[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. met with some of the Afghan politicians amid rumors that the President has warned to dissolve the parliament.
The Office of the President, ARG Palace, said President Ghani met with the administrative delegation and heads of the parliamentary commissions as part of the routine meetings with the members of the parliament.
According to a statement by ARG Palace, President Ghani discussed regarding the security and economic issues with the parliamentary delegation and commission heads.
Calling the consultations of the parliament members regarding the issues of the country as vital, President Ghani said the government will continue to seek advises from the politicians regarding the state affairs.
President Ghani further added that the fight against corruption will become widespread as he thanked the parliament and the Afghan nation for their support and emphasized on continuation of such support in the future.
He said the government respects the authorities the Lower House of the Parliament is having and the three organs of the government are interconnected with each other as per the constitution and cooperation among the organs is vital for the stability and future of the country.
The Lower House of the Parliament Speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi thanked the government for the establishment of the coordination among the government organs and said the Lower House is committed to support the government’s national and development programs.
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[AlAhram] An Egypt misdemeanour court handed on Sunday jail sentences to 56 people over a 2016 migrant boat capsizing disaster off Egypt's Mediterranean coast that left around 200 people dead.
A Rosetta court in the northern Beheira province handed sentences ranging from two to 13 years to the convicted and acquitted one woman.
The convicted were found guilty of manslaughter, negligence, endangering lives, using a vessel without a license and not using adequate rescue equipment.
The defendants can still appeal their sentences.
The migrant boat, which was carrying several hundred migrants colonists of different nationalities, sailed from Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Rosetta and was heading to Italia before it capsized 12 kilometres off the Egyptian coast. The accident was one of the deadliest incidents involving migrants colonists attempting a journey to Europe for better opportunities and living standards.
In recent years, thousands of migrants colonists and refugees from a variety of countries have attempted to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe, with an increasing number departing via smugglers' boats from Egypt's northern coast.
In November, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified a law aimed at curbing irregular migration and cracking down on human smuggling. While the legislation does not punish the migrants colonists themselves, it imposes jail terms on those convicted of smuggling migrants colonists or acting as brokers or controllers.
North Korea has doubled the size of a facility for enriching uranium in recent years, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
Yukiya Amano said the North is "rapidly advancing its capacity to produce nuclear weapons on two fronts: the production of plutonium at its Yongbyon nuclear facility and the enrichment of uranium. The situation is very bad... It has gone into a new phase."
Since IAEA inspectors were expelled in 2009, the IAEA has kept monitoring the pace of the regime's nuclear development based on satellite images of its nuclear facilities and other information. Analysis of satellite images led to the conclusion that the size of the Yongbyon nuclear facility, which is also believed to be used to enrich uranium, has doubled since 2009.
"All of the indications point to the fact that North Korea is making progress, as they declared," Amano added.
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[IsraelTimes] Iran’s central bank says Sunday it will appeal Luxembourg’s decision to freeze $1.6 billion of its assets, which the US is claiming as compensation for victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The bank also says it will take steps to curb its remaining transactions in dollars, which it still receives particularly for oil sales.
In response to fresh US sanctions announced since last month, "Iran has sought to limit its dependence on the dollar... this policy will continue," the bank says in a statement published by state media.
A Luxembourg court last week denied Tehran’s request to retrieve the $1.6 billion frozen in the country during an earlier raft of sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear program.
US lawyers are hoping to seize the money to pay off the families and estates of victims from the 2001 attacks, after a New York judge ruled Iran was partially responsible because it allowed al-Qaeda members to travel through its territory.
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[AnNahar] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... summoned the Swiss ambassador on Sunday to protest at a Kurdish rally in Bern which Ankara dubbed a "terrorist gathering", a diplomatic source said.
"Walter Haffner has been summoned to our (foreign) ministry where he has been made aware of our displeasure... The ambassador has been told those responsible must face justice," the source said.
Several thousand people attended Saturday's rally called by Kurdish associations and Swiss political parties in Bern.
Ankara believes the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Turkey dubs a terrorist group, was behind the rally where some people brandished a banner showing a gun pointing at President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... 's head alongside the words "Kill Erdogan".
Erdogan criticized the Swiss for hosting the event, warning that "you will reap what you have sown."
The Turkish leader has been angered by the refusal of several European states to allow Turkish ministers to campaign on the continent for a 'yes' vote in next month's referendum on expanding his powers.
