[Tolo News] Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) officials from southern Kandahar province said on Sunday that votes from 17 polling sites have been separated out of the vote counting process for further review after suspicions of fraud arose from complaints filed by presidential candidate 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... . Election officials of nearby Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province have said votes from 13 sites have been isolated.
The announcements come over a week after Abdullah leveled accusations of aiding and abetting runoff fraud in favor of his opponent - Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai - against the Independent Election Commission (IEC). He then followed up those allegations with claims that President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has supported the IEC's actions.
Kandahar ECC head Shamsuddin Wafa said that the complaints filed by Abdullah's campaign had led to the isolation of thousands of ballots from across the province. He said one of the polling sites was in Kandahar city and the others spread across nine outlying districts.
He also confirmed that the complaints from Abdullah's team were primarily "against Independent Election Commission (IEC) employees and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai's electoral team."
Although Abdullah withdrew his observers from the election commissions and demanded the vote counting process be stopped last week, national election officials have pressed on with the process. The only clear developments his pronouncements seem to have caused were to prompt the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... to step in as a mediator and fuel tensions between his supporters and those of Ashraf Ghani.
On Election Day, reports emerged from Kandahar of observers being forced out of voting places. Abdullah supporters have also pointed to a surprisingly high turnout in Maiwand district as a sign of possible ballot stuffing, along with similar cases in a number of eastern provinces.
The statements of the Kandahar ECC head follow the announcement by neighboring Helmand's ECC office that votes from 13 polling sites had been set aside for further investigation. The sites in question were located in Musa Qala, Gereshk, Nad Ali and Marjeh districts.
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[Tolo News] President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has assembled a special delegation to work on solutions to problems that have cropped up around the election process over the past week, Attorney General Mohammad Ishaq Aloko said on Monday.
Speaking at a gathering held in Kabul by the Qizilbashan Public Council, Mr. Aloko said that Karzai is actively working to resolve the disputes between presidential candidate 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... , his opponent Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and the election commissions.
"President Karzai appointed a delegation to find an agreement," Aloko said. "The Attorney General's office has not yet received any issue about the election and hopes not to receive any in the future either; we hope the issues of the election will be solved."
The Attorney General did not specify who was on Karzai's delegation, but indicated that it included tribal elders. "There are some elders working on the issue and Karzai has asked the two candidates to meet with each other," he said. "We believe in two candidates, they are very popular figures."
The election process took a controversial turn shortly after Election Day when presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah began launching accusations of fraud against the election commissions, his opponent and Karzai himself. Abdullah demanded the suspension of a top election official and decided to boycott the Independent Election Commission (IEC) when his demand went unmet. He also called for the voting process to be stopped.
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[Tolo News] The Independent Election Commission's (IEC) Secretariat Chief, Zia-ul-Haq Amarkhail, announced his resignation on live television Monday afternoon.
The announcement came just a day after presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah released phone recordings of conversations allegedly between Amarkhail and members of the campaign team of his opponent, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. The recordings suggest a broad plot to conduct fraud during the runoff election, however, the identities of the voices on them have yet to be confirmed.
Announcing his resignation at a press conference alongside IEC Chairman Ahmed Yousuf Nuristani, Amarkhail claimed his decision was not forced and was not made in light of the recordings. He claimed the phone taps were fake and that he had never had the conversations.
"I have not resigned under the pressure of anyone," Amarkhail said. "I have only resigned for the sake of the process and national interests."
Amarkhail "strongly rejected" the accusations against him, and said there had been a longstanding conspiracy to try to oust him from the IEC. He claimed he had rejected many bribes and offers for positions over the course of the past year.
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The Sudanese woman on death row for refusing to recant her Christian beliefs has at last been reunited with her family, after spending six months behind bars.
Meriam Ibrahim, 27, left Omdurman women's prison on Monday afternoon, just hours after state media announced that the Supreme Court had overturned the sentence.
Accompanied by her two children, Martin, almost two, and baby Maya, born in prison a month ago, Ms Ibrahim was taken to a safe house in the Khartoum area. In Sudan, which imposes Sharia law, apostasy is a crime punishable by death — and earlier this month Ms Ibrahim's own brother called for her execution unless she "returned" to Islam.
On May 15 she had been ordered to hang for abandoning the Islamic faith — even though she insisted that she had been raised as a Christian, and was never a Mohammedan in the first place. Some people saw the charges as the result of a family feud — and an attempt by Ms Ibrahim's family to gain control of her successful small businesses.
The sentencing caused outrage around the world, and lead to an international campaign to secure her freedom.
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[Beirut Daily Star] A Sudanese Christian who gave birth in prison after being sentenced to hang for apostasy was freed Monday, her lawyer said.
The case of Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, sparked an outcry from Western governments and rights groups after a judge sentenced her to death on May 15.
"Meriam was released just about an hour ago," Mohanad Mustafa told AFP Monday afternoon.
"She's now out of prison," he said, but authorities will not issue the reasons for her release until Tuesday.
Born to a Moslem father and an &Aliga;thiopian Orthodox Christian mother, Ishag was convicted under Shariah law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death. Islam closely resembles a Roach Motel in that respect, doesn't it?
Twelve days after the verdict, Ishag gave birth to a daughter at the women's prison in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman. And a few days later, Ishag's husband, Daniel Wani, told AFP he did not believe she would be freed.
