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Africa Horn
Egypt court sentences 24 Muslim Brotherhood members to life in prison in Zagazig city
The sentence will not be finalized until it has been appealed all the way to the highest court as well as approved by a committee of the wise men of Islam...
[AlAhram] A Sharqiya criminal court sentenced 24 people to life in prison on Saturday for inciting violence and joining the Moslem Brüderbund terrorist group in a trial that dates back to 2014, al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

The court also sentenced three defendants to three years in prison.

The 27 suspects were locked away
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
in Zagzig, Sharqiya governorate for organising a march supporting the Moslem Brüderbund group and inciting violence in the Nile Delta city.

The Egyptian government designated the Moslem Brüderbund a terrorist group in December 2013.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  The sentence will not be finalized until it has been appealed all the way to the highest court as well as approved by a committee of the wise men of Islam...

So, yet another judicial artifice to make the court appear effective.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2018 12:12 Comments || Top||

#2  It is ZigZag try EZ wider double width keep on smoling !
Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913 || 07/15/2018 13:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Jeez Jack - you had one nearly lucid comment and you typo'd it.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2018 13:06 Comments || Top||

#4  At least Besoeker / trailing wife didn't have to remove it, so that's progress...
Posted by: Raj || 07/15/2018 14:23 Comments || Top||

#5  I also bin his comments.

If I find one typical one I gradually spend less and less time trying to work out if it makes any sense.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/15/2018 16:34 Comments || Top||

#6  It's really not all that difficult. Jack can either... 'fit in or bugger off.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2018 16:55 Comments || Top||

#7  ...and - use 1 1/2's - double EZ Wider is amateur joint rolling!
Posted by: Raj || 07/15/2018 17:08 Comments || Top||

#8  as well as approved by a committee of the wise men of Islam...

Which will happen right after Congress gets its act together.
Posted by: gorb || 07/15/2018 23:52 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Kuwait reportedly takes precautions as Basra protests brew in neighboring Iraq
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Kuwaiti authorities are reportedly taking precautionary measures despite its defense ministry saying the situation is calm on its northern borders and that it considers ongoing protests in Basra an internal Iraqi affair.

The Safwan border crossing between Iraq and Kuwait was closed on Saturday after public protests erupted in the southern province of Basra.

Observers have warned that the crisis might worsen on its northern borders and that more armed Shiite Death Eater groups allied to Iran might have a presence in the province as concerns extend to Iraq’s other neighboring countries as well.

According to the observers, Iraqi security forces do not seem capable of controlling the Shiite gangs, especially that its leaders have an influence on the security forces, making its decision confined to it to a large extent.

Hundreds of protesters had previously intercepted the road between Basra and Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran on July 12.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Britain
Trump ambassador lobbied UK over jailed Tommy Robinson: report
[Al Jazeera] A diplomat in the United States has reportedly complained to the UK's ambassador in Washington, DC about the jailing of an English far-right activist.

Sam Brownback, the US ambassador for international religious freedom, raised the case of the activist known as Tommy Robinson in a June meeting with Sir Kim Darroch, Britannia's ambassador to the US, Rooters news agency reported on Saturday, citing three unnamed sources, including a UK official.

Robinson is a founder of the English Defense League, a far-right group that has organised violent demonstrations against Moslem immigrants colonists in the UK in the past decade.

More recently, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, though he also uses other aliases, has styled himself as a journalist and campaigner against the threat of "Islamic extremism".
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  So many lies in this article

Should win an MSM award for lie density.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/15/2018 16:26 Comments || Top||

#2  So many lies in this article

Given it’s Al Jazeera, that’s exactly as one would expect.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2018 16:30 Comments || Top||


Europe
EU becomes center of Iran’s terrorist operations
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] On Monday, July 2, 2018, Belgian Federal Intelligence and Security Agency and Federal Prosecutor’s Office reported that they had thwarted a major terrorist plot of the Iranian regime at the heart of Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
by arresting a husband and wife near Brussels.

The jugged
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
couple are Belgian nationals of Iranian descent and wanted to commit a kaboom in Villepinte (La Belle France) on Saturda,y June 30, 2018, at a conference held there by the Iranian opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

According to the Belgian Public Prosecutor’s office, Assadollah Assadi, a diplomat, who served as the number third-ranking diplomat in Iran’s embassy in Vienna and a member of President Rouhani's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), was arrested in Germany as the "contact person" of the couple.

