[DAWN] During his address to the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... General Assembly, Afghanistan's chief executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... has called for Pakistain to keep its promise to crack down on Islamic turbans blamed for carrying out cross-border attacks and destablising the impoverished war-torn country.
Abdullah Abdullah's address Monday night to the UNGA came hours after a fast-moving assault by the Taliban captured the strategic northern Afghan city of Kunduz in a multi-pronged attack involving hundreds of fighters, the first time the bandidos Death Eaters have seized a major urban area since the 2001 US-led invasion.
Abdullah said some of the attackers had come from abroad, and said, "We call on Pakistain to do what its leadership promised to us a few months ago when they agreed to crack down on known terror outfits."
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(Nice blouse, master and commander. The four gold shoulder buttons really say something. Or other.)
Commodore Abdullah Etcetera, Lord Almighty of the Star Cruiser Armageddon II, stopped mid-tirade and ogled his new yeoman, ten-year-old Omar Shriek.
[Tolo News] The Taliban's siege of Kunduz city has resulted in the loss of millions of dollars in earnings for the residents and traders, who were not only forced to close their businesses but are now falling victim to the Lion of Islam group's looting spree.
After seizing control of the northern city on Monday, the Taliban Death Eaters on Tuesday started looting shops and businesses, plundering homes and torching strategic buildings and offices.
Chief Executive of Afghanistan's Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) Atiqullah Nasrat on Tuesday said the Taliban rebels have torched government offices and stores -- particularly jewelry stores specializing in gold.
"Taliban ... have destroyed a number of buildings, looted bazaars and even wanted to establish their base in the ACCI office in the city," he said.
MPs from Kunduz say the Taliban fighters have also looted a number of houses in the city.
"They took with them all the things that people had. They entered people's houses and even forcibly took their vehicles," an MP from Kunduz, Amanullah Paiman told TOLOnews.
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The difference between the #BlackLivesMatter mafia and the Talibs is that the former go after the pharmacies instead.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] As fighting intensifies in the capital city of northern Kundoz province, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. advises security forces to avoid civilian casualties.
While talking to a joint presser in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... on the afternoon of Tuesday, President Ghani said "I advise all security organs to consider civilians as a first priority."
President Ghani said that security forces are advancing on Taliban held areas in Kundoz city, adding that all three security organs have good cooperation.
President Ghani said he had told security forces in advance that this would be a tough year for them which they passed successfully.
He said that the enemy had planned to collapse the government but security forces foiled their plans.
President Ghani urged the nation to have confidence on security forces and said that besides all problems we will move forward.
President Ghani reiterated that war has been imposed on Afghans through a person 'Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... ' who has died more than two years ago.
Regarding the jailbreak in which reports suggest that Taliban released all prisoners, Nabil said that 600 inmates were held in that jail including 110 Taliban.
Rahmatullah Nabil, director of the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) said that there was prior knowledge of a possible attack on Kundoz, adding that high profile prisoners were already moved to Pul-e-Charkhi jail in Kabul.
Masoum Stanikzai, the acting Defense Minister told news hounds at the presser that Taliban advancement in Kundoz was not based on a deal. He said that negligence in duties have taken place.
Noorulhaq Olomi, the Interior Minister said that additional forces have arrived in Kundoz to drive out Taliban from the city.
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At last check, Afghan relief forces have been effec stalled roughly 2-kms. outside of Kunduz.
[Libya Herald] Sheikh Sadek Al-Ghariani, still accepted by the regime in 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... as Libya's grand mufti, has said that unless the Libya Dialogue agreement accepts Sharia law and has it at the top of the text then it is invalid.
He was speaking to gread applause at a workshop on the UN-brokered Dialogue held today at the General National Congress (GNC). When he arrived to speak, many participants started shouting takbirs ("Allahu Akbar").
(The Dialogue text in fact says in its preamble that "and that Islamic law (Sharia) is the source of legislation". However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... for Ghariani, who has resolutely opposed the Dialogue until now, nothing less than Sharia being the law, rather than its source, will do.)
The workshop was attended by some 100 key players in the Tripoli regime, including its prime minister, Khalifa Ghwell, members of the GNC, elders and municipal representatives together with other opponents of the House of Representatives (HoR).
None of the GNC's Dialogue team was in attendance having already left for New York.
Some members of the GNC supported the Dialogue, expressing optimism as to its prospect. Others did not, insisting that the Supreme Court's ruling last November which they say abolished the HoR and reinstated the GNC had to be accepted.
Abdulraouf Al-Manaie (elected to the HoR for Abu Sleem), when referred to as an HoR boycotter, said he was no not because it no longer existed and therefore he could no longer be a member of it.
In his speech, Ghwell said that the Dialogue was incompatible with the GNC and expressed his absolute opposition to the GNC delegates to the Dialogue continuing to have anything to do with it. He accused them of ignoring what he called "putchists" and "criminal gangs" -- a reference to the Libyan National Army and Khalifa Hafter -- who had bombed Benghazi, Derna and Kufra "and killed innocent elderly people, women and kiddies". Claiming to support dialogue, he said it could only be between Libyans who supported the 17 February Revolution.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] U.S. President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... said on Monday the international community should have done more to avoid a leadership vacuum in Libya, which has been in disarray since the fall of Muammar Qadaffy ...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens... four years ago.
