[Tolo News] The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) will move ahead with its complaints investigations following the announcement of preliminary results earlier this week, and it will do so without 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... 's observers being present.
Although the ECC, like the IEC, has defended the credibility of the process that has been overseen since the June 14 runoff election, some former election officials and monitoring groups have questioned whether vote counting and fraud investigations should be allowed to move forward while one of the candidates remains estranged from the commissions.
As of now, the ECC will be reviewing only complaints filed by Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, and will do so without the presence Abdullah's observers. Abdullah's observers have been absent from the commissions for over three weeks, since he announced his decision to boycott the process until his concerns about fraud are addressed.
"Elections commissions are making fun of the institution and people of Afghanistan," former IEC Chairman Fazel Ahmad Manawi said on Wednesday. "As you know, the election law says that any audit and review must be in the presence of candidates' representatives, but, unfortunately, the IEC continued its work in absence of Abdullah Abdullah representatives, and now the ECC is doing the same thing."
But it appears disapproval of the way the process has been handled by the commissions does not stop at former members. Within the current IEC staff there appears to be some division over how best to proceed.
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[Ynet] Paleostinian news agency Ma'an reported that Egyptian authorities decided to open the Rafah crossing on Thursday to allow the evacuation of maimed Paleostinians to hospitals in Egypt. According to the report, Egyptian President al-Sissi has issued basic guidelines on the subject.
So Egypt is still besieging the territory of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, but at least they'll allow a few wounded Gazans out for medical care.
[Al Ahram] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has said he spoke by telephone with his Egyptian counterpart on Tuesday about the situation in Gazoo.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Egypt would try to exert pressure to end Israeli attacks on Gazoo and expressed his commitment to the safety of Paleostinians, according to Abbas.
An Israeli operation against Gazoo bad boyson Tuesday has killed 28 people and maimed more than 150, in the deadliest day of violence in the coastal strip since 2012.
The Gazoo flare-up began in mid-June during Israel's search for the three teens, when Israel incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... many Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, members across the West Bank. The Israeli military says more than 160 Gazoo rockets have struck Israel since.
Tensions between Israelis and Paleostinians have risen over the killing of three Jewish teenagers in the occupied West Bank, which Israel has blamed on Hamas, and of a 16-year-old Paleostinian in East Jerusalem.
According to the Paleostine-based Wafa news agency, quoting Abbas, El-Sisi stressed Egypt's keenness for Gazoo to avoid such "dangerous attacks" and for the escalation to stop so that a truce could be reached as soon possible.
Abbas added that El-Sisi had promised Egypt would continue to exert efforts to put an immediate end to the attacks.
For his part, the Paleostinian president stressed the necessity for all factions involved in the 2012 ceasefire agreement to commit to the pact.
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Abbas added that El-Sisi had promised Egypt would continue to exert efforts to put an immediate end to the attacks.
A 'Second Front'?
You'd get it done quicker that way.
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[Nigerian Tribune] With an estimated sum of $70 million, 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... has been ranked the seventh wealthiest terrorist organization in the world.
According to a report published by The Richest, the sum of $70 million was made by the group between 2006 and 2011 from their numerous kidnappings and the subsequent ransoms procured.
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a Jihadist Death Eater group, is adjudged the richest terrorist group till date, with an estimated sum of $2 billion, gathered from looted weapons and bank robberies.
The second richest terrorist group is Irish Republican Army (IRA), a prominent professional money laundering organization in Europe with over $450 million.
The third richest, the Taliban of Afghanistan rakes in an estimated sum of $400 million, annually from expansive drug trade, human trafficking, extortion, as well as a large amount of donations from foreign organizations that support their ill-gotten empire.
Al-Qaeda, which is the fourth richest, is one of the largest and deadliest terrorist groups, founded by the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... . The group realises over $100million in a year.
The Marxist guerrilla group, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia-People's Army (FARC), known for numerous kidnappings, liquidations and bombings, which they have executed on Columbian citizens, in the name of anti-imperialism rakes in an estimated sum of $80-$350 million, every year is the fifth richest.
