I love it when they get into a lie circle. She's throwing Obama under the bus for her own political spin. Heh
By 10 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2012, when Hillary Clinton received a call from President Obama, she was one of the most thoroughly briefed officials in Washington on the unfolding disaster in Benghazi, Libya.
She knew that Ambassador Christopher Stevens and a communications operator were dead, and that the attackers had launched a well-coordinated mortar assault on the CIA annex, which would cost the lives of two more Americans.
She had no doubt that a terrorist attack had been launched against America on the anniversary of 9/11. However, when Hillary picked up the phone and heard Obama's voice, she learned the president had other ideas in mind. With less than two months before Election Day, he was still boasting that he had al Qaeda on the run.
If the truth about Benghazi became known, it would blow that argument out of the water.
"Hillary was stunned when she heard the president talk about the Benghazi attack," one of her top legal advisers said in an interview. "Obama wanted her to say that the attack had been a spontaneous demonstration triggered by an obscure video on the Internet that demeaned the Prophet Mohammed." *SNORT* How does it feel Baracky, when you get the Clinton stab of "friendship". Of course, this is her, trying to throw Benghazi and her active participation of the coverup off her back.
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Wake me up when bodies start appearing around the Beltway.
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More like Stalin and Trotsky. I expect this to end with an ice ax stuck in someone's skull.
This story shows the moral bankruptcy of the Dems.
They could forgive Hillary for telling a blatant lie to the American people, but they wouldn't forgive her resigning over this cover up. With this incident, Obama destroyed Hillary's chance to become POTUS, which was the goal all along.
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If by 'bristled' they mean the hair on her legs stood up, then I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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More like Stalin and Trotsky. I expect this to end with an ice ax stuck in someone's skull.
Oh, what a relief! I was so busy trying to understand how being an unprincipled, gutless liar, is better than being just a liar, that I couldn't see any upside at all!
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Imagine the disgust, outrage, calls to step down, and demands for apology, had a male from the State Department uttered the phrase... "what difference does it make." Her rage obviously got yet another a pass.
Google Reportedly Unveiling Health Data Tracking Service at I/O Conference
The new "Google Fit" health data tracking service will compete with Apple's recently announced HealthKit data collection services, according to a report.
Google will debut its plans for a new health data tracking service called "Google Fit" at the upcoming Google I/O developers conference as part of its recent push into high-tech wearables.
The rumored Google Fit strategy, which was first reported by Forbes earlier this month, calls for Google to "aggregate data through open APIs, instruction sets that allow apps to share information, and will also announce partnerships with wearable device makers at its I/O conference," according to the article.
The new service will "collect and aggregate data from popular fitness trackers and health-related apps, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the company's plans," and will be launched at the June 25-26 Google I/O conference in San Francisco, the story reported.
[AnNahar] A sharp rise in new HIV infections in the Middle East and North Africa is a worrying trend, despite some positive developments, UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibe told Agence La Belle France Presse on Friday.
While the epidemic remains very "concentrated" within the region, with homosexuals, sex workers, migrants and drug addicts comprising the vast majority of cases, the Arab world has seen a dramatic increase in new cases in recent years.
This compares with a fall in global infection rates of 35 percent.
"There are regions we are worried about, notably the Middle East and North Africa, where a relatively quick rise in the number of new infections has been observed. The virus in these regions is difficult to contain," Sidibe said.
With 225,000 people infected and 22,000 new cases in 2013, "the epidemic is not huge, but what is worrying is above all the trend... In just a few years we've gone from 10,000 people infected to 225,000," he added, speaking on the sidelines of a regional HIV/AIDS conference.
Equally, access to treatment across the region is very poor, with Sidibe comparing medical coverage in the Middle East, of just 18 percent, to around 80 percent in certain African countries ravaged by the disease.
In the Middle East, only "11 percent of children with AIDS have access to treatment", he said.
Among the main obstacles to tackling the problem in the region are the "very strong stigma and discrimination" towards people at risk and "all the politics and laws" that penalize the same people, he added.
The UNAIDS official noted some progress in terms of governments taking the problem seriously, with the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... adopting its first strategy for combating the virus, and a convention aimed at protecting people living with HIV.
But the texts must still be ratified by different member states.
"I don't think the rest of the world is more tolerant than the Arab world, I believe it's a problem of approach, that they will get there," Sidibe said.
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Malaria protection is generally viewed as a genetic trade-off, it evolved only in people who carried genes for sickle-cell anemia, an inherited disease in which blood cells are misshapen [shaped like sickles]. Perhaps HIV is actually a genetic or behavioral equilibrium.
Ay-Peee. Oblahblah has really hit the reset button with our allies
A Polish magazine said Sunday it has obtained recordings of a conversation in which Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski says the country's strong alliance with the U.S. "isn't worth anything" and is "even harmful because it creates a false sense of security." the weak horse
In a short transcript of the conversation, a person identified as Sikorski by the magazine Wprost tells former finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, that Poles naively believe the U.S. bolsters their security. Using vulgar language, the person argues that such beliefs are nonsense, and that the Polish-U.S. alliance alienates the Russians and Germans. the strong horse.
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Kinda hard to argue with.
However, from a Polish point of view, you have to wonder if cooperating with the Russians and Germans will get you anything. Besides invaded again. The German and Russian perspective on what's good and bad about Europe hasn't altered a whole lot since, oh, say, 1930. (Either that, or it's come full circle.)
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God bless the Poles - they know the truth when they see it.
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These are the consequences of losing a war one cannot afford to lose.
After losing the 9/11 war US security guarantees just aren't rationally credible anymore.
9/11 has shown that staging a massive attack on the CONUS is a winning move, ultimately.
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We had good ties prior to Obummer. Obummer owns this not the American people. Heard an Israeli talking this morning on TV and he said essentially the same thing. How many in other countries are feeling the same way? Good many in the U.S. feel the same way. Some kool aid drinkers still think he is the ONE. Go figure.
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What Obama and company didn't understand was that the situation with Russia was as close to optimal as possible when they hit the reset button and restored the cold war.
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They are a whole different country after all, and a Great Power and once a Superpower. Any prickliness was just sort of the way things go in that sort of situation. God the Obama foreign policy has been horrible.
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In the meantime, what are we supposed to do? We're married to these worthless sons of bitches, I think it's time to get a divorce, and break the country up. Otherwise they're going to continue to try to get back at us by backstabbing all of our friends.
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Fuck him. He's equating America to that poser in office. America fought two wars in europe. We, the United States, not Poland defeated Russia and gave them opportunity for their solidarity movement. We are weak right now, granted. We were weak before WWI and weak before WWII. Don't ever underestimate us.
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The audacious terror strike on June 8, 2014 at Pakistan's Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, which killed 36 people — including 10 terrorists of the now Mullah Fazlullah-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who staged the assault — was perhaps the tipping point that propelled the Nawaz Sharif government to shed its reluctance to mount an all-out counter-offensive against one of Pakistan's major terror conglomerates. That Prime Minister Sharif conscientiously strove for peace talks with Pakistan's main terror "tanzeem", the TTP — considering that his political formation, the PML-N, allegedly had durable links, since years, with some Pakistani extremists — was understandable. That a majority of these fundamentalist elements, especially in Punjab, electorally assisted the PML-N in the last general elections is hardly a political secret.
On the other hand, the Pakistani army and its notorious handmaiden, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) — themselves formidable practitioners of the art of exporting terror to neighbouring India and Afghanistan — were persistently demanding strong action, exclusively against the TTP, for it had been striking at will against army assets all across Pakistan, including the daring and devastating attack on the strategic naval air base at Mehran, Karachi in May 2011. Meanwhile, the Pakistan army and the ISI, for decades, have conveniently disregarded other equally lethal extremists in anti-India terror groups, such as the Hafiz Saeed-led Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, as also the Afghan Taliban, the Haqqani Network and al-Qaeda elements, which it considers its "strategic assets".
Till last year, the Pakistani army had mounted only half-hearted attacks in the restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), including the rugged Waziristan regions that have been a haven for terrorists of all hues — both indigenous Pakistanis and foreign militants operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan on both sides of the Durand Line. Most casualties inflicted on terrorists in the North and South Waziristan sanctuaries can be attributed to the US drone strikes since 2008, which have caused many deaths among both extremists and civilians. However, this year, under pressure from the Pakistan government, the US has resorted to only the odd strike. That Washington, with its planned draw-down in Afghanistan, has pressured the Pakistani military machine to up the ante against terror groups holed up in the Waziristan belt would be stating the obvious. Presumably, with Pakistan's economy in the doldrums, coupled with an alarmingly deteriorating internal security situation and generous financial doles promised by the US, the army would have agreed to bite the bullet at long last and resolutely go after the TTP and, ostensibly, the other terror groups too.
In February this year, Pakistan formally unveiled its National Security Document that laid out, in some detail, Pakistan's anti-terror policy. Despite a few off and on peace talks and ceasefires between the unyielding TTP and the Pakistani establishment, PM Sharif finally gave the green signal for the Pakistani armed forces to mount an all-out offensive against all terrorists in the North Waziristan belt. Thus Operation Zarb-e-Azb was launched with all ferocity on June 15, employing nearly 30,000 troops. The operation is significantly named after one of the Prophet's swords, "Azb", which he had used in the battles of Badr and
With Pakistani F-16 fighter jets pounding militant hideouts in North Waziristan, tanks also rolled through the streets of Miramshah, North Waziristan's main town. Thousands of civilians of this town and the neighbouring villages have fled to safer areas to avoid the impending ground offensive. The army has also liberally employed lethal multi-barrel rocket launchers, heavy artillery and attack helicopters, unmindful of the collateral damage that could occur. Media reports point to over 200 militants having been killed in the first 36 hours of the offensive, including Uzbek terror kingpin Abu al-Manni, who reportedly had masterminded the Karachi airport attack.
Pakistan's army chief, General Raheel Sharif, vowed to destroy terrorist sanctuaries "without any discrimination" — a reference to the selective anti-terror operations the Pakistan army has been accused of. Meanwhile, TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid immediately retaliated, saying that, "By God, we will soon shake your palaces in Islamabad and Lahore and burn those to ashes." The Pakistani establishment, expecting violent retributive acts by the Taliban, has deployed large numbers of security personnel to guard sensitive assets across the country.
The otherwise delayed anti-terror offensive has closed ranks, perhaps for the first time in many years, among Pakistan's major political parties and civil society. Even Imran Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the hitherto recalcitrant opponent of offensives against the TTP, has welcomed the government's decision as have other major parties, including the PPP and MQM. If Pakistan can truly discard terrorism as an extension of state policy — against both India and Afghanistan — and not be selective in combating terror groups, India will wish it all success in ridding itself of the scourge decimating its vitals. Pakistan today stands at the crossroads of its destiny. Only its sincerity of intent in endeavouring to eliminate terror in all its manifestations can help it.
The writer, a retired lieutenant general, was India's first defence intelligence chief
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"By God, we will soon shake your palaces in Islamabad and Lahore and burn those to ashes." The Pakistani establishment, expecting violent retributive acts by the Taliban, has deployed large numbers of security personnel to guard sensitive assets across the country.
One assumes that sensitive assets include the palaces in Islamabad and Lahore of the government elites.
Pakistan needs its neighbors for investment and trade. India needs to put some carrots out there for Pakistan if they succeed.
A 15-year-old boy was killed and two other people were injured in the Golan Heights Sunday in a cross-border attack from inside Syria that targeted a civilian vehicle carrying out routine maintenance work for the Defense Ministry.
IDF tanks immediately returned fire across the border in response to what an army source said appeared to be a deliberate attack on the truck.
One of those injured in the attack was in serious condition, while the other suffered light injuries. The teenage boy killed in the attack is believed to have accompanied his father to work.
Following the attack, an army source said it found what appeared to be a hole in the frontier fence. Army sources said they did not yet know whether the attack took the form of a shell, or another type of weapon.
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Update: According to Ynet, the lad's age was corrected to 13. He and his father are Arab-Israelis -- it sounds like quite a few Arab-Israelis work as contractors for the Defense Ministry. Israeli tanks sent a couple of artillery rounds into the nearest Syrian army post, though it was claimed that the jihadis dunnit, a charge they loudly denied.
[IsraelTimes] A senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official vowed Saturday that the terror group would respond to Israel's military operation in the West Bank — Operation Brother's Keeper — which aims to locate three kidnapped Israeli teenagers while simultaneously harming Hamas's terror infrastructure in the West Bank.
Since the disappearance Thursday, June 12, of Naftali Frankel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach, thousands of Israeli troops have searched hundreds of locations in the West Bank and jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! more than 300 Paleostinians, many from Hamas, including some who were freed in a 2011 prisoner exchange for Hamas-kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
"This [operation] will not break Hamas. Hamas is too strong a movement for this [operation] to break it. Our popularity will only increase," said Hamas front manSami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... , according to Channel 10.
