[Libya Herald] The House of Representatives will move from its temporary home in Tobruk to Benghazi once the city has been secured by the military but not before, the front man for the house has said.
Faraj Buhashem, the front man for the House of Representatives, told the Libya Herald that in accordance with the constitutional declarations made in June that the HoR would move to the city as soon as possible.
It was reported this week that the House of Representatives would meet in Benghazi as soon as 7 November on the back of recent gains in the city by the Libyan National Army (LNA). However Hashem said this was incorrect and that parliamentary sources quoted had been mistaken. "Once we are given the information that it is safe and that we can move, we will move immediately," he said.
"The decision is linked to the actions of the security forces and is up to the relevant authorities," he added. Buhashem explained that ultimately the timing of the move would be up to the House itself and would be discussed amongst its members.
The LNA and the House of Representatives by association have faced criticism over the actions of government supporters who have attacked the homes of known Islamists in the city. Days before the start of renewed fighting in Benghazi over two weeks ago, the pro-government force of Operation Dignity called on residents to help them drive Asar Al-Sharia and its allies of the city.
Buhashem reiterated recent calls by the House of Representatives for its supporters to refrain from the attacks. He said that by burning houses and attacking families the youth of Benghazi would become like Ansar al-Sharia ...a Salafist militia which claims it is not part of al-Qaeda, even though it works about the same and for the same ends. There are groups of the same name in Libyaand Yemen, with the Libyan versions currently most active. Tunisia's Shabaab al-Tawhid started out an Ansar al-Sharia and changed its name in early 2014. It still uses the old name now and then, probably because the stationery's not all used up and the web site hasn't expired yet... whom he blamed for hundreds of liquidations in the city. "These things are against the teachings of Islam," Buhashem said.
There has been speculation that the House of Representatives might move to Jufra if Benghazi remains too dangerous to hold meetings. Hashem said however that this idea seemed unlikely to him and that he had no information about it.
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Izzat like when it becomes a safe as Detroit? rR Chicago?
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[HOSTED.AP.ORG] With a malevolent laugh, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic turbans tells the world that more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, dashing hopes for their freedom.
"If you knew the state your daughters are in today, it might lead some of you ... to die from grief," Abubakar Shekau sneers, addressing the parents of the girls and young women kidnapped from a remote boarding school more than six months ago.
In a new video released late Friday night, the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... leader also denies there is a cease-fire with the Nigerian government and threatens to kill an unidentified German hostage.
"Don't you know we are still holding your German hostage (who is) always crying," he taunts. "If we want, we will hack him or slaughter him or shoot him."
A German development worker was kidnapped at gunpoint in Gombi, a town in Nigeria's northeast Gombi in July. Police reported he was ambushed as he drove to work.
Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier last week told news hounds in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, that he had no new information about a German abductee.
In the new video, Shekau wears a camouflage tunic and pants and the black and white flag of al-Qaeda is by his side. He is flanked by masked and armed fighters standing in front of four military pickup trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns. Boko Haram has looted many weapons and vehicles including armored cars from Nigeria's military.
The military has several times claimed to have killed Shekau, and says any new videos are made by a look-alike. But the United States has not removed a $7 million ransom on the head of the bully boy leader.
On Oct. 17, Nigeria's military chief, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, announced that Boko Haram had agreed to an immediate cease-fire to end a 5-year insurgency in which thousands have died and hundreds of thousands have been driven from homes in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... . And government officials said they expected the Chibok girls to be released any day.
But Shekau denies in the video that he has agreed to any truce and says he is dedicated to fighting and dying a martyr's death to guarantee him a place in paradise.
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Eleven North Korean defectors were arrested by Chinese police while seeking to cross the border with Myanmar, a source said Friday.
Sadly, not an uncommon event.
Local police rounded up the defectors -- 10 adults and a seven-year-old child -- at around 3-4 a.m. on the day, shortly before they were to head towards the border in the southern region of Yunnan Province, according to the source. They were immediately put in custody in a police station there, added the source.
A South Korean foreign ministry official said the government is still trying to determine the exact details of the situation.
China will keep doing this until they're forced to live up to international accords on refugees. Perhaps it's time to sanction the Chinese officials responsible.
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Oh, but China is Capitalist now, really, and has Nothing To Do With The Communist Dictatorship on its borders.
