General Yusuf Siyad Indha-Cadde, a Somali Federal Government military official claimed that the security situation in Mogadishu is due to government officials including MPs and Ministers releasing Al-Shabaab detainees from prison.
General Indha-Cadde reported to Shabelle that a reasonable tactic to rid Mogadishu of insecurity is to create special prisons where only Al-Shabaab terrorists can be locked up in.
At last, General Indha-Cadde called on Somali National Security Forces to go under the Benadir Regional Administration.
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just as in Nigeria and other third world countries like....here
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Djibouti plans to deploy an additional battalion of troops to Somalia to bolster the existing 1,000-strong force it has in the war-torn country. According to foreign affairs minister Mohamud Ali Yussuf the soldiers will help consolidate gains made by Djibouti’s armed forces in Somalia’s mainly in central Hiraan region.
“In a few weeks time, we should deploy 450 troops and then another 500 a couple of months later.” He said.
Djibout troops have captured the districts of Buuloburde and large parts of Beledweyne from al-Qaeda linked militant group Al Shabaab since offensive against the group was launched by AMISOM months ago.
Djiboutian forces are part of the 22,000-strong personnel under the command of the African Union that is battling al-Shabaab militants in Somalia.
The nation has subsequently boosted security across the its borders after the U.K. government warned last month that al-Shabaab may be planning to carry out further attacks in Djibouti, including Western interests such as the biggest U.S. military base in Africa at Camp Lemonnier.
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[An Nahar] A Kenyan court on Thursday gave prosecutors an additional month to conclude their investigation into a regional governor accused of links to a spate of massacres.
Governor Issa Timamy of the coastal Lamu county was jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! in connection with last month's killings in the town of Mpeketoni and nearby villages, which were claimed by Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab militia but blamed by the government on local political networks.
The governor, who has fiercely denied No, no! Certainly not! any connection to the massacre of close to 50 people, is currently on bail after the state failed in a bid to hold him without charge.
The state had asked for two months to complete the probe before pressing charges, a request the judge rejected.
"Two months is unnecessary. One month is reasonable and fair for the prosecution to complete its investigation," Justice Martin Muya told a hearing in the port city of Mombasa.
The accusations have stoked already tense political rivalry between the ruling and opposition parties, as Timamy is a member of the opposition United Democratic Forum (UDF) party.
Speaking in court, the governor repeated his accusation that the case against him was political.
"I am a sitting governor, what interest would drive me to kill the same people who voted me in?" he asked.
"This case is part of many hurdles that I had faced since my election. When this unfortunate incident happened, they use it as an opportunity to nail me. God is on my side," he said.
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[An Nahar] Powerful militias from the city of Misrata announced their support Thursday for Islamists in their battle against another gang for control of the Libyan capital's international airport.
The fighting erupted on Sunday when Islamist gunnies launched an attack on the airport, which has for the past three years been held by liberal, anti-Islamist fighters from Zintan, southwest of the capital.
Ex-rebel fighters from Zintan and Misrata, east of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , both played a key role in the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed uprising that toppled veteran autocrat Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... in 2011.
But they have become fierce rivals in the deadly power struggle between gangs that followed and which is now wracking the North African country.
There have been fierce festivities at the airport, which has been shut down indefinitely, with dozens of planes and the main terminal badly damaged by rocket fire.
Leaders of the Misrata militias, in a statement broadcast on local television, described the assault on the airport as "a battle by the revolutionaries" against pro-Qadaffy elements.
Although the situation appeared calmer on Thursday, the streets around the facility were largely empty.
On Sunday, officials said a security guard was killed and six people maimed in the fighting, but no casualty toll has been announced since.
The Misrata announcement has revived fears of the conflict spreading inside Tripoli itself, with official results still awaited from a June 25 election to the Islamist-dominated parliament.
Analysts say liberals are poised to fill most seats in the new parliament, and that the battle for the airport reflects the Islamists' struggle for influence by other means.
Islamist militias accuse ex-rebels from Zintan of harboring in their ranks soldiers and army officers who served under Qadaffy.
Misrata leaders have also condemned a government statement that it was considering seeking international help to restore security in the increasingly lawless state.
Successive interim administrations have struggled to establish a strong army and police force, giving former rebel groups a free hand.
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[An Nahar] Libya on Thursday asked the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... for help to build up its security forces, with the foreign minister warning that his country could turn into a "failed state."
Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdelaziz asked the U.N. Security Council to dispatch experts to train the country's defense and police forces to ensure they can protect oil fields, airports and other vital sites.
"We are not asking for military intervention," said Abdelaziz. "We are asking for a team from the U.N. specialized in the field of security."
Libya has seen a surge of violence, with Islamist and other militias recently locked in fighting around Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... airport, which has been shut down amid growing fears of all-out civil war.
"Should Libya become a failed state, kidnapped by radical groups and warlords, the consequences would be far-reaching and perhaps beyond control," warned Abdelaziz.
Libya could become a "hub for attracting Lion of Islams", feeding radicalism and the arms flow in the region and further afield in Syria, he warned.
"Don't you think that such patterns that are indicative of heading towards a failed state would justify a stronger, more strategic engagement from the Security Council?" he asked.
