[Iran Press TV] Afghanistan has ordered an investigation into a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led operation in the country's east central region, which triggered angry local protests, Press TV reports.
The Monday operation, which involved American forces, destroyed a weapons cache in the Parwan Province, sparking demonstrations that briefly closed a highway.President 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. .. and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... ordered the investigation into the operation.
"An investigating delegation has been sent to the area and the Resolute Support commanders have been asked for an explanation," said Abdullah's deputy front man Javid Faisal, referring to NATO's mission in Afghanistan.
Enraged local residents have argued that the munitions should have been relocated away from residential areas before being destroyed.
"They were complaining that if there was a weapons cache that needed destroying it should have been destroyed far away from the residential areas," Zaman said.
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thus posing a risk to our forces. F them
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Make the Herman, go awayyyyyy.
Take him off of our posterssss.
[AnNahar] The U.S. military has repatriated two Tunisian men who were brutally interrogated in a secret CIA prison and held in Afghanistan for more than a decade, the Pentagon said Sunday.
Ridha Ahmad al-Najjar and Lutfi al-Arabi al-Gharisi were flown home on June 15, officials said.
Both men had been incarcerated by the Afghan regime since December, when the United States handed over control of prison operations in Afghanistan under a bilateral security treaty.
"The Defense Department transported two Tunisian males in Afghan custody to Tunisia in support of the government of Afghanistan," Pentagon front man said Lieutenant Colonel Myles Caggins said.
"These individuals remained under Afghan government control until they were handed over to Tunisian officials."
Najjar, whom the CIA suspected of having been the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest... 's bodyguard, was captured in May 2002 in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and became the first prisoner of the CIA's notorious "Salt Pit" prison in Afghanistan that has since closed.
According to the Senate report on the CIA's detention program, Najjar was held by the intelligence agency for over 700 days.
He was left hanging from handcuffs and forced to wear a diaper for more than 22 hours a day, two days in a row, to "break his resistance."
He had also endured sleep deprivation, freezing temperatures and loud music.
According to the same report, CIA interrogators described Najjar as "clearly a broken man" who was "on the verge of complete breakdown" after he was placed in isolation.
He even "became the model" for other detainee interrogations.
Less is known about Gharisi. The Senate report states only that he had also suffered "enhanced interrogation techniques" during his 380 days of CIA incarceration, and endured at least 48 hours of sleep deprivation in October 2002.
President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... has called the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques torture.
Most prisoners of war captured by the United States in Afghanistan were detained at Bagram prison near Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
[Al Ahram] UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... on Monday called for a full investigation after Saudi coalition air strikes hit a UN compound in Yemen.
A guard was injured when the office of the UN Development Programme in the southern city of Aden was hit on Sunday, causing serious damage, said UN front man Farhan Haq.
"The secretary-general urges a full investigation into this incident and that anyone found to be responsible for any breaches be held to account," said Haq.
He added that the incident underscored the need to end the fighting in 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... and return to the negotiation table.
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[AnNahar] A man who beheaded his boss in La Belle France has denied any religious motivation, investigative sources said Monday, muddying efforts to pin down the reasons for an attack which bore the hallmarks of a jihadist act.
Yassin Salhi, 35, on Sunday confessed to decapitating his employer and pinning his severed head to the fence of a gas factory in eastern La Belle France in a macabre display that included two Islamic flags.
However according to a source close to the investigation, Salhi, who was known to security services for radicalization, "denies any religious motivation to his act".
"He hasn't explained" why he attached the head to the fence, or shouted out "Allahu Akbar"(God is greatest) as firefighters overpowered him as he attempted to open bottles of acetone in a warehouse at the factory, said the source on condition of anonymity.
But whatever his motivation, Islam must not be blamed. Why would a jihadi take that approach?
Salhi drove his delivery van into the Air Products warehouse on Friday, causing an kaboom and alerting firefighters who made the grisly discovery of the decapitated corpse of 54-year-old Herve Cornara.
Investigative sources told AFP that a fellow employee had reported a quarrel between Salhi and Cornara two days before the murder, after the employee dropped a crate containing expensive goods.
While the attacker apparently denies any Islamist motivation, police discovered he had sent a gruesome selfie with the severed head to a number in Canada believed to belong to a French jihadist thought to be in Syria.
The jihadist, named Yunes-Sebastien, belonged to the same radical movement from the eastern Franche-Comte region as Salhi, said sources close to the case.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Salhi had been on a national security watchlist from 2006 to 2008 and later raised red flags for his links to radical movements between 2001 and 2014.
