[Cracked] The program ran fine for a few months (the aforementioned 10 million cycles), but after that, it took the pipeline's pumps and compressors aside and told them, "Today is the day that we run a pressure test at dangerously high levels." After careful calculations, the CIA expected the pipeline to merely spring leaks all the way across Siberia. Clearly, they overestimated Soviet engineering. Heh.
[AnNahar] Jihadists who have joined the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group claimed Thursday the 2013 murder of two secular politicians that plunged Tunisia into crisis, warning of more killings just days before a presidential runoff election.
"Yes, tyrants, we're the ones who killed Chokri Belaid and Mohammed Brahmi," Abou Mouqatel, a dual French national wanted for their murders, said in a video released on the Internet.
It was not clear where the video was filmed, but Abou Mouqatel claimed they were in an area under the control of IS, which has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq.
"We are going to come back and kill several of you. You will not have a quiet life until Tunisia implements Islamic law," added the Lion of Islam, whose real name is Boubakr al-Hakim.
Abou Mouqatel appeared along with three other Lion of Islams, all of them dressed in combat uniform and carrying arms, with black jihadist banners waving behind them.
"Our message to the tyrants of Tunisia and to their soldiers is this -- between us there will (only) be weapons."
Interior ministry front man Mohammed Ali Aroui responded by saying "Tunisians are stronger than these terrorists. They mean nothing to us."
Abou Mouqatel, born in Gay Paree in 1983, is considered to be one of the key people organizing the flow of foreign jihadists to Iraq, where he himself has traveled to fight.
He was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! in La Belle France for seven years in 2008, but given early release in 2011.
The authorities in Tunis estimate that as many as 3,000 Tunisians have gone to Iraq and Syria to fight with jihadist groups including IS, and have expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that some will return to carry out attacks at home.
Belaid, a fierce critic of the moderate Islamist party Ennahda then in power, was murdered in February 2013, and Brahimi, another opponent of the Islamists, in July of the same year.
The attacks, which had not been previously claimed, were blamed by the authorities on the jihadist Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... group.
The killing of Belaid triggered deadly protests and a political crisis that brought down Islamist prime minister Hamadi Jebali.
Brahmi's murder intensified the crisis, and threatened to derail Tunisia's post-Arab Spring transition until a compromise government was formed in January this year.
On Sunday, Tunisians vote in the second round of a presidential election, capping off four years of a sometimes chaotic transition since the 2011 of longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Incumbent Moncef Marzouki faces political veteran Beji Caid Essebsi in the vote -- the first time Tunisians will be allowed to freely elect their president since independence from La Belle France in 1956.
The first round, on November 23, saw Essebsi, an 88-year-old who heads the anti-Islamist Nidaa Tounes party, take 39 percent of the vote.
In the video posted Thursday, jihadist Abou Mossaab called on Tunisians to boycott the polls, saying the authorities "are turning you into infidels with these elections".
The government, which has been on alert since October, will be deploying tens of thousands of troops and police to guarantee security during the vote.
Shafik Sarsar, head of Tunisia's electoral commission, recognized Thursday that there were "possible and probable dangers," but added that this "should not change the atmosphere of the elections."
In addition to the jihadist threat, major challenges remain for Tunisia.
The North African nation's economy is struggling to recover from the upheaval of the revolution and there are fears that widespread joblessness will cause social unrest.
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Although they are sociopaths, they are admirably honest about their desires for mass murder. I think we can all count on them accomplish their promised murders as well as penetrating some genious rapes as well as some miscellaneous gross acts of barbarous cruelty along the way. I suggest we seek to blow their brains out at earliest convenience. Seems the best outcome for all concerned.
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[Ynet] Yemen's parliament has approved a new government with a comfortable majority following months of violence.
The 301-seat chamber's vote on Thursday came two days after loyalists of ousted president 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... derailed a vote of confidence during a raucous session.
