomastadon; a prehistoric ancestor of the modern elephant that predated the woolly mammoth and would have lived and roamed in the area some three million years ago. Stegomastadon look very similar to today's elephants but have a more squat and weighty build. The creature stood about nine feet tall and weighed more than six tons, with a pair of tusks that grew as long as 3.5-metres.
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So, of course, they started drinking out of it...
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I've been to parties like that, well, at least I think I've been to parties like that. We were always hiking party fools back in the day, I think, hard to say. Things were different then, it was a long time ago. New Mexico you say? Ah that explains it, they were playing Button, Buttons we need more buttons and heading for the sweat lodge when an elephant skull appeared, suddenly. Wait a minute, New Mexico? is this an old post? Is it near Philmont? These may have been Senior Flying Scouts. Hard to say, I'd have to see the skull.
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I was camping in New Mexico one time and found the thorax and part of the wings of a giant dragonfly from the late Cambrian period, impressed in some sandstone. New Mexico has lots of fossils, and no money to do anything about it.
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New Mexico has lots of fossils, and no money to do anything about it.
Lucky. Most states send theirs to the US Senate
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[DAWN] Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says a roadside kaboom planted by the Taliban has killed five civilians from the same family in the southern Kandahar province.
In a statement, it condemned the killings, adding that three of the victims were children.
The attack follows last weekend's presidential runoff, a vote which the Taliban had warned Afghans not to participate in or face attack.
On Sunday, officials said the group had cut of the fingers of a dozen voters in retribution and also killed 11 people.
The two candidates, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... and former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, have both vowed to improve ties with the West and sign a long-delayed security pact allowing nearly 10,000 US troops to remain in the country for two more years.
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[Libya Herald] In the last 48 hours in Derna, one man is known to have been murdered and another is reported to have been assassinated.
Faraj Rizg Al-Mansouri, a former municipal guard members was killed in the Bab Tobruk district south of Derna on Friday, a reliable source in the town has told the Libya Herald. He was shot down by gunnies in a car and was dead on arrival at Harish Hospital. Earlier this year he survived a kaboom beneath his car, though he lost a leg in the kaboom.
The second victim, named as Salem Al-Aligi, from Tobruk, believed to be a member of the armed forces, was reportedly murdered in front of his father by gunnies manning a checkpoint at Al Heisha, to the south of Derna on the road to Tobruk. Social media claimed that when his vehicle was stopped and searched, his military identification papers were discovered. It is understood that he was shot summarily by the side of the road. His body was taken to a hospital at Goubba.
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[Libya Herald] There are unconfirmed reports that Ansar Sharia lost 53 dead and 62 injured, many seriously, in the heavy fighting in Benghazi today with only four deaths and twelve injured among members of the Operation Dignity force.
The fighting was centred on Sidi Faraj where the Dignity troops had surrounded a camp used by Ansar Sharia. There were reports this morning that the compound had been overrun. However Mohammed Hejazi, the Dignity front man said that part of Sidi Faraj was still in Ansar Sharia hands.
Electric power, which was cut to much of the city around dawn was restored early in the afternoon. Some civilians fled the fighting and the least three were maimed and taken to Jalaa Hospital where they are still being treated.
Hejazi, who gave the casualty figures for both sides, told the Libya Herald that there were sources within Ansar Sharia who had confirmed the number of the Islamists' dead and injured. He said that bodies left on the street were loaded onto trucks by locals and taken away. He added that five Islamists were also captured, including three high-ranking members whom he did not name. He revealed however, that one was the head of operations in the 17 February brigade, nicknamed Bu Dalal.
Today was the first time that the Dignity forces had deployed tanks. Hejazi declined to say precisely how many tanks and self-propelled guns had been used in the assault on Sidi Faraj but insisted that none had been damaged in the fighting.
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[Ynet] A Madrid court incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... a member of armed Basque separatist group ETA ETA or Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (English: Basque Homeland and Freedom) is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization that has been around since 1959. It demands independence from Spain and France for the Greater Basque Country. The group is proscribed as a terrorist organization by most civilized countries. More than 700 members of the organization are incarcerated in prisons in Spain, La Belle France, and other countries, though members do seem to find ready hospitality in Venezuela. for 29 years on Monday for the killing of a Spanish soldier in 1995.