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Awwwww pawr liitle Sultan Ergodan was affronted that a sovereign country did whstever the hell it linked in its bordrrs.
Dude ya don't lecture us about a terrorist whatever whrn your govt is tbe biggedt tertorist gathering
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Police in Germany knew Anis Amri was planning a suicide kaboom nine months before he drove a lorry into a packed Christmas market in Berlin last December, killing 12 people, it has emerged.
The German equivalent of CID warned in a confidential memo to regional authorities last March, that it has intercepted communications indicating Amri was planning a suicide attack, and recommended he be deported.
But the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia ruled that an order to expel him was not legally enforcable.
Change the law, you idiots, or look back on the conquest you enabled.
The new disclosures will add to questions over why Amri was allowed to remain in Germany and move freely around the country even though he was known to be a threat.
Not just him, but the many others who for years have been expelled on paper only.
They come after Uwe Jacob, head of the North Rhine-Westphalia Landeskriminalamt, the regional CID, admitted him and his staff suspected Amri was behind the Berlin attack the moment they heard of it.
"Our immediate reaction was please don’t let it be Amri," Mr Jacob told a parliamentary inquiry on Friday.
Bild am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday published excerpts from an eight-page memo in which Mr Jacob’s office detailed the evidence Amri could be planning a suicide attack.
It included an intercepted internet chat in which Amri told a contact he wanted to marry a "sister" in Germany, which the memo states is a known code for suicide attacks among jihadists.
When his contact did not understand, Amri used the term "Dougma", another code for suicide attacks.
The memo recommends Amri’s immediate deportation, saying this is "proportionate" to the danger.
But at the time Amri’s application for asylum in Germany was still being considered, and the authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he was registered, ruled he could not be deported.
His claim was eventually rejected in June, but even then attempts to deport him ran into trouble because he had no valid indentity papers and his native Tunisia was disputing his nationality.
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A fine example of why treating terrorism as a criminal matter is a bad idea.
A fresh migration wave with three million migrants is currently in the phase of mobilization from Iran to Turkey, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said March 26.
They should stay there and not move to either Munich or Los Angeles...
“According to information we got, there are around three million unauthorized migrants in Iran and they are in mobilization toward Turkey. Unfortunately, they are mostly Afghans again from the further east of Iran,” Kaynak said in an interview with private broadcaster CNN Türk.
Kaynak also expressed Ankara’s concern over Tehran’s indifference for the migration to Turkey.
“We have such worry that it is like the Iranian state is disregarding their migration toward Turkey, not to say that they are assisting them,” he said.
Kaynak said Turkish authorities also launched proceedings on a total of 30,000 migrants who attempted to illegally cross into the country from the border provinces of Iğdır and Ağrı just in 2016. He also noted that migrants want to come to Turkey to use it as a transit point rather than stay in the country.
Welfare is better in Germany...
“Europe and the world should think about it. They want to come to Turkey as a transit point and they do not want to stay in Turkey. They want to cross into the west and for them, Turkey is an important barrier and is enduring an important cost,” Kaynak said.
Some 3,000 unauthorized migrants came through Iran to Turkey in 2017 to border provinces of Ağrı and Iğır, according to information from security forces and the governors.
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A fresh migration wave with three million migrants
Will Turkey be the first with the backbone to strafe the convoy?
[Breitbart] Both federal judges who issued separate decisions on March 15 revoking President Trump’s travel ban cited a draft Department Homeland Security document leaked to the Associated Press by an unknown person and included in a story published on February 24 as evidence central to their rulings.
The significance of the unofficial leaked draft DHS document upon which these two federal judges relied in making their controversial travel ban decisions is the false information it conveys about the level of risk posed to national security by refugees who commit terrorist acts.
The leaked draft DHS document also makes no mention at all of the significant public health risk, particularly from tuberculosis posed by refugees, a topic on which Breitbart News has reported extensively.
Neither Judge Chuang nor Judge Watson noted that two Somali refugees, Dahir Adan in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and Abul Razak Ali Artan in Columbus, Ohio, committed acts of terror during a two month period in 2016, the first in September 2016 and the second in November 2016, that injured a total of 21 Americans.
