[Tolo News] Pak Ambassador Syed Ibrar Hussain told a crowd gathered for a ceremony in Kabul on Wednesday that the Pak military will stop firing across the border once Taliban Death Eaters based in Afghanistan stop attacking them first.
Does either side recognize the concept of 'border'?
According to Ambassador Hussain, on Election Day two weeks ago, bully boyz based in Kunar killed 13 Pak soldiers and maimed 14 others by firing across the border. He said their assault was only made possible because the Pak military had been ordered to halt its own operations against Death Eaters in Afghanistan that day in order to ensure Pakistain was not accused of trying to disrupt the voting process.
"We had ordered our military not to fire rockets on Afghanistan so that Pakistain is not accused of disrupting the election process," Hussain said. "They stopped rocket shelling for one day and thirteen of them were killed and fourteen of them were maimed."
The Afghan-Pak border is notoriously porous and rife with Talibs and other terrorist groups aligned against the governments in Kabul and Islamabad.
Tensions have risen between the two governments over hostile exchanges in the region. Afghan politicians have decried reported civilian casualties and residential destruction caused by rocket attacks from the Pak military, and security officials have warned of possible retaliations.
On Wednesday, Ambassador Hussain blamed the Afghan cops for failing to properly police the area on the Afghan side of the border.
"Here, on this side of the border, alongside border areas in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... , there is no ANA check posts, so they do not know who attacks our forces from this side of the border," he said.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... Afghan Ministry of Interior front man Sediq Sediqi denied the claims of the Pak Ambassador.
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It's a change. Previously, it was Taliban in Pakistan firing into Kunar at our troops. New day, different pile of rocks.
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Shoot Back, overwhelmingly.
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[Tolo News] Afghanistan is declared as the seventh failed state in terms of good governance by the Fund for Peace (FFP) organization.
FFP--an independent, nonpartisan, non-profit research and educational organization-- works to prevent violent conflict and promote sustainable security in the world. The organization has issued a new index of the world's most fragile states, with South Sudan topping the list and Afghanistan taking the seventh place.
The organization assesses countries in terms of human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... , external interference, government credibility, social services, capabilities of security institutions and religious wars. FFP has stated that despite massive international investments, Afghanistan still constitutes as the world's most unstable country. The report discusses administrative corruption, drug smuggling and extremism as the biggest challenges in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan was on the same category during the previous year's report. According to the report, there has been no visible, drastic change in the lives of the people and good governance still does not exist in the country.
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See also WORLD NEWS > [Stars-N-Stripes] AFGHAN FORCES FACE TALIBAN ONSLAUGHT AFTER US MARINES DEPART.
ISIS aka ISIL from Iraq, post-Jordan KSA, andor Caucasus + Central Asia way???
After exclusive interviews with politicians, Shabelle has learned that the Deputy President of Interim South West State of Somalia, Mohamed Hassan Fiqi, retaliated at a remark made by MPs politicians of the Somali Federal Government on the recognition of the administration.
Ya’quub Ali Mohamed told Shabelle that in the Lower Shabelle region, there are different strengths/levels of power and that it is more populated. He said that he finds it unfortunate that MPs are bickering over recognition.
“The people who are campaigning for the recognition of Interim South West State of Somalia are not representing the people of Lower Shabelle, and therefore we are not given an opinion.” He said
He added that a clan cannot control the Lower Shabelle region by force, and said that the time of warlordism is over.
Says who?
Furthermore, the Deputy President told Shabelle that they will enter Lower Shabelle region by force and no-one can apparently prevent them from doing so.
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Mohamed Fiqi Hassan to enter Lower Shabelle by force
Leering gaily, he played ukelele,
Serenading and begging her daily.
She, from the clover:
"I shall not roll over!
You'll never have Lower Shabelle!"
[AnNahar] A Sudanese Christian woman who faces death threats after a court cleared her of apostasy has been charged with forgery after trying to leave the country, a lawyer said on Wednesday.
Nothing here that Blackwater Aviation couldn't handle...
"She is tossed in the slammer Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! ," Mohanad Mustafa told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The charge against Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, 26, relates to the South Sudanese travel document she was carrying when authorities stopped the family from leaving Sudan on Tuesday following an annulment of her apostasy death sentence. Ishag is also charged with providing false information, Mustafa said.
She understandably wanted to get outta town...
She was detained by national security agents at Khartoum airport, despite the presence of U.S. diplomats who were escorting her and her family, her American husband Daniel Wani said. They were trying to travel to Washington, Wani said, insisting there was nothing wrong with the travel documents.
I commend our diplomats and State for working to get her out, and condemn them for the sloppy execution.
Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday summoned the charges d'affaires of both the United States and South Sudan over the incident, official media reported. The ministry criticised South Sudan's issuing of the travel permit, "despite their knowledge that she is a Sudanese national", while condemning the U.S. for trying to help the women leave Sudan "via illegal (false) travel document," the SUNA news agency said.
"We are worried. That's why we want to get out of here as soon as possible," Wani said of death threats against his wife.
A lower court judge sentenced Ishag to hang for apostasy on May 15, in a case that raised questions of religious freedom and sparked an outcry from Western governments and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... groups.
An appeal court freed her on Monday from the women's prison where she were tossed into the calaboose with her children, but she immediately went into hiding because of the threats to her life.
Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman told AFP the woman should have used a Sudanese passport, but her lawyer said she does not have one.
"That is the whole problem, she took a foreign document for travelling," he said. "What she has done is an illegal act."
So you're going to give her a proper Sudanese passport, right?
However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... Osman suggested the situation can be resolved.
Kau Nak, South Sudan's charge d'affaires, said Ishag was entitled to the travel document because her husband and children are South Sudanese.
"I'm the one who issued that travel document to her," he told AFP. "My signature is on the back of the document."
After being stopped at the airport, the family and its two children, including a baby girl born while Ishag was on death row, were taken to a cop shoppe, a two-storey building on a rough, unpaved alley in Khartoum's Arkawet district.
Ishag remains in jug there.
On May 15, a lower court judge, referring to her by her father's Mohammedan name Abrar al-Hadi Mohammed Abdalla, sentenced her to death for apostasy. It convicted her under Islamic sharia law that has been in force in Sudan since 1983 and outlaws conversions on pain of death.
- A family 'problem' -
On Monday, an appeals court freed her from the women's prison where she were tossed into the calaboose with her children, but she immediately went into hiding.
Christian activists say her "alleged brother" stated that the family would carry out the death sentence if she were acquitted.
According to the church, Ishag was born to a Mohammedan father and an Æthiopian Orthodox Christian mother. When Ishag was five her father abandoned the family, leaving her to be raised by her mother, according to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Khartoum, which said she joined the Catholic church shortly before she married.
It said the original legal action against her was filed by men "who claim to be" her relatives.
"The problem is not with the Sudanese government, is not with the court. The problem is with her so called family," said Information Minister Osman.
[AnNahar] An Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... journalist whose jailing triggered global outrage has donated 15,000 Egyptian pounds to a fund initiated by the president to boost Egypt's ailing economy, his brother said on Thursday.
Egyptian-Canadian Mohammed Fadel Fahmy, who was sentenced to seven years in jail along with two other Al-Jazeera journalists for allegedly aiding the blacklisted Moslem Brüderbund, made the donation to Tahya Misr (Long Live Egypt), an initiative of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
"When we visited the prison yesterday (Wednesday), Mohammed told us to donate 15,000 pounds (about $2,000/1,670 euros) to this fund," Adel Fadel Fahmy told AFP as he made the donation at a bank on Thursday.
"Mohammed has always been patriotic and feels that the Egyptian economy needs support."
When asked whether the donation was aimed at securing a pardon from the president for his brother, Adel said: "It is not linked... He (Mohammed) wants to distinguish between his love for Egypt and his disappointment and anger over the verdict."
"As a family, we don't expect this small donation to secure a pardon for him. These are two separate issues."
In a speech on Tuesday, Sisi said he himself would donate half his salary and half of what he owns to help rebuild the country's shattered economy.
Egypt's political turmoil that began with the ouster of longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in 2011 has ruined its economy, affecting tourist revenues and investments in particular.
Fadel Fahmy and Australian Peter Greste were each sentenced to seven years, while their colleague producer Baher Mohammed was handed 10 years in a decision that drew international condemnation and sparked fears of growing media restrictions in Egypt.
Eleven other co-defendants were given 10-year sentences in absentia, including one Dutch journalist and two Britons.
Since the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in July 2013, the Egyptian authorities have been incensed by Al-Jazeera's coverage of their deadly crackdown on his supporters.
They consider the pan-Arab satellite network as the voice of Qatar, and accuse Doha of backing Morsi's Brotherhood, while the emirate openly denounces the repression of the Islamist supporters.
Australia and the United States are leading calls for Sisi to pardon the journalists, although the new Egyptian leader has said authorities would not interfere with the justice system.
I s'posed that is one way to sell records.
From Weasel Zippers
Nigerian pop singer Adokiye said she would sacrifice her virginity to the Boko Haram militants, led by Abubakar Shekau, in exchange for the return of the hundreds of schoolgirls they have kidnapped in the country's northeast.