Juan Ramon Carasatorre Aldaz, 52, was sentenced to 29 years for the killing of infantry brigadier Mariano de Juan Santamaria, who was shot in the head on April 10, 1995, in the northern city of San Sebastian, the court said in a ruling Monday.
Two other ETA members, including the outlawed group's former military wing chief Javier Garcia Gaztelu, known as "Txapote", have already been sentenced for taking part in the same crime.
Carasatorre Aldaz was tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in southwestern La Belle France in December 2001 and transferred to Spain in November 2010 for trial over the killing of Juan Santamaria.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) have agreed to settle their differences in the interests of the Bangsamoro in a meeting initiated by the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), a senior MILF leader disclosed on Monday.
Mohagher Iqbal, the MILF chief peace negotiator, said leaders of the two warring factions have signed a joint statement announcing their reactivation of the Bangsamoro Co-ordinating Forum (BCF) in an OIC meeting held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on June 12.
Iqbal said, "With developments on the Southern (Philippines) peace process, there is a need for all Moro leaders to put their acts together to protect the Bangsamoro."
[Iraq Sun] The Iraqi security forces Monday recaptured a city in western province of Anbar, while the Sunni militants took full control of a city in northern part of the country, an official said.
The Iraqi army, police and border guards fought sporadic clashes with gunmen in the city of Qaim, some 330 km northwest of the capital Baghdad, and took control over the city, Xinhua quoted a police source as saying Monday.
The troops also waged an offensive on the border with Syria, and re-took the posts they left late Wednesday after battling the militants, the source said.
The Iraqi air force carried out several airstrikes on some neighbourhoods of the city of Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad, killing 13 people and damaging some houses, a provincial police source said.
In Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, Sunni militants, including the militants linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaida offshoot, have taken full control of the city of Tal Afar, some 70 km west of provincial capital Mosul, after fierce clashes with Iraqi security forces and volunteers from the residents, Mohammed Abdul Qader, head of the city council, told Xinhua.
"Tal Afar has fallen in the hands of the militants of Daash (as the ISIL is called) after they heavily pounded the city with mortar rounds and rockets since last night," Abdul Qader said. "The defenders of the city have withdrawn after they ran out of their ammunition," he said, adding that many security officers disappeared after the battle.
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[DAWN] Speakers at a demonstration on Sunday demanded that the killer of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... assembly politician Handery Masih be tried in an anti-terrorism court and punished sternly.
They were speaking at the demonstration organised by the All Pakistain Minorities Alliance at the press club to condemn the MPA's murder at his house by his guard on Saturday. The politician's nephew was maimed in the attack.
Former MPA and minority community leader Michael Javed demanded that a judicial inquiry be instituted into the matter to find out the real reason and the actual people behind the killing.
He said that earlier a minority community federal minister Shahbaz Bhatti had been killed and if serious action had been taken in that case, Saturday's incident would not have occurred.
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[DAWN] A close relative of Chief Justice of Pakistain Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani, Umer Jilani, who was also identified as a security official, was kidnapped on Monday by unidentified persons from Garden Town area in Multan.
The security official is the nephew of Pakistain's incumbent Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jilani, according to an APP report.
Multan Police officially confirmed the abduction of Umer Jillani and quoting eyewitnesses said that the abductee was en route to his office on his bike when four to five cycle of violence-riding gunnies intercepted him in Garden area and kidnapped him.
Police further said that after receiving information on the incident, law enforcement agencies and police personals reached the spot and started a probe into the kidnapping.
Moreover, the city has been put on alert and a Joint Investigation Team was also constituted comprising of police and law enforcement agencies officers to work on this case.
Multan police was also directed to seal the city and to conduct an extensive search for the recovery of Umer Jillani.
On the other hand, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif also took notice of the incident and directed the Regional Police Officer Multan to utilise all efforts for the recovery of that abdcutee and to keep him informed of every progress.
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[DAWN] Opposition parties in the National Assembly showed their impartial support to the government on full-flagged military operation in North Wazoo Agency.
Leader of the opposition in NA, Syed Khurshid Shah, on Monday, said it should continue till elimination of the last terrorist in the area.
