[AnNahar] Afghanistan's lower house of parliament on Sunday approved agreements that will allow about 12,500 NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... -led troops to stay on next year as the national army and police struggle to hold back the Taliban.
U.S.-led NATO combat operations will finish at the end of this year, but the Taliban have launched a series of recent offensives that have severely tested Afghan soldiers and police.
The new NATO mission -- named Resolute Support -- will focus on supporting the Afghan forces, in parallel with U.S. counter-terrorism operations.
The Bilateral Security Agreement with the United States, and a similar pact with NATO, were the source of huge friction between the Afghan government and its allies under previous president Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... But Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. , who became president in September, reset ties by signing the long-awaited deals on his first day in power.
Ghani welcomed politicians' overwhelming vote in favor of the two agreements on Sunday and said he awaited the prompt approval of the upper house.
"It is a good step in strengthening Afghanistan's national illusory sovereignty," Ghani said in a statement.
"The Afghan cops will be in charge of full security of their country, and will be further equipped and strengthened."
Karzai's refusal to sign the security accord came to symbolize the breakdown of Afghan-U.S. relations after the optimism of 2001, when the Taliban regime was ousted from power with U.S. assistance.
On Friday the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported that President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... had extended the remit of those U.S. troops set to remain in Afghanistan next year.
They will be able to carry out missions against the Taliban and other groups that threaten them, the paper said.
The new order also allows air support -- from U.S. jets, bombers and drones -- for Afghan combat missions.
KISMAYO, Somalia -- Jubaland military court has executed a soldier convicted of killing a 9-year-old boy in the southern port city of Kismayo on Saturday, Garowe Online reports. The convicted killer-Abdirashid Abdi-was executed by the firing squad with prosecutor-general Hassan Ishaq Yarow present.
Addressing reporters at the scene of the execution, Yarow said that soldiers who deliberately kill civilians will face death penalties.
The death sentence and the subsequent execution mark the first since the new state’s first military course was set up last week.
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Egypt would be ready to lend a hand in securing a future Palestinian state by sending in troops that could help out local police and offer Israel security guarantees, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi said in a newspaper interview.
Sisi, who is visiting Italy and France this week, told Italian daily Corriere della Sera the creation of a Palestinian state was the best way to protect Israeli security while restoring hope for the Palestinian people.
"We are prepared to send military forces inside a Palestinian state. They would help the local police and reassure Israelis in their role as guarantors," he said.
In other words, he'd restore the pre-1967 status of Gazoo...
Sisi said any such troop deployment would only be for the time needed to restore trust between the sides.
Egypt, which shares a border with Gaza, is familiar with some of the territory that would likely make up a future Palestinian state. It ruled the Gaza Strip until the 1967 war.
Sisi said he had spoken at length of the idea with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
"I told him (Netanyahu) a courageous step was needed otherwise nothing would be resolved," he said.
Egypt mediated indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians that led to a ceasefire in August after 50 days of war in Gaza that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and 73 Israelis.
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Sorry, generalissimo, but we remember the period between 1948 and 1967.
[AnNahar] White smoke belches from the chimney of a lopsided stone house, mingling with thick fog in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge whose bucolic setting hardly fits its reputation as a jihadist hotbed.
Temur Batirashvili, a 70-year-old subsistence farmer, warms his hands over a rusty stove as he tells the story of his son, one of the most feared commanders with 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 in Syria.
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It seems like it would be good for the CIA to have a presense in these places so that we could arrange for welcoming committees for these groups of traveling cannon fodder.
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It would be even better for Russia to move in and clean the place once and for all.
SEOUL -- North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un guided a joint military drill to highlight improved combat readiness, the country's official news agency said Sunday, amid the North's repeated threats of retaliation against a recent United Nations resolution on its human rights situation.
He's almost as good a military leader as he is a golfer...
Pudgy Kim guided the combined drill of two Korean People's Army (KPA) units that included simulations of a coastal landing and attacks on enemy troops, said the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), monitored in Seoul.
The morbidly obese Kim guided the entire drill and was satisfied, the KCNA's English-language report said, quoting him as saying that "They are fighting well and no enemy troops would come to their senses when they are exposed to such attack."
The latest report follows Pyongyang's repeated protests against the unusually strong U.N. resolution on the North's human rights violations adopted last week, as well as a recent joint military drill by South Korean troops. The resolution adopted by a U.N. committee calls for the referral of the North to the International Criminal Court for human rights violations.
