[FOX] MELBOURNE, Fla. ‐ A 22-year-old student pilot suspected of boarding a vacant passenger plane at a central Florida airport early Thursday has been charged with criminal attempt to steal an airplane, officials said.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating and trying to determine a motive in the case, according to Orlando-Melbourne International Airport spokeswoman Lori Booker. She told news outlets the student pilot, identified as Florida Institute of Technology student Nishal Sankat, also faces a visa violation and criminal trespassing charges. It wasn't Huffman Aviation flight school in Venice, Florida was it ?
Early Thursday, a man drove to the curb outside the airport, left his car running, hopped a fence and boarded an Airbus 321 American Airlines aircraft sitting in a maintenance facility, Booker said.
An avionics technician was in the plane's galley when he saw a shadow, Booker said. Hey Bill, I'm going to the back and catch a few Z's. If you see something, say something ok ?
"He turned around and said, 'Who are you? Show me your badge," Domino's? Yo Bill, did you order a breakfast pizza ?
Booker told news outlets. She said the technician was among airport workers she dubbed heroes.
He grabbed the man and, with help from another technician, they got him off the plane. Booker said that while one technician held the man down, the other called Melbourne airport police. The man broke free and ran along the airfield before police took him into custody about two minutes later. You ever try to sprint in a man-dress and sandals ?
After the man was arrested, officials conducted a sweep of the airfield before re-opening the airport. All employees and passengers were removed from the terminal during the incident, which caused two flight delays and interrupted airport operations for about five hours.
Police searched the student pilot's car with a robotic arm to make sure no explosives were inside, Booker said. The car was then towed from the airport.
The airport returned to normal operations after five hours. "Normal airport operations?" WTF is that ?
Booker said the student pilot is from Trinidad and entered the United States through Canada. The spokeswoman said he has a Florida driver's license. No worries, he was probably on the 'FBI's radar.'
Melbourne is 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of Orlando.
Records show Sankat is being held at the Brevard County Jail and was booked at 7:30 p.m. The Melbourne Airport Police is the arresting agency. He faces two felonies; grand theft/larceny over $10,000 and unarmed burglary. The third charge, trespassing, is a misdemeanor. His bond on all three charges combined is $20,500. His first court appearance is Friday.
The incident started at about 2 a.m. when the suspect drove to the curb outside the airport and left his car running, airport spokeswoman Lori Booker said. He hopped a fence and boarded a vacant Airbus A321 aircraft belonging to American Airlines, Booker said.
Chief Renee Purden of the Melbourne Airport Police Department said detectives are interviewing Sankat about his motivations, but do not believe he has any link to terrorism. The FBI has a keen interest in Sankat's five cell phones. Said they'd be here later this morning to pick them up.
Booker said Sankat was born in Trinidad and legally entered the United States through Canada.
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Started at 2 AM, eh?
""Normal airport operations?" WTF is that?" SNAFU. Considered normal now since HLS emerged from the stinking, steaming bilious egg.
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[Breitbart] Pakistan remained a safe haven last year for Afghan Taliban and Haqqani Network (HQN) jihadis despite the pressure the Trump administration applied on the country to stop harboring terrorist groups, the U.S. State Department reported on Wednesday.
In its Country Reports on Terrorism 2017 released this week, which cover terrorist activities across the world last year, State noted:
The Pakistani government pledged support to political reconciliation between the Afghan government and the Afghan Taliban but did not restrict the Afghan Taliban and HQN from operating in Pakistan-based safe havens and threatening U.S. and Afghan forces in Afghanistan. Pakistan did not take sufficient action against other externally focused groups such as Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in 2017, which continued to operate, train, organize, and fundraise in Pakistan.
Trump administration officials have described "reconciliation" between the Afghan Taliban and Kabul as the primary goal of the U.S. strategy to end the 17-year-old Afghan war.
In recent months, the U.S. has intensified its efforts to convince the Taliban to engage in peace talks with the Afghan government.