The couple's 20-month-old son was also incarcerated with Ishag and their daughter.
EU leaders called for revocation of the "inhumane verdict," while U.S. 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... urged Khartoum to repeal laws banning Moslems from converting.
British 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 ... said the way she had been treated was "barbaric and has no place in today's world."
Mustafa and four other human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. lawyers handling her case for free had appealed the verdict but word of her release was unexpected.
"It's great," a church source said of her release, after last week expressing optimism she would be freed due to international pressure on Sudan.
But Moslem turban groups were lobbying the Islamist government over Ishag's case, prominent newspaper editor Khalid Tigani has said.
Ishag was born in eastern Sudan's Gedaref state on Nov. 3, 1987, but her Sudanese Moslem father abandoned the family when Ishag was 5, leaving her to be raised according to her mother's faith, an earlier statement from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum said.
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Turks and Qataris in eastern Libya - "from Sirte to Musaid" (on the Egyptian border) - have been told to leave the country. The stark warning came from General Khalifa Hafter's spokesman, Mohamed Hejazi. He told the Libya Herald that they had to go "within 48 hours" of the warning.
"We captured people from Al-Qaeda in Benghazi and they told us about Turkish intelligence and Qatar intelligence operating from Sirte to Musaid."
The warning was for them, he said. When asked what would happen if they did not go, he replied: "After 48 hours you will see".
He worked for Qadaffi, so we have an idea...
There are far more Turks than Qataris in Libya. However, numbers are unknown. In the case of the former, no figures are kept because Turks can travel to Libya without visas. Nonetheless, Turkish officials estimate that there are at least 5,000 living and working in the country, most of them in Tripoli and the west. In the east, there are thought to be about 500.
It is also not clear if the statement has Hafter's approval although last week he criticised Sudan saying its position on terrorism in Libya was ambiguous.
Qatar has been widely accused in Libya of interfering in Libyan politics and of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists, an accusation it denies. Not us; it's them Emirates.
[DAWN] An Egyptian court sentenced three Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... journalists including Australia's Peter Greste to jail terms from seven to 10 years Monday in a verdict denounced internationally as "chilling" and "unjust".
Greste and Egyptian-Canadian Mohammed Fadel Fahmy each got seven years, while Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed received two sentences, one for seven years and another for three.
Eleven defendants tried in absentia, including one Dutch journalist and two British journalists, were given 10-year sentences.
The verdict provoked an international outcry and raised fears of growing media restrictions in Egypt.
"Today's conviction is obviously a chilling and draconian sentence," 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... told journalists in Storied Baghdad, a day after he visited Cairo where he urged Egyptian leaders to uphold press freedom.
The Australian government said it was "shocked" by the verdict.
"We are deeply dismayed that a sentence has been imposed and appalled at the severity of it," Canberra's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said.
"It is hard to credit that the court in this case could have reached this conclusion," she added.
Al-Jazeera chief Mustafa Sawaq said in Doha: "We condemn... this kind of unjust verdict. ... We are shocked. "Greste's brother Andrew said he was devastated.
"It is definitely not what we were expecting. I was hoping for acquittal... we will continue to fight for his freedom," he said.
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[AnNahar] A Danish court on Monday cut a prison sentence given to two Danish brothers of Somali origin convicted for attending a training camp run by Somalia's Islamist Shabaab rebels.
A court in the central city of Aarhus cut the jail sentence for Guleed Mohammed Warsame, 25, and Nuur Mohammed Warsame, 20, to two years from three and a half years for conspiring to send, and sending, the 25-year-old to a Shabaab-run training camp in Somalia.
The previous conviction by a district court was the first under a new Danish law against training with the aim of carrying out a terrorist act.
"A majority didn't find sufficient basis that (the older) came to be trained in bomb-making, use of weapons or similar," the High Court of Western Denmark said in a statement.
"There was only a basis for finding the defendants guilty of attempt(ing)" to be trained, it said.
Both men had been tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! for just over two years and were released after the verdict was announced.
The younger brother had stayed behind in Aarhus, where they have lived for more than 16 years, and from where he helped plan the trip and provided his brother with "advice and encouragement."
Somalia's Shabaab have carried out a string of Dire Revenge™ attacks for Kenya's military role in southern Somalia, including last year's siege of the Westgate shopping mall that left 67 people dead.
Attacks earlier this month on the coastal Mpeketoni district left at least 60 dead and were claimed by Shabaab Death Eaters, though President Uhuru Kenyatta blamed "well-planned, orchestrated and politically motivated ethnic violence" carried out by "local political networks".
[Ynet] European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... foreign ministers agreed on Monday to impose an asset freeze and travel ban on 12 Syrian government ministers, accusing them of "responsibility for serious human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... violations".
The ministers' names will only be published in the EU's Official Journal on Tuesday, when the sanctions will take effect, the EU said in a statement.
The decision brings to 191 the number of people targeted by EU sanctions on Syria, which has been plunged into civil war for the last three years. Fifty-three companies or other organizations, including the central bank of Syria, remain under an EU asset freeze.
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[The News (Pak)] As the government stood ground by not accepting even a single key demand of Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... and showed patience, he finally became flexible and put up an innocuous condition for face-saving to disembark the foreign airliner, writes Tariq Butt.