Just ahead Boko Haram is Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... from Pakistain, renowned for wreaking havoc, raging war and killing civilians, with $100 million a year.
To summarize:
7. Boko Haram: more than $70 million
6. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba: $100 million a year
5. FARC: $80-$350 million a year
4. Al-Qaeda: over $100 million a year
3. Taliban: over $400 million
2. IRA: over $450 million
1. ISIS: $2 billion
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[Iran Press TV] The Iraqi prime minister has accused the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of becoming a safe haven for terrorist groups fighting the central government in Baghdad.
In his weekly televised address, 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... said the troubled region has turned into an operation center for 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... forces of Evil and Ba'athist terrorists.
The Iraqi leader added that his government cannot remain silent while seeing that Arbil has turned into a safe haven for the al-Qaeda linked groups.
Al-Maliki says Kurds have taken advantage of the circumstances and expanded their grip on Iraqi lands.
The premier also warned the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) against a decision to hold a referendum on the fate of Kirkuk. Al-Maliki said the KRG is burning bridges with Baghdad, which would backlash, as both the forces of Evil and Kurdish leadership will eventually lose.
In recent weeks, Iraqi Kurds have expanded their territory by up to 40 percent as the Takfiri forces of Evil of the ISIL seized areas in the west and north of the country.
The recent comments come after remarks by the president of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Masoud Barzani, who has said that measures are being taken for holding a referendum on Kurdistan's future within months.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed support for Kurdish independence.
Premier al-Maliki has strongly rejected the attempts by the KRG to hold the referendum as unconstitutional, saying that it would "damage them a lot."
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[IsraelNationalNews] No showers at home for Ismail Haniya. Experts say the IDF is targeting Hamas officials' homes, like it did in 2006 against Hizbullah.
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And your rockets were previously targeted at a smaller group of "legitimate targets"?
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Simply declaring what they've already practiced since their creation.
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Cutting off water isn't going to work if it's just one neighborhood. They have to do everyone in Gaza. Or at LEAST an entire city. Otherwise he'll just claim another house.
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[IsraelTimes] As the war against Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,murderous Moslems in Gazoo rages on, anti-Israel hackers are gearing up for yet another large-scale cyber-attack on Israel. Set for Friday, July 11, #OpSaveGazoo, anti-Israel hackers promise, the denial of service (DDOS) attack will be the "greatest campaign ever against 'Israhell,' to expose their terrorist activity to the world," hackers wrote.
Such politically motivated cyber-attacks are almost routine, and so far israel's record of foiling them is good.
Israel is ready, said Dina Beer, CEO of the Israel Internet Association (ISOC), which administers Israel's Internet connections to the rest of the world. "I won't say that such attacks are easy to deal with, but we are always ready to deal with them," she told The Times of Israel. "Israel faces DDOS and hack attacks every day, so we're experienced with how to deal with them. The difference during times of crises like these is the number of hackers that participate in the attacks."
Despite that experience, it would be foolish to dismiss the attacks, said Isaac Ben-Israel, head of the Tel Aviv University's Yuval Neeman Workshop for Science, Technology, and Security.
"Over the past few days, attacks have grown by 900% — instead of the usual 100,000 attacks we get each day, we are now getting a million such attacks, from all over the Arab and Moslem world," he said.
"Over the past few days, attacks have grown by 900% — instead of the usual 100,000 attacks we get each day, we are now getting a million such attacks, from all over the Arab and Moslem world," he said. That number, he added, applied only to official government sites. "We have no way of knowing if a home or business computer has been hacked."
Those attacks, Ben-Israel said in advance of a cyber-security conference the Workshop is holding next week, include attempts to steal data from sites, deface web pages, and pull down sites via DDOS attacks. In a DDOS attack, hackers marshal the power of tens or hundreds of thousands of computers to log onto a specific server at a specific time, in the hope of overloading it and forcing it to shut down. The tactic is successful more often than not, especially in countries with less well-developed networks. According to hacker group Anonymous, DDOS attacks have been successful in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Pakistain, among others. During Operation Pillar of Defense, the 2012 Israeli military campaign against Hamas, Israel was able to beat back some 44 million DDOS attacks in a space of just five days.
