[Iran Press TV] The B.O. regime says the United States is dedicated to dismantling 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... , a Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... group that kidnapped about 300 Nigerian schoolgirls in April.
The White House vowed in a statement on Tuesday that the US was working hard "to dismantle this murderous group," which it said had kidnapped hundreds of men, women, girls and boys, and killed 3,000 people in Nigeria.
"President B.O. has directed that the US government do everything it can to help the Nigerian government find and free the kidnapped girls and, more broadly, to combat Boko Haram in partnership with Nigeria, its neighbors, and other allies," the White House said.
Commenting on the issue, US National Security Advisor Susan Rice said, "We have aided in the investigations, including by deploying personnel on the ground, facilitated strategic communications, and provided assistance to the families. ... We will continue to work toward the release of all the girls who remain in captivity."
Boko Haram -- whose name means "Western education is forbidden" -- says its goal is to overthrow the Nigerian government.
The leader of Boko Haram had threatened to sell the girls, who were undergoing Western education. "I kidnapped your girls. I will sell them in the market," Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video message.
The kidnapping of girls sparked massive media coverage and dominated international media networks, but the story has almost faded since then.
Six months later, more than 60 of the girls have managed to escape and the rest remain missing.
In Nigeria, the parents of the kidnapped girls and their supporters have re-launched a campaign to draw world attention towards the issue.
A month after the kidnappings, American historian Randy Short told Press TV that the Central Intelligence Agency had created and funded the terrorist group.
Boko Haram "is a CIA-created and funded group," Short said, adding the group's "weapons come from Libya. We know that the commander of the so-called Libyan revolutionary forces, Mr. Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... was trained by the CIA."
"There is larger scheme by the Angelo American white supremacist imperialistic power complex to break down the state they have invented in colonial eras for their purposes," he said.
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The first phase of the campaign, a heroic attack by the 3rd independent hollywood celebrity division, using the latest #hashtag weaponry is still being evaluated for its effect on target.
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"There is larger scheme by the Angelo American white supremacist imperialistic power complex to break down the state they have invented in colonial eras for their purposes," he said.
Sounds strangely similar to an Al Sharpton talking point. These people definitely need new material.
[Iran Press TV] Hundreds of thousands of people have held a demonstration in Yemen to renew their calls for the secession of the southern parts of the Arab country and establishment of an independent state.
The protesters marched along the streets in the city of Aden, situated 346 kilometers (214 miles) south of the capital, Sana'a, on Tuesday to mark the 51st anniversary of the South's revolt against British colonial rule.
The demonstrators also waved flags of the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, and held pictures of former South Yemen president, Ali Salim al-Beidh.
The pro-independence Southern Movement has called for further protests in Aden, the capital of former South Yemen, as well as in the city of Mukalla.
North and South Yemen unified in 1990 after the southern government collapsed. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... four years later, the south tried to break away and this led to a civil war. The conflict ended with northern troops taking control of the south after winning the war.
In February, the Yemeni government disclosed a plan to divide the Arab country into six regions.
Politicians in southern Yemen are opposed to the plan. They say four provinces in the north would have more power than the two in the south.
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[ONLINE.WSJ] A British man being tried here on terror charges was considering a massacre on the scale of the 2008 attack in Mumbai, and had former Prime Minister Tony Blairâs home address, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Erol Incedal, a 26-year old south Londoner, also had shown a keen interest in the militant group Islamic State, prosecutors said on the first day of arguments in his high-profile trial.
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Targeted assassinations or murderous Nadal Hasan 'workplace vilance' rages should be anticipated. These people are very well funded, obviously have good intelligence networks, and free access via open borders.
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Spread the rumor that ISIL has the addresses of other politicians and the MSM, and you just might find the MSM reporting the story. The politicians might actually take note and try to do something about the problem.
A decade on, survivors and families of victims of the Beslan school siege have asked European justice officials to examine the extent of Moscow's responsibility for the bloody outcome.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) heard accusations from more than 400 Russians seeking clarifications about the incident in which pro-Chechen militants stormed a school in North Ossetia on September 1, 2004. The ordeal left more than 330 dead, including 186 children, and some 750 wounded.
The court is treating all petitions made between 2007 and 2011 as a single case. Twenty of the claimants, mainly women, made the journey to Strasbourg to attend the hearing before seven judges.
Aneta Gadiyeva showed a photo of the daughter she lost in the slaughter. "She would be almost 20 today," she said.