Salhi's mother and sister, who were questioned by police and later released, said Salhi had been to Syria in 2009, before conflict broke out in that country or 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 began seizing territory.
But this is "declarative" and police have no evidence to back up the statement, said the source.
Police took Salhi, dressed in a hospital gown and wearing a bulletproof vest, with his head covered by a white cloth, to his apartment on Sunday in an effort to find his passport and verify this information, to no avail, investigative sources said.
Hundreds of French citizens have left for Iraq or Syria to wage jihad and Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday that 1,800 people in La Belle France were "linked" in some way to the Islamist cause.
Salhi, a married father-of-three, has been in police custody for some 72 hours, and can be held for 96 hours without charge.
[ARABNEWS] La Belle France has deported 40 foreign imams for "preaching hatred" in the past three years, a quarter of them in the last six months, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday.
The minister vowed to clamp down on mosques and preachers inciting hatred after a suspected Islamist beheaded his boss during an attack on a gas factory last week.
The attack, which had the hallmarks of a terrorist act but is also believed to have personal motivations, was the second in six months in La Belle France which is battling to curb radicalization that has seen hundreds of citizens leave to wage jihad in Iraq and Syria.
Any "foreign preacher of hate will be deported," said Cazeneuve, adding that several mosques were being investigated for inciting terrorism and if found to be doing so, "will be shut down."
"We have deported 40 preachers of hatred since 2012. Since the beginning of the year we have examined 22 cases, and around 10 imams and preachers of hatred have been expelled," said Cazeneuve.
Yassin Salhi, 35, on Sunday confessed during interrogation to killing his boss and pinning his head to a fence of the Air Products factory near the eastern city of Lyon.
The severed head was discovered flanked by two Islamic flags and it later emerged he had sent a selfie of himself with the head to a number believed to belong to a French jihadist currently in Syria.
While Salhi was known to security services for links to radical Islamists in La Belle France, and his crime bore the hallmarks of a terrorist act, sources close to the investigation have suggested a personal dimension after a dispute with his employer two days earlier.
"There is no doubt of the personal motivations but there is a symbolism taken from the most atrocious, abject images of terrorism," said Cazeneuve.
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what religion preaches hatred?
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) are not keen on sending forces into Syria in the near future unless its units are targeted despite a government directive encouraging an intervention, daily Hurriyet has learned, amid reports that the army is considering bombing the holy warriors from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... instead.
Having strongly indicated its reluctance to lend support to the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA), the TSK is inclined to engage in a bombing campaign against the front line of 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and provide logistical support to the FSA only after the new parliament makes its stance clear.
Options for the TSK before the parliament elects its speaker and a new government is formed are limited to intensifying security measures at the border, upgrading the military presence near the border, increasing intelligence activity in the region and keeping units on full alert in line within the framework of the rules of engagement which are designed to treat any military approach from Syria as a threat, according to sources.
Arguments of civilian and military authorities
According to sources, the president's office, the government, the Foreign Ministry and the National Intelligence Organization (MIT) want the TSK to support the Syrian forces fighting the central government in a fashion similar to the support given by the United States to Syria's Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Kobane and Tal Abyad so as to prevent ISIL from gaining Azaz and Marea, which are close to the Turkish border and the scene of intense festivities.
In this context, hitting ISIL's frontline with long-range artillery deployed on Turkish territory or with aerial attacks, while also lending arms and ammunition support to opposing rebel forces, are expected. The TSK is also said to believe that because such a step would target ISIL, it would be welcomed by the U.S.-led international coalition.
Deploying Turkish soldiers into Syria is not among the steps expected to be taken by the TSK in the short term.
The seizure of the 90-kilometer-long front from Jarabulus to Azaz by rebel groups, not Kurdish groups, would also benefit Turkey, according to sources.
'A method of attack'
Nonetheless, according to the TSK, it is impossible to legally give logistic support covertly, as using air forces and artillery would be construed as "a method of attack," not a method of defense against a security threat. As such, military officials are worried about the possible international reaction to such a move, meaning it does not want to intervene until it is exposed to an attack.
The army also does not agree with the civilian authority's description of a "security threat," according to sources.
The TSK has also noted that Washington has declared a number of the rebel groups fighting ISIL in the Azaz area as terrorist groups, meaning the army does not want to necessarily support the groups. In providing justification, the TSK has said it is not become party to the fight between the PYD and ISIL.