The Pentagon has for years cautioned that Pakistan knowingly serves as a sanctuary for Afghan Taliban and Haqqani terrorists who have killed and maimed U.S. and Afghan troops.
Taliban ally al-Qaeda is also known to operate along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
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[JOURNALDUCAMEROUN] The government of Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... has been urged to redefine and control the mission of the armed forces in the two anglophone regions in crisis.
The call was made by religious leaders of the Protestant Council, the Islamic Superior Council and the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon on Wednesday, September 19.
In their joint statement, the religious leaders call on government, diaspora, Amba boys and the army to put an end to hostilities and pave the way for a veritable peace and dialogue platform.
Excerpts of the statement below:
"We denounce the arbitrary and indiscriminate killings of Cameroonians by armed forces and the Amba Boys,"
"We denounce the rampant attacks on educational institutions and the deprivation of children of their right to education".
"We call on the government to promptly initiate and announce a national plan for resolving this crisis, taking into account its real and profound causes in view of establishing veritable peace,"
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[DAWN] Speaking about the Saudi-Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... dispute, Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... has told Saudi media that all conflicts could be resolved through dialogue.
"I feel that every conflict has a political solution. I am not a believer in a military solution," the prime minister said in an interview to a Saudi newspaper published on Wednesday, during his first foreign visit after assuming office.
He said his country was confident of Riyadh’s support as Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... had always backed Pakistain.
"Anyone who comes to power in Pakistain will visit Saudi Arabia first as the two countries share a strong people-to-people relationship," Mr Khan said in his first interview to foreign media after becoming prime minister.
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[RT] Setting the global standard for online behavior, preserving American dominance, political and economic interests, punishing ’malicious actors’ like Russia and China: these are the ambitious goals of the new US cyber-strategy.
The White House published the 40-page document on Thursday afternoon, the first comprehensive cyber strategy in 15 years. The strategy’s core assumption is that the US created the internet and that Washington must maintain the dominant role in defining, shaping and policing cyberspace in much the same way as it does the globe.
All strategies are but broad outlines of general measures and overall objectives, and this one is no different. Beyond merely defending US computer networks - that’s just the first part, devoted to protecting the "American People, the Homeland, and the American Way of Life" - it wants to promote US economic prosperity while advancing influence around the world and achieving "peace through strength" as well.
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[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s president has asked the parliament to extend its authorization for cross-border military operations.
The current authorization expires October 30. 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... is seeking a one year extension in order to continue military operations in Iraq and Syria.
His motion submitted to parliament states that Ankara respects the territorial integrity of Iraq, "however, the existence of PKK and ISIS in Iraq, poses a direct threat to regional peace, stability and the security of our country," Anadolu Agency reported.
Turkey has carried out multiple military operations across its border in northern Syria.
During its Euphrates Shield operation in 2016 ‐ 2017, Ottoman Turkish forces and their Syrian proxies confronted ISIS west of the Euphrates River, north of Aleppo, taking control of the area and preventing Kurdish forces from advancing across the river.
At the start of this year, Ottoman Turkish forces, again with their allied Syrian militias, pushed the Kurdish YPG/YPJ forces out of Afrin. Ankara is opposed to the Syrian Kurdish forces, considering them a branch of the PKK.
Ottoman Turkish forces are carrying out coordinated patrols with the United States in the area of Manbij, east of the Euphrates River.
Ankara demanded the withdrawal of all YPG forces from the town, which is under the administration and security control of a local multi-ethnic council.
Ottoman Turkish forces are also present in Idlib province, where they have established observation points to monitor a de-escalation zone established by agreement with Russia and Iran as part of the Astana process. Ankara and Moscow are now hammering out details for an agreed-upon demilitarized zone in the province.
Damascus has condemned Turkey’s military presence within Syria’s borders.
In Iraq, Ottoman Turkish jets carry out frequent air raids on alleged positions of the PKK. Human Rights Watch recently reported that the air strikes could be a violation of international law.