Obama told the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... General Assembly the international community must work harder in future to ensure states do not implode.
The rapid descent of Libya into violent chaos was one of the most dramatic events in the "Arab Spring," the abrupt collapse of long-standing autocratic governments in a number of Arab countries in the face of popular protests.
"Even as we helped the Libyan people bring an end to the reign of a tyrant, our coalition could have and should have done more to fill a vacuum left behind," Obama said.
His rare acknowledgement of mistakes in Libya's transition came as the United Nations tries to negotiate an end to fighting between two rival governments and their armed backers which has pushed the country to the brink of collapse.
The U.N. General Assembly on Monday was dominated by discussion of the turmoil in Syria, which erupted after an uprising against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... . The United States and Russia have traded accusations about responsibility for the violence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... blamed the chaos in the region, including in Libya, on the sudden removal of the old leaders, and said this was creating many recruits for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... holy warrior group.
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I'll just note / point out the bloody obvious that Obama did not admit he made a mistake; can't have that...
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"Even as we helped the Libyan people bring an end to the reign of a tyrant, our coalition could have and should have done more to fill a vacuum left behind," Obama said.
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JQC, that depends solely on WHAT this administration was trying to accomplish.
The cynic in me looks at this and thinks that they feel they have been wildly successful. They wanted the fundamental transformation from the most powerful and wealthy nation to one that is on an inescapable path to third world status and submission to Marxian Muslims.
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Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy committed a bloody crime in Libya. Theirs was not a noble cause. They did not create democracy. They never intended to do so. They had to know that only war and chaos could result from what they did.
The only decent thing to do when somebody starts spouting this type of disgusting, obvious and flagrant bullshit is to get up and walk out. The fact that nobody in the UN General Assembly actually did that tells me all I need to know about it. They're all just as bad as he is.
[Dhaka Tribune] An influential Saudi prince has launched an unprecedented campaign against the country's current leadership, at a time when the kingdom is facing huge criticism over it's hajj management, it's role in Yemeni war and downward trend of oil price.
Quoting the prince, one of the grandsons of the kingdom's founder, Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, British liberal newspaper The Guardian reported that there is unease among the royal family as well as among the people at the leadership of King Salman ...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians.... , who was inaugurated in January.
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“The king is not in a stable condition and in reality the son of the king [Mohammed bin Salman] is ruling the kingdom,”... The prince's name is not given.
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Since the Prince is not named perhaps a whole bunch of suspected critics might be rounded up for a nice helicopter sight-seeing tour and skydiving adventure
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Dozens of Yemeni activists and journalists gathered in front of the UN building in Geneva and protested for one day, demanding the UN to trial of the former President Ali Saleh and the leader of the Houthi rebels Abdulmalek Al-Houthi as war criminals.
The Yemeni activists have reviewed many pictures and documents of the violations carried out by the militias of Saleh and Hourhi rebels against civilians and journalists in Aden, Taiz and Sana'a and several other cities that the rebels controlled.
Yemeni activist Ebrahim Al-Ammari said to YemenOnline that the activists came from different EU countries to support the legitimate Yemen President and government.
We are here in Geneva to expose that crimes of the Houthi rebels and Saleh militia against civilians and freedom of expression in Yemen and we brought documents and pictures to show the international society that a small side of their crimes, Al-Ammari said.
The UN, US ,and EU have to take action to save the life of Yemeni civilians who are under bombing of Houthi rebels everyday specially in the besieged city Taiz , Al-Ammari added.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has said "Iran is the last to talk" on establishing stability in Syria, according to an interview he gave to Al Arabiya News Channel at the sidelines at the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... in New York.
Jubeir's comments came after Iranian President Hassan Rowhani's speech at the General Assembly when Tehran said it was "prepared to assist in the eradication of terrorism and in paving the way for democracy."
Rowhani also said: "As we aided the establishment of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are prepared to help bring about democracy in Syria and also Yemen."
Tehran has been providing financial and military support to the Damascus regime as well as military advisers on the ground in Syria, where more than 240,000 people have died and four million people have been driven from their homes.
"Evidence has shown that Iran has militarily aided Yemen's Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias and are the main reason behind the conflict and civil war in Yemen," Jubeir told al Arabiya News in response to Tehran's comments on Yemen.
With regards to Iran's recent statements on the hajj stampede in Mina, Jubeir stressed that Tehran was seeking to exploit a human tragedy for political gains, adding that an investigation is still ongoing to find the main reasons behind the incident.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The International Crimes Tribunal has framed four charges against three alleged war criminals of Habiganj yesterday.
The three-member tribunal, led by Justice Anwarul Haque, also fixed October 21 to start hearing. It will record the prosecution's opening statement and deposition of witnesses on that day.
The three accused are Muhibur Rahman alias Boromian, 65, his younger brother Mujibur Rahman alias Angur Mian, 60, and their cousin Abdur Razzak.
The have been charged for killing two freedom fighters, raping two women, confining and torturing an unarmed civilian, and making an arson attack and looting during the 1971 Liberation War.
