[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... returned to 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.... today after participating in a month long military operation in northern provinces of Afghanistan, specifically in northern Faryab province.
Gen. Dostum appeared in a presser after his return from the north and accused Pakistain, particularly the country's military and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) for being involved in the killing of innocent civilians and Afghan leaders.
According to Gen. Dostum, the enemies of Afghanistan are friends of Pakistain and the friends of Afghanistan are the enemies of Pakistain.
Declaring Pakistain as Afghanistan's enemy, the First Vice President called on international community to put pressure on the country.
He said he will discuss Pakistain with President Ghani during the National Security Council and offer his suggestion in this regard.
Displaying the boom jackets captured by the security forces while thwarting an liquidation plot against him, Gen. Dostum said "Pakistain sent four jacket wallahs to assassinate me," claiming the vests are made in Pakistain.
He also added that ISI is directly involved in the developments in Taliban leadership, gesturing towards the appointment of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
In regards to peace efforts aimed at ending the ongoing violence in the country, Gen. Dostum insisted that the country should be ready for combat while moving towards peace negotiations.
Gen. Dostum joined the Afghan cops in the frontline in northern Faryab province earlier this month.
He survived at least two liquidation plots by the anti-government armed krazed killer groups while he was leading counter-terrorism operations in Faryab.
The convoy of the First Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum was ambushed by the Taliban in turbans in Qaisar district of northern Faryab province last week.
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General you knew this from day one Pakistan isi control Taliban and Jihadi groups.
Obama please stop sending aid to our main enemy in the region Pakistan
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You are referring to the people who gave OBL and Omar sanctuary.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] British former Prime Minister Tony Blair is set to be the subject of a UK parliamentary inquiry after allegations in a new book that he tried to save late Libyan dictator Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... back in 2011, the Times of London reported on Monday.
According to a new biography of current UK Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... , Blair was contacted by "a key individual close to Qadaffy" during the 2011 military campaign to end the dictator's regime.
Upon receiving the information, Blair phoned the prime minister's residence, Number 10 Downing Street, on his behalf. In his call to Downing Street, Blair purportedly said that Qadaffy wanted "a deal with the British."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Investigations into the 1996 attack on Khobar Towers that killed 19 U.S. airmen moved closer to a conclusion after its alleged criminal mastermind, Ahmed al-Mughassil, was caught and handed over to Saudi authorities in Beirut late last week.
Pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat broke the news of the arrest, but stopped short of giving further details, reporting only that Mughassil was captured by Saudi intelligence and handed over to relevant Saudi authorities in Beirut.
The bombing destroyed an eight-story building in Khobar Towers, a housing complex for American Air Force personnel stationed 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... . Nineteen people were killed in the blast and 400 were maimed.
Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst and senior B.O. regime official, now with the Brookings Institution, told Al Arabiya News that Mughassil had been living in hiding in Beirut under the shelter of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group.
"Mughassil has been protected by Iran and Hezbollah since 1996, he may have gotten careless about his security. The Saudis were quick to get him out of Beirut before Hezbollah could rescue him," Riedel said.
Devastating scene
At the time of the bombing, Riedel was the deputy assistant secretary of defense and recounted the day he was dispatched to the bombsite in an op-ed for Al Monitor: "The scene was devastating. Mughassil had driven a truck containing the bomb up to a protective wall near the barracks. He then remotely detonated the bomb. It was the equivalent of 20,000 pounds of TNT, larger than the bomb used to blow up the Marine barracks in Beirut. In addition to the Americans killed and maimed, dozens of Saudis and South Asian guest workers were maimed. Mughassil allegedly fled to Iran immediately after the attack."
Neither the U.S. nor Saudi Arabia have directly commented or confirmed Mughassil's arrest. American newspapers were quick to welcome the news but raised doubts regarding the timing of it.
At the time of publication, the FBI's most wanted list still had Mughassil listed as "on the lam" with a bounty of $5 million dollars and according to a report by Asharq al-Awsat, American analysts said that Washington were "the last to be informed regarding Mughassil's arrest."
The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , in an editorial published on August 28, said that the news' timing had something to do with the current debate over the P5+1 Iranian nuclear deal.
Under the deal reached in July, sanctions imposed by the U.S., the EU and the U.N. will be lifted in return for Iran agreeing long-term curbs on a nuclear program that the West has suspected was aimed at creating a nuclear bomb.