The Hamas official's remarks came a day after Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) on Friday listed one of Israel's goals in the IDF operation as seeking to "break Hamas."
"We will have our Dire Revenge™. Hamas has proven that it has the capabilities to respond [to Israel's military operation]," Abu Zuhri promised.
The Israeli government has pointed the finger for the abduction at the terror group and said it holds the Paleostinian Authority responsible for the fate of the teenagers. 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 Wednesday criticized the kidnapping, said the youths must be returned, and confirmed ongoing security cooperation with Israel to try to locate them.
On Thursday, an Israeli official named a deported Hamas terror chief, Saleh al-Arouri, as a suspect in orchestrating the kidnapping.
Hamas has praised the kidnapping without claiming responsibility, and slammed Abbas for siding with Israel.
Abu Zuhri also dismissed a statement by Paleostinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki Friday which threatened Hamas with "drastic decisions" should it be found that the terror group was behind the kidnapping. Maliki said it would be a "blow to the reconciliation process."
"Maliki does not reflect the opinions of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah or of Hamas and Fatah. His remarks pander to Israel and the Europeans," Abu Zuheiri said.
A top Hamas official on Saturday also dismissed threats to end the unity government between Fatah and Hamas.
"The unity of the Paleostinian people and the end of the division are top priorities and there's no going back [on the unity agreement]," said Moussa Abu Marzouk.
The two Paleostinian factions swore in a unity government on June 2 — 10 days before the abduction of the teenagers from a hitchhiking post in the Gush Ezion area in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] Loud kabooms echoed across Gazoo early Sunday morning, as Israeli planes bombed sites in the Paleostinian enclave, hours after at least two rockets were shot at Israel.
Bombings were reported in areas around Khan Yunis and Rafah, in the southern end of the strip, starting at about 3:30 a.m, according to Paleostinian sources. There was no immediate word on casualties or damage.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it had targeted three "terror sites" in the southern strip and one in the center.
It said direct strikes had been confirmed.
Paleostinians reported that sites belonging to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... had been targeted.
The air strikes came a day after Gazook turbans fired several rockets at Israel, all which landed in open areas or failed to clear that Paleostinian enclave.
The last 10 days have seen an uptick in tit-for-tat Gazook rocket fire and Israeli strikes as tensions have ramped up in the wake of the kidnapping of three Israeli teens in the West Bank, followed by a massive Israeli operation to recover them and destroy the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement.
On Thursday evening two rockets were fired into Israel, prompting the Israeli Air Force to strike five targets in the Gazoo Strip overnight, saying it attacked three concealed rocket launchers in the northern Gazoo Strip, a terror activity site in the central Gazoo Strip and a weapons storage facility in the southern Gazoo Strip.
The IDF regularly retaliates with air strikes in response to rocket attacks.
"We have repeatedly addressed the consequences facing those who seek to endanger the lives of innocent civilians," IDF front man Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said in a statement regarding Thursday's strikes. "We shall persist with our determination to combat terror elements and eliminate the pending threat to Israeli lives."
[Ynet] A suicide boom-mobileing in Kabul aimed at a senior government official killed one civilian and maimed three others on Saturday but did not harm its apparent target, Afghan security officials said.
Kabul police front man Hashmat Stanikzai said a jacket wallah detonated his explosives-laden vehicle alongside the armored car of Mohammed Masoom Stanikzai, a bigwig in the High Peace Council, a government body tasked with peace talks with the Taliban insurgency. The two men are not related.
gateway quotes a WSJ article below
We have emails suggesting that IRS staff aided Sen. Levin in putting together his letters of complaint to the IRS. We have staff for House Democrat Elijah Cummings asking the IRS for information to use in Mr. Cummings's campaign against a specific conservative organization, True the Vote. Ms. Lerner got involved in that one"--querying her staff as to whether they'd helped Mr. Cummings.
As to Ms. Lerner's behavior, consider that House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp first sent a letter asking if the IRS was engaged in targeting in June, 2011. Ms. Lerner denied it. She engineered a plant in an audience at a tax conference in May 2013 to drop the bombshell news about targeting (maybe hoping nobody would notice?). She has subsequently asserted a Fifth Amendment right to silence in front of the only people actually investigating the affair, Congress. Now we learn that her hard drive supposedly defied modernity and suffered total annihilation about 10 days after the Camp letter arrived.
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This is before the Exchange Server blowed up? Or after the Exchange Server blowed up? Or does the IRS use some proprietary snap chap like mail system?
WTF? I mean WTF? This is stupid, like Mark Steyn says "They're laughing at us now". But mind you, the inter webs never forget, I n due time someones going to the slammer.
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It's a near certainty that the NSA has copies of all of these emails, but will never admit that. Also, yesterday there was a report that the IRS was using an email backup service. Focus on that. Forget the hard drive, it's a dead letter and a distraction at this point.
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I wonder if damaging Lerner e-mails might be among the Snowden documents? Then the Russians could use them to keep the US from interfering in their adventures?
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The only thing that will fix this is jail time. Nort country club jail, but PMITA federal penitentiary. Problem is the person who is supposed to do that is the AG. Who is as crooked an AG as has ever filled that office.
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Oops, no, the IRS canceled the contract with the email backup service right after Lerner's drive crashed. How convenient. This is not incompetence.
"But Sonasoft's six-year business relationship with the IRS came to an abrupt end at the close of fiscal year 2011, as congressional investigators began looking into the IRS conservative targeting scandal and IRS employees' computers started crashing left and right."
Time to start fitting the IRS leadership for prison blues.
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My hard drive could crash, and it has before, but copies of emails I received are still on the comcast server. Knowing who sent/replied to my emails would be a finger pointing to where my sent emails went.
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The emails should be available then? If not there is a huge conspiracy going on in our Federal government that requires a huge flush.Posted by JohnQC 2014
John - If it's all the same to you, hows about we proceed with the "huge flush" regardless of the conspiracy ?
A Malaysian terrorist militant thought to have been killed in an air strike two years ago is alive and actively training new recruits. Zulkifli Abdhir, who once headed Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia and was a member of Jemaah Islamiyah's central command, is back on local most wanted lists. Intelligence agencies believe he is now an operative of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist militant group. Zulkifli is also high on the FBI's most wanted list.
Intelligence sources said the bomb expert who is also known by his alias, Marwan, is believed to be a top asset to the group, and had trained a significant number of bombers, including suicide bombers. They include the new cadre of Malaysian terrorists militants who are looking for combat experience before joining terrorist militant groups active in Syria and Iraq. The sources revealed that these terrorists militants were required to pay a significant amount in fees for training that would provide them with battle skills.
The Philippine military, following a February 2012 raid on Jolo Island, had said it was confident that Marwan, along with more than a dozen others, including the group's top figures, had been killed. However, security analysts had cast doubt over the raid's success, saying the conclusion was made based on field reports and that their identities were not confirmed.
This revelation came as the authorities are arresting up more and more militants bound for Syria, including several who had just returned from the Abu Sayyaf's two-month training program in the southern Philippines.
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Armed tribesmen and not militants from the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have seized two cities in Anbar, Al Arabiya News Channel reported the governor of the Sunni-majority province as saying on Saturday, Alarabiya reported.
While ISIS militants - coupled with local Sunni rebels - started their surprise offensive by seizing Iraq's second biggest city of Mosul on June 10, Anbar governor said armed tribesmen were the ones who claimed control over Rawa and Ana in Anbar.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Rawa, Hussein AIi al-Aujail, told the Associated Press that Sunni militants captured the town Saturday. The local army and police force pulled out when the militants took control, Aujail said. He said militants ransacked government offices in the town, along the Euphrates River some 275 kilometers northwest of Baghdad.
The news comes after the al-Qaeda breakaway ISIS, along with allied militants, seized Qaim and its crossing, about 320 kilometers west of Baghdad, after killing some 30 Iraqi troops in daylong clashes Friday. Police and army officials said people were now crossing back and forth freely.
Chief military spokesman Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi acknowledged Qaim's fall, telling journalists that troops aided by local tribesmen sought to clear the city of "terrorists."
While Sunni militants have controlled the city of Fallujah in Anbar and parts of the provincial capital of Ramadi since January, militants' seizing these towns appears to be a new offensive in the western province.
Militants led by ISIS have seized a vast swathe of territory in northern Iraq since overrunning Mosul. The vast Anbar province stretches from the western edges of Baghdad all the way to Jordan and Syria to the northwest. The fighting in Anbar has greatly disrupted use of the highway linking Baghdad to the Jordanian border, a key artery for goods and passengers.
The militants have also attempted to fully control Iraq's biggest oil refinery. As a result of the fighting with Iraqi forces, the Baiji refinery in the Sunni province of Salaheddin has been shut down and the supply route to Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region cut off.
On Saturday, sources told Al Arabiya News Channel that a mortar attack has targeted one of the oil tanks in the refinery.
Despite coming under heavy attack from ISIS in recent days, Iraqi government forces still control the Baiji refinery.
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3,000 bad guys and a million volunteers to fight them?
Why are the baddies still on charge?
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Why are the baddies still on charge?
I remember trying to wrangle a number of smallish children, half not my own and therefore not familiar with our way of doing things, to the swimming pool, Bobby. How much longer must it take to get a million amateurs (ranging up to semi-pro, to be sure) all marching in the same direction with a bare minimum of kit?
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Herding cats. Without a log tail either. The locals have a big problem with log(istics). It's not in their blood or culture. What little there is often is corrupted by the usual suspects.
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Could be the start of a general Sunni tribal revolt - basically taking their own cities to prevent ISIS from doing so - and also to keep out the Shia militias and Shia dominated Iraqi Army and Police units (which usually turn tail and run anyways).
If this can actually be encouraged, then the Sunni tribes can be turned against the ISIS, the Shia kept out, and the partition of Iraq becomes a reality, albeit 8 years too late.
[DAWN] Seized with patriotic fervour, the federal government has ordered the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to install a 541-square-foot flag on a 200-foot pole in the federal capital.
The desire to have a giant flag at a central point in the city was conveyed to the CDA chairman in a recent meeting by the prime minister himself.
"The idea to have a massive flag erected in the city is possibly inspired by New Delhi's monumental flagpole, measuring 207 feet, which the prime minister saw on his recent visit to India," said an official of the CDA.
The CDA has earmarked three sites for the landmark; F-9 Park, Daman-e-Koh and the National Monument at Zero Point.
However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... technical experts from the civic body are perplexed as no one seems to have any experience or expertise to guide the development and installation of a 200-foot flagpole.
"The pole not only has to be attractive, but also strong enough to withstand wind pressure, especially if installed at Daman-e-Koh or the National Monument," said an official of the planning wing.
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technical experts from the civic body are perplexed as no one seems to have any experience or expertise to guide the development and installation of a 200-foot flagpole.
Obviously a job for the Pioneer Battalion of the F.L.A.
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technical experts from the civic body are perplexed as no one seems to have any experience or expertise to guide the development and installation of a 200-foot flagpole
Good grief - call any mega-car dealer in the US and ask them where they got theirs.
[NYDailyNews] Mohammedan American snuffies from coast to coast, including New York City, head overseas to train for jihad — and NYPD's terror chief is concerned about when they come back.
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is among the groups that actively recruit foreigners to join their jihadist ranks. Mohammedan American snuffies have joined similar groups.
They're the potential killers next door learning to become jihadists in a factory of turbans whose ultimate target is New York City.
More than 100 young home-grown Mohammedans, including some from Gotham, are being trained to become an enemy within by Al Qaeda-inspired groups like ISIS operating in disintegrating Syria and Iraq, the NYPD's terror chief estimated.
"I would be hyper-concerned about the people over there from New York City on the presumption they're going to return to New York City," John Miller, said Thursday.
The NYPD's intelligence chief did not say how many New Yorkers are being schooled in terror by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, but he said they have a good idea who they are. It is very important, he added, to deny ISIS any "sanctuary."
"Why did we have 9/11? Because Al Qaeda controlled real estate in Afghanistan where they had camps that allowed them to have a logistical infrastructure," he said. "You don't want that kind of sanctuary."
So far, there has been no known successful terror attack on U.S. soil by an American who was radicalized overseas.
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Are their passports flagged if they try to return? One would hope so.
[Ynet] Political sources in Iraq have claimed that Russian President Valdimir Putin spoke Friday with 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... , and promised him Russia would send Badhdad an emergency shipment of military aid to assist the government in its fight against the Islamist insurgency led by the ISIS.
"The shipment is expected to arrive in upcoming days and will include military helicopters, armed-personnel carriers, munitions and light and heavy arms," the source was quoted as saying by the anti-Hezbollah Lebanese paper Al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... .