Turkey launched a ground operation against the PKK’s headquarters in Kurdistan Region’s Qandil mountains earlier this year.
Their jets have also targeted the Shingal area, where Turkey alleges the PKK has forces. A local PKK leader was killed in an Arclight airstrike during a Yezidi genocide memorial event in August that drew widespread condemnation.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced this week that Iraqi border guards will be stationed on the border with Turkey to "prevent breaches" and document airspace violations. The border lies within Kurdistan Region territory, so any deployment of federal forces will need approval from Erbil.
Turkey’s parliament will debate the motion on October 1. It would be a surprise if parliament does not approve the request.
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[DAWN] Ottoman Turkish activists and the opposition on Wednesday expressed outrage after a court incarcerated Please don't kill me! 24 workers ahead of a trial over their actions in protests against labour conditions at Istanbul’s giant new airport.
Activists said that the authorities should be listening to the workers’ grievances rather than jailing them as work continues at breakneck speed to ensure the facility is finished on time.
Hundreds of employees from the airport were rounded up at the weekend after reportedly protesting and striking over alleged labour violations during the rush to open the airport next month.
Most of those detained were released without charge but 43 appeared before a judge at a court in the Istanbul district of Gaziosmanpasa late Tuesday.
Of them, 24 were remanded in jug while 19 were allowed to go free under judicial control after an overnight court session, the DHA news agency reported.
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[DAWN] As the new government in Islamabad starts work on addressing the concerns related to money laundering and terror financing, a US State Department report released on Thursday said that Pakistain criminalised terrorist financing through the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), but its implementation remained uneven.
Pakistain is a member of the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering ‐ a Financial Action Task Force (FATF)-style regional body. In June, the Gay Paree-based FATF placed Pakistain on its grey list of countries that could be marked out for economic sanctions if they failed to prevent Death Eaters from collecting funds within their domain.
The official US report ‐ released with the State Department’s country reports on terrorism ‐ also highlights FATF’s concerns about Pakistain.
"The FATF continued to note concern that Pakistain’s outstanding gaps in the implementation of the UN Security Council ISIS (ISIS) and Al Qaeda sanctions regime have not been resolved, and that UN-listed entities ‐ including Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... (LeT) and its affiliates ‐ were not effectively prohibited from raising funds in Pakistain, nor being denied financial services," the report points out.
Last month, Finance Minister Asad Umar told the Senate that FATF had given Pakistain 15 months to comply with these requirements. The minister said FATF had identified 27 deficiencies in the Pak financial system, including "currency smuggling, hawala and terror financing of proscribed organizations".
The minister had told the house that the government would be addressing all the objections raised not only to satisfy the international community but also because it was in Pakistain’s own interest to get rid of terror financing and terrorism.
The US State Department in its report acknowledged that Pakistain’s laws technically comply with international anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism standards, but added that Pak authorities "failed to uniformly implement UN sanctions related to designated entities and individuals such as LeT and its affiliates, which continued to make use of economic resources and raise funds".
The report also refers to a Nov 2017 decision of the Lahore High Court which refused to extend the detention of LeT founder Hafiz Saeed ...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat... as it judged the government had not provided sufficient evidence against him nor had it charged Hafiz Saeed with a crime.
The US report also examines the National Action Plan that the PML-N government gave to FATF in June this year, noting that the plan contains efforts to prevent and counter terrorist financing, including by enhancing interagency coordination.
The law designates the use of unlicensed hundi and hawala systems as predicate offences to terrorism and also requires banks to report suspicious transactions to Pakistain’s financial intelligence unit, the State Bank’s Financial Monitoring Unit.
The US State Department, however, notes that throughout 2017 "these unlicensed money transfer systems persisted throughout the country and were open to abuse by terrorist financiers operating in the cross-border area".
The report also identifies several major terrorist groups focused on conducting attacks in Pakistain, including the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain, Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... , and the sectarian group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... al-Alami.
