The last of the Chambal region's feared dacoits, Balak Das Dimar, was killed in a gunfight with the police on Friday afternoon.
Inspector general of police (Chambal) DS Sagar said Balak and his close aide Dinesh Jatav were killed in Mahuda Mata Mandir in Chendva forests of Datia district in Madhya Pradesh, about 550 km from Indore.
A third member of the Balak's gang, Prema Dimar, was arrested after the shootout.
The police of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh had been hunting for Balak, who carried a reward of Rs. 50,000 on his head, for the past few months. Though he was involved in several abductions, he had never killed any of his hostages.
Chambal, which is at the confluence of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, was once home to a number of dacoits such as the legendary Man Singh, Phoolan Devi (who became an MP) and Paan Singh Tomar (whose life inspired a hit Bollywood movie of the same name).
A resident of Jakhoti village in Bhind district, Balak was close to several dacoits in the early 90s before he turned a police informer.
He used to harbor, and was very close to, dreaded dacoit Raghuveer Dimar. Later, he formed his own gang and started operating from Ratangarh in Datia.
The gang comprised Balak's son Kari Singh, brother Lal Singh and 10 others, two of them women whose role was to bargain for ransom money, police sources said.
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Seventy years is a long time to forget people, events, the past. In India, it doesn't take that long. Even heroes are forgotten here in a matter of months, or a few years. In such a scenario, it's not surprising that nobody has remembered the 70th anniversaries of the twin battles of Imphal and Kohima. There have been no newspaper ads, no radio jingles, no special programme on TV, absolutely no mention of the battle or its veterans anywhere, save a few stray news reports. But that doesn't mean that the rest of the world is suffering from the same amnesia.
On Saturday, representatives from Britain, the United States, Australia and Japan, apart from an ever-shrinking group of veterans, would be part of a closing ceremony in Imphal of a three-month-long programme remembering those brave souls who had died fighting in two of the fiercest and most horrific battles mankind has ever known. There will be representatives of the Indian Army, too, who will quietly hope that someday their government would fully embrace these two battles as Indian, and acknowledge the role of the 2.5 million (25 lakh) soldiers who fought by the Allies' side in the Second World War. Independent India has never shown any care or concern about the war veterans, as they are a living memory of India's colonial past—men who fought a "foreign war" for a foreign government.
Yet the truth is the battles of Kohima and Imphal, in fact the whole of the Burma Campaign, was the swansong of the old Indian Army. It was for the first time that the Indian Army fought a foreign invader on Indian soil—a subtle transition for a force that for centuries had been an imperial strategic reserve, an instrument of colonial expansion and retention of the British Empire. And it was the first time that the seemingly invincible armies of the Empire of Japan were decisively beaten by the same Indian soldiers whom the Japanese perceived as lesser men.
"The two world wars showed the fighting quality of the Indian soldier to the world. Victory in the Second World War has been, by far, our biggest military achievement, yet nobody in India talks about it. It's such a sad state of affairs that the country that sent the largest voluntary army in history to fight that war has forgotten the sacrifices of the millions of men and women. We expect the Narendra Modi government to do something about it. Of course, we are late, but better late than never," said Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Anil Bhat, the former spokesperson of the defence ministry and Indian Army.
The two battles resulted out of the 1944 U-Go Offensive of the Japanese 15th Army under Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi. The plan was to conquer India and use it as a launchpad of future Japanese military campaigns. Imphal, which was heavily invested by the 15th and 33rd divisions of the Japanese 15th Army, was defended by the IV Corps of the British Fourteenth Army, comprising the 17th, 20th and 23rd Indian Infantry Divisions, including the 50th Indian Parachute Brigade.
Kohima, on the other hand, was defended by just 1,500 men of the 1st Assam Regiment, Assam Rifles, and 4th Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. But they held off 15,000 invading Japanese for two weeks until they were relieved by the 161st Indian Infantry Brigade, a vital component of the battle-hardened 5th Indian Division.
Incidentally, in Imphal, the Japanese were assisted by the Indian National Army, which had another objective apart from fighting: to try and make soldiers of the Indian Army defect. This strategy, of course, didn't work. There were a few desertions, no doubt, but for every Indian Army soldier who switched his loyalty, 68 remained loyal.
On July 3, 1944, the Japanese decided to retreat to Burma, but the retreat became a rout. Thousands of sick and wounded Japanese soldiers died by the wayside and were never cremated. London-based Japanese filmmaker, Junichi Kajioka, has made a film on this, named Imphal 1944. It will be screened in Imphal at the closing ceremony on Saturday.
"Many Japanese still come to Manipur every year in search of the bones of their family members who lost their lives in this war. The battles of Imphal and Kohima are not forgotten by people, and a lot of unburied souls are still sleeping in Northeast India and the border of Myanmar. I believe they are still being taken care of by the people here. My film aims to be a symbol of peace between Britain, Japan and Manipur. The film offers the world an important message of friendship between old enemies," Kajioka told this correspondent.
Incidentally, June 28 will also be the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the erstwhile Austro-Hungarian Empire in Sarajevo, an event that triggered the First World War where 1.3 million Indian soldiers participated. But that's another story for another time.
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The roots of politicisation of the army are to be found in Nehru's hatred for the man in uniform. Soon after Independence the first commander-in-chief of the Indian armed forces, General Sir Robert Lockhart, presented a paper outlining a plan for the growth of the Indian Army to Prime Minister Nehru.
Nehru's reply: "We don't need a defence plan. Our policy is non-violence. We foresee no military threats. You can scrap the army. The police are good enough to meet our security needs."
He didn't waste much time. On September 16, 1947, he directed that the army's then strength of 280,000 be brought down to 150,000. Even in fiscal 1950-51, when the Chinese threat had begun to loom large on the horizon, 50,000 army personnel were sent home as per his original plan to disband the armed forces.
After Independence, he once noticed a few men in uniform in a small office the army had in North Block, and angrily had them evicted.
It was only after the 1947-48 war in Jammu and Kashmir that he realised that the armed forces are an essential ingredient of any independent, sovereign nation. But he still wanted a compact army rather than great volume, whatever that meant. Defence requirements worked out after a careful assessment of threats carried no weight with him.
For some reason, he disliked Field Marshal K M Cariappa despite his excellent leadership during the 1947-48 war that saved Kashmir. But his attempts to supersede him and make General Rajendrasinhji the first commander-in-chief of India failed when Gen Rajendrasinhji declined.
Soon after Independence he separated the army, navy, and air force from a unified command and abolished the post of commander-in-chief of the armed forces, thus bringing down the status of the seniormost military chief.
He continued to demote the status of the three service chiefs at irregular intervals in the order of precedence in the official government protocol, a practice loyally continued by successive governments to the benefit of politicians and bureaucrats
"I remember many a time when our senior generals came to us, and wrote to the defence ministry saying that they wanted certain things... If we had had foresight, known exactly what would happen, we would have done something else... what India has learnt from the Chinese invasion is that in the world of today there is no place for weak nations... We have been living in an unreal world of our own creation."
Jawaharlal Nehru, Rajya Sabha, 1963
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I have read some of this before, for reasons crazy India unilaterally disarmed hoping against hope that Karma would prevail. The Chinese and Paks saw it for what it was, stupid.
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WWII would have gone very differently without the Indian Army. They were the largest volunteer army in history and served, with distinction, in Africa, Italy, the Middle East and the China-Burma-India theater.
#1
Because the native-born population grew significantly, but the number working actually fell, there were 17 million more working-age natives not working in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000.
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Many of our "native" unemployed are enjoying a limited-downside vacation on the pubic teat. They are not stupid, knowing how to do the math and opportunity cost analysis (although I doubt many call it that.), arriving at the fact that there are some jobs Americans will not do (because they don't have to.).
It is easier on the governments down south to export their problems than it is to correct them, and it is not like we are getting the "Best and Brightest" Mexico and South America have to offer. We are importing the poorest and least educated = most government dependent (sound familiar Detroit?).
An unhappy and hopeless Hispanic or any other populace at some point would begin to demand change in unambiguous terms. If you don't believe me, query Homeland Security.
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Get ready to meet the four horsemen,
Asians, Indians, Anglos and Norsemen.
Your immigrant saga
Produced Lady Gaga,
So thanks! Now please go and be corpsemen.
[TOWNHALL] According to a local news report from KVOA News 4 out of Tucson, Arizona, at least one Mexican military helicopter crossed into the United States early Thursday morning, shot at Border Patrol agents using lethal force and then flew back to Mexico. Once the helicopter was back on the ground in Mexico, an apology was issued.
"The incident occurred after midnight and before 6 a.m. Helicopter flew into the U.S. and fired on two U.S. Border Patrol agents. The incident occurred west of the San Miguel Gate on the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation," Border Patrol Tucson Sector Union President Art del Cueto told KVOA News 4 in a statement. "The agents were unharmed. The helicopter went back into Mexico. Mexico then contacted U.S. authorities and apologized for the incident."
U.S. Border Patrol Spokesperson Andy Adame issued a similar statement and said the incident is under investigation.
According to a recent story in the Washington Times, armed Mexican soldiers regularly cross over into the United States, which prompt stand offs and altercations with U.S. Border Patrol agents.
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It's easy to win a war when the other side isn't shooting back.
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Reports are two, count 'em, two shots were fired in the direction of the agents.
A report I wrote three years ago stated that the Mexican Army had something like a 13.8 to 1 kill ratio, and that's when the bad guys were armed. Mexican Marines in 2011 has a 34 to one kill ratio.
I'd say the shooting was accidental.
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Militia started setting up a blockade today along the Laredo, Tx border. A spokesperson said they are well aware that they could be shot at by gangs, cartels, smugglers, their own government so they will be armed, but will not shoot unless shot at.
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Looks like NAFTA, etc.-led OWG NAU + TPP, TAP have outstanding issues to discuss.
Clearly the answer is to take away the guns from US Border Patrol officers + ordinary Civilians in order to preclude unecessary threats to innocent helpless Helicopters???
This is not in some 3rd world banana republic, this is happening in the US, not overseas.
Hospitals across the country are struggling to deal with a shortage of one of their essential medical supplies. Manufacturers are rationing saline -- a product used all over the hospital to clean wounds, mix medications and treat dehydration. Now drug companies say they won't be able to catch up with demand until next year.
Scott Crandall, director of medical supply contracts at Novation, a group buying organization in Texas that manages contracts for 2,000 hospitals across the country says he's been hearing from manufacturers that increased FDA scrutiny is interfering with production, [combined with a more intense flu season last winter that greatly in erased usage and demand].
FDA has market orders. It's done to help "control" supply and demand. The original idea was that FDA didn't want excess capacity in manufacturing drugs since that would be wasteful. But now it means you can only produce as much of a drug or supply as your market order allows. If company A can't turn out enough saline bags, company B (which could) can't make up the difference, because they have a maximum on their market order.
And you thought the USA was still a market economy...
Crandall says inspections and maintenance require shutting down machines. And when machines aren't operating, less saline is getting shipped. Last winter, he says maintenance closures "slowed production down, 10 to 20 percent."
"There is no spot market. You can't buy it like pork bellies or grains or oil. You cannot go on a marketplace and order a certain amount," U.S. companies also don't have the capacity to ramp up production. They only have so many machines, and a lot of them are tied up producing other essential drugs. Building new facilities is hardly an option.
In part because of the market orders. In a true market, the pressure for more of something would lead a capitalist to build the capacity. But not here.
The burden ultimately falls on hospitals, clinics, and dialysis centers to come up with their own workarounds. And all that staff time adds up. Hospitals spend $216 million a year on the labor costs of managing drug shortages, according to Erin Fox, a professor at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy.
Now that the industry has indicated the saline shortage will extend through the end of the year, Fox estimates this will be the most expensive drug shortage in history."The suppliers have already signaled to the market that they plan on increasing price significantly," he said. "And when I say that, it could double and triple in some aspects."
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Expensive, but it can be done?
Just a matter of time, personnel, equipment and $. Cost per unit might well be 10X (or more) than what they are used to paying, however.
