[IsraelTimes] How much grassroots support does 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 al-Sham (ISIS) enjoy in key "coalition" countries like Egypt, 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... , or Leb? Until today, one could only guess at the answer. Recent news reports about the arrests of ISIS adherents in all three of these countries add urgency to the question.
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I feel much the same about them.
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It would be a good test target for Rods from God!
[AnNahar] Nigeria's military and presidency on Friday claimed to have reached a deal with Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... turbans on a ceasefire and the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls.
"A ceasefire agreement has been concluded between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad (Boko Haram)," Chief of Defense Staff Air Marshal Alex Badeh said.
"I have accordingly directed the service chiefs to ensure immediate compliance with this development in the field."
Separately, President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... 's Principal Secretary Hassan Tukur told AFP that an agreement to end hostilities had been reached following talks, as well as the release of 219 girls held captive since April.
Tukur said that he had represented the government at two meetings with the Salafist tough guys in neighboring Chad mediated by that country's President Idriss Deby.
"Boko Haram issued the ceasefire as a result of the discussions we have been having with them," said Tukur, adding that the announcement was made "last night", Thursday.
"They have agreed to release the Chibok girls," he continued, referring to the 219 teenage girls held hostage after their April 14 kidnapping from a secondary school in Chibok, northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
But questions surrounded the purported deal, given that Jonathan is expected to declare his re-election bid and positive news about the hostages and violence could give him a political boost.
Multiple analysts cast doubt on Ahmadu's credibility as a Boko Haram envoy while Nigeria has made similar ceasefire claims in the past which failed to materialize.
There was also uncertainty about the identity of Danladi Ahmadu, who was said by Tukur to be Boko Haram's representative at the talks and who gave a radio interview broadcast on Friday morning.
Multiple analysts cast doubt on Ahmadu's credibility as a Boko Haram envoy while Nigeria has made similar ceasefire claims in the past which failed to materialize.
"I have never heard of such a man (Ahmadu) and if Boko Haram wanted to declare a ceasefire it would come from the group's leader Abubakar Shekau," said Shehu Sani, a Boko Haram expert who has negotiated with the group before on behalf of the government.
"This whole thing is hoax. Ahmadu is not a part of Boko Haram," said another source with intimate knowledge of the group.
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[REUTERS] Al Qaeda's wing in Yemen expressed support on Friday for 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.... against what it described as a "crusade alliance", referring to U.S.-led air strikes on the bully boyz in Iraq and Syria, and called for attacks to damage the United States.
U.S. and Arab forces have bombed Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq since the hard boyz declared a caliphate in the territory under their control.
Islamic State is an offshoot of al Qaeda but now challenges that group for influence among jihadists.
"We are behind our brothers against this international crusade and we join them in their enmity against this campaign," al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP), the Yemeni branch of the movement, said in an online statement.
"We confirm the call to whoever is able to hurt the Americans to make an effort to hurt them militarily, economically and through the media. They are the leaders of this war and the base of this campaign."
AQAP reiterated its call on rival holy warrior factions in Iraq and Syria to stop fighting each other and unite against the U.S.-led alliance.
"We urge all the mujahedeen (Islamist fighters) to forget their differences and to stop the infighting among themselves," it said.
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[REUTERS] Britannia may use a mediaeval law dating to 1351 to charge citizens with treason if they go to fight with 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.... turbans in Iraq and Syria, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.
Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... has warned that Islamic State, whose fighters have seized large areas of Syria and Iraq, pose a grave threat to Britannia while police and intelligence officers say they have seen a rise in potentially deadly plots.
Security officials say some 500 Britons - largely with Moslem immigrant backgrounds - are believed to be fighting in Iraq and Syria, though the true figure could be much greater and security officials worry that those who return could carry out an attack on Britannia.
Hammond said any British citizen who had sworn personal allegiance to the so-called Islamic State could have committed an offense under the Treason Act of 1351, which was passed during the reign of English King Edward III.
"We have seen people declaring that they have sworn personal allegiance to the so-called Islamic State," Hammond told parliament on Thursday.
"That does raise questions about their loyalty and allegiance to this country and about whether the offense of treason could have been committed," he said, adding he would bring the issue to the attention of Home Secretary (interior minister) Theresa May.