It was not at all difficult for the government to consent to sending Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar to the plane for talks with Dr Qadri to end the logjam. Thus, Sharifs' choice for the gubernatorial slot paid as he amicably ended the grueling interlude.
As the government implemented its well-considered decision, taken after the Lahore tragedy, not to fire even a single shot even in the face of worst violence from the PAT workers, a whopping number, 100 plus, of coppers received injuries because of the beating by the protesters in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. This policy demonstrated that authorities learnt a lesson from the Lahore killings, which could have been avoided by prudent handling and management.
The government, though deeply embarrassed and scared, was eventually satisfied over the peaceful finish of the saga as not a single bullet was fired by police and only batons were used and tear gas shells fired to disperse crowds where necessary. All the time, the government dreaded even the thought of a single death in the emotionally charged fracas.
The seven-hour long drama, starting from 8 am, the landing time of the plane carrying Dr Qadri at the Islamabad airport and ending around 3 pm at the Lahore airport, once again painted Pakistain as an unruly state on the global map where one leader, having a few thousands of followers but unable to win even a solitary seat in parliament, can hold the entire country hostage for hours.
While ensconced in his first class sofa, Dr Qadri kept making one demand after the other. First, he protested diversion of the plane to Lahore and urged that it must be flown back to Islamabad. It was not accepted by authorities.
Then, the PAT chief stressed that a Pakistain army representative should meet him in aircraft to work out details of his personal security by the military personnel because he has no faith in the protection to be provided by the "terrorist" government. Its non-acceptance was natural. Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her. Jack! she called. Where the hell are you?... different rounds of talks between him and senior government officials continued in the plane.
Finally, he opted for Chaudhry Sarwar, who is his personal friend, to come to the plane for negotiations with him to enable him to disembark. The government was thrilled to accept the condition. The governor was asked to reach the aircraft and he did that within no time and the situation was saved from getting out of control.
At the same time, Dr Qadri also demanded that his personal bulletproof high-powered jeeps and his personal coppers, comprising retired army commandos, should be allowed to reach the tarmac to take him to his residence. The government instantly accepted it.
At the end, it was Sarwar's "friendship" with Dr Qadri that brought the impasse to a close cordially. But the PAT chief made it clear that he was talking to the governor and has accepted his plea only as a personal friend and not as a government representative.
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... regardless what he said Chaudhry Sarwar is undoubtedly the government's man.As far the provision of the government's security to Dr Qadri was concerned, it was in any case available to him otherwise it was not possible for him to visit the Lahore hospital to inquire about the health of his workers injured in the June 17 bloody violence. The security to be provided by the Punjab government will be available to him everywhere he will go during his stay in Punjab.
There were also some other highly important aspects of the alarming developments. First, the government is relaxed that it succeeded in implementing its decision not to let Qadri hold any public meeting at the airport and travel to Lahore via Grand Trunk Road, campaigning against it in the way. In addition, it did not create any disastrous situation. The government strategy was to wear out Qadri and test his endurance till the time he gives in.
Second, despite heavy odds and government's relentless efforts to block them through different means, the PAT supporters assembled in Islamabad and Rawalpindi to express solidarity with their leader and jammed the two cities. It was their great success. Dr Qadri will take solace in the fact that he has the capacity to create such a situation. Although his poor electoral power is no secret, he demonstrated once again that he can gather a good number of people to protest.
Third, it was proved once again how thankless job police have to perform in such situations. If they retaliate, they are in the dock, but if they don't adequately respond to violence by protesters, they receive severe physical beating and serious wounds. They had to follow orders of their superiors. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... the way the cops were hammered, it humiliated the force and the rule of law was consigned to dustbin.
Four political orphans who pinned high hopes to the instant "revolution" being brought about by Qadri that was going to sweep away the present dispensation were crestfallen as the show ended peacefully.
Eventually, it was established that it was Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad, who played the fundamental role in wrapping up the drama as he conveyed to Dr Qadri in a lengthy telephonic talk the threat of the foreign airline to file hijacking charges of its plane.
Afterwards, he separately talked to Prime Minister 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... , Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... , Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... and his Punjab counterpart. He communicated them Qadri's demands. He again contacted Qadri and it was decided that Chaudhry Sarwar would go to the plane to break the standoff.
Among other demands that Qadri presented to the Punjab governor, he also urged reconstruction of barriers near his Lahore residence and office within 24 hours that were removed by the Punjab government on June 17. He also emphasised that cases against PAT workers should be withdrawn. While concluding an agreement with a team of the then government in his famous container last year, he had also demanded withdrawal of a criminal case lodged against some PAT activists by the Islamabad police. In a nutshell, Qadri displayed a remarkable flexibility on the same pattern that he offered last year and ended his protest despite none of his demands was accepted now or before.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Inspector General of Police Nasir Khan Durrani has directed the coppers to prepare themselves for any eventuality and make full-fledged contingency plan to avert any untoward incident keeping in view a possible reaction of the North Wazoo military operation in parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
The police chief termed the ongoing operation essential for survival of the country and directed the participants to identify the hub of gunnies and vulnerable places in their districts and launch intelligence-based action.
"The tempo of the ongoing search and strike operation must be reflected in the police action against bully boyz in settled areas," said the IGP while presiding over a meeting of all district coppers (DPOs) at the central police office here on Monday.