The report also mentions groups located in Pakistain, but focused on conducting attacks outside the country, included the Afghan Taliban, Haqqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM).
The reports notes that in 2017, the Death Eaters used a range of tactics ‐ stationary and vehicle-borne improvised bombs, suicide kabooms, targeted liquidations, and rocket-propelled grenades ‐ to attack individuals, schools, markets, government institutions and places of worship.
The report also notes that the Pak government and military continued high-profile efforts to disrupt terrorist attacks and eliminate anti-state turbans. "Progress, however, remained slow on the government’s efforts to implement UN sanctions related to designated entities and enforce anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) controls."
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[DAWN] RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: A seminary in the Airport Housing Society was shot at by some unidentified persons, causing damage to its windows and doors, in the early hours of Wednesday.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... no one was injured in the attack.The windows of the Usman Ghani Madressah were broken after some unidentified cycle of violence riders opened fire on the seminary.
The police said 140 students and staff members were housed in the building when it was attacked at about 3:15 am.
Qari Usman Ghani, the custodian of the seminary, lodged a complaint with the Airport police, saying that students and staff were sleeping when two faceless myrmidons opened fire on the building.
Sub-Inspector Amjad Ali said Mr Ghani informed the police at 8am in the morning after which the police visited the scene of the crime and collected bullet shells and other evidence.
He said CCTV footage was also obtained, but the images were not clear. The police said a case has been registered and further investigations started.
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[DAWN] 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... on Thursday issued a fresh call on the OPEC oil cartel to lower crude prices, saying the United States was providing Middle Eastern energy giants with security.
"We protect the countries of the Middle East, they would not be safe for very long without us, and yet they continue to push for higher and higher oil prices!" he tweeted.
"We will remember. The OPEC monopoly must get prices down now!"
Trump has earlier called for members of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ‐ primarily cartel kingpin and US ally Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ‐ to raise their production, and warned importers to stop buying oil from Iran or face US sanctions.
Two of OPEC's founding members, Iran and Venezuela, are under sanctions from Washington.
A new set of US sanctions is due to hit the Islamic republic's oil industry on November 4.
Output from Iran has hit its lowest level since July 2016, according to the International Energy Agency, as top buyers India and China have distanced themselves from Tehran.
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“Nice country ya got there, buddy. Sure’d be a shame if something happened to it.”
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I don't think we should "call" for that. It makes us look weak. I also don't think the higher price matters all that much as long as it's domestic production.
[IsraelTimes] State Department defends its defunding of Paleostinian Jerusalem hospitals by noting that the PA intends to give monthly stipend to family of terrorist who killed US-born Ari Fuld.
The White House has indicated those funds will remain withheld until the Paleostinians re-engage with the administration to broker a comprehensive Israeli-Paleostinian peace deal.
According to the Israeli Defense Ministry, the PA in 2017 paid NIS 687 million ($198 million) to the so-called "deaders’ families fund" and NIS 550 million ($160 million) to the Paleostinian Prisoners’ Club ‐ some 7 percent of its overall budget.
Paleostinian prisoners serving 20- to 30-year sentences for carrying out terror attacks are eligible for a lifetime NIS 10,000 ($2,772) monthly stipend, the Defense Ministry said, citing PA figures. Those prisoners who receive a three- to five-year sentence get a monthly wage of NIS 2,000 ($554). Paleostinian prisoners who are married, have children, live in Jerusalem, or hold Israeli citizenship receive additional payments.
[IsraelTimes] State Department’s 2017 terrorism report credits PA with ’counterterrorism and law enforcement efforts’ in the West Bank; Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, continues to launch rockets and build tunnels
The Paleostinian Authority continues to take proactive measures to prevent terrorism while Hamas inflames and practices terror, a new US report noted Thursday.
The State Department’s annual survey of global terrorism said that despite the presence of Paleostinian terror groups in both the West Bank and Gazoo, which continued to threaten Israel, the PA was cooperating with its Israeli counterparts to tamp down violence.