The legislature did not release a breakdown of the vote, but more than 200 politicians were present and the vote by show of hands suggested a large majority approved the 36-member government.
Yemen has been gripped by a power struggle between President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and Iranian catspaws, known as Houthis, who seized control of the capital Sanaa in September and are allied with Saleh loyalists.
The Houthis had pressed Hadi to form a new government that would give them more say in the country's political affairs.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sydney siege gunman's body remains unclaimed in the morgue, The Daily Telegraph reported, as Moslem leaders express anger and refusal to take the body.
According to Agence La Belle France-Presse, Iranian-born Man Haron Monis, a self-styled Islamic holy man, took 17 people hostage at a cafe in the heart of the city's financial district. The 50-year-old was killed along with two victims - the cafe's manager, 34, and a 38-year-old mother-of-three - in a bloody end to the standoff.
"His body will be released before Christmas," stated The Daily Telegraph. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... no one has claimed it yet. Amin Sayed, funeral director with the Lebanese Moslem ¬Association. Said: "No Moslem funeral home would accept the body of terrorist Man Haron Monis and authorities should just dump his corpse at sea or "chuck him in the bloody ****house""
The newspaper approached several Islamic groups around the state, who all refused to bury the body.
Sayed called Monis an "animal" and added: "Even if you paid us $3 million we would not do his funeral."
A Moslem leader in Australia, Keysar Trad, said that the imam of the Lakemba mosque "doesn't want a bar of him" but added that no Moslem can be denied a holy funeral unless they renounce their faith prior to death.
Known to authorities for his holy warrior views, Monis was on bail at the time of the siege for various charges, including sexual offences and abetting the murder of his ex-wife.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has ordered an urgent enquiry amid mounting criticism that authorities failed to protect the public, with the backlash extending to the magistrate who released Monis and lawyers who represented him.
"To make death threats as has been done against members of the profession for doing a job is really an unfortunate reaction," New South Wales Bar Association president Jane Needham told ABC radio.
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[Ynet] Dutch prosecutors said on Thursday they will pursue charges against anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders for remarks made about Moroccans during election campaigning.
A prosecution statement said Wilders, whose party is leading opinion polls in the Netherlands, will face charges of "insulting a specific group based on race and inciting discrimination and hatred."
The case centers on comments the populist, famous for his trademark peroxide blond hair, made at a March 19 rally after local elections.
He asked his supporters whether they wanted “fewer or more Moroccans in your city and in the Netherlands?”
When the crowd shouted “Fewer! Fewer!” a smiling Wilders answered: “We’re going to organize that.”
The remark led to 6,400 legal complaints being lodged across the Netherlands, and criticism was even voiced within Wilders’s own Party for Freedom (PVV).
[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mouloud Jawish Ihsanoglu announced that, Turkey seized 80 million liters of oil coming from the wells controlled by the organization of the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
IraqiNews.com quoted Ihsanoglu on the sidelines of the first official visit to Tehran as saying, ?Since the beginning of this year, Turkey confiscated 80 million liters of oil coming from the wells controlled by ISIS.?
Ihsanoglu denied the news about Turkey?s buying portion of oil sold by ISIS, adding that the Turkish authorities discovered and destroyed many of the oil pipeline built by the terrorist organization ISIS.
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[DAWN] "We have killed all the children in the auditorium," one of the attackers told his handler. "What do we do now?" he asked. "Wait for the army people, kill them before blowing yourself," his handler ordered.
This, according to a security official, was one of the last conversations the attackers and their handler had shortly before two remaining jacket wallahs charged towards the special operations soldiers positioned just outside the side entrance of the Army Public School's administration block here on Tuesday.
This and other conversations between the attackers and their handlers during the entire siege of seven and a half hours of the school on Warsak Road form part of an intelligence dossier Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif shared with Afghan authorities on Wednesday.