Drawing attention to both the upcoming change in the command echelon in the TSK and the formation of a new government, the TSK said the timing of the requested steps have come at the wrong time, adding that the steps would hamper the new government and parliament on the issue of Syria.
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They could fight ISIL without ever going to Syria - just shoot them as they try to re-enter Kobane from Turkey.
[DAWN] The Mighty Pak Army is preparing for a final push in the coming weeks in its fight against holy warriors, but there are concerns that rights are being rolled back in the name of defeating terror. Lots more "we're gonnas" than there are "we dids."
A year on from the launch of a major offensive to eradicate strongholds of Taliban and other Lions of Islam in North Wazoo tribal area, the military says the job is 90 per cent done.
It is now positioning troops around the Shawal Valley, a key location close to the Afghan border that is home to some of the last redoubts of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), according to locals and security sources.
The army says it has killed more than 2,700 Lions of Islam since the launch of the offensive -- dubbed Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... -- last June, and destroyed more than 800 of their hideouts.
A senior military official directly linked to the offensive said the army was gearing up for the final push and using air strikes before moving in ground troops.
"We are turning hard targets into soft through aerial bombing because forces expect a resistance in Shawal," he told AFP.
The troop movements were confirmed by locals, though some tribal elders warned Lions of Islam were slipping across the porous mountainous border into Afghanistan.
"Up to two dozen Lions of Islam are leaving the area every day and around 200 Lions of Islam recently moved into part of Afghan territory," tribal elder Ajab Khan told AFP.
He warned the remaining areas where TTP fighters are holed up will be a difficult fighting terrain -- mountainous and thickly forested.
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2,700 Lions of Islam / 800 hideouts = about 3.4 Lions/hideout. Seems kind of low-rent.
[DAWN] Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... on Monday termed recent allegations against his party a nefarious plan, warning that attempts to remove him as MQM chief would result in "war in every nook and corner".
In a telephonic address from London to party loyalists in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Altaf categorically denied all allegations that MQM has connections with the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and the party received funding from Indian authorities, as claimed by a a startling report published by the BBC.
"I swear by God...there is no connection with RAW," he said.
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[Al Ahram] Iraqi premier Haider al-Abadi has "retired" the army's chief of staff, the most senior officer removed since jihadists overran large parts of the country last year, his front man said Monday.
General Babaker Zebari "has been retired" on Abadi's orders, Saad al-Hadithi told AFP, without providing further details.
Abadi has sacked dozens of army and coppers in an effort to restructure and improve security forces that performed disastrously when 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.... jihadist group launched an offensive last June, overrunning major areas north and west of Baghdad.
But it is unclear if Zebari was removed as part of that effort, or for other reasons.
Multiple Iraqi army divisions collapsed during the initial IS offensive, with soldiers abandoning weapons, vehicles and uniforms in their haste to flee.
The Iraqi military suffers from both poor training -- which the US military says it largely abandoned after the 2011 withdrawal of American forces -- and lacking leadership.
Zebari repeatedly said before the withdrawal that it would be better if American forces stayed, as it would take years for the Iraqi army to be fully ready.
"If I were asked about the withdrawal, I would say to politicians: the US army must stay until the Iraqi army is fully ready in 2020," Zebari told AFP in 2010.
While Zebari was chief of staff, military responsibility was devolved elsewhere post 2011, with former prime minister Nuri al-Maliki centralising control of the armed forces in his office and bypassing the defence ministry.
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[Al Ahram] Israel said on Monday it had conditioned humanitarian aid to select Syrian rebel groups on its border on their undertaking not to harm the Druze minority in the country's civil war.
Druze Arabs in Syria have long been loyal to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... , and their brethren in Israel and the Golan Heights, which Israeli forces captured in 1967, have been lobbying the Netanyahu government to safeguard the community.
The Israelis, however, have sought to keep out of the more than four-year-old insurgency against Assad, an old foe who, they fear, may be toppled by more hostile Islamist Lion of Islams.
But in a rare spillover of Syria's sectarian conflict into the Golan, a Druze mob last week beat to death a civil war casualty who was being taken by ambulance to Israel, where hundreds of Syrian maimed have received treatment during the conflict.
Israel has said it has also sent food and water across the frontier.
Briefing news hounds on Monday, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said that, from the outset, Israel knew there were rebels among those it was helping and "placed two conditions on this aid - that terrorist groups not approach the fence, and that the Druze not be touched".
