[DAWN] An Afghan Taliban spokesperson said Thursday that a report stating the leadership of the faction is willing to hold peace talks with US officials is fabricated.
Zabiullah Mujahid has said that reports of the faction pushing for peace talks are false.
Earlier, a Rooters report had quoted senior Mighty Pak Army and diplomatic officials as saying that the Afghan Taliban have signalled through the Pak military that they are willing to open peace talks, which could be held later in the day.
The Rooters report had also quoted sources within the Afghan Taliban as saying that their negotiators would hold the first round of peace talks with US officials in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... later on Thursday, although no comment was immediately available from US or Qatari officials.
Previous efforts to negotiate an end to a war that began in late 2001 have proved fruitless, but the latest signals had raised hopes of a much-needed boost for new Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf 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. .. .
"The first session will take place today in Qatar and then there would be another session on Friday. Let us see what happens as talks before did not yield any results," a senior member of the Afghan Taliban had said by telephone from Qatar.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] Militants loyal to the Islamic State said three suicide car bombers staged attacks in eastern Libya on Friday, killing at least 35 people in apparent retaliation for Egyptian airstrikes following the mass beheadings of Christian migrant workers.
The bloodshed in Qubba -- near the Islamic State stronghold of Derna on the Mediterranean coast -- was among the deadliest attacks by the militants against civilians in Libya as they seek to expand amid the country's internal chaos.
It also comes less than a week after Egyptian warplanes targeted Islamic State sites in Derna in response to the beheading of 21 Christians, all but one from Egypt.
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killing at least 35 people [presumably Libyans] in apparent retaliation for Egyptian airstrikes
[Libya Herald] ''Turkey shall lose its investments in Libya, if it continues to support terrorism'', Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah Thinni warned in an interview with the Sharq Al Awasat newspaper on Wednesday.
''We have solid evidence of the involvement of foreign nations supporting terrorist organizations on the ground in Libya", he maintained.
"Let us be honest, if there was anything in the past concerning Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and Sudan, in recent times they have not had any role in supporting militias'', the Prime Minister revealed.
''Libya shall ask for sanctions to be imposed on Turkey as a result of interference in Libya's local affairs. We will try and deal with Turkey. We will raise the subject with 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... and the international community because this touches the honour and the illusory sovereignty of the state of Libya'', he added.
''But what is occurring from Turkey is affecting negatively on the security and stability of Libya. The position of the President of the Turkish Republic Racep Tayyip Erdogan is clear and until now Turkey's position is not correct and we will have to take procedures towards this country'', Thinni said.
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[Libya Herald] The video issued by 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.... (IS) showing its supporters beheading 21 Egyptians Copts on a beach near Sirte is a fake according to Omar Al-Hassi, the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... -based prime minister appointed by the continuing General National Congress.
"The alleged video of the killing 21 Coptic Egyptians is false and fabricated", he stated on TV this evening, claiming that Sisi had himself targeted Egypt's Copts and that he was using the story so he could invade Libya. That had become clear with Egypt's request for military intervention in Libya, he said.
"Sisi is seeking to seize Cyrenaica in the east of Libya because it has oil and gas," he claimed.
He thanked the Security Council for the rejecting the intervention request but insisted that the UN-brokered dialogue talks, reported to be taking place on Sunday in Morocco, again be suspended -- "unless the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... bring justice to the Egyptian regime" for its "assault on civilians in Derna".
Despite claiming the video a fake, Hassi then appeared to give credence to it, or at least terrorist crimes committed by IS, by suggesting that the snuffies were in fact Qadaffy loyalists.
"There are groups loyal to the Qadaffy regime out to damage our image in the international community," he said. "Qadaffy's followers are using the name of Daesh [IS] to carry out crimes in Libya."
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I suppose it could be fake but accurate, but I haven't seen a denial by ISIS.
[Libya Herald] Misrata's Brigade 166 and other forces sent to Sirte to retake the town from 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.... (IS) forces now controlling it are awaiting the outcome of negotiations between IS and local tribal elders, according to a well-placed Misratan source. The objective of the talks is to get IS to leave the town and go to Nawfaliya, the source said . . . Rest of it's behind the paywall.