"While the arrest is welcome and long overdue, the timing has raised suspicions, coming as it does in the middle of a fierce debate in Congress about the wisdom of the proposed nuclear deal with Iran and whether Tehran can be relied on to fulfill its terms," the editorial read.
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"While the arrest is welcome and long overdue, the timing has raised suspicions, coming as it does in the middle of a fierce debate in Congress about the wisdom of the proposed nuclear deal with Iran and whether Tehran can be relied on to fulfill its terms," the [NYT] editorial read.
Funny how other "coincidences" don't seem to bother the NYT crew, though.
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You don't understand Pappy. These people have tribesmen mentality. In particular, the wisdom received from tribal elders cannot be questioned. If the real world doesn't fit, it must be the work of evil spirits (vast rightwing conspiracy).
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Sandra Tsiligeridu and a group of friends were returning from an excursion to a tiny island called Pserimos, near Kos when a man was spotted in the water. Thinking he was a diver, the group waved and turned the steering of the boat to avoid him.
But Sandra noticed the man was in distress. "I looked at him and he needed help. I immediately screamed to my friend who was driving our boat to turn around, because this man needed help."
The seas were high-- five Beaufort, and it was windy. Together, the Greeks lifted him out of the water and into their boat.
He was shaking and scared so Sandra wrapped towels around him and immediately called the port of Kos to let them know they had rescued a man. She hugged and comforted him the entire way back to port.
Relieved, the port authorities responded that the man's family had been looking for him.
The man, named Mohammed, departed at 5:00am that day with 40 Syrian refugees and headed for Kos. The seas were rough and the raft-- with no motor and only two oars-- was no match for the plastic dinghy.
As the story was later shared by those onboard the raft, the waves were huge and knocked one of the oars into the water. Seeing that the entire boat would succumb to the sea with only one oar, Mohammed dove into the water in an attempt to grab the oar so they could continue their journey to Kos.
Darkness and waves led to confusion and Mohammed was distanced from his raft-- and family. They did end up throwing him a life vest, which ultimately saved him.
The raft with the 39 refugees arrived on the island of Kos at noon-- 7 hours after their journey began at 5am and the family immediately reported Mohammed as missing. The Greek Coast Guard immediately initiated a search and rescue mission which lasted for over five hours but didn't find Mohammed, presuming that he had drowned.
Then around 6pm after-- 13 hours after diving not the sea and losing contact with the dinghy he was on, he was rescued by Sandra and her fellow Greeks.
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[RUDAW.NET] Syrian refugees from the Kurdish region of Afrin have been detained in Hungary attempting to reach Germany, and spoke about their ordeal to Rudaw, saying Magyar authorities have so far been inhospitable and forced them into prisons and camps instead of allowing them to carry on their way.
"The people from Hungary are very selfish, even taxi drivers were not ready to carry us, saying 'you are from Syria,'" said one woman stuck in a Hungarian refugee camp with her young family. "There was neither water nor food. They were laughing at us. Are we not human beings?"
"If we knew the corridor was like this, we would not come. We would not flee the conflict. It was better to die in the war than the situation we are suffering from now. We did not leave our country to see another calamity; we fled for our lives, for comfort," said another woman.
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Are we not human beings?"
Okay that's one question that need to be answered.
"If we knew the corridor was like this, we would not come.
You made your bed now lie in it. Why should other people be forced to take care of you? Inshallah?
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Best place for Syrian refugees is in Syria. The Europeans can either solve the problem in Syria or they can solve the problem within their own borders, but either way it's their problem to solve, simply because the Syrian refugees have the power to make it theirs.
If only we had an international organization dedicated to ending war, establishing peace, and taking care of victimized peoples...
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Ah, the Suleiman the Magnificent Memorial Corridor.
[Hurriyet Daily News] A Turkish court has remanded in jug two British journalists working for US-based media outlet VICE News on terror charges, in a case that has sparked fresh concern about press freedom.
The two British news hounds and their Iraqi translator have been charged with "engaging in terror activity" on behalf of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, the court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir said on Aug. 31.
A fourth suspect, their driver, was allowed to go free, an AFP correspondent reported from the court.
