[Tolo News] The 'Etelafi Milli Nahj-e Naween Afghanistan', a youth political movement, invited a number of Afghan politicians to a presser in Kabul on Friday to criticize the government's Taliban policy.
The gathering was held in commemoration of the Urgon and Ghor victims.
The MPs present at the conference stressed that the presidential palace has put the lives of millions of civilians at risk by offering privileges to the Taliban.
During the presser, a member of the 'Etelafi Milli Nahj-e-Afghanistan movement described the Ghor and Urgon massacre to the audience as a result of the government's Taliban policy, which he claims puts the lives of civilians at risk on a daily basis.
In Urgon district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, at least 90 people were killed in an attack on the local bazaar and at least 16 civilians in the district of Lal Wa Sarjangal in Ghor province were tragically killed.
"When the president says on the day of Eid that the security forces must not use heavy weaponries against the Taliban, what does this indicate?" asked Chairman of the youth movement, Etelafi Milli Nahj-e Naween Afghanistan, Nasrullah Misbah. "This means surrendering to the Taliban. Taliban's view is a total Taliban perspective and recognizes only the Taliban system."
Participants at the gathering declared that the release of 'high valued' inmates offers more privileges to the Taliban and adds to the historic mistakes made by the government.
"The enemies do not understand the language of peace and reconciliation, dealing with them flexibly further expands dangers," Daikondi MP Assadullah Saadati said.
In addition, a number of religious scholars also denounced the killing of innocent civilians as an unforgiveable crime.
"It is clear that Islam has provided protection to the religion, lives and prosperity of every person and no one is allowed to damage this," religious affairs analyst Mohammad Amin Poya said.
The Etelafi Milli Nahj-e Naween Afghanistan said that if the government continues to pursue a 'soft' policy in handling the Taliban, the Taliban will continue to get away with such attacks.
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[Iran Press TV] Libya's retired General Khalifa Haftar has dismissed media reports over his escape from the country following a raging battle in the city of Benghazi.
"General Haftar has not left Libya and is currently preparing for a major military operation in Benghazi," his front man Mohammed al-Hegazi said on Thursday. Hegazi, however, did not provide any further details about the operation.
According to military officials and residents, the Libyan army troops, backed by forces loyal to Haftar, had to abandon their main camp in southeastern Benghazi on Tuesday after coming under Death Eater attack. At least 35 soldiers were killed in the assault.
"Special forces under the command of (Colonel) Wanis Abu Khamada withdrew after several attacks," an unnamed army official said.
Haftar launched a military offensive in the country's east on May 16, vowing to crush the Death Eaters and "establish stability in Libya."
Libyan authorities have denounced Haftar's attack as a "coup" bid.
Meanwhile, ...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce... Libya's new parliament, which was elected last month, will hold an emergency meeting on Saturday. The parliament was due to meet in Benghazi but then decided to convene in the city of Tobruk over security concerns.
"In light of the dangerous situation in the country, we decided to hold an emergency meeting in Tobruk," said Abu Bakr Biira, a senior MP.
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[Libya Herald] At a presser held today at the Rixos Conference Hall (the former home of the GNC in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... ) attended by Libya Herald, former Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister designate and newly elected House of Representatives member Mustafa Abushagur accused Zintani militias of having kidnapped him.
Abushagur, who was kidnapped on Tuesday and was released nine hours later early on Wednesday morning named the Zintani militia group as Barq Al-Nasr (Victory Lightening).
The former Prime Minister designate was kidnapped from his house after lunch in a vehicle that resembled an ambulance and taken to what seemed like a barracks in the Swani area of Tripoli, he said.
His inquisitor kept asking him to reveal information without specifying what, he revealed. He was also accused of being a member of the Moslem Brüderbund, which he denied. Asked by his abductors if he supported Hafter's Dignity operation, Abushagur said he supported no operations outside the state.