Responding to the policy statement of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... in the lower house, he asked the government to announce timeframe for the operation.
"We must not be afraid of terrorists. No army, having backing of the people, could lose a war," said Shah.
He said the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) has the right to hold public meetings as peaceful and democratic protests help strengthen the democracy.
The National Assembly also adopted a resolution expressing fullest support with the government's decision to launch the military operation.
The resolution, moved by Fedreal Minister Zahid Hamid, was signed and supported by PML-N, PPP, PTI, MQM and the ANP.
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[Iran Press TV] The Iraqi army has retaken control of most districts in a strategic city in Nineveh province, local media reports say.
According to the reports on Monday, the Iraqi army managed to regain control of most parts of the city of Tal Afar. This comes while throughout the day there were contradictory reports about who controls Tal Afar which sits on a main highway linking Nineveh province to Syria.
The army also released footage of air raids against bully boy positions and hideouts in Salahuddin and Nineveh provinces. According to the army, the strikes have been effective and successful.
According to some reports earlier in the day, Death Eaters from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) took Tal Afar on Sunday morning.
Iraqi security sources have categorically denied reports that the city has fallen to the bully boys.
Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups such as the so-called ISIL have been behind many of the deadly kabooms targeting both civilians and government institutions across Iraq in recent years.
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Apparently, after giving up Tal Afar yesterday the ISF is still battling to retake the city.
[Ynet] Al-Hayat Al-Jadida runs cartoon showing three young men in the grip of hands depicted in similar style and colors to 2014 World Cup design.
The official newspaper of the Paleostinian Authority has apparently celebrated the kidnapping of three Israeli teens with a cartoon closely resembling the logo of the current World Cup competition.
The cartoon, which appeared in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on Sunday, shows three hands forming a trophy-like shape, just as three hands form the trophy in the World Cup logo. But the cartoon, which uses the distinctive green and yellow color scheme of the World Cup, also shows three boys dangling from the grip of the hands. Underneath the trophy, the word "Khalil" (the Arabic name for Hebron) appears instead of "Brasil" of the original -- a reference to the location of the kidnapping.
The images can be seen at the link. They certainly are colourful.
[Iran Press TV] Kenya has stepped up security across the country a day after faceless myrmidons from Somalia killed almost 50 people in the town of Mpeketoni.
"Security has been beefed (up) across the country," Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said on Monday.
Lenku called the killing a "heinous act perpetrated by bandidos", saying that security forces have chased the attackers down to a remote forest bordering Somalia.
"We must bring to book the perpetrators," he noted.
According to witnesses, late on Sunday, around 50 heavily-armed gunnies stormed a local cop shoppe in Mpeketoni, before starting to shoot at civilians randomly.
The attackers also set fire to two hotels where local residents were watching FIFA World Cup matches.
According to local police officials, 49 people were killed in the assault.
"Attackers hijacked a van from Witu town, which they used for the attacks. They raided Mpeketoni cop shoppe first and opened fire," said Mpeketoni area administration police chief Hamaton Mwaliko.
"Some hotels in the town are on fire. We understand the attackers have already fled but our officers are pursuing them."
Somalia's al-Shabaab ... the personification of Somali state failure... krazed killer group has grabbed credit for the attack.
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[DAWN] The federal government on Saturday challenged a Sindh High Court order to remove former president retired General Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... 's name from the exit control list (ECL), fearing that if allowed to proceed abroad he may not return to stand trial for treason.
The appeal, filed two days after the high court's order, has been fixed for hearing on Monday before a three-judge Supreme Court bench, consisting of Justices Mian Saqib Nisar, Asif Saeed Khosa and Ejaz Afzal Khan.
Attorney General Salman Aslam Butt is expected to request the apex court to suspend the June 12 verdict and issue directions to keep Mr Musharraf's name on the ECL.
The former military ruler may also be restrained from going abroad without the permission of the Supreme Court, the appeal states.
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[Libya Herald] Libya's caretaker government has expressed its deep sadness concerning the death of religious expert Tarek Al-Dresi, member of Dar Al-Ifta (the highest religious authority in Libya) in the town of Marj and imam of Omar Ben Khatab Mosque. Al-Dresi's body was found in nearby Al-Abyar on Friday.
