[Al Ahram] Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... was set to reject preliminary election results released Monday, heightening a political crisis over fraud that threatens to trigger instability as US-led troops pull out.
Abdullah, previously seen as the election front-runner, alleges that he was the victim of "industrial-scale" ballot-box stuffing on June 14 and has vowed not to recognise the vote count.
His poll rival Ashraf Ghani, who was reported to be at least one million votes ahead, says the result is fair and must not be further delayed.
The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... and Afghanistan's international backers had lobbied hard to try to ensure a smooth election process, but the contested outcome will realise their worst fears and raises the risk of civil unrest.
Influential US Senator Carl Levin ...Democrat Senator-for-Life from Michigan. He has been in the Senate since 1979. Prior to that he was president of the Detroit city council and Mayor Coleman Young's right-hand man. He is currently the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services... , on a visit to Kabul, told news hounds on Sunday that the preliminary result would likely be followed by an audit of suspicious votes in an attempt to assuage Abdullah's fears of fraud.
"I expect that (there) is going to be an agreement on a comprehensive audit," Levin, chairman of the Senate committee on armed services, said.
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[Tolo News] Following the destruction of over 400 vehicles that were parked in a supposedly secure lot in the Chawk-e-Arghandi area of Kabul, officials at the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) on Sunday suggested that the Ministry of Interior (MoI) is legally obligated to help protect Afghans' property, and if it fails to do so, the government is responsible for compensation.
According to official estimates, tens of millions of dollars worth of damage was caused by the fire and kabooms that destroyed predominately gas tankers late Friday night awaiting escort to Kandahar province. The incident is being investigated, but according to early reports from security officials, it was caused by magnetic bombs.
"The government is responsible to keep these trucks secure and to prevent such an incident, but nothing was done and now the government must compensate the drivers for the losses," Khan Jan Alakozai, the Deputy Head of ACCI, said.
Drivers, who saw their trucks - and livelihoods - go up in flames late Friday night, said they were instructed by security officials to remain in the parking lot for security reasons. They were supposedly asked to pay a nightly fee for the security being provided to them.
ACCI officials maintained on Sunday that the government is obligated to compensate for the losses of the drivers.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia grabbed for Jane's hair to make her point. Jane elbowed her in the face in rebuttal... MoI front man Sediq Sediqqi, reported that the owner and guards of the parking lot have been tossed in the calaboose Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and under suspicion. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... he did not comment on the possibility of monetary compensation for the truck drivers.
Some of the truckers have received the remaining parts of their vehicles that were not entirely destroyed.
Noor Khan is a driver who lost three vehicles in the fire, and has been a vocal critic of the government's handling of the situation. He said he doubted he would receive any of the remaining parts of his destroyed vehicles.
"These are my vehicles that have burned down, what can I do, I can't say anything, it's not a problem during the day, but at night, coppers will take the remnants of the vehicles and will create problems for us tomorrow," Noor Khan said.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Notorious terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, alias Laaouar, intends to unify fighters returning from the Syria front and use them to strike the Maghreb, retired Tunisian Brigadier General Mokhtar Ben Nasr recently revealed.
"Since declaring his allegiance to al-Qaeda, Mokhtar Belmokhtar has stayed in Libya where he has been recruiting Syria returnees," Ben Nasr told Algeria's Echourouk daily on June 27th.
"He is trying to impose his influence on other jihadist groups in the Arab Maghreb after Tunisia's Abou Iyadh disappeared from the scene because he was banned from making media statements by a Libyan militia," the Tunisian officer said.
Algeria's El Khabar daily cited unnamed security sources as saying that Belmokhtar met with Uqba Ibn Nafi Brigade chief Khaled Chaieb (aka Abu Sakhr) and told him to free Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... fighters from Mornaguia prison near Tunis.
The newspaper, which did not specify the date or place of the meeting, said the instructions also included targeting a number of oil, tourist and security facilities and some political and security officials.
"The terrorist elements are incapable of confronting the internal security and national army forces," Tunisian Defence Minister Ghazi Jeribi said on Thursday (July 3rd) during the funeral of four national army soldiers killed on Wednesday when their vehicle hit a landmine planted by terrorists. "Their strategy is to plant landmines and not to confront the army forces."
He added: "Jebel Chaambi is under control, and a decision was made to storm the mountains between Jendouba and El Kef provinces."
Olfa Ayari, president of the Prisons and Correctional Institution Syndicate, dismissed Belmokhtar's call to his followers to attack Mornaguia prison.
"Let him come with all of his al-Qaeda elements and let them try," she told Magharebia. "They will be disappointed because this is Africa's most secured prison with its strong fortifications and highly-trained guards."
According to Ayari, Mornaguia prison is home to more than 500 terrorists.
"We're all accustomed to Belmokhtar's threats, which are basically propaganda after his status dropped among terrorist groups," security expert Sami Riahi said.
Tunisia's Al Maghreb daily also reported that Laaouar aimed to carry out terrorist operations in Tunisia, including bombings and liquidations of some officials.
Observers are not surprised by Belmokhtar's plan to target prisons, like what happened in Niger last year.
"Terrorist organizations are stepping up their efforts to free their nabbed ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... elements because this is the best way to maintain their loyalty," analyst Abdelhamid al-Ansari said.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) just declared its support for the group formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), El Khabar reported Wednesday (July 2nd).
In a video posted last Friday, al-Qaeda's Maghreb affiliate expressed its support for "the mujahedeen" in Iraq. The message implicitly criticised al-Qaeda central and other branches for not publicly supporting the rising terror organization.
Abu Abdullah Othman al-Asemi, AQIM's "judge" for the central region, addressed ISIS in the video, saying his lover companions "want to link with you".
"You're dearer to us than our own families and relatives and we always pray for you," the AQIM figure said.
Al-Asemi, whose real name is unknown and who is believed to have recently joined the group led by Abdalmalek Droukdel, added: "We're still waiting for al-Qaeda branches here and there to show their position and declare support for you."
The phrase "show their position" carries an indirect call to al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri ... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is... to reveal his stance on the Levantine jihadist group.