Additional IGPs operations, special branch and FRP, CCPO and DIGs operation and headquarters attended the meeting. The DPOs presented a detailed briefing about the law and order and possible reaction of the gunnies in their respective districts on this occasion.
"We have no other option, but to win this war at all costs," said the IGP and directed the officers to coordinate with the rapid response force in their districts and do mock exercise of their action against bully boyz by personally leading it. The DPOs were asked to take steps under the recently-passed Tenant Verification and Hotel Security Restriction Act 2014.
Mr Durrani directed the participants to adopt foolproof security measures for busy public places like markets, bus stands, cinemas and banks. He asked them to ensure checking of all vehicles, particularly cycle of violences, through vehicle verification system and properly interrogate the tossed in the clink Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! persons.
He said that any police checkpost must ensure an effective deterrence against gunnies and safety of the posted officials. He asked the DPOs to visit these checkposts regularly.
The IGP directed the district coppers to personally become complainant in cases of extortion and militancy and ensure 100 per cent conviction in such cases. They were further asked to do geo-tagging of the occurrences, prepare list of ghost employees and adopt professional approach by securing scene of the crime.
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Who knows, might work. Its probably an improvement on all those unintelligent strikes.
[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: Commandant Khyber Rifles Colonel Mansoor Janjua has claimed that bully boyz in tribal areas are getting financial support from the United States and India to wage war against their own Mohammedan brothers on the pretext of jihad.
Speaking at the passing out parade of 44 new recruits of Khyber Rifles here at the army garrison on Monday, Colonel Janjua said that blood of thousands of innocent rustics had been spilled in the name of religion and also to destabilise Pakistain at the behest of the enemies of the country. "It is time people of Fata joined hands with security forces to cleanse the area of all miscreants and establish lasting peace there," he said.
The army official said that protection of lives and properties of the citizens was the top priority of the security forces and they would fulfill their responsibility at all costs. Speaking about the ongoing military operation in North Wazoo, he said that it would continue till the elimination of the last bad boy from the region. "Those who took weapons and fought against Pakistain would not be tolerated," he said.
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[DAWN] The full force of the government seemed to be at work on Sunday as law-enforcement agencies and the district administration put the twin cities into lockdown ahead of Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... 's expected arrival at Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... International Airport on Monday morning.
All roads leading to the airport were sealed with containers and road blocks and access to the capital city was severed as police took up positions to stop workers of Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) and its allies from marching on Islamabad.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... said in a statement that no-one would be allowed to march on the federal capital.
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[DAWN] Over 100 ulema from various schools of thought declared on Sunday Zarb-i-Azb, the military operation being carried out against terrorists and militants in North Waziristan Agency, as jihad.
The decree [fatwa] was issued after a meeting of religious scholars which was organisd by the Sunni Ulema Board here on Sunday.
The decree referred Verse No 33 of Surah-i-Almaidah, which says: "Crushing of the attempts to disrupt peaceful atmosphere in a Muslim state is jihad."
The decree said that the nation was bound to support the ongoing operation in North Waziristan Agency and according to Shariat the people opposing it were rebellious.
Nation is bound to support the NWA military operation
It said that the state had the right to deal rebels with an iron hand as the militants had murdered hundreds of innocent people and targeted schools, shrines, hospitals, etc. Islam, it added, did not allow individual jihad.
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[DAWN] The Supreme Court of Pakistn on Monday suspended the Sindh High Court's earlier decision to strike off former military dictator Gen (r) Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... 's name from the Exit Control List, DawnNews reported.
A five-judge larger bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Nasirul Mulk, accepted the government's plea challenging the SHC's ruling which ordered the removal of Pervez Musharraf's name from the ECL.
While issuing its order the SHC had said the operation of its judgment was suspended for 15 days enabling the federation to file an appeal in the Supreme Court.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... , a Canada based Islamic holy man, returned to Pakistain on Monday to try to start what he has called a "peaceful revolution" against the government, as his supporters engaged in violent festivities with police.
He touched down in the eastern city of Lahore after his flight was diverted from Islamabad following violence at the capital's airport that police said left more than 70 of their officers injured.
In January last year Qadri drew tens of thousands of people to a sit-in protest in Islamabad. His return comes at a sensitive time for the government, potentially adding to pressure on Prime Minister 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... .
The military is in the midst of a major offensive against Talibs in the northwest, and nine people were killed when Qadri's followers clashed with police in Lahore a week ago.
On Monday his supporters, armed with sticks and bricks, clashed with baton-wielding police at Islamabad's airport, where Qadri had been due to arrive on an Emirates flight.
A front man for Islamabad police said more than 70 officers were maimed, with several suffering broken bones and head injuries.
The plane was diverted to Lahore "to ensure the safety of the passengers and aircraft," according to a civil aviation official. But for several hours Qadri refused to get off.
The 63-year-old demanded protection from the military before agreeing to disembark. He finally left the aircraft accompanied by Punjab provincial governor Mohammad Sarwar and opposition politician Chaudhry Pervaiz Ellahi.
Qadri said he held the prime minister and his brother Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... , chief minister of Punjab, responsible for the killing of his party workers last week, comparing the pair to "Hitler and Mussolini".
"I will Dire Revenge™ InshaAllah (God willing). I will Dire Revenge™ for the labourers, helpless, poor and deaders," he said at a Lahore hospital as he visited those maimed in last week's festivities.