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Way back when, my wife had some of the earliest contact lenses. And found her eyes sensitive to the preservatives in the only available saline. So I got a bottle of reagent NaCl and a jug of distilled water and mixed it up myself a pint at a time. She can still see, so I guess I did it ok. Cost a lot less too, not insignificant to a starving grad student.
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In a country with a shortage of available wives, this could prove very popular indeed. One only hopes the donors are given a thorough physical exam before being released to the machines.
[Breitbart] Dante Williams, 19, and his accomplice Jawan Craig walked into the Waffle House restaurant and "terrorized" the customers in 2012 intent on robbing it at gun point. Upon being approached by Williams, gun in hand, one of the patrons, Justin Harrison who also had a concealed weapon on him, but had an actual permit for it shot Williams in self-defense, killing him "almost instantly," according to a Fox News affiliate in North Carolina. Fox only recently acquired the video footage from the 2012 incident. No doubt about it, tougher more restrictive gun laws might have saved the assailant's life, therefore my hat tip goes to Mr. Williams and the NRA.
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They're working hard in the Beltway to make sure we're all criminals, so it won't be long before we're all law breakers. Why should special interest groups and illegals just get the waivers?
[Ynet] India made a $550 million payment to Iran on Thursday to partly clear pending oil dues, under an interim deal that allows Tehran access to $4.2 billion in blocked funds globally, industry and government sources said.
Asian buyers such as Japan and South Korea have cleared some of their oil dues as per a payment schedule approved by world powers in a breakthrough deal with Iran in November.
Iran wanted the last three installments, totalling $1.65 billion, from India. New Delhi could not, however, remit the funds sooner as the banking channel to make payment had not been established.
The mechanism now in place allows Tehran to be rewarded for cooperating in talks with world powers over its nuclear program,
...For a given value of cooperating that incorporates taqqiya and/or kitman, of course...
while meeting a US insistence that the funds can be properly tracked, sources say.
"Yes, boss, the funds did indeed go into an Iranian government account. Where after that? Couldn't possibly say, sir. Gentlemen don't read another gentleman's mail, after all."
Where their conscience is involved, no country lives their principles like Germany. Herzlichen Dank, Deutschland!
[Ynet] Germany is easing its immigration restrictions for Jews from Ukraine amid reports of an increase in anti-Semitic incidents there since the crisis broke out.
The German government said Thursday it will give priority to immigration applications from Ukrainian Jews over those from Jews of other ex-Soviet republics and will waive some of the stricter application rules that have been in place since 2005.
After the fall of Communism in 1989, Germany established a generous immigration program for Jews who wanted to leave the ex-Soviet Union because of wide-spread anti-Semitism there. It led to an influx of some 200,000 Jews in the last 25 years and the regulations were tightened in 2005.
The government said it is watching the situation for Jews in Ukraine closely.
[AnNahar] A Sudanese Christian woman who faces death threats after a court cleared her of apostasy has been charged with forgery after trying to leave the country, a lawyer said on Wednesday.
Nothing here that Blackwater Aviation couldn't handle...
"She is tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! ," Mohanad Mustafa told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The charge against Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, relates to the South Sudanese travel document she was carrying when authorities stopped the family from leaving Sudan on Tuesday following an annulment of her apostasy death sentence. Ishag is also charged with providing false information, Mustafa said.
She understandably wanted to get outta town...
She was detained by national security agents at Khartoum airport, despite the presence of U.S. diplomats who were escorting her and her family, her American husband Daniel Wani said. They were trying to travel to Washington, Wani said, insisting there was nothing wrong with the travel documents.
I commend our diplomats and State for working to get her out, and condemn them for the sloppy execution.
Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday summoned the charges d'affaires of both the United States and South Sudan over the incident, official media reported. The ministry criticised South Sudan's issuing of the travel permit, "despite their knowledge that she is a Sudanese national", while condemning the U.S. for trying to help the women leave Sudan "via illegal (false) travel document," the SUNA news agency said.
"We are worried. That's why we want to get out of here as soon as possible," Wani said of death threats against his wife.
A lower court judge sentenced Ishag to hang for apostasy on May 15, in a case that raised questions of religious freedom and sparked an outcry from Western governments and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... groups.
An appeal court freed her on Monday from the women's prison where she were tossed into the calaboose with her children, but she immediately went into hiding because of the threats to her life.
Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman told AFP the woman should have used a Sudanese passport, but her lawyer said she does not have one.
"That is the whole problem, she took a foreign document for travelling," he said. "What she has done is an illegal act."
So you're going to give her a proper Sudanese passport, right?
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... Osman suggested the situation can be resolved.
Kau Nak, South Sudan's charge d'affaires, said Ishag was entitled to the travel document because her husband and children are South Sudanese.
"I'm the one who issued that travel document to her," he told AFP. "My signature is on the back of the document."
After being stopped at the airport, the family and its two children, including a baby girl born while Ishag was on death row, were taken to a cop shoppe, a two-storey building on a rough, unpaved alley in Khartoum's Arkawet district.
Ishag remains in jug there.
On May 15, a lower court judge, referring to her by her father's Mohammedan name Abrar al-Hadi Mohammed Abdalla, sentenced her to death for apostasy. It convicted her under Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death.
- A family 'problem' -
On Monday, an appeals court freed her from the women's prison where she were tossed into the calaboose with her children, but she immediately went into hiding.
Christian activists say her "alleged brother" stated that the family would carry out the death sentence if she were acquitted.
According to the church, Ishag was born to a Mohammedan father and an Æthiopian Orthodox Christian mother. When Ishag was five her father abandoned the family, leaving her to be raised by her mother, according to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum, which said she joined the Catholic church shortly before she married.
It said the original legal action against her was filed by men "who claim to be" her relatives.
"The problem is not with the Sudanese government, is not with the court. The problem is with her so called family," said Information Minister Osman.
[AnNahar] Pro-Russian rebels launched an attack on Thursday on a Ukrainian irregular troops unit in the heart of the eastern industrial city of Donetsk, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound at the scene said.
At least 200 gunnies surrounded a compound housing a unit of Ukraine's National Guard and opened fire, despite a temporary truce that had been accepted by both sides.
A witness told AFP that the rebels, who had pulled an armored personnel carrier flying a Russian flag up to the compound, wanted the National Guard unit's immediate surrender.
"An ultimatum was issued by the fighters of the Donetsk People's Republic. The unit refused to leave. So (the rebels) opened fire," said Sergiy, 49, who said he supported the separatists' cause despite his son, a National Guard member, being stranded inside the compound.
The National Guard said in a statement that the rebels' initial attack had been repelled, and that none of its personnel had been killed or maimed.
It added that negotiations with rebel representatives were currently underway.
The National Guard unit that came under attack had not been involved in the government's 10-week campaign to stamp out the eastern insurgency, and was responsible for convoying prisoners in the region, witnesses said.
The truce is due to expire on Friday at 1900 GMT, and both Western powers and Russia are pressing the two sides to agree an extension.
[DAWN] More internally displaced persons (IDPs) from North Wazoo Agency who had migrated to Afghanistan returned to Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... on Thursday.
Political Agent Riaz Mehsud told media persons that around 500 displaced families from North Waziristan Agency
arrived in Kurram Agency from Afghanistan's Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... . He said that basic facilities, including transportation, had been provided to IDPs and they were sent to the southern districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Health workers provided polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... drops to 2,186 children at the border. The returning IDPs said that they had gone to Afghanistan because of prolonged curfew in the area. Afghan officials said that around 50,000 people of Waziristan had taken refuge in Khost where they had been provided tents and other facilities.
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[DAWN] Pakistain and Afghanistan agreed on Thursday to form a working group on security to oversee their joint efforts against terrorism.
The on-again, off-again relationship between the two countries received a boost when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and Afghanistan's National Security Adviser Dr Rangin Dadfar Spanta agreed at a meeting to go after all hard boyz without any discrimination.
"The main focus of talks was on strengthening bilateral security cooperation. Both sides agreed on the need to take action against all hard boyz without making any distinction among them and their hideouts on their respective sides," says a handout released by the foreign ministry.
Agreeing that terrorism was their common enemy the two sides stressed the need for working in close cooperation at the institutional level to deal with the menace.
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[Iraq Sun] As Iraq's Sunni faceless myrmidons and their allies add border crossings near Syria and Jordan to their list of captured territory, many observers wonder what's next. U.S. officials have warned that the myrmidons, from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), could spread into Jordan, while some see them moving toward the Iraqi capital. Some analysts say ISIL's strategy is just part of the group's greater agenda of erasing modern borders and building a caliphate across the whole region.
The takeover of the Traibil border post with Jordan and the Al-Wajeed entry point to Syria were part of the ISIL's primary agenda of creating a cross-border state, according to Brian Fishman, a counterterrorism research fellow at the New America Foundation.
"ISIL does not want to take over Iraq as it is currently constructed. In fact, I think that ISIL is probably going to be perfectly content not to try its hardest to take over Storied Baghdad. I think what ISIL is looking to do is create a jihadi state in the primarily Sunni areas of western and northern Iraq and into eastern Syria," says Fishman.
Fishman says the way the faceless myrmidons will carry out their strategy can be seen from how they operated in Syria. ISIL is fighting in the country's civil war and has taken control of towns along Syria's eastern border.
"This is not a group that has tried to go on the offense against Damascus. This is not a group that is trying to dominate every square inch of Syria. And they're going to do the same thing in Iraq. They're going to say: What can we control? Where can we dominate? Where can we establish governance? And, where can we establish a base of operations for the long term?" ndash; says Fishman.
Part of ISIL's success, according to Fishman, lies in its ability to form alliances with local Sunni militias, tribal groups and other organizations, one of the most surprising being the Naqshbandi army, a group closely associated with the remnants of the Iraqi Baath party of Saddam Hussein's old regime.
"This is not a natural alliance. Jihadis and the old Iraqi Baath party don't like each other. They have very, very different ideologies, very different ideas of who should be in charge and what the rules for society ought to be. And yet they've been able to cooperate, it seems in recent days, for this military offensive," says Fishman.
He says the best way to attack ISIL is not through military actions but by breaking the political alliances that have given it strength.
"It was losing those alliances originally that weakened the group in 2007 and it is regaining them; that has given it renewed strength today," says Fishman.
U.S. officials are urging 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... to form a new, inclusive government that will encourage the country's Sunni population to re-assess and potentially break their allegiances with the myrmidon group.
U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham ... the endangered South Carolina RINO... said these new alliances could potentially affect military efforts in the country.
"So there's a window of opportunity here, I think, to get the Sunnis to re-assess. If you could find a new government that they felt hopeful about, I think we could form an alliance politically and militarily that would affect the momentum on the ground," says Graham.
Maliki has rejected the calls, saying any new government that ignores the results of the country's April election would be a "coup against the constitution and the political process."
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[AnNahar The price of global crude dipped under $114 Thursday as fears diminished somewhat over supply disruptions from Iraq while U.S. oil extended gains on looser U.S. export controls.
Benchmark U.S. crude for August delivery rose 25 cents per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 47 cents to settle at $106.50 on Wednesday. Brent crude, used to price international oils, eased 7 cents to $113.93 a barrel in London.
U.S. crude is rising after the Obama Administration opened the door to more oil exports by permitting some light oils to be defined as petroleum products like gasoline or diesel, which aren't subject to export restrictions. Analysts said the changes could add up to 1.1 million barrels of potential exports.
Brent crude edged lower from nine-month highs reached earlier this week. While concerns linger about violence in Iraq affecting global crude supplies, oil production and exports from the giant fields clustered in the country's south remain unaffected. July exports are expected to average about 2.57 million barrels per day, Platts forecasts.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
— Wholesale gasoline barely budged $3.07 a gallon.
— Natural gas rose 2.3 cents to $4.58 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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The White House has set a fund up to ship diesel directly to Wonder Woman's Heros AKA John Mcain thus freeing up gas and diesel for the other Terrorist groups and even the new ones we ain't paying for yet!
[AnNahar] Saudi authorities threatened Thursday to expel non-Moslem foreigners who eat, drink or smoke in public during the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, which begins this weekend.