However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
Germany’s federal prosecutor on Wednesday, July 12, charged Assadi for conspiracy to commit murder.

Historically, the theocracy has pursued a policy of assassinating dissidents in Europe. Since the 1979 revolution, there are at least 10 known Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks, some of which were recently listed by the US State Department.

In 1997, a German court issued an international arrest warrant for Iranian intelligence minister for the liquidation of Secretary-General of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Mykonos Greek restaurant in Berlin in 1992.

The Iranian regime has assassinated NCRI members in Europe. Kazem Rajavi, the representative of the NCRI, was bumped off by the MOIS agents on April 24, 1990, as he was driving to his home in Coppet, a village near Geneva.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  EU are major enables of terrorism and Islamism - look at the covert war they've been conducting against Israel for the last 50 years.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/15/2018 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  EU are major enables of terrorism and Islamism - look at the covert war they've been conducting against Israel for the last 50 years.

Mooslims living in relative peace in the ME have no incentive to relocate to Europe. If enough war and turmoil can be fomented, they will eventually come.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2018 2:13 Comments || Top||

#3  As you all know the EU is trying to build it's own military and as is with all the other super powers they get to have PROXY TERRORIST ARMIES ALSO so quit your bitchin about IRAN they got dibs cuz they never stopped helping their nuclear program! Fair is fair now behave and quit crying!
Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913 || 07/15/2018 13:08 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Some hidden powers want to sabotage polls, says Siraj
[DAWN] Condemning the attacks on Akram Khan Durrani in Bannu, Siraj Raisani in Quetta and Haroon Bilour in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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.
, Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
chief Sirajul Haq
...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that...
said on Friday that some hidden powers wanted to sabotage the July 25 general elections, but they would not let them do so.

In Timergara, the JI chief told public rallies in Kumbar Maidan and Odigram that attacks on poll candidates in Peshawar, Bannu and Quetta were not a good omen for the country. He said that some hidden powers wanted to derail the democratic process.

He said that MMA would not let anyone to sabotage the elections in the country. He said that the coming elections would be a fight between two ideologies. "We have no wish for ministries and positions, but making Pakistain a true Islamic welfare state is our goal," he said.

About Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, headed the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz), now bounced for the third and maybe final time. Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
and Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
, he said that the former was coming to be jugged
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
while the latter was avoiding returning to the land which he governed for years. He asked the participants to elect honest and devoted candidates for the sake of the country. The rallies were also addressed by MMA candidates for PK-13, PK-16 and PK-17.

Also in the day, PTI election coordinator for PK-17 Anwar Said quit his party and joined JI during Kumbar Maidan function which was also addressed by MMA candidate Saeed Gul. He claimed that MMA would win all the seats in Lower Dir, as JI had done record development work in the district.

In Nowshera, JI provincial chief Mushtaq Ahmad Khan claimed that if voted to power Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal would start evenhanded accountability of corrupt elements.

"MMA would start accountability of all segments of society without any discrimination to root out corruption," he said while addressing public meetings in Pir Sabaq, Zara Mena, Mesri Banda and other villages.

Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Iraq
‘Peshmerga forces will return to Kirkuk’ -- Kurdish commander
[ALMASDARNEWS] Kurdish Peshmerga militia units that moved out of Kirkuk following the September 25, 2017 independence referendum in the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq (KRGI) may soon be redeployed to disputed areas in the city, regional sources have told Sputnik.

The referendum increased tensions between the Peshmerga and the central government in Baghdad.

There have also been reports about Kurdish militia commanders being in talks with the US-led coalition and Iraqi government forces to resume their presence in Kirkuk.

The commander of the Peshmerga forces in Iraq, Xelil Shirvan, confirmed the reports in an interview with Sputnik."We have already reached preliminary agreement with the coalition and the Iraqi army for the Peshmerga units to return to Kirkuk and the disputed areas.

Our command insists that Shia militia units move out of Kirkuk. We want Iraqi and KRG flags to be the only ones raised over Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
" he said.

"We are also proposing to the Iraqi government forces to set up a joint administration in the city. The Peshmerga forces will soon return to Kirkuk," he added.

