[Ynet] Egyptian authorities freed an Egyptian-American on Saturday who was sentenced to life in prison and had been on hunger strike for over a year, forcing him to renounce his Egyptian citizenship as a precondition of his release.
What makes you think we want him?
Mohammed Soltan, the son of a prominent member of the now-outlawed Moslem Brüderbund, had been convicted on charges of financing an anti-government sit-in and spreading "false news," one of thousands imprisoned after the 2013 military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
Soltan, a 27-year-old Ohio State University graduate and former Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... campaigner, was jugged Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in August 2013 when security forces came looking for his father at his home. His family said they didn't find the father at the time, but arrested him instead. His father, Salah, was detained later.
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[AlAhram] Rafah Crossing, operating in one direction for outbound traffic, saw the passage of 1,413 Paleostinians to their homes in Gazoo
Egypt closed its border crossing with Gazoo after a three-day opening period that saw the passage of at least 1,413 Paleostinians to their homes in Gazoo.
Rafah Crossing, which was closed since March, was initially scheduled to open for two days. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... Egyptian authorities extended the opening by one day to allow the passage of stranded Paleostinians to Gazoo.
Also during the three days, 3,367 tons of construction materials as well as 100 chairs for the disabled passed into Gazoo, security sources at Rafah told Egypt's state news agency MENA.
The crossing, which is the only passage to the Paleostinian territory not controlled by Israel, was operating in one direction, for outbound traffic only.
Egyptian authorities have kept the frontier mostly closed since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2013, citing security concerns in the Sinai Peninsula where troops are battling an Islamist insurgency.
The Sinai-based Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis murderous Moslem group have grabbed credit for the majority of attacks in North Sinai.
[ALMANAR.LB] 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... received on Friday and Saturday letters of solidarity from various international and regional bodies, condemning the terrorist attack around Al-Anoud Mosque in Dammam.
In Egypt, Al Azhar Imam Ahmad el Tayyeb condemned on Friday the suicide kaboom outside the Dammam mosque, asserting the need to respect the brotherhood of Islam.
"Bloodshed is forbidden and houses of worship should be distanced from conflicts," Tayyeb said in a statement, stressing the importance of not being dragged into sectarian rifts.
Al-Tayeb stressed the need to give priority to reason and wisdom, and not to be deceived by schemes seeking to ignite sectarian strife.
The Board of Senior Ulema on Friday also condemned the suicide attack near Al-Anoud Mosque in Dammam, stating that the " terrorist groups behind the ghastly attack on Al-Anoud Mosque and Al-Qudaih's Ali Bin Abi Talib Mosque have exposed their hideous faces."
In a statement issued on Friday and carried by the Saudi Press Agency, the board said: "Islam forbids attacking places of worship even in legitimate wars. How can one target mosques in a Moslem society and a country that rules by the Shariah and serves the Two Holy Mosques?"
The statement also called for unity to "root out the menace of terrorism from our society."
A jacket wallah - disguised in women's clothing - went kaboom! in the parking lot of a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia's Eastern city of Dammam.
A member of the Popular Committees (PC) - formed of residents and are charged of defending the mosque - suspected the terrorist and informed the Saudi security forces deployed there, yet he didn't receive an answer. Then, he immediately rushed to catch the bomber who was hurry to detonate himself several meters away from the place, killing four people including himself.
The blast also set several cars ablaze.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran strongly condemned the attack, and stressed the need for taking all necessary measures to prevent such incidents in the future.
"We stress the need for taking all measures to prevent such incidents and to seriously confront all those who have targeted the regional security and stability and intend to stir the religious differences,' Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Friday night.
For his part, Head of The Union of Tribes and Clans in Arab States, Ma'an al-Jarba, strongly condemned the twin terrorist attacks in on Al-Anoud and Al-Qudaih's Ali Bin Abi Talib Mosques.
In a statement issued on Friday, Jarba reiterated warns of playing with the flame of sectarian sedition, and spreading hatred among religions and sects, and eliminating the human values.
"All this will pave the way for the enemies of Islamic Ummah, and will disperse its unity, calling for facing the takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed... terrorist expansion through rejecting the Wahhabi ideology and that of Ibn Taimiya.