The data included in the leaked draft document "is dramatically different than the data reported in another list of terrorists compiled by former Senator, now Attorney General, Jeff Sessions," Breitbart News reported last month.
[DAWN] Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said India plans to seal international borders with Pakistain and Bangladesh soon.
"India is planning to seal the international boundaries with Pakistain and Bangladesh as soon as possible. This could be India’s major step against terrorism and the problem of refugees," Singh said while addressing the passing out parade of the Border Security Force Assistant Commandants at the BSF Academy in Madhya Pradesh’s Tekanpur area.
The home minister assured that the border with Pakistain would be sealed by 2018. The decision has been taken in the wake of an increase in infiltration attempts, he said.
"The project will be periodically monitored by the Home Secretary at the central level, the BSF from the security forces’ perspective and the chief secretaries at the state-level," Singh said, adding that the government would apply technological solutions for sealing the border in difficult terrains.
Lauding the BSF personnel, the home minister stated that the force has changed the rules of engagement at international borders which have made it a known entity in the neighbouring countries.
"The BSF has changed rules of engagement at international borders. Now, the BSF is a known entity even in neighbouring countries," Singh said.
He also spoke about the planning for an effective grievances redressal mechanism in the forces which will be implemented soon.
[Ynet] Pakistain says it has started building a fence along the Afghan border in areas where it says murderous Moslems have launched cross-border attacks on security posts in recent weeks.
Building a fence along the disputed border could further heighten tensions between the two countries, which have long accused each other of turning a blind eye to Islamic murderous Moslems operating along the porous frontier.
Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, the head of Pakistain's armed forces, announced the construction of fencing in "high threat zones" Saturday during a visit to tribal regions along the border, saying it was in the interest of both countries.
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[THEGUARDIAN] Iraqi military leaders have halted their push to recapture west djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from 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.... as international outrage grew over the civilian toll from Arclight airstrikes that killed at least 150 people in a single district of the city.
The attack on the Mosul Jadida neighbourhood is thought to have been one of the deadliest bombing raids for civilians since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Rescuers were still pulling bodies from the rubble on Saturday, more than a week after the bombs landed, when the US-led coalition confirmed that its aircraft had targeted Isis fighters in the area.
They carried out the attack on 17 March "at the request of the Iraqi security forces", and have now launched a formal investigation into reports of civilian casualties, the coalition said.
British planes were among those operating in western Mosul at the time. Asked if they could have been involved in the Arclight airstrikes, a front man did not rule out the possibility of British involvement, saying: "We are aware of reports [of civilian casualties] and will support the coalition investigation."
There had been no reports of a UK role in any civilian casualties in more than two years of fighting Isis, he added. "We have not seen evidence that we have been responsible for civilian casualties so far. Through our rigorous targeting processes we will continue to seek to minimise the risk of civilian casualties, but that risk can never be removed entirely."
A UK report on the 17 March fighting, which was issued just a couple of days later, described "very challenging conditions with heavy cloud". Tornado jets were sent to "support Iraqi troops advancing inside western Mosul" in intense urban fighting, where crews had to "engage targets perilously close to the Iraqi troops whom they were assisting". They used Paveway guided missiles to hit five targets. The coalition said in a separate statement it had carried out four Arclight airstrikes aimed at "three Isis tactical units". They destroyed more than 50 vehicles and 25 "fighting positions".
The deaths have intensified concerns over up to 400,000 Mosul residents who are still packed into the crowded western half of the city, as Iraqi security forces backed by foreign air power advance on Isis’s last major stronghold in the country.
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Apologies -- I misfiled this originally. Moved to Israel.
trailing wife at 2:45 p.m. EDT
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli-American teenager suspected of being behind the recent bomb threats to JCCs and other American Jewish institutions reportedly made more than 1,000 threatening phone calls over the past two years.
The suspect, whose name is being withheld by a gag order, is alleged to have targeted schools and other public institutions in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported Sunday.
Reports said he delivered the threats over a period of two years.
Israeli police only managed to zero in on the suspect after US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... sent a team of 12 FBI agents to Israel in recent weeks, Haaretz reported.
Although the investigation has been ongoing for the past two years, the breakthrough that led to the Thursday arrests of the teen and his father was only reached after FBI Sherlocks arrived in Israel several weeks ago, the daily said, citing police sources.
Trump’s intervention is significant, as he had been heavily criticized for not doing enough to end the threats to Jewish centers and for not emphatically condemning anti-Semitsm.