In a formal statement the government strongly condemned the murder and expressed solidarity with the Al-Dresi family. "It is a heinous crime and unacceptable by all means, religiously, morally and humanly," caretaker government front man Ahmed Lamin declared to the Libya Herald.
From its side, Dar Al-Ifta has called for the prosecution of the criminals, describing the Al-Dresi liquidation as a terrorist act.
Sources from Marj said that Al-Dresi had been kidnapped on Thursday night in front of Omar Ben Khatab mosque and his body found with evidence of torture on it the next day near Marj.
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#4
Yet when man and woman on the street interviews were conducted most people could not cite one thing that she had accomplished as eye candy for WJC (forgive the snarkiness), as Senator, or as Secretary of State.
#10
This is the face of the Evil, despotic, communist, childish democrat party.
This Woman, this carpetbagger, who few want to associate with, who has done nothing in her life, who really has no merit... has become the new cult of personality de jour for the whores of marxism.
It is UN-believeable they cannot find real leaders.
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Would you fly in a plane piloted by the wife of a real pilot? Or undergo brain surgery by the wife of a neurosurgeon? Just because you live with someone doesn't mean you understand what they do.
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#13 Would you fly in a plane piloted by the wife of a real pilot? Or undergo brain surgery by the wife of a neurosurgeon?
If a surgeon's wife ran the infirmary;
If she got there by murther and perjury;
If she splashed around ether
And grief for her fief... her
Hub just might let her do surgery!
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Each US Embassy has a standing or [on the shelf] evacuation plan with a recommended Force Package required for execution. The actual make up or flavor of the Force Package is left to the discretion of the Ambassador and regional Combatant Commander. Evacuation planning becomes even more complex when foreign nationals or host nation personnel are included in the mix. My experience is very dated, so things may have changed a bit... or a bunch.
[Times of India]ISLAMABAD: Showing new resolve, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said his country has had enough of terrorism and the military operation launched in North Waziristan tribal region a day earlier would continue until terrorist safe havens are destroyed in the country.
The operation called Zarb-e-Azb (strike of the Prophet's sword) was launched days after a terrorist siege at Pakistan's busiest airport in Karachi killed over 30 people. Earlier, Pakistan got back control of the neighboring South Waziristan and Swat after separate military offensives in 2009.
Sharif said he was forced to order the operation after the Taliban did not reciprocate his sincere efforts to pursue peace talks.
"On one hand, we were pursuing dialogue, why do people think that you can negotiate with the syndicate?
and on the other we were being targeted. From Islamabad courts to Karachi airport we were attacked. Even, our places of worship, schools and children were targeted," he told the National Assembly.
"We will change the fate of this country and under no circumstances will allow our country to serve as a safe haven for terrorists," he said. He added the operation would start a peaceful beginning for the country.
Sharif earlier got a short in the arm after Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party endorsed the operation. PTI, which rules the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa adjoining the tribal region, has been a staunch opponent of military actions. The province is feared to take the brunt of Taliban reprisals.
Army Chief General Raheel Sharif echoed the prime minister and said the operation would continue until the elimination of all terrorists and their sanctuaries. "We will rid the country of terrorists," he said.
The fresh operation is seen as a victory for the Pakistan army which had been upset with PM Sharif's insistence on talking with the Taliban. It was one of the reasons that had heightened civil-military tensions recently.
Separately, the Pakistan army said 140 militants - mostly Uzbek - were killed in air strikes on the second day of the operation. Six soldiers were killed while three others were injured in an IED explosion.
"Many East Turkestan Islamic Movement terrorists and their affiliates have also been killed in the strikes. It was a massive blow to the terrorists and one of their main communication centres has been dismantled," said an official release.
A local security official said fighter jets bombed two buildings in Miranshah - the main town of North Waziristan - early Monday, killing at least 10 Uzbek terrorists who were sheltered there.
The Taliban have vowed to retaliate in the cities of Islamabad and Lahore, saying they would burn the mansions of the country's rulers.
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Has he run this through the military/mullah hierarchy?
Appears so. The Army was upset at Sharif for trying to talk to the Taliban (BTW, I also believe that is a non-starter). The army wanted this all along.