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[ARABNEWS] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... recalled its ambassador to Egypt on Thursday following a row over Cairo's air strikes on terrorist targets in Libya, threatening fresh divisions between the two Arab countries.
A Foreign Ministry official said Doha was recalling its envoy "for consultation" after Egypt's delegate to 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... accused Qatar of supporting "terrorism," during discussions on Libya.
Egypt's new spat with Qatar, which was backed by its Gulf neighbors, came as Libyan officials urged the UN Security Council to lift an arms embargo to allow the country's military to fight myrmidons.
Qatar and most other Gulf Arab nations have joined the US-led coalition, which is waging Arclight airstrikes 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.... (IS) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
The regional rift may complicate US efforts to forge a united front against IS in Egypt's neighbor Libya, where faceless myrmidons are trying to establish another stronghold.
US President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... on Wednesday urged Moslem leaders to unite and reject the "false promises of extremism" and myrmidons' claims to represent Islam.
Cairo's envoy Tariq Adel made his accusation, according to Egyptian media, after Doha's representative expressed reservations over a clause in a communiquĂŠ welcoming the air strikes on IS targets in Libya.
The communiquĂŠ was released at the end of an ambassador-level Arab League meeting in Cairo.
Egyptian F-16s bombed myrmidon bases in the eastern Libyan city of Derna on Tuesday, after the IS in Libya released a gruesome video showing the beheadings of a group of Egyptian Coptic Christians who had gone to the North African country seeking work.
Qatar's director of Arab affairs in the Foreign Ministry, Saad bin Ali Al-Mohannadi, said Doha had expressed reservations over welcoming the raids, stressing the need for "consultations before any unilateral military action against another member state."
The ministry denounced the "tense" statement by Egypt's representative to the vaporous Arab League, saying it "confuses the need to combat terrorism (with)... the brutal killing and burning of civilians."
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[Dhaka Tribune] Communications Minister Obaidul Quader in Gaibandha said hurling bombs on people will not help BNP to bring down the current government.
No government in the world can ever be brought down by such an act, said the minister, while addressing the Melandah bridge inauguration ceremony at Baliarder Primary School field of Saghata upazila in the district on Thursday
He added: "As Khaleda is following a deadly path of destruction, she will have to face the consequences."
If Khaleda accepts Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums.. 's offer to hold dialogue, she will never need to kill people in the name of a movement, the minister said.
He alleged that she did not sit with the premier for dialogue as she knew BNP was going to be defeated in the 10th parliamentary election.
Deputy Speaker of the parliament Advocate Fazle Rabbi Miah presided over the ceremony, while Bogra 1 MP Abdul Mannan, Gaibandha 1 MP Manjurul Islam Liton, and Gaibandha Awami League President Syed Shams-ul Alam Hiru were also in attendance.
Before addressing the programme, Obaidul inaugurated the Melandah bridge and its approach roads.
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[Al Ahram] Denmark on Thursday unveiled a 130-million-euro ($150-million) plan to combat terror at home and abroad, after two people were rubbed out in attacks in Copenhagen.
The plan, mooted before the weekend shootings, will enable the intelligence services to better monitor Danes travelling abroad to fight with the Islamist State group, while also targeting the radicalisation of prisoners in jails.
"We want to strengthen our ability to gather and analyse (information) about terror planning abroad," Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt told a briefing.
"We want to ensure that the intelligence service is able to monitor Danes who travel abroad to take part in myrmidon activities."
Nearly half the amount earmarked for the four-year plan will be spent by military intelligence, focusing mainly on activities abroad.
A total of 110 Danes have travelled to Syria to fight in the civil war, making the country the second largest European source of jihadist fighters in the Middle East after Belgium.
Many are believed to have returned home afterwards.
The country has been left in shock after the shootings in Copenhagen which targeted a meeting on free speech and Islam and the capital's main synagogue.
The attacks have prompted parallels with the attacks in Gay Paree last month, in which 17 people died.
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[Ynet] Turkish media says some Death Eaters, 'expert in suicide and kabooms', are thought to have already entered country and are in safe houses.