"It is just unfair. They are too young. I wish I could offer myself in exchange," Adokiye told Vanguard.
"They are between 12- and 15-year-old girls, for Christ sake. I am older and more experienced. Even if 10 to 12 men have to take me every night, I don't care. Just release these girls and let them go back to their parents," said the 23-year-old, from Imo state. As they say, the devil is in the details.
[AnNahar] King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah ... Fifth out of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz to ascend to the throne. He is, after his half-brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud. He has 6 sons and 15 daughters and about $20 billion. His youngest son is just seven years old... instructed authorities in the oil-rich kingdom Thursday to take "necessary measures" to defend the country from jihadists battling the government in neighboring Iraq.
The announcement comes days after turbans from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL) seized the border crossing from Iraq into Jordan, which also neighbors the kingdom, as they press an offensive in Iraq.
A statement said Abdullah ordered authorities "to take all the necessary measures to protect... the kingdom's security against actions that could be taken by terrorist or other groups."
The measures were not spelled out but decided during a security cabinet meeting chaired by the king and devoted to discussing developments in Iraq and their impact on Gulf Arab monarchies.
The meeting comes on the eve of a visit to 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... by 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... , who has been holding talks with regional and international players to seek ways of containing the unrest in Iraq.
I s'pose asking his kingliness to stop paying his ISIL myrmidons is out of the question...
On Thursday, Kerry discussed the widening crisis in Iraq, where ISIL has seized cities and towns north of Storied Baghdad, during urgent talks with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
A senior State Department official said Kerry would brief them on his visit to Storied Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, where he urged leaders to unite against the jihadist myrmidons.
Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia has accused Iraq's Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... , of fueling the crisis by marginalizing the country's Sunni Arab minority.
Maliki conceded on Thursday that political measures and military action were needed to repel the myrmidon offensive, which is threatening to tear Iraq apart.
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Both the KSA + Jordan have repor placed their armed forces on high alert.
[AnNahar] Swedish prosecutors are to investigate whether Israel broke international law when it boarded a number of aid ships that were attempting to defy an Israeli blockade of Gazoo in 2010 and 2012.
What, the Belgian and Spanish prosecutors were busy?
The Swedish Prosecution Authority announced on Thursday "a preliminary investigation on the circumstances of the boarding by Israeli soldiers of ships heading to Gazoo in May 2010 and October 2012".
In the first case, Israeli troops attacked a six-ship aid flotilla in international waters, leading to the death of nine Turkish citizens on one of them, the Mavi Marmara.
Ah, yes. That's the one crewed by IHH, which as I recall is Al Qaeda in Turkey or something, a particular pet of Prime Minister Erdogan. Exactly the kind of people Sweden prefers to the Jewish nation.
In 2012, Israel's navy seized another ship -- again in international waters -- the Estelle, a Finnish-flagged galley carrying humanitarian aid as part of the international Ship to Gazoo campaign.
In both incidents, Swedish citizens were on board ships attempting to break the blockade.
Swedish legal authorities said the investigation will examine several reported cases of aggravated assault, aggravated theft and violation of international law, with regard to the Geneva Conventions, according to which civilians must be protected during armed conflicts.
The probe would not look into charges of hijacking and illegal detention which has been requested by the 22 Swedish plaintiffs.
Prosecutor Henrik Attorps, who formally opened the investigation, wrote that the alleged crimes fell under Swedish jurisdiction Sweden because they took place in international waters and affected Swedish citizens.
Swedish law allows for prosecutions related to violations of international law in other territories, however the prosecutors wrote that they would require Swedish government approval before any formal charges can be brought.
"No individual has been identified as a suspect for the crimes yet," the prosecutors added.
The investigation was launched in response to complaints filed with police by the Swedish Ship to Gazoo association as well as Swedes who were on board the ships and were taken into custody and later deported by Israeli authorities.
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Ah yes, the old "protect civilians during armed conflict" argument. I'm sure Israel is quaking and anticipating a strongly worded letter from the UN soon.
Jeebus, is there no statute of limitations on silliness (/sarc off)?
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Swedish "citizens"? Newy minted perhaps? Related to the violent Mohammedan populace inside Sweden that has caused the Swedes so many problems?
[Iraq Sun] The al Qaeda-linked army is ready to make its Islamic state a launching pad for its next US attack and is invading territory in Iraq and Syria, says a new congressional report.
Four analysts at the Congressional Research Service cited intelligence reports and the words of the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Abu Nakr al-Baghdadi.
Al-Baghdadi threatened US that the US will not benefit from a proxy war in the Levant or Iraq and that they will be in warfare, reports Washington Times.