Moreover, the Head of Arab Parliament, Ahmad bin Mohammed Al-Jarwan, condemned the criminal attempt to target the Dammam mosque, and said in a statement: "Terrorists seek to destabilize the Arab and Islamic nations' security... Terrorism will never succeed in destabilizing national security."
Also, Head of Al-Ashraf Syndicate Mahmoud el Sharif and Chief of the Supreme Council of the Sufi Orders Abdel Hadi el Qasabi condemned the terror attack.
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Of course they did. It would have been worth it, had it worked. I s'pose he already had so much socked away that he wasn't impressed by mere millions.
[AnNahar] Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh said in an interview broadcast Friday he had rejected "millions of dollars" Saudi Arabia offered him if he stood up to the Shiite rebels.
"They told us 'we'll pay you millions of dollars if you ally with us'" against the Huthis, Saleh told the Beirut-based al-Mayadeen television channel, adding that he rejected the offer.
He accused the Sunni-ruled kingdom of seeking to sow "sedition" in his country, saying its "hatred" for the Huthis was "sectarian."
The former strongman, who ruled Yemen for three decades before being forced out after a year-long popular uprising, insisted: "I will not accept power for myself or my son" Ahmed, who led the elite Republican Guard troops during his rule.
It is unclear where and when the interview took place.
Saudi-led coalition warplanes began an air campaign against the Huthis and forces allied to Saleh in Yemen on March 26.
Saleh still heads Yemen's influential political party the General People's Congress, and many people among country's security forces remain loyal to him.
President Erdogan's war against his former BFF continues.
[Ynet] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's banking regulator said Friday a state fund has seized a bank associated with a movement led by the US-based Moslemholy man Fethullah Gulen, which authorities have accused of attempting to destabilize the government.
The banking agency said the Savings Deposit Insurance Fund had taken took full control of Bank Asya, citing "problems" within its financial structure. It said the move aimed to safeguard trust and stability in Turkey's financial system.
Critics said the takeover is part of a government crackdown on the movement it accuses of orchestrating a corruption scandal in 2013 to topple it. Hundreds of police and judiciary officials suspected of ties to the movement have been dismissed.
All the cool countries are at least looking into this.
[AnNahar] A revised Canadian immigration law came into force Friday enabling the government to revoke the citizenship of persons convicted of terrorism, treason, spying or taking up arms against Canadian soldiers.
The latter provision is aimed in part at Canadians who travel to Syria and Iraq to join 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 fighting a U.S.-led coalition that includes Canada.
Canadian politicians are concerned about a growing number of youths travelling overseas to join jihadists.
According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, more than 100 Canadians have joined the IS group's ranks, including at least a dozen men and women in their teens or twenties who have attempted to make the trip so far this year.
The new immigration law, however, affects only Canadians with dual citizenship.
[DAWN] PHOENIX: Anti-Islam protesters--some of them heavily armed--faced off against religious rights demonstrators outside a US mosque Friday, in a tense but peaceful standoff.
About 200 demonstrators from each group stood outside the mosque in Phoenix, Arizona, where a biker crew had said they would hold a Mohammed cartoon contest.
Dozens of officers lined up between the two sets of protesters, using yellow police tape to separate them near the gates of the Islamic Community Center mosque in north Phoenix.
"Stop Islam" was among the slogans on placards held by bearded bikers, one of whom wore a T-shirt reading "Support Your Local White Boy" and had a shouting match with rival demonstrators across the police lines.
Several anti-Islam protesters were heavily armed--some with AR-15 assault rifles--and wore military fatigues. Arizona has some of the laxest gun laws in the United States.
But after several hours of tension, the standoff eased--though officers kept the two groups apart.
Organisers of the anti-Islam protests said on their Facebook page that it was in response to a recent failed attack in Texas where two gunnies were rubbed out before they could storm an event including a Mohammed cartoon drawing competition.
"Everyone is encouraged to bring American flags and any message that you would like to send to the known acquaintances of the 2 gunman," who frequented the Phoenix mosque, the Facebook page said.