The House of Representative member said that his abductors accused him of being rich and asked him for LD 20 million.
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[ARABNEWS] Around 70 Ethiopians escaped from a detention center in Riyadh.
"We have arrested 25 of them and the security authorities are in hot pursuit of the remaining detainees," said Capt. Abdullah Al-Harbi, general director of prisons.
According to police, the detention centers are heavily monitored by surveillance cameras.
Col. Fawaz Al-Maiman, official spokesman for Riyadh police, said that the detention facilities are subjected to stringent security procedures. "The Ethiopians escaped from the Al-Murabba police station," he said.
Police have been cracking down on illegal migrants since the expiration in November of a seven-month amnesty during which they had to regularize their status or leave the country, in operations that have sparked deadly clashes.
According to one newspaper, the inmates dug a hole into the wall of their cell and escaped early on Thursday.
Nearly one million foreign migrants took advantage of last year's amnesty to leave voluntarily, while another four million were able to find employers to sponsor them.
Since the start of this year, the authorities have deported nearly 574,000 illegals.
More than 13,000 illegals are still being held at detention centers across the Kingdom awaiting completion of their deportation procedures.
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deporting illegals? Thank Allah we here are more humanitarian than that.
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A little too much fly ash in that batch, eh Mamood?
[DAWN] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's King Abdullah broke his silence on Friday over the three-week-old conflict in Gazoo, condemning what he saw as international silence over Israel's offensive and describing this as a war crime and "state-sponsored terrorism".
Saudi Arabia, which regards itself as a leader of the Sunni Mohammedan world, has played only a background role in the diplomacy to reinstate calm in Gazoo, leaving the main Arab pursuit of a ceasefire to close ally Egypt and fellow Gulf monarchy Qatar.
"We see the blood of our brothers in Paleostine shed in collective massacres that did not exclude anyone, and war crimes against humanity without scruples, humanity or morality," Abdullah said in a brief speech read out on his behalf on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
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"This (international) community, which has observed silently what is happening in the whole region, has been indifferent to what is happening, as if what is happening is not its concern. Silence that has no justification."
His speech, which focused mainly on what he described as a Middle East-wide threat from militancy, followed criticism by some Saudis on social media, including prominent holy mans, over Riyadh's quiet response to the Gazoo crisis.
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Weren't too many of them around in 2002-3. We had a lot of support troops and ops there, and the SF + Northern Alliance being supported from there was well regarded in the area (well, about as well regarded as tribalism will allow in that region).
But that was a decade and then some ago, and far different US leadership - with far different ROE and a lot less REMF lawering. We are far weaker now in the region, less respect. So who knows.
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I suspect the national security 'cone of silence' will soon be imposed. I doubt anyone in the US Gov't would systematically send or smuggle weapons to a foreign country without Klingon and/or US Ambassadorial knowledge.
As you may recall, Ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual only served for 19 months, leaving soon after the F&F story broke. You can make your own determinations based upon this CV and the timing of events.
[ARABNEWS] The new Indian Army chief Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag on the first day of holding office issued a stern warning to Pakistain referring to alleged beheading incidents of soldiers, stating that the said actions would get an "intense and immediate" response, a report published on the Times of India website said.
The alleged beheading of an Indian soldier, Lance Naik Hemraj, by Pak soldiers along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector on Jan. 8, 2013 came under highlight.
The newly appointed army chief upon receiving the guard of honor addressed news hounds on the occasion and said that there would be timely reciprocation of such incidents.
Dalbir was asked how the Indian side had given a "befitting reply" to Pakistain over Hemraj's alleged beheading as stated by former army chief Gen. Bikram Singh.
Responding to this, the new army chief gave a confounding explanation on the subject saying: "It has been done. Please understand that when we use force, that use is from tactical to operational to strategic levels."
The Indian side has accused Pak special forces of beheading Hemraj and mutilating the body of Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh.