One feels for the innocents in Turkey who had nothing to do with President Erdogan's cherishing of this asp at their communal breast.
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.... gunnies have entered Turkey and are plotting to attack diplomatic missions in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkish media on Thursday quoted the national intelligence agency (MIT) as saying.
Around 3,000 gunnies from the ultra-radical group in Syria and Iraq are looking to enter Turkey through its southern border after failing to take the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, the Hurriyet newspaper reported the internal MIT note as saying.
Some Death Eaters, including senior commanders who are planning the attacks, are thought to have already entered Turkey and are in safe houses, the note said, without saying how many entered.
"Militants expert in suicide and kabooms are preparing ... attacks on the Istanbul and Ankara missions of coalition forces which intervened in Syria," it said.
Some gunnies with Syrian and Paleostinian nationality were also planning to cross into Bulgaria to carry out attacks in European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... countries, it added. Turkish police declined to comment on the issue and MIT was not available for comment.
Syrian Kurdish forces drove Islamic State (IS) fighters from the Syrian town of Kobani last month in a major defeat for the gunnies who control a 20,000-square-mile (50,000-square-km) arc of Syria and Iraq.
Intense Arclight airstrikes by a US-led coalition involving European countries as well as Arab allies helped the Kurdish forces.
Turkey has been hit by several kabooms this year, most recently last Friday near the border town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, where a bomb hidden under a car blew up near a police checkpoint.
There was no claim of responsibility, but the proximity to Syria suggested it could be related to the conflict.
Following the attack, the Sanliurfa governorate said it had created an almost 100-km-long closed military zone north of the Syrian towns of Jarablus and Tel Abyad, both under IS control.
Turkey has in the past drawn criticism from Western allies for failing to stop the flow of jihadists across its border to join the Sunni snuffies in Syria. Some critics said it even aided the Death Eaters, an accusation that Ankara denies.
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Another reason to destroy the ISIS now, lest the US-West + Russia, etc. = Non-Muslim World wishes to see "Neo-Ottoman", Pro-Jihad Imperialist [Nuclear?] Turkey added to the list of inspirations of the future Islamic Mahdi/Messiah/Hidden Imam 2030-2050, besides also Nukes.
Also another reason to support Putin's = Russia's formal annexation of the Crimea.
* MAHA-RUSHIAN LIMBAUGH QUESTIONNE' DU JOUR = CAN RUSSIA CONTAIN OR DEFEAT THE [Nuclear?]HARD BOYZ ON ITS BORDERS WIDOUT NEED OF A RE-ARMED, RESURGENT, NUKE-ARMED GERMANY PER SE???
Iff the UKRAINE = IMO aka "GERMANY II/LITE" is preferred over Germany proper, HOW STRONG IS RUSSIA [+ NATO-EU?] WILLING TO ALLOW THE UKRAINE TO BECOME???
[WashingtonFreeBeacon] This Navy SEAL who works to help veterans is entering politics. And he’s a Republican.
Long. Inspiring. I wish he were running in my state, but others like Eric Greitens are entering politics all over the country, and perhaps one day I'll be able to vote him into the White House. Because, as he says, the mission continues. The title is a play on the fact that the gentleman was a Golden Gloves boxing champion. At Oxford. On a Rhodes scholarship.
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The Mission Continues now sponsors Service Platoons in 40 cities across the country to get veterans involved in community service. The effort is less than a year old and already has more than 4,000 veteran volunteers
So maybe more veterans will get into politics. Maybe politicians would serve The People again. Maybe unicorns ...
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“It’s really easy to give people things. It’s much harder to build a system that gives people their purpose back,” Greitens says. “The victim culture tells you that life should be free of pain. But you can’t get stronger unless you experience pain. When we truly care about people we push them.”
A fictional character like this would not be believable.
"I, _____, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
Please note: there is no expiration date. Many of us still keep the oath long after we took off the uniform.
"The State Department has a small unit called the "Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications" and the current director, Alberto Fernandez, is being replaced in April by Rashad Hussain -- a man with known ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Completely believable to a generation having had History supplanted by "Gender Studies," etc. Although differing religious beliefs were accepted by our forefathers in principle, 1776 was after The Crusades and before the Barbary pirates. Once again, he's seeing things as he wishes they were, not how they actually are.