In another implied reference to al-Qaeda leadership, al-Asemi said: "As those concerned have been silent, we wanted to show our positionĂ¢Â€Â¦so the mujahedeen of ISIS may know that we won't let them down."
The video carried nothing indicating that AQIM wanted to support ISIS with fighters and weapons, or provide any type of assistance other than moral support.
Yet it shows that there is an organizational break with the al-Zawahiri-led network. There has clearly been no communication between al-Qaeda central and the Maghreb branch on the issue of ISIS and what it is doing in Iraq.
Many experts believe that AQIM's declaration of support for ISIS was an indication of looming regional changes that may eventually prompt the group to change itself from a branch of al-Qaeda to a branch under the command of "the caliph of Moslems".
"AQIM is confident that things will change and that an Islamic state in the Arab Maghreb may be declared," retired military officer Taher ben Thamer said. "Therefore, it is rushing to act so it can win the leading position in the new jihadist organization that will be created on the ruins of pro-al-Qaeda organizations."
"I don't know exactly what form the new organization will have; however, it will certainly not be restricted to North Africa, but will extend to Sahel countries, West Africa and Somalia to form an Islamic state comprising several African states," he added.
El Khabar recently cited a security source as saying that ten states, including Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mauritania and Egypt, have increased their aerial and satellite surveys of northern Mali, Libya, and parts of northern Niger to identify the location of an expected summit of the top jihadist groups in North Africa.
AQIM, Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... in Tunisia and Libya, Ansar Bait al-Maqdis in Egypt, El Mourabitounes and Ansar al-Din in northern Mali decided to hold a meeting somewhere in Libya to examine several issues, the most important of which is the dispute between al-Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri and ISIS.
The conference will also reportedly address the unification of some groups, especially those in Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Mali.
"AQIM's declaration is an attempt to take the initiative in case the jihadist organizations redistribute roles in the region or new actors appear," security affairs analyst Omar Abderrahmane said. "AQIM wants to be the number one group, whether with the parent al-Qaeda or ISIS."
Abderrahmane added: "AQIM has lost much of its power and capabilities, and its operations are now limited and without much impact. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... other groups appeared, such as the one led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar that carried out carefully-planned operations, which AQIM couldn't do."
"Therefore, AQIM is trying hard to win a moral push and perhaps receive logistical support later to tip the balance in its favour against the other groups," the expert concluded.
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Many experts believe that AQIM's declaration of support for ISIS was an indication of looming regional changes that may eventually prompt the group to change itself from a branch of al-Qaeda to a branch under the command of "the caliph of Moslems".
For now we are all brothers. We will argue and slay one another later, when the infidels have been defeated.
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Poor Screech. All pious with the bumpy forehead and shit, finally Numero Uno with the Curly Toed slippers and some heart-eating upstart rustics jump the line and set up Teh Caliphate. Sad, really
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Not surprising. Everyone less so wants to back the successful fighter. And I still see no reason to think Saud is not supporting ISIS, and every reason still to think he is, e.g., with Iran and Russia making noise about helping Maliki keep his skin. But this AQIM move means, among other things, that Saud support of ISIS is akin to mounting a bucking camel. He has started something bigger than he can control. ... if I am reading the rolled grape leaves accurately .... And the morons never have created a one-only caliphate. Dreamers. Getting Arabs together is like herding cats. Even Saud has to keep an iron fist on his own. Thanks for showing/linking the Spencer essay on whitewashing the caliphate.
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If the Saudi's openly gave their blessing to the Caliphate and possible peacefully merged it would be huge for the ISIS and something they might be willing to trade for the Sauds keeping the money and perm control over Mecca or something. Such a trade would allow Saud's to keep their heads which is a better deal than I think they will otherwise get.
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In fact if I was the ISIS I'd be talking to the Heshimite's of Jordan and the Saudi King trying to see if either will give up their country to be head of Mecca (and survive).
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The Saudis have oil. ISIS doesn't even have Iraq's oil; it's in Shia and Kurdish territory. Easy for ISIS to beat the Iraqi army in Sunni territory; not so easy to expand beyond.
[Libya Herald] The Scholars Association of Libya has condemned the attacks targeting moderate preachers, imams and sheikhs across the country.
Religious leaders continue to fall prey to intimidation, threats, kidnappings and liquidations, the Association said today. It added that these actions were only causing the security situation to deteriorate further.
The protest by the scholars followed the most recent incident, involving the kidnapping of the Sufi imam Tarek Abbas. Abbas was kidnapped in front of his home, near Abu Manjel mosque in downtown 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... , just after Fajr prayers on 4 July.
Abbas, known in Tripoli as an orator and Koranic teacher, was said to have boldly criticized the actions of the Matiga militia. Some believe that this militia is responsible for the kidnapping, though this has not been proven.
The scholars called on the Tripoli Council and the capital's Local Crisis Committee to take full responsibility for the safety of Abbas and to bring his kidnappers to justice.
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[DAILYPOST.NG] Igboezue, an Igbo socio-political organization, has faulted a recent statement attributed to Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, that the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... insurgency is worse than Biafra-Nigeria civil war.
Soyinka had on Thursday stated that the ongoing activities of the Boko sect were worse than the civil war, noting that the development has made Nigeria's breakup difficult.
In a controversial interview with Rooters, Soyinka said, "The bloodshed is now worse than during the 1967-1970 Biafra war, when a secessionist attempt by the Eastern Igbo people nearly tore Nigeria up into ethnic regions.
Reacting to the statement on Saturday, the group's National President, Chekwas Okorie, described Soyinka's comment as an "assault and shocking".
The group said, though Soyinka's statement, which was broadcast on Rooters and also published in most Nigerian newspapers, was advisory on the need to preserve the unity of Nigeria, it was at the same time insulting to sensibilities of the Igbo nation.
Okorie, who also described the statement as "unguarded, insensitive, reckless, irresponsible and reprehensible, however stated that someone like Soyinka, who played a historical role in that war up to the level of being suspected by the federal military government at the time of collaborating with the then Biafra leader, late General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu for the injustices and massacre of the Igbo, should not be the one to make such a statement.