The report comes amid ongoing tension between the US and the PA, over Paleostinian anger at the Trump administrations recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the subsequent moving of the embassy there from Tel Aviv.
A Paleostinian boycott of administration officials was met with the US slashing aid to Ramallah until it comes back to negotiations. On Thursday, the US again slammed the Paleostinians for their payments to the families of terrorists.
Despite this, the report found that the Fatah-led Paleostinian Authority "continued its counterterrorism and law enforcement efforts in the West Bank."
In contrast, Hamas, the Islamist terror group that rules Gazoo, launched rockets into Israel, continued its practice of building tunnels to sneak forces of Evil into Israel and sought to smuggle weaponry into the battered coastal enclave through the Sinai.
"The United States assisted the PA’s counterterrorism efforts by providing training, equipment, and infrastructure support to the [PA Security Forces]," the report says. "US training and support assisted in the PA’s continued development of professional, self-sufficient, and capable security forces."
Yet the report noted that such cooperation was not possible with Hamas.
"Several murderous Moslem groups launched rocket attacks against Israel from Gazoo," the report says. "The primary limitation on PA counterterrorism efforts in Gazoo remained Hamas’ control of the area and the resulting inability of the PASF to operate there."
The PA and the Paleostine Liberation Organization, however, both provide "martyr payments" to the families of Paleostinians killed while conducting terrorist acts, the report said.
"These payments and separate canteen stipends that the Israeli government allows for prisoners were first initiated by the PLO in 1965 and have continued under the PA since the Oslo Accords with Israel," the survey says.
The report also noted settler violence inflicted against Paleostinians over the last year: "Israelis, including settlers, committed acts of violence, including ’price tag’ attacks (property crimes and violent acts by Lion of Islam Jewish individuals and groups against Paleostinians) in the West Bank in 2017."
Overall, the report said that the number of terrorist attacks in Israel and the Golan Heights has declined since 2015, but Israel still "experienced numerous terrorist attacks, including those committed by lone actors with no clear affiliation to terrorist organizations."
The latest report maintained a change instituted by the Trump administration to no longer refer to the West Bank and Gazoo as "occupied territories" or "the Paleostinian territories." Instead, they are referred as "West Bank and Gazoo."
The report noted that rocket attacks from Gazoo followed 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... ’s announcing he would move the US embassy in Jerusalem last year, and the subsequent opening of the embassy in May.
Since assuming office, the Trump administration has made a high priority of brokering an Israeli-Paleostinian peace deal. Their efforts to bring both sides to the table has faltered since Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
The PA leadership has refused to engage with Trump officials, saying they forfeited their right to act as honest mediators.
The White House peace team ‐ led by Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and special envoy Jason Greenblatt ‐ have been working on the highly anticipated proposal, and are now in the process of planning its rollout.
[IsraelTimes] Ashura marked from Iran to Leb with battle reenactments, mass prayers, and other acts of lamentation.
Shiites across the Middle East on Thursday marked Ashura, an annual commemoration mourning the 7th century death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Hussein, one of Shiite Islam’s most beloved saints.
Photos of the quaint customs at the link, plus brief discussions of several key countries.
[Rudaw] Syria's Kurds said they handed over a Sudanese woman accused of belonging to 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 and her baby to a Sudanese diplomat Thursday, while hundreds more foreigners remained in their custody.
Kurdish authorities controlling swathes of northeastern Syria have detained alleged ISIS members from dozens of foreign countries since the jihadist group's so-called caliphate crumbled last year.
But their home countries have been overwhelmingly reluctant to claim them, with public opinion hostile to repatriating them.
On Thursday, the Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria delivered a Sudanese woman and her one-month-old baby to a Sudanese diplomat in the northeastern city of Qamishli,
,...capital of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, functionally the semi-autonomous Syrian portion of the Kurdistan homeland...
an AFP correspondent and an official said.