China is mad a Pakistan because terrorist attacking China were using Pakistan as a base. China is offering economic assistance and the price is smiting the terrorist bothering China.
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China is mad a Pakistan because terrorist attacking China were using Pakistan as a base. China is offering economic assistance and the price is smiting the terrorist bothering China.
All that sounds vaguely familiar. Maybe the Chinese could ask Bush and/or Obama about it.
[Iran Press TV] More gruesome videos have been released showing atrocities of members of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) terror group in Iraq.
The videos posted on a bad boy website show several Iraqi men in plain clothes and army uniforms who have been captured by the bad boys.
The videos include a scene where bully boyz belonging to the Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... group kill an Iraqi officer who refuses to repeat slogans chanted by them.
On Sunday, pictures surfaced online showing the bully boyz killing dozens of Iraqi men in Salahuddin province.
Iraq's military front man General Qassim al-Moussawi has confirmed the authenticity of the photos. He says there are more reports about the mass murder of captured Iraqi soldiers.
Several witness accounts and video clips have been released showing the grisly crimes perpetrated by the Takfiri Death Eaters against innocent civilians in the crisis-torn country.
Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups such as the so-called ISIL have been behind many of the deadly kabooms targeting both civilians and government institutions across Iraq in recent years.
Recently, a similar gruesome video was released, purportedly showing members of the ISIL Takfiri group brutally killing Shia Mohammedans in drive-by shootings in Iraq.
The ISIL bully boyz have vowed to continue their raid toward Iraq's capital, Storied Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... has said that the country's security forces would confront the terrorists, calling the seizure of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... by bully boyz a "conspiracy."
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[DAWN] British legislation banning forced marriage came into effect on Monday, with those found guilty of the largely hidden practice facing up to seven years in prison. Maybe they should ban all first cousin marriages, too. And ban marriages for anyone under 14...
The law applies not only within Britannia but also makes it a criminal offence to force a Brit into a marriage abroad, as many youngsters are flown out to weddings in their ancestral homelands, particularly in Pakistain, India and Bangladesh.
Nearly two-thirds of the cases dealt with by the government's Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) relate to Britannia's South Asian communities.
Campaigners welcomed the new laws as a "huge step forward", while the government hopes they will protect potential victims.
A practice wrecking the lives of unknown thousands of British-born youths, forced marriage has been increasingly exposed in the last decade.
"Forced marriage is a tragedy for each and every victim, and its very nature means that many cases go unreported," said Home Secretary Theresa May.
"I am proud to say that the UK is already a world leader in the fight to stamp out this harmful practice with the government's FMU working hard to tackle this terrible practice in the UK and overseas.
"Today's criminalisation is a further move by this government to ensure victims are protected by the law and that they have the confidence, safety and the freedom to choose. "Last year, the FMU dealt with some 1,300 cases, 18 per cent of them men.
Forty per cent of victims were aged 17 or under; three quarters were aged under 22.
Officials fear the number of victims coming forward is just the tip of the iceberg.
Meanwhile charities say few leaders with influence in their communities are prepared to take a stand, for fear of losing their support base.
The cases related to 74 different countries, although 43 per cent were linked to Pakistain, 11 per cent to India and 10 per cent to Bangladesh.
Other countries with multiple cases included Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Nigeria, 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... , Yemen, Iran and Tunisia.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children said children as young as 12 had contacted them about forced marriage, with the numbers calling up two-thirds in the last year.
The charity's Ash Chand called the new law "a huge step forward which we hope will deter those plotting against their own children.
"Many young people who call our ChildLine service about this issue are frightened, concerned and feel control of their lives is being wrenched from them. "
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If convicted 7 years in prison will cost the British taxpayers a lot of money. Since many who practice forced marriages are first generation immigrants, deportation (without right of reinstatement) would be cheaper and more effective disincentive.