The tribunal asked the prosecution to give all documents to the defense and the defense counsels to submit their documents and witness-list on or before the mentioned.
The accused pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." while the charges were being read out yesterday.
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[Dhaka Tribune] The Detective Branch of police yesterday took over the charge of investigation into the murder of a Dhaka-based Italian aid official in the Gulshan diplomatic zone in the city.
Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam, also the DB chief, will now look after the case, as per decision of a high-powered meeting held at the Police Headquarters earlier in the day.
An investigation assistance committee was also formed with CID Special Superintendent Md Rezaul Haider. The two officials will choose the other members of the body.
Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory, Igor and Oleg were discussing what the quickest way might be to deal with the monster... Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal claimed that the law enforcement agencies had not found any link of international myrmidon group Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) with the murder of Cesare Tavella, the Italian.
Addressing a presser in his office, the minister also claimed that there was no existence of IS in Bangladesh. He hoped that the killers would be traced soon.
Although IS has no organizational base in Bangladesh, the law enforcement agencies recently tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a number of alleged IS recruiters, trainers and members of local banned myrmidon groups and newly formed hard boy outfits who are willing to join the outfit based in Syria and Iraq.
Tavella, 51, was rubbed out by three person or persons unknown who came on a cycle of violence near road number 90 of Gulshan 2 around 6:15pm on Monday. The killers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace towards road 83 after one of them shot Tavella thrice.
He was taken to United Hospital by a car driver, Mohammad Bilal, only to be declared dead by the duty doctors around 7pm.
Tavella had been working as the project manager of PROOFS (Profitable Opportunities for Food Security) at the Netherlands-based development organization ICCO Cooperation since May.
ICCO Country Representative Hellen Vander Beek filed a case with Gulshan cop shoppe around 10:30pm on Monday. The case was handed over to the Detective Branch (DB) yesterday afternoon.
The murder created much hype in the country as well as hit the headlines in international media apparently due to security alerts issued by the US and the UK for their citizens in Bangladesh, suspecting myrmidon attack on western interests in late September.
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TAIJIKISTAN being described lately as "under Islamist stress".
NOT Serious or catastrophic yet, but slowly getting or approaching that level.
I have no doubts VLAD/VLADVEDEV = RUSSIA desires to defeat the ISIS/ISIL + Al-Nusra Boyz, etc. in Syria-Iraq quickly so he can focus on the Islamist threat to Russia's Center + FE.
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Allmost a decade ago the UN reported that narcotics were "easily available in Tajikistan. The 1,344km border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan is divided by a narrow river, easy to cross any time." Then some 100 tonnes of Afghan heroin were trafficked through Tajikistan every year. Now it is estimated that the figure has tripled.
Several Russian Navy surface combatants and combat aircraft are expected to arrive in the eastern Mediterranean Sea by Wednesday in preparations for the naval exercise to begin September 30th, according to Russian language news accounts.
Among the Russian military equipment arriving in Syria are six SU-34 bombers, which are operated by the Russian Air Force. This new deployment brings the total Russian fixed wing combat aircraft in Syria to 34. Currently, four Su-30 air superiority aircraft, 12 Su-25 ground interdiction aircraft and 12 Su-24 bombers are in Syria, or have arrived at Latakia. Russian reports say, however, that many of those aircraft are destined to be turned over to Syrian pilots.
The SU-34 aircraft took off from a base in far southern Russia, then took a route over the Caspian Sea, through the air spaces of northern Iran and Iraq, then into Syria.
The SU-34 is a newly introduced aircraft which will replace the Su-24 bomber. The Russian Air Force plans to have as many as 200 SU-34 aircraft in their inventory by 2020.
Among the ships slated to arrive in the eastern Mediterranean Sea is the guided missile cruiser (CG) Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. An additional ship due to arrive in Syria is identified in Russian press accounts as Alligator class landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov.
The Nikolai Filchenkov also is used by the Russian Navy as a naval anchorage construction ship, and is likely to be used to improve the naval base at Tartus.
The naval exercise is centered at a point between Tartus and Cyprus, about 70 kilometers (38 nautical miles) west of Tartus.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter.
[AnNahar] Germany toughened rules Tuesday for asylum seekers from the Balkans as Europe struggled to cope with a record surge in migrants, with those crossing the Mediterranean exceeding the half a million mark.
Berlin added Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro to a list of so-called safe origin countries, which will result in swifter deportations for asylum seekers from those conflict-free states, in a bid to free up resources to deal with claims from citizens of war-torn countries like Syria.
Your sarcastic comment here.
Germany's open-door policy to Syrians has sparked festivities with eastern EU member states, in particular Hungary, which has adopted the opposite strategy of sealing off its borders to migrants.
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No surprise here, as its been clear or obvious for a time that powerful Factions widin both the US + KSA, etal. don't want the truth or secrets of 9-11 [or most of same] to be publicly revealed, on pain of repression andor death.
[RUDAW.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's main pro-Kurdish party is urging European countries to increase pressure on Ankara, warning that if the Kurdish conflict intensifies Europe will have to brace for another deluge of refugees.
Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the People's Democratic Party (HDP), made a weekend visit to Denmark and Germany -- both host to large Kurdish and Turkish immigrant populations -- to gain support ahead of crucial snap elections on November 1.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has elaborated on his notion of being "local and national," while staging another attack on the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which he said deceived the country by presenting itself as an entity which respects the Turkish flag.
"The terror organization is not only the enemy of the country, but is also the enemy of all members of our nation along with our Kurdish siblings. During our rally in Istanbul, I focused on being local and being national. Here I say it: Like all of my citizens living in the region and in the four corners of our country, my Kurdish siblings and my Zaza siblings are also local and national, they are own children of this homeland," Erdogan said Sept. 29 at a gathering with a large group of muhtars at the presidential palace.
The reference was to a rally which he led along with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at Istanbul's Yenikapi Square on Sept. 20. The rally was attended by more than 100,000 people and resembled an election rally, with Erdogan vowing in a barnstorming speech to pursue the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) "to the terrorists' last redoubt."
"No matter which party they are from, I want you to send 550 local and national deputies to parliament on Nov. 1," Erdogan said at the rally, referring to the Nov. 1 snap elections in what some had speculated was a suggestion that Kurdish deputies were not part of the nation.
Speaking to muhtars at the 11th such meeting that Erdogan has held at the presidential palace since late January, Erdogan made clear that the PKK was "not local and not part of this nation."
"Those who aim at our country's gains do not belong to this country, even if they are in parliament," Erdogan said, in an apparent reference to the HDP, which he insistently says is the political wing of the PKK.
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[IsraelTimes] Measures against groups and individuals from Sinai to Indonesia form largest effort yet to disrupt terror group’s finances, recruitment
The US government announced sanctions Tuesday against 25 people and five groups connected to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , disclosing intelligence that depicts a sprawling international organization with tentacles across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Nearly 30,000 foreigners -- including at least 4,500 Westerners -- have traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight with jihadists since 2011 and the United States is failing to stop Americans from joining them, a report warned Tuesday.
The document describes a national security infrastructure that is ill-equipped to deal with the myriad ways foreign Lions of Islam contact and recruit Americans.
"The U.S. government lacks a national strategy for combating terrorist travel and has not produced one in nearly a decade," states the report, which was compiled by a task force for the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee.
"The unprecedented speed at which Americans are being radicalized by violent snuffies is straining federal law enforcement's ability to monitor and intercept suspects," the report said.
Additionally, law enforcement tools haven't kept pace with technological shifts, as jihadist recruiters increasingly use secure websites and apps to communicate with Americans -- making it harder for law enforcement to disrupt plots and terrorist travel.
The imported muscle that have enlisted with Islamist jihadist groups include at least 4,500 Westerners, the report states.
Of that number, more than 250 Americans have joined or tried to fight with ISIS hard boys.
"What keeps me up at night are the ones we've missed. The ones who have come back who are plotting an attack. The ones who are being radicalized over the Internet from Syria social media operatives," Congressman Michael McCaul, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, told MSNBC.
The report states that some of the imported muscle that flew to Syria initially did so to help oust Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs... , "but most are now joining the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... [ISIS], inspired to become a part of the group's 'caliphate' and to expand its repressive society."
The task force report presents dozens of key findings and recommendations, and calls for an overview of the U.S. strategy to combat terrorist travel, as well better intelligence sharing domestically and with other countries.
The report also blasts security weaknesses overseas, especially in Europe.
"Pervasive overseas security gaps make it easier for aspiring imported muscle to travel to terrorist hotspots -- and increase the odds that trained jihadists will be able to travel to America undetected," the report said.
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How about 'just let them go but confiscate their passport...' for starters?
[BLOOMBERGVIEW] The Maldives is calling on the United States to help it respond to an attack on its president, potentially opening the newest front in the war on terror.
President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom on Sunday narrowly escaped an kaboom on his boat. His wife was injured. Investigators have converged on the island nation in the Indian Ocean to determine whether the blast is related to organized terrorism. The government is already rethinking its security and defense practices; brass hats say terrorist recruiting has been on the rise there.
Maldivian Foreign Secretary Ali Naseer Mohammed told me Tuesday that officials are still piecing together what happened.
"No group has grabbed credit," he said. "But we believe it was an attack directed to the president. That's the first time the president has been attacked in that way."
Ali was in the United States this week for the UN General Assembly, and he said his government has been tracking an increased flow of its citizens traveling to Iraq and Syria to fight there, at least 40 so far. Some are coming back to the Maldives.
"That is actually the biggest threat that we face as a nation-state and as a society. That is our biggest fear," he said. "And that's where our security forces are finding quite a challenge."
An unidentified Islamic Death Eater group last month threatened terrorist attacks and attacks against the president in a YouTube video that featured the flag of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... . But Ali said that until this week, there had been no credible information that any terrorist group was operating in the Maldives. Now the government is reevaluating that.
"Some of the terrorist groups operating in South Asia and the Middle East have been able to penetrate to certain individuals," he said. "We know Maldivians are being recruited. Social media is they key instrument being used."
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[DAWN] An accused in the 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... murder case on Monday sought court's permission to contact his family on telephone.
Aitzaz Shah has been behind bars in Rawalpindi Central Jail since 2008.