"We have never been confronted with butchery on this scale, even during the civil war. There were atrocities (during Biafra), but we never had such a near predictable level of carnage and this is what is horrifying."
The Igboezue leader also said that to correct part of the deliberate alleged "misrepresentation" as he claimed contained in Soyinka's statement, the group "wishes to state that the mandate given to Gen. Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu to declare the Independent State of Biafra was given to him by the then Eastern Nigeria Consultative Assembly and a large part of Mid Western Region in the present South-East and South-South geopolitical zones of Nigeria."
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[THISDAYLIVE] The Management of the People's Hotel that was recently attacked by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in Bauchi has disclosed that it was relocating the hotel from the state.
Speaking to select newsmen in an interview yesterday at the hotel, the Director of the Hotel, Mr. Ifeanyi Ezesi, said operating his hotel business in the state was no longer safe for him and his customers; therefore he has no other option than to relocate from the state.
According to him, "I think the time has come for me to relocate from the state because of the continued attack on my hotel business by Boko Haram. They have already passed the message to me that my presence is not needed in the state, so I just have to leave for the security of my family. This is the second time they are attacking this hotel. The first attack was in 2012. The second attack now in 2014. I think it is high time to leave".
He recalled how the bomb incident has traumatised and devastated him, saying he was yet to come to terms with the horror of dead bodies, shattered human parts and blood everywhere.
"Before the incident happened on that day, I was sitting down in the hotel with some group of friends drinking, so I remembered that I had to buy some meat to include among the items I was sending to my siblings in the eastern part of the country. So on my way to buy the meat, I received a call from my elder brother, Ogechukwu that there was an kaboom at the hotel.
"When I received the call, I had to return. I could not believe that it was a place I left barely just five minutes ago. The whole place was littered with human blood, scattered human parts and dead bodies. People were running for their dear lives. I have not yet recovered from the shock of the incident up till now.
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[Gulf News] The UAE Government has fast-tracked legislation including tough measures against those found to be involved in terror acts, financing terror or campaigning for terrorist groups.
Under the draft law offenders will face the death sentence, life imprisonment or fines of up to Dh100 million.
The Federal National Council is due to be called from its almost four-month summer break to attend a special session later this month to review the draft law, which establishes "terrorist" capital offences, which result in the death of a victim, including attacks on a head of state or his family or a representative or officer of a state; coerced recruitment of people into a "terrorist" organization; hijacking; hostage-taking; infringement on diplomatic or consular premises in committing a "terrorist" act; use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and assaults on security forces.
Under the 70-article bill being discussed by the legislative and legal affairs committee of the House, convicted murderous Moslems will face the death penalty, life imprisonment and fines of up to Dh100 million.
The draft law will also authorise the Cabinet to establish lists of designated terrorist organizations and persons.
The Cabinet will also establish counselling centres where murderous Moslems will receive intensive religious and welfare counselling in jail in a programme targeted against future threats posed by those holding bully boy views, according to the draft law, a copy of which has been obtained by Gulf News.
Sources said the UAE, a signatory to 13 international treaties on terrorism, is revising its counter-terrorism law, issued in 2004, to better combat evolving threats.
In late April the FNC passed a draft law to fight money laundering and terrorist financing.
The bill strengthens the integrity of the country's financial strengths in line with the International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation — the FATF Recommendations, according to members of the House.
Under the legislation on combating terrorism offences, a criminal case involving terrorist suspects, shall neither expire nor the court ruling imposed be dropped by prescription.
"Setting up, running or leading a terrorist organization will be penalised with the death penalty or life imprisonment and the court shall order the organization to be disbanded and its offices closed," the draft law states.
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I thourght they were funding Jihad as they are never attacked!
The dominant dogma regarding jihadism, that Islam is a religion of peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists who distort its teachings to justify violence, has been put to a severe test by the declaration of a new caliphate in Iraq and Syria. The mainstream media is fighting back.
The Islamic State, as it calls itself, has issued several declarations thick with Koranic citations and mainstream media to explain and justify its positions. Its conscious, explicit, and deeply rooted Islamic character has rattled mainstream media cages -- to the extent that articles have begun to appear claiming that this new caliphate is no caliphate at all, so unlike its illustrious predecessors as to be unworthy of the name.
That was the central claim of an article that appeared in the New York Times Wednesday: "The Caliphate Fantasy" by Khaled Diab, "an Egyptian-Belgian journalist based in Jerusalem." Diab complains: "The problem with this new caliphate...is that it is ahistorical, to say the least." Why? Because "the Abbasid caliphate, for example, which ruled from 750 to 1258, was an impressively dynamic and diverse empire." The Abbasid caliphate, Diab asserts, "thrived on multiculturalism, science, innovation, learning and culture -- in sharp contrast to ISIS' violent puritanism."
Multiculturalism? Bat Ye'or, the pioneering historian of dhimmitude, the institutionalized second-class status Islamic law stipulates for non-Muslims in the Islamic state, notes of Jews and Christians in this "multicultural" caliphate that "it was during the Abbasid period that their degrading status developed and was integrated into the legal system of the dar al-Islam." She writes of the crushing taxes that the Abbasids made the dhimmis pay, in accord with the Koran's dictum that they "pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued" (9:29). "Money was extorted by blows, torture and death," Bat Ye'or writes, "particularly by crucifixion."
Ultimately "the dhimmis, ruined by taxation, abandoned their lands and villages," hoping to escape to the anonymity of the city, whereupon a "drive to track down dhimmi peasants, organized throughout the Abbasid Empire, required a considerable number of participants, who were joined by brigands greedy for plunder and pillage." The plunder and pillage of the minority communities was considered to be their due as a sign of their submission to the Islamic state.