Islamabad has repeatedly denied that Pak troops have been involved in any attacks, also claiming that India has been using "propaganda" to divert attention from a deadly raid it had conducted on a military post leaving a Pak soldier dead and another injured.
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its a muslim thing this beheading action Mr Suhag.
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[DAWN] LANDI KOTAL: The security forces on Thursday imposed curfew in parts of Landi Kotal and conducted a search operation after receiving information about the movement of some suspected Death Eaters.
Announcements were made on loudspeakers of local mosques while the forces had gun sex to alert residents of Ashkhel, Mukhtarkhel and some parts of Khugakhel to remain inside their homes during the curfew hours.
The forces conducted a targeted search operation in the areas where curfew was imposed and took into their custody at least 40 residents. They were later released after questioning.
Officials said that some arms and ammunition were also recovered during the operation. Landi Kotal bazaar and the main 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. -Torkham Highway remained open during the curfew timings.
The restrictions were lifted at around 2:00pm and the residents were allowed to go to bazaar to purchase necessary items.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact... a minor child was injured when an bomb planted along roadside went kaboom! in Shagai area of Jamrud tehsil on Thursday.
In Landi Kotal, at least 10 persons were maimed in two separate road accidents while a dozen women fainted after drinking contaminated water in Pasedkhel area.
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[DAWN] In a major display of solidarity with India, the United States has equated 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... with Al Qaeda, pledging to work with India to disrupt both.
In a joint statement issued simultaneously in Washington and New Delhi, the two nations also urged Pakistain to bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai terrorist attacks to justice.
In the same statement, Washington assured New Delhi that "the United States looks forward to a reformed UN Security Council that includes India as a permanent member".
The two allies noted that they were faced with the common threat of terrorism and committed to "intensify efforts" to combat it.
They also pledged to work together to end proliferation of WMDs, nuclear terrorism and cross-border crime, and to address the misuse of the Internet for terrorist purposes.
The statement followed the fifth US-India Strategic Dialogue in New Delhi on Thursday. 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... and India's Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj co-chaired the meeting.
"The leaders called for Pakistain to work toward bringing the perpetrators of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice," said the statement issued after the talks.
They also "reiterated their condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and reaffirmed their commitment to eliminating terrorist safe havens and infrastructure, and disrupting terrorist networks, including Al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba."
US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker accompanied Kerry whose delegation included officials from the US Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and NASA.
This marks the first US cabinet-level visit to New Delhi since the election of the Narendra Modi government. The US had already denied Modi a visa because of his alleged involvement in anti-Mohammedan riots in Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... but changed its policy after his election.
At the talks, the two sides recognised that Modi's decisive mandate provided a unique opportunity to re-energise the US-India relationship.
They also expressed confidence that the summit meeting between Prime Minister Modi and US President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... in Washington in September this year would generate new dynamism in the relationship.
US Defence Secretary Hagel will visit New Delhi in August 2014 to deepen discussions on military exercises, defence trade, co-production and co¬-development, and research on new technologies for defence, the joint statement said.
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Kinda hard to do that and keep kissing Pakistain's ass.
[DAWN] Former chief justice of Pakistain, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday hinted on the possibility of launching a movement from Quetta, if the democratic system in the country was derailed.
Addressing lawyers and judges at a function organised by members of the legal fraternity in his honor at Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... High Court, he said some elements were being used to overthrow the current democratic system.
"These elements would not succeed in undermining the democratic right of people," said the former chief justice.
He said the people of Balochistan always stood by democracy and the Constitution and they would do so in future as well. Then his lips fell off.
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[DAWN] BANNU: Thousands of women displaced by fighting in Pakistain are struggling to get food and other aid because they lack identity cards and conservative Mohammedan elders have forbidden them from going to distribution centres.
The women are among nearly a million people who registered for aid after the army began an offensive against the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo, a mountainous region on the Afghan border.