Addressing workers at his residence later, Qadri said he would "announce a date for revolution" shortly. "I will give a sudden call," he said.
"The rulers will try to run away, but I won't let the looters run away."
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[Pak Daily Times] Political persuasion and administrative steps on the heels of last-resort plane diversion was the best that the under-pressure PML-N federal and provincial governments could come up with to finally wind up the much-trumpeted Islamabad-Lahore GT Road political show of Dr Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... , and avoid any major fireworks.
The nine-hour-long sit-in of sorts in a foreign airline plane at the Lahore airport, followed by negotiations and then sojourn along with Punjab governor, however, gave Qadri at least something to cheer, for the time being. He lost nothing big, gained nothing substantial. With security scare and June 17 bloody event of Lahore still fresh in minds, both sides knew fully well their limits, bearing strictly in mind to stay away from a full-blown political contest in the backdrop of operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Wazoo.
Dr Qadri's appeal to garrison all day long on Monday proved a D-Day, as he had to be content with a smoke screen in the shape of Punjab governor as representative of the state rather than the government, more of a political pawn of his arch adversaries, the Sharifs. Ironically, the tactful Sharifs, on this day, seemed to have run out of credible political faces in stock, but Governor Sarwar, to do the difficult job.
Earlier on Monday, apart from some controlled skirmishes in the twin-cities, both the federal and Punjab governments seemed over-cautious, especially in the backdrop of unfortunate events of Lahore, which had turned Qadri's otherwise marginalised show into a keenly observed political happening all over the country. Sans presence on the GT Road, the hours long coverage on media, however, provided Dr Qadri an easy access across the country — enough space to live to fight another day.
The situation at hand will give enough time and space to Qadri and associates to plan and re-group for a post-monsoon political offensive against the PML-N government — maybe a long march towards capital Islamabad — provided the schedule does not collide with army's sensitivities in North Waziristan. Till then, this new Sharif hater club will have to plug in an important missing link, and win over PTI's Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... through a loosely bonded or tightly knit political alliance that can prove a major morale booster for them.
Short of it, the whole plan might not click. But till now, conspiracy theories apart, Imran does not seem convinced an alliance with Qadri and Chaudhrys of PML-Q will prove a sane political move. Some of Khan's close aides may think of Qadri as an "anarchist of sorts" intending to shake the very system in which PTI is a major stakeholder. But the big question for the weeks to come remains: can the PML-N being the biggest stakeholder in the present system offer something to Imran (election reforms and recount on four national constituencies of his choice) to convince him to give up agitational politics? Or be left alone to be lured into the new, Imran- or Dr Qadri-led alliance, in foreseeable future? In either case, it will be a full-scale test of political skills of both the Sharifs.
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Typical Obama and State policy.
Ignore it until it becomes a poll issue and makes them look bad. Then flail around. Fuck shit up worse. Declare victory and the MSM will parrot the line and go onto some starlet's sex tape as leading news.
[REUTERS] U.S. 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... held crisis talks with leaders of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Tuesday urging them to stand with Storied Baghdad in the face of a Sunni hard boy onslaught that threatens to dismember the country.
Security forces fought Sunni armed factions for control of the country's biggest oil refinery on Tuesday and turbans launched an attack on one of its largest air bases less than 100 km from the capital.
More than 1,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed in less than three weeks, the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... said on Tuesday, calling the figure "very much a minimum".
The figure includes unarmed government troops machinegunned in mass graves by hard boys, as well as several reported incidents of prisoners killed in their cells by retreating government forces.
Kerry flew to the Kurdish region after a day in Storied Baghdad on an emergency trip through the Middle East to rescue Iraq after a lightning advance by Sunni fighters led by an al Qaeda offshoot, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
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There is little incentive for the Kurds to try to keep some coalition of Sunni, Shite, and Kurds together in some sort of government in Iraq. The Baathists (secular Sunni) did not treat them well under Saddam. He gassed them with WMDs.
[Tolo News] In the two weeks since it was seized by Sunni turbans, some residents of the northern Iraq city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... feel the clock has been turned back hundreds of years.
The turbans, led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) jihadist group, have begun imposing an extreme interpretation of Islamic law in the days since they took the city, residents reached by telephone told AFP.
"These faceless myrmidons will return us and our country hundreds of years backwards, and their laws are the opposite of the laws of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... and international laws," said Umm Mohammed, a 35-year-old teacher.
"We live in continuous fear of being subjected to new pressures," she said. "We are afraid of being prevented from working and contributing to building the community."
The city, known before 2003 for its historic sites and parks and in later years as a hub for deadly violence, fell on June 10 to the turbans, who subsequently overran surrounding Nineveh province and swathes of other territory.
Security forces in Mosul, a city of some two million people before the offensive, wilted in the face of the onslaught, in some cases abandoning uniforms and even vehicles in their haste to flee.
After seizing control, gunnies declared Nineveh a part of their Islamic state and issued a document outlining new rules.
The 16-point document announced the prohibition of the selling and consumption of alcohol and drugs as well as smoking, and forbade gatherings and carrying weapons.
Women are to wear non-revealing clothes and keep to their homes, while "shrines" are to be destroyed.
- Statues of poets removed -
All depictions of people are considered idolatrous under the turbans' extreme interpretation of Islam, and gunnies have removed various statues from the city in recent days, including some depicting famous poets.