For his part, the Iraqi army’s joint operations commander, General Yahya Resul, said that "the Iraqi government and military command is fully authorized to conduct joint operations and sign agreements with the Peshmerga forces."
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iraq


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Apt, swift Hamas response to stop Israeli aggression
The Hamas perspective of events, as filtered through Iran's propaganda office. The Israeli perspective can be seen here.
[PRESSTV] The Paleostinian resistance movement Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", says its swift and appropriate response to Israel’s most recent aerial aggression on the besieged Gazoo Strip is meant to stop the attacks, adding that this shows the resistance movement’s constant vigilance and clear vision in managing the fight against the Tel Aviv regime.

Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum made the remarks in a statement released on Saturday, several hours after Israeli warplanes launched a predawn attack against 40 purported Hamas positions in the southern Gazoo Strip.

Israeli military aircraft also fired three missiles at Salahuddin military site in the central Gazoo Strip, before pounding an open area near Queen roundabout east of Gazoo City.

Additionally, Israeli aerial attacks targeted a Hamas site in the city of Beit Lahia, located about five kilometers north of Gazoo City.

According to the Gazoo Health Ministry, at least two Paleostinian teens bit the dust in the Israeli Arclight airstrikes and 14 other people sustained injuries.

Hamas was quick in retaliatory attacks against Israeli positions in the occupied Paleostinian territories when it launched 90 rockets. The Israeli military claimed that its so-called Iron Dome missile defense system had managed to intercept 16 of the projectiles.

Early in the morning, the Israeli military said in a statement that at least one Hamas rocket landed inside a rural settlement in Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council area.

Israeli media reported that more than 140 rocket alarm sirens also sounded throughout communities near the Israel-Gazoo border from midnight into the morning.

Saturday’s exchange of missiles and rockets is considered as the biggest since the 2014 Israeli war on the impoverished sliver. The war began in early July and ended in late August the same year. The Israeli military aggression killed nearly 2,200 Paleostinians and injured over 11,100 others.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


NGO Gets Court Order To Seize Gaza Flotilla To Compensate Terror Victims
[Jpost] The petition leading to the court order was filed on behalf of the Gavish family, who was killed in the 2002 Passover terrorist attack at the Park Hotel in Netanya.

An NGO obtained an unusual court order on Wednesday to seize a flotilla ‐ which is trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gazoo ‐ in order to provide assistance to terrorist victims, even though those boats have not yet been captured by the IDF.

Shurat Hadin ‐ Israel Law Center, representing terrorist victims’ families, got Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Drori to issue a temporary seizure order for two Norwegian ships, which are due to reach Gazoo’s maritime area as part of the flotilla in the coming weeks.

The interim court order means that the ships, the Karstein and Freedom, worth between €75,000 and €150,000, will be initially designated to be sold, the proceeds going to benefit the victims of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terrorism, should the IDF capture them while trying to break the blockade.

According to court documents, the ships’ owner and Hamas would still have an opportunity to contest the seizure and sale of the ships before a final order is granted.

The flotilla’s organizers have said that if they succeed in reaching Gazoo, the ships will be donated to civilian organizations and local fishermen.

But Shurat Hadin, bringing expert witnesses former Dep. Navy commander Rear-Admiral Noam Feig and former Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) official Aryeh Spitzen, told the court that Hamas would most likely use the ships to increase the size of its navy. Even if the ships were initially donated to civilian causes, Hamas’s desire to use them to attack Israeli naval vessels, natural gas facilities and for more attempts to break the blockade would be too hard for it to resist.

Drori did not order the IDF to seize the ships and said he would express no opinion regarding how the state should handle the issue of the ships from a national security perspective.

Rather, the court said its order simply meant that if the IDF chose to seize the ships and brought them to Israel, the temporary seizure order would then apply to the ships.

The petition leading to the court order was filed on behalf of the Gavish family, who was killed in the 2002 Passover terrorist attack ‐ David, Rachel, their son Avraham, and maternal grandfather Yitzhak Kanner.

Shurat Hadin was also representing the family of Adam Weinstein ‐ murdered in a 2001 Jerusalem terrorist attack.

In 2006, a different judge ruled that Hamas give the Gavish family NIS 90 million, but until the seizure order regarding the ships there had been no way to get Hamas to pay.