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Iff true, AFAIC it'll the Bammer once again being a good OWG Globalist + SSSSSHHHHHH .... PCCCCCCCC helping not One but Two OWG Co-Superpowers expand their MilPol or Geopol spheres.
[DAWN] Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief and leader of Minhaj-ul-Koran Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... alleged on Saturday that the government is conspiring to send his plane back, DawnNews reported.
On his way to Pakistain from Canada, Dr Qadri held a presser at Heathrow Airport in London.
He said that he is not afraid of giving up his life and will come to Pakistain and fight for the cause of the masses.
"No matter how hard the government tries to stop me, I will come to Pakistain," he said.
Calling Punjab chief minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... 'Qatil-e-Aala', he said that Rana Sanaullah was only doing what he was told to do. The real culprits are at the top, he commented.
Qadri said that forty articles of the Constitution of Pakistain are currently suspended, adding, "There is no democracy in the country but rather a monarchy."
In an exclusive conversation with DawnNews, he said that efforts were underway to sow misunderstanding between him and the Pakistain army.
"We will not stop if the government stops us. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... if the army comes, we will cooperate," Dr Qadri said.
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I don't have much to say about the anniversary of arguably the greatest strategic defeat suffered by Hitler in WWII. The start date of Operation Bagration, otherwise known as the Battle for Western Belorussia was in 1944 on this date. Starting then and ending in early August, the Soviet Red Army immolated 300,000 German soldiers and wiped 30 German divisions off the situation maps, taking advantage of a strategic deception that kept the bulk of Germany's hard experienced, mobile forces in the south to defend against what the German General Staff thought was Stalin's next move.
When the offensive began, Hitler did Stalin a tremendous favor by tying German forces down to specific locations and forbidding local commanders from switching forces. This long-standing defensive practice of switching forces from one threatened sector to another, tying those forces to roads that were denied the Red Army, and refined by the German commander's experience in the field, could have slowed the Red Army down, but ultimately, it probably would not have yielded anything other than yet another tactical win, as the German Army was forced back into central Europe.
For years during the Cold War we heard about the tremendous victory of the Red Army against the German Army. Soviet top commanders constantly celebrated this very day. But after the walls came tumbling down a truth emerged: the German Army also took a pretty good sized chunk out of the Red Army even with the strategic blunder committed by Hitler.
The western Allies had opened the second front just a few weeks earlier, as the Red Army was planning its moves in the first front. Operation Bagration ultimately found the Red Army near the eastern border of Greater Germany, where they would remain until January 12th, 1945.
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The enomity of it all still brings awe to one'senses. Glantz has written brutally true descriptive articles about the shattering of surrrounded German troops. Troops that were denied all mobility by their tyrant leader.
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Just as a lot of Western histories concentrate to the point of ignoring the great battles of the East, the Eastern histories like wise ignore the contributions of the West. One among them was the war of attrition in the air battle for Berlin, begun in February, the allied air arms forced the Luftwaffe to defend the capital. That meant the fronts had to be stripped of air support that would otherwise be available. The allies suffered significant losses but could make them up. The Germans suffered as well, but couldn't. From the allied perspective it was to remove the Luftwaffe as the threat to the Normandy landings, but it has contributory effects elsewhere. Tactical air support was often critical to American success as it had been to the Germans in 1940. Think 'clear weather prayer' and Bastogne. It provided that edge to make up for less than tactical or operational brilliance. Had the Luftwaffe not been molested and in full force to be employed, how more difficult would have thing been on the Eastern Front.
[DAWN] Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... must have raised many an eyebrow even in the ruling PML-N on Thursday when he protested that he was out of the loop about the operation two days ago around the Minhajul Koran secretariat until TV channels started reporting on the festivities between police and workers of the Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT).
The chief minister had come to the capital to give his version of Tuesday's bloodshed in Lahore in a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office.
According to a government official privy to the deliberations, Mr Shahbaz said he first learned about the disturbance near the Minhajul Koran secretariat in Model Town at 8:30am. "He (Shahbaz) immediately ordered police to disengage," the official said, recounting the proceedings.
"Soon after directing the police to disengage, I went to attend the oath-taking ceremony of the Chief Justice of Lahore High Court. During the ceremony I was informed that the situation was worsening. I again passed a message to police to back off.
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[NDTV] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has ordered troops in central Russia on "full combat alert," the defence minister said on Saturday, a day after the Kremlin confirmed it was beefing up its military presence at the border with Ukraine.
"In accordance with his (Putin's) order, from 11:00 am Moscow time (0700 GMT) the troops of the central military district as well as formations and military units located on its territory have been put on full combat alert," Russian news agencies quoted Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying.
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The cascading effects of incompetence, impudence, and failure on display. It's right there in the history books. Well, at least the pre-Marxists ones. Hey, we're modern, urban, and beyond all that record of human behavior. What could go wrong.
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He's already figured Obama will do nothing. So only logistics is holding him back now, in all likelihood. Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan.
[World Bulletin] Turkmenistan and South Korea have agreed to build a natural gas-processing plants worth $4 billion in the Central Asian country after South Korean leader Park Geun-Hye met with counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov on Friday.
The deal was one of many signed, permissing Turkmengaz and South Korea's LG and Hyundai to build the gas-processing plants in Turkmenistan, during Park's first visit to Turkmenistan as part of her Central Asia tour.
Turkmenistan has the fourth largest gas reserves in the world estimated at 32 trillion cubic meters. Already producing around 80 billion cubic meters of gas per year of export for Chinese, Russian, Iranian and central Asian markets, Turkmenistan is also becoming an alternative to Russian gas for Europe.
Along with a number of projects to increase its export of gas to meet demand, a planned pipeline from Turkmenistan across the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan and Turkey is set open the way for gas to be transported to the European market.
[CNN] 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... bully boyz are suspected of raids on two villages in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... where 10 people were killed Saturday, residents and community leaders said.
"We have picked up 10 corpses with bullet wounds," said Enoch Mark, a Christian priest in nearby Chibok, where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped and remain missing.
Mark said military jets dropped bombs on the attackers.
According to witness accounts, there could be more bodies, but Mark said people were waiting for "things to calm down" in the villages of Tsaha and Kwaranglum before venturing into the area.
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A Taliban attack killed three American soldiers and a military dog in southern Afghanistan on Friday. A NATO statement said, "Three ISAF service members and one ISAF canine died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today."
US defense officials confirmed they were Americans.
The attack occurred in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province. The provincial governor's spokesman Omar Zawak said, "The bomb was carried on a motorbike and detonated close to an ISAF patrol."
The Taliban claimed responsibility through a text message sent to media organizations.
[Bearing Arms]We first wrote about the absurd case against US Air Force Tech Sgt. Matt Pinkerton in early November, when he was charged with murder by Assistant State's Attorney Glen Neubauer. What was Pinkerton's crime? Not pausing to dial 9-1-1 after Kendall Green forced is way into Pinkerton's home at 2:00 AM.
Our friend and Bearing Arms contributor Mike McDaniel has been following the Pinkerton case on his own site, and now reports that charges against Pinkerton have been dismissed by the judge and that's no small thing:
Pinkerton was apparently not acquitted, in other words, found not guilty of the charges. There is a significant difference in the process of the similar outcomes. To be acquitted, one much normally endure a complete trial and a jury must render a not guilty verdict. In this case it seems that the judge determined that there wasn't enough evidence to sustain any of the multiple charges against Pinkerton. If this trial followed the normal course of such things, after the prosecution presented its case, the defense asked that the judge dismiss the charges because the prosecution failed to sustain its burden of proof, and that request was obviously granted, likely with prejudice, meaning the charges cannot be refilled in the future. If so, the case is over.
There is, however, one additional possibility: the judge might have dismissed prior to the conclusion of the prosecution's case, so obvious was the prosecution's lack of evidence, so poorly did the prosecutor observe Maryland state law. If that happened, it is unusual indeed. Prosecutors normally do not bring murder charges absent a very strong case, and judges are normally reluctant to dismiss a murder case before all potential evidence has been heard.
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One would assume that the prosecution had to present evidence to a grand jury who indicted the Tech Sgt.. Sounds like a failure of the grand jury process. It would be interesting to know what evidence was presented at the grand jury; was it false?
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Grand Juries usually give the Prosecutor the benefit of the doubt. Prosecutors sometimes take a weak or flawed case to the Grand Jury to cover themselves and/or the Investigators. In most states the Prosecution does not need to go to a Grand Jury at all.
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...Remember the old saying that a Prosecutor can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham sandwich. What I'd ask at this point is what kind of ambitions does Counselor Neubauer have...?
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A lawyer friend of mine once told me that if you are indicted, you can't sue for false arrest, even if you are acquitted or the charges are dropped. (At least in New York state)
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Basically the USAF Service Member is out the cost of his lawyers and defense. Probably enough to bankrupt him. When a case gets tossed like this, I think the prosecutors should be held liable. Also, that TSgt has a felony murder arrest now on his record. Can he get that expunged?
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the USAF Service Member is out the cost of his lawyers and defense
This is the problem with prosecutorial abuse; the state pays the prosecutor's expenses and the innocent defender is out their life savings. I have seen it happen. Prosecutors are not held responsible for their transgressions. Until they are, this abuse will continue.
"Shut up," the NYT explained. I've downloaded the kindle sample to decide for myself (link).
[WashExaminer] The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... bestseller list hasn't waited a millisecond to put Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Liberatress of Libya and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ... 's book atop its influential chart after just a week of sales, but has totally ignored another top-10 hardcover from noted conservative and critic of President B.O., Dinesh D'Souza.
His new book, on sale for three weeks, isn't just absent from the top 10 lists already set for the next two Sundays, but totally missing from the list of the nation's top 25 nonfiction hardcovers despite having sales higher than 13 on the latest Times chart.
According to sales reports provided to Secrets, D'Souza's new book America: Imagine a World Without Her, sold 4,915 in the first week and 5,592 in the second week. Had it been included on the upcoming June 22 Times hardcover nonfiction list, it would have ranked No. 8, and then No. 11 on the June 29 list that puts Clinton's sales at 85,721. The lists are widely circulated in the publishing industry before they go public.
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It is probably not going to make any difference as the people who are fond of this left-wing rag probably wouldn't buy Dinesh D'Souza's book anyway. Banishing the book by the NYTs might even help sales.
[BOSTON.CBSLOCAL] A Marine from New Hampshire has been killed in Afghanistan. Lance Cpl. Brandon Garabrant, 19, was one of three U.S. service members killed by a roadside kaboom Friday morning.
"The entire State of New Hampshire is devastated by the tragic loss of Lance Corporal Brandon Garabrant, who was bravely serving his nation in Afghanistan," Governor Maggie Hassan said in a statement. "Our service men and women courageously sacrifice every day to protect their fellow citizens and defend the enduring value of freedom that is our very core, and in doing so, Lance Corporal Garabrant made the ultimate sacrifice."
Garabrant graduated from ConVal Regional High School in Peterborough last year. He had requested to wear his uniform during graduation, but the school did not allow it.
The school has released a statement reacting to Garabrant's death.
"On behalf of the entire ConVal community I extend my deepest sympathy to Brandon's family and friends," Principal Brian Pickering said. "We are all shocked and deeply saddened by his passing and we are incredibly grateful for his service to our country."
Garabrant was also a volunteer firefighter in Temple, New Hampshire.
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"On behalf of the entire ConVal community I extend my deepest sympathy to Brandon's family and friends," Principal Brian Pickering said. "We are all shocked and deeply saddened by his passing and we are incredibly grateful for his service to our country."
Classical - "we meant well" excuse - CYAWP. We honor the living because they're not around to receive the respect we pay them when they pass. He wanted to show that he was willing to give the last full measure of devotion, to which the usual twits found fundamentally repugnant to their views and thus the censoring.
[DAWN] Rangers personnel conducted an operation in Sultanabad area of Manghopir 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... on Thursday, allegedly killing a key commander and the local vice-emir of the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), DawnNews reported.
Rangers personnel had cordoned off the area sealing all entry and exit points of the locality while conducting the search operation.
Although the official Rangers spokesperson declined to give confirmation of the identities of those killed during the operation, security sources said that the vice-emir of the TTP's Karachi chapter identified as Abid 'chotu' was killed during the Rangers' operation in Sultanabad area of Karachi's Manghopir area.
The other TTP commander killed during the operation was identified as Fakhruddin Mehsud, according to the sources.
Prior to the operation two Rangers personnel were maimed in a hand-grenade attack in the locality. They were later shifted to a hospital for medical treatment.
Following the attack, the operation was conducted with the assistance of air support.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him.... Director General of Sindh Rangers Maj-Gen Rizwan Akhtar also reached the spot to supervise the operation.