The anti-Islam protest's organizer, former Marine Jon Ritzheimer, told CNN before the Friday night demonstration: "I think the whole thing, the cartoon contest especially, I think it's stupid and ridiculous."
"But it's what needs to take place in order to expose the true colors of Islam," he added.
The rally initially was organized by a Phoenix man who believes Islam is a violent religion. On Friday, he led about 250 people who carried guns, American flags and drawings of the Prophet Muhammad to the mosque.
That group was met by an equally sized group of protesters, some holding signs promoting love and peace, who came to show their support for the Moslem community.
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[Right Scoop] Dana Perino dramatically ended a very contentious debate on the Five when she announced that if there's another terrible attack on America, the Federal Government will gobble up more civil liberties "than anything you've ever imagined."
Watch the entire debate below, Dana's comment comes at the end: Parino's statement should not be seen as a warning, but rather an administration goal.
I should think these comments should be taken with great seriousness, as Dana was the press secretary for George W. Bush and probably has a pretty keen understanding of what the Federal Government has in store for us if there's another attack. "We came very close to martial law following 9/11." ~ General Tommy Franks
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"We came very close to martial law following 9/11." ~ General Tommy Franks
Not like it didn't happen to some degree before, as in, say the US Civil War, or World War I, and to a lesser extent in WWII... but that requires an impartial knowledge of US history.
Also, it rather puts the "go shopping" remark in a rather different light, no?
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No exaggeration here - a five mile run in full combat gear in 20 minutes. That's five four-minute miles consecutively. Ahh - right. I'm sure that's accurate.
[DAWN] Zim-bob-we said on Saturday it will continue its cricket tour of Pakistain despite an apparent suicide kaboom leaving two people dead outside the stadium during a match between the two sides.
Friday's kaboom -- which the information minister said was a suicide kaboom, though police insist it was an accident --
Both sides could be correct...
threatened to torpedo cricket-mad Pakistain's first series on home soil since an attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in March 2009.
The blast, which did not affect the match itself, triggered a news blackout in Pak media and came despite heavy security in and around Lahore's Qadaffy Stadium.
The visitors' decision to play on means the two sides will face off in the third and final one-day international at the same venue on Sunday.
Pakistain has so far won all of the matches in the series -- two Twenty20 meets and two earlier one-day internationals.
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[AnNahar] A growing number of myrmidon groups from Africa to southeast Asia are shifting their allegiance 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, leading to greater risks for "cross-pollination" among conflicts beyond Syria and Iraq, the head of Interpol said Friday.
Juergen Stock cited this shift as an emerging trend at a U.N. Security Council meeting along with changing travel methods being used by imported muscle seeking to join groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
Johnson said the United States will be developing a new passenger data-screening and analysis system within the next 12 months which will be made available to the international community at no cost for both commercial and government organizations to use.
Stock was a keynote speaker at a meeting attended by half a dozen ministers including U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to assess progress in implementing a U.S.-sponsored resolution adopted last September requiring all countries to prevent the recruitment and transport of would-be imported muscle preparing to join myrmidon groups.
On Friday, the Security Council adopted a presidential statement calling for a significant increase in border controls, improved cooperation at all levels "including preventing Death Eaters from exploiting technology, communications and resources."
Johnson said the United States will be developing a new passenger data-screening and analysis system within the next 12 months which will be made available to the international community at no cost for both commercial and government organizations to use.
In a report obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on April 1, the panel of experts monitoring U.N. sanctions against al-Qaeda said the number of fighters leaving home to join al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group in Iraq, Syria and other countries has spiked to more than 25,000 from over 100 nations. The panel said its analysis indicated the number of "foreign terrorist fighters" worldwide increased by 71 percent between mid-2014 and March 2015.
Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said most are young men motivated by myrmidon ideologies but he called for an examination of the reasons why more women and girls are joining the groups as well. He said he plans to present a plan of action to prevent violent extremism to the General Assembly later this year.
"No country can tackle this challenge alone," Ban said.