I'd take a month long vacation. The Saudis won't be working, so why should anyone else?
The interior ministry urged non-Moslems to "respect the feelings of Moslems by refraining from eating, drinking or smoking in public places, streets and at work."
"They are not excused for being non-Moslem," said the statement carried by SPA state news agency, adding that "labor contracts stipulate respect for Moslem rites."
"Those who violate (that)... will face the necessary measures, including terminating work contracts and being deported," the statement added.
Oil-rich Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , which applies a strict version of sharia Islamic law, hosts more than nine million foreigners, mostly Asians.
During Ramadan, Moslems fast from food from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable. They are are also required to abstain from drinking liquids, smoking and having sex.
The fast is one of the five main religious obligations under Islam.
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Now mind you, ARAMCO (Saudi National Oil Co) doesn't reduce quotas for non-muslim employees during Ramadan. All vacations cancelled, we need everybody. You boys keep working, we're sleeping in this month.
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Maybe they could also expel muslims who disrespect Ramalamadingdong, too?
Hiram Province, Somalia -- At least two people among them a Djibouti an Official and soldier were killed in Bulo-burde town of Hiran region after suicide bomb hit a Amalow hotel in the town. An eyewitness who declined to be named
"Please don't kill me!"
told Shabelle Media that the gunmen believed to be Al Shabaab militants rammed into hotel and killed Djiboutian Official and soldier.
Commissioner of Bulo-burte for Somali Gov't said that Somali troops along with AU forces completed the operation against Al Shabaab raid in the town adding that the Hotel under control allied forces.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack but Somali Officials accused Al Shabaab is being mastermind the bomb that targeted on the Amalow Hotel in Bulo-burte town.
Fighting flared up in Buloburde after Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab militants launched heavy assault against on bases manned by Somali Federal Gov't troops in the town. The gun battle between Somali troops and Al Shabaab are continued in the area as both warring sides used heavy and slight weapons during the battle.
Somali Officials in Bulo-burde were unenviable to reach on the phone for comments on the skirmishes.
This writer's English is almost as good as the guy at KCNA...
The fighting came months after Al Shabaab militants were pushed by Somali troops backed AU mission in Somalia "AMISOM" from the town.
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[Iraq Sun] North Korea Wednesday warned the United States of "merciless" retaliation if it went ahead with the release of a Hollywood comedy that mocks its leader, Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , calling the movie an "act of war".
"If the United States administration tacitly approves or supports the release of this film, we will take a decisive and merciless countermeasure," a front man for North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
"The enemies have gone beyond the tolerance limit in their despicable moves to dare hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership."
The statement was carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). It didn't specifically mention the movie but was clearly referring to a Hollywood movie, "The Interview", about an liquidation of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.
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The merciless midgets are restless. Nutjobs and fat boys.
Of course, with having to face a resolute man like Kerry even nutjob midgets might prove to be a problem. The US seems to have such wanks for leadership.
i mean, does anyone fear or respect anybody ( anybody at all ) in the US govt?
Or are they ALL wanks?
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"If the United States administration tacitly approves or supports the release of this film, we will take a decisive and merciless countermeasure."
Yeah, a comedy about Obama.
Wait, maybe that's already docudrama!
Well, at least a black comedy.
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The DPRK (the Norks) should immediately dispatch a strike team to Bengazhi to riot, burn the US embassy, and murder the ambassador.
That seems to be how things are supposed to be done in Obama's world...
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Maybe the Norks ought to make a comedy film that mocks Obama?
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Maybe the Norks ought to make a comedy film that mocks Obama?
Definitely a job for Peoples Shock Laughter and Gayety Batallion.
Rock rock: Who's thar?
The DPRK Laughter and Gayety Battalion
Go away
Rock rock: Who's thar?
Candygram from DPRK Sandshark friend
That looks like a dead parrot!
No it is North Korean Candygram, very tasty.
[Tolo News] Afghanistan is declared as the seventh failed state in terms of good governance by the Fund for Peace (FFP) organization.
FFP--an independent, nonpartisan, non-profit research and educational organization-- works to prevent violent conflict and promote sustainable security in the world. The organization has issued a new index of the world's most fragile states, with South Sudan topping the list and Afghanistan taking the seventh place.
The organization assesses countries in terms of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... , external interference, government credibility, social services, capabilities of security institutions and religious wars. FFP has stated that despite massive international investments, Afghanistan still constitutes as the world's most unstable country. The report discusses administrative corruption, drug smuggling and extremism as the biggest challenges in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan was on the same category during the previous year's report. According to the report, there has been no visible, drastic change in the lives of the people and good governance still does not exist in the country.
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See also WORLD NEWS > [Stars-N-Stripes] AFGHAN FORCES FACE TALIBAN ONSLAUGHT AFTER US MARINES DEPART.
ISIS aka ISIL from Iraq, post-Jordan KSA, andor Caucasus + Central Asia way???
[Tolo News] In southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province the clash between the Afghan cops and Taliban forces of Evil has led to the death of 70 Taliban and injuring hundreds of others in Nawzad district of the province, local officials said on Thursday.
Nawzad District Governor, Sayed Murad Agha, said that during the clash 15 coppers were killed and seven others maimed.
Agha said that heaving fighting is still ongoing in the districts of Mosa Qala, Kajaki, Sangin and Nawzad districts.
The ongoing festivities have left over 2,000 families displaced as they fled their homes in search of security.
Additional security forces have been deployed to Helmand as festivities continue to intensify.
The government of Afghanistan believes that the attacks are being supported from outside of the country; in particular the Ministry of Defense (MoD) and the Ministry of Interior (MoI) say that Pakistain's military and turbans are involved in the attacks.
MoI Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said, at a presser on Thursday, that in order to clear the area of forces of Evil a special operation will be executed.
"We have started our special operation and offensive, which will be led by our Special Forces," Sediqqi said.
The insurgency began five days ago in Sangin district that later spread to other districts of the province such as Kajaki, Mosa Qala and Nawzad districts.
"The Pak military dressed up as the Taliban," MoD Spokesman Zahir Azimi explained. "Most of the forces of Evil were Uzbeks and Punjabis that were from the Jaish-ul-Mohammedanin group."
Afghan military have killed 150 Taliban and maimed 90 others. Twenty-five Afghan army soldiers were killed or maimed, 30 coppers were killed and 40 others maimed.
Helmand borders Pakistain where parts of the province have faced disturbances for years.
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[Tolo News] Pak Ambassador Syed Ibrar Hussain told a crowd gathered for a ceremony in Kabul on Wednesday that the Pak military will stop firing across the border once Taliban Death Eaters based in Afghanistan stop attacking them first.
Does either side recognize the concept of 'border'?
According to Ambassador Hussain, on Election Day two weeks ago, bully boyz based in Kunar killed 13 Pak soldiers and maimed 14 others by firing across the border. He said their assault was only made possible because the Pak military had been ordered to halt its own operations against Death Eaters in Afghanistan that day in order to ensure Pakistain was not accused of trying to disrupt the voting process.
"We had ordered our military not to fire rockets on Afghanistan so that Pakistain is not accused of disrupting the election process," Hussain said. "They stopped rocket shelling for one day and thirteen of them were killed and fourteen of them were maimed."
The Afghan-Pak border is notoriously porous and rife with Talibs and other terrorist groups aligned against the governments in Kabul and Islamabad.
Tensions have risen between the two governments over hostile exchanges in the region. Afghan politicians have decried reported civilian casualties and residential destruction caused by rocket attacks from the Pak military, and security officials have warned of possible retaliations.
On Wednesday, Ambassador Hussain blamed the Afghan cops for failing to properly police the area on the Afghan side of the border.
"Here, on this side of the border, alongside border areas in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , there is no ANA check posts, so they do not know who attacks our forces from this side of the border," he said.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Afghan Ministry of Interior front man Sediq Sediqi denied the claims of the Pak Ambassador.
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It's a change. Previously, it was Taliban in Pakistan firing into Kunar at our troops. New day, different pile of rocks.
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Shoot Back, overwhelmingly.
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[DAWN] THE military operation in North Wazoo has raised hopes of getting rid of the myrmidons. In this euphoria, nobody is interested in tempering the expectations of the public and preparing them for the long drawn-out struggle this proposes to be, with chances of success only if all the parties play their role effectively. The parties in this game are the federal government, the army alongwith the agencies, and most importantly the four provincial governments.
The narrative of each of the four provinces and the army are different. Punjab wants to end terrorism but has no problem with entering into political dialogue with the likes of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... . Sindh wants to end violence but sees no problem with going soft on the myrmidon wings of political parties. If the MQM has a myrmidon wing, the PPP is not left behind either and comes up with its People's Amn Committee
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KP and FC should get together and open up some clean fried chicken joints!
A couple from the junkyard of forgotten doggerel, inspired many moons ago by Redneck Jim's piquant thoughts on the Feathered Nuisance.
Birds don't always listen to reason.
Their wheezin' is often displeasin'.
They're not very quick
To pick up a new trick.
Thank goodness they sizzle and season.
If chirpin' don't make the heart quicken,
There's always a mess of fried chicken.
The pile on the platter
Gets gradually flatter;
Your midriff commences to thicken.
[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The ongoing military operation in North Wazoo is a 'war of survival' and will pave the way for the dawn of permanent peace in the country, the military's spokesperson said on Thursday.
In a formal briefing to the media on Operation Zarb-e-Azb, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa ... who is The Very Model of a Modern Major General... told news hounds that the operation was being carried out without any discrimination between "good or bad Taliban".
"This is the biggest and most well-coordinated operation ever conducted against terrorists. It is the beginning of the end for terrorism in the country," he said.
Maj Gen Bajwa said army troops, Frontier Corps personnel, Khasadars, Levies, intelligence operatives and the Pakistain Air Force were jointly conducting the operation in North Waziristan.
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[AnNahar] Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... bolstered their presence Thursday in the Syrian town of Albu Kamal on the border with Iraq, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the move came a day after members in the town of al-Qaeda's franchise in Syria, Al-Nusra Front, pledged loyalty to ISIL, giving it control over both sides of the frontier.
ISIL, which aspires to create an Islamic state that straddles Iraq and Syria, has spearheaded a lightning jihadist offensive that has already captured swathes of territory north and west of Storied Baghdad.
Pro-ISIL snuffies posted videos on YouTube showing a convoy of cars and trucks entering Albu Kamal and flying the jihadists' black flag.
Other supporters announced the reinforcement on Twitter, with one saying: "ISIL convoys enter Albu Kamal after conquering it, thanks to Allah."
A statement from Al-Nusra released in the town said the al-Qaeda franchise pledged loyalty to ISIL in Albu Kamal to prevent bloodshed between the two rival jihadist groups.
Albu Kamal is located in Syria's oil-rich eastern province of Deir Ezzor, where ISIL and Al-Nusra, who have been fighting to topple the Syrian regime, have also been fighting each other since January.
Romain Caillet, an expert on Islamists groups, said Al-Nusra fighters pledged allegiance to ISIL in the border town because "it is powerful, they fear it and they have been weakened on the ground".
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JERUSALEM, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Two Hamas ...an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood...
operatives from the southern West Bank city of Hebron are believed to be responsible for the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens who went missing two weeks ago, the Israeli Shin Bet Security Agency revealed on Thursday.
In a statement, the agency said that Marwan Al-Quasma and Amar Abu Aisha, two central Hamas operatives who used to be imprisoned by Israel in the past, are the main suspects behind the abduction. Following the news of the kidnapping, Palestinian security forces delivered the names of the two to their Israeli counterparts, after their families reported that they did not return home two weeks ago.
They'll be taking dirt naps real soon now...
According to the Shin Bet, Al-Quasma is the nephew of a former Hamas militant commander who was involved in attacks against Israeli civilians and was arrested several times. Abu Aisha also comes from a family of Hamas operatives. His brother was killed in a clash with the Israeli army in 2005.
A family member of Amar Abu Aisha told Walla that Israeli security forces had arrived at their house in Hebron and taken family members for questioning regarding Amar's possible whereabouts.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Shin Bet's announcement shows that Hamas is behind the attack.