Security personnel also recovered an explosive-laden cycle of violence which was taken into custody by the Bomb Disposal Squad.
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[NYSun] Well, well, well. Guess who has gone calling on Ahmad Chalabi. Why, if it's not Brett McGurk, the senior aide of the State Department in respect of Iraq. He's just fetched up at the home in Storied Baghdad of the founder of the Iraqi National Congress. Mr. Chalabi is the visionary who won the Iraq Liberation Act of 1995. He's the man whom the Left likes to blame for allegedly making up intelligence to trick America to going to war for Democracy in his country. The State Department hated him above all others.
Now it's come a-calling. This news was brought in by Eli Lake, former diplomatic leg of the Sun, in a dispatchnull that the Daily Beast runs under the headline "U.S. Taps Old Allies for New Iraq War." Mr. Lake is not reporting that the visit with Mr. Chalabi is going to lead to the return of American GIs to Iraq. He is following up on the dispatch Thursday in the Times that named Mr. Chalabi as among the challengers emerging to replace Prime Minister al-Maliki.
Indeed, it was our government that was behind the purge of Mr. Chalabi from the interim Iraqi government that was established in 2004 and led by Iyad Allawi ... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't... . Relations were decidedly cool as Mr. Chalabi plotted his comeback. The Times reports that he's now willing to bring the Baathists back into public life, meaning ending the anti-Baathist legislation he long supported. Mr. Chalabi, a Shia, seems to be acceptable to the Kurds. So we will see what happens.
Our own favorite Chalabi moment came when he was asked by an interviewer in Britannia whether Iraq needed another strongman, a la Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... of Afghanistan. No, he retorted, what Iraq needed was another Ludwig Erhard. This was a reference to the Free German economics minister who set the stage for a Western victory in the Cold war by establishing sound money in West Germany. This brought the economy to life, setting the contrast between West Germany and the communist East.
[DAWN] IF the snuffies had their way, the whole nation would forcefully be subscribing to their antediluvian code. All confessional and cultural differences would be vigorously stamped out as the hard boyz are not fond of difference of opinion. Perhaps that is why today, anything that veers even slightly from the ultra-orthodox path is under threat in Pakistain. Take, for example, Sufi shrines. As reported on Saturday, a shrine on the outskirts of Islamabad was targeted by an IED during urs celebrations. Luckily, due to the low intensity of the device no fatalities were reported, though some devotees were maimed critically. Considering that a large number of devotees were attending the event, much greater carnage could have been caused. This is not the first time a Sufi durbar has been targeted in or near the capital. In 2005, an kaboom rocked the Bari Imam shrine — perhaps the capital's best known durbar — during the saint's annual urs. Numerous fatalities resulted. In the years since, the shrine has been mostly closed during urs festivities, depriving devotees of the colour and zeal that marked the event. A few days earlier, the Auqaf department sealed the shrine as an bomb was found near the structure in May.
While ensuring the security of people's lives is amongst the government's primary duties, we fail to understand why appropriate security measures cannot be put in place that would safeguard citizens' lives while allowing them to continue with religious and cultural activities. Militants have attacked everything from mosques to markets; does the state feel that shutting everything down each time there is a threat is the best solution? Militants have also bombed the Data Durbar complex in Lahore, Abdullah Shah Ghazi's dargah 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... as well as Baba Farid's shrine in Pakpattan. Will the state one day disallow urs celebrations at these iconic shrines due to security concerns? Instead of curtailing cultural activities, the government needs to strike at the root of the problem. For example, there are numerous Sufi shrines in Islamabad and its suburbs, and a number of them are being threatened by the growth of some myrmidon madressahs sprouting up in the area. Police and intelligence agencies have done little to keep an eye on the activities of the myrmidons. What is clear is that the age-old cultural and religious practices of the people cannot be put on ice indefinitely due to the murderous bullying of obscurantists.
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As I recall U.S. forces were careful not to fire on mosques and made sure religious shrines were not damaged. These ROEs got people killed. Now this tribal conflict is threatening mosques and shrines? How does one picture a "shrug" here?
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is ''totally out of control,'' according to a senior official for Doctors Without Borders, who says the medical group is stretched to the limit in responding.
The outbreak has caused more deaths than any other of the disease, said another official with the medical charity. Ebola has been linked to more than 330 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, according to the World Health Organization.
International organizations and the governments involved need to send in more health experts and increase public education messages about how to stop the spread of the disease, Bart Janssens, the director of operations for the medical group in Brussels, told The Associated Press on Friday.
''The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a second wave,'' Janssens said. ''And, for me, it is totally out of control.''
The Ebola virus, which causes internal bleeding and organ failure, spreads through direct contact with infected people. There is no cure or vaccine, so containing an outbreak focuses on supportive care for the ill and isolating them to limit the spread of the virus.
The current outbreak, which began in Guinea either late last year or early this year, had appeared to slow before picking up pace again in recent weeks, including spreading to the Liberian capital for the first time.
''This is the highest outbreak on record and has the highest number of deaths, so this is unprecedented so far,'' said Armand Sprecher, a public health specialist with Doctors Without Borders.
According to the WHO, the highest previous death toll was in the first recorded Ebola outbreak in Congo in 1976, when 280 deaths were reported. Because Ebola often touches remote areas and the first cases sometimes go unrecognized, it is likely that there are deaths that go uncounted during outbreaks.
The multiple locations of the current outbreak and its movement across borders make it one of the ''most challenging Ebola outbreaks ever,'' Fadela Chaib, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization, said earlier in the week.
But Janssens' description of the Ebola outbreak was even more alarming, and he warned that the countries involved had not recognized the gravity of the situation. He criticized WHO for not doing enough to prod local leaders; the U.N. health agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
''There needs to be a real political commitment that this is a very big emergency,'' he said. ''Otherwise, it will continue to spread, and for sure it will spread to more countries.''
But Tolbert Nyenswah, Liberia's deputy minister of health, said the highest levels of government are working to contain the outbreak, noting that Liberia had a long period with no new cases before this second wave.
With more than 40 international staff currently on the ground and four treatment centers, Doctors Without Borders has reached its limit to respond, Janssens said. It is unclear, for instance, if the group will be able to set up a treatment center in Liberia, like the ones it is running in in Guinea and Sierra Leone, he said.
Janssens said the only way to stop the disease's spread is to persuade people to come forward when symptoms occur and to avoid touching the sick and dead. He said this outbreak is particularly challenging because it began in an area where people are very mobile and has spread to even more densely populated areas, like the capitals of Guinea and Liberia. The disease typically strikes sparsely populated areas in central or eastern Africa, where it spreads less easily, he said.
By contrast, the epicenter of this outbreak is near a major regional transport hub, the Guinean city of Gueckedou.
Between this and AIDS and the spreading of MERS from Saudi Arabia during the annual Haj, not to mention the various vicious wars across the continent, quite possibly overpopulation will no longer be a problem in Africa. The Arab world has all of that, excepting only Ebola, which leads to the question about a future lack of overpopulation in that region.
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Hell they got something better than Ebola TW, they got Holy Mens, Automatic Weapons, they got Jihad!
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Hell, just pray to Allah for health, course you know, you won't get it, not that you would want GOOD health.
Just take what Allah sends you.
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I blame poverty, lack of job opportunity, and the secondary effects of a 300 year period of western colonial oppression. Prior to the modern era, the region enjoyed 40,000 to 60,000 yeas of unparalleled progress and growth.
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But ... how is this related to Global Man-made Climate Modification?
"Change", you know, might allow for natural causes, whereas "modification" suggests a conscious intent.
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Gentlemen, people are suffering from a hellacious disease, and all you want to do is snark about it?
There are people I know personally and care about in Liberia. People with good sense, love for their neighbors, and the drive and guts to fight the ignorance that causes so much suffering.
I dare you to take the two minutes you would ordinarily use to make a snotty comment, and go look up a way to help improve health in Africa. Here are a few:
Tostan, http://www.tostan.org/ Fights against Female Genital Mutilation throughout Africa. Grassroots women's efforts begun in Senegal
Dignity Liberia
http://www.dignityliberia.org/
Provides medical treatment for women with obstetric fistula. Some women suffer from complications for years without treatment.
Compassion International,
Compassion.com
and
Vision Trust
visiontrust.org
Both organizations specialize in children's health, education, and nutrition through child sponsorship.
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Genital Mutilation is a disease? How about an insane barbaric cultural norm? Washing dead bodies with Ebola is a known transmission vector, yet their "Culture" compels them to do it.
Yes their conditions are hellacious at times, but I see too few going beyond tribalism and ignorance to help themselves rise above. See: the next tribal militia attack
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Washingdead bodies with Ebola is a known transmission vector, yet their "Culture" compels them to do it.
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Frank, one of the problems has been getting the word out about washing the bodies. In a big area you focus your efforts on places you know have the disease nearby. Then the disease pops up someplace unexpected.
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Squinty asks, Are cultures eligible to receive Darwin awards?
Of course they are. Some even elect Obama, downhill all the way.
North Korea may have reduced its number of political prisoners and closed one of its prison camps, South Korea's state-run think tank revealed on June 17.
According to the report by the Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU), between 80,000 and 120,000 political prisoners are estimated to be detained in five North Korean political prisons.
The estimate is based on a series of interviews with North Korean defectors and analysis of satellite images of North Korea.
However, the report said the drop in the estimated number of political prisoners and prison camps does not reflect any improvement or changes in the North's policies toward political prisoners. Did they die of starvation?
"It is difficult to say that the reduction in the number and the size of prison camps was the result of any changes in the North Korean authorities' stance or policy toward political prisons," the report said.
The report went on to state that regardless of specific numbers, the important factor to remember is that the North Korean government still maintains the political prisoner camps, which reduce the level of hostility and threats the government faces from society.
In October 2009, the South Korean government said that North Korea maintained between 150,000 and 200,000 political prisoners in six political prisons while the National Human Rights Commission of Korea's estimated in the same year that Pyongyang held around 200,000 political prisoners.
The report pointed out the closure of the political prison camp in Hoeryong and a high death rate caused by poor working and living conditions may have contributed to the reduction in the number of prisoners.
However, the figure produced by KIUN is contradictory to that of other reports by foreign organizations.
For example, the Washington-based U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) said in its recent report, "North Korea's Hidden Gulag: Interpreting Reports of Changes in the Prison Camps," that two camps had been shut down in 2012, but that 130,000 individuals were still being held in penal labor colonies across the country. Perhaps some of these aren't political?
Similarly, based on satellite images, the human rights group Amnesty International said in December of last year that there has been an expansion of existing prison camps in North Korea.
By analyzing the images, Amnesty International found new housing blocks, an expansion of production facilities, and continued tight security in a comprehensive assessments of camps 15 and 16 - known as kwanliso.
"The gruesome reality of North Korea's continued investment in this vast network of repression has been exposed. We urge the authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all those prisoners of conscience held in political prison camps and close the camps immediately," said Rajiv Narayan, Amnesty International's East Asia Researcher. I don't think they are listening.
The cruelty of North Korea's prison camps has been considered as one of the most severe transgressions of the North Korean regime.
According to the KIUN report, most of North Korean prisoners are sent to the camps for trying to cross the border into China or for having family members who are suspected of being hostile towards the regime.
People in the camps are routinely beaten to death with wooden bats because the guards want to save bullets. Prisoners are forced to work all day, and only allocated one or two corn and rice balls for lunch. Consequently, most prisoners suffer from severe malnutrition and are not given proper medical treatment.
The estimated number of prison camps in North Korea varies depending on the reports, but the latest report by KIUN claims there may currently be five prison camps existing throughout North Korea.
North Korean prison camps have survived twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and much longer than the Nazi concentration camps.
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Prison populations in decline, caloric intake of survivors is reportedly on the rise. Enhanced gov't nutrition programs, or Donner Pass correlation? Obviously more study is required.
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"I can't rhyme!" chirped a worried ship-bird,
Bemused by crap limericks he'd heard.
Sang the foo: "Who needs rhyming
When you've got perfect timing
And can kill 'em with one zany word?"
#8
Dogged by the growl of your appetite?
Canines craving green stuff to bite tonight?
From the field, not the park,
It's the other Nork bark!
Try some with Reunite by candlelight!
#9
Juche: "Keep a bunch in your pocket!
Chew fiercely and tighten a sprocket!
Its sharp rabbit-food bite
Will keep you full of fight
As you polish up Dear Leader's rocket!"
[CBSNEWS] Over a thousand people erupted into the streets of Kabul Saturday to protest against the alleged widespread, carefully engineered fraud in Afghanistan's run-off election for president.
Protesters supporting presidential candidate Dr. 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... said they would not accept the result of the election. At one location, marchers were holding disfigured pictures of Zia ul Haq Amarkhel, the secretary of the Independent Election Commission (IEC), chanting "death to the fraudulent Amarkhel" and "death to the Independent Election Commission."
