[Ynet] Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on La Belle France-Inter radio Tuesday that the assailant in Sunday's attack had Italian residency and a valid Tunisian passport. The attacker was killed by soldiers after the stabbings, which were claimed by 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.
One of the seven IDs the attacker used in previous encounters with French police was a Tunisian passport identifying him as Ahmed H. A judicial official said Tuesday that authorities have determined that is the Marseille attacker's true identity.
Rome prosecutors opened a terrorism investigation into the suspect, identified in the Italian media as Ahmed Hanachi. He had lived in Aprilia, south of Rome, from about 2006 to 2014, Italian news agency ANSA said.
According to Gay Paree Prosecutor Francois Molins, he didn't have any past convictions in La Belle France. Hanachi's most recent arrest occurred in the Lyon area Friday‐just two days before the train station stabbing. He was detained on suspicion of shoplifting and released the day before the attack.
Hanachi also had a record for petty crimes but no terrorism-related offenses or indications he had been radicalized, Italian daily La Repubblica said.
The reports said he lived in an area with a sizeable Tunisian community, and had married then divorced an Italian woman.
The region has already seen four people expelled from Italia for alleged radicalization-related reasons, Repubblica said.
Citing state security, Italia has expelled more than 200 people since 2015 who are suspected of radicalizing others or recruiting would-be jihadis‐offenses that wouldn't necessarily hold up in court but which the Interior Ministry uses as reason to expel them.
The area south of Rome was also where the Berlin Christmas market attacker, Anis Amri, spent about a week in July 2015 after getting out of an Italian prison. There's no indication the two ever crossed paths, Repubblica said, without citing sources.
[DAWN] A Ottoman Turkish court on Wednesday handed life sentences to 34 people for plotting to assassinate President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... at a luxury Aegean hotel during last year's failed coup.
The 34 were given four life sentences each at the trial in the southwestern city of Mugla, state-run TRT Haber television said.
The group includes former brigadier general Gokhan Sahin Sonmezates who was accused of directing the plot.
The trial began on February 20 and is one of many such processes taking place across The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to try those who allegedly plotted the failed bid to oust Erdogan on July 15, 2016.
Some verdicts have already been handed out in low profile cases but it is the first ruling involving top plotters.
The failed coup left 249 people dead, not including the putschists, and the authorities have vowed no compromise in bringing those involved to justice.
Turkey accuses Pennsylvania-based Moslemholy manFethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... of orchestrating the attempted coup. Gulen, a former Erdogan ally-turned-foe, strongly denies Ankara's claims.
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[FOREIGNPOLICY] The notorious jihadi 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... has apparently had a change of heart. Like many turbans in Pakistain, the 67-year-old firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... used to rage against democracy. But earlier this month a new political party, controlled in all but name by Saeed ‐ the leader of the bully boy organization Lashkar-e-Taiba
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[GEO.TV] The chief of the Ansarul Shariah Pakistain (ASP) was in contact with members of a proscribed group which was involved in a major terrorist attack in the country, confirmed a security official on Wednesday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , claimed that the attack was carried out in Bloody Karachi
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[DAWN] Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif raised the issue of United States's South Asia Policy with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and told him that Islamabad has pursued a zero-tolerance and indiscriminate approach in its campaign against "all terrorist and myrmidon groups", read a statement issued by the Foreign Office on Wednesday.
Pakistain and the US shared a common desire for peace and stability in Afghanistan and the region on the lam, the foreign minister maintained.
The minister pointed out that Pakistain has been making achievements in its war against terrorism.
"In contrast to other countries, the incidences of terrorism in Pakistain has seen a marked decline ‐ with a salutary impact on economic and commercial activity," Asif was quoted as saying.
"This was made possible because Pakistain has pursued a zero-tolerance and indiscriminate approach in its campaign against all terrorist and myrmidon groups."
The foreign minister informed the US Secretary of State about the strong public reaction in Pakistain regarding the pronouncement of the US Administration’s South Asia Policy, which Asif said was based on "inadequate recognition of Pakistain’s sterling contribution in the fight against terrorism."