"We said that those who committed this crime were Hamas militants and today the Shin Bet published the names of two members of this group, Hamas men," Netanyahu said at a military ceremony at the southern Negev desert.
"I expect (Palestinian President Mahmoud) Abbas, who said important things in Saudi Arabia, to stand by his words and dissolve his agreement with the terrorist organization that kidnaps teens and calls for the destruction of Israel," the prime minister added.
[DAWN] The United States reiterated on Thursday its support to the military operation in North Wazoo while making it clear that it was an entirely Pakistain-led and executed offensive.
The US State Department's spokesperson Marie Harf told a news briefing that the United States had "worked very closely with the Paks" in dealing with the snuffies as the threat from the Taliban and other myrmidon groups was not new.
"It doesn't just threaten the Paks; it threatens Afghanistan and India and has the United States in the past well," she added.
Asked if Pakistain had sought US assistance in the current offensive, the US official said: "In terms of the current operations Pakistain is undertaking in North Waziristan, this is an entirely Pak-led and executed operation."
The United States, however, has "long supported their efforts to extend the writ of government throughout their country and to increase internal stability and security," she said. "But again, these current operations are an entire Pak-led effort."
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As per DAILY TIMES.PK, no matter iff one is a "Good" Terrorist or a "Bad" Terrorist, the mighty Pak Army is coming after youse.
[AnNahar] An Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... journalist whose jailing triggered global outrage has donated 15,000 Egyptian pounds to a fund initiated by the president to boost Egypt's ailing economy, his brother said on Thursday.
Egyptian-Canadian Mohammed Fadel Fahmy, who was sentenced to seven years in jail along with two other Al-Jazeera journalists for allegedly aiding the blacklisted Moslem Brüderbund, made the donation to Tahya Misr (Long Live Egypt), an initiative of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
"When we visited the prison yesterday (Wednesday), Mohammed told us to donate 15,000 pounds (about $2,000/1,670 euros) to this fund," Adel Fadel Fahmy told AFP as he made the donation at a bank on Thursday.
"Mohammed has always been patriotic and feels that the Egyptian economy needs support."
When asked whether the donation was aimed at securing a pardon from the president for his brother, Adel said: "It is not linked... He (Mohammed) wants to distinguish between his love for Egypt and his disappointment and anger over the verdict."
"As a family, we don't expect this small donation to secure a pardon for him. These are two separate issues."
In a speech on Tuesday, Sisi said he himself would donate half his salary and half of what he owns to help rebuild the country's shattered economy.
Egypt's political turmoil that began with the ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011 has ruined its economy, affecting tourist revenues and investments in particular.
Fadel Fahmy and Australian Peter Greste were each sentenced to seven years, while their colleague producer Baher Mohammed was handed 10 years in a decision that drew international condemnation and sparked fears of growing media restrictions in Egypt.
Eleven other co-defendants were given 10-year sentences in absentia, including one Dutch journalist and two Britons.
Since the army ousted Islamist 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... in July 2013, the Egyptian authorities have been incensed by Al-Jazeera's coverage of their deadly crackdown on his supporters.
They consider the pan-Arab satellite network as the voice of Qatar, and accuse Doha of backing Morsi's Brotherhood, while the emirate openly denounces the repression of the Islamist supporters.
Australia and the United States are leading calls for Sisi to pardon the journalists, although the new Egyptian leader has said authorities would not interfere with the justice system.
[AnNahar] Earthquakes used to be almost unheard of on the vast stretches of prairie that unfold across the U.S. Midwestern states of Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma.
But in recent years, they have become commonplace. Oklahoma recorded nearly 150 between January and the start of May. Most were too weak to cause serious damage or endanger lives. Yet they've rattled nerves and raised suspicions that the shaking might be connected to the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, especially the wells in which the industry disposes of its wastewater.
Now governments in all three states are confronting the issue, reviewing scientific data, holding public discussions and considering new regulations.
The latest example comes Thursday in Oklahoma, where hundreds of people are expected to turn out for a meeting that will include the state agency that regulates oil and gas drilling and the Oklahoma Geological Survey.
States with historically few earthquakes are trying to reconcile the scientific data with the interests of their citizens and the oil and gas industry.
In recent weeks, nighttime shaking in Oklahoma City has been strong enough to wake residents. The state experienced 145 quakes of 3.0 magnitude or greater between January and May 2, 2014, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.
That compares with an average of two such quakes from 1978 to 2008.
North Texas has had 70 earthquakes since 2008 as reported by the U.S. Geological Survey, compared with a single quake, in 1950, reported in the region before then.
Regulators from each state met for the first time in March in Oklahoma City to exchange information on the quakes and discuss toughening standards on the lightly regulated business of fracking wastewater disposal.
"This is all about managing risks," said Oklahoma Corporation Commission front man Matt Skinner. "It's a little more complicated than that because, of course, we're managing perceived risks."
In Texas, residents from the town of Azle, which has endured hundreds of small quakes, went to the state Capitol earlier this year to demand action by the state's chief oil and gas regulator, known as the Railroad Commission. The commission hired the first-ever state seismologist, and politicians formed the House Subcommittee on Seismic Activity.
After Kansas recorded 56 earthquakes between last October and April, the governor appointed a three-member task force to address the issue.
Seismologists already know that hydraulic fracturing — which involves blasting water, sand and chemicals deep into underground rock formations to free oil and gas — can cause microquakes that are rarely strong enough to register on monitoring equipment.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... fracking also generates vast amounts of wastewater, far more than traditional drilling methods. The water is discarded by pumping it into so-called injection wells, which send the waste deepunderground. No one knows for certain exactly what happens to the liquids after that. Scientists wonder whether they could trigger quakes by increasing underground pressures and lubricating faults.
Another concern is whether injection well operators could be pumping either too much water into the ground or pumping it at exceedingly high pressures.
Still, seismologists — and the oil and gas industry — have taken pains to point out that a clear correlation has not yet been established.
Nationwide, the United States has more than 150,000 injection wells, according to the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and only a handful have been proven to induce quakes.
Nonetheless, ExxonMobil is supporting a study by Southern Methodist University, company front man Richard Keil said.
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As I've said times before, in future time or coming decades fracking will be outlawed as "Crime agz the Planet/Environment" + Planet.
The greatest single threat to desired OWG-NWO vee GWCC remains the lack of common consensus among World Govts-Perts, i.e. "The Consensus is there is no Consensus".
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We've known for decades that injecting water into deep wells near faults can cause the faults to release their tension. Wastewater and pressure waves from fracking is doing the same thing. So, releasing the tension in minor faults before it builds up to high levels is ACTUALLY A GOOD THING. Would you rather have a 2-3 magnitude quake now or a 6-7 one later?
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Exactly what I thought Ship. Immediately wondered where this came from after reading the 1st sentence. What US citizen considers TX and OK to be "Midwestern" (some may consider Kansas to be that). Most everyone I know consider them to be Southwestern.
And, brick has a very valid point. While annoying, this may be a good thing, especially as fracking closes in on the New Madrid fault. That one is overdue for a BIG quake, according to geologists.
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Fracking and well treatment have been around for a while. The REAL enemies of progressives are actually a vibrant economy and prosperity. Fracking is simply an eco narrative.
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Silentbrick is right; some (40?) years ago we investigated the feasibility of 'managing' the stress on known and very dangerous faults - like the San Andreas - and concluded it could probably be done but would involve almost constant mild shaking, and also would transfer stress to other faults, subjecting them to more major failure. Worse, legal liability for all damage, real or imagined, from any quakes would fall onto the organizations and people trying to manage the program (that same logic is now hampering attempts to even predict or warn of earthquake hazard.)
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They keep discovering new faults in California all the time, that's cause they're looking. How long have they been looking in the Plains area? Low population density, lower attention span. Remember the New Madrid fault in the middle of America is basically known because humans were around to record it when the last big one went off.
States with historically few earthquakes..
There's that word again 'historically'. How long have they've been keeping systematic records? It's a problem when people suddenly start paying attention to stuff most people didn't notice before. see - Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
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Yet they've rattled nerves and raised suspicions that the shaking might be connected to the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking
Idiots.
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Most edicational site on the web and its all from the comments and snark. Love Rantburg.
[Iraq Sun] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... is meeting with representatives of Middle Eastern and Gulf states to discuss security challenges in the wake of a quick advance of an Islamist insurgency. A radical group that calls itself the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant has taken control of large swaths of northern Iraq and threatens to capture Iraq's capital, Storied Baghdad. The onslaught by the Death Eaters began two weeks ago, sparking panic among Shia Mohammedans along their path and an exodus of people from the cities that have fallen under their control. Secretary Kerry told an audience at NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... headquarters in Brussels Wednesday that the threat is not confined to the region. "None of us need to be reminded that a faraway threat can have tragic consequences at home, in the most unexpected way and the most unexpected moment," he stated. Kerry urged the entire international community to focus on combating the growth of extremism which increasingly crosses state borders as evidenced in Iraq.
"That's a new animal in a sense, and I think we are seeing with ISIL, crossing from Syria and moving rapidly into Iraq a similar kind of hybrid - new form of effort which is going to require people to think through strategically, intelligence gathering, preparations, response, response times, nature of response, and that's what the NATO alliance has always done effectively and that's what a lot of today's discussion focused on," he said. Kerry said NATO members have to work on improving vigilance instead of building permanent bases.
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Uh, uh, clearly everyone has to have NucWeaps + conquer new territories while the Bammer watches + US-West geopol pull back???
The death toll in Lamu fresh attacks rises to 11 after more bodies were discovered. Unknown assailants attacked Pandanguo village in Witu on Monday night.
The incident happened about 30 kilometers away from Mpeketoni where more than 60 people were killed last week. Police said those killed were from different communities. One survivor is in hospital with deep wounds. The village is dominated by small-scale farmers from diverse backgrounds.
Tension remained high in the area even as more police were sent to beef up security. Police boss David Kimaiyo said they are yet to know the motive of the attack but officers were on the ground pursuing the attackers.
“We are informed a number of armed bandits raided the village and killed at least five people. We are on the ground and more information will be issued later,” said Kimaiyo.
Last week, a gang raided Mpeketoni and Kibaoni and shot dead more than 60 people at close range before fleeing. President Uhuru Kenyatta blamed the attacks on ‘local political networks’ despite Al-shabaab claiming responsibility.
The military later claimed it had killed five of the attackers in Tana River area but locals have since said the deceased were herders who were mistaken as bandits. There are many theories being fronted as the cause of the Mpeketoni incident including terrorism by Kenyan terror cells, land and tribal fallout.
Many pundits believe land is the main reason for the attacks. A new police commander has been posted to Lamu County after Mpeketoni massacre. Ephantus Kiura will replace Leonard Omollo who was moved to Vigilance House while Mr Njenga Miiri will replace Mr Rashid Yakub of Administration Police.
Senior security officials led by Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku visited the scene and camped there for almost a week in a bid to address fears and threats.
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[AnNahar] Israel offered Thursday to help moderate Arab nations threatened by a lightning offensive by Islamic forces of Evil in Iraq, as the country's top diplomat met with U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Kerry at a meeting in Gay Paree that "the faceless myrmidons currently operating in Iraq will try to challenge the stability in the entire Gulf region, first of all in Kuwait," a statement from his office said.
"Israel could provide effective and reliable assistance to moderate Arab states who are dealing with murderous Moslems," it added, without going into specific details.
Just a few days after visiting Iraq, Kerry said it was "important that countries in the region stand together against the threat," according to a senior U.S. official.
Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have captured a swathe of territory in northern Iraq in a lightning assault which is threatening to tear the country apart.
Kerry was holding a series of meetings with Middle East allies in Gay Paree to discuss the crisis in Iraq after visiting both Storied Baghdad and Arbil to press Iraqi leaders to unify against the dangers posed by ISIL.
The Sunni forces of Evil have overrun vast swathes of five provinces north and west of Storied Baghdad, leaving more than 1,000 people dead and displacing hundreds of thousands.