Diab ignores all this, and asserts that Muhammad established quite a different paradigm: "Muhammad, the most 'rightly guided' of all, composed a strikingly secular document in the Constitution of Medina. It stipulated that Muslims, Jews, Christians and even pagans had equal political and cultural rights -- a far cry from ISIS' punitive attitude toward even fellow Sunnis who do not practice its brand of Islam, let alone Shiites, Christians or other minorities." In reality, the Constitution of Medina is of doubtful authenticity: it is first mentioned in Ibn Ishaq's biography of Muhammad, which was written over 125 years after the accepted date for Muhammad's death.
And unfortunately for Diab, Ibn Ishaq also details what happened to three Jewish tribes of Arabia after the Constitution of Medina. Muhammad exiled the Banu Qaynuqa and Banu Nadir, massacred the Banu Qurayza after they (understandably) made a pact with his enemies during the pagan Meccans' siege of Medina, and then massacred the exiles at the Khaybar oasis, giving Muslims even today a bloodthirsty war chant: "Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad will return." (Indicative of the influence of Khaybar, and not the Constitution of Medina, in the real world outside the pages of the New York Times is the fact that while jihadists frequently repeat the Khaybar chant, no one ever chants, "Relax, relax, O Jews, the Constitution of Medina will return.")
Science, innovation, learning and culture? The Assyrian historian Peter BetBasoo has noted that "when Arabs and Islam swept through the Middle East in 630 AD, they encountered 600 years of Assyrian Christian civilization, with a rich heritage, a highly developed culture, and advanced learning institutions. It is this civilization that became the foundation of the Arab civilization." What happened when Islam encountered this civilization? BetBasoo points out that the early astronomers in the Middle East "were not Arabs but Chaldeans and Babylonians (of present day south-Iraq), who for millennia were known as astronomers and astrologers, and who were forcibly Arabized and Islamized -- so rapidly that by 750 AD they had disappeared completely" -- that is, by the dawn of the Abbasid caliphate.
And if the Abbasid caliphate was really a center of science, innovation, learning and culture, what happened? The greatest indictment of Diab's case is that clearly something happened to snuff out that intellectual exploration, so that the torch of philosophical and scientific inquiry passed to Europe. What happened was summed up in the famous, although possibly apocryphal, quip of the Umayyad caliph Umar when he ordered the ancient, fabled library of Alexandria to be burned: "If the books agree with the Koran, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical."
The new caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, couldn't have put it more clearly.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and New York Times bestselling author of Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We're In. A good read.
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When you lose an entire city to a nuclear event and it will happen let me be the first to say children in diapers , lies, greed, ignorance corner office and power mad syndrome. It will be out West! Enjoy! KIDZ!no drone no sats! No shit !
When it happens I will be with my dog!
Tell the idiots not to bother me anymore !
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Thus, Virginia, we once again have NOSTRADAMUS' QUATRAIN - "... None shall see the Power of Asia [Perse = Persia aka Iran?] until the Seven/Seventh holds the Line".
ole' Nostry + Persia/Iran + new AL-Baghdadi Caliphate have much to thank POTUS Obama + his "red lines"???
[DAWN] KARACHI: The police Sherlocks probing the Friday kaboom in Saddar claimed to have 'solved' the case on Saturday after the identification of the two men killed in an kaboom on Friday, saying that both were associated with a banned nationalist outfit and were killed due to mishandling of the explosive they were carrying on a cycle of violence.
After the identification of one of the killed men as Abdul Fatah Dahiri, the other was recognised as Usman Panhwar, who lived in Chakra Goth in Korangi but originally hailed from Jamshoro.
The police said "both were associated with the banned nationalist outfit led by Shafi Burfat". ...founder and current chairman of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz, a separatist secular political party in Sindh, that believes in Sindhi freedom from Pakistain. Burfat fled to Kabul, where he's been for the past 20 or 25 years. In 2013 Pakistain declared JSMM as a terrorist organization and imposed a ban, which works about as well as all the other bans the Pak govt's imposed...
"After analysing the evidence, speaking to witnesses and poring over the technological analysis, we came to the conclusion that the two were riding the same motorbike when the bomb went kaboom!," said Raja Umer Khattab, chief of the CID police counter-terror unit.
"We also got the footage of a camera in one of the building near the blast site which showed that the two were riding the same bike with a bag placed between them. The bomb went kaboom! most probably when the pillion rider was finally connecting it before planting it at their targeted place. The bike was moving and in the process he mishandled the explosive and it went off."
He said Dahri had been living in the Nazimabad area since 2008 but originally hailed from Nawabshah. The operators of the banned groups, he said, hardly shared their activities or association with their families.
"So the family claim doesn't matter about his routine. The Sherlocks have also acquired his cellphone record data which helped in connecting the dots and identification of their organization," he added.
The kaboom outside Jamia Masjid Muhajir Makki and its neighbouring seminary, Mahd-ul-Irshad Islami Madressah on New Preedy Street in Saddar on Friday, which killed the two suspected attackers, was heard for miles and sowed fear in one of the busiest commercial districts of the city. The blast was so powerful that it damaged the panes of the vacant multi-storey Parking Plaza across the road and destroyed two motorbikes.
City police Ghulam Qadir Thebo had in his immediate reaction ruled out that Jamia Masjid Muhajir Makki and Mahd-ul-Irshad Islami Madressah were the actual target as the Sherlocks hinted that a nearby rally of the Jamaat-ud-Da'awa was the potential target.
"Their target is still not clear," said Raja Khattab. "The record of the dead operators was being further checked. But one should remember the operators or workers of the banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations operate in an extremely sophisticated manner and their activities hardly come on the record. But if you look over the past few months the number of bomb kabooms has increased at a staggering pace which definitely indicates the presence of several groups in the city."
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[DAWN] The Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) will resist any movement of Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) leader Tahirul Qadri ...Pak politician, and would-be dictator, founder and head of Tehreek-e-Minhajul Quran and Pakistain Awami Tehrik. He usually resides in Canada, but returns to Pakistain periodically to foam at the mouth and lead demonstrations. Depending on which way the wind's blowing, Qadri claims to be the author of Pak's blasphemy law. Other times he says it wasn't him... to topple the democratic system in the country.