They have now been taken to a jail in Diyarbakir ahead of an eventual trial. There were no further details over the evidence of their alleged links to ISIL jihadists.
The news hounds were detained last week covering unrest in southeast The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... which has raged as the government presses a military offensive against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels.
They had earlier been questioned by prosecutors who ruled to take the case to court.
The four men, including the driver, had been held in police custody since their detention last week.
Reports said that they were locked away Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! after police acted on a tipoff and confiscated the footage shot during their reporting. All have denied the accusations in the presence of their lawyers.
VICE News, an Internet-based channel which produces in-depth video reports, named the two British journalists in a statement as Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury.
A Turkish court has charged two Vice News journalists and their assistant with "aiding a terrorist organization" and ordered them tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! pending trial. Their employer has called the charges "baseless and alarmingly false."
Two British journalists, correspondent Jake Hanrahan and cameraman Philip Pendlebury, and their The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... -based assistant were detained on Thursday while reporting from Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast.
A court official said the court in Diyarbakir ordered them arrested on Monday. It was not immediately clear which organization the journalists are accused of aiding.
The three were detained in Diyarbakir's Baglar district where Kurdish youths frequently clash with security officials.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Turkish authorities will offer up to 4 million lira ($1.37 million) in rewards for those who help a crackdown on "terrorists", according to a new ruling published Monday.
The decision comes after a surge in violence in the southeast between Turkish security forces and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Kurdish Death Eaters which has nullified a 2013 truce.
Under the government's plan, informants' rewards will be based on the "value of the information in preventing terrorism crimes and catching the suspects," said a statement in the official gazette, where all new legislation and government rulings are published.
Those who report the identity or location of a "suspected terrorist" anonymously will be awarded up to 200,000 Turkish lira ($68,000) as long as they as they are not involved in the "terrorism activity" that they report, it added.
But the award will be multiplied by 20 and increased to 4 million lira if the suspect is the leader of a "terrorist organization" or the crime that is exposed is severe enough to cause "unrest".
The informant does not have to be a Turkish citizen to be eligible for the award, the statement said.
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[DAWN] The Taliban on Monday admitted covering up longtime leader Mullah Omar's death for more than two years, saying he died in 2013 as was first claimed by the Afghan intelligence.
The group had continued as recently as July to release official statements in the name of Omar, who had not been seen in public since the Taliban were toppled from power in Kabul in 2001.
They confirmed on July 30 that he had died but did not say when, deepening internal divisions as many insurgents accused the leadership of covering up his death for two years.
A Taliban statement Monday admitted for the first time that he died on April 23, 2013. The detail was buried in a biography of new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Omar's longtime deputy.
"Several key members of the supreme leading council of the Islamic Emirate (Taliban) and authentic religious scholars together decided on concealing the tragic news of passing away of (Omar)... and keep this secret limited to the very few colleagues who were already informed of this incorrigible loss," the biography said.
"One of the main reasons behind this decision was... that 2013 was considered the final year of power testing between the mujahidin and foreign invaders who... had announced that at the end of 2014, all military operations by foreign troops would be concluded."
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) ended its combat mission in Afghanistan last December and pulled out the bulk of its troops although a 13,000-strong residual force remains for training and counter-terrorism operations.
Confirmation of Omar's death and Mansour's contentious ascension triggered a power struggle within the Taliban at a time when the rival Daesh or self-styled Islamic State group is making gradual inroads into Afghanistan.
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"We didn't know for sure either. He was less responsive but the smell was the same. Imagine our surprise...".
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"One of the main reasons behind this decision was... that 2013 was considered the final year of power testing between the mujahidin and foreign invaders who... had announced that at the end of 2014, all military operations by foreign troops would be concluded."
[DAWN] A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday banned the live telecast of Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) Chief the increasingly roundedAltaf Hussain ..The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him,he may be a Hutt... 's speeches on TV channels till further orders.
The court, while banning the live broadcast of speeches made by the MQM supremo, also issued notices to the foreign secretary, interior secretary and secretary to the prime minister, seeking details of Altaf Hussain's nationality.
A three-member bench headed by Justice Mazahir Ali Naqvi and comprising Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu and Justice Erum Sajjad Gul, heard a petition seeking proceedings against MQM chief Altaf Hussain and other leaders of the party for alleged treason.