On June 14, the day of the run-off election, Afghan police stopped Amarkhel while he was transporting ballot papers without a police escort.
He was accused of fraud, by Abdullah and others, but insisted he was merely trying to rush ballot papers to several polling sites where there was a shortage.
On Saturday, protesters set up tents on some major roads, blocking traffic. At one point they blocked access to the airport for over an hour.
Also Saturday, a suicide boom-mobileer struck the vehicle of the High Peace Council's chief secretary, Mohammad Masoom Stanikzai, in Kabul, killing one civilian and wounding three others, Kabul police chief Gen. Muhamad Zahir Zahir said. No group grabbed credit of the attack.
The political demonstrators repeated demands made by Abdullah, who has been boycotting the country's electoral commissions, and called for the immediate halt of vote-counting, saying the process is no longer legitimate.
Abdullah has accused President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... and both commissions of orchestrating the election in favor of his rival, technocrat and former World Bank official Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.
Ghani and Abdullah are facing each other in the run-off after none of the nine presidential candidates secured the minimum 50-percent-plus-1 vote threshold in the first round of the elections April 5, forcing both to compete in the second round. Abdullah accused his rival of extensive fraud in certain areas where he has a power base.
The protesters were mainly Tajik and Hazara ethnicities and demonstrated in predominantly Tajik and Hazara neighborhoods. Abdullah is half-Tajik and half-Pashtun and is a prominent figure among Tajiks.
"Our gathering is against the two electoral commissions and President Karzai's orchestrated and systematic interference in the election," said Abdullah Khudadad, one of organizers of the protests. "This is only the start of the nation's complaints and we would continue it until we achieve justice ... Any violence or negative consequences of these protests would be the responsibility of the Afghan government."
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[Telegraph] The jubilant reaction of many Paleostinians to the kidnapping of three Israeli teenage boys has been met in the West with a bit of a shrug. The official daily PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida has published cartoons mocking the three students and celebrating their capture. The Fatah Facebook page featured a cartoon of three rats dangling from a line. Sweets have been handed out on the streets (a traditional gesture of joy and celebration). Many children have been photographed by their parents, holding up three fingers and smiling. An internet campaign gathers pace and "popular support for the abduction has continued to proliferate on Paleostinian social media" according to the journalist Elhanan Miller. Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, of course, is exultant. Yes, Abu Mazen has condemned the kidnap and there have been some brave Paleostinian voices raised in defence of the three youngsters, but their voices are isolated; Paleostinians calling for the return of the three students have been threatened.
And yet, despite all this whooping and cheering about the trauma and possible death of Naftali Fraenkel and Gilad Shaar, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, the Paleostinians will likely pay a very small price in the international community or global public opinion. Why?
In part, because an anti-Zionist mindset that has taken root in the West, and at its heart is unexamined assumption — that Israelis and Paleostinians are different kinds of people. Israelis have agency, responsibility and choice, Paleostinians do not. In short, the world treats the Paleostinians as children — 'the pathology of paternalism' it has been called.
The unarticulated assumption of anti-Zionism is that Paleostinians are a driven people, dominated by circumstances and moved by emotions; qualities associated with the world of nature. Israelis are the opposite; masters of all circumstances, rational and calculating; qualities associated with the world of culture.
This dichotomous thinking has three bad consequences.
First, by granting only one side to the conflict agency and responsibility, the dichotomy distorts key events of the conflict (e.g. the war of 1948, the collapse of the Camp David peace talks in 2000, Gazoo after the 2005 disengagement). The Paleostinians are cast as passive victims; a compelled people (Haaretz writer Yitkhak Laor claims the second intifada was "instigated" by ⦠Israeli policy); a duped people (activist Tikva Honig-Parnass writes of "Barak's pre-planned collapse of the Camp David talks in October 2000"); and a people beyond the reach of judgement. Academic Jacqueline Rose views Paleostinian jacket wallahs as "people driven to extremes" and argues that Israel has "the responsibility for [the] dilemma" of the jacket wallah.
Second, the dichotomous understanding of Paleostinians and Israelis distorts our understanding of Israel's security. The threats Israel faces are discounted and the security measures taken by Israel reframed as motiveless and cruel acts. For example, the writer Shlomo Sand argues that Israel falsely "portray[s] itself as a persecuted innocent" and he claims that this portrayal, not real threats, has given Israeli society "a well of deep-seated collective anxieties." Ilan Pappe, an Israeli academic now teaching in the UK, claims that "Zionists" are "[c]ompelling a nation to be constantly at arms" by stimulating "continual angst" through the abuse of Holocaust memory. He dismisses "useful fabrications about Israelis suffering under intense rocketing" as a "fantasy of apologists." For the anti-Zionists, then, Israel's concern with security is either a pathology (an unconscious psychological condition Israelis cannot break out of) or — this a contradiction, note — a case of manipulation (a conscious political ploy).
The third consequence of this dichotomous thinking about the nature of the two peoples is the infantalisation of the Paleostinians: they remain perpetually below the age of responsibility; the source of their behaviour always external to themselves, always located in Israel's actions.
For example, when the Israeli novelist and Left-wing Zionist Amos Oz complained that incitement by Paleostinian intellectuals is one reason so many Paleostinians are "suffocated and poisoned by blind hate," Yitzhak Laor responded by accusing Oz of "incitement" against the Paleostinians. Oz's temerity in seeking to hold the Paleostinians to account condemned him in Laor's eyes.
The academic Jacqueline Rose has argued that Paleostinian suicide bomber is a person compelled, before admonishing Israel a few lines later for failing to take note of Freud's warning that "the forcefulness with which a group builds and defends and defends its identity was the central question of modern times." (That's just something for the cultured Israelis to worry about, it seems.)
Of course, Israel has to compromise and divide the land, making possible a Paleostinian state. But if the Paleostinians are treated as children, never held accountable for cultivating a culture of hate, then they will never make their own excruciating compromises for peace. And without those compromises — in a Middle East departing further from the norms of human behaviour by the day — Israel will not take risks for peace. Nor should it.
[IsraelTimes] The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, on Saturday denied allegations that he had been trying to transfer funds to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,. Serry's denial came in response to a report earlier in the evening that Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman intends to expel the Jerusalem-based Middle East official for seeking to transfer tens of millions of dollars of funds to the terror group.
Serry acknowledged in a statement released Saturday night that he was on a visit to Qatar a few weeks ago but denied that talks of a UN role in the payment of salaries in Gazoo — an issue described in the statement as having "potentially destabilizing effects on security in Gazoo," and seemingly the basis on which Liberman made his allegations — took place.
Serry said he was approached by Paleostinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on the matter but made it clear that the UN "would only be able to be of assistance if acceptable to all stakeholders, including Israel."
The UN official added that the information was "immediately shared with Israeli authorities at the working level" and that Israel reacted negatively.
"For the past seven years, that I have been UN Special Coordinator I have carried out my work with impartiality in an effort to assist both Israelis and Paleostinians. It is now disheartening to hear that in considering a request from one of the parties in the aforementioned effort, the integrity of my role is being questioned," his statement read.
Earlier Saturday, Israeli media reported that Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman intended to expel Serry for seeking to transfer tens of millions of dollars of funds to Hamas, Israeli television reported Saturday night.
Liberman was set to seek the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the move and have him declared persona non grata, Channel 2 said. The report added that Liberman would discuss the move, which could place Israel on a collision course with the world body, with officials at his ministry on Sunday.
Liberman was reported to have long regarded Serry as biased against Israel.
The TV report said that Serry has been seeking relentlessly to transfer funds to Hamas in Gazoo, to the immense displeasure of Liberman. Israel, the US and others designate the Islamic myrmidon Hamas, which is formally committed to the destruction of Israel, as a terrorist organization.
According to the report, Serry initially sought to arrange the transfer of $20 million to Hamas in Gazoo, from Qatar, via Abbas's PA, but he was rebuffed. He then asked Israel to facilitate the transfer, but was again rejected. Finally, he has reportedly been suggesting that the UN itself take the money from Qatar and then transfer it to Hamas in Gazoo.
The TV report said Liberman considered Serry's actions to mark an effort to legitimize Hamas.
Liberman was also said to be dismayed by a statement issued by Serry on Friday that said the UN was "deeply concerned" over the IDF's ongoing security operation in the West Bank aimed at locating the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers. The Israeli campaign has resulted in the deaths of three Paleostinians and the injury of many more, Serry's statement noted.
In comments that Liberman reportedly considered to lack balance, Serry said that while the UN acknowledged that tightened restrictions on movement throughout the West Bank were necessary as part of efforts to bring the youths home safely, the UN urged Israel to show restraint and carry out the operation in compliance with international law. The UN special coordinator further called on the Israeli government to respect the lives, dignity and livelihoods of Paleostinians.
[Telegraph] We cannot be indifferent to what is happening in Syria and Iraq, imagining it to be a self-contained, faraway war between Moslems
Careful, buddy, that's the Obama Doctrine you're dissing...
Across the Middle East and Africa, it is an uncomfortable fact that the cries of jihad accompanying the latest attack or terrorist outrage are often uttered in a British accent.
Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , gunnies who ransacked towns in northern Kenya this week and left 60 people dead, were led by a white man speaking "fluent British English", according to witnesses. In the Commons yesterday, David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... estimated that 400 British Moslems are currently in Syria or Iraq, mainly attached to the Isis organization marching on Storied Baghdad. "The people in that regime, as well as trying to take territory, are also planning to attack us here at home in the United Kingdom," he said.
It is for this reason that last week's debate about the dissemination of British values in Moslem schools was more than theoretical. How have we created the circumstances in which hundreds of young men born and raised in this country want to fight, and possibly die, on foreign battlefields? Even worse is the likelihood that some may return home determined to inflict mayhem in their own country.
As Mr Cameron observed, this development poses an even bigger danger for Britannia than the radicalised young men who travelled to al-Qaeda camps in Pakistain to be trained in bomb-making techniques. Many came back intending to carry out atrocities here, and some succeeded — including the July 7 jacket wallahs in 2005. It is easy for recruits to Isis to get into Syria by travelling through Turkey, and ubiquitous social media ensures they have contacts waiting when they arrive. It is not fanciful to imagine that some of these fighters will be recruited by al-Qaeda to carry out attacks in Britannia and the West.
The police and the security services are fully aware of the threat. Indeed, dozens of Syria-related arrests have been made, passports confiscated, citizenship rights removed and legislation is now being prepared to make the planning of terrorist attacks overseas illegal here in the UK. This needs to be put on to the Statute Book as speedily as possible. There is also an important role for the Moslem community in Britannia to play. The police have already sought the co-operation of Moslem women, to try to dissuade or inform on men who intend to fight. But religious leaders also need to be involved, by urging would-be jihadis to stay at home and counter the call to arms they may hear on the internet. As Mr Cameron told MPs, we cannot be indifferent to what is happening in Syria and Iraq, imagining it to be a self-contained, faraway war between Moslems. Without the utmost vigilance, it has the potential to harm us as well.
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Good luck with the UK Muslim community, Mr. Cameron. Ever heard of the term "taqiyya?"
Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other, unless the purpose of lying is to "smooth over differences."There are two forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, taqiyya and kitman. These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause Islam - in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.
The link is chocked full of chapter and verse providing background to taqqiya.
Like most western leaders, Mr. Cameron, you are deluding yourself to thinking that you can reason with Islamists. This is delusional and suicidal thinking on the installment plan.
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And thus, little Virginia, we learn once again why God + 1960's-79's Guam Taotamonas foresaw Tom Cruise's new 2014 movie "EDGE OF TOMMOROW".
Plus "INTERSTELLAR", in case the Marxists + Globalists, etal, in their manic self-centered arrogance think they + their Nukes can't lose agz Radical Islam.
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Obama could not act with such disdain for the law if he wasn't aided and abetted by Harry Reid. The remedy is impeachment after the November elections.
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I shouldn't impeach unless I were very sure of a conviction... Anything less would be viewed as vindication by everyone prepared to think of Republicans as racist or of those who went up against this president as racist.
Vote in November. Vote against, if you won't vote for.
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Impeachment isn't going to happen again this President, counter-productive an absolute waste of time. Make him veto Apple Pie, Mom's Lemonade and cheap gas.
The pertinent part of Section 5 of the US Constitution says,
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
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Suppose Obama was impeached before 2016. This is the "poison pill alternative" whereby, it is costly to the donks and whoever they put up for President. However, the unintended consequences might come about from impeachment and voters might get very angry with the party that impeaches. The voters might view this as a legal lynching much as they did in the OJ trial which resulted in acquittal. The Senate is not going to convict Champ even if the Pubs win the Senate--not enough votes. Historically, there is a reluctance to convict. The Pubs might just continue as they are on many fronts; i.e. death by a thousand cuts. There seems to be a rich trove of illegality in this administration to draw from if the Pubs decide to play hardball. The Pubs will probably see how the 2014 elections come out. Should they win the Senate and keep the House, their options should be increased. I would think the Pubs are looking at these various alternatives.