The Security Council Counterterrorism Committee said in a report Friday that it identified an initial 67 countries most affected by "foreign terrorist fighters," examined what 21 countries have done to address the threat and found that only five required advanced information on airplane passengers. It said most engage in international cooperation and nearly all have taken steps to prohibit incitement to terrorism under their criminal laws but only 13 countries had criminalized the financing of terrorism.
Interpol's Stock urged the 193 U.N. member states to share more information, "and share it even better," stressing that the international police organization database includes information from fewer than 100 countries and just over 4,000 names.
"Intelligence is crossing borders, but at a much slower pace than foreign terrorist fighters are," he said.
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[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] The boys said they approached the French soldiers because they were hungry. Some were so young they didn't quite understand the acts the soldiers demanded in return. One boy, 8 or 9 years old, said he did it several times to the same soldier, "until one day an older kid saw him and told him what he was doing was bad."
Another boy, 9, said he thought the soldiers had been urinating.
U.N. Sherlocks heard such stories of sexual abuse from several boys in May and June 2014 in Central African Republic, where French soldiers were protecting a sprawling displaced persons camp in the conflict-torn capital, Bangui.
One year later, revelations about how the U.N. handled the boys' accounts have horrified people both inside and outside the world body. Statements marked "strictly confidential" have shown that its top human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... officials failed to follow up for several months on the allegations their own office had collected.
On Saturday, the high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Raad al-Hussein, said his office was sending a team to Central African Republic to look into what the statement called "possible further measures to address human rights violations," including sexual violence. The office also will ask "concerned states" what they have done to investigate them and prosecute anyone.
No arrests have been announced, and it's not clear where the accused soldiers, who were supporting a U.N. peacekeeping force, are now. The U.N. seems unable to say when the abuses stopped, or how long it continued to investigate.
On Friday, more documents were released by a non-governmental organization run by two former U.N. staffers that's calling for an independent investigation into the case. The documents show U.N. officials scrambling not so much to help a French inquiry into the allegations but to investigate the human rights staffer who told French authorities in the first place.
A separate report with the children's allegations, obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, says the first account was heard May 19 by a human rights staffer and a UNICEF child protection officer. The interviews continued through June 24. A Geneva-based human rights staffer shared the report with French authorities in July.
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The Food for Nookie program is still alive and well. Sorry to say.
Interesting that their first reaction was to go after the staffer who reported it. But not suprising given the U.N. Makes one wonder how widespread and high the program goes.
h/t Dry Bones
Whether a person is a Shia or a Sunni Muslim in Iraq can now be, quite literally, a matter of life and death.
As the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, has seized vast territories in western and northern Iraq, there have been frequent accounts of fighters' capturing groups of people and releasing the Sunnis while the Shias are singled out for execution.
ISIS believes that the Shias are apostates and must die in order to forge a pure form of Islam. The two main branches of Islam diverge in their beliefs over who is the true inheritor of the mantle of the Prophet Muhammad. The Shias believe that Islam was transmitted through the household of the Prophet Muhammad. Sunnis believe that it comes down through followers of the Prophet Muhammad who, they say, are his chosen people.
But how can ISIS tell whether a person is a Sunni or a Shia? From accounts of people who survived encounters with the militants, it seems they often ask a list of questions. Here are some of them:
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Shias believe that the leadership of Islam was passed down through the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law Ali and his sons Hussain (or Hussein) .. ISIS would most likely associate them with the Shias.
What's Champ's middle name, again? Might that explain his preference for ValJar?
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Bridgekeeper: Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.
Sir Lancelot: Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I am not afraid.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your name?
Sir Lancelot: My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?
Sir Lancelot: To seek the Holy Grail.
Bridgekeeper: What... is your favourite colour?
Sir Lancelot: Blue.
Bridgekeeper: Go on. Off you go.
Sir Lancelot: Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.
[Rudaw] ERBIL, Kurdistan Region -- The United Kingdom has announced it will boost its commitment to Iraq, agreeing to send military experts to Iraq and the Kurdistan region to train bomb-disposal teams and other Iraqi forces, the UK National Security Council in a statement on Thursday.