The 15-member Security Council was expected to issue a statement later on the Libya crisis. The United Nations last week evacuated its staff from Libya after the latest upsurge in fighting.
Abdelaziz said a new U.N. mission to help train the security forces would ensure Tripoli keeps control of vital oil revenue after bully boy groups seized oil terminals last year.
The blockades of the oil facilities that finally came to an end earlier this month deprived Libya of more than 30 billion dollars in revenue over 11 months, said the foreign minister.
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"Just hit that 'RESET' button"
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Waiting for "Responsibility To Protect 2.0" to kick in...
[Al Ahram] The funds of 66 companies reportedly affiliated with the Moslem Brüderbund are to be seized by the Egyptian government, a committee tasked with appraising and freezing the funds of the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization decided on Thursday.
The committee will inventory the companies Al-Farida, Sirar, Istikbal, Al-Ezz for trade and Malek for trade and clothing with the aim of taking hold of their respective managements.
Istikbal, Sirar and Malek for trade and clothing were owned by Brotherhood member Hassam Malek, a prominent Egyptian businessman long suspected of financing the organization and whose assets were frozen prior to the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
In 1992, Malek and fellow Brotherhood member and businessman Khairat El-Shater were prosecuted on charges of embezzlement through a joint IT venture called Salsabil and imprisoned for a year pending investigation.
Once cleared of charges, Malek branched into the furniture industry, establishing two Egypt-based companies that rely on imports from Turkey: Istikbal and Sirar.
The government crackdown on Brotherhood members and their activities started last year following the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi, who hailed from the group.
The committee has thus far frozen the funds and taken control of over a thousand NGOs and nearly 100 schools allegedly affiliated with the group as well as seized the assets of over 700 Brotherhood leaders.
In June, the government seized two of Cairo's most prominent supermarkets — Seoudi and Zad — on claims that they were funded by Brotherhood figures. The government has since relinquished its hold on 60 percent of Zad's stores and two Seoudi branches.
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[Al Ahram] Israel's retaliatory air strikes on Gazoo have been "deliberately disproportionate" and amount to "collective punishment", Britannia's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday, in unusually robust criticism of a close British ally.
*sigh* Not unusually robust for Britain, no. Sorry.
Clegg made his comments on the tenth day of fighting between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, during a five-hour humanitarian truce which prompted a temporary halt to Israel's and Hamas' air strikes.
"I really do think now the Israeli response appears to be deliberately disproportionate, it is amounting now to a disproportionate form of collective punishment," Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in the country's coalition, told Britannia's LBC radio station.
"I really would now call on the Israel Government to stop. They've proved their point," he said. He said he respected Israel's right to defend itself.
"Just don't defend yourselves too robustly, lads. One doesn't, nowadays."
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Wasn't the RAF's response, to indiscriminate German bombing just, payback indiscriminate bombing of Germany? See-Hamburg, Dresden. How militaristic are the Germans today?
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If the Israelis were truly interested in collective punishment, the entire Gaza strip would be a pile of smoking rubble. Instead, they have been careful to notify targets so that civilians can evacuate. As P2K pointed out, Dresden worked.
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Well, Nick it's the way they mistreat their sexual minorities that forces us to exercise our responsibility to protect.
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A precisely proportional response would be to fire a few hundred artillery rockets into Gaza.
As for Either grow a pair of Thatchers, or go cry into your scented pillow for another half century., that's the snarkiest thing I've seen all day! Well said, sir!
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Nick, suh, this not dueling, but rather war for Israel's survival. Maybe you should go back and read Churchill's "history of the Second World War" and see how real men protected their homeland.
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I was watching this channell earlier to see what is being covered and how.
They had some expert twerp on. He was attempting to make the case that because Team Russia was using equipment, fancy equipment not what he thinks is what seperatists should be using, originating in Russia, then Putin is directly responsible for allowing this to happen.
Thought it was potentially dangerous on account of us just handing over a bunch of TOWs to Team Somebody in Syria who immediately dumped us and started dating ISIL. Didn't mean much until I swung by Jawa. So, apparently this is our policy tack huh. Is it me, but this not only seems a bit flimsy but what happens if, oohhhh, somebody trained with a Stinger takes out an airliner. Same "above normal weaponry", requires training which required authorization.
Probably why Obama is barfling his policy right now, seeing if this tack has any hold.
[Ynet] Radical newspaper affiliated with Prime Minister Erdogan accuses Turkey's Jewish community of encouraging 'murder of children' in Gazoo.
A Turkish daily affiliated with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... has called on the country's Jewish community to apologize for the Paleostinian casualties of the Israeli operation in Gazoo.
"You came here after being banished from Spain," Yeni Akit correspondent Faruk Köse wrote Wednesday in an open letter to Hakham Bashi, the chief rabbi of Turkey's Jewish community. "You have lived comfortably among us for 500 years and gotten rich at our expense. Is this your gratitude — killing Moslems? Erdogan, demand that the community leader apologize!"
In the right-wing newspaper's editorial, Ali KarahasanoÄlu wrote: "After the barrage of missiles which hit the capital city of Tel Aviv, Israel has been pushed into a corner and is crying out for a ceasefire, which at the moment only serves Israel and the United States.