The army ordered most civilians to leave before the offensive began in June. Many ended up in Bannu, a small city on the main road out of the semi-autonomous tribal region.
No census has been conducted in North Waziristan for years, so no one knows the true scale of the problem.
Government figures, however, show almost three-quarters of those seeking aid are women and kiddies.
There's plenty of food to go around, with the World Food Programme handing out nearly 5,000 tonnes and many other aid groups active.
But women face two problems: the lack of identity cards and an edict from elders of their Pashtun tribes forbidding them from going out to get aid. Conservative tribal traditions demand women stay at home and men fetch the food.
The same traditions prevent many women from getting identity cards. Some families also find the idea of a woman being photographed or fingerprinted for cards highly intrusive, even though the national identity agency runs women-only centres. Others simply lived in areas too remote to get cards.
For now, women and kiddies without male relatives are largely dependent on handouts from neighbours who are themselves dependent on aid. Even women who have husbands may face problems, since many men have multiple wives depending on them.
"I have no chance"
One woman sobbed behind her veil as she waited outside the main sports stadium in Bannu last week, watching men with wheelbarrows carry out sacks of flour and containers of water.
"They are not letting me in," the woman said. "I have no chance to enter." The woman, Basmira, had no identity and no male relative. She stood near a cluster of women in all-covering burqas beseeching stick-wielding police and army guards to let them into the stadium.
Another woman, Maimoona, said her husband was killed by a stray bullet three months ago.
"You see those sticks in their hands? They will beat us if we try to go in," said 30-year-old Maimoona, who like many in Pakistain uses only one name.
Two other women said they were also widows and one said her son was a drug addict.
A soldier at the gate said women were welcome to go to other distribution sites around the city, but Rooters found that women were also being denied entry at four other centres.
"This lack of ID cards is a major problem for widows, second wives, and many women whose husbands are not here," said Yasmin Akhtar, regional manager for Khwendo Kor, an aid group helping about 1,000 of the women. Muhammad Abbas Khan, the commissioner for displaced families in Bannu, was exasperated.
"We tried to resist the elders but it was like talking to a brick wall," he said. "This conservative culture overrides religion, it overrides ethics and it overrides human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. ."
The government says it will set up a women-only distribution point in the next few weeks but until then, women have to rely on handouts from other hungry families.
That generosity is keeping many people fed at Bannu's Government School Number 3, where hundreds of displaced live in concrete classrooms partitioned by cotton sheets.
Shashparizada and her co-wife are at the school with their 12 children and husband, a frail 70-year-old with a long white beard. He lay on a rope bed with a fan nearby, too weak to stand.
"He is so old, it is hard for him to wait in line," Shashparizada said. "We do not have ID cards and he cannot go, so there is nothing for us."
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[Iraq Sun] The semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq is pressing the B.O. regime for sophisticated weapons it says Kurdish fighters need to push back Islamist gunnies threatening their region, Kurdish and U.S. officials said.
A Kurdish official said the request was discussed during a Kurdish delegation's visit to Washington in early July, and U.S. officials said Washington was considering ways to bolster the Kurdish defenses.
The Kurds said U.S. help is critical to enable the Peshmerga, the Kurds' paramilitary force, to repel fighters from the Islamic State, an al-Qaeda spinoff that seized a wide swath of Iraqi territory in a stunning advance in the last few months.
The requested military supplies include tanks, sniper equipment, armored personnel carriers, artillery and ammunition, and also body armor, helmets, fuel trucks and ambulances.
Kurdish officials said the Peshmerga need the weapons to guard the borders of the rugged mountainous region and to protect hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees sheltering there after fleeing the Salafist tough guys' onslaught.
U.S. officials said they are considering ways to help the Kurds defend themselves, but direct provision of arms to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), in the way Washington arms Iraq's central government in Baghdad, appears highly unlikely.
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I'd be OK if they gave them 50-60 tactical nukes.
No? How about 10-15 AC-130 gunships?