Gadiyeva was among the hostages but was released with her other daughter, who was just one at the time. She said, "I think the government wanted to kill the terrorists above everything. They didn’t think of our children."
The authorities said they had been faced with a group of armed mercenaries and that their primary concern was to save the lives of the hostages. But the defendants' lawyers said the authorities had been mainly seeking to eliminate the attackers.
British lawyer Jessica Gavron said, "Both tanks and flame-throwers were used while hostages were in the building. The government has provided no adequate explanation as to the need of these indiscriminate combat weapons."
Russian officials have maintained that the first explosions were provoked by the hostage takers. Their lawyer, Gorgy Matyushkin, also said that the rapid cleansing of the site after the operation "had no consequences" on the investigations.
The claimants' lawyers have particularly criticized the absence of in-depth autopsies on the bodies of 116 victims found burned in the gymnasium.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) heard accusations from more than 400 Russians seeking clarifications about the incident in which pro-Chechen militants stormed a school in North Ossetia on September 1, 2004. The ordeal left more than 330 dead, including 186 children, and some 750 wounded.
Clarification: There was no guarantee anyone would survive. Secondly and most importantly, the terrorists involved will never kill again. It's long over. Go back to your lovely Strasbourg hotel, enjoy a nice dinner, and a therapeutic walk through the old city.
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Both Beslan and Nord-Ost were bad situations from the get-go. The Russians made the best of a bad hand. Outcome could have been much, much worse. To second guess them at this point is just spineless.
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I have no doubt Russian security forces did a bad job at Beslan, but I doubt any counter terrorism unit could have saved everybody. Too many terrorists and too many hostages.
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Ravi over at orbat.com has the following critical summary:
Iraq Army divisions We know 1, 2, 3, 4 Divisions are wiped out. 5 Mechanized is in Diyla but don't seem to be doing anything, which seems to indicate it too is ineffective. 6 is in Baghdad. 7 in Anbar has been ineffective for months; just two days its base at Hit was overrun; the HQ is at Al-Asad airbase, an IS target. 8 was moved to Anbar where it has been taking a beating. 9 Armored (sometimes referred to as Mechanized) is at Baghdad but with brigades dispersed to Anbar and the North. 10 is now around Abu Gharib, therefore part of the Baghdad garrison. 11, the commando division is in Baghdad with at least one brigade in the north. 12 was in the north and has not been heard from; Bill Roggio suspects it was dissolved and effective elements merged with the Peshmerga as likely it had a significant percentage of Kurds. 14’s location has not been identified, but it seems likely it took over 17’s AOR just south of Baghdad. 17 was bashed up in the south before being transferred to Anbar; it is unlikely to be effective. 18 is the oil security division and not a tactical formation.
At this point we can sing “This is the end, my friend”, because Iraq is out of troops. With Anbar looking like it is going to fall, Iraq will be left with the Baghdad garrison. We share Bill Roggio’s opinion that Baghdad is unlikely to fall – not on account of the Army, but because of the Shia militias. At the same time, we have to consider when IS attacks Baghdad, it will have as allies large numbers of Sunni militia, thirsting for revenge for the atrocities the Shia’s inflicted on them in Baghdad until the US surge brought the Shia militia’s under control. Baghdad is supposed to have 60,000 troops. This, however, counts the National Police paramilitary brigades. We will be surprised if a third of the garrison will stand and fight.
Please to remember that no army fights to the last man. At 66% losses, it is finished. Iraq Army is at around 75% losses, mainly to desertions. Sure there must be a large number of soldiers on the roll, but to imagine they are actually in units and in the field is an illusion.
[Ynet] Turkish intellectuals fear growing support for radical Islamist group, after festivities at Istanbul University highlight dangerous trend.
The slow march through the institutions isn't nearly as exciting as God-sanctioned pillage, plunder, and rape with head-chopping.
Istanbul University student Aysegul Korkut is outraged by the images coming out of Syria. But these days the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group's horrors seem closer to home: She recently faced off against masked supporters of the brutal Lions of Islam on her own campus.
Watch ye and learn, all ye Rantburgers, as The Second Smartest Man In The Room opens his mouth to speak:
[Ynet] 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... said on Tuesday there was "no discrepancy" between the United States and Turkey with regard to the strategy for fighting Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Death Eaters trying to take over a Kurdish town in Syria near the Turkish border.
Kerry, in Gay Paree for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, added that Ankara would define its role according to its own timetable.
[Ynet] 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... said on Tuesday that Russia and the United States had agreed to share more intelligence regarding the fight against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... murderous Moslems.