"The IDF is using forbidden weapons, intentionally killing children and murdering Moslems for the sake of murdering Moslems. Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, is unprepared to accept dictations from Israel and the US, and will only lay down its weapon after its understandings are accepted.
"While all this is happening, the journal of the Jewish community in Turkey, 'Shalom,' is referring to the murder of children in Gazoo as 'taking care of terrorists.'"
Erdogan, who was slated to sign a reconciliation agreement with Israel soon, likened Knesset Member Ayelet Shaked of the Bayit Yehudi party to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like... this week.
Referring to Operation Protective Edge, the Turkish prime minister accused Israel of "systematically committing horrors and acts of terror" against the Paleostinians since 1948.
"There is a Knesset member who says repeatedly, 'The Paleostinians are our enemies,'" Erdogan said of Shaked, adding that this mentality was no different from that of Hitler. "If these words were said by a Paleostinian, the entire world would condemn it."
Erdogan, who is seeking to replace Abdullah Gul as Turkey's president, asked in his weekly address to his party's supporters, "How long will the world keep silent in light of the terror committed by Israel?"
He denied that Turkey was about to restore its relations with Israel and accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government of committing "a massacre against the Paleostinian population."
Boycott against Jewish businesses
But Zaman, one of the leading newspapers in Turkey which has an Islamic political alignment, accused Erdogan himself of acquiescence to Israel's policy in the operation.
"Behind the aggressive rhetoric, the regime is fully cooperating with Israel at the Paleostinians' expense," wrote Ali Bulaç. "Don't let the prime minister's words fool you — the economic cooperation between Israel and Turkey has never been better. And who is paying the price? The poor Paleostinians."
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... on the backdrop of the fighting in Gazoo, Turkish initiatives to boycott Israeli goods and Jewish-owned businesses are gaining momentum on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Under the hashtag #zulmesessizkalamam ("I will not keep quite in light of the persecution"), Turkey's residents are urged to boycott products such as Coca-Cola (as one of its owners, Warren Buffett, supports Israel by investing in companies like Iscar) and are provided with explanations on how to spot Israeli products in local supermarkets.
"I have never felt as threatened as I have in the past year," says Linet, a textile importer. "The government is inflaming the hatred and anti-Semitism and we are simply living in fear.
"Many of those who have not left yet — and the vast majority of Jews immigrated to Europe and Israel a long time ago — are weighing their options," she adds.
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[CBSNY] Cops Say Inspire Magazine Instructing Would-Be Terrorists On Where To Set Bombs Off
The US Open Tennis Championship appears on a wish list of terror targets in an al Qaeda magazine, an NYPD official said Wednesday.
In a briefing for New York City's private security community, Rebecca Weiner, the NYPD's director of intelligence analysis, warned that Inspire magazine is instructing would-be bully boyz on how to make bombs and where to set them off, WCBS 880â²s Marla Diamond reported.
The magazine lists targets in Washington, D.C.; Virginia; and New York — including the US Open, which begins Aug. 25 in Flushing Meadows, Queens.
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As long as they don't walk on the greens it'll be okay. And the sand traps will make them feel at home.
I personally think they're attacking the wrong golf course, if you know what I mean.(Cape Cod? getting warmer)
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[NewYorkTimes] Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has secretly notified Congress that the military intends to transfer six low-level Guantänamo Bay detainees to Uruguay as early as next month, according to people with knowledge of the communication. All six have been approved for transfer for more than four years.
Mr. Hagel's formal determination that the transfer would be in the national security interest of the United States breaks a bureaucratic paralysis over a deal that has been waiting for his approval since March, but that stalled amid the political uproar over a prisoner exchange deal that secured the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from bully boyz in the Afghanistan war.
The group would be the largest to depart the prison at once since 2009, and the transfer would reduce the Guantänamo Bay inmate population to 143. That figure includes 72 prisoners who are recommended for transfer, and 71 who are not.
[DAWN] The ongoing military operation may be making headway in clearing krazed killer hideouts, but it has shattered the dream of one father of 36 children — to take a fourth wife.
Gulzar Khan is one of hundreds of thousands of people who have fled the North Wazoo tribal area since the army moved in to clear longstanding bases of Taliban and other krazed killers.
Escaping the military advance meant leaving the 35-room house he shares in the North Waziristan village of Shawa with around 100 family members, including wives, children and grandchildren.
The 54-year-old grumbled that paying to transport his brood used up the cash he had set aside for his fourth marriage.
"The money I had saved was consumed in relocating my family from Shawa to Bannu and now I have again started saving and waiting for the operation to conclude," he told AFP.
After giving birth to a dozen children each, Khan said, his wives had told him enough was enough.
"I was planning to have a fourth marriage because now my wives have boycotted me and told me 'no more children'," Khan said.
"They do not allow me to go near them, but I have desires I want to fulfill.
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How many wives and kids do you neeed?If he was living in UK he would be earning a fortune out of the Govt!
[Ynet] Six world powers adjourn nuclear talks with Tehran early, but expect to extend negotiations past July 20 deadline.