These views were expressed by PPP Punjab secretary information Abid Siddiqui in a statement issued on Sunday.
He said the PPP had requested Qadri not to start any campaign against the democratic system and let it function.
He said the PPP would stand by democratic parties to protect the system and Qadri would never be allowed to succeed in his agenda.
Abid alleged that Qadri would leave the country for Canada after the collapse of the system and the people would have to face the consequences.
Earlier this week, Dr Tahirul Qadri vowed at a presser to topple the present government "within a few weeks".
He said he was committed to bringing a revolution in Pakistain, adding that a People's Revolutionary Council would be constituted shortly.
The PAT chief called upon people to stop obeying what he termed the illegitimate orders of the authorities.
Qadri had returned to Pakistain in late June to lead what he called a revolution. He was scheduled to arrive in Islamabad but the government had ordered the diversion of the aircraft carrying him to Lahore.
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[DAWN] Hundreds of Taliban fighters rushed to disguise themselves with new haircuts in the weeks before the launch of the North Wazoo operation, it has emerged, as refugees revealed details of life under the murderous Moslems - and their taste for imported luxuries.
Azam Khan was one of the top barbers 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... until he, like nearly half a million others, fled the long-awaited offensive unleashed by the military on the tribal area in June.
He told AFP his business boomed in the month leading up to the army assault as the murderous Moslems sought to shed their distinctive long-haired, bearded look.
"I have trimmed the hair and beards of more than 700 local and Uzbek murderous Moslems ahead of the security forces' operation," he said while cutting hair in a shop in Bannu, the town where most civilians fled.
For years he cut Taliban capos' hair to match the flowing locks of former Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) leader Hakimullah Mehsud, killed by a US drone last November, but in May a change in style was called for.
"The same leaders came asking for trimming their beards and hair very short, saying that they were going to the Gulf and wanted to avoid problems at Pak airports," Khan said.
Even Uzbeks and Tajiks with little knowledge of the local language came to him, he said.
"Knowing little Pashto, they used to utter four words: 'mulgari (friend), machine, zero, Islamabad'," said Khan -- asking him to shave their beards to nothing so they could go to Islamabad.
French perfume
The military launched the offensive against murderous Moslems in North Waziristan tribal area on June 15, vowing to wipe out the strongholds they have used to wreak countless deadly terror attacks across the country.
The rugged, mountainous area on the Afghan border has been a hideout for years for Islamist murderous Moslems of all stripes - including Al Qaeda and the homegrown TTP as well as imported muscle including Uzbeks and Uighurs.
For years people from North Waziristan remained tight-lipped about life in a Taliban fiefdom, scared of being kidnapped or even beheaded if they shared information about the bully boys.
But as the exodus of people has grown, some have found the confidence to tell their stories.
While the murderous Moslems bombed and maimed thousands in their fight to install an austere sharia regime in Pakistain and publicly professed contempt for the West, in North Waziristan they indulged themselves with fancy imported goods.
Hikmatullah Khan, a shopkeeper in Miranshah, said that at the same time as commanders were insisting he pay 300 rupees a month "tax", their fighters were stocking up on grooming products.
"They were very keen to buy foreign-branded shampoos, soaps and perfumed sprays," Khan told AFP.
"They had a lot of eagerness for French and Turkish perfumes, body sprays and soaps. "Muhammad Zarif, a wholesale merchant in Datta Khel, near Miranshah, said fighters would buy large quantities of British detergent and American cooking oil, much of it smuggled from Dubai.
Militants gone?
Pakistain's allies, particularly the United States, have long called for an operation to flush out groups like the Haqqani network, which use the area to target NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... troops in neighbouring Afghanistan and are thought to have links to Pak intelligence services.
The military has said it will target murderous Moslems "of all hue and colour" but the scant resistance troops have encountered has led many to believe the gunnies fled before the offensive, limiting its effectiveness.
The army says the operation has killed nearly 400 murderous Moslems and will rid North Waziristan of their bases, denying them the space to plan attacks and allowing investment to come to one of the country's poorest areas.
But it remains to be seen what the long-term impact of the offensive will be. Local intelligence and bully boy sources told AFP that up to 80 per cent of fighters fled after rumours of an army assault emerged in early May, most over the mostly non-existent border into Afghanistan.
These sources estimate the present number of murderous Moslems as around 2,000, down from around 10,000 before the operation. The figures are uncertain and difficult to confirm.
The army has asked Afghanistan to crack down on TTP refuges across the border and this week top brass from both sides met in Islamabad to discuss the issue.
"It is clear that murderous Moslems were aware that the offensive was coming before it started. Lots of them fled," a Western diplomat told AFP.
"The big question is: after the offensive, will Pakistain allow the Haqqanis and others to come back? "
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Cowards.
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That is not permitted by the Koran - beards mandatory! Apostates forfeit their virgins...
[DAWN] Punjab Law and Education Minister Rana Mashhood says the law-enforcement agencies will ensure that no turbans in the guise of internally displaced persons (IDPs) should join the network of forces of Evil through the urban areas of Punjab.
The minister was talking to the media after addressing the owners of private schools and principals of public and private colleges of the province at a fund-raiser for the IDPs at the Directorate of Staff Development on Saturday.
Mr Khan said police and secret agencies should coordinate with one another and added that hooliganism was not a solution to any problem.
Responding to a question about electoral reforms, he admitted electoral reforms were need of the hour but the parliament was only a legal and constitutional forum for the purpose. He said the federal government had made nominations in a special parliamentary committee for making amendments to the election laws.
"If PTI chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... is serious about electoral reforms, why is he not nominating his assembly members for this purpose?" he asked.
In the same go, he stressed, Imran Khan should display political maturity as 7.6 million voters had expressed their confidence in him in general elections to play his due role in the assemblies.
He said those making claims of bringing about a revolution in a few weeks, in fact, wanted to hoodwink the people and they were trying to sabotage the development in the country.
The minister said the military operation was started against the Taliban as they wanted that their demands be accepted through force and lawlessness instead of constitution and law.