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[DAWN] The Foreign Minister of Germany Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier was given assurances by the adviser on national security Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... that the ongoing military action in North Wazoo was against all terrorist organizations, including the Haqqani Network.
"Haqqani network is no longer present in Pakistain, and they have shifted to Afghanistan after the recent military operations in the area," said Sartaj Aziz during a meeting with Dr Steinmeier.
"The infrastructure supporting Haqqani network in North Waziristan has been dismantled," added Aziz.
Earlier, the German foreign minister reached Islamabad on Monday on a two-day official visit.
Steinmeier is here to discuss matters relating to bilateral and regional interest with particular focus on peace and stability in the region.
Later, a meeting between Dr Steinmeier and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... was held at the PM House.
The German foreign minister expressed deep respect and gratitude for Pakistain's efforts in the fight against terrorism and encouraged the government to continue the close collaboration with Afghanistan.
"Pakistain and Afghanistan need to work together for peace and prosperity in the region," stated the German envoy.
He, however, expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... over the military courts which have been established to try terror-related cases.
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[DAWN] Pakistain Peoples Party co-chairperson and former president, Asif Ali Zardari, on Monday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... has reverted to Dire Revenge politics of the 1990s, referring to the recent arrests of high-profile PPP members.
He said first Qasim Zia and Senator Bangash's son were incarcerated Please don't kill me! , which was followed by Dr Asim's arrest by Rangers. Immediately afterwards, warrants for the arrests of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's former prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics could be awe-inspiring ... and Makhdoom Amin Fahim were also issued, he said.
In a statement from London, Zardari said babus bureaucrats in Sindh were being harassed by the Federal Investigation Agency and the National Accountability Bureau -- pointing out that the chief secretary of Sindh is also currently on bail.
He said actions being taken by federal agencies in Sindh were clear violations of the Constitution.
"If they want to conduct fair accountability, they should first take action against a federal minister who confessed before a magistrate his involvement in money laundering for the Sharif-brothers. Only then we will know how clean followers of N-league are."
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[RUDAW.NET] Hundreds of Iraqis erupted into the streets in Baghdad on Monday to call for the country's chief justice to resign and the names of corrupt politicians and officials be made public.
The demonstrators called on Medhat al-Mahmoud, head of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council, to step down because he was appointed in by a political decision rather than elected.
Protesters chanted in support of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's reform agenda, which includes a plan to cut down the size of the government and rein in excessive spending.
It was the fourth demonstration since reforms were announced by Abadi this month
According to a statement by Abadi earlier this month, a committees to observe and monitor salaries for Iraqi officials are being formed.
The proposal also includes reforms in taxation and the government revenue system. The upper limits of retired officials' pensions are to be lowered and customs tariffs will be imposed at all border crossings, including into the Kurdistan region, the proposal states.
Another initiative is to set up an Anti-Corruption Council and a campaign to tackle official graft. Transparency International ranked Iraq the fifth-most corrupt county in the world.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egyptian military bulldozers are digging through the sand along Egypt's border with the Gazoo Strip in recent days, pressing ahead with what appears to be a renewed campaign to pressure Gazoo's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rulers and stamp out Death Eater activity along the border.
The project, billed as an Egyptian military-operated fish farm, effectively would fill the border area with water and is designed to put an end to the last remaining cross-border underground smuggling tunnels, Egyptian military officials said. Hamas accuses Egypt of further isolating the beleaguered Paleostinian territory.
The new excavations seem to be "a tightening of the grip of siege on Gazoo," Hamas official Mushir al-Masri said. Egypt "should not slide into this cliff that agrees with the Israeli policies of siege."
Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade of the territory since the Islamic Death Eater group Hamas seized control of Gazoo in 2007. For several years, Egypt tolerated a smuggling industry, allowing hundreds of tunnels to bring in goods like cigarettes and spare cycle of violence parts, as well as weapons. These tunnels were a lifeline for Hamas, which collected millions of dollars in taxes and revenues from the smuggled goods. They continued to thrive after longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was ousted in 2011 and the Islamist Mohammed Morsi won the country's first free presidential election.
But things changed after the Egyptian army ousted Morsi, a key ally of Hamas, in 2013. The military-backed government accused Islamic bully boyz of using smuggling tunnels to move between Gazoo and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Hamas denies bully boyz move in and out of its territory.