The conflict also appears to be broadening with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki confirming Syria's air force struck Sunni forces of Evil on the Syrian side of the Iraq-Syria border this week.
The Iraqi leader said that while Storied Baghdad did not request the strikes, he "welcomed" any moves against the bully boys.
The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported meanwhile that predominantly Shiite Iran is flying surveillance drones over Iraq and sending military equipment to help Storied Baghdad fight the Sunni turbans.
Lieberman said Israeli interests were converging with moderate Arab nations "with both sides dealing with the threat of Iran, world jihad and al-Qaeda, as well as the spill-over of conflicts in Syria and in Iraq to neighboring countries."
"Today, there is a basis for the creation of a new diplomatic-political structure in the Middle East," his office said in the statement.
Lieberman also handed Kerry an appeal from the parents of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers to meet with them. One of the youngsters is a dual Israeli-American citizen.
The disappearance of the three believed kidnapped by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,forces of Evil has sparked a massive manhunt on the West Bank.
According to army figures, some 381 people have been detained in two weeks of searches for the teens who disappeared on June 12 while hitchhiking in the southern West Bank.
A State Department official told Agence La Belle France Presse that they have received and are "considering the request" for the parents to meet with Kerry.
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[Iraq Sun] Iraq plunged deeper into crisis as Syrian army aircraft bombed Sunni Death Eater targets inside Iraq even as 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... rejected calls for forming an emergency government to help the country counter a surge by Sunni Islamist Death Eaters.
The sectarian conflict in Iraq threatened to spill beyond its borders as warplanes of the Syrian Army bombed Sunni strongholds in western Iraq and Iran has reportedly begun to send in military equipment and is flying unarmed surveillance drones over the country.
The developments led U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , who is on a tour of the Middle East, to warn Mideast nations against taking new military action in Iraq that might heighten sectarian divisions.
The Pentagon said that 90 additional U.S. troops arrived in Iraq, which are part of the 300 military advisers that President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... said he would deploy in Iraq to help with the situation. A statement said that U.S. aircraft are now flying 30 to 35 manned and unmanned daily surveillance flights over Iraq.
Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the initial group sent to establish an operations center included intelligence analysts and logistics experts as well as special operations troops.
Another 50 U.S. military personnel working in the region are expected to arrive within the next few days to create four additional assessment teams, he said. The US military advisers met Storied Baghdad's operations commander and agreed to set up a joint operation command, reports said.
In a televised address, the Iraqi prime minister said: "The call to form a national emergency government is a coup against the constitution and the political process."
"It is an attempt by those who are against the constitution to eliminate the young democratic process and steal the votes of the voters," he said, referring to the April 30 parliament election results.
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Besides being in violation of Iraq's post-Saddam Constitution, Maliki must be counting on support from Iran's alleged 10 Divisions worth of Iranian + IRGC Quds Force troops massed on Iran's border wid Iraq.
IRAN = TEN DIVISIONS + HEZBOLLAH + QUDS FORCE ALREADY INSIDE IRAQ, OBAMA = NONE.
...called by some "Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe", and by others "Joe"...
was acquitted by a Jordan court Thursday of plotting an attack on the American school in Amman but he faces another terrorism charge and will remain in prison.
"The court did not find evidence to support charges against Omar Mahmud Mohammed Otman (Abu Qatada) that he conspired in late 1998 to carry out a terror attack on the American school in Amman," judge Ahmad Qatarneh said in a ruling.
"Based on that, the court unanimously declares the innocence of Omar Mahmud Mohammed Otman for lack evidence," added Qatarneh, before asking journalists to leave the court.
The holy man, who was deported from Britannia last July after a 10-year legal battle, burst into tears when the judge made the ruling and members of his family rushed to hug and kiss him.
The Paleostinian-born preacher was condemned to death in absentia in 1999 by an Amman court for conspiracy to carry out an attack on the American school. The sentence was immediately commuted to life imprisonment with hard labor.
A year later, he was sentenced in absentia to 15 years for plotting to attack tourists in Jordan during millennium celebrations.
More specifically, according to Ynet, "...of involvement in a plot to target Israeli and American tourists and Western diplomats in 2000."
In line with Jordanian laws, he is now appearing in a retrial and has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to all charges.
The court adjourned the trial until September 7.
Reacting to the ruling, British Immigration and Security Minister James Brokenshire said the retrial was made possible due to the British government's "determination to successfully deport him from the UK."
"While the courts in Jordan have acquitted Abu Qatada of one of the two charges against him, it is right the due process of law is allowed to take place in his own country," Brokenshire said in a statement.
The man spins like a top, lightly popping up hither and yon, meeting with these and those, this one and that one, accomplishing absolutely nothing of value except to joggle the elbows of those frantically trying to get necessary things done before it's entirely too late.
[Ynet] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... is meeting with America's top Sunni state allies in the Mideast to discuss the growing turmoil spawned by a Sunni Moslem insurgency group.
Kerry calls the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... a concern and critical issue for all of the nations represented at Thursday's meeting in Gay Paree.
They include Jordan, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
Oh no, the rest of the world merely needs to take up fracking at a pace that Saudi oil no longer has value. There they'll be, a few years from now, with valueless oil and a temporarily large amount of money in the bank, watching it trickle through their fingers and disappear into the sand. Ozymandis won't be a patch on them, by the time the House of Saud returns to their natural state of oasis bandits at the end of a side route on the camel trails.
and the United Arab Emirates.
All of the above, ditto.
Kerry also met earlier Thursday with the Sunni former prime minister of Leb.
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Which side is Obama on in this fight? It is not clear to me.
Mr. Obama is on Mr. Obama's side. As for Mr. Kerry, he's being received out of politeness by two of the three. IMNSHO, the House of Saud and the UAE have pretty much discounted any efforts by the administration.
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Bring a dip of diplomatic arcana
And a couple more pat memoranda
Backed by will o' the wimp
With the spine of a shrimp
And we'll meet at the fata morgana!
[AnNahar] Philippine President Benigno Aquino held a surprise meeting in Japan with the country's top Moslem rebel to address growing concerns over delays in implementing a peace deal, their aides said Thursday.
The meeting took place Tuesday on the sidelines of a peace conference in Hiroshima where Aquino and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Murad Ebrahim were guests, presidential front man Edwin Lacierda said.
A rebel front man said the MILF sought the meeting to raise concerns over delays in impleting an accord signed in March, after a draft law that is crucial for a final peace was not passed by Congress this month as planned.
Lacierda divulged few details of the meeting, other than it was a 15-minute encounter and that they talked about the planned law that would create an autonomous Moslem region in the southern Philippines.
"It is safe to assume that the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law was discussed," Lacierda said.
Moslem rebels have been battling for independence or autonomy in the southern islands of the mainly Catholic Philippines since the 1970s, with the conflict claiming tens of thousands of lives.
The MILF, with 10,000 armed followers, is the biggest rebel group and its signing of the accord has raised hopes of an enduring peace in the south, despite other breakaway groups still vowing to fight.
The pact made the MILF and the government partners in a plan to create the autonomous region by mid-2016, when Aquino is required by the constitution to stand down.
A commission composed of rebel and government nominees drafted a "basic law" for the autonomous region, and it was submitted to Aquino in April as part of a timeframe to have Congress pass it by June.
Aquino, however, is still reviewing the planned law. His aides have said this is because he wants to ensure it withstands scrutiny of the legislative body.
MILF deputy chief Ghazali Jaafar told AFP Thursday Murad had sought out the meeting to "express our concerns over the delays", and had been partly appeased by Aquino's response.
"We accepted explanations given, but any further delays could impact on the full ratification of the deal," Jaafar said, while emphasising MILF fighters remained "deeply concerned" about the slowdown.
He said Aquino must marshall his allies in Congress to pass the law this year.
Aquino, in his Tuesday speech before meeting Murad, highlighted a similar encounter between the two in Japan in 2011 that built momentum in the grinding of the peace processor.
"Trust was established between brothers, and a genuine dialogue was possible," Aquino said.
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As per GLOBALNATION + JAPAN MEDIAS, China is accusing the PHIL of stirring tensions + promoting instability after Aguino gave support to Abe for strong constitutional + military reforms.
* Also from GLOBAL NATION > COLUMNISTS: NO CHOICE. DESTROY CHINA'S FUTURE PHILIPPINE MILITARY BASES NOW.
Chinese Milbases in the Spratlys = SCS all but certain to turn the PHIL into a SLAVE/VASSAL STATE FOR CHINA.
* SAME > ... ...
> CHINA IS TESTING FILIPINO'S DETERMINATION TO DEFEND AGZ INTRUSION.
> CHINA MAP HAS NO [fixed = certain]GEOGRAPHIC [land-n-sea] COORDINATES - DFA.
Hence making China's SCS claims "moveable" - also read, "EXPANDABLE"???
* TOPIX > [Stars-N-Stripes] US MARINE CORPS FORCE PLANNER: NO MORE "IWO JIMAS".
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Chosun Ilbo] SOUTH KOREA DEFENSE MINISTER [Kim Kwan-jin] HAS NO OBJECTION TO [SOKOR-based = THAAD?] US INTERCEPTOR MISSLES, but won't buy them either, at least not yet.
Formerly GUAM-BASED???
*
* IIRC SAME > SUNSET FOR A STRONG NAVY? WITH BUDGET CUTS, OPINIONS DIFFER ON NECESSARY NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > NEW CHINESE MAP ["10-Dash-Line"] SHOW LARGER CLAIMS IN SCS.
[Ynet] Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... tells Lebanese Sunni Moslems 'kill and assassinate soldiers of the Party of Iran (Hezbollah)'.
The al Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades had urged Lebanese Sunni Moslems to attack the Iranian-backed Shiite bad boy group Hezbollah a day before Wednesday's suicide kaboom in central Beirut.
No claims of responsibility have been made for the attack but the Abdullah Azzam Brigades says it has carried out recent bombings in Leb, including an attack on the Iranian embassy in November which killed 23 people, mostly civilians.
The group posted the message on Twitter on Tuesday, before a jacket wallah - said by Lebanese authorities to be a Saudi national - maimed three security officers in a hotel in the capital close to the Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n embassy.
Escalating sectarian violence in the region has seen Hezbollah send hundreds of fighters to neighbouring Syria to boost the forces of its ally Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... against mainly Sunni rebels seeking to topple him.
Gulf states fear Sunnis in Leb, Syria and Iraq face oppression at the hands of Iran and its Shi'ite allies in the region.
"The soldiers of the Party of Iran (Hezbollah) and its leaders are beneath you, so gain the approval of Allah by killing and assassinating them!" Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a holy man for the group, said in the audio message.
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The article of course mentions the lack of resources for the poor security. I would suggest a lack of common sense for putting a victim so close to a predator.
Yes, pop the rapist, like you SHOULD have done in the first place, if you weren't twink nancy. You just couldn't do it, well, you live with it then. His life is so valuable you just couldn't bring yourself to take it? So now you live with your decision. How does it feel being "merciful."? Isn't mercy and kind hearted tolerance and "doing the right thing" its own satisfaction?
have a good time. Put your butt in the air yourself. And then send in the Nurse.
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As they say in Texas, some men just need killin.
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Not only beacuse of what they did but beacuse of what they will do. BTW, in many european countries there are no life sentences. Even if you are a sreial killer, one day you will be released. THat is beacuse such inmates would be too dangerous for prison personnal if you don't give inamtes a reason not to make trouble. Too bad for the people who will meet with them once thre are rerlaesed. But Europeans are soooooooooo sophisticated.
[AnNahar] The military prosecutor charged on Thursday 15 suspected faceless myrmidons for plotting to carry out attacks and target a top security official in northern Leb, the state-run National News Agency reported.
NNA said Judge Saqr Saqr charged the suspects, only six of whom are in detention, for belonging to the Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... and Jund al-Sham in northern Leb.
The six men have been apprehended in the northern region of Qalamoun, it said, although the Lebanese army claimed on Wednesday the arrest of five suspected terrorists.
It identified then as Wassim Ahmed al-Qass, Wissam Ahmed al-Qass, Dani Ahmed al-Qass, Amjad Nouhad al-Khatib and Nabil Kamel Bayda.