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It was, yes indeedy do. From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli...
I'll even go so far as to say we can thank the rather Islamic Barbary pirates for the creation of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children. Thanks, Barbary pirates!
“We took the liberty to make some enquiries concerning the ground of their pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury, and observed that we considered all mankind as our friends who had done us no wrong, nor had given us any provocation.
The Ambassador [of Tripoli] answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.
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Well, the Barbary Muslims pushed the U.S. to form a world class navy, so we should thank them. I guess.
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The only way Islam could conceivably be even indirectly related to the early US in any substantive fashion is the hypothetical use of "Musselmen" in Madison-Jefferson thought-experiment exchanges on the subject of toleration vs. proper religious freedom. There wasn't even a mosque in the country until 1915, at the tail end of the "Great Migration".
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{Letter from the commissioners, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson, to John Jay, 28 March 1786}
And Rep. Keith Ellison used Jefferson's copy of the Koran for his swearing in.
The risk of trading through or around dar islam was so great, people in rickety ships sailed off the edge of the world looking for alternate trade routes to China. The New World was discovered.
The relentless expansion of the Ottoman Empire, required by their law for the glory of islam, wrecked the European Mediterranian population. The Barbary States, which had been ports for slave raiders, became vassel/clients of the Ottomans under Suliuman the Magnificent, led by Barbarossa and receiving aid from Suliuman. This was the 16th century.
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What amazes me is that people just don't call BS at such patently obvious lies. This narcissist is increasingly just asserting what he wants to be true with no connection to fact.
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Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, even by mere denial.[1] A number of notable people have been convicted under the section, including Martha Stewart,[2] Rod Blagojevich,[3] Scooter Libby,[4] Bernard Madoff,[5] and Jeffrey Skilling.[6]
This statute is used in many contexts. Most commonly, prosecutors use this statute to reach cover-up crimes such as perjury, false declarations, and obstruction of justice and government fraud cases.[7]
Even constitutionally explicit Fifth Amendment rights do not exonerate affirmative false statements.[8] As the Court in Brogan v. United States said:[9]
[Ynet] A defense lawyer is telling jurors in closing arguments at a New York terrorism trial that the 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... n defendant sought peaceful reform in his home country, rather than backing terrorism.
Attorney Bobbi Sternheim said Thursday that Khaled al-Fawwaz worked with the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... in the early 1990s before the al-Qaeda founder became radicalized. Prosecutors say al-Fawwaz was a top aide to bin Laden for nearly a decade before deadly bombings at two US embassies in eastern Africa. The bombings killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans.
[DAWN] LAHORE: The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Cabinet has expressed its resolve to defeat terrorism and extremism plaguing the country.
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... on Wednesday presided over a meeting of the provincial cabinet, which also gave approval to various steps for empowerment of women and protection of their rights as well as necessary legislation in this regard. "Amendments to family laws to check exploitation of women besides their empowerment were approved," says a handout.
The cabinet also decided to observe World Women's Day on March 8 in an enthusiastic manner. Moreover, setting up of Punjab Working Women Endowment Fund and establishment of family courts complex in each district were given a go-ahead.
The meeting decided to give three-year special relaxation to women in age limit for employment while it was also decided that only women would operate canteens in educational institutions for women. Similarly, all columns relating to the women rights in Nikahnama (marriage certificate) will have to be filled.
The chief minister said more than 50pc population of Pakistain comprised women and the country couldn't progress without their empowerment. He said women would have to display their talent and abilities in practical field for the progress and prosperity of the country.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: Police are yet to establish identity of the jacket wallah whose body parts underwent first constructive surgery on Wednesday, a day after the deadly attack outside the Qila Gujjar Singh Police Lines.
Five people, including two coppers, were killed and 32 others injured in the attack.
A senior police official told Dawn that police had collected body parts of the suicide bomber, including his skull, wrists, feet, legs and hair from the blast scene and sent them to Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Forensic Science Agency for construction.
He said despite the doctors' efforts to give shape to the attacker's face by conducting a plastic surgery, his identity could not be established. He said the DNA test would be the only way to establish identity of the terrorist.