The North has also criticized Seoul's Hoguk joint drill that involved all branches of South Korea's military. The North denounced the 12-day drill, which ended two days ago, as a cause of worsening inter-Korean ties.
The KCNA said the corpulent Kim instructed his country's military to conduct frequent war rehearsals to be better prepared for modern warfare.
"I used to create circumstances all of a sudden any moment to personally organize and guide drills of units because the present drill is directly linked with the future fight and destiny of our country," Kim said during his guidance.
Suet Face Kim also stressed the need to frequently stage such combined joint rehearsals "in order to bolster up the capability of units at various levels to conduct operations and improve the operation commanding ability of commanding officers by focusing main efforts on rounding off the close coordination among units of services and arms of the army and ensuring promptness, rapidity, unity and accuracy in combat actions," the KCNA said.
According to Seoul officials, the North conducted the drill near the western port city of Nampo, located about 50 kilometers southwest of Pyongyang, without notice.
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[AnNahar] Some 60 Germans have been killed while fighting under the banner 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.... group in Syria and Iraq, the head of the German domestic intelligence service said Sunday.
"About 60 people from Germany have died or killed themselves, at least nine in suicide kabooms," Hans-George Maassen told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. "That's a sad success for Islamist propaganda."
In all about 550 German nationals have joined the IS in the conflict zone, and of these 180 have returned to Germany, he said.
About 181 too many...
In mid-October, Germany announced new measures to prevent its citizens from traveling to join the jihadist cause in Iraq and Syria, including confiscating their identity papers.
We keep telling you that you're doing it wrong: let them leave, don't let them return. Give guns to the Kurds. Problems solved.
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Retaining citizens that have pledged to IS seems like a bad idea. Provide a van for their trip with a Khurdish driver. Everybody wins.
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ISIS now recruiting. Embed operants who can report numbers, positions and inventories of munitions. Tag ALL existing Western recruits for interception upon return home. Not an enviable mission, but large numbers of these Jihadists should not be allowed to return home, or then the real fun will start.
US Vice-President Joe Biden on Sunday wrapped up a key visit to Turkey without a breakthrough on military cooperation in the Syrian crisis but with officials confident the talks brought their positions closer.
During his three-day trip to Istanbul, Biden held several hours of talks with both Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on the crises created by the capture by ISIS militants of swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Washington has been frustrated by the relative lack of support offered by fellow Nato member Turkey for the US-led coalition against ISIS, which has taken towns in Syria right up to the Turkish border.
Which should be a clue that perhaps the Turks have a different agenda than ours. But Champ, Dumbo Joe, and Jahwn Fricking Kerry can't seem to grasp that rather elementary concept.
After four hours of talks with Erdogan on Saturday, the pair did not announce any new Turkish contribution to the coalition but Biden insisted the bilateral relationship was "as strong as ever it has been".
That's actually a diplomatic phrase -- strong as it's ever been indeed...
A senior US official insisted that the lack of a major announcement should not be seen as a failure and the two sides had a far better mutual understanding of their respective positions than a few months ago.
"We are in complete agreement that ISIS needs to be defeated," said the official. "We agree on the major objectives of the strategy."
But the official acknowledged the two sides still needed to work on their military cooperation in the crisis. This could include use of Turkey's Incirlik airbase — which Ankara so far has not let the United States use for bombing raids — if Turkey's conditions were satisfied, the official said.
Turkey's sole contribution so far to the military campaign has been allowing a contingent of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters to cross its territory on their way to join the fight against ISIS for the strategic Syrian border town of Kobani.
Turkey has repeatedly made clear that it will only increase its support for the coalition if a security zone, backed by a no-fly zone, is put in place inside Syria on the Turkish border and there is a coherent international strategy to topple President Bashar Al Assad.
In other words, never...
The official said progress was being made between Turkey and the United States, describing exchanges as "more evolved and dynamic".
Biden, at his final Press conference with Erdogan on Saturday, tellingly emphasised that they had discussed a "transition" in Syria that does not include Assad.
The warm words by Biden and Erdogan about the state of relations appeared to signal an end to a spat that erupted when the US Vice-President suggested in a lecture that Turkey's policy on Syria had helped trigger the rise of the ISIS group. Erdogan, who is known for his quick temper and susceptibility to take offence, declared at the time that his relationship with Biden would be "history" had he said such a thing.
Turkey has also been angry that its contribution in hosting 1.6 million refugees from the Syrian conflict has gone relatively unrecognised.
Biden's office announced that the United States would provide an additional $135 million for humanitarian aid for Syria, some of which would go to refugees living in Turkey.