Naseer Khan Tanoli, counsel for the accused, submitted the application before a judge in which he pleaded to the court that his client be allowed to contact his family via jail telephones. The counsel said using the phone was the detainee's legal right and that other inmates at the same jail were allowed to talk over the phone for 20 minutes a month.
The judge has issued a notice to the jail administration, seeking their comments.
The Anti-terrorism Court also heard and recorded statements from a witness, Inspector Kashif Riaz, who was posted as station house officer (SHO) at the city cop shoppe in 2007 when Ms Bhutto was assassinated within the limits of the same cop shoppe.
Rawalpindi administration also submitted a report before the court that arrangements have been made to record statements from an important witness to the case, US lobbyist Mark Seigel. Mr Seigel's account will be recorded via a video link from New York.
The court decided to record Mr Seigel's statement on October 1 at 7:30pm through a video link facility from the commissioner's office.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi defended his country's intelligence-sharing agreement with Russia, Syria, and Iran, saying Baghdad needs to work with these countries to defeat the so-called 'Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) 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... group.
In a televised speech before his departure to attend the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... General Assembly on Monday, Abadi said Iraq welcomed Russia's "recent interest" in battling ISIL, which had taken over a third of Iraq's territory.
"Many Lions of Islam who are fighting with [ISIL] are Russian who would return to Russia to carry out terrorist acts," Abadi said, noting that his country's interests are aligned with Syria, Russia, and Iran in seeking to eliminate ISIL.
Iraq will continue to work closely with the US-led coalition that has been bombing ISIL in Syria and Iraq, he said. Iraq needs "all the world's intelligence efforts in order to fight, to besiege, and to terminate ISIL."
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[Ynet] The World Bank says the Paleostinian economy has worsened for a third consecutive year.
In a report released Monday, the World Bank cited a number of factors, including reduced donor aid, Israeli restrictions and political instability that has deterred investors. It also pointed to the failure of donors to follow through on contributions to rebuild the war-battered Gazoo Strip, and a continued shortage of construction materials, despite a new international mechanism to bring in goods from Israel. The report says the economy has been shrinking on a per capita basis since 2013. Unemployment remains high, hitting 60 percent among Gazoo youths, and 25 percent of Paleostinians live in poverty. Steen Lau Jorgensen, the World Bank's country director, says the "volatile reality increases anxiety and uncertainty" about the future.
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So, the first Russian airstrike is against a non-ISIS target in Homs. On top of a polite request to stay out of the way. How's that for a sharp poke in the eye?
"The U.S.-led coalition will continue to fly missions over Iraq and Syria as planned and in support of our international mission to degrade and destroy ISIL" Kirby told reporters.
At least until Champ tells 'em to bow down.
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If you want to see a confused bunch of people (I mean, even more than usual) look at the comments over at the Guardian. The Stalin-had-the-right-idea crowd are duking it out with the anti-war crowd. But they both agree that America is the most evilest no matter what, 'cause. Let's start a rumor that the Russian pilots are transgendered.
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Dave Burge (Iowahawk):
WWII: US and USSR team up to defeat Nazi Germany
Now: US and Russia team up to defeat the US
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Easier to stop the rebels as locals fighting for regional rule than ISIS as domestic and foreign fighting for global rule.
The Russian parliament on Wednesday unanimously granted President Vladimir Putin the right to deploy the country's military in Syria, a move a top Kremlin aide said related only to the air force. Now we shall see if the rep of the big, bad bear is actually justified.
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The Russian parliament on Wednesday unanimously granted President Vladimir Putin the right to deploy the country's military in Syria,
Not like they were gonna say 'no'.
Mike
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Yup, Vlad can always re-open a corrective labor camp in the Kolyma...
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A real 'ruler' wouldn't even bother for a 'mother may I' or other rituals associated with old fashion democracy. Like, say, an Libyan intervention. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
#7
And why not, as DARTH VLAD/VLADVEDEV has been outstandingly successful in achieving Russian Federation's, FKA the USSR FKA TSARIST RUSSIA FKA KIEVAN RUSSIA, MUSCOVY, ETC., historical agenda in East Europe, Crimea, + now the ME + Persian Gulf.
THE ABOVE BEING SAID, THE DEFEAT-N-DESTRUCTION OF THE ISIS/ISIL/DAESH AS A ORGANZIED POLITY - ORG, NATION-STATE, ANDOR REGIONAL-GLOBAL"CALIPHATE" - M-U-S-T BE A NON-PARTISAN ISUE BETWEEN RUSSIA + US-WEST - KEEPING THE ISLAMIC STATE ALIVE IN ORDER TO FOR ONE CAMP TO SCORE MUCHO DIPLOMATIC POINTS AGZ THE OTHER(S) WILL ONLY RESULT IN THE BOTH/ALL CAMPS = ENTIRE JUDEOCHRISTIAN OR NON-MUSLIM WORLD BEING SUBJUGATED TO THE ISIS/ISIL + RADICAL ISLAM + LIKELY FUTURE NUCLEAR CALIPHATE.