The suspects attended training sessions on preparing explosives, using arms and booby-trapping cars, the agency said.
The charges also include complicity with a plot to assassinate a top General Security officer and to carry out terrorist attacks across Leb, NNA added.
Saqr referred the suspects to First Military Examining Magistrate Riyad Abou Ghida.
Al-Joumhouria daily said Thursday that the target of the plot could either be the chief of the army's intelligence in northern Leb Brig. Gen. Amer al-Hassan or Lt. Col. Khattar Nasereddine, who heads the General Security bureau in the North.
...bedouin capitol in the Negev, largest bedouin community in the world...
residents for selling ready-made bombs, weapons and drugs. Police undercover agents purchased from the suspects bombs, ammunition and cocaine and afterwards arrested them.
The Police said that five additional suspects would be arrested soon to come.
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Everyone laughed behind his back at abu Mohammed for wearing an off the rack bomb jacket. It was the best his poor (albeit damn well armed) family could afford, and he was proud of it. Little did he know the Lucas ignition system could be set off by a toilet flush.
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Yakub's boom of a thousand one colors
Was the envy of all of his brothers.
When he blew up a goat,
Spattered shreds of his coat
Were stuck up on the fridge by his mothers.
After exclusive interviews with politicians, Shabelle has learned that the Deputy President of Interim South West State of Somalia, Mohamed Hassan Fiqi, retaliated at a remark made by MPs politicians of the Somali Federal Government on the recognition of the administration.
Ya’quub Ali Mohamed told Shabelle that in the Lower Shabelle region, there are different strengths/levels of power and that it is more populated. He said that he finds it unfortunate that MPs are bickering over recognition.
“The people who are campaigning for the recognition of Interim South West State of Somalia are not representing the people of Lower Shabelle, and therefore we are not given an opinion.” He said
He added that a clan cannot control the Lower Shabelle region by force, and said that the time of warlordism is over.
Says who?
Furthermore, the Deputy President told Shabelle that they will enter Lower Shabelle region by force and no-one can apparently prevent them from doing so.
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Mohamed Fiqi Hassan to enter Lower Shabelle by force
Leering gaily, he played ukelele,
Serenading and begging her daily.
She, from the clover:
"I shall not roll over!
You'll never have Lower Shabelle!"
[Iraq Sun] The al Qaeda-linked army is ready to make its Islamic state a launching pad for its next US attack and is invading territory in Iraq and Syria, says a new congressional report.
Four analysts at the Congressional Research Service cited intelligence reports and the words of the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Abu Nakr al-Baghdadi.
Al-Baghdadi threatened US that the US will not benefit from a proxy war in the Levant or Iraq and that they will be in warfare, reports Washington Times.
ISIL is a well-funded terrorist organization and aims to kill non-believers, says the CRS reports.
ISIL is also reported to be recruiting and training individuals to attack the United States.
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If Iraq falls we should blast an EMP over the region and take out all non-hardened tech. Arrange the blast to hit all of the oil areas (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq) and spare Israel. Let them return to the medieval period they love so much. Do it while everyone is in the Mosque on Friday for a few bonus points of Allah is mad at you.
We can then take over the oil platforms and such and restore them easily enough with a container full of transistors and resisters and such.
* See also TOPIX > [Washington Times] GABRIEL: ISIS IS A THREAT TO IRAQ [+ ME + beyond], WID SHARIA AS WORLDWIDE AIM | ... ... JIHAD ONLY ENDS WHEN ENTIRE EARTH IS MUSLIM.
[Once again, "INTERSTELLAR" = "MANKIND WASN'T MADE TO SAVE THE EARTH, BUT TO LEAVE IT"].
To leave a Earth wid no food, rising or escalating GWCC, + Totalitarian Global Nuclear Sharia.
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, IFF EVERY RESTAURANT IS A [Solyent?] TACO BELL, HOW THE HELL IS WHATS LEFT OF ANTI-CALIPHATE REBEL NASA-JPL GOING TO GET A TACO BELL IN A SPACESHIP COMPRISED OF ESCAPING NON-MUSLIMS?
Huh, huh, huh!
And lets not fergit CAESAR of "RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES"!
[Ynet] AL-ASEEL OIL FIELD - Egypt's oil minister said on Thursday that BP's $10 billion gas project, stalled for three years, had restarted and that production would begin in 2017, a sign of progress in efforts to ease the worst energy crunch in decades.
In another move that could help improve investor confidence, Sherif Ismail also said Egypt would pay $1.5 billion of the money it owed to foreign energy companies by the end of 2014.
Let us hope it actually works, and they don't skim it so badly nothing is left for the population.
[JerusalemCenterForPublicAffairs] o Immediately after ISIS emerged in Syria, sources in the Syrian opposition said, "We are familiar with the commanders of ISIS. Once they belonged to Assad's intelligence, and now they are operating on his behalf under the name of ISIS."
o Why would Shiite Iran support a Sunni jihadist organization like ISIS? Iran wants to be certain that a strong Iraqi state does not emerge again along its western border.
o The notion that Shiite Iran would help Sunni jihadists was not farfetched, even if it seemed to defy the conventional wisdom in Western capitals.
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I seriously doubt it.
I suspect ISIS is running strong with Saudi money. Saudi's have now mobilized, probably to militarize their own Shia population (inconveniently on the Saudi oil fields) as ISIS tries to grab the parts of Shia Iraq with the oil and while Iran moves in to stop such a move.
I suspect the end result is not to far off from the Iran/Iraq war of the 80s with trench lines and chemical weapons.
#4
ISIS will take anyone's money but then they do what they want to do. I think they're perfectly capable of taking Saudi or American or Turkish money and turning around and doing what Syria or Iran needs them to do in order to justify what Syria or Iran wants to do.
#5
isis has been massacring shiites in town after town
Iran may have provided some funding in the early days of isis when they were called al q of iraq in order to persuade them to concentrate on killing americans but this aid has surely ended by now
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Yuuup, but also beacuse ISIS was anti-Zawahiri as is Iran.
However, new ISIS BFF + fellow Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra was suppos pro-Zawahiri, so now Iran is caught all by itself in a complex deelemma.
Saddam's daughter Raghdad was repor as being extremely happy that the ISIS insurgency was occurring - many of Daddy-O Saddam's ex-solders have joined up wid same.
[AnNahar] King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah ... Fifth out of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz to ascend to the throne. He is, after his half-brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud. He has 6 sons and 15 daughters and about $20 billion. His youngest son is just seven years old... instructed authorities in the oil-rich kingdom Thursday to take "necessary measures" to defend the country from jihadists battling the government in neighboring Iraq.
The announcement comes days after turbans from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) seized the border crossing from Iraq into Jordan, which also neighbors the kingdom, as they press an offensive in Iraq.
A statement said Abdullah ordered authorities "to take all the necessary measures to protect... the kingdom's security against actions that could be taken by terrorist or other groups."
The measures were not spelled out but decided during a security cabinet meeting chaired by the king and devoted to discussing developments in Iraq and their impact on Gulf Arab monarchies.
The meeting comes on the eve of a visit to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... by U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , who has been holding talks with regional and international players to seek ways of containing the unrest in Iraq.
I s'pose asking his kingliness to stop paying his ISIL myrmidons is out of the question...
On Thursday, Kerry discussed the widening crisis in Iraq, where ISIL has seized cities and towns north of Storied Baghdad, during urgent talks with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
A senior State Department official said Kerry would brief them on his visit to Storied Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, where he urged leaders to unite against the jihadist myrmidons.
Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia has accused Iraq's Shiite 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... , of fueling the crisis by marginalizing the country's Sunni Arab minority.
Maliki conceded on Thursday that political measures and military action were needed to repel the myrmidon offensive, which is threatening to tear Iraq apart.
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Both the KSA + Jordan have repor placed their armed forces on high alert.
[AnNahar] Swedish prosecutors are to investigate whether Israel broke international law when it boarded a number of aid ships that were attempting to defy an Israeli blockade of Gazoo in 2010 and 2012.
What, the Belgian and Spanish prosecutors were busy?
The Swedish Prosecution Authority announced on Thursday "a preliminary investigation on the circumstances of the boarding by Israeli soldiers of ships heading to Gazoo in May 2010 and October 2012".
In the first case, Israeli troops attacked a six-ship aid flotilla in international waters, leading to the death of nine Turkish citizens on one of them, the Mavi Marmara.
Ah, yes. That's the one crewed by IHH, which as I recall is Al Qaeda in Turkey or something, a particular pet of Prime Minister Erdogan. Exactly the kind of people Sweden prefers to the Jewish nation.
In 2012, Israel's navy seized another ship -- again in international waters -- the Estelle, a Finnish-flagged galley carrying humanitarian aid as part of the international Ship to Gazoo campaign.
In both incidents, Swedish citizens were on board ships attempting to break the blockade.
Swedish legal authorities said the investigation will examine several reported cases of aggravated assault, aggravated theft and violation of international law, with regard to the Geneva Conventions, according to which civilians must be protected during armed conflicts.
The probe would not look into charges of hijacking and illegal detention which has been requested by the 22 Swedish plaintiffs.
Prosecutor Henrik Attorps, who formally opened the investigation, wrote that the alleged crimes fell under Swedish jurisdiction Sweden because they took place in international waters and affected Swedish citizens.
Swedish law allows for prosecutions related to violations of international law in other territories, however the prosecutors wrote that they would require Swedish government approval before any formal charges can be brought.
"No individual has been identified as a suspect for the crimes yet," the prosecutors added.
The investigation was launched in response to complaints filed with police by the Swedish Ship to Gazoo association as well as Swedes who were on board the ships and were taken into custody and later deported by Israeli authorities.
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Ah yes, the old "protect civilians during armed conflict" argument. I'm sure Israel is quaking and anticipating a strongly worded letter from the UN soon.
Jeebus, is there no statute of limitations on silliness (/sarc off)?
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Swedish "citizens"? Newy minted perhaps? Related to the violent Mohammedan populace inside Sweden that has caused the Swedes so many problems?
[Ynet] Palestinian media sources reported Thursday that an unfamiliar organization known as "Regiments of Hezbollah" had claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Isreal's three missing teens though it was unclear how realistic the claim may be.
According to reports, the group cited the killing of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah as motivation for the attack. "Regiments of Hezbollah" is now the third group to have claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and the previous two are considered to be illegitimate.
I s'posed that is one way to sell records.
From Weasel Zippers
Nigerian pop singer Adokiye said she would sacrifice her virginity to the Boko Haram militants, led by Abubakar Shekau, in exchange for the return of the hundreds of schoolgirls they have kidnapped in the country's northeast.
"It is just unfair. They are too young. I wish I could offer myself in exchange," Adokiye told Vanguard.
"They are between 12- and 15-year-old girls, for Christ sake. I am older and more experienced. Even if 10 to 12 men have to take me every night, I don't care. Just release these girls and let them go back to their parents," said the 23-year-old, from Imo state. As they say, the devil is in the details.
[AnNahar] Kenyan police have tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! the governor of the coastal Lamu district in connection with three recent massacres in which over 60 people were killed, officers said Thursday.
Governor Issa Timamy was arrested late Wednesday in connection with killings last week over two consecutive nights in the town of Mpeketoni and a nearby village that claimed nearly 60 lives. Another attack this week left at least five dead, officials said.
"The governor is in jug," Kenya's Criminal Investigations Department chief Ndegwa Muhoro said, adding he was due in court Thursday.
"There are various charges lined up for him that are related to the attack," he said, without giving further details.
Despite an immediate claim of responsibility from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab for the Mpeketoni attack, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has blamed "local political networks" along with an "opportunist network of other criminal gangs."
The accusations have stoked already tense political rivalry between Kenyatta and opposition parties.
Timamy is a member of the opposition CORD party, the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy.
Survivors of the attack in Mpeketoni reported gunnies speaking Somali and carrying Shabaab flags, executing non-Mohammedans and saying their actions were Dire Revenge™ for Kenya's military presence in Somalia as part of the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force fighting the Islamists.
