[AlAhram] Egypt's Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat referred Saturday 61 alledged members of the "special wing" of the banned Moslem Brüderbund group to military prosecution in Egypt's Damietta and Menoufeya governorates.
In a statement issued by the general prosecution, Barakat said that top leaders in the banned group created "smaller committees that would establish gangs for a military wing inside the Brotherhood group."
It was also highlighted that the committees were divided into cells that were being trained in violence to target judges and members of the armed forces, police and public facilities.
The prosecutor stressed that the defendants confessed during investigations their involvement in planting improvised bombs in Alexandria and Damietta and also taking part in the "military wing."
In February 2015, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued a new law defining "terrorist entities" -- part of a sustained government campaign to fight terrorism.
In November 2014, Egypt's cabinet agreed to draft amendments to the military judiciary law that would empower military courts, in the wake of Lion of Islam attacks, to try terrorism-related cases.
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[IsraelTimes] Authorities say jihadist who killed 21 Shiite worshippers was wanted by security services for terror connections
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... on Saturday identified the jacket wallah who on Friday killed 21 worshipers at a mosque for the minority Shiite community and confirmed his link to 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.
"His name was Salih bin Abdulrahman Salih al-Ghishaami, a Saudi national," the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
"He was wanted by security services for belonging to a terrorist cell receiving directions from Daesh abroad," it said, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
On Friday IS said it was behind the murders, the first time the group has officially claimed an attack in Saudi Arabia.
But it identified the bomber as Abu Amer al-Najdi.
"The cell was discovered last month, and so far 26 of its members, all Saudi nationals, have been tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... ," the interior ministry said.
"The criminal investigation lab examined the remains of the terrorist's body and the scene of the crime, and it was determined that the type of explosives used was RDX."
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Yes, those were his shoes!! The rest, hard to say.
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[THEAUSTRALIAN.AU] YEMENI government front man Rageh Badi says embattled Yemeni president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi will not attend upcoming peace talks in Geneva as Saudi-led Arclight airstrikes continued to hit multiple provinces in Yemen.
SATURDAY'S announcement is a blow to the planned talks, which are aimed ending weeks of Arclight airstrikes against an Iran-supported rebel group amid a growing humanitarian crisis that has left millions short of food and fuel.
Badi says Hadi will not attend due to the security situation and because Shi'ite Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels have not satisfied a government pre-condition to pull out of towns and cities they occupy - including the capital, Sanaa.
The leader of the Houthi rebels, Abdul-Malek al-Houthi, has called the talks the "only solution" for the conflict
Meanwhile security officials said Saudi-led coalition Arclight airstrikes continued, hitting Sanaa, Dhamar, Hodeida and the Houthi stronghold of Saada early in the day.
At dawn, planes hit targets belonging to former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... and his family in the village of Sanhan, the officials said.
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[AnNahar] United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... officials in the Horn of Africa port of Djibouti said Saturday they had taken charge of the aid cargo carried by an Iranian boat headed for war-torn Yemen.
The vessel, the MV Shahed, is carrying 2,500 tonnes of aid including flour, rice, canned food, medical supplies and bottled water, all urgently needed in the conflict-wracked state just across the Gulf of Aden from Djibouti.
"The cargo has been handed over to WFP in Djibouti and is currently being offloaded," said U.N. World Food Program spokeswoman Abeer Etefa told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The ship carries 2,500 ton of humanitarian aid and that includes mainly rice and wheat flour, as well as medicine, water, tents and blankets."
Djiboutian authorities said the Iranian fat merchantman arrived late Friday night in the Gulf of Aden port.
"The ship will be completely unloaded and reloaded onto other vessels, everything is transparent," Djibouti port authority chief Abubaker Hadi told AFP.
The ship's mission was overshadowed by U.S. calls for it to head to a U.N. emergency relief hub in Djibouti instead of docking in the Yemeni port of Hodeida.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... accuses Iran of arming Yemen's Houthis, but Tehran denies the charge.
Iran says it is helping in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... by opposing air strikes and providing aid.
All aid and humanitarian assistance will be sent on WFP ships to Yemen, either in the port of Hodeida, or the southern port of Aden, Etefa added.
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[AnNahar] A London taxi driver who made bombs targeting coalition troops in Iraq, one of which killed a U.S. soldier, was on Friday tossed in the calaboose Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! for life with a minimum of 38 years after being convicted of murder.