Facing stubborn disputes on the terms of a deal, Iran and six world powers have tentatively decided to adjourn their nuclear talks two days early but plan to extend them past their planned July 20 end date, diplomats said Wednesday.
Dumb. Predictable, but truly blindingly stupid.
Both sides had been prepared to talk until Sunday, the informal deadline for the negotiations. But two diplomats have told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named the talks will probably wind down Friday, because the differences won't be bridged by Sunday.
Or ever, at least until Iran's much-desired nuclear weapons are realized in the sufficiently plural.
The diplomats demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge confidential information. One said the two sides opposed going on until the final hours of the informal deadline because they felt that would give the impression they were desperate for a solution.
But extending the deadline doesn't look desperate? Fascinating.
The talks aim at a deal that curbs Iran's atomic programs in exchange for an end to the nuclear-related sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
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... spoke of "very real gaps" Tuesday after two days of meetings with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. White House front man Josh Earnest said that Kerry and President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... were meeting Wednesday to discuss the "path forward" on the talks.
Obama said Wednesday there are "still significant gaps" and more work to do to reach a deal to get Iran to curb its nuclear program.
He said he will consult with Congress and allies to determine whether negotiations need to be extended after the July 20 deadline. He said that based on consultations with Kerry and his national security team progress has been made in several areas.
Russia, China, Britannia, La Belle France and Germany are also participating.
The main dispute is over uranium enrichment, which can make both reactor fuel and the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
Iran says it does not want such arms. Up to last week it insisted being allowed to expand its enrichment program over the next eight years to a level that would need about 190,000 current model centrifuges.
Yes, that does seem an unbridgeable difference.
It now has about 20,000 centrifuges, with half of them operating.
Three cheers for Stuxnet, et al!
Iranian officials have recently signaled they are ready to freeze that number for now.
Hudna!!!!
But Kerry said Tuesday that Washington has made it "crystal clear" that even 10,000 are too many.
And what, pray tell, is Washington prepared to do to make that point crystal clear to the Iranians? Other than prevent Israel from doing anything, I mean.
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A waste of our time and dangerous. It just plays into Iran's hand of extending their time for developing a nuclear weapon.
A supposedly secret but locally well-known CIA station on the outskirts of Irbil's airport is undergoing rapid expansion as the United States considers its options in Iraq, where Sunni militants have seized control in many regions. Western contractors hired to expand the facility and a local intelligence official confirmed the construction project, visible from the main highway linking Erbil to Mosul, the city whose fall June 10 triggered the Islamic State's sweep through northern and central Iraq. Residents around the airport say they can hear daily what they suspect are U.S. drones taking off and landing at the facility.
Expansion of the facility comes as it seems all but certain that the autonomous Kurdish regional government and the central government in Baghdad, never easy partners, are headed for an irrevocable split — complicating any U.S. military hopes of coordinating the two entities' efforts against the Islamic State. The local Kurdish intelligence official described what was taking place as a "long-term relationship with the Americans."
The Kurdish official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said: "It's no secret that the American special forces and CIA have a close relationship with the peshmerga." He added that the facility had operated even "after the Americans were forced out of Iraq by al-Maliki," a reference to the 2011 U.S. troop withdrawal after the Obama administration and the Iraqi government couldn't agree on a framework for U.S. forces to remain in the country.
The official refused to directly identify the location of the facility but when he was shown the blurred-out location on an online satellite-mapping service he joked: "The peshmerga do not have the influence to make Google blur an area on these maps. I will leave the rest to your conclusions."
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Until mid-2013 the base outside Irbil seemed an alternative to the US drone base at Incirlik. Now that Turkey has its own drone capability -- and for other obvious reasons -- the Kurdistan base assumes ever greater responsibility. While the US can hardly depend on Turkey, it has a longstanding ally in Kurdistan. Parenthetically, Exxon-Mobil reduced its interests in Iraq's south and is now drilling in Kurdistan.
[An Nahar] After proposing a stillborn truce denying Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, any gains from its conflict with Israel, Egypt has had to negotiate with the Paleostinian hard boyz to halt the war on its doorstep, analysts said.
The initial truce was to have taken effect on Tuesday, apparently coordinated with Israel while bypassing Hamas.
Egyptian mediators have since backtracked from demanding an unconditional acceptance by Hamas and began hosting intense negotiations in Cairo.
"I think that they realized that in order for this to end they will have to reach an agreement that will entail concessions to Gazoo," said Nathan Thrall, a Jerusalem-based analyst, referring to Egypt and Israel, which have a 1979 peace treaty.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who last year ousted his Islamist predecessor, Mohammed Morsi, had moved to further isolate the Paleostinian movement, a close ally of Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund.
The Egyptian army has destroyed much of a vast smuggling tunnel network that provided Hamas with revenues and weapons, accusing the Paleostinians of aiding hard boyz in Egypt's Sinai.
When Hamas' war with Israel erupted last week, Egypt -- the traditional broker in such conflicts -- cobbled together a ceasefire proposal quickly backed by Israel, Arab governments and the United States, but predictably spurned by Hamas.