He was referring to the southern Syrian Druze village of Hader on which rebels have encroached, setting off solidarity protests in the Golan and Israel where the Druze are an Arab minority with influence in the military and government.
Another Israeli defence official said that while Israel has not refused medical treatment to any Syrian approaching its lines, "later, when it became clear that they were rebels, we made sure that they understood we expected our conditions to be kept".
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A secret telegraph issued by the Saudi intelligence revealed that a son of a prominent commander in Hezbollah had got involved in selling arms to officers defected from the Syrian regime.
The document was published by WikiLeaks among thousands of 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... . It was issued by the head of general intelligence and directed to the king of Saudi Arabia who was the prime minister as well. It informed the king that Syrian regime had tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Ali Mohammed Yazbik, the son of Mohammed Yazbik, the commander in Hezbollah, after they were learnt that he sold arms to many defected officers.
The telegraph mentioned that intelligence of Syrian regime was looking for a Shiite man called "Akrima Miqdad", known to work in arms' trading and he sold arms to Sunni people in Leb.
In the same telegraph, regime's intelligence requested from its alliance "Hezbollah and Amal Movement" to check if any of their members had sold arms to members of the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) in Syria.
Moreover, the telegraph mentioned that Syrian intelligence had called many of tribes' leaders like Al-Jafers, and Al-Zoeters, and threatened them of killing if it was proven that they involved in selling arms to defected officers from the Syrian Army.
WikiLeaks said in a statement that it has already posted roughly 60,000 files. Most of them appear to be in Arabic.
There was no immediate way to verify the authenticity of the documents, although WikiLeaks has a long track record of hosting large-scale leaks of government material. Many of the documents carried green letterhead marked "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" or "Ministry of Foreign Affairs."
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Official diplomatic documents revealed that a prominent intelligence figure in Syria requested from Lebanese well known figures to prepare for destructive acts in Leb to unstable the country and increase the disorder among people.
Two documents published in WikiLeaks, issued by the head of Saudi intelligence and forwarded to the King of 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... , revealed that Assad's family confidante General. Mohammed Nasif had called 9 Lebanese political figures: Abdul Rahman Murad (former Ministry of deffence), Asim Qanso (the head of Baath Party in Leb), Ali Hasan Khalil (from Amal movement) Shaker Birjawi (Head of Arabic Current Party), Mustafa Hamdan (former of Commander of republican Guard) Wiam Wahab (Head of Arabic Tawhidi Party), Ali Eid (Head of Arabc Democratic Party), Najah Wakim (Leader of People Movement) and His deputy Ibrahim al-Halabi.
Nasif requested them to do destructive actions in Leb against the Salafi group and Moslem Brüderbund, and all of them accepted, except Najah Wakim, Head of People Movement, and his deputy Ibrahim al-Halabi.
It is surprising that Nasif had promised the meeting's attendees that arms would be provided by the Paleostinian militias of Ahmed Jibril, as they have military sites in Leb out of the country's control, similar to Hezbollah.
A month after the first document, the head of Saudi Intelligence sent another letter to the Saudi king explaining that Wiam Wahab had received a shipment of arms and explosives from Jibril's militias and he stored them in the town of Jahiliyah, his hometown.
The Saudi document mentioned that many members of Wahab's party had had intensive training by Syrian and Iranian experts.
WikiLeaks, 2 weeks ago, published more than 60,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, a move that echoes its famous release of US State Department cables in 2010.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's top security board has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over "demographic changes" in northern Syria to the advantage of Syrian Kurds and "terror acts" committed by jihadists against civilians, while avoiding giving a clear indication of a coming military intervention into its southern neighbor.
"The developments taking place in our southern neighbor, Syria, have been assessed in detail and additional measures taken along our border have been reviewed. Concerns over terror acts targeting the civilians in the region as well as attempts for demographic change have been voiced," read the statement issued by the National Security Council (MGK) late June 29.
The MGK was convened under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... and with the participation of senior government and military officials.
The four-hour meeting took place amid growing rumblings from senior government officials that Turkey will not remain silent at the Democratic Union Party's (PYD) alleged removal of Arabs and Turkmens from Tel Abyad and nearby provinces so that more Kurds can be settled.
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[ARABNEWS] Mohammed Nasif Khayrbik, a senior Syrian government security official close to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... , died on Sunday morning after a long illness, state media said.
Khayrbik was a key confidante of the Assad family and the target of EU and US sanctions for his alleged role in putting down anti-government demonstrations and interfering in neighboring Leb.