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I agree John. No sense creating a political victim or party martyr. What a lovely distraction an impeachment would be. Champ would enjoy such a struggle immensely. In fact, I'm not entirely uncertain that he's not actually laying the defensive groundwork for such an event. Better to permit the pain of his indolence and prideful ineptness to continue for another couple of years. This will permit a permanent memory to be etched into the minds of [least some of those] who voted for him. The prop wash of the Champ administrations failures will most assuredly impact every democrat seeking election or reelection, which is another added benefit.
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The worst thing that could happen to this narcissist macaroon, in his mind, would be to ban his name from history, never have his name pass anyone's lips and deny him his legacy. But that is not going to happen...just wishful thinking.
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Relegate Champ to the dung heap of history along with the "Washington Redskins" name (sarc). Relegate Harry R. there also; he is such a weasel with all his created crises such as illegal immigration and the Redskins. All noise and distraction. During the time before they are relegated to the dung heap, they should be serving time in the Graybar Hotel.
According to news reports from Waajid, a fierce confrontation allegedly erupted last night on the outskirts of the town between armed fighters from the Al-Shabaab terrorist group and Somali National Army soldiers.
The battle was initiated after the terrorist insurgents stormed strategic military bases where SNA soldiers were stationed on the outskirts of Waajid. Residents near the town reported to Shabelle that the conflict went on for at least a few hours and that they heard extreme exchange of gunfire and mortar shellings. Locals report that fatalities were caused although they cannot confirm to the extent of how many casualties and losses.
In the Bakool region recently, there has been increased fighting between governments SNA soldiers against fighters of the Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist cell, Al-Shabaab.
A string of towns and districts in Bakool has already been liberated in a joint military offensive by African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali National Army
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[NEWS.YAHOO] A South Korean conscript soldier shot and killed five of his fellow unit members and injured five others late on Saturday at a guard post near the heavily armed border with North Korea, a South Korean official said.
The exact circumstances of the incident at the remote guard post were not immediately clear and the official could not provide further details, although there was no indication that North Korea was involved in the incident.
The incident took place in the Goseong county, a mountainous region that borders the North on the eastern end of the peninsula.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said there was an operation to capture the conscript who is believed to be on the run carrying a firearm and live ammunitions.
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[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Self-styled Druids, new-agers and thousands of revelers have watched the sun rise above the ancient stone circle at Stonehenge to mark the summer solstice - the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
English Heritage, which manages the monument, says some 36,000 sun-watchers gathered on the Salisbury Plain about 80 miles (130 kilometers) southwest of London on Saturday. Police say the event was peaceful with only 25 arrests, mainly for drug offenses.
Couples kissed, dancers circled with hoops and revelers took part in a mass yoga practice as part of the free-form celebrations.
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the event was peaceful with only 25 arrests,
Yeah, roght.
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Couples kissed, dancers circled with hoops and revelers took part in a mass yoga practice as part of the free-form celebrations.
Hence the term... "hooping it up."
We are the Crop Circle Illuminati of Albion. Mock us at your own peril.
The Award winning journalist, Yusuf Ahmed Abukar (Yusuf Keynan) was killed in Hamarweyn district on Saturday morning, when a bomb believed to have been attached to his car exploded around 7:40am, according to Mustafa Yasin, the owner of Mustaqbal radio who spoke with NUSOJ.
"I am currently standing on his body and the situation is tense." Mustafa Yasin said.
Yusuf Ahmed worked for Mustaqbal radio, a privately owned radio based in Mogadishu and Ergo radio, a humanitarian radio based in Nairobi. Yusuf was among the winners of 2013 Somali Media Awards organized by NUSOJ and the United Nations.
No Group claimed responsibility and its not yet known the motive behind his killing.
"We condemn the murder of our colleague and call for prompt investigations into the case.' Mohamed Ibrahim, NUSOJ Secretary General said, "I send my sincere condolences to the families, Friends and colleagues of late Yusuf."
"We demand the killers be brought to justice." Mr. Ibrahim added.
Yusuf becomes second journalist and media worker killed in 2014.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... directed police and security agencies to gear up their resources to fully secure twin cities Rawalpindi-Islamabad and its residents in wake of the Zarb-e-Azb operation against snuffies in North Wazoo.
The minister said this while chairing a meeting on Saturday to review the security situation of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
The meeting was attended by Secretary Interior, NC National Counter-Terrorism Authority (Nacta), Director General Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Chief Commissioner Islamabad, Commissioner Rawalpindi, Inspector General (IG) Islamabad police, Regional Police Officer (RPO) and City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Islamabad.
He said that sensitivity of the situation demanded extra security measures and it was incumbent on security agencies to fully secure public places and strategically important buildings.
Nisar directed police high ups to review the overall security of the federal capital with particular reference to entry and exit points and identification of sensitive buildings in order to adopt security measures accordingly.
The minister stressed that entry and exit points of both cities be put on high alert and areas surrounding the federal capital and Rawalpindi be thoroughly searched, adding that they should be cleared of any unlawful elements.
He said that joint patrolling teams of Rangers and police had given a sense of security to the residents of Islamabad and directed them to strategise this exercise to get optimum use.
Chaudhry Nisar also added that all routes must be highly protected and added that special attention must be paid to unconventional routes, including jeep-able and pedestrian routes.
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[DAWN] CLEARLY, demonstrating a little bit of efficiency in the Model Town affair in Lahore could have saved the Punjab government a lot of trouble. The intervention from the top for which the province is famous was missing for long hours as the situation outside the Minhajul Koran secretariat on Tuesday deteriorated gradually. If that delay defied logic, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... had been rather slow in giving marching orders to two of his senior associates in government. The step that he has now resorted to could have been taken immediately after the firing incident outside the Minhajul Koran office. The delay allowed doubts and accusations to creep in and the opposition demands got louder with time. The Punjab government chose to answer statement with statement, announcing a judicial commission but inexplicably putting off the administrative action it has now taken. The chief minister needed to appear a little more humble in the wake of the Model Town tragedy and, given his reputation for quick responses, to be prompt in his administrative action in aid of a fair inquiry. By procrastinating he exposed himself to criticism that all this time he had been looking for suitable scapegoats.
The law minister Rana Sanaullah was one of the two brass hats to be removed. The other is Tauqeer Shah, who was working as the chief minister's principal secretary. There is a contrast between the two men, both considered very close to the chief minister: Mr Sanaullah has been a loud-talking minister giving the impression that offence is the best defence policy. Dr Shah, in comparison, has been known as a chief ministerial aide who has preferred to do his assignments quietly. His sacking over a police raid at as sensitive a place as the headquarters of Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... at a crucial moment will feed the legend that casts him as a man authorised to take important decisions by a chief executive who is not known to share power easily. His forced ouster will be construed as some kind of a loss for Shahbaz Sharif.
On the other hand, the outgoing law minister generated a lot of heat and acrimony as he went about publicly responding to whatever challenges the Punjab government was faced with. There had been calls for the PML-N leadership to rein him in. All his critics will now feel vindicated, and both administratively and politically, the PML-N must review its aggressive approach to issues. Dr Qadri and some others have rejected the sackings as insufficient and are demanding the chief minister's resignation. This is their argument: Rana Sanaullah couldn't have been acting without orders from above. An effort is now on to delink Mr Shahbaz Sharif from the gory Model Town incident by disconnecting him from his two associates. Their removal apart, this will require some doing.
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[EAGNEWS.ORG] SWANLEY, England — Parents of students at Crockenhill Primary School in Kent, England are fuming over a school-sanctioned pole dancing demonstration that featured performers as young as four years old.
One of the ladies that was performing it was wearing a crop top with one of the shoulder sleeves missing — it was quite revealing," according to one several parents who stormed out of the event at the school's summer fete Sunday. "The shorts they had on showed more than they should and a lot of people were leaving as a result of it."
"I don't think it would have been as bad if they had been more appropriately dressed," the father told the Daily Mail. "If it was a leotard, fair enough, but for what they were wearing, and having their faces all made up, it just wasn't right.
"I felt like I was entering something quite unsavory."
Officials with the school and local Revolutions Pole Academy arranged for the performance at Crockenhill's summer school festival as a way to encourage physical fitness. Officials contend the routine, which also featured Disney music and adults dressed as characters from The Lion King, was perfectly acceptable, the Daily Mail reports.
"We had the dance company come along and they were involved in aerial skills and it's run by someone in our community," Crockenhill's headmaster, Sarah Warshow, told the news site.
"There was one performance by the teacher and some of the children. It's great for the children to keep fit and it's fun as well," she said. "We felt it was good to support it — there's nothing sleazy about it."
Revolutions owner Cat Ledbetter performed a pole dance at the event to the Disney tune Let it Go, from the movie Frozen. She said some parents are just over-reacting.
"The children involved all had a fantastic time and have benefited greatly from their lessons," she told the Daily Mail. "It's fun and it's keeping them fit."
Ledbetter added that "the pole workout is one of four or five workouts they do and a staple part of my business.
"To separate it and tell them they can't do it would be putting a stigma on it. I'm very sad for the school and it's quite upsetting for the children to hear these comments."
Oddly enough, nobody seems to be more upset about the whole situation than LaToya Jackson.
"This is so disturbing to hear. What are we teaching our girls? Look at society. What are we doing here?" Jackson told Dr. Drew during a guest appearance on Dr. Drew on Call. "It so disturbing ⦠the message that you are giving them that it's ok to do that, to grow up and do this. I'm just, I'm just so upset about this."
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You can see why the Birmingham Fruits of the Loon got a toe-hold.
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Better income chance with a trade later on than spending four years at an American university for a useless humanities degree and decades of debt. Instead of being screwed over by those tenured professors, they'll get to do the same to the professors (see-Blue Angel)
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Steve White: Gotcher answer rat cheer. Scroll down for video and use the full screen mode. The good stuff (such as it is) starts at 1:40.
My view: it's a gymnastics routine with unnecessarily skimpy costumes. Some of the provocative poses the girls assume aren't any more provocative than what you'd find in the Olympics, but the costumes they're wearing are sexier than those of Olympic gymnasts. (Disclaimer: I last watched Olympic gymnastics in a year beginning with "19", so maybe I'm wrong.)
The four-year-olds run up at the end of the video, and are not wearing anything particularly interesting, as I recall.
I don't know what the deal is with the giant ring thing. That seems more spectacle than athletics. The three-girls-on-a-pole looks like it belongs in the opening credits of a Bond film.
[Telegraph] 21 Jun 2014 | Mapping the changing flashpoints and Isis victories and defeats in Iraq as the jihadist offensive continues
As the Isis offensive on Baghdad rages on, take a look at our daily updated Iraq crisis map to see where the latest frontline fighting is taking place.
The earliest map is dated 17. June. A site worth bookmarking for the duration, I think.
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The map shows no gains in Kurdish control since the crisis began. It does not even indicate that Kirkuk is now under the Peshmerga. This is not a good map.
If the maps thus far posted are inadequate, Geographer, it would be lovely if you would find us a better open source one. I happened across this in my internet wanderings, but freely admit this is not a subject on which I can claim any expertise whatsoever.
The Armenian Defense Ministry said two Armenian soldiers were killed in the latest clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani military forces. According to the ministry, one soldier was killed near the border with Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh on June 19, while another one died in a gun battle near Armenia's border with Azerbaijan's Naxcivan Autonomous Republic.
Meanwhile, media reports in Azerbaijan say two Azerbaijani women and a child were injured after being shot by Armenian solders near Nagorno-Karabakh.
[Ynet] IDF forces locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! 10 Paleostinians overnight Friday in the West Bank, raiding some 15 charities related to Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.
According to the IDF, 146 homes were searched and in 21 cases money was confiscated.
Inch by inch,
Row by row,
I'm gonna make that garden grow...
[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Elkton police say a woman's body was found in a car that had been parked on a department store parking lot for three weeks.
Department front man Lt. Joseph Zurolo tells The News Journal of Wilmington, Del., that the body was found about 3 p.m. Thursday. He said a groundskeeper at Wal-Mart detected a foul odor and told store managers, who called police.
Officers found the decomposed body of a woman lying in the back seat.
Zurolo says the car was parked in an isolated spot on the lot. He says the store's surveillance videos showed the car pulling into the lot on May 29.
Police say video shows a woman getting out of the driver's side and get into the back seat.
Zurolo says foul play is not involved.
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Wal-Mart allows overnight parking, it's strange. Check your local one out at 5 am for an interesting look at Americana.