The ceasefire conditions, which Egypt demanded both sides accept unconditionally, would have deprived Hamas of the "victory" it desperately seeks following the deaths of more than 200 Paleostinians in 10 days of Israeli bombardment.
Hamas, keeping up its rocket fire on Israeli cities that sparked the war, has ruled out any ceasefire before Egypt and Israel agreed to discuss terms.
On Thursday, Israel said it had agreed on a truce with Hamas but the Islamist movement denied a deal had been reached.
Hamas officials said there were ongoing talks on the basis of a set of concessions.
It demands a lifting of Israel's blockade on Gazoo, opening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, and the release of Paleostinian prisoners Israel has re-tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! after freeing them in exchange for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011.
According to Hamas and Israeli media reports, the hard boyz had not been consulted on the initial Egyptian initiative, although Sisi had cleared it with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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I hope for long and fruitless talks, with Gaza rubble and Islamo-deaders increasing every day.
Start with the shape of the table, that's important. Also, the brand of hummus and Zam-Zam bottle size
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Frank, is Zam-Zam water kosher? I am sure that it is halal, but we need to get a ruling from all the Jewish authorities before we serve it.
Unfortunately, they aren't meeting right now, so we will have to wait.
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By all means Commodore Frank, give em all the double Z water they want.
From Wiki: In May 2011, a BBC London investigation found that water marketed as having been taken from the Zamzam Well contained high levels of nitrate, potentially harmful bacteria, and arsenic at levels three times the legal limit in the UK.[9] Arsenic is a carcinogen, raising concerns that Muslims who regularly consume commercial Zamzam water in large quantities may be exposed to higher risks of cancer. The British Food Standards Agency has in the past issued warnings about water claiming to be from the Zamzam Well containing dangerous levels of arsenic;[10] such sales have also been reported in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where it is illegal to sell Zamzam.[3] The Saudi government has prohibited the commercial export of Zamzam water from the kingdom.[3] However, there is a strong commercial demand for Zamzam which has resulted in continued commercial distribution of water alleged to be Zamzam.
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[Al Ahram] The Egyptian ceasefire initiative concerning the ongoing conflict between the Israeli army and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement in the Gazoo Strip is being hindered — especially by the Islamist movement.
The reaction from Paleostinian factions over the truce has swung between deliberation and outright rejection.
Hamas officially informed Cairo that it has rejected the Egypt-backed proposal. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim 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... movement in Gazoo seems to be more open to the initiative. Undersecretary-General for the Islamic Jihad Movement Ziad Al-Nakhala said the initiative needs to be developed.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... Paleostinian sources in Gazoo told Ahram Online that the reason behind Hamas' rejection of the truce was that they were not included in negotiations concerning the initiative that took place in Cairo — Egyptian authorities communicated with Tel Aviv but not with them.
Sources say Israeli and Paleostinian reports show that Qatar is playing a role to abort Egypt's meditation efforts and that Hamas is rejecting cooperation with Egypt in line with the Moslem Brüderbund's defiant stance against Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
A Paleostinian political researcher based in the Gazoo Strip, Abdel-Razek Abu Gazoor, told Ahram Online that there is a difference between the role Egypt has played in Gazoo before and after the mass protests that took place on 30 June 2013 that led to the ouster of the Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.
Abu Gazoor explains that there is a disruption in communication between Gazoo and Egypt because of the close relations that exist between Paleostinian factions and the Moslem Brüderbund, who ruled Egypt for one year during Morsi's tenure.
He also believes Egypt's internal affairs — after a year of battling bad boys, writing a constitution and electing a new president — are another crucial reason for the disconnect with Gazoo.
He says that Egypt has always been a main party with a crucial role in the Paleostinian-Israeli conflict, to the point that Paleostinians feel the issue has become a part of Egypt's internal affairs.
Abu Gazoor also believes that Egypt has always been in contact with all parties when it mediates to calm the fighting — except for this time, he says, which means that Egypt needs to regain the confidence of Paleostinian factions and realise they must be part of any Paleostinian-Israeli agreement.
Meanwhile, ...back at the alley, Slats grabbed for his rosco... Abu Gazoor says that Egypt should overcome Hamas' relations with Morsi's old regime.
For now, he asserts the importance of ending the Israeli aggression on the Gazoo Strip, describing Israel's warning to 100,000 Paleostinians to evacuate northern Gazoo and its targeting of the homes of top Hamas leaders as unacceptable.
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... is to visit Egypt on Wednesday for talks with Egypt's El-Sisi over the proposed ceasefire initiative.
Also, Mideast Quartet ... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy.... envoy Tony Blair held talks with El-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on his second visit to Cairo within a week to discuss the Gazoo conflict.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... such talks may be undermined due to Hamas' refusal to cooperate with Egyptian authorities.
A source speaking on the condition of anonymity told Ahram Online that the upcoming days might witness a halt in attacks from the Islamist movement.
The source adds that Al-Nakhal, leader of Islamic Jihad, and Khaled Mashaal, Hamas' leader, might be visiting Egypt for talks with El-Sisi over the truce.
Tarek Fahmy, head of the Israeli Studies Unit at the National Centre for Middle East Studies, says that Egypt's stance on Israel's military operations is marked by two characteristics.