The Kurds "decided to hand her over to her country's embassy" after Khartoum requested the transfer, Kurdish foreign affairs official Abdel Karim Omar said.
"She was locked away You have the right to remain silent... on January 10, 2018, on the accusation of belonging to ISIS," Omar said, without providing further details.
ISIS jihadists swept across large parts of Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, declaring a "caliphate" in territory they held, but have since lost most of it to various offensives.
In Syria, Kurdish fighters have formed the backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance backed by the US-led coalition that has expelled the jihadists from swathes of the country.
"Around 520 ISIS mercenaries, as well as 550 women and around 1,200 children from 44 countries" are still in Kurdish custody, Omar said, stressing they were all "foreigners."
"It's a heavy burden that we can't carry alone," he said.
The fate of alleged foreign ISIS members captured in Syria remains controversial, with only rare countries agreeing to take back their detainees, mostly women and kiddies.
"We will not try any ISIS fighter," Omar said.
"We are trying as much as possible... to pressure governments to carry out their duties and take their citizens back."
Among the most infamous detainees are Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee el-Sheikh, two survivors of a four-man ISIS team who carried out beheadings and were dubbed "The Beatles" because they were British.
Syria's Kurds have also captured several alleged ISIS members from La Belle France, and last month an Italian accused of being part of the jihadist group as he attempted to cross the border to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... In August, Washington said the SDF had handed over two Americans accused of supporting IS to US authorities.
Lebanese members of ISIS have also been transferred to Beirut.
[AnNahar] Kurdish-led authorities controlling northeastern Syria will not be able to hold foreign Islamic State fighters indefinitely, and their home countries should take them back, a bigwig there said on Thursday.
Abdulkarim Omar, joint head of foreign relations in the Kurdish-led area, told journalists its administration was holding around 500 imported muscle and 500 family members from around 40 countries, following last year's defeat of Islamic State in nearly all territory it once held in Syria and Iraq.
"For us it is a very large number because these ISISis are dangerous and they committed massacres, and their presence in our detention is an opportunity for the international community to put them on trial," Omar said, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State members.
Backed by the United States and its allies, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia alliance captured swathes of northern and eastern Syria from Islamic State over the past two years, including the jihadists' one-time capital Raqqa.
The SDF is now fighting to take the last few villages Islamic State holds along the Euphrates River in Syria, close to the border with Iraq, and has detained more imported muscle, Omar said.
Omar said the administration in the area lacked the resources to properly rehabilitate so many prisoners. It would put Syrians on trial, but not foreigners, and it would not execute anyone as it did not impose the death penalty .
"We will try on the path of dialogue... to hand them over to their countries, but if our hope is cut, we will have other options," he said. He declined to explain what he meant by "other options" apart from no longer detaining the prisoners.
Omar was speaking at a news conference in Qamishli near the Ottoman Turkish border to announce that Sudan was taking back a captured Sudanese woman who had joined Islamic State.
She was one of only 50 or 60 people taken back by their countries so far, including women and kiddies, Omar said. He said Russia and Indonesia had each taken back families.
The continued presence of imported muscle in an unstable part of the world posed a danger to the whole international community, because they might take advantage of any new period of chaos to escape, Omar said.
"We alone cannot bear this burden," he said. "This problem is no less dangerous than that of the ISIS state."
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[AlMasdar] The U.S. proposed refugees at the Rukban Camp in southern Homs leave the area for Syrian government-held territories, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday afternoon.
The Russian Foreign Ministry did not provide anymore details regarding this alleged proposition by the U.S. military.
The U.S. and Russian governments have been at odds over the fate of the Rukban Refugee Camp, with both sides trading accusations over the suffering of the people there.
Due to the U.S.’ control over the Tanf Zone in southern Homs, the Damascus and Moscow have blamed Washington for the plight of the refugees, adding that their occupation of this vast desert area has done more harm than good.