Iff Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama won't do it to save America or Amerika, then I say let Putin, etal have the ball - WID THEIR WEAKER OR SMALLER ECONOMIES THAN THE US-WEST, ITS ACTUALLY MORE IN THEIR STRATEGIC INTEREST TO MAKE D **** SURE THE ISIS/ISIL IS DE FACTO DESTROYED ASAP AMAP ALAP THAN AMERIKA'S.
Iff Putin + China + Iran + SCO-CSTO Boyz, etal. can't do it, THEN IT BEHOOVES OBAMA'S POST-JAN. 2017 POTUS SUCCESSOR TO SEND US MILFORS BACK IN ASAP AMAP ALAP AFTER BEING SWORN IN, by-n-for the specific purpose of militarily + completely destroying the ISIS/ISIL ONCE-N-FOREVAR!
As a reminder ...
* WORLD NEWS, DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Yahoo News[ ISIS A DIRECT THREAT TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: BRICS.
"International Community" = more popularly known as "the Entire World/Planet".
* LUCIANNE > [JPost] US POWER VACUUM MAY UNITE RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN [Etal.] AGZ NUCLEAR ISLAMIC STATE/ISIS.
Must mean "Nukulaar".
Global Nuclear Jihad, Global Nuclear Caliphate + + ultimately a "Nuclear Napoleon" 2030-2050???
D *** NG IT, WILL A "NUCLEAR NAPOLEON" BEGAT NUCLEAR KIDDIES ONE DAY???
[IsraelTimes] Pentagon says entire beleaguered system aimed at fighting Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , other jihadists to undergo review.
The Pentagon said Tuesday it had suspended bringing moderate rebels from Syria to participate in its troubled train-and-equip program in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Jordan.
The training mission, aimed at readying rebels to fight Islamic State jihadists in Syria, has come under fire after it got off to a disastrous start, leaving defense officials scrambling to salvage some iteration of the $500 million program.
Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the entire program was "under review," though US forces are still recruiting for the program.
"As we review the program, we have paused the actual movement of new recruits from Syria," he said.
"We also continue to provide support for current forces on the ground and to train the cohorts currently in the program."
The program's first graduates were attacked earlier this year by Al-Qaeda's local franchise, the Al-Nusra Front, and fell apart.
Then last week, the Pentagon admitted that the second group of around 70 fighters had given equipment and ammunition to Al-Nusra -- purportedly in exchange for safe passage.
[ARA] The United States and Russia agree on "some fundamental principles" for Syria, the 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... said on Tuesday, adding that he plans to meet again with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday.
"There was agreement that Syria should be a unified country, united, that it needs to be secular, that ISIL (Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ) needs to be taken on, and that there needs to be a managed transition," Kerry told MSNBC, adding that differences remained on what the outcome of such a transition would be.
Speaking in the television interview from New York amid the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... gathering this week, Kerry said both U.S. President Barack Obama Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.... and Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... are both "looking for a way forward" in Syria, suffering from a four-year civil war as well as the rise of Islamic State.
Kerry described Obama and Putin's meeting on Monday to discuss the crisis as "genuinely constructive, very civil" with "a very candid discussion."
"Everybody understands that Syria is at stake, and the world is looking rapidly for some kind of resolution," Kerry said.
"We are looking for a way to try to get to a point where we can manage a transition and have agreement on the outcome and you could resolve it," he added.
Asked about whether there was an opportunity to use Russia and Iran's influence in Syria to halt Assad's use of barrel bombs on Syrians, he said: "Absolutely."
He added that he raised the issue in meetings with Russia and Iran.
"They are both in the position, in exchange perhaps for something that we might do, they might decide to keep Assad from dropping barrel bombs," Kerry told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program.
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"They are both in the position, in exchange perhaps for something that we might do, they might decide to keep Assad from dropping barrel bombs"
Because using Russian-supplied munitions is so much more civilized?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A judge in The Hague on Monday fined a Lebanese journalist 10,000 euros ($11,000) for contempt of court in the case against the alleged killers of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
Karma al-Khayat was convicted 10 days ago of failing to obey a court order to remove from the internet video interviews that risked exposing witnesses in the case against the five suspects in the 2005 kaboom that killed Hariri and 21 others.
She was acquitted of the more serious charge of exposing the witnesses, but prosecutors had nonetheless asked for a one-year jail term for the journalist, who has described her conviction as an attack on the freedom of the press.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Rowhani's attendance of the 70th General Assembly was supposed to be a turning point in Iran's relations with the global powers and their foreign policies. It did not turn out as expected.
All hopes at this assembly of forming a coalition against ISIS, solving the refugee crisis and finding a solution Syria's five years of war turned to ashes as Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... and Rowhani refused the idea of Assad's removal from power.
"We should finally acknowledge that no one but President Assad and his forces are truly fighting ISIS in Syria," Putin said told the General Assembly on Monday.
If this is what Iran and Russia are sticking to, than I believe the future does not seem bright for international peace talks on Syria.
Only a week ago, many were predicting that President B.O. and Rowhani would have an encounter at the U.N. to put decades of dispute behind them, but Iranians showed zero interest in this -- an indication as the sign that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei hasn't approved such a move yet.
And Obama did not forget to respond to Rowhani, whom in an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes" earlier this month said: "Iranian 'Death to America' chants are aimed at U.S. policies, not the American people."