First, Egypt is not rushing in as a mediator, which contrasts with its previous actions, even in less momentous events.
Second, Egypt's meeting with the Middle East Quartet shows its role is important and vital in mediation efforts.
Fahmy adds that the Egyptian stance in mediation is dependent on European and American support in order to ensure that all parties — including Israel and the resistance organizations, especially Hamas — aren't able to openly accuse Cairo that it is coordinating with a "terrorist" movement or supporting Abbas' government.
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Oh. "Egypt needs to regain the confidence" of the lying fucking Paleos?
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I'm sure Hamass will be down with a ceasefire once it includes their primary demand - the right to kill all the Juice.
[Al Ahram] Israel will pay a "high price" for launching a ground invasion of the Gazoo Strip, the Paleostinian Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement said on Thursday night.
"The start of the Israeli ground attack on Gazoo is a dangerous step, the consequences of which have not been calculated," said Hamas front man Fawzi Barhum in a statement.
"Israel will pay a high price and Hamas is ready for the confrontation."
Israel launched a ground offensive in Gazoo late Thursday to stamp out rocket attacks, the Israeli army and the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
"Following 10 days of Hamas attacks by land, air and sea, and after repeated rejections of offers to de-escalate the situation, the Israel Defence Forces (army) has initiated a ground operation within the Gazoo Strip," the army said in a statement.
Netanyahu's office said the "prime minister and the defence minister ordered the army to begin a ground operation and enter Gazoo to strike at the terrorist tunnels from the Gazoo Strip into Israeli territory."
At least 240 Paleostinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes since July 8, many of them children, medics in Gazoo said, with a NGO based in the coastal enclave saying 80 percent of the deaths are civilians.
It's going to be an interesting invasion for the Gazans: lack of water, lack of power, and leadership looking forward to 45,000 of their people dying each day so their vision of the Arab Algeria can be attained... Not at all like the previous operations.
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My only desire is to see Israel complete the total anhialation of Hamass and its supporters. Personally, I'd prefer using ARCLIGHT and bulldozers, but Israel is too civilized for that. That seems to be a problem with all civilized nations: they aren't willing to go full Genghis Kahn against an uncivilized barbarian enemy.
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"90% of the dead are children, some, repeatedly"
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What OP said.
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Frank, one of the reasons so many children have died is that Hamas refuses to let people evacuate when they have been warned their homes are going to be bombed.
Using human shields is a war crime. Not for the people who go out of their way to avoid civilian casualties, but for those who use them.
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I got that, Rambler
I was Green-Helmet-Guy snarking
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[Al Ahram] An Israeli official said Thursday Tel Aviv had agreed on a ceasefire with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, that will begin at 0300 GMT Friday, but the Islamist movement said it had "no information" on a deal.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the Israeli official told AFP that Israel and Hamas "have agreed upon a ceasefire that will begin at 6:00am Gazoo local time tomorrow."
Hamas refused to confirm the report, with front man Fawzi Barhum telling AFP: "We have no information about this agreement."
The potential breakthrough came as a major confrontation between Israel and Hamas murderous Moslems entered its tenth day, with the fighting to far claiming 231 lives in Gazoo and one in Israel in the worst fighting in and around the enclave in five years.
A fragile five-hour humanitarian ceasefire, called for by the UN, went into effect at 0700 GMT, but three mortars fired from Gazoo hit Israel two hours later, the army said. Hamas denied any projectiles had been fired.
Minutes before the five-hour truce went into effect, Israeli tank fire hit a house in southern Gazoo on Thursday, killing three people, medics said.
Gazoomurderous Moslems have fired nearly 1,400 rockets at Israel during the Israeli offensive, which began July 8, well over 1,000 of which have hit Israel, the Israeli army says.
Israel has launched more than 1,750 raids on Gazoo.
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[Al Ahram] Israel's launch of a ground invasion in the Gazoo Strip on Thursday is not aimed at toppling the Paleostinian territory's dominant Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, group, an army front man said.
"That is not the goal of this mission," Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner told news hounds.
"Though it may be an unexpected side effect," he added.
A statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he had ordered the army to attack "terrorist infiltration tunnels", signalling that the operation would be limited in scope.
No plan survives first contact with the enemy, 'tis said, so who knows what else might need to be done before this is over?
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[Ynet] Delegation of firefighters from US, including 9/11 first responders, arrive in Israel to help Israeli counterparts deal with fires caused by ongoing rocket fire.
A special delegation of firefighters from across the US arrived in Israel with one goal: To help firefighters from Israel's rocket battered south deal with ongoing rocket fire.
Fire fighters in the south have been working ceaselessly to since fighting began ten days ago, and their mission include searching for the rockets as well as extinguishing the resulting blazes.
Between the rockets attack from Gazoo and rumors of ceasefire, little attention has been paid to the plight of Israel's firefighting forces in Sderot and other southern communities, however a group called Emergency Volunteer Project aims change that and work with their Israeli counterparts.