[Ynet] Gunmen have attacked the port of the restive eastern city of Benghazi on Saturday, firing wildly with small arms into the area for hours, a security official in Libya said.
He said security forces and citizens blocked the city's surrounding roads after the Saturday attack, which left six people wounded.
The official added that the attack is believed to be a reprisal by Islamist militiamen targeted by the forces of renegade Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter.
Caption on photo: Those staying behind to resist are militants or their supporters who are being chased and eliminated, a source told Dawn com. Don't kill the cantankerous old men and women who refused to leave.
PESHAWAR: About 30 suspected terrorists were killed in targeted strikes by jet aircraft in Khyber Agency and North Waziristan early Saturday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a press release.
At 2 AM, aircraft destroyed two hideouts close to the Pak- Afghan border in Khyber Agency killing 10 suspected terrorists. At 5 AM, three hideouts were destroyed in Hassu Khel in North Waziristan, killing 20 terrorists.
All strikes were made in areas where there is no civil population, the statement said.
Over 300 suspected militants have reportedly been killed in the Zarb-i-Azb operation launched a week ago.
The United States said Friday it was evacuating some of its Kenyan embassy staff due to security risks in the wake of attacks by Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants that left dozens dead. Travel restrictions have been put into place for government personnel and “based on the recent changes in Kenya’s security situation, the embassy is also relocating some staff to other countries,” the State Department said.
However, despite the evacuations, the Nairobi-based embassy would “remain open for normal operations,” it said.
The State Department warned US citizens of the risks of traveling to the African country, also urging those already there to “evaluate their personal security situation in light of continuing and recently heightened threats from terrorism and the high rate of violent crime in some areas.”
“The US government continues to receive information about potential terrorist threats aimed at US, Western, and Kenyan interests in Kenya,” it said. “Although the pursuit of those responsible for previous terrorist activities continues, many of those involved remain at large and still operate in the region.”
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Militants seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said on Saturday, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers almost a century ago and potentially creating a caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran.
The militants, led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), first moved into the nearby town of Al Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said. Once border guards heard that Al Qaim had fallen, they left their posts and militants moved in, the sources said.
Sameer Al Shwiali, media adviser to the commander of Iraq’s anti-terrorist squad, told Reuters that the Iraqi army was still in control of Al Qaim.
Al Qaim and its neighbouring Syrian counterpart Albukamal are on a strategic supply route. A three-year civil war in Syria has left most of eastern Syria in the hands of militants, including the Albukamal Qaim crossing. The Albukamal gate is run by Al Qaeda’s official Syria branch, the Nusra Front, which has clashed with ISIL but has also agreed to localised truces when it suits both sides.
The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, Rami Abdulrahman, said ISIL has pushed the Nusra Front out from many areas of eastern Syria in the past few days and their capture of Al Qaim will allow them to quickly move to the Syrian side.
ISIL already controls territory around the Abukamal gate, effectively pinching the Nusra Front between its forces in Syria and those in neighbouring Iraq, said Abdulrahman, who tracks the violence.
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Abu Sayyaf terrorists militants beheaded one of their Filipino hostages who was injured during a clash with government soldiers in the southern Philippines. Troops pursuing the terrorists militants have recovered the headless body of Remegio Lingayan in the town of Indanan in Sulu province. Lingayan was kidnapped along with his brother-in-law on June 4 while working on a construction project in the area.
A military report said Lingayan was hit by bullets when soldiers and policemen tried to rescue him during the fighting. The terrorists militants could not provide medication to Lingayan so they decided to behead him. The fate of Gonzales is unknown.
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"I'm getting better!"
"No you're not. You're not fooling anyone"
"I feel happy!"
"Gimme that machete"
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[DAWN] 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) leader Nabil Gabol said Saturday that the party would put up strong resistance if Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... was tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! , DawnNews reported.
Speaking to media representatives, Gabol said Pakistain Mohammedan League- Nawaz's (PML-N) authoritative style of leadership was damaging for the democratic system in the country.
He said 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... should withdraw the order for Qadri's arrest.
The MQM leader said a commission, comprising Supreme Court judges, would be constituted to investigate the Model Town tragedy, adding that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... should also appear before it.
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[The Hindu] At least 13 people were killed in fresh violence to hit China's Xinjiang region on Saturday morning, in what officials described as a brazen attack on a cop shoppe in the troubled Mohammedan-majority western frontier.
The government said around a dozen men drove a truck into the local public security bureau, or police office, and detonated explosives, in Yecheng, a town north of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar near the western border.
Authorities said 13 "mobsters" were killed and three coppers injured in the attack. It was unclear if others were tossed into the calaboose over the violence.
Yecheng was the site of a similar attack in 2012, when police said a group of nine men had attacked passersby on a pedestrian street with knives, killing at least 15 people.
That attack was blamed by the government on an Islamist krazed killer group.
Saturday's attack follows a series of incidents that have rocked Xinjiang in recent months, marking a significant escalation in violence in the unrest-hit western region.
The government has said that the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a terror group pushing for independence in Xinjiang, has been behind some of the attacks, including a knife and kaboom on the railway station in Urumqi, the regional capital, in April that left at least three people killed and injured 79.
The violence has also, for the first time, spread beyond Xinjiang. In March, at least 29 people were killed and more than a 100 injured as a group of apparently trained attackers, armed with long knives, assaulted people at a railway station in Kunming, in southwestern Yunnan province.
The attacks have prompted a "strike hard" campaign by the government, which has pledged a year-long drive to root out krazed killer groups.
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[NY Times] All factions in the city have started mobilizing, preparing, as they call it, "for war." But, almost everybody here says, the war is against the "terrorists" — the jihadists of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria who have seized broad stretches of northern territory — and not against Sunnis.
This reluctance to lump together the Sunnis of ISIS with the Sunnis of Iraq could suggest that some Shiites, the majority sect in the country, are heeding the call of Ayatollah Sistani and other holy mans to embrace a national identity instead of a religious one, despite months of fierce sectarian battles across Iraq that preceded the ISIS invasion two weeks ago. Several ayatollahs have issued fatwas against anyone feeding the fire of sectarianism.
On Friday, a front man for Ayatollah Sistani warned that if ISIS was not "fought and expelled from Iraq, everyone will regret it tomorrow, when regret has no meaning."
That day, as the sun was setting, Najaf and the adjacent city of Kufa were bustling with activity to heed that call. In neighborhoods, on soccer pitches and in parades on the main highway that splits the city in half, cheerful Iraqis brandished machine guns, denouncing the "terrorists."
Sheikh Foad al-Torfa, a round-bellied man of God, trained on a dusty field in Kufa in military fatigues, a white turban the only reminder of his life as a Shiite Moslemholy man.
All around him groups of black-clad men marched in formation. "Who are you fighting for?" a self-appointed drill sergeant shouted. "For Iraq, for Iraq," the men thundered in reply.
"When I looked at myself in the mirror, I felt proud, and powerful," said Mr. Torfa, wiping sweat from his forehead. An Iraqi Army belt was strapped around his waist, and every now and then he touched the pistol hanging from it.
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This is the kind of thing the BBC do very well. Lots of maps, photos and video at the link. Text mostly stripped of stuff we already know.
[BBC] Thousands of Shia militia loyal to the powerful holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... have paraded through the streets of Storied Baghdad, raising sectarian tensions amid continued fighting in areas of Iraq.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Sunni fighters have seized a border post on the Iraq-Syria frontier, security sources said, smashing a line drawn by colonial powers a century ago in a campaign to create an Islamic Caliphate from the Mediterranean Sea to Iran.
The bad boys, led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), first moved into the nearby town of al-Qaim on Friday, pushing out security forces, the sources said on Saturday.
Once border guards heard that al-Qaim had fallen, they left their posts and hard boyz moved in, the sources said.
Sameer al-Shwiali, media adviser to the commander of Iraq's anti-terrorist squad, told Rooters the Iraqi army was still in control of al-Qaim.
Al-Qaim and its neighboring Syrian counterpart Albukamal are on a strategic supply route. A three-year-old civil war in Syria has left most of eastern Syria in the hands of Sunni bad boys, now including the Albukamal-Qaim crossing.
The Albukamal gate is run by al Qaeda's official Syria branch, the Nusra Front, which has clashed with ISIL but has sometimes agreed to localized truces when it suits both sides.
The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, Rami Abdulrahman, said ISIL had pushed the Nusra Front out from many areas of eastern Syria in the past few days and their capture of al-Qaim will allow them to quickly move to the Syrian side.
ISIL already controls territory around the Albukamal gate, effectively pinching the Nusra Front between its forces in Syria and those in neighboring Iraq, said Abdulrahman, who tracks the violence.
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As per CNN this AM, the ISIS Boyz are repo getting closer to Syria + espec neutral JORDAN.
Pragmatically, since its only June 2014, wid the Globalist Bammer helping Globie-desired OWG CoSuperpowers deliberately unilaterally but SSSSSSHHHHHHHH PCorrectly-Deniably expand their spheres of influence vee US Allies + even agz US interests, THE SITUATIONAL FLUX IS SUCH THAT AMERS WILL LUCKY IFF THE US STILL HAS CONTROL OF HAWAII = EASTPAC BY THE TIME THE BAMMER LEAVES OFFICE COME JAN. 2017.
NOT THAT IT WILL HAPPEN, BUT AT THE RATE OBAMA IS GOING THE POTENTIAL IS THERE.
FYI the threat to America = Amerika, the OWG Mighty USSA = Weak USRoA, will NOT be reduced iff another covert or overt Anti-US US Globalist is elected to be POTUS - IFF THE US DOESN'T LOSE MOST OF THE PACIFIC + HAWAII BY THE END OF OBAMA'S PRSIDENCY, IT WILL THE NEXT ONE.
[Ynet] Suicide bombing targeting Abbas Ibrahim kills 1 and wounds 37; Ibrahim: 'Terror has many faces, Israel is one of them'.
Lebanese security chief Abbas Ibrahim, who was the target of a failed liquidation attempt Friday, claims the Israeli Mossad was behind the attack.
The suicide kaboom left one person dead and maimed 37 in the country's Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, an area where Lebanese Sunni Mohammedanfaceless myrmidons opposed to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... have been targeting his key Lebanese ally — Hezbollah.
In an interview with Lebanese media, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, a Shiite who heads Leb's Directorate of General Security (DGS) and ironically is considered close to Hezbollah, made the claims, citing a document which had surfaced hours before the liquidation attempt, and indicated the attack was planned in Ein Al-Hilwa refugee camp, a Paleostinian camp known as a hotbed for bully boy actions.
"Terror has many faces, and Israel is one of them," said Ibrahim
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... he previously told Rooters that security officials had information that Sunni faceless myrmidons were aiming to assassinate him.
"But they were Mossad Sunni myrmidons," he added piously. "They're the very worst of all."
"We miraculously escaped," Ibrahim told Rooters, adding that many officials in Leb were being targeted by the reactivation of "terrorist sleeper cells".
"We were suspicious of the (bomber's) car when we were on our way and when the car stopped at the Dahr al-Baydar checkpoint, the kaboom went off," he said.
Good map in the linked article.
Syrian jets bombed terrorist rebel-held eastern areas close to the border with Iraq under the control of the vag-ISIL, killing and injuring dozens in stepped up raids reported the Reuters news agency. Green-on-green. Hard to argue...
Five raids killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more on Saturday when bombs hit residential areas in the town of Muhassan just over 100km from Iraq, a day after tribal elders in the town along the Euphrates River, pledged allegiance to vag-ISIL.
Vag-ISIL already controls almost 70 percent of the Deir al-Zor region, according to some terroristrebel sources. Although some towns have been seized after deadly festivities with rival groups, other tribal towns have been won over by vag-ISIL without a fight through a mixture of coercion and inducements (e.g. reduced redness and irritation).
Vag-ISIL's headquarters were the target of intensive raids by pencil-neckal-Assad's air forces last week.
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The humanitarian situation in Syria is worsening and the number of people needing urgent help has reached 10.8 million — almost half of Syria's population of 22 million, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.
So we're to support half the population of Syria. If they keep it up we'll be supporting all of them, and then we'll have to call them Palestinians. Perhaps they'll get their own UN relief agency...
Ban's monthly report to the UN Security Council said the current estimate of 3.5 million people living in areas that are difficult or impossible for humanitarian workers to reach is also likely to have increased to 4.7 million people.
The UN chief painted a grim picture of a country gripped by severe levels of violence, including the intensified use of barrel bombs by government forces against civilian areas and suicide attacks, reported executions and other acts of terrorism by extremist groups. As a result, Ban said, the number of people in need has increased by 17 percent — from 9.3 million to 10.8 million.
Ban said the rules that govern the conduct of war "are being flagrantly violated every day."