Last November, after bully boyz killed 31 Egyptian troops in an assault on a checkpoint 20 miles (30 kilometers) from Rafah, Egypt demolished hundreds of homes and evicted thousands of residents as it carved out a buffer zone and destroyed more tunnels. Today, Paleostinian smugglers operate an estimated 20 tunnels.
But the violence has continued. Last month, 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.... -linked bully boyz struck Egyptian army outposts in a coordinated wave of suicide kabooms and battles. It was some of Sinai's deadliest fighting in decades and underlined the government's failure to stem the insurgency. Last week, three gunnies in a speeding car killed two coppers in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
Now Egypt is trying to finish off the tunnels for good.
Egypt's army began digging last week what officials said will be 18 fisheries along the 9-mile (14-kilometer) border with Gazoo to grow mullet fish and shrimps, and to make digging underground tunnels impossible. The military officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
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The project, billed as an Egyptian military-operated fish farm, effectively would fill the border area with water
A moat around Gaza is a perennial suggestion here at Rantburg, however, selling it as a fish farm is pure genius. Hey, you don't suppose al Sisi reads the 'Burg?
The History of Colorado GatorsErwin and Lynne Young moved from Post, Texas to Alamosa, Colorado in September, 1974 with their four children, Mark, Mike, Sherri, and Jay. Erwin learned of the geothermal water resources available in the Valley and wanted to grow Tilapia, an African perch that requires warm water and is very good to eat.
In 1977 they purchased the 80 acre farm that is now Colorado Gators Reptile Park. It wasn’t until 1987 that they purchased 100 baby alligators to dispose of dead fish and the remains of filleted fish.
Those baby gators grew quickly in the warm geothermal water (87° F) and the locals wanted to see them, so we opened to the public in 1990. Soon we were in the spotlight of many media programs and articles. Individuals with overgrown alligators and other reptiles such as large pythons, tortoises, iguanas, and more started dropping them off with us.
Mullet. Figured it was some sort of golf term, always saying I'm going to use my mullet again. Anyways, off to buy my Team Sisi jersey.
[WASHINGTONPOST] On Saturday, police in Thailand placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a man in connection with the Aug. 17 bombing in central Bangkok, which killed at least 20 people and left more than 120 injured.
A reward had been offered for tips in the case, according to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named. But national police chief Somyot Poompanmoung said authorities didn't get any outside tips.
So that reward money, which equaled about $84,000? Thai police collected it for themselves.
"Give me the bag," Somyot said at a Monday news conference, the AP reported.
According to the news agency:
"This is real money," the police chief said with a smile. He went on to say that Saturday's arrest was thanks to "good police work" and had not come from any outside tips.
"It is the ability of Thai officials that led to the arrest," he said. "This money should be given to officials who did their job."
A foreigner was taken into custody on Saturday, though his suspected role in the bombing at the Erawan Shrine remains somewhat unclear. The AP notes that the man, whose name was not released, "may not even be the prime suspect."
On Monday, police released images of two more suspects, a man and a woman.
Somyot said part of the reward money came from him, while the rest was donated by his "businessmen friends who do not want to be named," Agence La Belle France-Presse reported.
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[RUDAW.NET] The leader of a Kurdish enclave in Syria said that the US-led coalition forces fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS) can operate from bases in its territory.
Saleh Moslem, leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) that controls Syria's Kurdish regions, or Rojava, also said that moderate Syrian opposition forces can be trained in its territories, instead of in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... .
"We would welcome the coalition to operate from Rojava and we would welcome the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) to train there too," Moslem said in an exclusive interview from Brussels with Britannia's Sky News.
Ankara has recently actively joined the coalition against ISIS, but Saleh scorned that pledge as "not genuine."
While declaring a war against terrorism and jihadis late last month, Ankara turned its guns on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) with a series of air and artillery attacks in Turkey's own southeast and in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, where the group has military camps.
The PYD is the Syrian wing of the PKK, which is regarded as a terrorist organization by several Western countries, including the United States. Yet, the PYD's fighting wing, the YPG, has been a strong ally of the US-led coalition against ISIS in Syria and recognized as the most effective force on the ground against the myrmidons.