In addition to huge human and material cost incurred by Pakistain, Asif said, "Our cultural ethos as a moderate state had suffered due to protracted instability in Afghanistan."
Secretary Tillerson acknowledged and appreciated the sacrifices rendered by Pakistain in the struggle against terrorism, said the blurb.
He agreed that cooperation between Pakistain and the US in Afghanistan was crucial to achieving durable peace and stability in the region. "Pakistain’s interests and concerns will be accommodated since its role was critical to President Trump’s South Asia Strategy," he was quoted as saying.
"The future stability of Pakistain was an important element of the Strategy."
Khawaja Asif reiterated Pakistain's position on the need for an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned political approach to achieving peace and stability in Afghanistan.
He conveyed Pakistain's concerns with regard to ungoverned spaces within Afghanistan, from which attacks against Pakistain continued to be planned and carried out.
The minister urged the US to take note of the gross human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations being perpetrated by Indian security forces in held Kashmire. "Peace in South Asia would remain out of reach until the resolution of all longstanding disputes, including the core dispute of Jammu and Kashmire," he said.
Inviting Secretary Tillerson to visit Islamabad to continue their discussions, the minister stressed that a broad-based and structured framework for dialogue would best serve the two countries' mutual interests.
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[DAWN] Former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's Pakistain Justice and Democratic Party (PDJP) on Wednesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court (SC) against Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... for his "criticism of the judges and judiciary" in his speeches since the Panamagate verdict.
The petition was submitted by PDJP vice president Ahsanul Din Sheikh.
"Nawaz Sharif has not accepted the SC's verdict and has been criticising it in his speeches," the petition said, adding that the former prime minister has been "passing remarks against the judges and the judicial system."
"Pakistain Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) chairman Absar Alam has failed to do his duty and thus, the court should hold him and Nawaz Sharif in contempt," the petition said.
The SC, on July 28, had disqualified Nawaz Sharif in the landmark hearing of the Panamagate case. Since then, even though he stepped down from his position as the prime minister, the newly re-appointed PML-N chief has taken to raising questions against the verdict in public gatherings.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has warned that 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... is prepared to take whatever actions are necessary if Washington’s efforts fail to work with Pakistain in Afghanistan.
Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Mattis said Washington considers to try one more time to work with Pakistain.
He said "We need to try one more time to make this strategy work with them, by, with and through the Paks, and if our best efforts fail, the president is prepared to take whatever steps are necessary."
Relations and ties between Islamabad and Washington have deteriorated since President Trump announced the new US strategy for South Asia and strongly criticized Pakistain for sheltering the terrorist groups.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States General Joseph Dunford has confirmed that the military intelligence of Pakistain’s military, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), has connections with the terror group.
"It is clear to that ISI has connections with the terrorist groups," Gen. Dunford said.
The Afghan and US officials are saying that the conflict in the country has links with the sanctuaries of the terrorist groups, particularly the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and Haqqani network which have remained intact in the key cities of Pakistain.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... Islamabad has repeatedly rejected the allegations although in some stances the country’s bigwigs have admitted the presence of some of the notorious terrorist networks and leaders, including Haqqani network.
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[Ynet] European countries will do their utmost to preserve a deal limiting Iran's nuclear programme despite misgivings by 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... , a senior European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... diplomat said on Wednesday.
"This is not a bilateral agreement, it's a multilateral agreement. As Europeans, we will do everything to make sure it stays," Helga Schmid, secretary general of the European Union's foreign policy service, told an Iranian investment conference of the deal brokered by the bloc between Iran, the United States, La Belle France, Germany, Britannia, Russia and China.
Trump is weighing whether the pact serves US security interests as he faces an Oct. 15 deadline for certifying that Iran is complying, a decision that could sink an agreement strongly supported by the other world powers that negotiated it.
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Many European countries sold their souls for a piece of the action in Iran.
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The chance to solve the pesky Jewish Zionist problem, is worth any risks?
[Iran Press TV] The United States and Israel cannot tolerate Iran as an "independent force" and that is why Washington and its allies have been "tormenting" the people of Iran over the past decades, says prominent American scholar Noam Chomsky ...intellectual and political theorist of a socialist persuasion. He is noted for being so far out in left field he can't see the shortstop on every issue he pushes... In an interview excerpted from his upcoming book Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy, Chomsky discussed the real reasons behind his country’s years-long animosity towards Iran, dismissing as mere smokescreens Washington’s objections to Iran’s nuclear program and its support for resistance groups in Leb and Paleostine.