[DAWN] IT seems the fate of the Protection of Pakistain Bill is uncertain after the government has sought the input of its ally, the JUI-F, on the controversial law, even though the opposition had agreed to an amended draft. The law completed its life as an ordinance earlier this month after it was blocked in the Senate from becoming an act. It is indeed puzzling why the PML-N-led government would want the JUI-F's feedback after six opposition parties, led by the PPP, had agreed to support the legislation after 12 of their proposed amendments had been incorporated. A JUI-F front man said his party "felt no urgency" to get the bill adopted by parliament. Regardless of the politicking involved, the main issue is and will remain how the sweeping powers given to the state by the law will be used, especially when it comes to safeguarding human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... . For a number of reasons, the law in its earlier form had been dubbed draconian by many political parties as well as by civil society. Some of the criticism centred on the fact that the law would legalise enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings by the state. While the need to counter terrorism through legislation cannot be denied, care must be taken not to give the state authoritarian powers making it accountable to no one. The answer to countering terrorism is not to legalise unlawful methods for the state; it is to enforce the law across the board with respect for fundamental rights as enshrined in the Constitution as well as universal human rights. Nevertheless, in the current scenario, with a war-like situation existing in parts of the country, legal cover is needed in the battle against militancy to avoid any grey areas.
The opposition parties, particularly the PPP, had proposed amendments such as reduction in the number of days a suspect can be held in remand, guidelines for search operations and judicial oversight. If these amendments have been incorporated by the state, there is no reason to delay the law further, especially if potential human rights violations in the law have been addressed. Yet beyond the content of the law, in order to eliminate militancy in an effective, lasting fashion, the state needs to improve the legal system, particularly the prosecution. Had these elements been in evidence, there would have been no need for a Protection of Pakistain law in the first place.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Two suspected snuffies were rubbed out in an 'encounter' jointly carried out by the Sohrab Goth police and the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) in Sohrab Goth in the early hours of Sunday, officials said.
They added that the officials had received a tip-off that suspected snuffies wanted to target polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... vaccinators during an anti-polio drive on Sunday and they might pass by the area near Machhar Colony.
A joint police party was already deployed there and when the suspects travelling in a rickshaw and a hatchback came at around 3am the police party signalled them to stop. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the suspects allegedly threw a cracker-like bomb and opened fire on the police in their attempt to flee. The coppers in 'retaliatory fire' maimed two suspects in the rickshaw, but their alleged accomplices in the vehicle escaped under cover of darkness.
The maimed suspects were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced them dead on arrival.
They were identified through the computerised national identity cards found in their pockets as Qamar Zaman, 26, and Moosa Khan, 35, hailing from Wazoo.
A hospital official said that Qamar sustained two bullet injuries on his head and chest while Moosa received three bullet wounds.
The police claimed to have seized 10 kilograms of kaboom, two hand grenades, weapons and ammunition from their possession.
"The dear departed belonged to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and were planning to attack polio workers on Sunday," said Sohrab Goth SHO Shoaib Ahmed.
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Two lawmakers from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) have accused the government of protecting and cooperating with jihadist militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the al-Nusra Front, while the Turkish government quickly denied the claim.
Reminder: the Erdogan government is not our friend, not a friend of democracy, and has its own plans for the region.
Those plans have most definitely been overtaken by events. The Turks conquered Byzantium, but did they ever conquer Persia?
CHP Deputy Parliamentary Group Head Muharrem Ä°nce has asked for explanations of a photograph showing ISIL commander Abu Muhammad allegedly receiving free treatment in Hatay State Hospital on April 16, 2014, after being injured during fighting in Idlib, Syria. The photograph circulated widely on the Internet following ISIL's assault on Mosul June 9.
"If we keep silent now, it is to let the government work more comfortably in this situation and prevent our people, our flag and our country from being harmed. But we will talk about the point to where wrong policies have dragged our country and what kind of trouble have all those whom they have fed, treated and assisted brought us," Ä°nce said at Parliament in Ankara on June 12.
He also said the visits carried out on the same day by Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄlu to opposition leaders were not enough. "He should also come and inform Parliament," Ä°nce said.
Meanwhile, CHP Istanbul deputy Ä°hsan "--zkes claimed militants of the al-Qaeda splinter group the al-Nusra Front were allowed to stay at the guesthouses of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) under the monitoring of the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) in the southern province of Hatay.
"--zkes, a former mufti, also claimed the order to host the militants was given by former Interior Minister Muammer GĂźler in a circular sent to the Hatay Governor's Office, which openly demanded assistance to al-Nusra fighters.