Anis Sardar, 38, built an improvised bomb (IED) which killed Sergeant First Class Randy Johnson of 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment when it went kaboom! under his armoured vehicle outside Baghdad on September 27, 2007.
Sardar was tossed in the clink You have the right to remain silent... in London in September 2014 after the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation found his fingerprints on two bombs which were planted in the area at the time, although not the one which killed Johnson.
Sentencing him at London's Woolwich Crown Court, the day after a jury found him guilty of murder, Judge Henry Globe told Sardar that the soldier's death "was a loss for which you are directly responsible".
The judge rejected Sardar's defence that he had only been involved once in making a bomb, to protect the Sunni community from Shiite militias.
"I am satisfied that at the material time of the offences you had a mindset that made Americans every bit the enemy as Shiite militias. Both were in your contemplation at all times," he said.
Britannia's Crown Prosecution Service said it had been a "landmark" case, showing that "international borders are no barrier to holy warriors in the UK being brought to justice".
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Should have gone to GITMO, he'd be out by now with a piece of paper saying he's been rehabbed.
[Dawn] NEW DELHI: India is going for intelligence-backed "targeted kills in (India-held) Kashmire" while militarily dominating the Line of Control with Pakistain, forcing a 30 per cent decline in both ceasefire violations as well as "infiltration bids", the Indian defence minister has claimed in a newspaper interview.
"The situation is pretty much under control. Our proactive attitude is to identify holy warriors and then effectively neutralise them. Every case is handled firmly with clear-cut intelligence for targeted kills, ensuring minimal if any collateral damage," said Manohar Parrikar in his interview with the Times of India.
The aim is to exploit the differences between holy warrior outfits for both intelligence-gathering as well as surgical strikes, the minister said. "Many holy warriors are drawn into terrorism because of financial allurements... they are paid money for it. If such people are there, why not use them? Why should our soldiers be in the front?" asked the straight-talking minister.
About Pakistain's behaviour, he said "the situation actually depends on how we react to it", stressing India's "very firm" response was paying dividends. As per the Indian defence ministry figures, there has been a 32 per cent decline in "Pakistain-initiated ceasefire violations and a decrease of 28 per cent in successful infiltrations" since the Narendra Modi government came to office in May last year.
Defence minister hints at plan to cut army's 'non-operational flab'
On the China front, Mr Parrikar made it clear he had imposed just a "temporary freeze" on the ongoing raising of the army's new Mountain Strike Corps (MSC), which is geared towards acquiring quick-reaction ground offensive capabilities across the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
"It's downsizing of the plan, not the MSC itself. The previous UPA government arbitrarily approved it without any allocation of funds or proper planning," he said. "I have put a temporary stop (to the MSC)... it does not mean permanent. The 37,000 troops already inducted need proper infrastructure, arms and equipment, which are currently being drawn from our reserves since the previous government made no arrangements," he said.
The minister said he would undertake a review of the non-operational flab in the 1.18-million strong army, which would then be slashed to save money. "I will first make financial provisions and then come back to the MSC," he added.
The raising of the new corps, which began in January 2014, is part of the overall military plan to belatedly counter China's build-up of trans-border military capabilities and infrastructure all along the 4,057-km LAC.
The army believes that it will not only act as a deterrent against China, but also keep Pakistain off-balance. The logic is to have "requisite deterrence" since China can move over 30 divisions (each with over 15,000 soldiers) to the LAC, outnumbering Indian forces by at least 3:1 there.
With two new infantry divisions geared up for high-altitude warfare as well as armoured, artillery, air defence, engineer brigades spread from Ladakh to Sikkim, the 17 Corps is slated to have its headquarters at Panagarh in West Bengal and be fully in place by 2018-19.
[Dawn] ISLAMABAD: The adviser to the prime minister on national security and foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... , expressed serious concern over the statement made by Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar that India will use terrorism to counter terrorism from other countries.
This statement, Aziz said, only confirms Islamabad's apprehensions about India's involvement in terrorism in Pakistain.
"It must be the first time that a minister of an elected government openly advocates use of terrorism in another country on the pretext of preventing terrorism from that country or its non-state actors," said the national security adviser.
Pakistain sincerely pursues a policy of good neighbourly relations with India, maintained Aziz.
"Terrorism is our common enemy and it is vital for the two countries to work together to defeat this menace, from which Pakistain has suffered much more than almost any other country," he asserted.