"Iran has long been regarded by US leaders, and by US media commentary, as extraordinarily dangerous, perhaps the most dangerous country on the planet," Chomsky said in response to a question by David Barsamian, the book’s co-author.
The scholar noted that Washington’s doctrinal system tends to introduce Iran as a "dual menace" that "is the leading supporter of terrorism, and its nuclear programs pose an existential threat to Israel, if not the whole world."
Support for ’terrorist’ groups
Chomsky explained that America’s branding of Iran as a state sponsor of terror was based on Israel’s interests.
"In the real world, Iranian support for terrorism translates to support for Hezbollah, whose major crime is that it is the sole deterrent to yet another destructive Israeli invasion of Leb, and for Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which won a free election in the Gazoo Strip‐a crime that instantly elicited harsh sanctions and led the US government to prepare a military coup," he argued.
Rather ironically, the philosopher pointed out to America’s unconditional support for Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , which he described as "a brutal dictatorship, miserably repressive" committing "disgraceful atrocities in Yemen."
The US has been providing weapons and intelligence to the Riyadh regime over the course of its more than two-year-long aggression that has killed more than 12,000 Yemeni civilians.
Iran’s nuclear program
Chomsky dismissed US claims that Iran was in possession of nuclear weapons and said any concerns in this regard had been alleviated by Tehran’s own calls for destroying all weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in the Middle East region.
"Such a zone is strongly supported by the Arab states and most of the rest of the world and is blocked primarily by the United States, which wishes to protect Israel’s WMD capabilities," he said.
Real reasons behind Washington’s animus
The renowned historian said the "true reasons" behind America’s hostility towards Iran were the country’s growing regional influence and the 1979 Islamic Revolution that led to the ouster of US-backed monarch Mohammad Reza Shah.
"The United States and Israel cannot tolerate an independent force in a region that they take to be theirs by right," he argued. "An Iran with a nuclear deterrent is unacceptable to rogue states that want to rampage however they wish throughout the Middle East."
Chomsky said Washington was still angry about the Iranian people’s removal of Shah, "the dictator installed by Washington."
"Iran cannot be forgiven for overthrowing the dictator installed by Washington in a military coup in 1953, a coup that destroyed Iran’s parliamentary regime and its unconscionable belief that Iran might have some claim on its own natural resources."
Citing more instances of US double standards, Chomsky noted that former US President George H. W. Bush had invited Iraqi nuclear experts to the US for advanced training in nuclear weapons production.
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You kind of can't blame Iran Press TV for catching a slow, soft pitch. And you have to give the old, insane, genocide-loving commie credit: his description of Saudi Arabia is accurate!
[Iran Press TV] Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution ...Iran's doddering head theocrat... Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...the successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the actual dictator of Iran... says the United States and Israel benefit from the recent referendum in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, stressing Washington and foreign powers seek to create a new Israel.
"The United States and foreign powers are untrustworthy and seek to create a new Israel in the region," Ayatollah Khamenei said.
The Leader made the remarks in a meeting with 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... in Tehran on Wednesday.
Ayatollah Khamenei stressed that holding the Kurdish vote in Iraq was an act of betrayal against the region and posed a threat to the future of the Middle East, warning about the long-term repercussions of the vote for Iraq’s neighbors.
"Iran and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... should take every possible measure against the move and the Iraqi government, too, should make decisions and take serious action," the Leader said.
Ayatollah Khamenei said enemies were trying to keep Iran and Turkey away from major regional developments, noting foreign powers and Israel have been seeking to create contention between regional countries.
The Leader said Iran-Turkey cooperation on major developments in the Moslem world was highly significant and instrumental.
Ayatollah Khamenei expressed satisfaction with Tehran-Ankara cooperation during the Astana talks on Syria, which he said had resulted in the improvement of the situation in the Arab country.
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Aww,
Shut up. None of you have made crap, ever.
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