"The presidency announces the death of retired general Mohammed Nasif Khayrbik, deputy vice president of the republic, after a long illness," Syrian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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[ARABNEWS] The UN's cultural agency said Monday the destruction of antiquities and heritage sites in conflict zones by the Daesh and other hard boy groups could amount to war crimes.
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, meeting in Bonn, noted 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.... 's destruction of the ancient city of Hatra in Iraq and expressed "deep concern" about the Syrian archaeological gem of Palmyra, which the group captured in May. Both are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
"Intentional attacks against buildings dedicated to religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes and historic monuments may amount to war crimes," the committee said in a resolution it adopted.
In April, International Criminal Court ... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said she had received allegations of widespread atrocities in Syria and Iraq by IS, as well as the "wanton destruction of cultural property," but said she wasn't opening an investigation as neither country is a member of the court and the imported muscle suspected of involvement are not high-ranking enough to prosecute.
In its resolution, UNESCO said it was "deeply shocked" by repeated attacks by IS and other groups "aimed at destroying cultural diversity through deliberate targeting of individuals and communities on the basis of cultural, ethnic or religious background, as well as places of worship, memory and learning."
It added further that it was alarmed by an increasing number of threats to cultural heritage through looting and illegal excavations "which seriously undermine irreplaceable cultural treasures, among them UNESCO World Heritage sites in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Syria and Yemen.
UNESCO also cautioned that natural world heritage sites in Niger, Congo the Central African Republic and Ivory Coast are threatened by problems "likely to continue long after the end of hostilities."
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could amount to war crimes
But won't, because without a head one can't consume beluga caviar?
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...but said she wasn't opening an investigation as neither country is a member of the court and the imported muscle suspected of involvement are not high-ranking enough to prosecute.
UNESCO said it was "deeply shocked"
it added further that it was alarmed
Thanks, Fatou. Hard hitting rhetoric like this should keep you on the gravy train for at least the next couple of years at least. Bon appetit!
[Al Ahram] Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... was prepared for all necessary measures to tackle security threats along its borders, highlighting Ankara's growing anxiety about conflict near its southern frontier in Syria.
The National Security Council, chaired by President Tayyip Erdogan, expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about a threat of "terrorism" from the Syrian border as local media reported Ankara was considering military steps to counter security risks from Syria.
A statement from the council following its meeting also said Turkey was worried about demographic changes in the region, in an apparent reference to the displacement of Arab and Turkmen Syrians following fighting in recent weeks.
Syrian Kurdish forces continued to make military advances against Islamic snuffies with Ankara fearing the creation of an autonomous Kurdish state in Syrian territory that would further embolden Turkey's own 14 million Kurds.
Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey would never allow the formation of a Kurdish state along its southern borders.
Syrian Kurdish forces secured the town of Kobane next to the border over the weekend, beating back 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.... bully boys.
"If any harm is to come to Turkey's border security, if Turkey reaches the conclusion that this garden of peace is being threatened, it is prepared for any eventuality," Davutoglu said in comments broadcast late on Sunday.
"We will take the necessary measures to reduce the risks related to cross-border security."
The pro-government Star newspaper said a possible cross-border operation would be considered at the national security council meeting, citing unnamed sources.
One option that could be considered was the creation of a 110 km (70 mile) "secure zone" within Syria, the newspaper said.
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Saban Disli, an adviser to Davutoglu, told Rooters the meeting was likely to bring a change in the military's rules of engagement, describing advances of both Kurdish forces and Islamic State snuffies as "dangerous".
He did not say how the rules could be changed. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the pro-government Sabah newspaper said policy could be altered to allow Turkish forces to attack Islamic State fighters near the border. Currently, Turkish forces retaliate in kind against any attack from Syrian territory.
"Turkey will not take any unilateral step on the Syrian side independent of the international coalition," a senior government official told Rooters. "But we have our sensitivity on border gates not coming under the control of ISIL or the PYD (Kurdish forces)."
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"We will do whatever it takes to keep the Kurds down."
[RFERL.ORG] President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... has said that Russia's "policy to support Syria, the Syrian leadership, and the Syrian people remains unchanged."
Putin was speaking at a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem at the Kremlin on June 29.
At a presser with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, Muallem said he had been assured that "Russia will continue to help Syria politically, economically, and militarily."
Putin also exhorted all Middle East countries to "pool their efforts together" to fight Islamic myrmidons, especially 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.... bully boy group, which holds large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.