The Weinstein family’s case is still ongoing before Drori in a separate legal proceeding.

The ruling raises questions about whether it will be upheld if it is later appealed, as the Supreme Court in August 2016 issued a ruling blocking the state from confiscating the Estelle, the Swedish ship used in a 2012 flotilla aimed at breaking Israel’s Gazoo blockade.

However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
that ruling had rejected the state’s desire to confiscate the ship on the grounds that the state waited nearly a year to make its confiscation request.

It was unclear whether Shurat Hadin’s preemptive claim and its argument that it needed the boats to fulfill Israeli court judgments would be enough to lead to a different result should the ships’ owners appeal upon a seizure.

"Flotilla organizers sail here on ships every year to try to break the naval blockade of the Gazoo Strip and to violate the illusory sovereignty of Israel," said Shurat Hadin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner.

"Every year they are stopped by the IDF and their ships are towed to the Ashdod Port and they are sent home as if nothing occurred. No longer. This time, the ships will not be returned to their owners, but will be turned over to terrorist victims. For the first time, the flotilla organizers will learn that there is a price to pay for their provocations, for systematic violations of international law and for supporting a terrorist organization."

In the past, Shurat Hadin has also succeeded in delaying or helping to get flotillas canceled using lawsuits to sabotage flotilla ships’ insurance.

Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  should make ship insurance a LOT more expensive
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2018 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Ooooh! Popcorn! On the whole I am against Asset Forfeiture in principle, but ... Popcorn!
Posted by: magpie || 07/15/2018 13:10 Comments || Top||

#3  That's not asset forfeiture, magpie. That's Prize money
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/15/2018 13:13 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Rouhani: Sanctions target ordinary Iranians; US isolated
[PRESSTV] President Hassan Rouhani says new US sanctions are aimed at targeting the Iranian nation, adding the plan has made Washington more isolated than ever, even among its allies.

"Today, the United States is isolated in the public opinion of the world, and is even more secluded among the Iranian people because the US sanctions plan is against the Iranian people," Rouhani said on Saturday.

Speaking in Brussels on Wednesday, 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...
boasted that his decision to leave the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose sanctions on the country was creasing "a lot of problems" for the Iranians.

"They’re feeling a lot of pain right now," he told a news conference at a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
leaders summit.

Rouhani said, "If the sanctions were for a particular sector and industry, they (the US) could have been justified for their excuses, but these sanctions are a general and blind measure that would put pressure on the people of Iran."

"Therefore, their plan is to pressure the Iranian people, as they pressure other nations," he added.

The president said US leaders today are detested among Moslems and developing countries more than ever, and even face problems within the United States.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Bombing campaign 1943-45 had significant impact upon the ordinary citizens. Maybe there's a reason they prefer American military welfare other than just cost.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2018 8:17 Comments || Top||


Erdogan warns Putin over Syrian military Idlib operations
[PRESSTV] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
has warned his Russian counterpart that Syrian military action in the Idlib region may endanger the Astana peace accords.

Erdogan made the remarks during a phone conversation with Putin held on Saturday in which joint efforts aimed at solving the Syrian crisis were mainly discussed.

"President Erdogan stressed that the targeting of civilians in Dara'a was worrying and said that if the Damascus regime targeted Idlib in the same way the essence of the Astana accord could be completely destroyed," said a Ottoman Turkish source.

Erdogan also noted that the avoidance of "negative developments" in Idlib was key to encouraging krazed killer groups to take part in a meeting in Astana set for July 30-31.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Intel Center: Hezbollah, Iran’s Shi’ite Militias Hidden In Syrian Army
[Jpost] There are at least two Iraqi-Shi’ite forces, the Dhu al-Fiqar Brigade and the Abu Fadl al-Abbas Brigade, being clandestinely integrated into the Syrian army to hide their identities from Israel.

Shi’ite forces, managed by Iran, are being integrated into the campaign currently waged by the Syrian army in the south of the country, according to a report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center released on Thursday.

There are at least two Iraqi-Shi’ite forces, the Dhu al-Fiqar Brigade and the Abu Fadl al-Abbas Brigade, being clandestinely integrated into the Syrian army to hide their identities from Israel and others that might object to their involvement, said the report.