Flying in to Israel from LA, Washington and Texas, senior fire fighters and officers from the force seemed adamant in their desire to help. "We were all part of the massive tragedy that was 9/11. There we undertook search and rescue missions. When we heard that hundreds of rockets are falling on Israel we decided to join forces and come and help," said Billy Hearst, 51, from Texas.
With the help and generous aid of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, they connected with the Emergency Volunteer Project, an imitative which aims to offer emergency volunteer aid, and thus they arrived at Israel.
"The rocket fired by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, always the voice of sweet reason, hit homes in Ashkelon, Sderot and other communities. We have already been at scenes in a number of such communities, our mission is not simple, hard and exhausting, but we must help, the situation here is insufferable," Hearst said.
"We cannot ignore this reality, when Israeli firefighters work hour after hour to save human life," he adds.
An Israeli firefighting official praised the help, and said it was certainly needed: "These are fire fighters from the highest possible professional level," explains Reshef Tzvika Moyal, head of the Ashdod District Fire Services.
"There are officers, team leaders and fire fighters who participated in extremely complicated rescue missions," he explains. "We have distributed them across the stations facing the heaviest workload since the operation began and they are in the fire trucks and stations together with their Israeli counterparts, working side by side."
He further praised their assistance, saying the Israeli forces are benefiting from their rich experience. Similar praises were sounded in the opposite direction.
"The (Israeli) fire fighters are working like mad men, we are under constant fire and it is not easy. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... it is important for us to help these amazing Israeli forces," fire fighter Robert Katz from Washington said.
Head of the Emergency Volunteer Project, Adi Zehavi, said Wednesday that in addition to the 13 already in Israel there are no less than 30 more elite fire fighters in the US, waiting to come to Israel.
According to him they will arrive in upcoming day, "We cannot sit idly by in the US while here in Israel there is war for ten days straight," Hearst summarizes.
[Ynet] Soldiers of IDF Talpiot project develop a new system comprised of sensors and special transmitters which they are testing in the tunnels beneath Ayalon freeway in the center of Tel Aviv.
According to sources that witnessed the rare experiment, the test was conducted successfully and according to its developers' expectations. The research and development stages are expected to continue in the coming months and if the system succeeds in additional tests, it would become operational within a year and IDF could create a revolution in the way it handles Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Hezbollah strategic weapons.
[An Nahar] The head of the U.N.'s refugee agency praised Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan for welcoming hundreds of thousands of displaced people and urged the world to offer it "massive" support.
Antonio Guterres told news hounds during a visit to the al-Khazar camp for displaced Iraqis that he was "humbled by the generosity and the solidarity of the government and of the people of Kurdistan in this very difficult moment."
People forced from their homes in Iraq's Nineveh governorate since a jihadist-led offensive that started on June 9 have fled en masse to neighboring Kurdistan, which has remained largely stable.
Guterres stressed that the autonomous region had already borne a heavy burden with an earlier influx of refugees from war-torn Syria and he added that the strain was made worse by the fact that the government in Baghdad had stopped sending Arbil its share of federal oil revenue.
"And even without those resources, the government and people of Kurdistan have been receiving all these people and sharing with them everything they have," he said.
Kurdistan and the Shiite-dominated federal government have been locked in an escalating war of words in recent weeks.
Arbil blames Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for the security collapse that saw Death Eater Sunni turbans seize large swathes of land in western and northern Iraq.
Maliki has in turn accused the Kurdish leadership of taking advantage of the chaos to expand the borders of its envisioned independent state by moving into disputed territories, and of illegally exporting Iraqi oil.
Guterres, who met Iraqi leaders in Baghdad on Wednesday, urged the international community "to provide massive support for the Iraqis displaced, for the Iraqi victims of this conflict, but also to provide massive support to the government and the people in Kurdistan."
He said that the population of internally displaced people in Iraq now topped two million.
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[An Nahar] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... on Wednesday hailed 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... 's fighters who "stood side by side" with the Syrian army, thanking those who considered supporting Damascus equivalent to "defending south Leb."
"I salute the loyal heroes of the Lebanese resistance, who stood side by side with the heroes of our army," Assad said in a triumphant speech delivered after he took the oath of office for a new seven-year term.
The Syrian leader reminded that these fighters had "fought honorable battles together on both sides of the border and offered deaders in defense of the axis of resistance."
He saluted them and applauded "the family of every martyr of them that showed mutual loyalty and considered the duty of standing by Syria equivalent to the duty of defending south Leb" against Israel.
Assad, 48, won a June election denounced as a "farce" by his detractors as it was staged more than three years into a devastating war that has killed more than 170,000 people and uprooted millions.
Hizbullah had officially announced more than a year and a half ago that it was fighting alongside Syrian troops against "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... " gangs.
Party leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... has several times repeated that the group's fighters "will be where they should be" in Syria, vowing that Damascus will not be left alone in its confrontation with rebels seeking to oust the regime.
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[An Nahar] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday filed a complaint with the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Security Council over "the numerous and dangerous Israeli violations of Lebanese illusory sovereignty and of resolution 1701."
"The Israeli daily aerial, naval, and territorial violations against Leb, of Lebanese illusory sovereignty and resolution 1701 have exceeded 516 since the beginning of this year," the Foreign Ministry said in its complaint.