Earlier, speaking at the fund-raising event, Mr Mashhood said the army was ensuring security of the country by eliminating bully boyz through Operation Zarb-e-Azb. He said the nation was imbued with a spirit of sacrifice for their displaced brethren who had been besieged by the bully boyz who wanted to use them as human shield in North Wazoo.
He said the IDPs were patriotic Paks and the army as well as federal government would provide them with every facility. He said the Operation Zarb-e-Azb would continue till the elimination of last terrorist in the country. He hoped that when the IDPs would return to their homes, they would live in a peaceful and prosperous atmosphere.
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Sources close to Mr Maliki, who is under pressure from Washington to step down, say he could cancel the Strategic Framework Agreement with the US. The SFA, signed in 2008, outlines the terms for political, economic and security co-operation between Washington and Baghdad.
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Great job, Obama. Thanks to you, all the US military deaths during 12 years of brutal fighting will now be transformed into having been for the benefit of Iran.
You certainly brought about "fundamental change in America" - into an impoverished, crumbling, third-world dystopia, with a shriveling military, and a bloated, tyrannical, self-serving government.
And you still have 30 months left in office, to continue your sacking and plundering of what's left.
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The greater threat may have not been the tyranny of the Shah, Sadat, Saddam, Quadaffi, or even Assad. The far greater threat appears to be a blind, religious ideology. Unfortunately, we tend to side with the greater of the evils.
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I was looking up Salifism which is a major threat to the West and couldnt believe the amount of salifists in Qatar 47% and UAE 45% of the populations there!.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi
Is the UAE,Qatar and Saudis friends or foes of the West?Qatar and UAE are never attacked because they are funding along with Saudi and Kuwait of Salafi jihad worldwide!
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Few here need a visual, but it seemed appropriate.
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Is the UAE,Qatar and Saudis friends or foes of the West?
Foes, of course. Now that the U.S. is world's top producer of oil and natural gas -- and many other nations including Britain, France, Germany, and China (!!) ramp up their own fracking production -- the previous deference to the Arab oil producers necessary to keep the world economy going will become considerably less necessary.
And Saudi Arabia won't even have to run out of oil before the world kicks sand in their face. That they're worried about ISIS on their border looking slant-eyed at the Kaaba -- the very same ISIS they've been funding, along with, no doubt, a good many other taqfiri groups, is added spice. Sometimes karma is absolutely delicious.
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Why do we have a base there and protect them? 9-11-01 10-01 mineral meeting 11-01 Qatar World Trade meeting-
#7 I was looking up Salifism which is a major threat to the West and couldnt believe the amount of salifists in Qatar 47% and UAE 45% of the populations there!.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi
Is the UAE,Qatar and Saudis friends or foes of the West?Qatar and UAE are never attacked because they are funding along with Saudi and Kuwait of Salafi jihad worldwide!
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... add Marxism for all intents and purposes to that descriptive.
From the theological point of view, Communism is a heresy of Christianity, making it an heretical religion, something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.
In contrast, from the theological point of view, Fascism is an apostasy of Christianity, making it an apostate religion, also something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.
Fascism and Communism are species of Socialism but their etiological differences are consequential both in themselves and in how their adherents are treated.
The difference between a heresy and an apostasy is slight in the result but significant in the method of and approach to each. Thus, it is a material difference that, in ideal conditions, should be creatively consequential.
For the record, this theologian assesses what Codevilla calls the ruling class as fascist, not communist. Taking it so permits accurate anticipation of its moves and generation of controlling response.
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From the theological point of view, Communism is a heresy of Christianity, making it an heretical religion, something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.
In contrast, from the theological point of view, Fascism is an apostasy of Christianity, making it an apostate religion, also something very dangerous, as evidence confirms.
Fascinating, TopRev. I would be grateful if you would expand on that a bit, particularly in terms of defining the difference between apostasy and heresy, and in what ways Communism and Fascism are so defined. I am accustomed, for instance, to thinking of Christianity as a Jewish heresy, though I am open to other interpretations. ;-) Be aware that some here are thoughtful, non-rabid atheists, or otherwise not of the Christian persuasion.
[Al Ahram] Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi ... Iraqi politician, interim Prime Minister prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A former Ba'athist, Allawi helped found the Iraqi National Accord, which today is an active political party. He survived assassination attempts in 1978, in 2004, and on April 20, 2005. One of these days he won't... called on incumbent Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday to give up his bid for a third term in power or risk the dismemberment of Iraq.
Maliki on Friday rejected a chorus of such calls since gunnies of a group now calling itself the Islamic State rampaged through swathes of Iraq and declared a mediaeval-style caliphate in land they control in Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
"I think it is time for Mr Maliki to leave the scene," Allawi told Rooters in an interview in Istanbul.
"If he stays on, I think there will be significant problems in the country and a lot of troubles. I believe that Iraq would go the route of dismemberment, ultimately, if this happens.
"Definitely there will be more violence, the security situation will deteriorate," added Allawi, a secular Shi'ite who took 21 seats in April's national election with his secular bloc. During his political career Allawi has drawn support heavily from disaffected Sunnis, who have felt excluded from power during Maliki's rule.
Maliki's statement on Friday will complicate efforts to form a new government to unite the ethnically and religiously divided country, something parliament failed to achieve this week. It extends a political deadlock made all the more dangerous by the pressing threat to Iraq's territorial integrity.
Allawi said Iraq needed a road map that prioritised reconciliation and the building of institutions, and that this was more important than the issue of who will be the next prime minister.
"It is not a matter of changing faces. It is a matter of agreeing on a road map, to get Iraq from where it is now to a brighter future. I think this road map should incorporate two important areas.
"One is the issue of reconciliation. The second is starting to lay down the ground to build the institutions of the state," he added.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran and Russia have agreed to jointly help Iraq combat terrorism, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says.
"Tehran and Moscow firmly support Iraq in its fight against terrorism and will strongly stand by the Iraqi nation and government to protect Iraq's unity, independence and territorial integrity," Amir-Abdollahian said in an interview with Iran's al-Alam Arabic-language news channel.