"Efforts to expand humanitarian assistance to those most in need have been met with continued delays and obstruction," he said.
Currently, all UN aid must go through Damascus — a practice which UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has repeatedly criticised.
So why do it?
New procedures sealing government trucks delivering aid which were introduced in April resulted in fewer people being reached with aid in May, he said, and additional clearance requirements introduced by the government have further undermined access to people in desperate need of assistance.
By June 9, only 12 per cent of the 4.25 million people the UN World Food Program planned to provide with food had been reached compared to 26 percent at the same time in April, Ban said.
That would me as a donor decide to give my money and help to someone else...
The secretary-general decried the government's obstruction of the delivery of medicine and medical supplies, saying "it is inhumane and unlawful" that these potentially life-saving items continue to be removed from World Health Organization convoys entering opposition-controlled areas.
As a result, he said, opposition-controlled areas received only 25 percent of the quantities distributed in the first three months of 2014.
"Tens of thousands of civilians are being arbitrarily denied urgent and lifesaving medical care" which Ban called "a deliberate tactic of war aimed at denying help and support to those most in need."
Ban said Physicians for Human Rights reported that 29 medical personnel were killed in May, "the highest number in a month since the start of the conflict." He said 27 were killed by government forces and two by opposition groups, bringing the total recorded deaths of medical personnel in the war to 502.
The secretary-general said the UN is unable to provide an assessment of the presence and activities of foreign fighters in Syria. But he said the recent advance of Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is expected to have an impact on Syria's eastern regions "and may strengthen the presence of extremist groups in (ISIL) controlled areas of Syria."
The Security Council approved a resolution in February demanding that all sides in the Syrian conflict allow immediate access for aid, but as Ban's latest report indicates, the situation has worsened.
Key council members have been negotiating a new humanitarian resolution that would authorise the delivery of humanitarian aid into Syria through four border crossings without approval from President Bashar Assad's government. But Western nations, who back Syria's opposition, and the Syrian government's closest ally Russia are reportedly still at odds over its provisions.
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"Soon the Syrian refugees will face roaming charges and face grinding cell phone poverty."
[Telegraph] Isis and Death Eater allies who helped seize djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... clash in Kirkuk province, killing 17
Sunni bully boyz who fought together to capture swathes of Iraqi territory have turned their weapons on each other during festivities in Kirkuk province that cost 17 lives, according to reports.
The fighting erupted on Friday evening between Isis and the Army of the Men of the Naqshbandiyah Order (JRTN) in Hawija, in Kirkuk province, sources told AFP.
There were differing accounts as to what sparked the firefight, which is a potential sign of the fraying of the Sunni Death Eater alliance that has overrun vast stretches of territory north of Storied Baghdad in less than two weeks.
One security official said JRTN fighters had refused an Isis demand to give up their weapons and pledge allegiance to the jihadist force.
Witnesses, however, told AFP the two sides clashed over who would take over multiple fuel tankers in the area.
Analysts have noted that while the Sunni Death Eaters, who are led by Isis but also include a litany of other groups including loyalists of now-executed dictator Saddam Hussein, have formed a wide alliance, it is unclear if the broader grouping can hold together given their disparate ideologies.
Isis espouses an bad boy interpretation of Islam and wants to establish an Islamic state, whereas other gangs have political differences with the regime in Storied Baghdad, suggesting the alliance could eventually break down.
Reports of the festivities emerged as Shia volunteers gathered in Storied Baghdad's Sadr City in a show of force against the Isis-led Sunni jihadists insurgency.
Thousands of fighters loyal to powerful Shia holy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He spends most of his time in Iran, safely out of the line of fire, where he's learning to be an ayatollah... paraded with weapons in the Sadr City district, vowing to fight the offensive which was launched on June 9.
Around 50,000 joined the rally, with some seen wielding machine guns and improvised bombs known as EFPs (Explosively Formed Projectiles).
Rank upon rank of fighters, dressed mostly in camouflage but some wearing black, bore Kalashnikov assault rifles, shotguns, sniper rifles, light machineguns and rocket launchers.
Some of the unit leaders carried Iraqi flags, while others held signs with messages including "We sacrifice for you, O Iraq," "No, no to terrorism," and "No, no to America".
Similar parades were held in large southern cities including Basra, Najaf and Kut, all in the Shia heartland.
Iraqi security officials said Sunni bully boyz had seized a Syrian border crossing on Saturday after killing some 30 Iraqi troops in a day of festivities.
The officials said Saturday that Isis and allied bully boyz seized the crossing near the border town of Qaim, about 200 miles west of Storied Baghdad, after battling Iraqi troops throughout the previous day.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.
The capture of the Qaim border crossing deals a further blow to 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... 's government, which has struggled to push back against Islamic Death Eaters and allied bully boyz who have seized large swaths of the country, including the second largest city Mosul, and who have vowed to march on Storied Baghdad.
Sunni bully boyz have carved out a large swath of territory astride the Iraqi-Syrian border and seized Iraq's second largest city Mosul earlier this month.
Militants have long traveled back and forth across the mostly non-existent border, but the control of crossings allows them to more easily move weapons and heavy equipment to different battlefields.
President Obama is sending up to 300 US military advisers to Iraq and has threatened air strikes as Sunni Islamists have gained control of the north of the country and made a push toward Storied Baghdad. Growing mistrust between Shia and Sunni Moslems has heightened tensions in the country, where the United States fought a war from 2003 to 2011, the president said.
Iraq's prime minister Maliki faces mounting pressure to form an inclusive government or step aside, after a top Shiite holy man also strongly hinted he is in part to blame for the worst crisis since US troops withdrew from the country at the end of 2011.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most respected voice for Iraq's Shiite majority, on Friday joined calls for al-Maliki to reach out to the Kurdish and Sunni minorities.
Al-Sistani normally stays above the political fray, and his comments, delivered through a representative, could ultimately seal al-Maliki's fate.
Calling for a dialogue between the political coalitions that won seats in the April 30 parliamentary election, al-Sistani said it was imperative that they form "an effective government that enjoys broad national support, avoids past mistakes and opens new horizons toward a better future for all Iraqis."
Al-Sistani is deeply revered by Iraq's majority Shiites, and his critical words could force al-Maliki, who emerged from relative obscurity in 2006 to lead the country, to step down.
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Just get it over and annex eastern Ukraine. Obama and the EU aren't going to stop it, and the fools there have been brainwashed by propaganda. They deserve the Russian fascist jackboots they are asking for on their necks.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Pope launches strongest papal attack on organised crime since Pope John Paul in 1993 in impromptu comments about southern Italy's 'Ndrangheta crime group
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Wel, at least for once, he will not be taken out of context.
[World Bulletin] A warplane affiliated with forces loyal to Libyan general Khalifa Haftar struck two vessels carrying arms and ammunition off the coast of Darnah in the country's east, a Haftar aide said Friday.
"A warplane serving the [pro-Haftar] National Army hit two vessels bringing arms and ammunition to extremist groups in Benghazi," Saqr al-Garoushi, who commands Haftar's air force, told Anadolu Agency.
According to al-Garoushi, the airstrike came after the two vessels ignored instructions not to leave Ras al-Hilal seaport, located some 30km from Darnah.
"We will issue orders to close the Ras al-Hilal and Soussa ports in order to cut the extremists' supply lines from the east," he said.
"Anyone who dares approach the port will be hit from the sky," he said, accusing the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia militia of obtaining weapons from the Al-Qaeda network. Hopefully, someone is walking that network backwards.
Last month, Haftar declared war on armed militias based in eastern Libya, vowing to "purge" the country of "extremists."
The Libyan government, for its part, has called the former general's campaign a "coup." I call it doing the right thing in the face of badly splintered leadership.
After serving as army chief-of-staff under late strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Haftar spent nearly two decades in the United States in exile before returning to Libya in 2011 to join the uprising against Gaddafi. In February, the general prompted fears of a military coup when he appeared on television - in military uniform - to demand the dissolution of Libya's elected parliament and interim government.
[ABC.NET.AU] An Egyptian court has confirmed death sentences for the leader of the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund and 182 of his supporters, in a mass trial of Islamists who face a fierce crackdown under the new president.
The court's decision came two months after it referred the case against Mohammed Badie and 683 others to the state's highest religious authority, the Mufti — the first step towards imposing a death sentence.
Badie and the other defendants were charged in connection with violence that erupted in the southern town of Minya following the ousting of the Brotherhood's president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... last July. One police officer was killed in the violence.
The court had initially sentenced 683 people to death, but on Saturday it commuted death sentences of four defendants, including two women, to life in prison and acquitted 496 others, prosecutor Abdel Rahim Abdel Malik said.
There was no immediate reaction on the ruling from the Brotherhood, whose members are either in jail or on the run. Which is why there was no immediate reaction...
The decision comes just two weeks after former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sissi took office as president after winning an election in May.
Mr Sisi led the overthrow of Morsi, which was followed by protests by Morsi's supporters and a crackdown by security forces in which hundreds of Islamist protesters were killed and thousands incarcerated Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
The preliminary sentences fired up the rubes among Western governments and rights groups, with the United States and the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... both saying they were appalled by the rulings.
Rights group Amnesia Amnesty International strongly criticised the court's decision, accusing the judiciary of losing "any semblance of impartiality".
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[DAWN] Tuesday's senseless bloodshed in Lahore suddenly sent the political temperature in the country soaring and people are wondering what to expect on June 23 — sense or more senselessness — when Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... , chief of Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT), arrives from Canada to launch his anti-government campaign.
Though the rulers of Punjab immediately distanced themselves from the brutal police crackdown on PAT workers in Lahore and took some actions to calm down the situation, they are yet to tell the Rawalpindi police how to deal with the potentially explosive situation that many in the force think awaits them on the arrival of the PAT chief.
Dr Qadri, whose Emirates Flight EK-612 is scheduled to land at the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... International Airport at 7:30am on Monday June 23, has already rejected the judicial probe and other actions of the Punjab government as symbolic and designed to contain the political damage the police brutality has caused to the ruling Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Intelligence agencies have reportedly suggested to the government to let the opposition stage peaceful protests and avoid violent political confrontations. The resignation of Rana Sanaullah from the Punjab cabinet shows the top PML-N leadership is willing to rein in its hawks.
Still the onslaughts planned by Dr Qadri's PAT, Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... 's 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.... and Sheikh Rashid's Awami Mohammedan League during the sizzling summer loom as fearsome.
"Tuesday's police action in Model Town (Lahore) will be remebered as 'Operation Nonsense', and will not go without divine retribution," said a high-ranking police officer who has served in Islamabad, Rawalpindi and with UN peace missions abroad and is currently posted in Lahore.
"How our police system deteriorated so much without a civil war," he wondered, and appeared to reply himself by adding "I am ashamed as a police officer that my colleagues are in such a mad 'compliance mode'."
In his opinion, "it is time to decide to make police independent, accountable and professionally competent".
Meanwhile his colleagues in Rawalpindi had other pressing thoughts on their minds.
Asked about police's crowd control plan on Dr Qadri's arrival, Regional Police Officer Akhtar Umar Hayat Laleka said that any citizen, belonging to any party, who wanted to protest "will be made to follow discipline". "And if a law and order problem is created, then it would be solved in a manner the situation demands," he added.
According to him, it is not yet decided whether to allow people access to the airport or restrict them to some place at a distance.
But at the same time RPO Laleka echoed Airport Security Force's decision to let only passengers holding air tickets into "the airport premises" and nobody else.
"Due to security concerns, nobody would be allowed inside the airport premises or to disturb the air-traffic and passengers," he said.
Despite the potential of a violent home-coming of the Canada-based religious leader, RPO Laleka did not feel the need of asking for extra police from Punjab. "The local police force is enough to handle the situation," he said.
His confidence may be reassuring, but the local police had been without an operational chief since SSP Muhammad Maqbool left the post rather than work under City Police Officer Humayun Bashir Tarar, an officer junior to him.
Other senior officers too are unwilling to fill the vacant post of Operations Chief for the same reason. And Tarar remains in his post because, according police sources, he enjoys "good relations" with PML-N scion Hamza Sharif, son of Chief Minister of Punjab and newphew 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... .
Tarar's relations with media have soured since a SHO put up a notice at his cop shoppe asking journalists not to visit him for information. Mr Tarar believes the SHO did a good job in keeping the news seekers out, who in response announced a boycott of the CPO.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Bearing Arms]We first wrote about the absurd case against US Air Force Tech Sgt. Matt Pinkerton in early November, when he was charged with murder by Assistant State's Attorney Glen Neubauer. What was Pinkerton's crime? Not pausing to dial 9-1-1 after Kendall Green forced is way into Pinkerton's home at 2:00 AM.
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North Korea may have reduced its number of political prisoners and closed one of its prison camps, South Korea's state-run think tank revealed on June 17.
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