It detailed that among these violations was the firing of twenty-one 155-millimeter artillery shells on July 11 at the outskirts of town of Kfarshouba in the South.
And on July 12, twenty-five 155-millimeter artillery shells were fired at Lebanese territories, the complaint said.
"Israeli also fired around 31 shells at the outskirts of al-Qlayleh and al-Maaliyeh villages (in the South) on July 14," it added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... the foreign ministry stressed the cabinet's commitment to "implementing all the stipulations of U.N. Security Council's resolution 1701."
"The army is fulfilling its duties in this respect in coordination with UNIFIL troops and soldiers are naturally deployed in the Area of Operations to the south of the Litani River," the complaint elaborated.
"And the firing of rockets by some individuals or by unorganized or marginal groups towards the occupied Paleostinian territories is a rejected act that does not serve the interest of Leb or of the Paleostinian resistance in Gazoo," it warned, adding that these activities give Israel excuses to attack Leb and its illusory sovereignty.
On the ongoing war in Gazoo, the ministry noted that the continuous "barbaric" Israeli assault threatens peace and security in the Middle East.
In the fourth such attack in four days, at least one rocket was fired Monday night from southern Leb towards northern Israel.
In retaliation, the Israeli army fired several artillery shells.
And three rockets were fired Saturday at Israel from the same region while a rocket was launched early Friday from the southern region of Hasbaya. A man has been incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... over his involvement in Friday's attack, which he said was in solidarity with the Gazoo Strip.
Israel had filed a complaint to UNIFIL, which monitors the border between Leb and Israel, after Friday's attack.
Israeli military officials said they believed Friday's attack was carried out by a small Paleostinian group in retaliation to Israel's deadly assault on Gazoo.
These security developments in the South come as an Israeli assault on the Gazoo Strip has entered its tenth day, killing at least 231 people and wounding over 1,500 others.
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"Unorganized" = No Responsible Authority - ergo, because there is no one else to point a finger at, casualties are laid at the feet of the Israelis.
Maybe Lebanon should engage in a little house cleaning before running to the U.N? Oh, that's right, the U.N., with condescension and a hard-wired anti-Israel apposition, will look past such internal irregularities.
[IsraelTimes] With Paleostinian rockets raining down on Israeli cities and the IDF striking targets in the Gazoo Strip, a new poll has found that support for Israel over the Paleostinians among US citizens remains high, but that support is an increasingly partisan issue. The Pew Center for People and the Press, which administered the survey, revealed Tuesday that the most recent poll indicates the largest partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans on the issue in forty years of polling.
According to a national survey conducted among 1,805 adults and published Tuesday, 51 percent of Americans support Israel more than the Paleostinians in the current conflict, only 14% said they were more supportive of the Paleostinian cause, while 15% said they identify with neither side in the ongoing conflict. Three percent of those polled said they sympathize equally with both Israel and the Paleostinians.
Despite the strong overall support demonstrated in the study, the Pew Center for People and the Press wrote that "dating back to the late 1970s, the partisan gap in Mideast sympathies has never been wider."
Among Republican voters, support for Israel grew by five percent, rising from 68% to 73% since a similar poll was conducted in April. The Pew poll found that among conservative and moderate Republicans, sympathy for Israel was at 77% and 64%. Only 6% of Republicans said they sympathize more with the Paleostinians.
The Democratic voter base's support for Israel remained largely unchanged, dropping 2% from 46% to 44% since the last poll, while 17% of Democrats said they backed the Paleostinians. Only 39% of those who defined themselves as "liberal Democrats" were sympathetic to Israel.
Republican Jewish Committee Chairman Matt Brooks said that "for years, public opinion polls have documented the large gap in support for Israel between Republicans and Democrats, with Republicans being far more supportive of Israel. This poll shows a gap of 27 points."
Brooks noted that "fewer than half of the Democrats polled say they have more sympathy for Israel than for the Paleostinians," adding that the data represents "a sad and sobering confirmation of the Democrat Party's shift over time away from support of Israel, especially at its grassroots."
"If support for Israel ceases to be bipartisan, the US-Israel relationship — which is of so much benefit to both countries — will suffer," he warned.
Among independents, forty five percent said they side more with Israel, while 17% supported the Paleostinians.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the poll found significant differences of opinion regarding the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict among different age groups in the US. Consistently, less than half of those aged 30-49 (47%) as well as those under the age of 30 (44%) stated their support for Israel. In comparison, 56% of those aged 50-64 and 60% of those older than 65 said they identified with Israel more than the Paleostinians.
The survey was conducted by interviewers at Princeton Data Source under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International.
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The Democratic voter base's support for Israel remained largely unchanged, dropping 2% from 46% to 44% since the last poll, while 17% of Democrats said they backed the Paleostinians. Only 39% of those who defined themselves as "liberal Democrats" were sympathetic to Israel.
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Too many easy to tag labels there. Many 'Jews' are about Jewish as many 'Christians' are Christian. In other words, its a simplistic social identification that has nothing to do with the religious identification. As in both cases, their real religion and allegiance is socialism.
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[DAWN] The ongoing military operation may be making headway in clearing
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