"The statement of Indian defence minister is open and blatant admission and declaration of sponsoring terrorism," Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said in an official statement issued late on Saturday.
Asif said Indian defence minister specifically mentioned that regulation will not be used to quell terrorist activities and terrorism will be promoted instead.
"This is the worst kind of declaration by a state functionary of cabinet level which confirms that India is sponsoring terrorism against its neighbours in the name of preventing terrorist activities," Asif said.
Earlier, Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, in a shocking and radical statement, has asserted that forces of Evil have to be neutralised only through terrorists.
"India will take proactive steps to prevent a 26/11 type attack," Press Trust of India quoted him saying.
Commenting on the shocking utterances of the Indian Defence Minister, a defence analyst said the statement was appalling and beyond comprehension.
Speaking at an event in New Delhi, the minister used the Hindi phrase "kante se kanta nikalna" (removing a thorn with a thorn) and wondered why Indian soldiers should be used to neutralise terrorists. The proactive steps, he said, could include pressure tactics.
"We have to neutralise forces of Evil through forces of Evil only. Why can't we do it? We should do it. Why does my soldier have to do it?" he said and added that the issue could not be discussed beyond this.
"There are certain things that I obviously cannot discuss here. But if there is any country, planning something against my country, we will definitely take some pro-active steps," he said.
The defence analyst lamented that the menace of terrorism could not be defeated by promoting state-sponsored terrorism.
India, he added, was carving out a disastrous strategy as it would never help in rooting out terrorism, which was a global issue threatening all states.
The international community should take notice of this irresponsible statement, which was reflecting a sick mindset, he stressed.
[Rudaw] An Anbar tribal leader has announced his tribe will remain neutral in any fight between the central Iraqi government and the forces 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.... "The Iraqi government did not give our tribe even one piece of ammunition, and our tribe has collectively decided to stop fighting ISIS because the Iraqi army abandoned us, therefore it is better we fight for our own destiny," Sheikh Rafi Abdulkarim Al-Fahdawi of the Albu Fahd tribe told the Al-Mada Iraqi newspaper Friday in Baghdad.
"When Ramadi fell to ISIS our forces immediately retreated in Ramadi and we did not care about the disappointments the Iraqi army confronted us with," he added.
Fahdawi said the Albu Fahd tribe had defended areas of eastern Ramadi.
"We managed to obtain enough weapons to defend us from ISIS, and we made a buffer wall," he said. "We attempted a lot to stop the Iraqi army from fleeing, but when they hear gunfire they just run."
The buffer wall Albu Fahd had constructed in the Joiba area of eastern Ramadi was destroyed by ISIS, and the tribe withdrew in Ramadi to a safer place called Husseiba 7 kilometers away from the city center, but the Iraqi army again fled from the area, according to Fahdawi.
"The Iraqi joint forces in Ramadi consisted of the SWAT forces, the 8th Iraqi Brigade and the Golden Force, but they left us in the dark of the night and let ISIS enter Ramadi, and now we insist we will not fight for the Iraqi army against ISIS," he continued.
The Islamic State group seized control of Ramadi on May 15, sending Iraqi forces racing out of the city in a major loss despite the support of US-led Arclight airstrikes targeting the Death Eaters.
Online videos showed Humvees, trucks and other equipment purportedly speeding out of Ramadi with some soldiers gripping onto their sides. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered security forces not to abandon their posts across Anbar province, apparently fearing the Death Eaters could capture the entirety of the vast Sunni province that saw intense fighting after the 2003 US-led invasion of the country to topple dictator Saddam Hussein.
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[Rudaw] A shocking betrayal, waves of suicide kabooms, days hiding in the desert. This is a first-hand account by a top Kurdish commander in the Iraqi armed forces about what really happened -- and what happens next -- in Ramadi, Anbar and Iraq.
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In the past year and half we engaged in major battles. At times, ISIS targeted the Iraqi Army and police with 25 boom-mobiles, yet our forces managed to fight back and repel the attacks.
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that didn't happen and the convoys reached Anbar and Tikrit
One of the weirdest parts of this story. Convoys are sitting ducks for air power, along with IS victory parades in captured towns.
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[INSURGEintelligence] A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.
The document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, the West intentionally sponsored violent Islamist groups to destabilize Assad, and that these "supporting powers" desired the emergence of a "Salafist Principality" in Syria to "isolate the Syrian regime."