The Dhu al-Fiqar Brigade fought with the Syrian army in its attack on the rebel enclave northeast of Deraa and also participated in cutting off the eastern rebel enclave by occupying the village of Buser al-Harir, said the report.

At the end of June 2018, the Shi’ite force posted pictures on Facebook to show off its participation, noted the intelligence center.

The brigade is composed mainly of Iraqis from Iranian- managed militias, such as the League of the Righteous, the Hezbollah Battalions and the Promised Day Brigade and was formed in June 2013.

At the beginning of June 2018, fighters belonging to the Abu Fadl al-Abbas Brigade, another Iranian-managed Iraqi Shi’ite militia, were identified in the Quneitra and Deraa areas, according to the Meir Amit center.

They were seen wearing Syrian army uniforms, along with their commander, Maher Ajeeb Jazza, with pictures of them being taken during Syrian army preparations for occupying the southern part of the country.

At the beginning of July 2018, pictures were published of Ajeeb with other Abu Fadl al-Abbas fighters in the region of Deraa. One picture shows him with Syrian officers. Others show him on a background of marching soldiers. The soldiers’ identities cannot be determined because they are all wearing Syrian army uniforms, said the report.

The intelligence center wrote, "The military competence of the force is relatively high. Its operatives are trained in guerrilla warfare tactics, which they acquired fighting the American army and the coalition countries in Iraq," noting that it was founded around the end of 2012.

Besides those Iranian-managed Shi’ite militias, the report added that there are also Afghan Shi’ite fighters in the Fatemiyoun Brigade.

In addition, the report said that Hezbollah operatives also participate in the fighting, including operatives from its elite al-Radwan unit, who were sent from Leb.

The center said, "It can be assumed (judging by past experience) that the Shi’ite forces have Iranian officers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)."

To date, the report said that the Hezbollah operatives and Shi’ite militias have fought mainly in the Deraa region, helping the Syrian army take control of villages and rebel strongholds as part of a push to reach the Jordan-Syria border.

The Syrian army is also expected to make further moves to take over the Syrian Golan Heights.

In the Meir Amit center’s assessment, the Iranians want "Hezbollah and the Shi’ite militias under their control" to "participate in a Syrian move to take over the Golan Heights, while concealing their involvement."

According to the report, Hezbollah and the Shi’ite militias have been integrated into the various Syrian army units and do not operate as independent forces.

Pictures on social media and by the few journalists and organizations with access have shown Shi’ite forces of Evil wearing Syrian army uniforms, and it is difficult to distinguish them from Syrian soldiers.

This means that if these groups participate with Syrian forces in attacking the Golan Heights, it will be difficult to identify them and easy for the Syrian regime to deny the Hezbollah and Shi’ite militiamen’s involvement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  They are using USD.
Posted by: newc || 07/15/2018 1:21 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan agree anti-Daesh bid
[PRESSTV] Senior intelligence officials from Iran, Russia, China, and Pakistain have reportedly reached an agreement to join efforts against ISIS terror group in Afghanistan.

The officials agreed over integrated efforts for rooting out the outfit from Afghanistan during a meeting in the Pak capital of Islamabad, English-language Pak daily The Nation reported on Friday, citing defense sources. Sergei Ivanov, the chief of the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, had also told Russia’s TASS news agency about the meeting on Tuesday.

The quartet also agreed on confronting "all other Lions of Islam groups" in the Central Asian country, the daily said.

The drive, it wrote, was aimed at "ensuring regional peace and to eliminate terrorism from the region."

The meeting also discussed ways to stop the arrival of ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
Lions of Islam from Iraq and Syria in Afghanistan.

The participants further agreed to share intelligence towards fighting terror.

The Russian side cited the Russian intelligence agency as saying that around 10,000 ISIS Lions of Islam were functioning actively in nine provinces in Afghanistan.
Goodness. That's a lot more than were there last time I looked. Have they come seeking safer hunting grounds than are to be found in Iraq and Syria nowadays?
The Iranian side cited concerns regarding ISIS’s growing influence in Afghanistan, according to The Nation.

The group’s Afghanistan branch, known as ISIS-Khurasan, was "involved in planning continued suicide kabooms especially in Pakistain," the meeting was told.

Most recently, the group grabbed credit for an kaboom that killed at least 128 people targeting an election rally in Pakistain's southwestern province of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
on Friday.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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