The UK will send military advisers, trainers and an undisclosed number of soldiers, according to the statement. The announcement from the UK described the Kurdistan region as safe and conducive for carrying out military campaigns against 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 military trainers will share their skills in dealing with roadside kabooms and other improvised bombs that have been a favorite weapon of Islamic State [ISIS] holy warriors," said the statement.
"The UK wants to send bomb-disposal teams to Erbil and Baghdad to provide military facilities to the Iraqi forces," the statement said.
According to UK media, 100 military advisers and military trainers have been stationed in the Kurdistan region and have trained 1,200 Peshmerga on weapons, urban warfare and bomb disposal.
The UK launched its first Arclight airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq on September 30, four days after British parliament approved military action following a request from the Iraqi government.
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] With most of its natural and mineral resources having fallen under rebel control, Syrian state revenues have shrunk, leaving the government dependent on unstable sources of income for its survival.
Four years of conflict have decimated the state coffers.
Now the government's only revenues are drawn from dwindling customs and income taxes, heavily bolstered by lines of credit from key regime backer Iran.
With the rise of the ISIS jihadi group, the regime has also lost control over swaths of vital resources -- with two phosphate mines among its most recent losses.
According to local activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based group that monitors the conflict, ISIS last weekend seized Sharqiya and Khneifess, 50 kilometers southwest of the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria.
Both sites were run by the state and accounted for much of the regime's last remaining exports.
An Oil Ministry official said Sharqiya produced at least 3 million tons of phosphate a year and Khneifess generated 850,000 tons.
Before the war broke out in 2011, Syria was the fifth-largest phosphate exporter in the world, mainly selling to Leb, Romania and Greece.
In the first quarter of 2015, Syria sold 408,000 tons of phosphate in total, on the domestic market and abroad, according to the ministry.
Phosphate sales raised some $39 million, with exports accounting for all but $4 million.
Already this year's exports have less than halved from the 988,000 tons sold in the first three months of 2011 that brought in $63 million for the government.
However, ars longa, vita brevis... with the loss of Sharqiya and Khneifess, prospects are dim for a government which projected income of $160 million in 2015 phosphate sales.
"For the state, whose resources are being depleted, it's a net loss. In the current situation, any returns are important," explained Jihad Yazigi, who runs Syria Report, an economic weekly.
Syria's oil resources are not faring much better.
The regime had relied heavily on oil revenues, which brought in $3.8 billion in 2011, around a quarter of total state income.
But output took a drastic hit in 2011 when the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... imposed an oil embargo to sanction the regime's brutal repression of anti-government protests.
The cash-strapped government has since lost control of a string of oil fields to ISIS murderous Moslems.
In 2013, ISIS faceless myrmidons seized all the fields in the oil-rich eastern province of Deir al-Zor, generating funds for the group's operations.
By September 2014, ISIS was producing more oil than the regime: 80,000 barrels per day, compared to the government's 17,000 bpd, the Oil Ministry said.
And by the end of last year, official production had plunged to 9,329 bpd, compared to prewar output of 380,000 bpd.
According to Syria Report, ISIS seized yet another oil field from the regime last week -- Jazal, which produced 2,500 bpd.
So far, natural gas fields have been the least affected by ISIS' rampage through Syria.
Oil Minister Suleiman al-Abbas said regime-controlled fields produce some 10 million cubic meters per day.
But the figure does not take into account the loss of Arak and Al-Hail, two fields in central Syria that IS overran earlier this month.
"Even if Syria had never exported its gas, it would still be crucial for electricity generation. Losing gas fields is a terrible blow to an already devastated economy," Yazigi said.
Before its complex and multifront conflict broke out four years ago, Syria was a key exporter of agricultural products, textiles and leather, medicine, flowers and ceramic goods.
Total exports have plummeted from $11.3 billion in 2010 to $1.8 billion in 2014, according to the pro-government newspaper Al-Watan.
With export markets drying up, Syria has grown increasingly reliant on income taxes and customs, which brought in around $550 million in 2014, an official told AFP.
And Iran's credit lines, which have provided at least $4.6 billion to Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's regime, are part of a shrinking network of crucial but unstable revenue sources.
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Once the embargo on Iran is lifted, Iran can make up the difference.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