The newly announced hack attack seems to have been organized just in the past several days, said Beer. It's similar in spirit to the recent OpIsrael DDOS attacks. Those attacks, which took place on April 7 this year (and on that date in 2013), entailed a major effort to topple Israeli government sites. The sites were able to stay up for the most part, though some users experienced delays, and a few web sites were forced to reboot, going off-line for a few minutes.
The hackers posted their manifesto on Facebook, Twitter, and Israeli sites they have already hacked. "Israhell never existed its only Paleostine," they wrote. "It's our home. If you are a Hacker, Activist, a Human Right Organization then hack Israel websites and expose to the world their crimes, show to the world how much blood is on their hands, blood of innocent children and women," the message reads, referring to the Israeli campaign against Hamas and its rocket launchers.
The hackers acknowledge that the Israeli attacks in Gazoo are in response to the massive rocket fire by Gazoomurderous Moslems against Israel, but "the act of launching rockets from Gazoo sector to Israhell is an acceptable and normal reaction against those pigs, its called Resistance and not terrorism," the message reads.
It's not clear how involved Anonymous is in the latest DDOS attack, said Beer. "Usually they organized these things well in advance, and even then their success record is very mixed. The organizers of this DDOS attack appear to be activists who hope that Anonymous will 'adopt' them." Indeed, a check on Facebook of several purported Anonymous fan pages showed that while a few of the sites had a reference to #OpSaveGazoo, most didn't.
That doesn't mean that groups claiming to work with Anonymous won't join the campaign. "While Anonymous didn't start this, it's likely that the hackers who consider themselves part of the group will lend a hand," said Beer. "The question for Israel is how many of them will join. The more attackers, the more effort is needed for defense."
With that, Beer believes Israel will weather the storm. "We have very advanced protection systems that can detect when computers are creating phony traffic just to bring down a site, and we can automatically cut off those IP addresses from connecting. In addition, we can bar whole blocks of IP addresses from connecting to Israeli sites." As the administrator of Israel's Domain Name System (DNS) and Internet addresses, the organization can block unwanted web traffic before it even gets onto Israeli servers.
"In addition, the Internet service providers in Israel have similar defenses, but in case some roque requests get through," Beer added. "We communicate with the ISPs through a chat app, so we all know what is going on, especially during crisis times like these, when we expect more cyber-attacks. I don't see this DDOS operation being any more successful than the ones that have taken place in recent months."
[Al Ahram] Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... on Wednesday accused Israel of committing "genocide" in Gazoo during its military campaign which has so far killed 43 Paleostinians.
gen-o-cide [jen-uh-sahyd]
noun
the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
"It's genocide -- the killing of entire families is genocide by Israel against our Paleostinian people," he told a crisis meeting of the Paleostinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
No, doesn't meet the definition. Sorry. People get killed in war, especially when they pull in their kids to be human shields. Next time leave the youngsters with their grannies, and you won't have this problem with entire families being wiped out.
"What's happening now is a war against the Paleostinian people as a whole and not against the (militant) factions.
"We know that Israel is not defending itself, it is defending settlements, its main project," said Abbas.
"We are moving in several ways to stop the Israeli aggression and spilling of Paleostinian blood, including talking to Egyptian President (Abdel Fattah)al-Sissi ...former general under Mubarak, then Defense Minister. Egypt overthrew Mubarak and endured a year of ham-fisted Moslem Brüderbund rule so al-Sissi could run for President-for-Life... and UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... ."
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The paleos are gearing up their propaganda war. What does Abbas call the indiscriminate targeting of Israeli citizens with rockets (supplied by Syria and Iran)?