At the U.N., Obama fired back: "Chanting "death to America" doesn't create jobs or make Iran more secure." Now, he knows a thing or two about that!
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An incredibly lame and undignified comment from a Nobel prize winner who has just secured peace in our time with our Iranian brethren. And at the UN! How embarrassing.
#6
If one keeps in mind that everything Mr. Obama and his ilk say and do is aimed at cultivating a future Progressive political base and movement, it becomes quite understandable
#10
"Death to America" may be aimed at policies, but it's people that die when they follow through. Like the servicemen killed by the bombs Iran supplied.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Iran's president on Sept. 28 blamed Saudi "incompetence" for the mass deaths of Moslem pilgrims four days ago during the hajj in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , comments that stoked already high tensions between the two Middle East rivals.
The Saudi Health Ministry's latest figures, released Saturday, put the toll at 769 people killed and 934 injured in Mina. President Hassan Rouhani said thousands died but did not elaborate on specific numbers nor provide the source for his figures.
The largest number of casualties identified thus far is from Iran. Tehran already has accused Riyadh of mismanaging the annual pilgrimage and has vowed to take legal action against it, but Rouhani's comments appeared to be among the strongest criticism to date.
Iran's Mission to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... said Rouhani was cancelling events on Tuesday and would return to Tehran after addressing the U.N. gathering because of "the tragic events" at the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to the Moslem holy city of Mecca.
The Saudis are the region's major U.S. allies. Even while suggesting that the July 14 nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers could serve as the basis of further cooperation with Washington, Rouhani criticized the Americans for supporting "regional allies who only cultivate the seeds of division and extremism" - an apparent allusion to the Saudis.
Suggesting that Iran was ready to end more than three decades of enmity with America, Rouhani declared: We will not forget the past, but we do not wish to live in the past."
At the same time, he laid the blame at Washington's feet for the present turmoil in the Middle East, declaring that "the Death Eaters would not have an excuse for the justification of their crimes" had the Americans not invaded Afghanistan and Iraq and were it not supporting Israel "against the oppressed nation of Paleostine."
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Rollin, Rollin, Rollin,
Keep those Hajis Rollin.
Ooohhh....
Grande Mosque got ran over by a crane, dear
Early in the hajj, on pilgrim's eve
You may not believe inshallah
But me and them at kabaa, we believe.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The head of Syria's main opposition National Coalition went to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... late on Monday to urge the international community to prevent his war-torn country from turning into another Rwanda.
"What is happening in Syria is an extermination," Khaled Khoja told a news conference, in reference to barrel bombs dropped by the Syrian regime.
"Two-thirds of civilian deaths are now caused by Assad's aerial bombardment and 95 percent of everyone killed by Assad's air strikes are civilians," he said.
"It does not need to be this way. There is still time to avoid another Rwanda," said Khoja, speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
He said the first step was to impose a no-fly zone in Syria to protect civilians from air strikes.
The opposition has been demanding a no-fly zone ever since the uprising against Assad morphed into civil war, but it has never been seriously discussed by the UN Security Council, which is fraught with disagreement over what to do in Syria.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , which has opened its doors to two million Syrian refugees, has repeatedly called for a buffer zone backed by a no-fly zone for northern Syria.
"To millions of Syrians it represents hope," said Khoja. "The international community should listen."
Rights groups and Western powers say that the barrel bombings are especially deadly and indiscriminate.
Human rights groups say the bombings are one of the biggest killers in the four-year war.
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Wehell, AFAIC this Artic reflects or symbolizes the price the US-West/Allies = entire JudeoChristian or Non-Muslim World will pay for NOT taking the steps necessary to defeat or destroy the ISIS/ISIL as they should.
THE LONGER THEY PUT IT OFF, THE MORE POTENT + DANGEROUS + AMBITIOUS, ETC. THE ISIS/ISIL BECOMES OVER TIME.
The "Great Game" doesn't end just because the Cold War is over, OBL is repor dead, or that Man desires to explore Sapce.
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it is not *todenhofer believes* -- it is a fact that IS and all Islamofascists want the same thing
global caliphate through sharia
whether that is wiping out the West by killing everyone or converting everyone it doesnt matter - our world will cease to exist if they get what they want
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This strikes me as just one more incidence of the boy crying wolf.
That does NOT mean that the wolf isn't there....somewhere. It's just that this constant overstating of the immediate threat desensitizes the public and so when the threat does become material, no one will care and the necessary support for action won't be forthcoming.
How close does the threat have to be, to be in range of our available diplomatic, political and psychological resources? Another question of "will". Will we have the "will" to act when necessary given this constant barrage of chicken-littleism?
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The way they establish their global caliphate is by sending "refugees" by the millions into Europe and the United States. Those refugees/invaders make more babies than the indigenous population and impose sharia. All the tech they need will be supplied by the indigenous population.
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ps the *hate america lefty* was the writer of the article who said he was a *fierce critic* of US policy in the middle east and that is why ISIS accepted him
Grom - who is more dangerous Iran or ISIS. Both are dangerous. Right now Isis is but in future who knows ? Iran is already a sharia enforcing theocracy. They are both our enemies. Theocracy is the enemy, sharia is the enemy. One has a shia flavour and is now organised, entrenched and established.