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I am shocked that he didn't cow them into submission with his legendary rhetorical skills.
(Listening to Biden talk is sort of like being stoned, only without the enjoyment.)
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I am shocked that he didn't cow them into submission with his legendary rhetorical skills.
(Listening to Biden talk is sort of like being stoned, only without the enjoyment.)
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That was worth saying twice, BTW.
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He's a former U.S. Army NCO and Viet Veteran. I suspect a man of at least a modicum of integrity. Perhaps he got sick and tired of Rice and General Allen and simply said stuff it. Of course we won't know for another 2-3 years and the release of his tell-all book.
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Rose asked Hagel to elaborate on comments that he made in a speech at the Reagan Library last weekend. In that speech, Hagel said that America’s military capability, while still the best in the world, is being threatened.
Hagel re-iterated that to Rose, but also left viewers to wonder about the direction that President Obama is taking the military.
“I am worried about it, I am concerned about it, Chairman Dempsey is, the chiefs are, every leader of this institution,” Hagel said, including Pentagon leadership but leaving both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s names out of his list of officials who are worried about the U.S. military’s declining capability. Hagel said that the Congress and the American people need to know what while the U.S. military remains the strongest, best trained and most motivated in the world, its lead is being threatened because of policies being implemented now.
Hagel went on to note that a good leader prepares their institution for future success, saying that “the main responsibility of any leader is to prepare your institution for the future. If you don’t do that, you’ve failed. I don’t care how good you are, how smart you are, any part of your job. If you don’t prepare your institution, you’ve failed.”
In the past couple of years, Hagel has warned that defense budget cuts implemented under President Obama were hurting readiness and capability. The “how smart you are” line may be a veiled shot at President Obama, who basks in a media image that he is a cerebral, professorial president.
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Don't know what he was thinking in the first place. Will he accept the head coaching job for the Raiders next? I'm sure the idea of being Sec Def is good for the ego, but he joined the worst administration I am aware of - haven't studied Coolidge, Taft and whoever Van Bueren was. Also he knew that Defence is a lower priority than even NASA is for this president. We have several wars brewing and Hagel is wandering out to the dessert carrying the burden of all the sins of the entire 6 year freak show that we know as the Obama administration.
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I think he was resigning when he made that speech last week. My jaw sort of dropped, almost unhinged, when I read a transcript of his remarks.
Give the old RINO some props boys, he found a backbone and manned up to the wuss and his harem of incompetent advisors...including those girly men he promoted to general.
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Look out here it comes !
Executive Order (put number here) : I am President, Commander in Chief and Leader of the Defense Department, therefore I hereby transfer Eric Holder to the White House to act as Liaison to the Department of Defense. No Secretary of Defense need be appointed at this time.
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I don't know if the burg knows about this, but the feds have put in an order for 34 million silver and gold sprockets, so something is definitely up. Also gold and silver spot prices are up.
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Sprockets on Bambi. It could happen.
especially if the reports are true that Boner and company are going to ignore the Amnesty EO.
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I think he took the job because he felt he could serve DOD. I don't always agree with him, hell, I don't always agree with myself, but I believe his intentions were honorable. I think he just could not take the bull from Obama, especially after inserting a retired dipshit, Allen, was inserted into the mix.
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I agree Pan. Allen and Rice have queered the deal. I suspect Hagel was getting significant negative traffic from his combatant commanders, Dempsey and Odioidhidinero.... not much.
One, he didn't have the confidence of his former Senate colleagues, thanks to his attitude and antics while a Senator. That pretty much limited his access and influence.
Two, the administration made him SecDef pretty much because of those antics and attitude.
Three, though he pretty much screwed, and screwed up his relations with, his former GOP colleagues, he wasn't considered a "member of the team" by the administration, especially by the shadow President and the battle-hens of national security.
Because he was essentially and outsider and SecDef, he wasn't going to gain traction with the Oval office, especially when he realized that DOD couldn't do on a (frayed) shoestring what the combatant commanders wanted.
One thing I noticed missing on the list of potential SecDefs are the political commissars the WH inserted into the Pentagon as 'policy experts'.
"South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday criticized a recently released House Republican report that concludes no intelligence lapses in connection with the fatal Benghazi attacks, saying congressional investigators did a "lousy job."
"I think the report is full of crap," Graham, a Republican, said on CNN's "State of the Union."
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence report released late Friday concluded the CIA and the military acted properly in responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.
The report also found no wrongdoing by Obama administration officials, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria." Chairman Rogers' statement here. Aside of acknowledging "...but the early intelligence assessments and the Administrations' public narrative on the causes and motivations for the attack were not fully accurate." the statement does not mention the Obama admin.