[Al Ahram] The United States on Wednesday urged Israel and the Paleostinians to de-escalate tensions in Gazoo and expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... for the safety of civilians on both sides as Israel pressed a campaign of air strikes and gunnies kept up rocket fire at Israel's heartland.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a briefing that 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... , who is in China, had spoken earlier in the day with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and planned to speak with Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... "over the next 24 hours."
Psaki said US officials have been "encouraging all sides to de-escalate the situation," restore calm and take steps to protect civilians. She said White House Middle East coordinator Philip Gordon was in Jerusalem and the West Bank on Wednesday and had met with Abbas.
"We are concerned about the safety and security of civilians on both sides," she said, referring to "the residents of southern Israel who are forced to live under rocket fire in their homes and the civilians in Gazoo."
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When I hear the words 'express concern' I release the safety catch on my gun.
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Sorry, but Israel is busy right now and can't take your call. But your call is important to us, so leave a name, number and the time that you called for de-escalation and our next available operator will call you back.
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Israel responds, launches Giant Wooden Pig across Security fence.
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[Al Ahram] The main exiled Syrian opposition group on Wednesday elected Saudi-based businessman Hadi el-Bahra as its new president in a bid to end internal divisions and breathe fresh life into its flagging struggle to oust Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... .
The Syrian National Coalition, the main exiled opposition group seeking the overthrow of Assad, will be hoping el-Bahra enjoys greater success than his predecessor Ahmad Jarba in keeping up the pressure on the regime.
"Hadi el-Bahra was elected president of the coalition with 62 votes," the coalition said in a statement after the early morning vote at the meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sile outside Istanbul in Turkey.
His nearest rival, Mowafaq Nayrabiyeh, won 41 votes, while Walid el-Omari won just three votes, it added.
Delegates are expected to return later Wednesday to elect a vice president and a secretary general while el-Bahra is also expected to give a presser.
El-Bahra will have the task of keeping alive the campaign to unseat Assad amid territorial gains by the regime and the rise of the radical jihadist group Islamic State, which the coalition vehemently opposes.
Jarba headed the coalition from July 2013 but failed in efforts to unite the opposition and obtain significant Western military support.
El-Bahra was born in Damascus in 1959 and studied industrial engineering in the United States, according to the coalition's website. He speaks English fluently.
But he has spent most of his adult life in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , where he has managed several hospitals and businesses and still lives.
He headed the opposition negotiating team in its delegation to the failed Geneva 2 talks between the opposition and the regime in Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... earlier this year.
In an interview with AFP at those talks, el-Bahra reaffirmed he was determined to reach a political solution, saying that the opposition was "not looking to seek power or impose an opinion".
El-Bahra is softly-spoken yet he has frequently publicly denounced human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... violations by the Assad regime, as well as the international community's failure to step up assistance to the Syrian people.
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[Iran Press TV] Leb's resistance movement Hezbollah has strongly censured the US for sponsoring the ISIL terrorist group across the Middle East region.
Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said on Wednesday that the terrorist group's first mission is to divide the region and drown it in a sectarian war and chaos.
Hezbollah's big shot also added that Washington and any other parties taking advantage of the Lion of Islam group will be the first to pay the price.
The remarks come as Hezbollah has repeatedly accused the US and its regional allies of sending murderous Moslems to Syria and Iraq to destroy the axis of resistance in the region.
Sources say the US regional allies, 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... , Qatar and some other Persian Gulf Arab states are supporting the militancy in the region.
Political analysts say the scenario against Syria will backfire on the West as turbans are now returning to the countries they came from.
The deputy head of Hezbollah also suggested that the only solution lies in encouraging Mohammedan and national parties to cooperate and safeguard themselves against 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... threat.
This come as recent studies show people in Mohammedan countries are opposed to the Lion of Islam groups, which are carrying out deadly violence across the world.
A recent survey conducted by British polling group, Opinion Research Business, shows that more than 90 percent of the participants voiced their opposition to extremism.
Meanwhile, ...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another kaboom... a separate survey in Syria indicated that an absolute majority of Syrians are opposed to foreign-backed groups fighting against government forces there.
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