A U.S. expert has provided what he says is evidence that North Korea is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles that can be launched from submarines. Joseph Bermudez, an arms expert writing on Johns Hopkins University's website 38 North, on Tuesday repeated his earlier claim that the North is developing the technology.
"A review of commercial satellite imagery since 2010 covering submarine bases and submarine shipyards has identified a new test stand at the North's Sinpo South Shipyard, probably intended to explore the possibility of launching ballistic missiles from submarines or of a shipboard vertical launch ballistic missile capability," he wrote.
He said the facility is "a 35 x 30 m concrete pad with an approximately 12-m-high test stand... The new test stand installation is of the right size and design to be used by North Korea for research, development, testing (including ejection testing) and evaluation of a vertical launch tube system for submarines."
The technology would allow the North to launch long-range missiles from any point its submarines can reach.
"Construction of the new test stand was first identified in September 2013... By April 2014, construction of the new test stand installation was complete," Bermudez wrote.
But Bermudez admitted it will probably "take years to design, develop, manufacture, and deploy an operational submarine-launched ballistic missile force."
Don't worry, we can dither that long. Watch us, we've done it before...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gave instructions to fighter jet pilots of an air and anti-air command, the official Rodong Sinmun reported on Thursday.
He ponderouslywaddled climbed into the cockpit of a double-wide pursuit aircraft, where he allegedly checked the equipment.
Kim promoted four squadron leaders on the spot for displaying their skills.
Kim has made nine visits to air force units this year alone. In April he arranged the first pilot competition.
A source said while the armies and navies of the two Koreas have engaged in various small-scale skirmishes over the years, the North Korean air force has no such experiences and North Korean pilots "are seized with fear" because they know the South Korean Air Force is vastly superior in terms of technology.
North Korean pilots are afraid that their superannuated MiG jets will be shot down immediately after take-off, a former North Korean air force officer now living in South Korea said.
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The biggest fear in the AFROK (South Korean air force) is when they shoot down the NORKs, they'll crash on something expensive. It's kinda crowded down there.
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Large Leader, please test our new MiG --
Juche has put wings on a pig!
So now, as you wallow
All over Mig Hollow,
You'll squeal with the wind in your wig!
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There are two possible futures in Europe: fall into a new Dark Age under the boot of Moslems, or kill/expel them all, as happened during the Reconquista. I used to think that future was at least 2-3 decades away, now I don't. Maybe one follows the other.
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"If you seek peace, prepare for war"
I came here to follow the War on Terror and end up learning bits of Latin.
And the 9mm Parabellum was derived from para bellum.
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Y'all may be interested in this speculative novel on the subject of a future Islamic Europe. I find the author's writing too intense, and the subject matter a little to close for comfort, but that oughtn't stop the rest of you.
Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets in Turkey in an international day of solidarity with the mainly Kurdish Syrian town of Kobani which has been besieged by militants for over six weeks.
Around 1,000 pro-Kurdish supporters took part in a march in central Istanbul which was so far peaceful following warnings from the authorities they would not tolerate any unrest.
But the biggest event took place in Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir where at least 15,000 people marched, flashing the 'V' for victory sign amid heavy police security. The demonstrations had originally been called by Turkey's biggest pro-Kurdish party the People's Democratic Party (HDP), and the government had sternly warned against any disorder.
"Peaceful demonstrations will be allowed," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday, but the security forces "would do what is necessary" if the situation degenerated.
Tensions are currently running high between the government and Turkey's Kurds after pro-Kurdish protests last month left over 30 people dead across the country. Many Kurds in Turkey are angry over the government's perceived lack of support for the Kurds fighting for Kobani against ISIS.
"Kobani is a symbol of the Kurdish resistance," said Bulent one of the demonstrators in Istanbul.
Many of the Kurdish demonstrators in Istanbul waved banners with the face of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned head of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), still seen by many Kurds as their overall leader.
Meanwhile, some 5,000 people demonstrated in solidarity with Kobani in the Turkish town of Suruc, 10 kilometres from the border and from where the peshmerga had left for Kobani the day before.
Following the HDP's call, international demonstrations were also expected to be held across Europe and in Australia and the United States.