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Interesting how they enact a charnal house scene that any sane civilized person would describe as hellish ... yet their expectation is that they are raping and exploding themselves into paradise. Perhaps, once they arrive in hades they will all high five each other for having arrived at their own version of heaven.
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Once you dig through the arcane politics of Pakistain, you will probably find an ISI connection and several of the young students were from families of prominent opposition leaders or people ISI viewed as a threat.
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[Ynet] America will oppose draft submitted by Jordan calling for end Israeli presence in West Bank by 2017.
They were always going to, but first they had to drag the Israelis through minor hell, to help them know their place. More at the link for those who want the details.
[AnNahar] emergency aid and longer-term help to nearly 18 million people in Syria and across the region hit by the drawn-out conflict.
For the first time, the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... ' appeal includes funding for life-saving food, shelter and other humanitarian aid as well as development support, as the bloody war in Syria heads towards a fifth year.
U.N. agencies said at its launch in Berlin that $2.9 billion (2.4 billion euros) was needed to help 12.2 million people inside Syria in 2015.
A further $5.5 billion is eyed for Syrians who have sought refuge in neighboring countries and more than a million people in host communities, it said.
The Berlin appeal for Syria is slightly higher than an indicative amount announced in Geneva earlier this month, which did not include funding needs of neighboring countries.
The U.N. is planning for up to 4.3 million refugees in countries neighboring Syria by the end of 2015, it added.
"For those that think that this is a lot of money, I don't remember any bailout of any medium-sized bank that has cost less than this," U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres told news hounds.
He warned that refugees and people displaced inside Syria had exhausted their savings and that host countries were at "breaking point".
United Nations humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Syria had slumped from a middle income country to struggling with widespread poverty.
"People affected by conflict need food, shelter, water, medicine and protection. But they also need support in rebuilding their livelihoods, maintaining education and health services and rebuilding fragmented communities.
"The conflict in Syria is not only destroying people's lives today but will continue to erode their capacity to cope far into the future if we don't take a more holistic approach now," Amos, U.N. under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, said.
Germany hosted an international conference on the Syrian refugee crisis in October which vowed to extend long-term financial aid to countries such as Leb and Jordan struggling under the influx of millions of Syrian refugees.
"The humanitarian crisis in Syria and the neighboring countries poses a threat to the stability of the whole region," Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday.
"This is a call to the solidarity of all nations, and my country is willing to do its part," he added.
More than 200,000 people have been killed in the Syria conflict, which erupted in March 2011.
[AnNahar] The U.N. warned Thursday it was running out of funds to house families in Gazoo, as it doubled its estimate of the number of homes damaged or destroyed in this summer's war with Israel.
"Unless the situation changes urgently, we will run out of funds in January, meaning we will not be able to provide rental subsidies to many affected families nor provide the support required to carry out repairs," said Robert Turner, the operations director for the UNRWA Paleostinian refugee agency.
He said more than 96,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in the 50-day war, more than twice the U.N.'s original estimate.
Based on satellite imagery and preliminary field work immediately after the war, "we estimated about 42,000 refugee family shelters had been affected by the war," he said.
"We now know that over 96,000 homes were damaged or destroyed."
Turner said more than 7,000 homes were completely lost, affecting some 10,000 families. An additional 89,000 homes were damaged, about 10,000 of them severely.
UNRWA has estimated $720 million (585 million euros) will be needed to provide rental subsidies to families with no alternative shelter, to rebuild destroyed homes and repair damaged ones.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... only some $100 million has been pledged.
Without additional funds, "tens of thousands of refugee families will find themselves with inadequate shelter and no support during the hardest months of winter," Turner said.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-led Gazoo holy warriors, which ended on August 26, killed nearly 2,200 Paleostinians, most of them civilians, and 73 people on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers.
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Every Islamic uprising all the way to Pakistan is slaughtering innocent civilians like poultry farmers with a contract for McNuggets. The Palestinians mostly kill soldiers, though.