Abu Ramzi, one of Mosul's Christians who did not flee the city, said faceless myrmidons destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary in front of a church.
"We have not received any threat from any side yet," Abu Ramzi said. "We will not leave our houses and city even if they slaughter us."
The faceless myrmidons also distributed a document to mosques in the city ordering that they not make or publish any statement not approved by ISIL, and designated a specific mosque for the acceptance of the "repentance of apostates".
ISIL has also appointed representatives for different areas of the city who are to conduct a survey of its residents.
One resident who fled said a neighbour told him that gunnies came to check empty houses in the area and find out who owns them.
"They asked about my house, my (religious) sect and my phone number," he said.
The gunnies left a message that he had two days to return and renounce his Shiite faith, or the house would be burned.
Militants are deployed in most areas of Mosul, some on foot and others moving either in civilian vehicles or those captured from security forces when they withdrew, one resident said.
Some wear civilian clothes, while others dress in military uniforms or black.
The turbans, some of whom mask their faces, are armed with a variety of weapons, including Kalashnikov assault rifles and pistols.
- Major electricity shortage -
There is a major electricity shortage in the city, and fuel is also in short supply, with hundreds of people waiting for hours at petrol stations to fuel their cars and trucks.
But not all residents of Mosul view the faceless myrmidons in a negative light.
"The gunnies in Mosul are decent people, they are treating the residents well," said Umm Abdullah, a woman who was among half a million people who fled the city in the wake of the turban takeover.
"We're not leaving because of them, we're leaving because the government is bombing and has cut the electricity and water in Mosul," she said.
"To be honest, I'm happy they took control of Mosul. I see them as rebels, not gunnies, and I think they will make the city better."
But another resident, Abu Ali, 40, said that the city has just moved from restrictions by Iraqi security forces to others by the turbans, who are imposing "a new style of life on us".
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The planet's now chillin
MooShells thrillin in the garden from 9-5
The press lines up screaming Arooooooooogula! Aroooooooogula!
And the man keeps talking jive.
[ABCNEWS.GO] President B.O. is lining up ISIS targets in Iraq and may launch an attack on the krazed killer Islamic militia that is threatening Storied Baghdad even if he does not get an agreement with the Iraqi regime, 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... said today.
Speaking in Storied Baghdad after meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... and other politicians, Kerry said Obama is "each day" gaining more certainty of the targets he would strike if the United States decided on its own to take military action.
"He has reserved the right to himself, as he should, to make a decision at any point in time if he deems it necessary strategically," Kerry said.
He's a better general than his generals, too.
Obama has said he would not provide Iraq more military support unless it forms a government more accepting of religious minorities, but Kerry stressed that Obama wouldn't hesitate to have the U.S. conduct its own military operations if necessary.
"The president has moved the assets into place and has been gaining each day the assurances he needs with respect to potential targeting," Kerry said.
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Kerry said Obama is "each day" gaining more certainty of the targets he would strike if the United States decided on its own to take military action.
Once the target folders have been built and the Iranian Air Force is ready to conduct strikes, ISIS targets will be engaged.
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See also TOPIX > OBAMA TO MAKE SURE ISIS CAN'T ATTACK US, KERRY TELLS ABC.
Jaawhn says ISIS aka ISIL have the will to attack the US, but fortunately don't yet have the capability.
* FREEREPUBLIC > [WND.com] IRAQ INVADERS THREATEN NUKE ATTACK ON ISRAEL [CLAIM THEY ALREADY HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS?].
* WASHINGTON TIMES > [CRS Report] ISIL HELL- BENT ON CREATING ISLAMIC STATE TO BE LAUNCHPAD FOR ATTACKS ON US.
Once again, people, wid feeling - D *** NG IT, DON'T BE SILLY, AMERICA = AMERIKA WILL HAVE LEGAL SHARIA LAW BY THEN.
VERSUS
* WORLD NEWS > [National Journal] IRAQ A TERRIBLE FIRST TEST FOR OBAMA'S NEW FOREIGN POLICY.
True enuff as it is, but could be much worse iff ... ...
> IRAN refuses to leave Iraq once ISIS/ISIL is defeated or effec contained.
> Pro-Qaeda Boyz launch atacks + begin to destabilize Jordan, + KSA, Emirates = Saudi Peninsula. Iran intervenes again to save local Shias but then refuses to leave???
ABOVE ALL, IFF SHOOTING WAR(S) START IN EAST ASIA BETWEEN CHINA + US ALLIES, IN ECS ANDOR SCS + INDIA - IN EAST ASIA VEE CHINA THERE IS THE DANGER THAT SEVERAL SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES MAY BE INVOLVED AT ONE TIME DURING A DE FACTO US-CHINA MILITARY CRISIS, NOT JUST THE "SOLE" SYRIA OR "SOLE" UKRAINE OR A "SOLE" IRAQ.
The Bammer hasn't even begun vee Rising China + PLA = [Globalist-desired?]OWG Co-Superpower China yet, + its not clear iff the Bammer can avoid any mil clash agz same before he leaves office come Jan 2017.
* RUSSIA TODAY > UNKNOWN PLANE BOMBS ISIS POISTIONS IN IRAQ [at Al-Qaim], PENTAGON DENIES ITS US, saying it twas prob the Assad's Flyboyz = Syrian Air Force.