ISIL is a well-funded terrorist organization and aims to kill non-believers, says the CRS reports.
ISIL is also reported to be recruiting and training individuals to attack the United States.
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If Iraq falls we should blast an EMP over the region and take out all non-hardened tech. Arrange the blast to hit all of the oil areas (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and Iraq) and spare Israel. Let them return to the medieval period they love so much. Do it while everyone is in the Mosque on Friday for a few bonus points of Allah is mad at you.
We can then take over the oil platforms and such and restore them easily enough with a container full of transistors and resisters and such.
* See also TOPIX > [Washington Times] GABRIEL: ISIS IS A THREAT TO IRAQ [+ ME + beyond], WID SHARIA AS WORLDWIDE AIM | ... ... JIHAD ONLY ENDS WHEN ENTIRE EARTH IS MUSLIM.
[Once again, "INTERSTELLAR" = "MANKIND WASN'T MADE TO SAVE THE EARTH, BUT TO LEAVE IT"].
To leave a Earth wid no food, rising or escalating GWCC, + Totalitarian Global Nuclear Sharia.
D *** NG IT, MORIARITY, IFF EVERY RESTAURANT IS A [Solyent?] TACO BELL, HOW THE HELL IS WHATS LEFT OF ANTI-CALIPHATE REBEL NASA-JPL GOING TO GET A TACO BELL IN A SPACESHIP COMPRISED OF ESCAPING NON-MUSLIMS?
Huh, huh, huh!
And lets not fergit CAESAR of "RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES"!
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How about we send the $500 rocks to Israel for whatever, and let the muzzies practice scorched earth upon one-another? Why should taxpayers fund weapons and training that will only come back against us at a later date?
Re: "The man is like an elephant..." I believe more like Kelly Bundy. As you may recall, she could only learn something if she forgot something else.
To be Zero, the chiefest criterion
(after being an "out" vegetarian)
Is when vexed by events
To not try to make sense
But to make like a split-head planarian.
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A mighty diverse thing, the Hydra!
It don't ever have to decidra,
For it has, when confused,
Far more heads it can use;
If you dis even one, woe betide ya!
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I got it a secret plan for the sub basement crew- Get the military and actors from operation Dumbo Drop to round up monkeys in Africa and get that Darpa Bitch to implant them with radio shack chips teach them the gypo jig get them some tan round hats slap an American flag on them and blam killer sand ninjas! I can do it for 350 million !
[DAWN] More internally displaced persons (IDPs) from North Wazoo Agency who had migrated to Afghanistan returned to Kurram Agency ...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora... on Thursday.
Political Agent Riaz Mehsud told media persons that around 500 displaced families from North Waziristan Agency
arrived in Kurram Agency from Afghanistan's Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... . He said that basic facilities, including transportation, had been provided to IDPs and they were sent to the southern districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Health workers provided polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... drops to 2,186 children at the border. The returning IDPs said that they had gone to Afghanistan because of prolonged curfew in the area. Afghan officials said that around 50,000 people of Waziristan had taken refuge in Khost where they had been provided tents and other facilities.
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[DAWN] The United States reiterated on Thursday its support to the military operation in North Wazoo while making it clear that it was an entirely Pakistain-led and executed offensive.
The US State Department's spokesperson Marie Harf told a news briefing that the United States had "worked very closely with the Paks" in dealing with the snuffies as the threat from the Taliban and other myrmidon groups was not new.
"It doesn't just threaten the Paks; it threatens Afghanistan and India and has the United States in the past well," she added.
Asked if Pakistain had sought US assistance in the current offensive, the US official said: "In terms of the current operations Pakistain is undertaking in North Waziristan, this is an entirely Pak-led and executed operation."
The United States, however, has "long supported their efforts to extend the writ of government throughout their country and to increase internal stability and security," she said. "But again, these current operations are an entire Pak-led effort."
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As per DAILY TIMES.PK, no matter iff one is a "Good" Terrorist or a "Bad" Terrorist, the mighty Pak Army is coming after youse.
[DAWN] Announcing an 'all-party conference' on the Model Town incident on Sunday, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has backtracked from his earlier stance of forming a political alliance against the government.
"Forming any alliance or a grand alliance had never been my agenda," Dr Qadri told the media after meeting leaders of various political and religious parties at PAT headquarters here on Thursday. "I'm not too sure what was..."
PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat and Pervaiz Elahi, who had signed a 10-point agenda and worked on forming an anti-government alliance for materialising the agenda along with PAT leadership in London on May 31, were also present during the media talk.