He spoke after a meeting in Gay Paree with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said that as many 500 fighters from Russia may have joined the ultra-radical Lion of Islam group.
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Kerry is known ( world wide ) for his Integrity and his Wisdom. He's no ordinary run of the mill gibbering shill.
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Kerry is known ( world wide ) for his Integrity and his Wisdom. He's no ordinary run of the mill gibbering shill.
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Some one needs to tell Vietnam ware hero John Francois Kerry he's left the irony on...
So scrub my skin with women
So chain my tongue with whisky
Stuff my nose with garlic
Coat my eyes with butter
Fill my ears with silver
Stick my legs in plaster
Tell me lies about ISIS
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"I think the Obama administration is somewhat eager in wanting to show some progress'' in beefing up the anti-ISIL coalition, said Steven Cook, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Yes, "eager" Mr. Cook; "eager" to show the illusion of progress while permitting the virus to rapidly metastasize. In his closing days in office, Obama responsible for the destruction of a fledging Islamic state? How utterly ridiculous. I am quite certain this is the last thing he wishes to leave as a legacy, or CV entry.
Until now. Why now?
From 2004 to 2011, U.S. and Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered chemical weapons remaining from Saddam Hussein’s rule. On at least six occasions, troops were wounded by the weapons.
In all, U.S. troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and U.S. officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. And troops can keep secrets better than Congress.
The secrecy fit a pattern. Since the outset of the war, the scale of the U.S. encounters with chemical weapons in Iraq was neither publicly shared nor widely circulated within the military. Why, Newshound, why?
The U.S. government withheld word about its discoveries even from troops it sent into harm’s way and from military doctors. The government’s secrecy, victims and participants said, prevented troops in some of the war’s most dangerous jobs from receiving proper medical care and official recognition of their wounds. Aha! Boosh! Boosh bad, The Lightbringer is good!
Congress, too, was only partly informed, while troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found. Can't keep a secret if you tell Congress - everybody knows that.
“‘Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” said Jarrod Lampier, a recently retired Army major who was present for the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war: more than 2,400 nerve-agent rockets unearthed in 2006 at a former Republican Guard compound. You'd think the KGB was in control.
Many chemical weapons incidents clustered around the ruins of the Muthanna State Establishment, the center of Iraqi chemical agent production in the 1980s. We're about to get to the "Why now?" Since June, the compound has been held by the Islamic State, the world’s most radical and violent jihadist group. In a letter sent to the United Nations this summer, the Iraqi government said that about 2,500 corroded chemical rockets remained on the grounds, and that Iraqi officials had witnessed intruders looting equipment before militants shut down the surveillance cameras. Even the Iraqi government was in on the secret?
The U.S. government says the abandoned weapons no longer pose a threat. But nearly a decade of wartime experience showed that old Iraqi chemical munitions often remained dangerous when repurposed for local attacks in makeshift bombs, as insurgents did starting in 2004.
Participants in the chemical weapons discoveries said the U.S. suppressed knowledge of finds for multiple reasons, including that the government bristled at further acknowledgment it had been wrong about Hussein having an active weapons program. 'Scuse me? Did anyone proofread that paragraph?
Others pointed to another embarrassment. In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies. Well, that was to use on the Iranians, so that was O.K.
Nonproliferation officials top men in their field said the Pentagon’s handling of many of the recovered warheads and shells appeared to violate the Convention on Chemical Weapons. According to this convention, chemical weapons must be secured, reported and destroyed in an exacting and time-consuming fashion.
Nonetheless, several participants said the U.S. lost track of chemical weapons that its troops found, left large caches unsecured, and did not warn people — Iraqis and foreign troops alike — as it hastily exploded chemical ordnance in the open air. Here's another 'why now' - C.J. Chivers, The New York Times
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Iraqis refer to the Samarra facility as the al-Muthanna facility, the State Enterprise for Pesticide Production (SEPP), and the Samarra Drying Industries Plant. The Iraqi CW infrastructure consisted of ten CW agent production plants with a combined production capacity of 2,500-3,000 metric tons (mt) per year. Additionally, there were three munitions filling lines at Samarra, three precursor plants at Habbaniyah, and thirty storage bunkers scattered throughout the country. In about 1975, construction of two cw facilities began near Samarra and Salmon Pak. The Salman Pak facility (located 35km southeast of Baghdad) was a pilot-plant operation, whereas Samarra was an extensive, integrated chemical weapons production facility.