Police on Wednesday also arrested 13 alleged separatists suspected of planning more attacks in the country's coastal region.
An interior ministry statement said those detained were plotting "ethnic cleansing" attacks and were members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), which campaigns for independence of the coastal region.
After the attacks, Kenyan security forces killed five people they suspected of involvement in the massacres, recovering AK-47 assault rifles as well as ammunition.
Three others have also been charged in connection with the killings, including a police officer, the owner and driver of a vehicle used by the attackers, and a suspect accused of running fake Shabaab social media accounts.
[AnNahar] The General Security Directorate reportedly began monitoring the terrorist group that was busted in Duroy Hotel in Beirut's Raouche area a week before raiding it.
According to As Safir newspaper published on Thursday, the General Security investigations proved the group had links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL).
The network was allegedly ordered to carry out a double suicide kaboom in a prominent restaurant in Beirut and a Hotel when people would be watching a world cup game and the two place would be crowded.
On Wednesday afternoon, a Saudi man went kaboom! in Hotel Duroy as security forces stormed his room, killing himself and wounding several others.
An accomplice of the jacket wallah who was also in the room survived the blast but was severely injured. A third person is on the run.
As Safir daily reported that the General Security's Elite Force raid was directly supervised by the directorate's chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim.
A string of security incidents over the past week has rattled Leb, and Beirut in particular, after what had been a calm and stable stretch of several months.
The police raid followed the arrest last Friday in a hotel in the nearby Hamra district of the capital of a Frenchie of Comoran origin on suspicion of plotting to carry out suicide kabooms in Leb on behalf of the jihadist ISIL group.
That is the same group that has spearheaded the offensive by Sunni Arab forces of Evil that has swept up a big swathe of northern and north-central Iraq over the past two weeks and also made gains in neighboring Syria.
On Monday, a suicide bomber went kaboom! near a checkpoint outside a cafe just after midnight in the Tayyouneh area. The bombing killed one person and maimed 20.
Another bombing in eastern Leb last week killed a police officer and maimed several others.
Syria's civil war has spilled into neighboring Leb on numerous occasions and inflamed sectarian tensions. A series of boom-mobiles have struck Shiite areas across Leb, killing dozens of people. The operation also came amid mounting regional tensions over the events unfolding in Iraq.
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[AnNahar] Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab commandos on Thursday attacked an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... military base in central Somalia dressed in stolen government army uniforms, killing at least two soldiers from Djibouti, the AU force said.
The Shabaab said their gunnies stormed the compound of a hotel where Djiboutian troops with the AU force were based in the town of Bulla Burde, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu, their front man Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP.
"The area command headquarters (of the AU force) was attacked, these attacks will continue," Musab said, boasting to have killed six AU troops.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... Elio Yao, front man for the U.N.-backed AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM), rejected the claims, saying the gunnies failed to enter the compound but had killed two Djiboutians in a firefight.
The two Shabaab fighters "dressed in military fatigues or uniform" were also killed, Yao said.
"There was an exchange of fire at the check point, during that exchange the two Djiboutians were killed... the attackers were not able to enter the compound," he added.
The attack is the latest by the Shabaab in retaliation for the AU offensive to root them out of areas of the war-torn country still under their control.
Residents reported a heavy blast followed by fierce gunfire and kabooms for about hour, beginning around dawn on Thursday.
"There was a loud kaboom before a firefight broke out," said Ahmed Abdirisak, a local resident.
"There was heavy exchange of gunfire, it continued about an hour.. dead bodies were strewn around," said resident Hassan Mohammed.
The town was seized from the Shabaab in March.
After withdrawing from fixed positions in the capital Mogadishu nearly three years ago, the Shabaab have lost most large towns to the AU and government soldiers. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... they still regularly launch guerrilla raids.
Recent Shabaab attacks in Somalia have targeted key areas of government, or the security forces, in an apparent bid to discredit claims by the authorities and AU troops that they are winning the war.
The Islamists have also launched attacks against AU nations in the region who have contributed troops to the force.
In May, at least one person was killed and several maimed when two jacket wallahs blew themselves up in a restaurant in Djibouti, the first attack claimed by the Shabaab since Djibouti joined the AU force in 2011.
The Shabaab have also claimed massacres on Kenya's coast region in which over 60 people have been killed, although Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has blamed "local political networks" for the attacks.
Survivors of the attacks last week in Kenya's Lamu district reported gunnies speaking Somali and carrying Shabaab flags, executing non-Moslems and saying their actions were Dire Revenge™ for Kenya's military presence in Somalia as part of the AMISOM force.
[DAWN] Announcing an 'all-party conference' on the Model Town incident on Sunday, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has backtracked from his earlier stance of forming a political alliance against the government.
"Forming any alliance or a grand alliance had never been my agenda," Dr Qadri told the media after meeting leaders of various political and religious parties at PAT headquarters here on Thursday. "I'm not too sure what was..."
PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat and Pervaiz Elahi, who had signed a 10-point agenda and worked on forming an anti-government alliance for materialising the agenda along with PAT leadership in London on May 31, were also present during the media talk.
Section 4 of the agreement as accessed by Dawn on PAT's official website after the media talk on Thursday reads: "In these circumstances, there is a dire need that all patriotic political forces and segments agree on a broader revolutionary agenda and wage a joint struggle for establishment of transparent and participatory democracy in Pakistan in the real sense."
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[Iraq Sun] Four teams of US special operations forces have arrived in Iraq to aid the Iraqi government in combating the raging battle with the rapidly advancing jihadist forces of Evil as US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... urged the autonomous Kurds not to quit the political process in Storied Baghdad.
Around 90 members of the US special forces, part of the 300 military advisors, are already in Iraq and could begin their assessment work this week. Four more teams are expected to arrive in the violence-ravaged country soon.
On Monday, the US and Iraq reached a key agreement on legal protections that would enable up to 300 special operations forces to be deployed in the country.
Kerry arrived in the Kurdish regional capital Erbil Tuesday and went into a meeting with Kurdistan autonomous region President Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... to urge the Kurds who are keen to establish their separate state, to help in the political process.
Ahead of going to Erbil, Kerry had a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, and Shiite and Sunni politicians.
Another 50 US special operations forces have arrived in Storied Baghdad under the newly appointed command of a two-star general as the US military steadily ramps up an advisory mission aimed at helping Iraq battle back Sunni murderous Moslems, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
The Pentagon said the first of two planned Joint Operations Centers in Iraq had also become activated, bolstering its ability to oversee US teams and gather information about the situation on the ground, including about Iraq's security forces.
"It will of course serve as a fusion center where information that's coming in from the various teams can be consolidated and it can be analyzed," said Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon front man.
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See also CNN, MIDDLE EAST ONLINE > BARZANI: NO GOING BACK ON KURDISH SELF-RULE FOR KIRKUK {+ other].
* BHARAT RAKSHAK [repost] > [Toronto Sun] AS IRAQ DIES, KURDISTAN IS BORN.
[DYN.POLITICO] House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... will travel to the southern border of the U.S. on Saturday to be briefed by Customs and Border Protection on the flood of unaccompanied minors entering the country.
The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat will also meet with a group of children held at the South Texas Detention Facility.
"The humanitarian crisis unfolding across our nation's southern border demands Congress come together and find thoughtful, compassionate and bipartisan solutions," Pelosi said. "We must ensure our laws are fully enforced, so that due process is provided to unaccompanied children and the safety and well-being of unaccompanied children is protected. We must also work to address the root causes of the problem."
(Also on POLITICO: Gutierrez: Immigration reform prospects dead)
More than 50,000 unaccompanied children from central America have crossed the border into the United States since last October, but federal law says the U.S. cannot immediately turn the minors away if they are from non-contiguous countries such as Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
The rush of children has turned into a crisis for Customs and Border Protection, which does not have the capacity to house the children for the 72 hours before they are transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services to await an immigration hearing.
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The Texas Ranger Division is a major division within the Texas Department of Public Safety with lead criminal investigative responsibility for the following: major incident crime investigations, unsolved crime/serial crime investigations, public corruption investigations, officer involved shooting investigations, and border security operations.
The Texas Rangers currently coordinate border security operations through six (6) Joint Operations and Intelligence Centers (JOICs) along the Texas-Mexico border and Coastal Bend area of the state. In response to legislation, the Texas Rangers created a Public Corruption Unit and an Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program.
Austin Headquarters: (512) 424-2000
Call the Texas Rangers and ask them to file charges on Pelosi and her accomplices when they arrive in Texas Saturday for immigration law violations and their support of immigration law violations.
No, but they will be. They just need to be taught who their benefactors are. To quote LBJ, "I'll have those ${REDACTED}s voting Democratic for the next two hundred years".
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Just imagine ( imagine it like you were there ) old Pelosi cuddling and holding and groping all those children. Don't you wish Pelosi would have a chance to hold and touch and kiss your kids?
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If my kid had a contagious drug resistant terminal disease, certainly.
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How about traveling over to the IRS and kicking some arse ?
Watergate was an attack by Politicians on Politicians. This is about a Government attack on its Citizens. IF and WHEN and UNTIL she is arrested we can assume it is all theatre. IRS cut ties with Sonasoft almost immediately after Lois Lerner scandal broke.
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My guess is Nancy will have to get at least close enough to some of these children for a photo op. Loyal and reliable border officials will screen a handful of photogenic kids for communicable diseases, provide them with nice clothes and comb their hair. Expect to see the pix tonight on the evening news. Because it's all about the children. Right, Nancy?
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: The Tariq Geedar group of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) was behind the gun attack on a Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) flight in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. that left a woman passenger dead and two crew members maimed, security officials said.
They said the group was based in Darra Adamkhel and was headed by one Khalfa.
"We have some important leads," claimed an official.
He said that the roof of a school in Suliemankhel, an area near Peshawar, was used for targeting the Airbus when it was landing at the Bacha Khan International Airport late on Tuesday night.
know more: Woman dies in shooting at plane
The school was closed for summer vacation and its watchman was absent from duty, the official said.
He said assailants had affixed an extra barrel to an AK-47 rifle to enhance its fire range and used tracer bullets to ensure that they hit the target.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... security has been beefed up in and around the airport following the incident. Officials said additional police personnel had been deployed in the funnel area, including Sheikh Muhammadi and Mashogagar.
Police are patrolling the Pishtakhara road round the clock.
The military has provided eight more units of the Quick Response Force to the district administration in case of any major incident or threat of terrorism.
"With these additional security measures, operations at the Bacha Khan International Airport have now been fully restored," an official said.
Police have released over 200 people who were picked up for questioning from Nodeh Bala, Pishtakhara and Suliemankhel areas after the attack. It is said that the scope of investigation has been expanded following some leads from intelligence agencies.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... the corps commander of Peshawar ordered immediate evacuation of a family stranded in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... . The order came following reports that a family of 10, including children, was stuck in Dandy Darpakhel after the truck that was supposed to bring them out broke down halfway.
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[DAWN] THE chief of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... , Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... , is scheduled to unveil his map for the future at a public meeting in Bahawalpur today. The announcement is being anxiously awaited against the backdrop of reported discussion within the party over which course it should follow from here onwards. In simple terms, the PTI is divided between the moderates who have the patience and will to work gradually within the existing system and the more radical elements who want to strive for forcing sudden change at the risk of severely endangering the system.
These are the two extremes Mr Khan has been shuttling between. One moment he presses for an investigation into vote fraud by the available apparatus and the next he threatens to join Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. 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... . If the PTI is not too bothered about learning from its own experience in public protest so far, maybe there is a case for it to have a close look at the Pakistain Awami Tehrik's example: how Dr Qadri has been unable to sustain action that would indicate mobility. The drive — led either by Mr Khan or by Dr Qadri or by the two of them jointly — cannot go in fits and starts. There has to be decisive progress aimed at well-defined targets that are fully understood by and acceptable to the masses whose favour is being sought. There is more frustration than purpose to the two moves so far.