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Not for lack of trying to kill Israeli children and they even tried to a suicide bombing agaisnt a maternity.
We have been feeding spending money on feeding well fed people for sixty six years all while people in Africa were starving. For sixty six fricking yeare these well fed people have diverted our money to warfare and terrorism then came asking for more "because they couldn't feed themselves" and we gave it to them all while in Africa there were people starving. For sixty fricking years each time these well fed people perpetrated an atrocity that brought them a retaliation we pay the rebuilding of what their enemy had destroyed all while people in Africa were starving.
Enough is enough. Not a single cent for the Paledso!!! Let's force the Palestians to refund every single penny since 1948!!! et's the Saudis pay the bill since they are so fond of them!!!
[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, the governor of Salahuddin province, Raed Ibrahim al-Jubouri denied the control of ISIS elements on Baiji, emphasizing that the army aviation has inflicted great losses on the organization.
Jubouri said in a statement for a number of media platforms, including IraqiNews.com, ?The news reported in some media on restoring Baiji (40 km north of Tikrit) by the organization ISIS is not correct.?
Jubouri said, ?The army aviation has inflicted great losses upon the ISIS organization by air strikes targeted its elements northern of the district?, noting that, ?The security forces regained control over the areas of the district.?
Local and foreign media mentioned earlier that ISIS had regained control over parts of the Baiji (40 km north of Tikrit), while confirmed that regular Iraqi forces retreated after running out of its weapons and equipment.
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[IraqiNews.com] On Thursday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi stated for the press, that the provinces of al-Anbar and Nineveh are the last strongholds of the ISIS group murderous Moslems in Iraq.
In a joint presser with his Jordanian counterpart Abdullah al-Nasour, al-Abadi told the press, ?Iraqi security forces are working to secure the border area with the Hashemite Kingdom from its western part in al-Anbar province.?
?We presently seek to set up joint ventures between the two countries,?
?The provinces of al-Anbar and Nineveh are together the last strongholds of the ISIS group in Iraq. In the last period of time, the security forces managed to make noticeable achievements in a number of unstable provinces,? Abadi added.
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[AnNahar] Iraq can delay payment of a final $4.6 billion in war reparations for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait because of the difficulties it faces in battling the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... insurgency, the U.N. said Thursday.
After holding a special session in Geneva, the governing body of the U.N. Compensation Commission (UNCC), which is handling the reparations, said "extraordinarily difficult security circumstances" in Iraq had presented "unusual budgetary challenges".
It was the first time Iraq has asked for a postponement in payments -- collected as a levy on oil revenues -- since the scheme was set up in 1991, and Kuwait had agreed to the deferral, the commission said.
The payment, owed to the government of Kuwait on behalf of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, relates to oil production and sales losses relating to the damage to oil fields that occurred during the war.
It is the final tranche of $52.4 billion of reparations awarded to 1.5 million successful claimants under the U.N. scheme, and was due to be paid by the end of 2015.
"The decision postpones Iraq's obligation to deposit five percent of oil proceeds and five percent of the value of any non-monetary payments to service providers into the Compensation Fund until January 1, 2016," the UNCC said.
The Iraqi economy has been suffering because of the IS insurgency, with the International Monetary Fund last week predicting a contraction of 0.5 percent this year.
This year's contraction is lower than the 2.7 percent predicted in October, however, with IMF officials attributing the improved outlook to higher oil production.
The U.N. commission had awarded Kuwait Petroleum Corporation a total of $14.7 billion in 2000 for losses during the war, the largest amount granted under the scheme.
Most has been distributed and payments on the final $4.6 million will resume on a quarterly basis in 2016.
"The Governing Council welcomed Iraq's ongoing commitment to paying this outstanding claim in full," the commission added in a statement.
The commission was set up by the U.N. Security Council in 1991, the same year that a US-led coalition drove then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait.