The allegedly official document shown by "--zkes reveals that al-Nusra fighters were brought by the National Intelligence Organization (MÄ°T) in order to fight against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) affiliated Democratic Union Party (PYD) in northern Syria.
"It is important to provide the necessary support for the intelligence officers on the issue of assisting the fighters of al-Nusra, including Tunisians and Chechens, who have been brought [here] under the supervision of the MÄ°T to fight against the PKK-affiliated PYD, crossing the borders to Syria and complying with the confidentiality of the matter," the document reads.
"The province of Hatay has strategic importance in the crossing of fighters from our country's borders to Syria. The logistics supply to Islamic groups, their training and the treatment of the injured will mostly be carried out from there. The MÄ°T and other relevant authorities have been tasked on the issue," it also said.
"--zkes also accused the government of sending charity money collected by Diaynet to the Islamist fighters. "Have those who fought been sheltered in the Quran classes and dormitories belonging to Diyanet? Is there an Interior Ministry circular that was sent to Diyanet on the issue?" he asked.
Deputy Prime Minister Bßlent ArĹnç denied the allegations during his press conference on June 13.
"Has Turkey provided any weapons or financial aid? Absolutely not, and the whole world knows this," ArĹnç said.
ArĹnç also said that the latest incident does not mean that Turkey has become a target.
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ISIS sources have confirmed the YPGs announcement that it had killed more than 25 ISIS fighters. ISIS sources said there were two Turks and many Azeris among the dead. Turkish fighter Abu Ismail [Erdal] from Inegol town and Mustafa from Ankara were killed in the clashes with the YPG. Ismail [Erdal], had come to Syria two months ago.
Target: Rmeilan oil fields
Several Arabic-language Internet sites that carry ISIS news published photos of nine ISIS fighters killed in the clashes. These sites also claim that ISIS is advancing in the Tal Abyad and Kobane areas.
The objective of ISISs attacks is to rupture the links between Kurdish regions of Jazeera, Afrin and Kobane and to seize the oil fields of Rmeilan inside the Jazeera region.
[MAGHAREBIA] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Friday (June 13th) grabbed credit for last month's attack on the home of Tunisia's interior minister.
Lotfi Ben Jeddou was not at his Kasserine residence at the time of the May 27th incident but four coppers died at the scene.
In a statement posted to a jihadi web forum, AQIM said it targeted Ben Jeddou because of his alert issued last year against jihad annikah ...Islamic whoredom. Proper Moslem women are expected to engage in 20-minute marriages with heroic jihadis for the greater glory of Allen. Naturally, the heroic jihadis are expected to make a contribution to the holy men running the operation, say, twenty bucks or so.... accusation and his alleged "apostasy".
For the first time, the terror group said that it was responsible for killing Tunisian troops last year at Jebel Chaambi.
Al-Qaeda was "trying to sow the idea that it has might and it can strike when and where it wants", analyst Alaya Allani told Magharebia.
What should concern security agencies is how to develop an intelligence system to avoid a repeat of the assault on the residence of the minister, Allani said.
"The system needs a radical revision and this cannot be achieved without the appointment of leaders with proven competence and independence," he said.
According to Fathi Mouelhi, who monitors media sites used by terrorist groups, "This statement is different from previous ones made by this organization, both in form and vocabulary."
Mouelhi warned of AQIM's ability "to penetrate the minds of enthusiastic young people through the use of statements supported by the traditions of the prophet and Qur'anic verses to spread a misconception that what they are doing is a service to Islam".
"We cannot talk about confronting terrorism without confronting these organizations' financial resources," Tunisian researcher Noureddine Mbarki said.
"The terrorist threat became more dangerous in Libya after these jihadists took control of economic capabilities," he added. "In djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIS) also managed to put its hand on vast fortunes. So whenever they increase their financial resources, their danger increases too," Mbarki explained.
Social researcher Salim Hajji noted the timing of the AQIM statement. It was the first of its kind since the start of the terrorist attacks in Tunisia.
"Why didn't they claim the most dangerous operation they have conducted in Tunisia? Last Ramadan, they slit the throats of nine soldiers of various ranks without uttering a word," he noted.