Before Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini turned Iran into a theocracy, Shia Islam was a very secular religion. They did not believe the priests should rule the country or enforce laws because only the mahdi could do that with divine authority and he hadnt come yet. So all the priests should know their place and the country would be secular.
That is why it was an *islamic revolution* - the ayatollah ruhollah khomeini smashed all that, brought in Sharia, brought in theocracy and invented Halal Certification (destroyed all the meat stocks declaring them unIslamic, and demanded Iranian holymen certify food at source) thereby creating a funding train to reinforce the spread of theocracy.
Iran also will have nukes.
So - it is difficult to say.
ISIS is more brutal but then again that is a hallmark of a gang of thugs who do not yet control a country and have to deal with running it day to day. They have their caliphate but if they entrench it they will have the same day-to-day statecraft problems of all who run countries.
They will not be able to behead people as regularly as they do now because it will implode. They will lose their labour force for one.
So they will look more orderly simply by being more in control and more established.
The internationalised nature of the sunni Islamofascist push for sharia and caliphate that ISIS is just another viral strain of is arguably more directly dangerous to us because it is decentralised fascism. It has a diaspora living in all our countries poisoning them and causing us to destroy our own Enlightenment traditions by passing laws that killed our own freedom of speech, right to fair trail, right to be free of intrusive government surveillance, creating a superclass of spies and cops above the law.
So yes doing acts of evil that were numerically small in victims, a small number of religious sunni Islamofascist nuts were able to damage us a lot more and were a greater threat. Also our own homegrown Islamonuts have all gone off to fight with them being infected even more with the disease and getting their hands dirty with practical brutality before returning to do who knows what on our own streets.
So one might think Iran the lesser enemy. But the enemy of my enemy is NOT my friend as you think we would have learnt from the house of Saud - and soon Iran will have nukes.
The only golden ticket about Iran that makes it less of a threat is its burgeoning youth population that *hate* the mullahs.
Just look at brazen facebook pages such as *my stealthy freedom* where it is a mark of rebellion and joy for young women to take off their hijabs and snap a selfie.
this is a byproduct of the wholesale throwing away of the lives of a million young people by the religious supreme leader in the Iran Iraq war.
After sending more than a million to death (the religious dont care about that, they go to an afterlife so wholesale slaughter is justified to them), the Ayatollah instructed the women to breed up the numbers and gave financial incentives to do so - and they did.
So they had a baby boom. Which is now biting back. However if the baby boom seeks the overthrow of the mullahs that would destabilise a nuke-based apocalyptic ideology islamic theocracy.
So - the answer to which is more dangerous - ISIS or Iran.
Is like saying in 1979 afghanistan - which is more dangerous, Russia or the Taliban.
Both are our enemies.
In this case unlike Russia both are apocalyptic supremacist religious cults that want us dead or converted - just one is more established than the other.
[ALMANAR.LB] 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... said Sunday that it is vital to coordinate all efforts, including those of the US and Russia, in the fight against the so-called 'Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) 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... group.
"The critical thing is that all of the efforts need to be coordinated," Kerry told news hounds at a joint presser with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in New York.
Responding to a question about a new intelligence-sharing arrangement between Russia, Iraq, Syria and Iran, Lavrov said: "We coordinate the efforts against ISIL".
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Kerry said that coordination between Washington and Moscow is yet undone. "This is not yet coordinated. We have concerns about how we're going to go forward, but that's precisely what we're meeting on to talk about now," he said.
His remarks come as US President Barack Obama The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person... prepares to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... on Monday amid an uptick in Russian support for Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites...
"This is the beginning of a genuine effort to see if there is a way to de-conflict, but also to find a way forward that will be effective in keeping a united, secular Syria that can be at peace and stable again without foreign troops present, and that's our hope," Kerry added.
A senior State Department official said that Kerry and Lavrov discussed a possible political transition in Syria, but pointed out that their conversation was preparatory for Monday's meeting between Putin and Obama.
"If the Russians are going to be more engaged in this theater, we have to de-conflict militarily. We also have to have a political way forward," the official said.
The US is leading a coalition of over 60 countries to allegedly combat ISIL in Syria and Iraq, while Russia has reportedly been deploying heavy weaponry to an airbase outside of the Syrian coastal city of Latakia for a possible offensive against the bully boy group.
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[DAWN] During his address to the 
[Libya Herald] Sheikh Sadek Al-Ghariani, still accepted by the regime in 
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...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[YEMENONLINE.INFO] Dozens of Yemeni activists and journalists gathered in front of the UN building in Geneva and protested for one day, demanding the UN to trial of the former President Ali Saleh and the leader of the Houthi rebels Abdulmalek Al-Houthi as war criminals.
[Dhaka Tribune] The Detective Branch of police yesterday took over the charge of investigation into the murder of a Dhaka-based Italian aid official in the Gulshan diplomatic zone in the city.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[ARA] The United States and Russia agree on "some fundamental principles" for Syria, the U.S. Secretary of State 
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] President Rowhani's attendance of the 70th General Assembly was supposed to be a turning point in Iran's relations with the global powers and their foreign policies. It did not turn out as expected.
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