Section 4 of the agreement as accessed by Dawn on PAT's official website after the media talk on Thursday reads: "In these circumstances, there is a dire need that all patriotic political forces and segments agree on a broader revolutionary agenda and wage a joint struggle for establishment of transparent and participatory democracy in Pakistan in the real sense."
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: The Tariq Geedar group of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) was behind the gun attack on a Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) flight in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. that left a woman passenger dead and two crew members maimed, security officials said.
They said the group was based in Darra Adamkhel and was headed by one Khalfa.
"We have some important leads," claimed an official.
He said that the roof of a school in Suliemankhel, an area near Peshawar, was used for targeting the Airbus when it was landing at the Bacha Khan International Airport late on Tuesday night.
know more: Woman dies in shooting at plane
The school was closed for summer vacation and its watchman was absent from duty, the official said.
He said assailants had affixed an extra barrel to an AK-47 rifle to enhance its fire range and used tracer bullets to ensure that they hit the target.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... security has been beefed up in and around the airport following the incident. Officials said additional police personnel had been deployed in the funnel area, including Sheikh Muhammadi and Mashogagar.
Police are patrolling the Pishtakhara road round the clock.
The military has provided eight more units of the Quick Response Force to the district administration in case of any major incident or threat of terrorism.
"With these additional security measures, operations at the Bacha Khan International Airport have now been fully restored," an official said.
Police have released over 200 people who were picked up for questioning from Nodeh Bala, Pishtakhara and Suliemankhel areas after the attack. It is said that the scope of investigation has been expanded following some leads from intelligence agencies.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... the corps commander of Peshawar ordered immediate evacuation of a family stranded in Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... . The order came following reports that a family of 10, including children, was stuck in Dandy Darpakhel after the truck that was supposed to bring them out broke down halfway.
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: The ongoing military operation in North Wazoo is a 'war of survival' and will pave the way for the dawn of permanent peace in the country, the military's spokesperson said on Thursday.
In a formal briefing to the media on Operation Zarb-e-Azb, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa ... who is The Very Model of a Modern Major General... told news hounds that the operation was being carried out without any discrimination between "good or bad Taliban".
"This is the biggest and most well-coordinated operation ever conducted against terrorists. It is the beginning of the end for terrorism in the country," he said.
Maj Gen Bajwa said army troops, Frontier Corps personnel, Khasadars, Levies, intelligence operatives and the Pakistain Air Force were jointly conducting the operation in North Waziristan.
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[DAWN] Pakistain and Afghanistan agreed on Thursday to form a working group on security to oversee their joint efforts against terrorism.
The on-again, off-again relationship between the two countries received a boost when 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... and Afghanistan's National Security Adviser Dr Rangin Dadfar Spanta agreed at a meeting to go after all hard boyz without any discrimination.
"The main focus of talks was on strengthening bilateral security cooperation. Both sides agreed on the need to take action against all hard boyz without making any distinction among them and their hideouts on their respective sides," says a handout released by the foreign ministry.
Agreeing that terrorism was their common enemy the two sides stressed the need for working in close cooperation at the institutional level to deal with the menace.
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[Iraq Sun] Four teams of US special operations forces have arrived in Iraq to aid the Iraqi government in combating the raging battle with the rapidly advancing jihadist forces of Evil as 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... urged the autonomous Kurds not to quit the political process in Storied Baghdad.
Around 90 members of the US special forces, part of the 300 military advisors, are already in Iraq and could begin their assessment work this week. Four more teams are expected to arrive in the violence-ravaged country soon.
On Monday, the US and Iraq reached a key agreement on legal protections that would enable up to 300 special operations forces to be deployed in the country.
Kerry arrived in the Kurdish regional capital Erbil Tuesday and went into a meeting with Kurdistan autonomous region President Massoud Barzani ... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes... to urge the Kurds who are keen to establish their separate state, to help in the political process.
Ahead of going to Erbil, Kerry had a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, and Shiite and Sunni politicians.
Another 50 US special operations forces have arrived in Storied Baghdad under the newly appointed command of a two-star general as the US military steadily ramps up an advisory mission aimed at helping Iraq battle back Sunni murderous Moslems, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
The Pentagon said the first of two planned Joint Operations Centers in Iraq had also become activated, bolstering its ability to oversee US teams and gather information about the situation on the ground, including about Iraq's security forces.
"It will of course serve as a fusion center where information that's coming in from the various teams can be consolidated and it can be analyzed," said Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon front man.
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See also CNN, MIDDLE EAST ONLINE > BARZANI: NO GOING BACK ON KURDISH SELF-RULE FOR KIRKUK {+ other].
* BHARAT RAKSHAK [repost] > [Toronto Sun] AS IRAQ DIES, KURDISTAN IS BORN.