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...This - because clearly, the Obama Administration KNEW it - would be a very good reason for 'no boots on the ground'. One confirmed attempt by ISIS to slime US units would result in Obama having a stark choice: go after them and their enablers with everything in the tool shed...or quit.
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Man does this set every paranoid alarm ringing. But am I paranoid enough.
Both Mike K and NS have plausible explanations for the "why now" question. And those are diametrically opposed.
In the "never let a good crisis go to waste" mentality how are they going to combine this with Ebola?
Of course this proved Bush correct so they immediately moved the goal posts and are screaming that he lied cause he said they were "active" programs. No, he never said that this is just one more lie from the left.
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The consolation prize here is that they are probably way too dangerous for anyone to try to use.
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The suggested that chemical weapons support the decision to not to put troops on the ground only makes sense if Obama cared about the the military. Obama only cares about his legacy and golf.
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So if we'd found a couple nukes nobody would have said anything because there wasn't an "active" nuclear program?
There's a whiff of aged mackerel about this, but you've already noticed that.
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WMDs in Iraq have been known for some time. It just wasn't reported by the MSM. It didn't fit the narrative of the left. The MSM could not allow that Bush might have been right. Instead they stayed with the narrative that we should never have invaded Iraq because there were no WMDs, the war was not justified and that it was illegal; none of which were true. They chose to not report the existence of WMDs in Iraq and counted on the average Democratic-voting rube to buy their load of B.S. The MSM was right about that. The MSM are complicit with the Progressives in creating and feeding the cancer within. Maybe, it is as Michael Savage predicts--civil war will come if things don't change.
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The left redefined WMD to only mean nukes. Everything less just didn't count.
The other thing that irks me is Bush said that British Intelligence said Saddam was buying Yellowcake from Niger. To my knowledge British intelliegence still stands by that claim. So there was never a lie, not even close. Even if the British were wrong that doesn't make it a lie. Yet the slogans won the day because bush let them go without counter-arguements.
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Some light reading on al Mathamma an Doctor Rihab Taha, Saddam's "doctor germ." A delightful lady, very engaging....
Growth of biological agents[edit]
Although Taha told her fellow students at Norwich that she wanted to return to Iraq to teach biology, she went instead to work for Iraq's germ warfare program. In 1985, she worked in the al-Muthanna chemical plant near Baghdad, and later became chief production officer in al-Hakam (also spelled al-Hakum), Iraq's top-secret biological-warfare facility at the time.
During several visits to Iraq by United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), set up after the 1990 invasion of Kuwait to inspect Iraqi weapons facilities,[6] weapons inspectors were told by Taha that al-Hakam was a chicken-feed plant. "There were a few things that were peculiar about this animal-feed production plant," Charles Duelfer, UNSCOM's deputy executive chairman, later told reporters, "beginning with the extensive air defenses surrounding it."
According to the 1999 DIA report, the normally mild-mannered Taha exploded into violent rages when questioned about al-Hakam, shouting, screaming and, storming out of the room, before returning and smashing a chair.[7] However, in 1995, UNSCOM's principal weapons inspector Dr. Rod Barton from Australia showed Taha documents obtained by UNSCOM from the Israeli government that showed the Iraqi regime had just purchased 10 tons of growth media from a British company called Oxoid. Growth media is a mixture of sugar, proteins and minerals that allows microscopic life to grow; it is used in hospitals, where swabs from patients are placed in dishes containing growth media for diagnostic purposes. Iraq's hospital consumption of growth media was just 200 kg a year; yet in 1988, Iraq imported 39 tons of it.
Shown this evidence by UNSCOM, Taha admitted to the inspectors that her biological weapons agency had grown 19,000 litres of botulism toxin;[8] 8,000 litres of anthrax; 2,000 litres of aflatoxins, which can cause liver cancer; clostridium perfringens, a bacterium that can cause gas gangrene; and ricin, a castor bean derivative which can kill by inhibiting protein synthesis. She also admitted conducting research into cholera, salmonella, foot and mouth disease, and camel pox, a disease that uses the same growth techniques as smallpox, but is safer for researchers to work with. It was because of the discovery of Taha's work with camel pox that the U.S. and British intelligence services feared Saddam Hussein may have been planning to weaponize the smallpox virus. Iraq had a smallpox outbreak in the 1970s and UNSCOM scientists believe the government would have retained contaminated material.