The continued existence of the levy on Iraq oil exports has come in for criticism given that Saddam was ousted in 2003 in another U.S.-led invasion.
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Remember him? He used to own Gazoo, once upon a time...
calls on supporters to intensify protesters against Abbas in Gazoo.
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... is currently fighting not one but two internal battles - the one against the rival Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement in Gazoo with the attempts to reunite the West Bank and the Strip, and the other inside his own Fatah movement against rival Mohammed Dahlan, a former Fatah strongman in Gazoo whom Abbas fired in a power struggle.
Paleostinian media reported on Thursday that Dahlan has asked his supporters in the Gazoo Strip to intensify their campaign against Abbas, asking them to organize marches and rallies against the Paleostinian Authority leader.
On Thursday, Dahlan protesters demonstrated at the Square of the Unknown Soldier in Gazoo City, carrying pro-Dahlan posters and lambasting Abbas for alleged corruption and supposed servility in the face of the continuing Israeli presence in the West Bank.
The rally was approved by Gazoo's murderous Moslem Hamas group - a rival of Fatah - in an apparent effort to keep up the pressure on Abbas in the coastal territory.
Posters depicting Abbas hanged appeared in Gazoo streets on Thursday morning, dubbing him a "traitor" and saying that now is the time to fight the "corruption and tyranny" of Abbas and his allies.
Fatah expelled Dahlan in June 2011 after Abbas accused him of poisoning Yasser Arafat, the founder of the Paleostinian political movement.
Though Dahlan and Abbas share a political agenda, which is based on political negotiations and security coordination with the Israelis, past attempts to reconcile the politicians failed.
On numerous occasions, Fatah has accused Dahlan of orchestrating a coup, and Ahmad Assaf, the party?s chief spokesperson, says he used his position in power for personal gains, namely enriching himself. Therichest.com, a website that catalogues the financial assets of public figures, lists Dahlan's net worth as $120 million.
[Ynet] Jordan's King Abdullah II told tribal chiefs in the country's south that "Daesh (the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ) is far from Jordan's borders.
What an odd thing to say. But no doubt His Majesty had his reasons.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... Jordan is in cooperation with all elements supporting tribes in Iraq and Syria who are fighting the terror organization."
The king added that "Daesh is a cross-border danger, an organization that targets all countries and will not stop in Iraq and Syria."
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[Ynet] Residents of communities near Strip's northern border report hearing loud kabooms and bursts of gunfire; in southern Gazoo, 1 killed and 5 hurt in kaboom at Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, training base.
After increasing rocket testing, holding a military rally during which they launched a drone and leaked classified IDF investigations information online, Hamas held a large-scale training session in the Gazoo Strip overnight Wednesday.
The Hamas military drills were held at a training center in Gazoo that is located on the ruins of evacuated Israeli settlement Dugit.
Residents of Israeli communities north of the Strip heard kabooms and heavy machine-gun fire from midnight to the early morning hours Thursday. This is the first time Hamas is holding a training session of this caliber in the late hours of the night.
Hamas fighters also trained in the south of the Strip. Paleostinian sources reported one person was killed and five others injured in an kaboom that occurred at a Hamas training base west of Rafah.
"We heard crazy bursts of gunfire and kabooms," one of the residents of the Gazoo border communities said. "It's not the first time we hear them training, but this time it was much more intense. Judging by the noise, they were firing bursts from heavy weaponry. It was really close. I woke up several times because of it. It felt like they were training just under our homes."
Residents of the Gazoo border communities are concerned over Hamas' increased military activity recently - the late-night training sessions, rocket firing towards the sea for testing, and the big military rally held earlier this week.
"They are starting to regain their strength after Operation Protective Edge and that's very concerning. On the one hand, I have a hard time understanding how we allow them to do such things, and on the other hand I ask myself if we could even prevent it. It's a very serious problem that has no clear solution. The only thing that's clear is that the next round of fighting is already around the corner," he said.