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Kerry said Obama is "each day" gaining more certainty of the targets he would strike if the United States decided on its own to take military action.
A masterful use of the conditional subjunctive mood, future tense.
"He has reserved the right to himself, as he should, to make a decision at any point in time if he deems it necessary strategically," Kerry said.
To boldly decide, where no one has decided before...
Jawn is a strong candidate for the Nobel Prize in Bloviation.
Third tanker loaded with Kurdistan oil to leave Turkey's port of Ceyhan. Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz says Turkey does not know who bought the oil.
Israel claims they already received it. But Turkey has not been officially informed of this, and it's rumoured that President Obama will look without fondness on anyone facilitating the breakup of Iraq by buying what Kurdistan hasn't official govenrment approval to sell.
Yildiz said in a press statement Monday "The Kurdistan oil's sales are being deposited to a Turkish government bank." More in the article.
Perhaps that last is one reason Turkey has looked so favourably upon Kurdistan recently.
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Kurdish officials have pledged to stick by Iraq's revenue-sharing framework, which sees Erbil take 17% of the proceeds from all national oil sales. But successful deposits for their oil would give more leverage to the KRG as it seeks greater economic independence, and could pave the way for Kurds to access international loans to fund their budget.
"When we approach international finance houses, they look to whether we can export and sell the oil. Now that we have done that, it is easier to get loans," KRG spokesman Safeen Dizayee said Monday in an interview. "There are serious negotiations, and I think we will get a deal soon."
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Under a 2003 agreement sales of Iraqi oil were to be deposited in an account held by JPMorgan Chase in NY city. Thus, the deposit of funds received for sale of Kurd oil through Ceyhan, Turkey, in the Turkish bank will likely make Kerry's head explode.
[Mil.com] Special Forces troops heading to Iraq to advise the Iraqi security forces will receive combat pay and also have immunity from local law, Pentagon officials said.
"Imminent Danger Pay is, and will be, in effect for service members deployed to Iraq," Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Pentagon spokesman, said in an e-mail statement Saturday. If they [US Military Personnel] fall under the command and control [C2] of the Ambassador to Iraq and the State Department, they are then covered by Diplomatic Immunity [black passport]. Sounds great, until someone in the Iraqi government declares them persona non grata (PNG) in which case they must immediately leave the country.
Perhaps we could ask retired General Carter Ham what his views might be with regard to Foggy Bottom subverting the purview of the regional Combatant Commander and Specified Commands.
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It is not a declared war. All military fall under the command and control of the Ambassador. We had a lot of issues with this in the Philippines. The JFTF commanders that do not understand US and international law believe they are in a military Area of Operations, when in fact they are not. Further, without a declared war or a SOFA these troops are not protected by any laws other than host nation laws. They are not covered by the Geneva accord, or US law. SO if they are to be protected under any laws we need one of three things, a SOFA, Declared hostilities, of make them embassy members with full diplomatic status.
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The JFTF commanders that do not understand US and international law believe they are in a military Area of Operations, when in fact they are not.
Awkward indeed when the DEFAT is a rank or two below the Joint Task Force element Commander. Even more awkward when the JFT Cdr [or designated rep] is not invited to the daily Embassy staff meetings. Been going on for a very long time. Needs to come to a fok'n stop.
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You are so right. We invited the JTF commander to the country team meetings. 1500 miles away he could not attend. He sent a permanent rep to the multitude of daily meetings and the commander attended once a month. We were fortunate in that the DEFAT, we called them the DAT, was in a supporting roll to the JUSMAG in this event. The JUSMAG chief reported to the ambassador and to the same CINC the JTF commander reported to, making it easier. The JUSMAG kept a rep in the JTF to represent the embassy. When the JTF commander understood the relationships, limits, and politics of it all, things went well. When they treated it as a JOA they ended up getting a personal flight home.
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Prior to the second Gulf War, the ARCENT Commander, General Tommy Franks wisely made a habit of rotating baby generals and promotable colonels through the skeleton JTF at Camp Doha, KU in 30 day increments as "JTF Commanders." One of the first bullets on Frank's 'lets talk this shit over list' was the command relationships piece. The new generals not only gained a month of theater 'boots on the ground' and updated SA, they gained the vital political perspectives. General David Petraeus thought the experience was so valuable, he volunteered for and received a second tour.
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The first commander was one of the SF group commanders, he got it and was excellent. We did not have an ambassador at the time and the Charge' struggled with all of the DOD arriving and advisers helping out. Once we got a career type ambassador the CINC put a general down with us, the SOCPAC commander. While he did not have the political savvy initially, he was a quick study and performed well. It was when they rolled some newly promoted 06 in there and he began intel reporting on the embassy and staff. He also began to coordinate around the embassy with secretary level officials in the host nation that conflicted directly with US policy and directives. If we would have done something like GEN Franks did I believe the whole JTF event would have been a different event, both in host nation relations and lethality to the enemy.
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It was when they rolled some newly promoted 06 in there and he began intel reporting on the embassy and staff. He also began to coordinate around the embassy with secretary level officials in the host nation that conflicted directly with US policy and directives.
Hopefully, he was quickly reassigned to Fort Polk or the Pentagon.
