More on this story from yesterday, this time not from a Russian perspective.
[TheAviationist] The Trump administration has authorized the use of “offensive cyber operations” as part of a new national cyber strategy that aims at deterring attacks on the U.S. most critical networks, preventing interferences on future elections (in order to avoid a 2016 DNC hack) and face a wide array of intrusions, ranging from criminal activity to cyber espionage.
According to national security adviser John Bolton, the new policy will ease the rules on the use of cyber weapons to protect the nation and includes a new classified presidential directive that replaced one from the Obama administration.
According to the Washington Post, “In general, the president’s directive — called National Security Presidential Memorandum 13, or NSPM 13 — frees the military to engage, without a lengthy approval process, in actions that fall below the “use of force” or a level that would cause death, destruction or significant economic impacts, said individuals familiar with the policy who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss nonpublic information.”
In which the evil neo-Ottomans jail a nasty little Communist journalist who just happens to be a friend of the Kurds — the PKK, to be exact.
[AnNahar] A Ottoman Turkish court ordered an Austrian student and journalist to be kept in jail ahead of a trial on terror charges following his detention last week, his lawyer said on Friday.
Max Zirngast, who writes for the far-left German-language magazine Re:volt, was detained in Ankara on September 11 and formally tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! by the Ankara court late Thursday, his lawyer Tamer Dogan told AFP.
Zirngast, 29, was charged with being a member of an extreme leftist terror organization, Dogan added.
He had previously published articles on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged an insurgency inside The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... since 1984.
The PKK is blacklisted as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.
The Austrian has been in Turkey for three years and was a masters student at Middle East Technical University (ODTU) in the political sciences department.
He is accused of being a member of the Ottoman Turkish Communist Party (TKP)/Kivilcim group, which is banned by Turkey as a terror organization.
Two other suspects, Hatice Goz and Mithatcan Turetken, were also kept in jail by the court in the capital on the same charge.
But the lawyer and student claimed such an organization "doesn't exist".
"Max has no links with any illegal organization," Dogan said, adding that the student rejected the allegations against him.
"He is a journalist working in the scope of the law," the lawyer insisted, saying Zirngast had also written for jacobinmag.com and leftist German daily junge Welt.
Zirngast defended himself in Ottoman Turkish, refusing a translator.
Police asked Zirngast about books he had by leftwing intellectuals but he insisted he also had books of different political stances and literature texts, according to court testimony obtained by AFP.
Lawyer Dogan said the student had researched Hikmet Kivilcimli, a Ottoman Turkish communist leader and Marxist intellectual, and was asked by authorities why he conducted such research. He said it was for a university presentation.
Since the July 2016 attempted coup and subsequent arrest and conviction of journalists for alleged terror links, rights activists have condemned Ankara's violations of freedom of expression.
The arrest of Zirngast further risks increasing tensions between Ankara and Vienna, which has angered Turkey by calling for a freeze in its EU membership talks.
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[DAWN] New Delhi on Friday called off a meeting between the Pak and Indian foreign ministers on the sidelines of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit...
...an idea whose time has gone...
General Assembly, just a day after confirming the development.
Minister of External Affairs (MEA) Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar, confirming the development, cited "unclean intentions" on Pakistain's side.
"It is obvious that behind Pakistain's proposal for talks to make a fresh beginning, the evil agenda of Pakistain stands exposed and the true face of the new Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
... aka Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
has been revealed to the world in his first few months in office," he said. "Any conversation with Pakistain in such an environment would be meaningless."
The MEA spokesperson referred to the "killing of Indian security forces" allegedly by "Pak entities" and Islamabad's decision to release stamps allegedly "glorifying terrorists" as the reasons behind the cancellation of talks.
Pakistain Post had issued 20 special postage stamps on July 24, according to The Nation, carrying photos of Burhan Wani and his two associates. Hizbul Mujahideen ...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmire. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
commander Burhan Wani, a Kashmiri freedom fighter, was slain by Indian troops in 2017.
Although the stamps were issued on July 24, a day before the general elections were held, the issue was raised by Indian media in the last 24 hours.
A day earlier on Thursday, Raveesh Kumar had confirmed India's agreement to Pakistain's request for a meeting between Foreign Minister Qureshi and his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj on the sidelines of the UNGA.
The requests were made by PM Khan and Qureshi in two separate letters handed to Indian officials.
"I can confirm that on the request of the Pak side, a meeting between the external affairs minister and the Pak foreign minister will take place on the sidelines of the UNGA at a mutually convenient date and time," Kumar had said, stressing that the planned meeting should not be misconstrued as a dialogue.
"I must differentiate between meeting and a dialogue," said the Indian official. "This is a meeting and not dialogue. This is a meeting which we have agreed to, based on a request which we have got from the Pak side."
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The true face of Pakistan's leadership was revealed in 1949.
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Did you know there're still people in Israel who really believe that peace with "Palestinians" is possible?
[DAWN] Businessmen and traders on Thursday rejected the prime minister’s announcement for the grant of Pak citizenship to Afghan nationals living in the country for decades and warned that if the government made such a move, they would stop paying taxes and utility bills.