[Iraq Sun] 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... is meeting with representatives of Middle Eastern and Gulf states to discuss security challenges in the wake of a quick advance of an Islamist insurgency. A radical group that calls itself the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant has taken control of large swaths of northern Iraq and threatens to capture Iraq's capital, Storied Baghdad. The onslaught by the Death Eaters began two weeks ago, sparking panic among Shia Mohammedans along their path and an exodus of people from the cities that have fallen under their control. Secretary Kerry told an audience at NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... headquarters in Brussels Wednesday that the threat is not confined to the region. "None of us need to be reminded that a faraway threat can have tragic consequences at home, in the most unexpected way and the most unexpected moment," he stated. Kerry urged the entire international community to focus on combating the growth of extremism which increasingly crosses state borders as evidenced in Iraq.
"That's a new animal in a sense, and I think we are seeing with ISIL, crossing from Syria and moving rapidly into Iraq a similar kind of hybrid - new form of effort which is going to require people to think through strategically, intelligence gathering, preparations, response, response times, nature of response, and that's what the NATO alliance has always done effectively and that's what a lot of today's discussion focused on," he said. Kerry said NATO members have to work on improving vigilance instead of building permanent bases.
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Uh, uh, clearly everyone has to have NucWeaps + conquer new territories while the Bammer watches + US-West geopol pull back???
[AnNahar] Israel offered Thursday to help moderate Arab nations threatened by a lightning offensive by Islamic forces of Evil in Iraq, as the country's top diplomat met with 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...
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Kerry at a meeting in Gay Paree that "the faceless myrmidons currently operating in Iraq will try to challenge the stability in the entire Gulf region, first of all in Kuwait," a statement from his office said.
"Israel could provide effective and reliable assistance to moderate Arab states who are dealing with murderous Moslems," it added, without going into specific details.
Just a few days after visiting Iraq, Kerry said it was "important that countries in the region stand together against the threat," according to a senior U.S. official.
Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have captured a swathe of territory in northern Iraq in a lightning assault which is threatening to tear the country apart.
Kerry was holding a series of meetings with Middle East allies in Gay Paree to discuss the crisis in Iraq after visiting both Storied Baghdad and Arbil to press Iraqi leaders to unify against the dangers posed by ISIL.
The Sunni forces of Evil have overrun vast swathes of five provinces north and west of Storied Baghdad, leaving more than 1,000 people dead and displacing hundreds of thousands.
The conflict also appears to be broadening with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki confirming Syria's air force struck Sunni forces of Evil on the Syrian side of the Iraq-Syria border this week.
The Iraqi leader said that while Storied Baghdad did not request the strikes, he "welcomed" any moves against the bully boys.
The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported meanwhile that predominantly Shiite Iran is flying surveillance drones over Iraq and sending military equipment to help Storied Baghdad fight the Sunni turbans.
Lieberman said Israeli interests were converging with moderate Arab nations "with both sides dealing with the threat of Iran, world jihad and al-Qaeda, as well as the spill-over of conflicts in Syria and in Iraq to neighboring countries."
"Today, there is a basis for the creation of a new diplomatic-political structure in the Middle East," his office said in the statement.
Lieberman also handed Kerry an appeal from the parents of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers to meet with them. One of the youngsters is a dual Israeli-American citizen.
The disappearance of the three believed kidnapped by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,forces of Evil has sparked a massive manhunt on the West Bank.
According to army figures, some 381 people have been detained in two weeks of searches for the teens who disappeared on June 12 while hitchhiking in the southern West Bank.
A State Department official told Agence La Belle France Presse that they have received and are "considering the request" for the parents to meet with Kerry.
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[Ynet] Washington Institute survey finds that while most Paleostinians want to 'reclaim all of historic Paleostine', they do not support violent measures to achieve their goal.
Some 60 percent of Paleostinians reject the idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict, according to a new poll, and instead support a five-year plan to "work toward reclaiming all of historic Paleostine, from the river to the sea." However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... a clear majority do not support the use of violence to achieve their goals.
The survey, commissioned by The Washington Institute, found that only 31 percent of Paleostinians in the West Bank and 22 percent of those in Gazoo supported a two-state solution. Nonetheless, just 11 percent of West Bankers and 8 percent of Gazooks would be in favor of a one-state solution, in which Jews and Arabs "have equal rights in one country, from the river to the sea."
Similarly, the survey found, only one third of Paleostinians believe that the two-state solution "should be the end of the conflict," while almost two-thirds said "resistance should continue until all of historic Paleostine is liberated."
Only one third accepted that Paleostinians may have to "give up some of our claims so that our people and our children can have a better life."