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They still have a warrant out on William Wallis.
As far as medieval laws go, the UK still has laws on the books to keep Catholics out of power.
You'd think something to do with Muslims would be easy.
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"medieval treason law"
Hang, Draw and Quarter?
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Brits aren't serious about shit, they'll half hang 'em and let them go about their business whilst trousering political backsheesh for post career sustenance.
Only about half of the Air Force's next-generation F-35A fighter jet, which cost a hefty W121 billion, will be fully armed due to lack of combat weapons (US$1=W1,062). Seoul decided to buy 40 F-35As at a total cost of W7.34 trillion last month and claimed that would allow the Air Force to "overwhelm" North Korea.
But it has bought only half the weapons needed for the F-35As in a war, according to Air Force data submitted to Saenuri Party lawmaker Song Young-keun Wednesday.
The Air Force has secured a mere 45 percent of air-to-air missiles that would be used against North Korean fighter jets and only 75 percent of the required number of air-to-ground missiles. This suggests that the Air Force could mobilize at most 18 F-35As for air-to-air combat and 30 for air-to-ground combat in a war.
Each F-35A is armed with various weapons, including AIM-120 and AIM-9 air-to-air missiles and GBU-12, GBU-31 and GBU-39 air-to-ground missiles.
"We couldn't afford to pay attention to how to arm the F-35As because we concentrated on buying 40 of them," an Air Force officer admitted.
Some 66 percent of the budget for the epically delayed fighter project were spent on buying the fighter aircraft, with a mere 8 percent spent on weapons and equipment. The military is also under fire for deciding to buy only one backup engine for the 40 jets rather than the usual four to six or 10 to 15 percent spare.
They're beginning to act like Y'urp-peons...
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And we were expecting what?
I'm beginning to empathize with the prototypical '60's Soviet citizen..but with a nicer TV.
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Each F-35A is armed with various weapons, including AIM-120 and AIM-9 air-to-air missiles and GBU-12, GBU-31 and GBU-39 air-to-ground missiles.
Sort of like the F4 Phantom, designed without a cannon?
The F-4's biggest weakness, as it was initially designed, was its lack of an internal cannon. For a brief period, doctrine held that turning combat would be impossible at supersonic speeds and little effort was made to teach pilots air combat maneuvering. In reality, engagements quickly became subsonic, as pilots would slow down in an effort to get behind their adversaries. Furthermore, the relatively new heat-seeking and radar-guided missiles at the time were frequently reported as unreliable and pilots had to use multiple shots (also known as ripple-firing), just to hit one enemy fighter. To compound the problem, rules of engagement in Vietnam precluded long-range missile attacks in most instances, as visual identification was normally required. Many pilots found themselves on the tail of an enemy aircraft but too close to fire short-range Falcons or Sidewinders. Although by 1965 USAF F-4Cs began carrying SUU-16 external gunpods containing a 20 mm (.79 in) M61A1 Vulcan Gatling cannon, USAF cockpits were not equipped with lead-computing gunsights until the introduction of the SUU-23, virtually assuring a miss in a maneuvering fight. Some marine corps aircraft carried two pods for strafing. In addition to the loss of performance due to drag, combat showed the externally mounted cannon to be inaccurate unless frequently boresighted, yet far more cost-effective than missiles. The lack of a cannon was finally addressed by adding an internally mounted 20 mm (.79 in) M61A1 Vulcan on the F-4E.[48] - wiki
Ground support platform? And they're retiring (again) the A-10. How about just moving ground support entirely over to the Army along with the manpower and resource allocations.
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The F-35 has a cannon, it's a slightly modified version of the 25mm cannon the Marines were using on the Harrier. It's built in on the Air Force and Navy version, and on some sort of pod on the Marine version.
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The bit about the lack of engine spares is a little disturbing. OTOH, I would imagine Korea has a lot of F-35 compatible weapons already, since it's compatible with most of the air-to-ground stuff in their inventory for their F-16's and F-15's.
[IsraelTimes] A young French Jewish girl was radicalized, became an anti-Semite, planned a terrorist attack at her parentsâ shop and was a moment away from getting on a plane to join the Islamic State in Syria, a French anthropologist who runs a de-radicalization center in Paris revealed.