Earlier this week, Hamas held a massive military rally in the Gazoo Strip to celebrate 27 years to its establishment. The rally included different units from Hamas' military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigafes, including the rocket unit and the naval commandos. Different weaponry was on display, including rockets, missiles and even a drone. Following the appearance of the drone, the IAF raised the level of alert in the area.
[Ynet] Economic boycott faltering due to lack of substitutes of Israeli products, and the dissipation of some of the anger toward Israel over the Gazoo summer war.
WEST BANK ? A Paleostinian official has admitted that the Paleostinian boycott of goods made in Israel is faltering, both because of a lack of substitutes of Israeli products, and the dissipation of some of the anger toward Israel over last summer?s fighting with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the Gazoo Strip that left more than 2,200 Paleostinians dead.
The boycott is part of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, which aims to make Israel pay an economic price for its continued control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and its blockade of the Gazoo Strip.
?There has been a decline in the boycott on some items ? most of the Israeli food products are still being boycotted, but the main problem is fruits and vegetables,? PLO Executive Committee member and BDS advocate Mustafa Bargouti told The Media Line. ?The boycott reached its peak during the war,? he added.
An Israeli government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed that the Paleostinian boycott was having an effect on his country last summer.
?There were some days in specific areas where Israeli products were not purchased. These cases during Operation Protective Edge were caused and motivated by Paleostinian business entities that had an economic interest in reducing the volume of the import from Israel,? the official told The Media Line.
At the same time, Coordination for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) has told The Media Line that following the Israeli-Hamas conflict, the numbers of trucks carrying Israeli products that entered the West Bank this year, 22,810 were fewer than in 2013 when the total reached 23,945.
This could be the reason why Bargouti, also the President of the Paleostinian National Initiative (Al Mubadara), still classifies the boycott as ?successful.?
However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the Israeli government official denied that the Paleostinian boycott is having a real effect on the Israeli economy.
?The export of Israeli products to the Paleostinian Authority areas continues normally,? he said.
Paleostinian economists say it is hard to find accurate statistics on how much Israel has been affected by the Paleostinian boycott, but they agree that enthusiasm for boycotting Israeli goods is declining on the Paleostinian street.
"If the boycott of Israeli goods reached its peak during the war on Gazoo, and was at 80 percent, now it is no more than 20-30 percent," Birzeit University professor Nasr Abdelkarim told The Media Line.
He said items such as water, gas, oil, electricity, were impossible to boycott. Total imports from Israel are $4.5 billion annually. He says $3.5 billion are things like electricity and water that the Paleostinians do not have the resources to produce themselves, leaving $1 billion of goods that could be boycotted.
[AnNahar] The deputy leader of Jordan's Moslem Brüderbund went on trial Thursday after he criticized the United Arab Emirates for placing his group on a list of "terrorist organizations".
Zaki Bani Rsheid, who appeared in a blue prison jumpsuit at Amman's state security court, denounced his arrest and trial in a military tribunal as unconstitutional.
"I reject this trial and my presence here before the state security court. This court does not have the jurisdiction to look into my case," Rsheid told the judge from the dock.
Rsheid was tossed in the slammer Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! last month and accused of "acts that could harm Jordan's relation with a brotherly state" after he criticized the UAE for blacklisting more than 80 Islamist groups.
In comments published on his Facebook page, Rsheid described the UAE as "the prime godfather of terrorism" and accused the energy-rich Gulf state of serving U.S. and Israeli interests in the region.
Rsheid and his legal team insisted that the accusation against him falls under the jurisdiction of a civilian court, not the state security court.
But the state prosecutor said that any act that undermines Jordan's relations with another country falls under the country's anti-terrorism law.
Jordan is a close ally of the UAE and both are part of the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group that currently controls swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.
Organizations blacklisted by the UAE include Al-Qaeda, IS, Yemen's Shiite Huthi militia and the Moslem Brüderbund -- which was formed in Egypt and has branches across the region.