Nonetheless, most Paleostinians — and those in Gazoo in particular — do not support a return to violence to achieve their goals, the survey found. Fifty-six percent of West Bank respondents and 70 percent of those in Gazoo agreed that Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, "should maintain a ceasefire with Israel in both Gazoo and the West Bank". Furthermore, more Gazooks (57 percent) than West Bankers (50 percent) said that Hamas should accept Abbas' position that the new Paleostinian unity government must renounce violence against Israel.
But a majority of the respondents did back non-violent protests to achieve their objectives, with 62 percent of those in the West Bank and 73 percent of those in Gazoo supporting action such as demonstrations and strikes.
Furthermore, settlement construction and Jerusalem were deemed less important in terms of advancing peace than the release of prisoners in Israelis jails, with 45 percent of respondents citing freeing prisoners as the one step Israel could take "to convince Paleostinians that it really wants peace". Just 19.7 percent cited a settlement freeze and 17.3 percent listed the division of Jerusalem as the key issue in this instance.
[AnNahar] Philippine President Benigno Aquino held a surprise meeting in Japan with the country's top Moslem rebel to address growing concerns over delays in implementing a peace deal, their aides said Thursday.
The meeting took place Tuesday on the sidelines of a peace conference in Hiroshima where Aquino and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Murad Ebrahim were guests, presidential front man Edwin Lacierda said.
A rebel front man said the MILF sought the meeting to raise concerns over delays in impleting an accord signed in March, after a draft law that is crucial for a final peace was not passed by Congress this month as planned.
Lacierda divulged few details of the meeting, other than it was a 15-minute encounter and that they talked about the planned law that would create an autonomous Moslem region in the southern Philippines.
"It is safe to assume that the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law was discussed," Lacierda said.
Moslem rebels have been battling for independence or autonomy in the southern islands of the mainly Catholic Philippines since the 1970s, with the conflict claiming tens of thousands of lives.
The MILF, with 10,000 armed followers, is the biggest rebel group and its signing of the accord has raised hopes of an enduring peace in the south, despite other breakaway groups still vowing to fight.
The pact made the MILF and the government partners in a plan to create the autonomous region by mid-2016, when Aquino is required by the constitution to stand down.
A commission composed of rebel and government nominees drafted a "basic law" for the autonomous region, and it was submitted to Aquino in April as part of a timeframe to have Congress pass it by June.
Aquino, however, is still reviewing the planned law. His aides have said this is because he wants to ensure it withstands scrutiny of the legislative body.
MILF deputy chief Ghazali Jaafar told AFP Thursday Murad had sought out the meeting to "express our concerns over the delays", and had been partly appeased by Aquino's response.
"We accepted explanations given, but any further delays could impact on the full ratification of the deal," Jaafar said, while emphasising MILF fighters remained "deeply concerned" about the slowdown.
He said Aquino must marshall his allies in Congress to pass the law this year.
Aquino, in his Tuesday speech before meeting Murad, highlighted a similar encounter between the two in Japan in 2011 that built momentum in the grinding of the peace processor.
"Trust was established between brothers, and a genuine dialogue was possible," Aquino said.
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As per GLOBALNATION + JAPAN MEDIAS, China is accusing the PHIL of stirring tensions + promoting instability after Aguino gave support to Abe for strong constitutional + military reforms.
* Also from GLOBAL NATION > COLUMNISTS: NO CHOICE. DESTROY CHINA'S FUTURE PHILIPPINE MILITARY BASES NOW.
Chinese Milbases in the Spratlys = SCS all but certain to turn the PHIL into a SLAVE/VASSAL STATE FOR CHINA.
* SAME > ... ...
> CHINA IS TESTING FILIPINO'S DETERMINATION TO DEFEND AGZ INTRUSION.
> CHINA MAP HAS NO [fixed = certain]GEOGRAPHIC [land-n-sea] COORDINATES - DFA.
Hence making China's SCS claims "moveable" - also read, "EXPANDABLE"???
* TOPIX > [Stars-N-Stripes] US MARINE CORPS FORCE PLANNER: NO MORE "IWO JIMAS".
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Chosun Ilbo] SOUTH KOREA DEFENSE MINISTER [Kim Kwan-jin] HAS NO OBJECTION TO [SOKOR-based = THAAD?] US INTERCEPTOR MISSLES, but won't buy them either, at least not yet.
Formerly GUAM-BASED???
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* IIRC SAME > SUNSET FOR A STRONG NAVY? WITH BUDGET CUTS, OPINIONS DIFFER ON NECESSARY NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > NEW CHINESE MAP ["10-Dash-Line"] SHOW LARGER CLAIMS IN SCS.