Imran Khan has reasons to be upset. He is within his rights to ask for a probe into alleged poll rigging. The delay in addressing his demands betrays problems in the system of governance that lacks an ability to effectively respond to discontent and complaints. Also, there is not too much room for disagreement over him questioning the arrogance with which the current rulers work. The big question, however, relates to the sensitive issue of just how far he can take his agitation and what serious repercussions his acts could entail, for his party and for the country on the lam. Mr Khan warns he could be ultimately forced to dissolve the provincial assembly in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... where his party is in power. If this is a statement made in total disregard for the disastrous effects such a dissolution could have on the whole of Pakistain, it seems also to be based on an overestimation of what gains the PTI, now a political party with proven public support, could make in the ensuing chaos. The people want change but, oft bitten, they will be wary of being plunged into yet another period of uncertainty. The PTI leader will persist with his demand for poll-fraud investigation, but if he is to emerge as the alternative he must devote some of his energies to turning his Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government into a model ready to be replicated all across the country.
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[AnNahar] The General Security agency on Thursday circulated the picture of a Lebanese man accused of providing the Duroy Hotel bombers with explosives, as media reports said the two attackers wanted to target al-Saha Restaurant in Dahieh.
"Following the authorization of the relevant judicial authorities, the General Security circulated the picture of al-Monzer Khaldoun al-Hasan, who was born in 1990 in Akkar's Bizbina to a mother who hails from (Syria's) Aleppo," state-run National News Agency reported.
The man "is suspected of having provided the cell that was raided at the Duroy Hotel (in Raouche) with boom jackets and explosives," NNA quoted the security agency as saying.
"He has the Swedish nationality (and a passport) with the name of 'Monzer Al HASSAN' and he has been driving two cars — an old beige Nissan and a gray Mercedes manufactured in 2005," the General Security said, noting that "these two cars may be booby-trapped."
LBCI television said the man was incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! based on the confessions of the Saudi would-be jacket wallah who survived Wednesday's blast and who was captured by the General Security.
"The arrested would-be suicide bomber told interrogators that he and his lover companion had intended to target al-Saha Restaurant near the Great Prophet Mosque in Beirut's southern suburbs," LBCI reported.
According to al-Akhbar newspaper, General Security agents overnight raided al-Saha Hotel in Dahieh in search for suspects who might have checked into the hotel.
For its part, As Safir newspaper said "the cell yesterday received an order to carry out a double suicide kaboom through bombers wearing boom jackets against one of the biggest restaurants in Beirut which is part of a large hotel."
The daily said the attack was supposed to take place during peak time when customers would be watching one of the World Cup matches.
Later on Thursday, OTV said two brothers of Monzer had carried out a suicide attack in Syria last year.
LBCI said the attack targeted the Crac des Chevaliers citadel in Homs province.
The General Security reportedly began monitoring the terrorist cell that was busted in Duroy Hotel in Beirut's Raouche area a week before raiding it.
According to As Safir, the General Security investigations proved the group had links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL).
On Wednesday afternoon, a Saudi man went kaboom! at the Hotel Duroy as security forces stormed his room, killing himself and wounding several others.
An accomplice of the suicide bomber who was also in the room survived the blast but was severely injured. A third person is on the run.
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[Ynet] Washington Institute survey finds that while most Paleostinians want to 'reclaim all of historic Paleostine', they do not support violent measures to achieve their goal.
Some 60 percent of Paleostinians reject the idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict, according to a new poll, and instead support a five-year plan to "work toward reclaiming all of historic Paleostine, from the river to the sea." However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... a clear majority do not support the use of violence to achieve their goals.
The survey, commissioned by The Washington Institute, found that only 31 percent of Paleostinians in the West Bank and 22 percent of those in Gazoo supported a two-state solution. Nonetheless, just 11 percent of West Bankers and 8 percent of Gazooks would be in favor of a one-state solution, in which Jews and Arabs "have equal rights in one country, from the river to the sea."
Similarly, the survey found, only one third of Paleostinians believe that the two-state solution "should be the end of the conflict," while almost two-thirds said "resistance should continue until all of historic Paleostine is liberated."
Only one third accepted that Paleostinians may have to "give up some of our claims so that our people and our children can have a better life."
Nonetheless, most Paleostinians — and those in Gazoo in particular — do not support a return to violence to achieve their goals, the survey found. Fifty-six percent of West Bank respondents and 70 percent of those in Gazoo agreed that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, "should maintain a ceasefire with Israel in both Gazoo and the West Bank". Furthermore, more Gazooks (57 percent) than West Bankers (50 percent) said that Hamas should accept Abbas' position that the new Paleostinian unity government must renounce violence against Israel.
But a majority of the respondents did back non-violent protests to achieve their objectives, with 62 percent of those in the West Bank and 73 percent of those in Gazoo supporting action such as demonstrations and strikes.
Furthermore, settlement construction and Jerusalem were deemed less important in terms of advancing peace than the release of prisoners in Israelis jails, with 45 percent of respondents citing freeing prisoners as the one step Israel could take "to convince Paleostinians that it really wants peace". Just 19.7 percent cited a settlement freeze and 17.3 percent listed the division of Jerusalem as the key issue in this instance.
[Iraq Sun] At least 19 people were killed and 41 were wounded in a bomb explosion in the Iraqi capital Thusday, a police source said.
A suicide bomber blew up himself at a popular market in a Shiite-majority of Kadhimiyah area, north of Baghdad, leaving 19 people dead and 41 others injured, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Iraq is witnessing some of its worst violence in recent years.
According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, a total of 8,868 Iraqis, including 7,818 civilians and civilian police personnel, were killed in 2013, the highest annual death toll in years.
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[AnNahar] Suspected Al-Qaeda gunnies stormed and briefly seized an airport in Yemen's southeastern Hadramawt province Thursday, just as a civilian airliner was landing, but the airfield was retaken by the army, officials said.
Three soldiers were killed in the attack on Sayun airport, while another five died in a simultaneous suicide kaboom at a nearby military headquarters, the officials said.
Troops retook the airport, killing six gunnies and freeing hostages taken seized from the control tower, a security official said.
Four gunnies were captured, and others fled.
Attackers bumped off the three soldiers at the entrance to the airport, which is also used by the air force, before capturing parts of the facility, including the control tower, a security official said.
The assault took place as a Yemen Airways plane landed, a military official said.
Troops scrambled armored vehicles to confront the gunnies and evacuate the flight's passengers in army buses through the northern gate of the airport, the official said.
Sayun is the main town in the Hadramawt valley, a jihadist stronghold in the province's interior.
Hadramawt's rugged terrain provides hideouts for gunnies of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, considered by Washington as the jihadist network's most dangerous affiliate.
On May 24, gunnies launched a massive pre-dawn assault on Sayun, in which they attacked police and army bases and public buildings with jacket wallahs, rocket-launchers and heavy machineguns.
Before withdrawing, they also ransacked the main post office and two banks.
Scores of gunnies and 15 soldiers and police were killed.
President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi fired Sayun army commander General Mohammed Somali over that attack, replacing him with one of his own loyalists, General Ahmed Ali Hadi.
He had ordered security forces on high alert nationwide, including in the capital, after the army launched a ground offensive against Al-Qaeda in late April in two southern provinces further west -- Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... and Shabwa.
The operation aims to expel the gunnies from smaller towns and villages in the two provinces that escaped a previous sweep in 2012.
Hadi has vowed to press the offensive until jihadists are eradicated from all of Yemen's territory.
Taking advantage of a collapse of central authority during a 2011 uprising that forced Hadi's predecessor, veteran strongman President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , from power, Al-Qaeda seized swathes of the south and east.
Although government forces have captured several major towns, analysts say the army's gains may have been the result of a tactical retreat by Al-Qaeda in coordination with Yemen's powerful tribes.
The army says 500 Al-Qaeda gunnies have been killed in its latest operation, while 40 soldiers have died.
Al-Qaeda has launched a spate of spectacular attacks on army headquarters around the country in recent months.
In December, it assaulted the defense ministry in the heart of the capital, killing 56 people.
An April attack on army headquarters in the main southern city of Aden left at least 20 people dead.
AQAP has also been targeted in an intensifying drone war this year.
The United States is the only country operating drones over Yemen, but U.S. officials rarely acknowledge the covert operations.
Around 60 suspected jihadists were killed in a wave of strikes against AQAP bases and training camps in mid-April.
The drone program has been defended by both the White House and Hadi, but has been sharply criticized by human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... groups for its civilian toll.
[AnNahar] A quantity of ammunition was seized on Thursday as army troops raided the house of a runaway in the town of Fneideq in northern Akkar.
"An army force raided the house of Ali Mohammed Kanaan in Fneideq," the military institution said in a communique.
Kanaan is wanted on several arrest warrants and was not found in the house during the raid, the statement elaborated.
"Forty-two dynamite sticks and 34 120-millimeter and 80-millimeter mortar shells, 14 propellant charges for the mortar shells, and 36 stun grenades were seized during the raid," the army revealed.
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How about we send the $500 rocks to Israel for whatever, and let the muzzies practice scorched earth upon one-another? Why should taxpayers fund weapons and training that will only come back against us at a later date?
Re: "The man is like an elephant..." I believe more like Kelly Bundy. As you may recall, she could only learn something if she forgot something else.
To be Zero, the chiefest criterion
(after being an "out" vegetarian)
Is when vexed by events
To not try to make sense
But to make like a split-head planarian.
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A mighty diverse thing, the Hydra!
It don't ever have to decidra,
For it has, when confused,
Far more heads it can use;
If you dis even one, woe betide ya!
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I got it a secret plan for the sub basement crew- Get the military and actors from operation Dumbo Drop to round up monkeys in Africa and get that Darpa Bitch to implant them with radio shack chips teach them the gypo jig get them some tan round hats slap an American flag on them and blam killer sand ninjas! I can do it for 350 million !
At least five people have been killed in a new attack on Kenya’s coast, officials said Tuesday, one week after some 60 people died in twin massacres nearby. The attack took place overnight on a small village near the town of Witu, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) on the mainland west of the tourist island of Lamu.
“There is another attack where five people were killed,” a police officer in Lamu said on condition on not being killed anonymity.
Lamu County Commissioner Stephen Ikua confirmed there had been a new “unfortunate attack”, the third in the area this month, but said he could not confirm casualties.
“We have sent our officers to the ground to get more details,” Ikua said.
Attacks last week on the nearby coastal Mpeketoni district left at least 60 dead and were claimed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents, though President Uhuru Kenyatta blamed “well-planned, orchestrated and politically motivated ethnic violence” carried out by “local political networks”.
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[AnNahar] Human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis was rubbed out by unknown assailants at her home in the restive east Libyan city of Benghazi late Wednesday, hospital and security sources said.
"Unknown hooded men wearing military uniforms attacked Mrs Bugaighis in her home and opened fire on her," said a security official, who did not wish to be named.
She was shot several times and taken to hospital at death's door, where she died shortly afterwards, a front man for the Benghazi medical center said.
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I am certain options such as a kitchen knife bayonet and maple syrup bottle attack were well considered prior to Mr. Williams going kinetic. 
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[Iraq Sun] As Iraq's Sunni 
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[AnNahar The price of global crude dipped under $114 Thursday as fears diminished somewhat over supply disruptions from Iraq while U.S. oil extended gains on looser U.S. export controls.
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[Iraq Sun] Iraq plunged deeper into crisis as Syrian army aircraft bombed Sunni
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[JerusalemCenterForPublicAffairs] o Immediately after ISIS emerged in Syria, sources in the Syrian opposition said, "We are familiar with the commanders of ISIS. Once they belonged to Assad's intelligence, and now they are operating on his behalf under the name of ISIS."
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[DAWN] Announcing an 'all-party conference' on the Model Town incident on Sunday, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has backtracked from his earlier stance of forming a political alliance against the government.
[Iraq Sun] Four teams of US special operations forces have arrived in Iraq to aid the Iraqi government in combating the raging battle with the rapidly advancing jihadist 
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: The Tariq Geedar group of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) was behind the gun attack on a Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) flight in 
[Iraq Sun] At least 19 people were killed and 41 were wounded in a bomb explosion in the Iraqi capital Thusday, a police source said.
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