According to the newly declassified US document, the Pentagon foresaw the likely rise of the 'Islamic State' as a direct consequence of this strategy, and warned that it could destabilize Iraq. Despite anticipating that Western, Gulf state and Turkish support for the "Syrian opposition"â--âwhich included al-Qaeda in Iraqâ--âcould lead to the emergence of an 'Islamic State' in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the document provides no indication of any decision to reverse the policy of support to the Syrian rebels. On the contrary, the emergence of an al-Qaeda affiliated "Salafist Principality" as a result is described as a strategic opportunity to isolate Assad. Maybe, just maybe, US presidency is not a good place for affirmative action?
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Nice, "It would have predicted", not going to work, you can't "Predict" in arrears. (Maybe Al Sharpoton,)
That's "Covering you'r ass".
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The operating principle here is, if the US supports someone, there will be someone else violently opposed. Just because, and maybe they have a point.
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BusHitler ISS imperial commander, founder, funder and serious so ons.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Sunday that the United State can not protect anyone in Syria, Iraq or Lebanon from the radical Islamic State group.
Obama the uniter: Israel, Saudi, and Hizbollah agree on a subject.
Beirut -- Every few weeks for the past year, Lebanon’s parliament has met, exchanged pleasantries, and made the same announcement: that it has again been unable to elect a president.
Did you notice? I didn't notice...
Pluralistic but divided Lebanon has now been without a head of state for 12 months, the longest time the post has been vacant since the devastating civil war ended in 1990. But analysts say that regional conflicts, particularly the raging war in neighbouring Syria, make a presidential election in Lebanon unlikely in the near future.
“As long as the region is in constant turmoil, as we are experiencing now... Lebanon will have a difficult time agreeing on a president,” said Imad Salamey, professor of political science at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.
Lebanon will have a difficult time surviving...
Sahar Atrash, analyst at the International Crisis Group, told that Lebanon, which is influenced heavily by regional powerhouses Iran and Saudi Arabia, “is not a priority” for now.
“Today, the regional sponsors are waging direct wars and proxy wars, and the regional issues are much bigger than meeting to elect a president for Lebanon,” she said.
Since Michel Sleiman’s term in office ended on May 25, 2014, parliament — which is responsible for electing the president — has failed 23 times to meet the two-thirds quorum required to hold an electoral session.
Since independence, Lebanon’s leadership posts have been distributed among its largest religious sects: Sunni, Shia and Christians, for whom the presidency is reserved.
With the onset of the Syrian regime’s tutelage over Lebanon in 1990, the head of state — whose powers had largely been weakened — was elected with specific orders from Damascus. Today, the country’s political class is split into two coalitions: March 8, which includes the powerful movement Hezbollah and supports the Syrian regime, and March 14, led by former premier Saad Hariri and bolstered by the West and Saudi Arabia.
The Christians — who make up 35 per cent of Lebanon’s population — are divided evenly among the two groupings.
Brilliant, evenly divided between two groups, both of which want you dead...
Since the withdrawal of Syrian troops in 2005, Lebanon’s fractious political parties have been unable to organise regular and independent presidential elections. In 2008, a seven-month presidential vacancy ended only after Qatar’s intervention, which led the bickering parties to belatedly agree on Sleiman as head of state.
“Having a regional struggle that is sectarian-oriented does not help Lebanon reach a consensus among its three sectarian groups,” Salamey said. As conflicts between political rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran play themselves out in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, Lebanon’s political class sits and waits, Atrash said.
Syria’s war is the most divisive for Lebanon, which hosts more than one million Syrian refugees and regularly faces spillover violence from across the border. That conflict has deepened sectarian faultlines between Lebanon’s Sunnis and Shias, “strengthening ties between sectarian groups and their sponsor states — the Sunnis with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and the Shias with Iran,” Salamey said.
He believes that the only way to overcome the presidential impasse is “as part of a regional solution, particularly in Syria”.
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It's probably part of the whole 'why should I make myself into a bigger target' train of thought.
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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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[WSJ] Case dating back nearly two decades is said to have inspired TV’s ‘Orange Is the New Black’
[AlAhram] Egypt's Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat referred Saturday 61 alledged members of the "special wing" of the banned 
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[AnNahar] A London taxi driver who made bombs targeting coalition troops in Iraq, one of which killed a U.S. soldier, was on Friday 