[AnNahar] The General Security agency on Thursday circulated the picture of a Lebanese man accused of providing the Duroy Hotel bombers with explosives, as media reports said the two attackers wanted to target al-Saha Restaurant in Dahieh.
"Following the authorization of the relevant judicial authorities, the General Security circulated the picture of al-Monzer Khaldoun al-Hasan, who was born in 1990 in Akkar's Bizbina to a mother who hails from (Syria's) Aleppo," state-run National News Agency reported.
The man "is suspected of having provided the cell that was raided at the Duroy Hotel (in Raouche) with boom jackets and explosives," NNA quoted the security agency as saying.
"He has the Swedish nationality (and a passport) with the name of 'Monzer Al HASSAN' and he has been driving two cars — an old beige Nissan and a gray Mercedes manufactured in 2005," the General Security said, noting that "these two cars may be booby-trapped."
LBCI television said the man was incarcerated Book 'im, Mahmoud! based on the confessions of the Saudi would-be jacket wallah who survived Wednesday's blast and who was captured by the General Security.
"The arrested would-be suicide bomber told interrogators that he and his lover companion had intended to target al-Saha Restaurant near the Great Prophet Mosque in Beirut's southern suburbs," LBCI reported.
According to al-Akhbar newspaper, General Security agents overnight raided al-Saha Hotel in Dahieh in search for suspects who might have checked into the hotel.
For its part, As Safir newspaper said "the cell yesterday received an order to carry out a double suicide kaboom through bombers wearing boom jackets against one of the biggest restaurants in Beirut which is part of a large hotel."
The daily said the attack was supposed to take place during peak time when customers would be watching one of the World Cup matches.
Later on Thursday, OTV said two brothers of Monzer had carried out a suicide attack in Syria last year.
LBCI said the attack targeted the Crac des Chevaliers citadel in Homs province.
The General Security reportedly began monitoring the terrorist cell that was busted in Duroy Hotel in Beirut's Raouche area a week before raiding it.
According to As Safir, the General Security investigations proved the group had links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL).
On Wednesday afternoon, a Saudi man went kaboom! at the Hotel Duroy as security forces stormed his room, killing himself and wounding several others.
An accomplice of the suicide bomber who was also in the room survived the blast but was severely injured. A third person is on the run.
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[AnNahar] The General Security Directorate reportedly began monitoring the terrorist group that was busted in Duroy Hotel in Beirut's Raouche area a week before raiding it.
According to As Safir newspaper published on Thursday, the General Security investigations proved the group had links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL).
The network was allegedly ordered to carry out a double suicide kaboom in a prominent restaurant in Beirut and a Hotel when people would be watching a world cup game and the two place would be crowded.
On Wednesday afternoon, a Saudi man went kaboom! in Hotel Duroy as security forces stormed his room, killing himself and wounding several others.
An accomplice of the jacket wallah who was also in the room survived the blast but was severely injured. A third person is on the run.
As Safir daily reported that the General Security's Elite Force raid was directly supervised by the directorate's chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim.
A string of security incidents over the past week has rattled Leb, and Beirut in particular, after what had been a calm and stable stretch of several months.
The police raid followed the arrest last Friday in a hotel in the nearby Hamra district of the capital of a Frenchie of Comoran origin on suspicion of plotting to carry out suicide kabooms in Leb on behalf of the jihadist ISIL group.
That is the same group that has spearheaded the offensive by Sunni Arab forces of Evil that has swept up a big swathe of northern and north-central Iraq over the past two weeks and also made gains in neighboring Syria.
On Monday, a suicide bomber went kaboom! near a checkpoint outside a cafe just after midnight in the Tayyouneh area. The bombing killed one person and maimed 20.
Another bombing in eastern Leb last week killed a police officer and maimed several others.
Syria's civil war has spilled into neighboring Leb on numerous occasions and inflamed sectarian tensions. A series of boom-mobiles have struck Shiite areas across Leb, killing dozens of people. The operation also came amid mounting regional tensions over the events unfolding in Iraq.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands Abdullah
Nouri al-Maliki
Kurram Agency
Wazoo
[DAWN] Announcing an 'all-party conference' on the Model Town incident on Sunday, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has backtracked from his earlier stance of forming a political alliance against the government.
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: The Tariq Geedar group of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) was behind the gun attack on a Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) flight in 
Wazoo
[Iraq Sun] Four teams of US special operations forces have arrived in Iraq to aid the Iraqi government in combating the raging battle with the rapidly advancing jihadist 
Massoud Barzani
[Iraq Sun] U.S. Secretary of State 