He added that Iran and Russia both oppose any conspiracy for the disintegration of Iraq into smaller entities.
The top Iranian diplomat further said, "Tehran and Moscow have close and in many cases common and coordinated stance on regional developments."
Iran and Russia believe that Iraq, along with its fight against terrorism, should seriously focus on completing the political process in the country for convening the parliament to form a government.
The first session of Iraq's newly elected parliament was adjourned on July 1 for a week without choosing a new speaker after Kurdish politicians boycotted the session over their conflicts with other politicians.
The members of parliament are tasked with naming a new unity government. After choosing the parliament speaker, the politician will have to pick the Iraqi president as well as the prime minister within 45 days.
Incumbent 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... is bidding for a third term, despite stiff opposition from his key rivals.
On the future of Iraq, Abdollahian said Tehran will respect and support any coalition formed by Maliki's State of Law coalition, which won the most parliamentary seats in recent elections.
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[Iraq Sun] Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition should withdraw its support for his third term bid and pick another candidate, urged Shi'ite Moslemholy manMoqtada Tater al-Sadr ... the Iranian catspaw holy man who was 22 years old in 2003 and was nearing 40 in 2010. He's studying to be an ayatollah... , amid parliamentary deadlock over the formation of a new government.
Maliki has come under mounting pressure since Islamic State murderous Moslemforces of Evil rampaged through the north and west of the country last month and declared a mediaeval-style caliphate on land they and other gangs captured in Iraq and Syria.
In a statement published on his website late on Saturday, Sadr said Maliki "has involved himself and us in long security quarrels and big political crises" and suggested that preventing Maliki from serving a third term would be a "welcome step".
"It is necessary to demonstrate the national and paternal spirit by aiming for a higher, wider goal from individuals and blocs and by that I mean changing the candidates," said Sadr, who gained political influence during the U.S. occupation.
The radical holy man and his political allies had previously advocated the next prime minister be chosen from outside of Maliki's State of Law coalition.
State of Law is part of the National Alliance, a bloc comprising the country's biggest Shi'ite parties, including both Maliki's list and his foes.
"I remain convinced that the brothers in the State of Law coalition must present the candidate for prime minister ... because it is the biggest bloc within the National Alliance," said Sadr.
Dhiya al-Asadi, secretary general of the Al-Ahrar bloc, the Shi'ite political party loyal to Sadr, echoed his stance.
"We are fine with any State of Law candidate as long as he is not Maliki," he told Rooters.
The United States, Iran, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... , and Iraq's own Shi'ite holy mans have called on Iraqi politicians to overcome their differences to face the insurgency.
As Shi'ite politicians sought a way to end the political deadlock, a video was posted online of the man purporting to be the leader of the murderous Moslem Islamic State praying at a mosque in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , one of the cities the group seized last month.
Maliki's opponents blame his divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... rule for fueling the political crisis and want him to step aside. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... he refused on Friday to give up his quest for a third term in power.
The first meeting of Iraqi parliament since its election in April collapsed last week without agreement. Kurds and Sunnis walked out, complaining Shi'ite politicians had not yet determined who they would put forward as premier.
Maliki's main Shi'ite rivals say there is already consensus among the Shi'ite coalition and among the Sunnis and Kurds against his bid for a third term.
"There is a wish by all political blocs except the State of Law ... [for] the change," said Ali Shubber, a leading member of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), a Shi'ite party that came second to Maliki's State of Law in the April elections.
"We feel that the change must take place in order to change the political equation."
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[Iran Press TV] A political analyst says the ISIL turbans can become a catalyst for a war engulfing the region and spilling over across the world, Press TV reports.
Speaking in an interview with Press TV, Bill Jones, from the Executive Intelligence Review, ... that'd be the La Rouchies...
said the 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... ISIL murderous Moslems pose no direct but certainly an indirect "big threat" to the United States.
"Given the situation in the Middle East if the ISIL would create a radical Islamic state in the region, then that becomes a catalyst for what can become a much more widespread war and chaos involving not only the regional powers but given the interest of other international powers in the region including Russia, China, the United States, we are looking at some pretty serious conflicts between these great powers," Jones added.
He emphasized that any success of the ISIL cult would have "a very important indirect effect" on the US and on the rest of the countries in the Eurasian region.
The analyst urged all regional countries to create "a fabric of stability" which has been consistently undermined by the US.
He pointed to the support of 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... and Qatar for ISIL turbans and said any kind of the US military bid to defeat, stop or hinder the Takfiri murderous Moslems will be "a total folly" unless the Saudi role is exposed.
Iraq is currently witnessing a wave of violence, which escalated after murderous Moslems from the ISIL terrorist group took control of large swathes of the country, including key cities last month.
The Iraqi forces are pressing ahead with their fight against murderous Moslems from the terrorist group, who have threatened to take the battle to Baghdad.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... has said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are responsible for the security crisis and growing terrorism in his country.
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#3
As Reagan-n-Bush-41 era "Peace thru Strength" + "Trust but Verify" STEADILY-N-DELIBERATELY devols by the Powers that be into post-Cold-War, post-9-11, pro-OWG Globalist "Peace thru Retreat" or "Retreat is Peace", ITS UNCLEAR IFF THE US WILL EXISTENTIALLY SURVIVE THE BAMMER'S FOREIGN POLICIES - EVEN PRESUM IT DOES, TO SURVIVE AS A GREAT POWER, SUPERPOWER, OR AS A PREDOMINANTLY JUDEOCHRISTIAN NATION???
Terrorists released from prison will be re-arrested if they or their organization attacks Israelis, according to a bill approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation Sunday. The bill, proposed by Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Ze'ev Elkin (Likud Beytenu) and signed by MKs in Labor, Bayit Yehudi, Hatnua, Shas UTJ and Yesh Atid, is meant to combat plans by terrorists to kidnap Israeli soldiers or civilians.
However, if Elkin's proposal becomes law, all terrorists who are freed as part of a diplomatic deal, will not be pardoned, rather they will be let out of prison in an administrative release with the option of being re-arrested if they return to terrorism or if the terrorist organizations with which they are associated attacks Israel.