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Give them what they need Bambi!
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[Iraq Sun] With the Sunni jihadist group ISIL stepping up attacks in Syria along the border with Turkey, concern is growing in Turkey that the violence could spill over.
Earlier this month, Istanbul's Jafari Muhamadiye Mosque a mosque belonging to Turkey's Shi'ite Moslem minority was burned down. The attack was blamed on ISIL and is seen as a possible harbinger of future ISIL attacks, which could threaten Turkey's complex social fabric.
Istanbul is home to large numbers of adherents of both Sunni Islam and Shi'ite Islam -- or Jafari Islam, as the latter is known in Turkey. But tensions between the two groups have been rising following the arson attack.
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Nobody is doing anything to combat it, of course it will spread. You should be afraid.
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Turkey thinks that they have dibs on caliphates, just like the old days.
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Screw the turks. I still remember OIF and their backstab
Some of us have long memories. Must be some kind of Jacksonian thing.
That 'enemy of my enemy' thing is all well and good until they work their way around the circle and it's *you* in the cross-hairs. We're all infidels on this bus, baby.
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Following the quick collapse of the cease-fire in Gazoo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the White House not to force a truce with Paleostinian holy warriors on Israel.
Sources familiar with conversations between Netanyahu and senior U.S. officials, including 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... , say the Israeli leader advised the B.O. regime "not to ever second guess me again" on the matter. The officials also said Netanyahu said he should be "trusted" on the issue and about the unwillingness of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, to enter into and follow through on cease-fire talks.
The B.O. regime on Friday condemned "outrageous" violations of an internationally brokered Gazoo cease-fire by Paleostinian holy warriors and called the apparent abduction of an Israeli soldier a "barbaric" action.
The strong reaction came as top Israeli officials questioned the effort to forge the truce, accusing the U.S. and the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... of being naive in assuming the radical Hamas movement would adhere with its terms. The officials also blamed the Gulf state of Qatar for not forcing the holy warriors to comply.
With the cease-fire in tatters fewer than two hours after it took effect with an attack that killed two Israeli troops and left a third missing, President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... demanded that those responsible release the soldier.
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Sources familiar with conversations between Netanyahu and senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State John F. Kerry of State say the Israeli leader advised the B.O. regime "not to ever second guess me again" on the matter.
Translation: We're bloody sick and fok'n tired of your incessant meddling. We can share R&D and buy our military hardware from Vlad. He's already promised a handsome discount, provided we transition our highly effective regional human intelligence dissemination from you to him. Give it some thought.
The Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS, told Palestine the terrorist group will join its fight against the "barbaric Jews" but urged patience until ISIS is finished in Arab countries. The group wants to weaken the United States in Arab countries first.
"As for the massacres taking place in Gaza against the Muslim men, women and children, then the Islamic State will do everything within its means to continue striking down every apostate who stands as an obstacle on its paths towards Palestine," the group announced in a statement not attributed to any spokesman in particular. "It is only [a] matter of time and patience before it (Islamic State) reaches Palestine to fight the barbaric Jews and kill those of them hiding behind the gharqad trees -- the trees of the Jews."
There is no confirmation IS is already involved in the Gaza-Israel conflict, but there are reports cells are forming within Gaza. The jihadists were present at an anti-Israel rally in the Netherlands and chanted, "Death to the Jews." On July 15, Vocativ reported chatter on one IS forum suggesting "the extremist Sunni organization, which has taken over roughly half of Iraq and threatens Assad in Syria, has ties with militant groups operating in Gaza." Hamas is in control of Gaza, but there are other terrorist groups in the region. Two Salafist groups aligned themselves with IS: Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis "changed its name to Al Dalwa Al-Islamia -- which translates to 'The Islamic State' and Ansar Al-Dalwa al-Islamia, which translates to 'Supporters of the Islamic State.'"