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Besoeker what are your thoughts on General Franks? Posted by Shipman
He was a Vietnam veteran and enlisted intelligence analyst who came up through the ranks. He knew the AOR very, very well as did his G2, COL Bill Moore, who Franks kept in his back pocket. He was very highly respected by the CENTCOM Commander, his staff at ARCENT, and senior personnel within the Kuwaiti army. His assault on Iraq and Baghdad during the second Gulf war was a total success. General Franks is a great American.
[AnNahar] Jordan has reinforced its border with Iraq after Sunni Arab turbans overran a crossing with Syria, a security official said on Monday.
"The Jordanian army has dispatched more troops, tanks, rocket launchers and armored personnel carriers to the border with Iraq," the official told AFP.
"The army will not tolerate any kind of infiltration."
Information Minister and government front man Mohammad Momani described the measures as "precautionary".
"Such measures are contentious and precautionary... in accordance with developments on the ground," Momani told AFP.
Iraqi officials said on Monday that Sunni Arab turbans have seized the Al-Waleed border post between Iraq and Syria.
The capture of the post means that all official crossings with Iraq's neighbor to the west are outside government control.
The two other official crossings between Iraq and Syria, Al-Qaim and Rabia, are also outside government hands, with turbans holding the first and security forces from the country's autonomous Kurdish region in control of the second.
There is only one official crossing between Iraq and Jordan, at Tirbil, some 370 kilometers (230 miles) east of Amman.
There is confusion over who controls the Iraqi side of the crossing, with some reports saying fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) has overrun it and others saying it is under the control of Sunni tribes.
Jordanian officials say trucks and cars are passing through the crossing normally.
An offensive in Iraq led by the powerful ISIL has sparked fears in Amman that the jihadists will take the fight to Jordan.
Already struggling to cope with hosting more than 600,000 Syrian refugees, Jordan has long faced a challenge in dealing with its own jihadists, many of whom have joined ISIL and other Al-Qaeda-linked groups in neighboring Iraq and Syria.
[Ynet] Southern District State Prosecution has filed seven indictments at Beer Sheva District Court against five Paleostinian prisoners accused of planning to abduct a soldier for the purpose of negotiating the release of additional prisoners.
According to the indictment, one of the prisoners, who is tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... for two consecutive life sentences, contacted other inmates in order to execute the attack.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, was supposed to arm and fund the operation via a contact whose job was to transfer weapons, cell phones and cash to inmates who had served their time.
[AnNahar] At least 2,400 Tunisian jihadists are fighting in Syria, most of them rebels affiliated to the radical Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL), Tunisia's interior minister said Monday.
"According to what we have gathered, there are 2,400 Tunisians who have gone to Syria to fight with al-Nusra Front and the majority of them -- 80 percent -- with (ISIL)," Lotfi Ben Jeddou told news hounds, without specifying his source.
In February, the minister said Tunisian authorities had prevented 8,000 people from traveling to Syria, while some 400 Tunisians had already returned from fighting there.
ISIL, one of the main forces battling the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... , controls certain key regions in northern and northeast Syria and has cut a swathe through northern Iraq in recent weeks.
It is also the most extreme jihadist group in Syria, aiming to create an Islamic state the straddles the border with Iraq but renowned for its abuses of civilians.
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[Ynet] The Syrian government has acknowledged that Israeli warplanes struck targets inside its territory in its first comment on the incident. A statement issued by the Foreign Ministry says Israeli forces carried out "a new aggression" on Sunday and Monday on positions inside Syria.
It says the air raids were a sign of the "direct and continuous support" that Israel is giving to rebels fighting to topple Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama...
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[Ynet] Under agreement, Russia will two more 1,000 megawatt plants next to Iran's sole existing nuclear plants in Bushehr.
Oil-rich Iran says it wants to operate at least 20 nuclear power plants capable of producing 20,000 megawatts of electricity, as a way of decreasing dependency on its vast oil and gas resources.
"It is possible that in addition to the two nuclear power plants, we will also discuss further power plants," Kamalvandi added.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant that came online in 2011 uses Russian-provided fuel, and is not of international concern.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The Sudanese woman on death row for refusing to recant her Christian beliefs has at last been reunited with her family, after spending six months behind bars.
David Cameron
Turks and Qataris in eastern Libya - "from Sirte to Musaid" (on the Egyptian border) - have been told to leave the country. The stark warning came from General Khalifa Hafter's spokesman, Mohamed Hejazi. He told the Libya Herald that they had to go "within 48 hours" of the warning.
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
[The News (Pak)] As the government stood ground by not accepting even a single key demand of Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) chief Dr 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
Wazoo
[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: Commandant Khyber Rifles Colonel Mansoor Janjua has claimed that 
[DAWN] The full force of the government seemed to be at work on Sunday as law-enforcement agencies and the district administration put the twin cities into lockdown ahead of Dr .png)
[DAWN] Over 100 ulema from various schools of thought declared on Sunday Zarb-i-Azb, the military operation being carried out against terrorists and militants in North Waziristan Agency, as jihad.
Pervez 
[REUTERS] U.S. Secretary of State 
Nouri al-Maliki
Third tanker loaded with Kurdistan oil to leave Turkey's port of Ceyhan. Energy Minister, Taner Yildiz says Turkey does not know who bought the oil.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[Ynet] The Syrian government has acknowledged that Israeli warplanes struck targets inside its territory in its first comment on the incident. A statement issued by the Foreign Ministry says Israeli forces carried out "a new aggression" on Sunday and Monday on positions inside Syria.