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Congressman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is charged with investigating the adequacy of security at the Benghazi compound prior to the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack.
His wife, Kristi Clemens Rogers was the president and the CEO of the [British owned Aegis] company that was contracted by the State Department to provide that security.
Graham won't come out and say it of course, but Mike and Kristi Rogers are at least Part of the Problem.
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The problem of dealing with someone that you're pretty sure has been lying to you is, when called on it, they don't suddenly start telling the truth. They just shift to other lies.
Some people would just rather lie.
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Islamabad: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Pakistan supports Russian engagement in the Afghan peace process in the wake of withdrawal of US and allied troops.
Because you can feel the love between the Rooskies and the Taliban...
"We must forget what Russia did in the past and look forward to a new beginning in the region," Khawaja Asif said in a newspaper interview.
This is a region of the world where people forget nothing...
Brushing aside the notion that Russian defence minister's recently concluded visit to Pakistan might annoy New Delhi and Washington, Khawaja Asif said improvement in ties between Islamabad and Moscow were not at the cost of relations with other countries.
The two countries signed a "milestone" agreement last week for bilateral cooperation in defence field during the visit that marked a final go-ahead to the purchase of MI-35 helicopters. Asif described it as a major breakthrough after Russia lifted arms sales embargo to Pakistan earlier this year. He termed it as a reflection of Pakistan's independent diplomacy and said: "Russia is a great regional power and Pakistan cannot ignore it."
"After US/Nato forces' withdrawal from Afghanistan, security would be a bigger challenge for Afghanistan ... and Pakistan wants Russian engagement in Afghan peace process," he said.
"Pakistan terms Russia and China's presence in the region as source of peace and stability and that is why all three are getting closer on strategic matters," Khawaja Asif remarked pointing towards a major shift in Pakistan's foreign and security policy.
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I hereby invite the British Empire to call the shots in Pakistan again immediately after somebody supplies a merciful headshot square to the prostigeous forehead of this blathering moron.
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The sacrifice to finance the ISI, the sacrifice to finance the ISI's jihadi pets...
Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has urged the international community to understand and recognise the great sacrifices rendered by Pakistan in the fight against terrorism. Speaking in an interaction at Stanford, California, in the United States, the army chief said Pakistan has paid a huge cost in its fight against terrorism, giving sacrifices more than any other country in the world.
He said Pakistanis are one of the greatest, bravest, and most resilient nations of the world, and they have resolutely braved the menace of terrorism.
"Pakistan, which is one of the grittiest as well as greatest nations in the world, is standing against the nemesis of terror as one man," the army chief said while addressing a ceremony here.
On the myriad losses incurred in terms of cash, kind, and life, Gen Raheel said Pakistan had paid too heavy a price to keep the world safe.
"The international community has to make sure our sacrifices do not go unsung. Thus it is imperative for the world to admit what we have so far lost fighting at the forefront of this asymmetrical war," the COAS said.
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... kept the world safe by providing nuclear technology to the Kim family singers in Norkistan. You have my personal thanks. I will be forwarding an edible arrangement on behalf of the world. Please disregard the fact that it will look and smell like a burning bag of dog feces.
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Islamabad: The Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) has requested the government for provision of security for Hindu places of worship at national level, saying that around 1,400 Hindu religious sites across the country were in dire need of protection by the government.
The request was made following a fresh incident of torching of a Hindu temple in a Sindh town.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has taken suo motu notice of the incident and issued notices to the provincial government and relevant authorities. The court has also sought a report from the federal government on the implementation of its earlier ruling on the protection of minorities' rights in the country.
Meanwhile, patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Hindu Council and Member of National Assembly Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwant has strongly condemned the torching of Hanuman temple in Tando Mohammad Khan, according to a Press statement issued by the Pakistan Hindu Council.
Dr Ramesh said the temple in Tando Mohammad Khan was torched on the morning of November 21. Five such incidents have taken place since March this year. Dr Ramesh regretted the burning of Hindu holy books Geeta and Ramayan during the act.
He emphasised that if the Supreme Court's orders regarding protection of minorities' rights were strongly implemented, such incidents could be avoided. "Why innocent minorities have been left at the mercy of anarchists," Dr Ramesh asked.
Earlier on Friday, a small Hindu temple in Tando Mohammad Khan was torched by unknown people, sparking protests by the enraged Hindu community and nationalist parties.