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Turkey is on Erdy's side, which is on the Muslim Brotherhood's side. The plan was a MoBro collection of territory from Libya to Turkey with overtures of a Mediterranian Union Pact. That plan de-railed with the oust of Morsi. Erdy, with Crimea, has repositioned himself as a toll booth for West/Russian trade routes as well as ISJV/Assad trade routes, with options to solve his Kurdish problem.
Erdy's problem is that he lost Egypt to a popular uprising and surprisingly effective Sisi, a US ally (Morsi supporter, meeting where marines were called in for umprellas) unwilling to commit as well as their own military unwilling or unable to throw a punch at Assad without NATO backup, with the idea of a MoBro/USA compliant successor (that is questionable as per current local conditions, they would have to align nominally with ISJV).
So Erdy allows ISJV units to create an underground railroad while also collecting tolls from NATO, while rolling dice neither establish hardoned trade corridors.
I'd wager Turkey can go the way of Syria, but with a NATO safety net for what its worth. The benefit would be Kurdistan, could also mean a realignment with Russia to shut down the railroad (though stomping weasels is not a bad thing) but would compromise the Hellespont and close the Black Sea. Even if they did, they would never give up their NATO membership - have to be evicted, which means war, which means difficult assistance to the Kurds.
The current Obama/US administration is openly hostile to both Egypt and Israel, and in regards Syria by calling out Assad at the UN talkabout.
This is a losing strategy for Turkey, but Erdy is in charge at the moment. Unless the people or military of Turkey step up, which the people had somewhat tried and the military leadership had been replaced, Erdy will end up sinking that country, slighting the Kurds and letting insurgents establish a network, and by playing NATO/Russia they will at least get one but will not get either.
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Russia has always wanted the Dardanelles. Generations old. Even had a wargamed scenario about it in a WW3 1980's setting (how to trigger a Turkish collapse was part of the problem)
[NATION.PK] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... today exchanged views with JUI-F ministers on current political situation, suicide kaboom on Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... and other matters of mutual interest.
According to our sources, JUI-F ministers expressed their strong reservations over the attitude of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... after the attack on Maulana Fazlur Rehman. Ministers should defend the government because JUI-F is now part of the government and not the opposition, Prime Minister argued.
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[DAWN] THE 'foreign hand' is a familiar scapegoat in Pakistain, often trotted out by the authorities in the aftermath of internal disturbances or acts of terrorism. Yet these allegations are rarely corroborated with hard evidence linking disruptive activities to external players.
But the cache of arms and explosives unveiled in Quetta by the 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... home minister on Thursday could indicate an exception.
The massive haul, which reportedly consisted of around 4,000kg of explosives along with a host of other deadly paraphernalia, was recovered in raids conducted in different parts of the province, including areas near the Afghan border.
The provincial home minister linked the weapons to Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies, saying these states were involved in supporting banned hard boy groups in Balochistan and that the explosives were to be used during Muharram.
This is not the first time government officials have named India and Afghanistan as alleged backers of terrorism. Former interior minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. , while in office, claimed he had 'solid evidence' of these states' involvement in Balochistan, adding that he had raised the issue with the Indian authorities.
Mr Malik repeated these claims last week, following the failed attempt Curses! Foiled again! on Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... 's life in Quetta.
We believe, considering the sensitivity of the claims, that it is the interior minister who should have briefed the nation about the weapons' haul.
If there is indeed solid proof of foreign involvement in Balochistan's security situation, his ministry must give additional details, while the Foreign Office must take up the issue with the capitals concerned. As we see, in geopolitics, it is the amoral concerns of realpolitik rather than principles that guide a state's policies.
So it is entirely possible that foreign players are meddling in Pakistain's internal affairs, just as others at times blame this country of stirring trouble in their backyards.
The point is that it is our lack of vision and lawlessness that gives internal and external actors a chance to exploit the situation. Whether it is the separatist insurgency in Balochistan, the Islamist militancy in Fata, or sectarian terrorism and ethnic violence in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , these sore spots can be exploited because the state has failed to frankly and judiciously address these problems.
Leaving these open wounds to fester will only make them more vulnerable to foreign interference. So while we need to be vigilant about external intervention, we primarily need to set our own house in order.
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[DAWN] Although the spread of the polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... virus in Pakistain has been largely attributed to the northern tribal areas and Khyber Paktunkhwa province, official data reveals that the country's main port city of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... contributes a sizeable percentage of the crippling virus's circulation in KP and parts of Fata.