The center conducts research and works with French youth who have undergone Islamic radicalization and brainwashing. Some, she said, were well on the path to joining IS, including the young Jewish girl, whom she calls âA.â
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Those crazy kids reading The Nation --
An innocent college flirtation --
May stop short of bombs
But they rarely have qualms
About mom and dad's expropriation.
[Ynet] The Spanish parliament was set to vote on recognizing a Paleostinian state on Friday, Al Arabiya reported.
The announcement comes days after British politicians voted in favor of a non-binding motion to recognize the Paleostinian state, and after Sweden's new center-left government announced it would officially recognize Paleostine, causing rift in ties with Israel.
[REUTERS] Germany said on Friday it would seize the personal identity cards of German radical Islamists it suspects of planning to travel to Syria or Iraq to join jihadist forces there.
Germany, like many other European countries, is struggling to prevent a wave of would-be jihadists, some of them just teenagers, from joining 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.... , the hard boy group that has seized swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory.
Authorities fear they will return battle-hardened and full of hate for the West and could plot attacks on home soil.
German intelligence estimates that at least 450 people have left Germany for Syria and that around 150 have returned. Many are the subject of criminal investigations.
Under existing legislation, Germany can seize passports to keep citizens at home, but not the personal identity cards which every German is obliged to carry at all times.
The identity cards alone are enough for Germans to gain entry to other European countries and also, crucially, to Turkey, from where would-be jihadists can slip across the long border into Syria.
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[AnNahar] Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Friday called for a "humanitarian" safe zone to be created in an extensive section of northern Syria to host refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict.
Oh dear. Does Erdogan Padshah want his own Janissaries to do his fighting for him? The whole thing is awfully passive voice, suggesting the Turks have no interest in dirtying their hands in what is ultimately their own self defence.
Turkey has called for the area, backed up by a no-fly zone, to protect its borders and provide some protection for refugees fleeing both the Syrian conflict and 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.... murderous Moslems who have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Davutoglu said the safe zone should be established on a long stretch of territory along Turkey's more than 900 kilometer (660 mile) border with Syria, from Idlib in the west to Hasakah to the east and including the besieged town of Kobane.
"Safety zones can be established in areas which have seen a flow of refugees," Davutoglu told a briefing in Ankara. "These safe zones are humanitarian, not military," he said.
Asked about where the safe zone should be, he mentioned the main regions of northern Syria but cautioned against seeing it as a single continuous area.
"Where did the refugees come to Turkey from? Jarabulus, Kobane, Tel Abyad, Idlib and Hasakah," he said.
"But it's not limited to these cities. I tried to limit them to the areas from which refugees come."
Davutoglu dismissed maps seen in newspapers which portrayed the security zone as a continuous line stretching right along the Turkish border with Syria.
"They haven't been drawn by us or based on any diplomatic consultations," he said.
Some 200,000 Kurds have fled to Turkey to escape the onslaught on the key Syrian border town of Kobane by IS jihadists.
Turkey is separately hosting over 1.5 million Syrian refugees who fled the civil war between Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... and rebels seeking his ouster.
Davutoglu did not make clear if the safe zone should house just refugees from the Kobane region or also those who fled from elsewhere in Syria earlier in the conflict.
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Safe zone? But will it be safe from the Turks, who are refusing medical care and entry to the wounded Kurds, letting them bleed out at the border?
The leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist organization, Abdullah Ocalan will be transferred to another prison, Kanal7 TV channel reported Oct.16.
Ocalan will be transferred from the prison on the Imrali Island in the Marmara Sea to a prison in Turkey's Bursa province as part of the measures for a democratic solution to the Kurdish problem in Turkey.
Earlier, Turkey's pro-Kurdish parties demanded Ocalan's transfer to another prison.
Ocalan was arrested in Kenya Feb.15, 1999 and handed over to Turkish authorities. Initially he was sentenced to death. However the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
The conflict between Turkey and the PKK, which demands the creation of an independent Kurdish state, has continued for over 25 years and has claimed more than 40,000 lives. The process of democratic settlement to the Kurdish problem in Turkey kicked off in 2009, following which a part of the PKK militants left the country’s territory and moved to the neighboring Iraq.