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[AnNahar] World powers and Iran began discussing late Sunday whether more time is needed to reach a nuclear deal, a U.S. official said, as they struggled to overcome major gaps barely 24 hours before a deadline.
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said world powers and Iran will make a "last push" for a deal before Monday's deadline even though the parties are far apart.
"At the moment we're focused on the last push, a big push tomorrow morning to try and get this across the line," Hammond told news hounds Sunday.
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It will be like most talks in the M.E. the deadline will just keep stretching.
[Ynet] The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... will hold a special meeting next week to discuss the rising tensions in Israel and the the Paleostinian territories, an official said Sunday. Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... will attend the meeting on November 29.
Arab foreign ministers meeting Saturday will discuss the latest unrest as well as plans by the Paleostinians to seek "membership in UN agencies", Arab League deputy chief Ahmed Ben Helli told news hounds.
Ben Helli said the Arab foreign ministers will also discuss Israeli activities in Jerusalem, which he said is "pushing the region to (an) kaboom" of violence and compromising peace efforts.
France is holding the toughest position at the talks with Iran and the six world powers on Iran’s nuclear programme, a source at the talks told TASS on Saturday.
The competition is to out-tough Champ: how hard can that be?
"At the moment, the French delegation is holding the toughest stance," the source said.
"The meetings within the format of a round of negotiations are underway, with consultations reaching an intensive phase," he said.
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[AnNahar] Iraq is seeking Jordan's military support in training its troops battling 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.... jihadist group, the Iraqi parliament speaker said Sunday during a visit to Amman.
"We firmly believe we need the support of the Jordanian kingdom in training our security forces," Salim al-Juburi told a presser.
"This will be on the agenda of our talks with our Jordanian brothers and we think the kingdom has a crucial role to play in this area," said Juburi, speaking alongside his Jordanian counterpart Atef Tarawneh.
Juburi pointed out that Turkey, another neighbor of Iraq, had offered its military support in the fight against IS, which has seized swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Jordan borders Iraq's Anbar province, much of which has been overrun by IS, and is one of several Arab countries taking part in U.S.-led air strikes against the jihadist group in Syria.
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This is either "we still don't know what to do" or "we will do anything to get out of this country".
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Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had announced on Wednesday the planned deployment of the six Mirage 2000-Ds to Jordan. French fighter jets are due to arrive in Jordan soon to join operations against the ISIS group in Iraq, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday.
"Every day, everywhere in the world, our military demonstrates its capacities in the service of France," Valls said in a speech at a French airbase in Niamey, where his visit is devoted to the fight against terrorism in the Sahel region.
France operates drone surveillance missions in the region from the Niamey base.
Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian had announced on Wednesday the planned deployment of the six Mirage 2000-Ds to Jordan.
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[Ynet] The government passed on Sunday the contentious Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, a controversial new bill which is threatening to tear the governing coalition apart, in a 14-7 vote, which saw the coalition split in its support for the legislation.
All of Yesh Atid's ministers voted against, as did Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. Culture Minister Limor Livnat abstained from the vote.
The Times of Israel has more on the bill here, including this clarification:
A final draft of a controversial bill that would define Israel as a Jewish state is set to be presented by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a Knesset plenum vote by the end of this week, following the cabinet's approval of two earlier versions of the contentious legislation on Sunday.
[Ynet] Shiite and Sunni holy mans from about 80 countries gathered in Iran's holy city of Qom on Sunday to develop a strategy to combat Death Eaters, including 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 that has captured large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Shiite-majority Iran has been helping Iraqi, Syrian and Kurdish forces battle the Sunni Death Eater group on the ground while the US-led coalition has been bombing it from the air. The Islamic State group views Shiites as apostates deserving of death and has massacred hundreds of captured Syrian and Iraqi soldiers, as well as Sunni rivals.
Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, the chief organizer of the conference, appealed for consensus among Islam's two main branches, urging all Moslemholy mans to work to discredit groups espousing extremism.
"Military attacks against this deviant group (IS) are necessary but insufficient. The roots of their violent ideology must be dried up. This is the job of Moslem scholars, to preach the true, moderate face of Islam and expose the ugly face of IS ideology," said Shirazi, a prominent Shiite holy man who has a large following in Iran and abroad.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Egypt would be ready to lend a hand in securing a future Palestinian state by sending in troops that could help out local police and offer Israel security guarantees, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi said in a newspaper interview.
SEOUL -- North Korean leader 
US Vice-President Joe Biden on Sunday wrapped up a key visit to Turkey without a breakthrough on military cooperation in the Syrian crisis but with officials confident the talks brought their positions closer.