"Does issuing a statement at this time mean that they are suffering, hence in need to confirm that they haven't lost their strength yet?" he asked.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Unidentified miscreants have cut the leg of a Chhatra Shibir leader off at the Rajshahi University campus on Monday afternoon.
The victim, Russel Alam, 24, is a fourth year student of Finance and Banking Department and, also the general secretary of Nawab Abdul Latif Hall unit Shibir.
He was undergoing surgery till filing this report at 8pm.
Witnesses said a gang of miscreants caught Russel around 3:45pm while he was roaming around the Shahidullah Arts Building area and took him behind the building.
At one stage, they hacked the Shibir leader, cut his right leg off and fled the place.
Later, police rescued critically injured Russel and admitted him at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
Motihar cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Alamgir Hossain said: "A team of police went to the Shahidullah Arts building at 3:45pm in order to arrest a Shibir leader, who was wanted in more than 50 cases.
On their way back to the cop shoppe, the police members heard the sound of firing and rushed to the building again. They found critically injured Russel and took him to RMCH," he added.
Tofazzel Hossain, duty doctor of RMCH told the Dhaka Tribune that the right leg of Rasel was severed off and he received injuries in his chest and leg.
His condition was very critical, he added.
Tanvir Haider Chowdhury, deputy police commissioner of Rajshahi Metropalitan Police (RMP), told newsmen: "A group of unidentified miscreants severed a leg of Russel. But, the identities of the miscreants could not be known immediately."
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... witnesses calimed that a group of BCL leaders and activists led by RU unit Organising Secretary Faisal Ahmed Runu, Kaosar Ahmed Koushik, Joint Secretary Golam Kibria, Assistant Secretary Faruk Ahmed, Human Resources and Development Secretary Sabrin Samin alias kool Sushmoy and activists Rinet and Hirok launched the attack.
Labib Abdullah, publicity secretary of RU unit Shibir, has also claimed that the BCL activists led by its RU unit general secretary SM Tawhid Al Hossain launched the attack.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... Mizanur Rahman Rana, RU president of the BCL, denied the allegation.
RU Proctor Prof Tarikul Hasan said security measures have been tightened on the campus to avert further untoward situation
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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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
If not well trained and led, large numbers mean nothing. 
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Wazoo
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
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[Iraq Sun] As Iraq struggles to stop an insurgency by Islamist
The House Oversight Committee released a new report called "How Politics Led the IRS to Target Conservative Tax-Exempt Applicants for their Political Beliefs" The purpose of the report is to show how political rhetoric led led to the IRS scandal
[Libya Herald] In a swinging attack on Ansar Al-Sharia, Operation Dignity leader General General Khalifa Hafter warned today that foreign 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Two days before Mosul fell to the Islamic insurgent group Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), Iraqi commanders stood eyeballing its most trusted messenger. The man, known within the extremist group as Abu Hajjar, had finally cracked after a fortnight of interrogation and given up the head of Isis's military council.
[Iran Press TV] US Secretary of State 
Nouri al-Maliki
[Hoover Institute] The many apparent turns, nuances, and shifts in the administration's Syria policy-for instance, repeated promises of enhanced military aid to the rebels, the red line drawn over Assad's use of chemical weapons, the threat to strike regime targets after Assad used his unconventional arsenal, and the decision not to-were parts of a messaging campaign intended to further protect Obama's steel-like determination to stay out of the Syrian conflict no matter what. 
Thank Allahn these guys make Wile E. Coyote look like a genius at times. 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Iraq Sun] The man once known as Bradley Manning, but who now prefers the name of Chelsea, has told of more lies involving the US government and the US foray into Iraq.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Basque separatist group ETA
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) have agreed to settle their differences in the interests of the Bangsamoro in a meeting initiated by the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), a senior MILF leader disclosed on Monday.
Pervez 
[Times of India]ISLAMABAD: Showing new resolve, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said his country has had enough of terrorism and the military operation launched in North Waziristan tribal region a day earlier would continue until terrorist safe havens are destroyed in the country.
[Iran Press TV] More gruesome videos have been released showing atrocities of members of the so-called 
A JUI-F 
[DAWN] KARACHI: Two suspected 