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Are bits of truth now being released that might hint at the depths of Saddam's evil? Are we being prepared for the revelation that ebola didn't happen by accident, or that we should take measures to treat it as a terrorist bio-weapon just to be on the safe side ?
The soldiers at the blast crater sensed something was wrong.
It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.
Two technicians assigned to dispose of munitions stepped into the hole. Lake water seeped in. One of them, Specialist Andrew T. Goldman, noticed a pungent odor, something, he said, he had never smelled before.
He lifted a shell. Oily paste oozed from a crack. “That doesn’t look like pond water,” said his team leader, Staff Sgt. Eric J. Duling.
The specialist swabbed the shell with chemical detection paper. It turned red — indicating sulfur mustard, the chemical warfare agent designed to burn a victim’s airway, skin and eyes.
All three men recall an awkward pause. Then Sergeant Duling gave an order: “Get the hell out.”
Five years after President George W. Bush sent troops into Iraq, these soldiers had entered an expansive but largely secret chapter of America’s long and bitter involvement in Iraq.
From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
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David Kelly (14 May 1944 – 17 July 2003) believed it was most likely that Iraq had retained some biological weapons after the end of inspections. Link
[Ynet] US-led air strikes have significantly reduced Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... 's ability to produce, smuggle and refine oil, the International Energy Agency said in its monthly report on Tuesday, citing Western and Iraqi officials.
The coalition's targeting of IS-held oil infrastructure has knocked crude production down to around 20,000 barrels per day (bpd) from a high of about 70,000 bpd achieved after the group expanded its territory over the summer, the report said.
In parallel, the governments of Turkey and Iraq's Kurdistan Region have cracked down on IS's smuggling of crude oil, which had brought in revenue estimated at $1 million to $3 million for the radical Sunni Islamist group.
The crackdown has cut smuggling to less than 10,000 bpd from a high of 30,000 bpd, unnamed officials said in the report.
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[Ynet] Israeli officials say EU formulating policy to undermine settlement enterprise; rightwing officials: 'Europe continuing tradition of profiling.'
"Europe wants to methodically accumulate a policy, using bureaucratic steps, with the aim of de-legitimizing the settlements," Israeli officials told Ynet on Tuesday night, after European diplomats said the EU was considering "blacklisting" settlers convicted of crimes.
"Europe is continuing its tradition of profiling," said the deputy director-general of the Judea and Samaria council, Yigal Dilmoni.
"Radical Islam is continuing to spread across the world and throughout Europe. Islamic forces of Evil are entering the enlightened continent freely and threatening its citizens daily, but 'of course' the most important subject is Jews and Zionism," Dilmoni argued.
He added: "The construction in Judea and Samaria is a right and an obligation of the Jewish people. It is best the Europeans deal with their own problem and not disrupt the sensitive status quo in existence."
Rightwing activist lawyer, Itamar Ben-Gvir, which represents many "hilltop youth" in legal proceedings, said the "blacklist" which the EU is considering is not expected to affect his client.
"The Europeans are living in a fantasy because the people I represent do not even go to hotels in Israel ‐ Europe hardly interests them," he said.
Ben-Gvir criticized what he deemed discrimination between the hilltop youth in Israel and forces of Evil in Arab states. "Including people who have yet to be convicted in such a list is against international law. They are not providing people with the assumption of innocence which is their right."
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened... the pressure from Europe on Israel continues to grow. Jerusalem is closely following the statements and political plays against Israel in Europe, but the government has yet to formulate an organized strategy to push back against the European pressure.
After the British vote, Israel insisted on its routine response ‐ calling for talks with the Paleostinians ‐ but the formulaic retort has not managed to stop the tide in public opinion against Israel.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's plan to "blacklist" violent settlers also went unanswered, with the Foreign Ministry awaiting an official decision by the EU. The ministry was preparing for the possibility of European sanctions following the approval of construction in Givat HaMatos, and officials see the "blacklist" plan as part of such a sanction regime.
The Foreign Ministry has yet to successfully advance its position on construction beyond the Green Line, with Europe demanding Israel halt all advances on the building projects. The British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould stressed the difficulty facing Israel and warned of a decline in public opinion towards the country.
The UK is not the only European nation to delve into the issue, and governments across Western Europe have expressed their impatience with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's explanations regarding the renewed construction.
After the "blacklist" plan became public earlier Tuesday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that his country was willing to recognize a Paleostinian state but only if the matter advances peace efforts ‐ not merely as a symbolic gesture.