Consider it a parole with conditions attached. That happens all the time.
The terrorist will then have to serve the rest of his or her original sentence and face a trial for his or her new crime.
"The government understood that the equation has to be changed and terrorist organizations have to realize that kidnapping will put them in jail, not free them," Elkin said. "This [bill] is a good start toward a general change in how we deal with terrorist organizations."
MK Orit Struck (Bayit Yehudi), one of the bill's cosponsors, called it an important step in the war on terror, as it will take away terrorists' motive to kidnap Israelis as a negotiating tool.
Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On spoke out against the bill, saying that it "turns the courts into a toy for politicians who can cancel or renew their decisions when they want.
"This bill shows a total lack of effective governance," she added. "The government is unable to make decisions and wants the laws to dictate every move it makes."
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[Ynet] Due to the recent bouts of rocket fire from Gazoo, IDF officials decided Sunday to limit fishermen in Gazoo to working only three kilometers off the coast instead of six - one of the concessions given to Gazooks at the end of Operation Pillar of Defense.
[An Nahar] Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq revealed that tweets by the so-called "Free Sunnis Brigade" were in fact made by a foreign intelligence agency, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.
He did not disclose to the daily further details on the matter.
But the shadowy brigade was quick to hit back on Sunday afternoon, telling Mashnouq that he will not be able to prevent the group's "jihadist operations."
"You and your Crusader security agencies won't be able to prevent us from staging our blessed jihadist operations, wherever we want and whenever we want," the Brigade said in a tweet.
"You and your Crusader security agencies that you are bragging about enjoy 'a high level of naivety and silliness'," the Brigade added.
In his remarks to An Nahar, Mashnouq had hailed the efforts of the security forces for their "preemptive" measures in thwarting "criminal bombings at Dahr al-Baydar, al-Tayyouneh, and Raouche."
"The security measures enjoy the complete support of the powers represented at cabinet and those outside of it," stressed the minister.
Commenting on the parliamentary elections, Mashnouq revealed that preparations are being made on the basis of the adoption of the 1960 electoral law.
"Weekly meetings to this end are being held away from any political decision on the matter, which is in the hands of parliament," he explained.
In May 2013, the parliament voted to extend its own mandate for 17 months after the rival political parties failed to reach an agreement over a new electoral law.
Around 100 MPs from all blocs, except the Change and Reform bloc, voted to extend parliament's term until November 20, 2014.
"Consultations between me and Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... are ongoing and he will carry out further discussions in the upcoming days regarding the polls," Mashnouq stated.
Sheikh Sirajeddine Zouraykat of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... deemed on Friday the "Free Sunnis Brigade" Twitter account as "fake", saying it was run by sides affiliated with Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... The "Free Sunnis Brigade" had vowed earlier this week to task gunnies to attack churches in Leb and in the eastern Bekaa valley in particular.
Following these alarming tweets, Lebanese authorities contacted Twitter's administrators to communicate these threats with them and try to identify who is behind the account.
In the same context, the Internal Security Forces' cyber crimes bureau announced on Friday that the Twitter account of the vague Brigade is under prosecution.
According to the bureau, two fake names have operated the account and they are Omar al-Shami, a former Syrian inmate who died in the Adra prison in the neighboring country, and Saifullah al-Shayyah, who does no exist.
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FYI those notorious "Anonymous" hackers have repor decided to wage HackOps agz Al-Baghdadi's new Caliphate the "Islamic State".
[Iran Press TV] Experts say the Western media foment Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... amid recent atrocities committed by 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... bully boyz in Iraq and Syria.
They argue that the Western media as well as anti-Islam campaigners have done their best in tarnishing the image of Islam.
"It is appalling that just a handful of Death Eaters can tarnish a whole religion the way that they do" says former British MP Derek Conway commenting on the Death Eaters that commit acts of violence and terrorism in the name of Islam.
Since June 10, Iraq has witnessed a fresh wave of violence fueled by the hard boyz from the so-called ISIL. The bully boyz have overrun most of one province and parts of three others north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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I dunno. There's at least a few centuries of history to refer to.
[Iran Press TV] 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... Death Eaters have reportedly forced thousands of residents in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour to leave their homes.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the ISIL (Daesh) has forced 60,000 people out of their homes in the troubled region.
The Britannia-based group also says Takfiri Death Eaters expelled some 30,000 residents from the town of Shuheil after seizing it on Thursday from al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
Another 30,000 residents have also been forced from their homes in the towns of Khosham and Tabia Jazeera of the volatile province.
Residents feared the Death Eaters may plan to loot their homes. Sources say the large displacement has left thousands sleeping in the open, facing food and water shortages.
This is while Abdullah al-Bashir, the commander of the so-called Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA), has warned against emerging a humanitarian disaster in the ISIL-held regions.
Takfiri groups have recently stepped up their fatal attacks against civilians as Syrian army soldiers have made further gains in their fight against foreign-backed bad boys,
Over the past months, the Syrian army has achieved major victories in its battle against Takfiri groups across the country, particularly in the strategic Qalamoun region near the Lebanese border.
Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Scourge of Qusayr... says the Takfiri war in his country has strongly shifted in favor of government forces as they have made continuous gains in their fight against the terrorists.
Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since March 2011. Over 160,000 people have reportedly been killed and millions displaced due to the violence fueled by the Western-backed bad boys.
The West and its regional allies including Qatar, 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... , and Turkey are giving financial and military support to the Syria bad boys.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[MAGHAREBIA] Notorious terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, alias Laaouar, intends to unify fighters returning from the Syria front and use them to strike the Maghreb, retired Tunisian Brigadier General Mokhtar Ben Nasr recently revealed.
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[DAILYPOST.NG] Igboezue, an Igbo socio-political organization, has faulted a recent statement attributed to Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, that the 
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[DAWN] The Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) will resist any movement of Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) leader 
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[Iran Press TV] A political analyst says the ISIL 
[Iran Press TV] Experts say the Western media foment 
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