"We ask the caliphate to support the Salafis jihadis groups in Gaza with money and weapons," said one user on a forum. "We don't have enough strong men. We want your help... Those with the wrong way [Hamas] have the support of Iran and the Shiite, we sit in our houses as women, without weapons. Our situation is bad."
But there are some Palestinians who believe IS values an Israeli more than a fellow Muslim. A comedy sketch on Palestinian television depicted the IS fighters "as incompetent, slightly gay, and welcoming of English-speaking Jews."
Oh dear.
IS claimed to have established a sovereign caliphate in areas of Syria and Iraq and imposed Sharia law. They expelled all Christians from Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and destroyed all Christian institutions. There are brave residents who are fighting back. After IS marked Christian homes with the letter N for Nazarene, people added "We are all Christian." Other residents protected the 840-year-old Crooked Minaret when jihadists walked towards the monument with explosives.
May God watch over such brave people in the midst of a vicious enemy.
[ARABNEWS] With no pause in Zionist barbarity against Gazoo's citizens, the US Senate unanimously passed legislation on Friday to provide $225 million in emergency funding for Israel's "Iron Dome" missile defense system.
An earlier version of the funding plan had failed on Thursday when Senate Republicans blocked a broader spending bill that was largely intended to provide money to handle the current immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border. But politicians reached an agreement overnight to pass the missile funding measure.
To become law, the funding plan must still pass the House of Representatives and be signed by President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... . Given US politicians traditionally strong support for Israel, it is not expected to encounter significant resistance in the House.
Israel's Iron Dome missile interceptor system, which was partly funded by the United States, has shot down most of the rockets fired at its cities by Death Eaters in Gazoo during the current three-week conflict.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, Agent 49 felt gingerly for his head. It was still there. He had been hoping differently... Israeli forces rubbed out a Paleostinian during festivities in the northern West Bank on Friday.
They said Tamer Smour, 22, was hit by a live bullet in the chest in the city of Tulkarem.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli army said some "1,200 rioters" had been hurling "rocks and Molotov cocktails at troops and at an industrial center in the vicinity, endangering workers and passers-by."
"The forces used riot dispersal means and once these means were exhausted they fired at the main instigators," she said.
A front man for the Red Islamic Thingy told AFP that 73 Paleostinians were maimed by live ammunition and rubber bullets fired by Israeli forces during festivities throughout the West Bank, including in Bethlehem and Hebron and near Ramallah.
In east Jerusalem, Israeli police tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! two Paleostinians during a clash outside the Old City after Friday prayers. The festivities came as violence in Gazoo escalated after a short-lived humanitarian truce ..The purposes of a truce are twofold: 1.) bring up more arms, ammunition, and reinforcements; and 2.) get the enemy to relax his vigilance. A truce is not the same thing as a ceasefire, and a ceasefire doesn't mean you have to stop shooting... collapsed after just a few hours.
Figures published by the UN humanitarian agency last weekend showed that prior to Friday, 11 Paleostinians have been killed and around 600 injured in festivities since July 23. Ten of them, including a teenager, were rubbed out by Israeli troops, while another was killed by an Israel settler, it said.
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My 1st thought when I read the headline was OMG they're going to fund the Iron Dome for Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] KHAN YOUNIS — I am inside the Gaza Strip. Although the APC has been traveling westward for several minutes, I am still unable to spot any familiar sites here. It's been seven years since I last visited Smaller Ibsen, a quiet suburb of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, as a journalist, before Israeli authorities forbade us from entering.
Today, those authorities are the host. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit agreed to bring a group of journalists on a tour of combat sites, primarily, it appears, to give us a sense of Hamas's tunnel-building project. Instead of Ashraf, the driver of the yellow taxi who would wait for me on the Gaza side of the Erez crossing, this time it's the APC driver who is taking me in.
During these seven lean years, I had to make do with conversations with my Gazan friends in order to gain the slightest idea of what was happening in the Strip. I understood that this place, as extremist and poor as it was in 2006, had become only more extremist and poor. Hamastan.