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[AnNahar] India successfully test-fired its first domestically built nuclear-capable long-range cruise missile Friday, marking another step in building up the country's defense prowess.
The "Nirbhay", or "fearless", missile blasted off from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Missile Test Range in Chandipur in the eastern state of Orissa, the Press Trust of India reported.
"The trial was totally successful," a senior government official associated with the launch told the Press Trust of India national news agency.
"The outcome of the trial was ascertained by analyzing the data retrieved from radars and telemetry points," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... Unlike other ballistic missiles, Nirbhay has a wing and tail fins. The missile is intended to cruise like an aircraft, helped by its small fins, and can be launched from land, sea and air.
The surface-to-surface missile is fitted with a turbojet engine and is capable of flying at low altitudes to avoid detection. It can even hover near the target, striking from any direction without being seen on radar.
With a range of up to 1,000 kilometers (600 miles), it gives India the capability to strike "deep into enemy territory", NDTV news network reported.
The Nirbhay is regarded by military experts as India's version of the U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles.
Friday's success comes after the subsonic missile's first test launch in March 2013 had to be aborted midway after it veered off course.
India, which shares borders with arch-rivals Pakistain and giant China, both of which are nuclear-armed, is developing the missile system to strengthen its air-defense capabilities.
India already has in its arsenal the supersonic BrahMos missile which it developed jointly with Russia.
India in 2012 successfully launched its nuclear-capable Agni V ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,000 kilometers.
The Indian military views the Agni V missile as a key boost to its regional power aspirations and one that narrows -- albeit slightly -- its huge gap with China's technologically advanced missile systems.
While the shorter-range Agni I and II were mainly developed with India's traditional rival Pakistain in mind, later versions with longer range reflect the shift in India's military focus towards China.
Just last month, Indian government scientists were in the news for winning Asia's race to Mars when its unmanned Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit after a 10-month journey on a tiny budget.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Deputy Commander Brigadier-General Hossein Salami has repeated that if Pakistan does not take action against Iran's Baluchi rebels, the Islamic Republic forces may enter the neighboring country's territory, Iranian Fars news agency reported Oct. 16.
Haven't the Paks suffered enough?
Salami made the remarks while commenting about the recent attacks made by armed Baluchi rebels in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
In recent months, several armed attacks were carried out on the local police offices by extremist groups, who claim they're fighting against the Iranian government for protection of Sunni residents of the province. Four police officers were killed in two attacks in Saravan city Oct. 8-9. Iranian officials said that some of the gunmen involved in attacks have escaped to Pakistan.
"Every country should fulfill its obligations towards its internal security as well as the security of the neighboring countries," Salami said, adding maintaining the border security is an important common issue among the neighboring countries.
"We do not interfere in the affairs of any country,
...except for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Sudan, Egypt, Argentina, Switzerland and the U.S....
but if they do not fulfill their obligations we have to act," the commander underlined.
Salami went on to say that "we will find rebels anywhere, even inside the neighboring countries and will take any action against them without restrictions if they do not stop their activity."
The Islamic Republic's interior minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said Oct. 15 that Pakistan and Afghanistan do not provide proper supervision of the common borders with Iran.
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As per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS thia AM, looks like Iran has also begun exchanging Arty fire wid Afghanistan's Border Security Boyz.
[AnNahar] Confronting 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 in Iraq is the "main" priority for the U.S.-led fight against the jihadists, while strikes in Syria are designed to disrupt the group's supply lines, the U.S. commander overseeing the air war said Friday.
Even with the world's attention fixed on the fate of the northern Syrian town of Kobane, General Lloyd Austin said Iraq was the primary battleground for the air campaign.
"Iraq is our main effort, and it has to be," Austin told news hounds.
"And the things that we're doing right now in Syria are being done primarily to shape the conditions in Iraq," he said.
U.S.-led air raids in Syria are serving as a way to undercut the group's ability to reinforce and resupply its fighters in Iraq, he said.
In his first presser since the air campaign was launched in Iraq on August 8, Austin said it would take time before Iraqi government forces were truly effective and declined to say when the army would be ready to stage major offensives to recapture lost territory in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... or elsewhere.
"It's difficult to ...designate a specific point in time when they'll be able to do this."
Iraqi army troops have suffered a string of setbacks in western Anbar province, raising fears that Baghdad could come under pressure and the airport endangered.