In turn, the U.S. has accused the Syrian and Russian governments of purposely prohibiting aid from reaching the Rukban Camp.
With the recent departure of one of the largest U.S.-backed rebel groups in the Tanf Zone, it appears that the U.S. is working to find a solution to issue with the Rukban Camp and their eventual departure from the area.
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[AlMasdar] The Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said on Thursday that a large number of 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.... (ISIS) murderous Moslems had left Syria for Afghanistan this year.
"Over 2,500 ISIS members redeployed to Afghan-Pak zone from Syria in 2018."
The CSTO Joint Staff then said that most of the Islamic State murderous Moslems are now concentrated in Afghanistan following their heavy losses in Syria, Iraq, and Libya.
The CSTO Joint Staff then said that most of the Islamic State murderous Moslems are now concentrated in Afghanistan following their heavy losses in Syria, Iraq, and Libya.
"Afghanistan is now the principal center of the Islamic State terrorists.
The CTSO report did not specify how the Islamic State murderous Moslems were transferred from Syria to Afghanistan; however, in the past, Russia has accused the U.S. of moving these bandidosmurderous Moslems to the country.
Currently, the Islamic State still maintains a large presence in eastern Syria, despite ongoing efforts of the US-backed forces and Syrian government troops to clear the terrorist group from this vast desert region.
In recent months, the Islamic State has taken to the Syrian Desert to evade capture by the government troops and US-backed forces; this has also allowed them to carry out hit-and-run attacks against both entities.
As of now, both the Syrian Army and US-backed forces are attempting to clear the Deir Ezzor Governorate of the remaining Islamic State murderous Moslems before the new year.
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Quite probably it was an overexcited Syrian technician or several who felt keenly the need to shoot something at those horrid Israeli bombers when the secondaries started cooking off like cannons in the 1812 Overature. Most assuredly the Russian system is capable of determining Russian friendlies; whether it is still able to recognize Israeli aircraft as foes is a very different question.
[AlMasdar] The Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) System is not to blame for the downing of the IL-20 reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of Syria on Monday evening, the Spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said this morning.
Maj. Gen. Konashenkov said that there were no precedents for transferring Russian IFF systems to other states, including the Syrian Arab Republic.
"The IFF system of state recognition is strictly individual for each state, and even for weapons and military equipment exported from Russia within the framework of military-technical cooperation, it has never been installed. All this fully applies to the domestic air defense systems delivered to the Syrian Arab Republic," Konashenkov said.
Furthermore, the IFF system that is used by the Russian military is only used by aircraft and air defense systems that are Russia.
"The IFF system of state recognition used by Russia is only used by aircraft and air defense systems identified as Russian. There have never been any precedents for the transfer of such a system, together with Russian identification codes, to another state, and in principle cannot be," Konashenkov added.
Both Syrian and Israeli leaders have offered their condolences for the death of the 15 Russian servicemen, while also blaming one another for the downing of the IL-20 aircraft.
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#1
If that's the case then how can the Russians and Syrians effectively interoperate in Syria?
There have never been any precedents for the transfer of such a system, together with Russian identification codes, to another state, and in principle cannot be,
Wouldn't the question be if the Syrians gave the Russians the codes/information they'd need to make Russian aircraft identify themselves as friendlies to Syrian air defense?
Fairly basic stuff for operations in a combat theater or zone, unless of course you're a Russian or a Muzzie. Cool, easy to understand graphics. The author uses both fast mover and cargo aircraft as well as nifty box illustrations for the non-reader.
#5
Worth a read
https://theaviationist.com/2018/09/19/lets-recap-everything-we-know-about-the-russian-il-20m-shot-down-by-a-syrian-s-200-missile-system-yesterday/
#8
so the takeaway is that Russian recon planes are as stealthy as a locomotive....
To be fair, a lot of people use civilian passenger airframes for surveillance, recon and maritime patrol. We certainly do. They were never meant to be stealthy.
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