The Jordanian branch of the Moslem Brüderbund is the main opposition force in the kingdom and has wide grassroots support.
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[Ynet] Alleged Israeli agent named; purported to have passed information on all planned foreign attacks over several years, helping to foil plots and assassinate leaders.
The purported Mossad agent recently caught by Hezbollah was named Thursday as Mohammed Shurba from the Natbiyeh area in south Leb by an al-Jazeera news hound.
Sources told the network he was locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! last month and had acted as the chief of the unit in charge of foreign operations. He was promoted to the position in 2008, after the liquidation of Imad Mughniyah, then head of Hezbollah's operations unit, in Damascus, which Hezbollah blamed on Israel.
According to the report, which has not been substantiated by additional sources, the investigation of Shurba revealed that he initiated contact with Mossad and offered his cooperation. Shurba allegedly provided valuable information on all of Hezbollah's foreign activities to Israeli intelligence over a period of years.
The report repeated assertions that his information helped capture a large number of the group's operatives in several countries, most recently in Peru.
Hezbollah announced the discovery of the alleged spy on Tuesday, although the arrest apparently came weeks ago.
Shurba was purpotedly entrusted with a wide range of responsibilities, Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai said Wednesday ? at one point even overseeing Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah's security detail.
Hezbollah ousted senior members following the discovery, said the newspaper, and boasted that they were "rid of the bacteria" after the arrest.
The Lebanese news site Elnashra said Shurba worked as a businessman and "frequently travelled abroad for work."
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I'm sure they got their man because when your operation is penetrated to its highest level there is always just one operative who just got really lucky. No, you let him penetrate your organization because you are highly competent. It's part of the deeper strategy you are playing.
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Sounds like the days when any KKK meeting had a majority from the FBI undercover.
[Ynet] Iran's military will hold a massive drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Persian Gulf next week, state TV reported Thursday.
The week-long exercise will be carried out over 2.2 million square kilometers (0.85 million square miles) including the eastern part of the passage, through which one fifth of the world oil supply passes.
The drill will begin December 25 and include Iranian navy, air force, ground units and the elite Revolutionary Guard, with the troops test-firing new weapons.
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Too bad the ISIS thing is going on. Those exercises are the best time to really get a bead on the clowns. Most other times it's hard to figure out what the actually have. Much easier to count it all up while their moving them altogethe in an act that would vaguely threatening to us if we had a really crappy military armed with flintlock muskets.
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Iran tapping on the microphone in hopes of finding a bottom for the oil market?
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So let's say they do close they Strait of Hormuz (remember the US battle group, the USS Ponce with the laser weapon, etc). This adds how much to the price of a barrel of oil? (Bear in mind Iran's loading terminals would be mostly shut in as well.)
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[IraqiNews.com] The commander of the combined joint force in the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, U.S. Army Let. Gen. James Terry said, that the fight against the group will take at least three years to achieve a turning point.
Terry said, that the first U.S. air strikes had taken place about four months ago, asserting that, it would take a minimum of three years to achieve a turning point against ‘Daesh,’ which is the Arabic acronym for the ISIS group.
Deash also sounds like the Arabic word for “Crush.” Terry has explained why he used the Arabic term ‘Daesh,’ saying, “Our partners, at least the ones that I work with, ask us to use that because they feel that if you use ISIL that you legitimize a self-declared caliphate, and actually they feel pretty strongly that we should not be doing that.”
Naw, don't want to offend the locals with profanity.
Maybe we just call them stupid....in Arabic that's a bad bad way to start an argument.
Hey Stupid!! You over there yeah you the one with the black scarf around your face...
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Is the Arabic word for soiled diaper anywhere close? Just name them less and kill them more. You can decide what to call them for the history books once you have composted them and the Talibunnies.
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This is a war that's been going on for 1400 years (+/-) General.
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