But Austin said the airport was not at risk of falling to the IS group.
"I feel fairly confident that the airfield is secure and will be secure for the foreseeable future," he said.
It was possible the IS could fire a mortar round at the airfield, but similar incidents occurred during the U.S. occupation of Iraq in 2003-2011 and did not force the closure of the airport, he said.
"This is something that we monitor -- we patrol on a routine basis," he said, adding that U.S. Apache helicopters, drone surveillance aircraft and Iraqi forces all help guard the airport.
Although defeating IS in Iraq was the top goal, Austin acknowledged U.S. aircraft had been pounding the group's fighters around the Syrian border town of Kobane this week with dozens of bombing raids. He said the strikes were a response to IS moving in large numbers around the town, making itself vulnerable to attacks from the air.
"Now, my goal is to defeat and ultimately destroy ISIL (IS). And if he continues to present us with major targets, as he has done in the Kobane area, then clearly, we'll service those targets, and we've done so very, very effectively here of late," Austin said.
There have been "encouraging" signs in recent days in the battle over the Syrian border town of Kobane, with U.S. air strikes slowing the advance of Islamic State jihadists, he said. But he acknowledged the town could still fall to the IS group, despite stiff resistance from Kurdish militia and stepped up U.S. bombing raids.
"It is highly possible that Kobane may fall," Austin said.
"But .. .I think the things that we have done here in the last several days are encouraging. And we're seeing the Kurds actually fight to regain territory that had been lost previously," the general said. "And I think we've been able to help that along with precision air strikes in the last couple days."
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The priority is where the center of gravity to apply force is. That, of course, is when you want to defeat an opponent. If you just want to make theater till after an election, that's a different story.
[Ynet] After holy site sees violent festivities and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, political leader calls on Moslems to defend mosque, large rally held in Gazoo.
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... suggested Jews should be banned from a holy site revered by both Jews and Moslems after hundreds of Paleostinians in Gazoo participated in a Hamas-organized rally Friday over Jerusalem's flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque, the scene of recurring festivities between Israeli security forces and Paleostinians in recent days.
Leaving mosques after prayers in Gazoo City, they rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud pledging to defend the mosque and waved green flags, the color of the Islamist movement Hamas, the de facto ruler of Gazoo. The rally was also attended by other Paleostinian factions, including the Lion of IslamIslamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader, called on "our people in Jerusalem and the West Bank to defend al-Aqsa."
Police Spokeswoman Luba Samri said 5,000 people participated in Friday's prayers at al-Aqsa, which passed without event. Police had barred men under the age of 50 from accessing the holy site to prevent disturbances.
Abbas made the comments following recent festivities between Paleostinian worshippers and Israeli forces over what Paleostinians see as Jewish encroachment on the site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Moslems as the Noble Sanctuary.
Abbas said Jews should be prevented from entering the site "by any means," adding that "this is our Noble Sanctuary... they have no right to enter and desecrate it."
Paleostinians also say Israel is unfairly restricting access at the site. Israel limited male Moslem worshippers this past week to those 50 years old and older due to recent violence there.
The site is the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam.
On Thursday, Hamas political leader, Khaled Mashal, called for Moslems to defend the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, saying Israel was trying to seize the site, which is revered in both Islam and Judaism.
Mashal, speaking in the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i capital Doha where he lives, said: "We call on all our people inside the country to hurry up to al-Aqsa to defend it."
On Wednesday, four Paleostinians were tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! following festivities with police at the Old City site.
Two days earlier, demonstrators clashed with security officers when non-Moslems were to visit the site.
The site is the scene of frequent tensions and also houses the Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine.
It is revered by Jews, who call it the Temple Mount, as the location of the biblical Jewish temples and considered Judaism's holiest place.
Non-Moslem visits to Al-Aqsa complex are permitted and regulated by police, but Jews are not allowed to pray at the site for fear it could trigger major disturbances. Instead, Jews pray at the Western Wall below.
Moslems fear Jewish presence on Al-Aqsa is aimed at usurping the site.
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that "Israel is committed to maintaining the status quo" there.
[Ynet] The Paleostinians refused US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... 's request to postpone their UN resolution submission to set a deadline for Israeli withdrawal to 1967 lines, Paleostinian sources told Saudi newspaper Al-Watan on Friday.
[AnNahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... has reportedly visited his party's fighters on the Lebanese-Syrian border dressed in military fatigues in a strong show of support.
More like he didn't want to be quite as visible to taqfiri snipers, or was playing at soldiers like Moammar Khaddafi was wont to do, but do go on, dear journalist...
Al-Liwaa newspaper said Friday that Nasrallah met the fighters in their posts after he visited some families in the eastern Bekaa Valley to extend condolences to the party members who were killed in battles with hard boy groups.
Hizbullah has sent fighters to Syria to back Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's forces against rebels trying to remove him from power. The armed intervention in Syria earned the Shiite group the enmity of Syria's predominantly Sunni rebels. Assad is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Over the past year, Syrian troops and Hizbullah fighters have captured most of the towns and villages in Syria's mountainous Qalamun region along the Leb border, depriving the rebels of residential areas where they can stay during the winter.
Over the past year, Syrian troops and Hizbullah fighters have captured most of the towns and villages in Syria's mountainous Qalamun region along the Leb border, depriving the rebels of residential areas where they can stay during the winter.
Hizbullah fighters have also clashed with jihadists, who infiltrated Lebanese territories.
Last week, al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front, attacked positions manned by Hizbullah on the outskirts of Brital, killing several of its fighters.
There have been reports of other skirmishes between Hizbullah and murderous Moslems along the Leb-Syria border.
According to al-Liwaa, Nasrallah told the fighters during his visit to the Bekaa that there was a big plot against the resistance, which will fight in any region to defend itself.â
The Hizbullah secretary-general also said that his party was âfully ready to confront the adventures of takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... s and Israelis.
Can't forget the juices.
On Tuesday, several local newspapers quoted Nasrallah as telling his party's cadres in the Bekaa that âvictory will be the ally of the mujahideen in their battle against takfiri and terrorist groups the same way it was their ally in the confrontation with the Israeli enemy.â
Friday's report in al-Liwaa was likely mentioning the same visit that Nasrallah did to eastern Leb.
Nasrallah, who lives in hiding, has made few public appearances since his group fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006 for fear of liquidation by the Jewish state.
[CNSNEWS] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... on Thursday night rejected any link between Islam and extremism practiced by the likes 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.... in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh), pointing instead to factors such as poverty among youthful Mideast populations, the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict ‐ and climate change.
Addressing a reception at the State Department in honor of the recent Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, Kerry told an audience of Moslem community representatives, diplomats and others that the world was facing "a very complex time, and there are many currents that are loose out there that have brought us to this moment."
"The extremism that we see, the radical exploitation of religion which is translated into violence, has no basis in any of the real religions," he said. "There's nothing Islamic about what ISIL/Daesh stands for, or is doing to people."
The situation was "complicated, and for other reasons," Kerry said. "We're living at a point in time where there are just more young people demanding what they see the rest of the world having than at any time in modern history."
He said with large youthful populations in some countries in the Middle East, South-Central Asia and the Horn of Africa, "you are going to have a governance problem unless your governance is really addressing the demands and needs of that part of the population."
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#5
If they were the least bit concerned about climate change they would
1. Mention it once
2. Stop selling oil
3. Issue one of their patented fatwas
4. Hack the head off of a climate denier
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#7
Yep, all those yahoos who's family moved to the West and were born into societies that provided the basics without want are going back to the 'old country caliphate' to kill for Islam because they've suffered deprivation and want. /sarc off
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[REUTERS] Al Qaeda's wing in Yemen expressed support on Friday for 
David Cameron
Only about half of the Air Force's next-generation F-35A fighter jet, which cost a hefty W121 billion, will be fully armed due to lack of combat weapons (US$1=W1,062). Seoul decided to buy 40 F-35As at a total cost of W7.34 trillion last month and claimed that would allow the Air Force to "overwhelm" North Korea. 
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Deputy Commander Brigadier-General Hossein Salami has repeated that if Pakistan does not take action against Iran's Baluchi rebels, the Islamic Republic forces may enter the neighboring country's territory, Iranian Fars news agency reported Oct. 16.
[Ynet] After holy site sees violent 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Secretary of State 