"We favor a democratic decentralized Syria," Moslem said in the interview, adding that the political structures in Rojava are "the example of what the whole country should have."
Syria's Kurds have been calling for a federal system in Syria in which different groups can co-exist. That proposal has been opposed by Turkey, which is loath to having an autonomous Syrian enclave on its border, next to its own restive Kurdish-populated areas.
Moslem also made a call to train moderate Syrian Arab factions in Rojava.
"We can help them, we can train them," said Moslem. "But we are not going to fight their war for them. We will support them all we can but we are not mercenaries for them."
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we need to show up our true enemies in the fighting ISIL ie Turkey and the gulf states.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A film on the life of Prophet Mohammad (Salaami salaami Baloney!) is expected to break box office records in Shia-majority Iran after its release last week, but some Sunni Moslemholy mans in the Arab world are demanding that Tehran ban it.
The state-sponsored "Mohammad, Messenger of God (Salaami salaami Baloney!) ," directed by Oscar-nominated director Majid Majidi, is at $40m, Iran's most expensive movie to date.
"I decided to make this film to fight against the new wave of Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... in the West. The Western interpretation of Islam is full of violence and terrorism," Majidi was quoted as saying by Hezbollah Line, a conservative Iranian magazine.
The 171-minute movie, the first part of a planned trilogy, focuses on the prophet's (Salaami salaami Baloney!) childhood. His face will not be shown on screen, in accordance with traditional Islamic strictures. The camera shows the boy actor playing him only from behind, or only his shadow.
A steadicam was customised especially to depict Mohammad's (Salaami salaami Baloney!) point of view by the movie's Oscar-winning Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. The identity of the boy playing Mohammad (Salaami salaami Baloney!) has not been made public. He must be killed!
Egypt's Al-Azhar, one of the most prestigious Sunni institute, is not satisfied with such precautions and has called on Iran to ban the film.
"This matter is already settled. Sharia (Islamic law) prohibits embodying the prophets (Salaami salaami Baloney!) ," said Professor Abdel Fattah Alawari, dean of the Islamic theology faculty at Al-Azhar.
"It is not permissible in Islam that someone (an actor) has contradictory and conflicting roles; sometimes we see him as a blind drunk, sometimes as a womaniser ... and then he embodies a prophet ... this is not permissible."
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ask Kerry or Cameron what they think since they are such authorities on what true Islam is
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i initiative to support and assist the Syrian farmers by offering $15 million to the National Coalition to facilitate buying the Syrian wheat, unveil the greediness and irresponsibility toward the farmers and many workers with the Coalition.
As soon as the $15 million arrived from Qatar to the National Coalition, plans started to get changed, even institutional changes took place. The National Coalition assigned the task to the Assistant Coordination Unit (ACU) instead of the Grain Corporation, the body responsible for trading grains, moreover, a brand new institution is going to be formed to manage the matter, while 50 employees of the Grain Corporation are at risk of losing their jobs.
Sources in the opposition's grain Corporation confirmed that they had before bought a quantity of 36 thousand tons of dry and wet Wheat from farmers in Aleppo --Idlib, daraa and Homs during 2014-2015 season, despite the weak fund. Moreover, the corporation brought an amount of 12,500 tons of wheat for bread to Aleppo, Idlib and Daraa funded by the credit wallet.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the lack of fund and fruitless efforts of the Grain Corporation to generate support and money from the countries known as "Friends of the Syrian People" forced the corporation to stop its activities in regard grain in August.
After two consecutive years of true and honest dealing with farmers, they trusted the Grain Foundation in time most bodies wanted to use their crisis and suffering. The Corporation then thought of an integrated project to sell the wheat of 2015 season to Qatar via the National Coalition and the head of the Interim Government.
Sources warned of delays in the purchase of wheat from farmers before the seasonal rainfall which might damaged the wheat, or farmers might smuggle the harvest to neighboring countries, or selling it to the Syrian regime, which raised the price to attract farmers from the liberated areas and deprive rebels from benefiting of the harvest..
News was circulated about preparation to establish a new Grain Corporation and sack all workers and employees in the old one, has complicated the situation.
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[Dhaka Tribune] A film on the life of Prophet Mohammad (Salaami salaami Baloney!) is expected to break box office records in Shia-majority Iran after its release last week, but some Sunni 