The report did not specify what the FBI agents managed to do that their local counterparts could not.
The suspect, who lives in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, is refusing to talk to authorities and police have still not managed to access his computers.
While the youth had apparently been making bomb threats for over two years, the urgency in apprehending him increased following a spate of threats to Jewish community centers in the US.
Police sources told Haaretz that that was in part because the suspect would monitor media reports after he’d call in a threat -- to gauge the scale of its impact. If he noticed that it was receiving considerable media attention, he would continue making threats in that same location.
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.Several of the JCCs and Jewish organizations received multiple threats. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... police believe that the number of bomb threats he phoned in was much greater than was known to the public, as many went unreported.
Police are still struggling to uncover exactly what or how he did, as he has not been cooperating with police, citing his health.
Police are currently waiting for the child’s mother to retrieve the proper medical documentation proving his condition.
They have also failed to break into his computers and they say that he had no social media footprint under any name they know.
He reportedly grew careless and failed on at least one occasion to route his internet connection through a proxy, leaving behind a real IP address traced back to Israel.
Police are also working to gather information from the teen’s father, who remains in jug on suspicion that he knew what his son was doing. The dad, a computer expert himself, was likely to have recognized the high-level equipment in his son’s room, yet did not report the matter to authorities.
The suspect’s mother is also expected to be interrogated in the coming days.
*sigh* Same question as before: another kid causing trouble or true malice aforethought? On the other hand, now the FBI and the Israelis know how to find someone doing this the way the last kid did.
[IsraelTimes] A Jewish Community Center in Dallas, Texas, was evacuated due to a threatening call hours after an arrest was made in Israel in connection with dozens of other such threats around the country.
The Aaron Family JCC in North Dallas received the threatening phone call and evacuated the building shortly before 5 p.m. on Thursday. The building remained evacuated for a short time before regular activity there resumed.
The Dallas JCC previously was evacuated in January over a bomb threat, and in early March discovered that an emailed threat went to the center’s spam folder and was only located days later.
Yes, they did, Pappy. But today Ynet has an op-ed which adds the following:
The cooperation between the Israel Police and the FBI was so tight that the American cyber attaché—in addition to the agency's regular representative in Israel—closely accompanied the preparations for the arrest at the Israeli cyber unit last week and the subsequent questioning of the suspect. She was not permitted to be present in the interrogation room, so she remained in a separate room where she received information on the suspect's questioning, suggested lines of inquiry and asked for clarifications.
Talks between Israeli and American representatives have raised the possibility that the young suspect will be extradited to serve his sentence in the United States, as most of the offenses were committed there.
...The political motive is less likely, as the investigation began following threats on schools in New Zealand, which paralyzed the educational system there but had nothing to do with Jewish institutions.
But that plays into President Trump's pro-active non-antisemitism and his correct call about who dunnit, so I don't expect to see it widely reported.
Which they should not have. The competent ones already know that vulnerability and know how to mitigate it, but methods and clues should not have been disclosed.
[IsraelTimes] Killers reportedly lay in wait for hours in Mazen Faqha’s garage, acted so quietly family nearby didn’t know what had happened for hours
The gunnies who killed Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, military leader Mazen Faqha Friday night had broken into his garage, and lain in wait for hours, before carrying out the liquidation, which left no trace but the dead body, a Paleostinian daily reported on Sunday.
According to the report in Al Quds, Faqha, a former prisoner in Israel who oversaw Hamas’s efforts to instigate terror attacks in the West Bank, drove home around 6 p.m., with his wife and daughter in the car.
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I always thought the Paleos should have a travelling circus. Juggle Molotov cocktails, have the ten-year olds jump through burning hoops, and all that. The Euros would love it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
[Breitbart] Both federal judges who issued separate decisions on March 15 revoking President Trump’s travel ban cited a draft Department Homeland Security document leaked to the Associated Press by an unknown person and included in a story published on February 24 as evidence central to their rulings.
[IsraelTimes] The Israeli-American teenager suspected of being behind the recent bomb threats to JCCs and other American Jewish institutions reportedly made more than 1,000 threatening phone calls over the past two years.
[IsraelTimes] Killers reportedly lay in wait for hours in Mazen Faqha’s garage, acted so quietly family nearby didn’t know what had happened for hours