Official statistics available with Dawn.com show that 20 per cent of polio virus circulation in five districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa is genetically linked to Karachi, while the metropolis contributes 2 per cent of the crippling disease's circulation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
The revelation follows the World Health Organisation's recent warning that Karachi is a pivotal destination to be made polio-free to make the rest of the world safe. The WHO has made it clear that ending polio in Karachi would end the disease not only in Pakistain but in all east Mediterranean nations.
"Karachi serves as an amplifier, exporting wild poliovirus nationally and globally," it says.
According to the official documents obtained by Dawn.com, the percentage of cases linked to Karachi are 9pc in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , 74pc in Tank, 66pc in Buner, 100pc in Tor Gar district, and 50pc of cases in Mardan. The data shows that Karachi also has a 2pc polio virus circulation link to Fata cases.
Overall, 6pc of cases from KP and Fata are said to be linked to Karachi.
The data shows that 45pc of all KP and Fata polio cases are linked to North Wazoo agency, 22pc linked to Khyber agency, 10pc to South Waziristan, and 8pc are linked to Peshawar.
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Why exactly is the Secretary of State trying to dictate who can and can't pray at a particular place? Does Kerry think that the Temple Mount is a public school?
Washington called for Israeli authorities to reopen the Temple Mount to Muslim worshipers Thursday, while also condemning the shooting of a US-born activist who lobbied for Jewish rights on the holy site
"It is absolutely critical that all sides exercise restraint, refrain from provocative actions and rhetoric, and preserve the historic status quo on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount – in word and in practice," Kerry said in a statement.
"The Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount must be re-opened to Muslim worshipers and I support the long-standing practices regarding non-Muslim visitors to the site," he said.
What are those practices?
"Jews cannot worship atop the mount, only at the Western Wall."
The Secretary of State of the United States just ordered Israel to limit prayers in a particular place to Muslims, not Jews. And apparently to ban other non-Muslims too.
Remember when the United States used to uphold religious freedom? These days it sends people to jail for offending Muslims and orders other countries to engage in religious discrimination on behalf of Muslims.
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Democrats may only worship washington DC IN washington DC. They must pay jizya to pray to their DC GOD here.
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The Muslim occupation of Jerusalem is, in historical time sense, a recent event. The HEBREWS (note to Lurch, that's what the Jews called themselves) have been worshipping at that site since shortly after Abraham and Issac and the lamb in the bush...theoretically the Temple Mount (oh by the way John, they call it the temple mount because the Jews had this huge temple on the site of the Mosque) was the site of the incident involving Abraham and Issac.
Anyway, as near as any historian that counts can tell, Hebrews have worshipped on the Temple Mount for well over THREE THOUSAND years, the Moslems arrived on the scene in about 800 AD...
So John go study some ancient history and put down the crack pipe
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So John go study some ancient history and put down the crack pipe. Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-11-02 12:37
Unfortunately, he doesn't have enough of a mind left to retain anything beyond what's been hammered into his head by his wife.
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[Ynet] Unified front is being forged as Kurds emerge as the West's most trusted and effective partner in battle 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.... : We all want the Kurdish people to be united.
Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed for what was - until recently - an obscure Syrian border town, now the focus of a global war against the Death Eaters of Islamic State.
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[CNN] It is like many of the images of aftermath in Syria's chaotic war -- a man being pulled from the rubble of the building. But this one is different. The panic is muted, the men dig not slowly, but leisurely. This is because they know he is a regime fighter.
"Where are your friends?" they ask, perhaps taunting him. "Are you from Yemen?" But no, this is something different.
As they pull his terrified, tired frame from the dust, the blood seeping from a head wound and pitted against the white coat of silt from the rubble, it becomes clear this regime fighter is Afghan.
Video obtained by CNN from Syrian rebels, which we cannot verify, shows this scene and the attempts by the rebels, who are engaged in a pitched battle to prevent the regime encircling the main Syrian city of Aleppo, to interrogate their new prisoner. That's the first indication there's something new here: he doesn't speak Arabic, but mutters in Dari. Facially, he appears Uzbek or Hazara, and is terrified.
Their video shows him bandaged up, and on an IV drip. He is locked in a basement and fed, then questioned further. A comparatively generous fate for a regime prisoner in this savage war.