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Any HTA gas that can cause instant incapacitation is fine. CO, CO2, H2S, etc. after that, follow the roman tradition and stuff the tunnels with stray and dead pigs. Then light on fire.
[Iraq Sun] A recent video calling on Indonesians to join 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) has sparked concern in Indonesia, where officials and experts are trying to raise public awareness to counter the jihad recruitment.
In the eight-minute YouTube video, a man named Abu Muhammad al-Indonesi makes an impassioned speech in Indonesian, saying it is an obligation mandated by Allah for Moslems to participate in the fight in Iraq and Syria.
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[ARABNEWS] Philippine government and rebel negotiators began a new round of meetings Friday to draft a Moslem self-rule law after falling behind a timetable laid out in a peace treaty, officials said.
A peace pact signed in March committed President Benigno Aquino and the largest Moslem rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), to pass a law creating an autonomous Moslem region by mid-2016, when his six-year presidency ends.
In return, the 12,000-member MILF would disarm and help the national government to improve the lot of Filipino Moslems, who are among the poorest and most marginalized in the mainly Catholic nation of 100 million.
However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... Aquino failed to submit the bill to Congress on Monday, with the MILF suggesting the government was seeking to renege on its peace treaty commitments by diluting the wording of the proposed law.
"(The) government intends to see through the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro," Teresita Deles, Aquino's adviser on the grinding of the peace processor, said in a statement as the two sides met in the southern city of Davao.
Chief government negotiator Miriam Ferrer said the two sides were expected to meet over the next 10 days, by which time they would have produced a version of the bill that was acceptable to both sides.
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[An Nahar] A suspect who was tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! on suspicion of firing rockets against Israel was released from custody on Friday, reported the National News Agency.
It said that Sheikh Hussein Atweh was released on Friday, but will be prevented from traveling from Leb due to his health condition.
He was severely maimed while firing a rocket towards Israel during the incident that took place on July 11.
Another suspect, identified as Samir Hussein Abou Qais, who hails from the town of al-Habariya, was also arrested at the time.
On July 11, several rockets were fired on northern Israel from the outskirts of the town of Mari in Hasbaya, drawing retaliatory Israeli artillery fire.
The Lebanese army said that a number of faceless myrmidons fired three rockets against Israel.
Israeli military officials said they believed the rockets were fired by a small Paleostinian group in an act of solidarity with faceless myrmidons from Gazoo's Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, movement who are engaged in a major confrontation with the Israeli army.
They said it was unlikely the rockets were fired by 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... .
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[An Nahar] Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani ... Grand Mufti of Lebanon and the most prominent Sunni Muslim cleric in the country. An assassination attempt against Qabbani was foiled by Leb internal security forces in 2009 as part of the Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Beirut. In an interview broadcast in 2012, Qabbani stated that Jews were behind secularism, because they opposed the authority of the church, against Christianity. He also suggested that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were orchestrated by Jews in order to justify the persecution of Muslims worldwide. Qabbani is against the legalization of civil marriage in Lebanon. He has issued a fatwa declaring any Muslim politician who approves civil marriage legislation an apostate. Surprisingly, he is not considered very much of a nut by Moslem standards. rejects the election of head of the Sunni Sharia Supreme Court of Leb Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan as his successor.
"I am sure that Daryan might be forced despite my rejection, but I will not give my blessing despite all the guarantees," As Safir newspaper quoted Qabbani as saying on Friday.
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By closing the bank accounts of these groups, HSBC appears to be acting where governments and parliamentarians have failed. The authorities have not, in fact, just failed; they have colluded.
The bank simply stated that to continue providing services would be outside the bank's "risk appetite."
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[DAWN] Former chief justice of Pakistain, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Friday hinted on the possibility of launching a movement from Quetta, if the democratic system in the country was derailed..png)
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