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There is a Russian facility in the port of Tartus where the Rooskis refuel their fleet tugs. Losing that would be unfortunate. I suspect the Russians will not let a friendly regime go under, especially if it means dealing with the Iranians or such.
On the other hand, if Putin ever wanted to buy Greece, now is the time.
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True to form, a Fleet Salvage Tug/Veeesil was deployed wid the MOSKA-led task force recently ordered deployed to widin "striking range" of CONUS by Vlad.
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ION BIGNEWSNETWORK > BBC: ISLAMIC STATE MAY THREATEN RUSSIA'S [North?] CAUCASUS, + ultimately World Peace-Stability in LT.
versus
* SAME > [The Nation] RUSSIA OR CHINA: WASHINGTON [Obama Admin] CAN'T DECIDE [tell]WHOM IS A BIGGER THREAT.
* JAPAN TIMES, VARIOUS > RUSSIA REVIEWS LEGALITY OF SOVIET [Gorbachev-era] GRANTING OF BALTIC STATES' SOVEREIGNTY.
DARTH VLAD vs. LITHUANIA.
"The Balts are Coming, the Balts are Coming"!
Lest we fergit, the Bammer is an Anti-US US OWG Globalist whose job is to make sure that the Sole Superpower USoAmerica devols into One-of-Many OWG Co-Superpower USoAmerika PAR, NOT SUPERIOR to its Russia, China, + Iran, Other? Co-Superpower siblings.
SAVING AMERIKA FROM AMERICANS.
* FYI IIRC MANILA TIMES > COMMENTARY: SO THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS, NOT WID A NUKE [or Texas-sized Asteroid-Comet] BUT WID A COURT RULING.
SCOTUS "SAME-SEX" RULING, + all those to come afterward.
* SAME > CHINA RECLAIMS, FORTIFIES [disputed SCS] TERRITORIES, WHAT DOES AQUINO DO? LOSS OF PAGASA TO CHINA IS A TESTAMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE NATION'S INCOMPETENCE [weakness] TO DEFEND ITS OWN TERRITORY.
Again, POTUS OBAMA = US WILL SUPPORT CHINA'S CLAIMS IN SCS [ECS = Japan?]IFF IT CAN PROVE SAME BEYOND ANY DOUBT.
[AnNahar] 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 has executed more than 3,000 people in Syria, including hundreds of civilians, in the year since it declared its self-described "caliphate," a monitor said on Sunday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based group monitoring Syria's conflict, said it had documented 3,027 executions by IS since June 29, 2014.
Among those executed are 1,787 civilians, including 74 children, said the Observatory.
Members of Sunni Shaitat tribe account for around half of the civilians murdered.
IS killed 930 members of the clan in Deir Ezzor last year after they rose up against the Lion of Islam Sunni Moslem group.
The toll also includes recent mass killings by IS in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane, which the jihadist group re-entered briefly this week after being expelled in January.
The monitor said it had counted at least 223 executions in the border town this week.
The Observatory also documented 216 IS executions of rival rebel factions and Kurdish fighters, as well as the executions of nearly 900 regime forces.
IS has also executed 143 of its own members it accused of crimes including spying, many of them captured as they were trying to desert the group, the Observatory said.
And at least 8,000 IS Lions of Islam have been killed in battles and U.S.-led air strikes, added the monitor.
According to the monitor: “Among the victims at the hands of the Islamic State during a year, 216 murderous Moslems from Syrian Free Army, 881 from the Syrian government and some 4,000 from the Kurdish parties have been killed."
Possibly the Kurdish number contains an extra zero...
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[ARABNEWS] Twelve students including British, Canadian, Sudanese and US citizens are feared to have left Khartoum for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to try to join Daesh, their university said on Sunday.
Another group of British students of Sudanese origin from the same private University of Medical Sciences and Technology traveled to Turkey in March and it is believed they crossed into Syria.
"We confirmed reports from multiple parties that 12 medical students at the university left for Turkey on Friday," the dean for students Ahmed Babikir told AFP.
Khartoum airport authorities confirmed the group had flown to Turkey and the students' families said they had not seen them since Friday and were unable to find their passports, Babikir added.
"Logic says that they traveled to join the Daesh organization," Babikir said. Seven of the missing students are British, two Canadian, one American and two are Sudanese nationals, he said.
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Al Ahram] Iraqi premier Haider al-Abadi has "retired" the army's chief of staff, the most senior officer removed since jihadists overran large parts of the country last year, his 
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...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