It is unclear what happened to him, but he told his interrogators: "My name is Sayed Ahmad Hussaini. The Iranians pay people like me to come here and fight. I am from Afghanistan and I am an immigrant in Iran. The Iranians brought us to Syria to fight to defend the Zainab shrine. I don't want to fight anymore."
He says he wants to go home, and that he was paid about $500 a month to fight. There are many Afghan immigrants in Iran, trying to find some shelter from the decades of war that have torn apart their land. He says he was trained and then sent to assist the regime.
It is potentially a serious development in the Syrian war, and explains in some ways how the Syrian regime has gained ground in some areas after months of appearing exhausted.
In the fight for Aleppo, they are fiercely contesting a hill settlement called Handarat, which is itself tiny, but vitally overlooks the main supply road into rebel held areas of Aleppo. If the regime hold Handarat, they can cut off rebel Aleppo from resupply, effectively besieging it. Seasoned Afghan fighters could assist the regime - so far letting the Coalition and moderate Syrian rebels take on ISIS -- in other battles too.
CNN sent a photojournalist to eastern Afghanistan to follow up reports of recruitment by Iranian agents of mercenaries to fight for the regime.
Inside Afghanistan
In one village, four men who did not want their identity or location revealed, said they had just returned from training in Iran. There, they were taken to a cop shoppe, blindfolded, and taken to a training camp where they were shown tactics and light to medium weapons.
The men spoke in great detail about their experiences and were able to show the Iranian bank cards through which they will be paid their $500 to $1000 salaries a month. Other villagers ratified their stories.
Their motivations were complicated. Most said they sought money - a likely motivation as the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... drawdown in Afghanistan is changing the Taliban's dynamics and reducing the amount of money sloshing around in the country. They also wanted to fight America -- saying that fighting the moderate Syrian rebels the regime is targeting most heavily and who receive U.S. assistance - was one way of continuing this fight from Afghanistan.
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[CNN] When the United States unleashed 47 U.S. Navy Tomahawk missiles on September 22 on suspected Khorasan Group sites to the west of Aleppo, Syria, one of their top targets was an unlikely figure: David Drugeon, a 24-year-old French convert from Brittany who had become a key bomb-maker for the group.
Intelligence suggested that Khorasan, a group of veteran core al Qaeda operatives who have found sanctuary in Idlib province and surrounding areas, was in the final stages of planning terrorist attacks in the West, including against American aviation.
Among the devices Khorasan's bomb-makers were developing to try to beat airport security: bombs made out of clothing dipped in explosive solution and explosives concealed in personal electronics.
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[Iraq News] On Friday United Nations revealed that about 15,000 foreigners from 80 countries are fighting within the ranks of the so-called the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as the prestige and influence of al-Qaeda wanes. The report also warned about the effectiveness ISISâ online recruitment across all social media and web platforms that have been used by the organization ISIS.
The United Nations said in a report published by the British newspaper the Guardian and followed by IraqiNews.com that âabout 15 thousand foreigners from 80 countries went to Syria and Iraq over the past years to fight in the ranks of organizations such as ISIS, attributing the high number to the decline of al Qaeda.â
The United Nations said in its report that âsince 2010, the number of foreign jihadists in Syria and Iraq has been increased several times in comparison to the number of foreign fighters who have been counted between 1990 and 2010,â pointing out that âthe foreign terrorists fighters came from France, Russia and Britain. In the total, they come from 80 countries.â
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not only are the most jihadist young muslims leaving the west, they are also killing a lot of Hezbollah fighters and Iran National guard too
that's the good part
the bad part is that a lot of innocents in the mideast are being killed and a lot of moslems in the west are being turned into contingent jihadists ready to do damage in the west
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15,000 ISIL forces are a far cry from the estimate of 60,000 and growing a couple of months ago in the media.
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Thousands of people on Saturday took to the streets in Turkey in an international day of solidarity with the mainly Kurdish Syrian town of Kobani which has been besieged by militants for over six weeks.
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Why exactly is the Secretary of State trying to dictate who can and can't pray at a particular place? Does Kerry think that the Temple Mount is a public school?
[CNN] It is like many of the images of aftermath in Syria's chaotic war -- a man being pulled from the rubble of the building. But this one is different. The panic is muted, the men dig not slowly, but leisurely. This is because they know he is a regime fighter.