Fabius, however, added that if the negotiations between Israel and the Paleostinians failed, Gay Paree "would not shirk its responsibilities" and recognize Paleostine as a state.
[IsraelTimes] Following the Gazoo donor conference in Cairo earlier this week, the first trucks with building supplies entered the Gazoo Strip on Tuesday morning as reconstruction efforts commenced under joint United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... -Paleostinian Authority supervision.
Fifteen trucks of cement (600 tons), ten of steel (400 tons), and 50 of gravel were entering the coastal enclave from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing, Channel 10 reported Tuesday morning.
Moreover, for the first time since 2007, when Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, took control of the Gazoo Strip, Israel allowed produce exports from the enclave to the West Bank, granting exit to one truck of bananas and another of dates grown by Paleostinian farmers.
On the Gazoo side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, PA and UN officials are overseeing the shipments to ensure they do not fall into the hands of Hamas, the IDF's Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories said.
The move came as UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... paid a visit to the Gazoo Strip on Tuesday, and decried the destruction incurred by the summer conflict.
"The destruction which I have seen while coming to here is beyond description. This is a much more serious destruction than what I saw in 2009.
"I'd like to take this opportunity to express my deepest condolences to people who bit the dust and also to families who lost their loved ones," Ban said.
Ban, who last visited the territory in 2012, said at a donor conference in Egypt on Sunday that his trip to the Paleostinian enclave was "to listen directly to the people of Gazoo."
He said that international pledges of $5.4 billion in reconstruction aid were "quite encouraging."
Speaking after the Sunday conference that secured $5.4 billion in foreign aid for the Paleostinians, PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... described the event as a "great success."
The Paleostinian leader made it clear that the funds, of which $2.7 billion are intended to rebuild war-torn Gazoo, will go straight to the PA and not to any other Paleostinian groups.
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First Trucks With Reconstruction Supplies Enter Gaza
Why.
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The Paleostinian leader made it clear that the funds, of which $2.7 billion are intended to rebuild war-torn Gazoo, will go straight to the PA and not to any other Paleostinian groups.
[IsraelTimes] In a dramatic but undeclared change of direction in its policy toward the Gazoo Strip, Israel is significantly easing restrictions on the movement of commodities and people in and out of the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled territory following Operation Protective Edge.
For the first time since the Islamist movement took control of the coastal enclave in the summer of 2007, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the IDF branch responsible for civil Paleostinian affairs, is allowing Gazook agriculturists and fishermen to market their produce in the West Bank. In another first, Israel is allowing thousands of tons of building materials to enter Gazoo for reconstruction projects to be managed by private contractors. Previously, only the UN was allowed to import such materials.
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] The scarves worn by the men plundering the homes of Hassan Khashman and fellow Kurds as they made a desperate escape from invading Isil jihadists concealed their faces but not their identities.
"These were people we all knew, our neighbours," said Mr Khashman, 40, a farmer, recalling the shocking sight of people he had lived alongside for a lifetime treating his property as fair game while his family fled the ethnically mixed Syrian village of Kanaiyah for their lives.
"We saw Arabs going to our home and stealing stuff. They were even stealing our food. Some tried to sell our property in local markets."
Similar tales abound among the thousands of Kurds who have left the besieged town of Kobane and surrounding villages for neighbouring Turkey in recent weeks as the region has been overrun by the ruthless and ideologically fervent fighters of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant [Isil].
Compounding the pain of forced evacuation from their ancestral homes is the theft of their possessions ‐ including cars, farm animals and homes ‐ by people they thought they could trust.
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Of course the stole. They're ARABS. Thats what they do.
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Could it be that French Jews were robbed by their neighbours but Polish and Ukranian Jews were murdered.
The French Jews were rounded up and sent east to die in the concentration camps there, JFM. If there are stories of Frenchmen hiding their neighbours from the Nazis, they have not made their way to the American popular press.
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"I thought you requested an explosion delivery. Sign here."
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A senior diplomatic source in Jerusalem on Monday warned US President Barack Obama is liable to extend the deadline again, and more troubling – he may be holding secret talks with Iran again and making agreements against Israeli interests.
Secret talks? Probably just a discussion about the 57 Islamic States and ISIS' "ISIL's progress with its caliphate."
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Since June, the compound has been held by the Islamic State, the world’s most radical and violent jihadist group. In a letter sent to the United Nations this summer, the Iraqi government said that about 2,500 corroded chemical rockets remained on the grounds, and that Iraqi officials had witnessed intruders looting equipment before militants shut down the surveillance cameras.
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