In separate statements, All Pakistain Commercial Exporters Association chairman Abdul Jalil, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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. Chamber of Small Traders and Small Industries senior vice president Haji Mamoor Khan and Markaz Tanzeem-e-Tajiran Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa president Malik Mehr Ilahi urged the premier to withdraw announcement on citizenship for Afghans, Bengalis saying it has caused serious unrest among businessmen and traders.
Mr Jalil said the country had around four million Afghans and most of them lived in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where they completely controlled different businesses.
"These Afghan nationals are not paying any kind of tax and are in the habit of fleeing to own country whenever the Federal Board of Revenue or other tax collecting agency cracks down on tax evaders," he said.
He said Paks regularly paid taxes but didn’t get incentives.
Mr Mamoor said the premier had issued the citizenship statement without knowing ground realities.
"We (businessmen and traders) have been left with no option but to stop paying utility bills and taxes as the foreigners doing different businesses don’t pay taxes," he warned.
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[IsraelTimes] Delegation to Moscow ’debunked’ claim Israeli jets hid behind spy plane, stressed jets had left area before Syrians fired fatal missile; Russia was notified ahead of strike
"Improvements" may be made to the Israeli military’s coordination with Russia over its operations in Syria in light of the downing of a Russian spy plane earlier this week, a senior Israeli army official said Friday. For now, he stressed, the deconfliction mechanism used by the two countries to coordinate activities was continuing to function effectively.
The official said an Israeli military delegation had answered Russia’s questions over Monday’s incident, including debunking the false notion that the Israeli jets had hidden behind the Russian plane. Israel also clarified that its attack planes had left the area before the Syrians fired the missile that downed the Russian plane.
He also said Israel notified the Russians ahead of the strike, and not a minute before as Moscow had originally claimed. The official said Israel had even played the Russians a recording of the telephone conversation between the IAF and the Russian air force base in Syria.
And he dismissed a pro-Hezbollah newspaper’s claim Friday that Russia had refused to accept Israel’s explanations over the incident, for which Israel firmly blames Syria.
On Thursday, an Israeli delegation led by Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin visited Moscow in order to brief Russian officials on Israel’s initial investigation of the incident, in which a Russian reconnaissance plane, with 15 crew members on board, was shot down by Syrian air defenses following an Israeli missile strike on a Syrian weapons facility on Monday night.
Despite the IDF’s insistence on its innocence, the incident initially threatened Israel’s coordination efforts with Russia ‐ known as the deconfliction mechanism ‐ which is meant to prevent such festivities and inadvertent casualties.
However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the bigwig, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , said the hotline between the Israeli and Russian militaries has continued to operate as normal, though some "improvements" may be made in the future.
For now, there are "no changes to the deconfliction mechanism," the officer said, adding "but both sides will use this opportunity to make adjustments."
According to the officer, the deconfliction mechanism was used as recently as Friday afternoon. He refused to comment on the nature of the operation that required the coordination, saying only that it was not an Arclight airstrike.
"It is of paramount importance to us that we continue to use the deconfliction mechanism, which has proven over the past two-and-a-half to three years to be effective," the officer said.
The Israeli military delegation, made up of officers from the Air Force, Military Intelligence, international cooperation unit, Operations Directorate and the General Staff, returned from Moscow on Friday morning.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli army report finds massive uptick in Syrian anti-aircraft barrages during IDF attacks, in hopes of repeating the downing of an IAF F-16 in February
The Israeli report into the downing a Russian plane off the coast of Syria during an Israeli Arclight airstrike on Monday runs some 40 pages in English and Russian and shows that Syrian anti-aircraft batteries fired dozens of barrages indiscriminately for 40 minutes after the initial Israeli attack.
In a highly unusual move, the IDF acknowledged the airstrike and released some of the findings of its initial investigation, which concluded that Syrian air defense units fired without aiming and "did not bother to ensure that no Russian planes were in the air."
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...During Operation LINEBACKER II in 1972, the USAF started off taking losses - but by the end, they had gotten their ECM and AAA suppression to the point where the North Vietnamese were simply salvoing missiles into the air blind (no tracking or lock) in the desperate hope that they'd hit something. All they did, of course, was blow through priceless missiles that couldn't be replaced as fast as they were shooting them.
Looks like Assad's people are to that point.
Good.
Mike
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"Linebacker", author Karl J.Eschmann.
This is quite the read and describes the air raids over North Vietnam. In the end they were indeed reduced to launching missiles aimlessly.
American firearms manufacturer Colt’s Manufacturing LLC was awarded a $57,722,819 contract for procurement of M4 carbine rifles.
On 20 September, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has announced that as part of the Foreign Military Sales the Colt’s Manufacturing LLC received a contract for procurement of up to 10,000 additional M4 and M4A1 5.56mm carbine rifles.
The new 5.56mm carbine rifles to be supplied to Jordan, Morocco, Afghanistan, Senegal, Tunisia and Pakistan as part of the Foreign Military Sales.
According to the DoD’s statement, work will be performed in West Hartford, Connecticut, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 20, 2019.
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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founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the 
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli army report finds massive uptick in Syrian anti-aircraft barrages during IDF attacks, in hopes of repeating the downing of an IAF F-16 in February