"This process may take a week or more," a police officer said.
He said the detectives had also found remains of the suicide jacket and the ball bearings used in the blast that could lead them to the manufacturer of the bomb.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed the provincial governments to implement the National Action Plan (NAP) and take stern action against terrorist organisations and proceed speedily on those death penalty cases in which mercy petitions have been rejected.
Presiding over a meeting of the Balochistan Apex Committee held here on Wednesday, he said religious seminaries and organisations involved in terrorist activities should be identified and proceeded against. No terrorist or militant organisation should be spared.
The meeting was attended by Army Chief General Raheel Sharif, Balochistan Governor Mohammad Khan Achakzai, Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif, ISI Director General Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar, federal ministers Khawaja Saad Rafeeq and Jam Mohammad Kamal, Commander Southern Command Lt Gen Nasser Khan Janjua, Senior Minister and PML-N's Balochistan President Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, Home Minister Mir Sarfarz Bugti, former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali, Chief Secretary Saifullah Chattha, Home Secretary Mohammad Akbar Durrani, Balochistan Inspector General Mohammad Amlish Khan and Frontier Corps (Balochistan) IG Maj Gen Shair Afghan.
The prime minister stressed that terrorism must be dealt with sternly and militant and terrorist organisations which were not ready to hold peace talks with the government would have to face action.
"No one will be allowed to wage insurgency and commit violence under the patronage of sectarian and other organisations," he said, adding that his government was committed to implementing NAP and eradicating terrorism and extremism.
Referring to the implementation of the action plan in Balochistan, he said the federal government and the army would fully support the provincial government in its efforts to rid the province of terrorists and extremists. Durable peace in the province is one of the objectives of the plan.
Mr Sharif asked all provincial governments to take steps for capacity building of police and other law-enforcement agencies. "The federal government has been providing funds to all the provinces, including Balochistan, for the purpose so that their police and law-enforcement agencies could play an effective role in the war against terrorism," he said. The provincial governments would have to pay special attention to law and order and free law-enforcement forces of political interference.
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[DAWN] Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon announced Thursday that the Shikarpur imambargah blast case would be tried in military courts, prompting Shuhada Committee to call off its protests after drawn out negotiations.
Addressing a joint presser with Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and Shikarpur Shuhada Committee leader Allama Maqsood Ali Domki, the provincial information minister said that a joint interrogation team (JIT) will be formed to probe the attack on the imambargah which had claimed the lives of more than 60 people.
He further said that a joint operation would be conducted under the supervision of the provincial apex commitee across Sindh, especially in Shikarpur.
Sharjeel Memon added that strict action would be taken against the activities of banned religious organizations and those inciting religious hatred.
Families affected by the Jan 30 carnage at the Shikapur imambargah had began a long march from Shikarpur to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on Feb 15.
Allama Maqsood Ali Domki announced that the Shikarpur Shuhada Committee had decided to call off protests. He thanked the people of Sindh for welcoming the heirs and relatives of the Shikarpur blast victims.
He said that the provincial government had made sincere efforts for the negotiations especially the provincial chief executive who had played an important role in this regard.
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[DAWN] As the threat of attacks on 'soft targets' looms in the wake of the deadly Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. that left 131 children dead, the federal and provincial governments are taking extreme measures to provide security to educational institutes.
On Thursday, staff and students from different schools in the country were provided 'emergency training' to tackle any crisis as part of this endeavour to provide enhanced security.
On the directives of the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government, rescue officials along with representatives of the civil defence force, bomb disposal squad (BDS) and security agencies practised emergency drills at Public School Multan and held security training sessions with students and teaching staff.
A drill was conducted in which BDS officials wearing special suits demonstrated how to locate and defuse a bomb. The mock drill also involved giving assistance to 'injured' people lying in a patch of grass. Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Livia had made her point with her knee to Jane's stomach... the security and rescue officials 'evacuated' the building and adjoining area.
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[Ynet] The UN nuclear agency reported deadlock Thursday in its probe of allegations that Iran worked on atomic arms -- an assessment that further dims hopes that Tehran and six world powers could negotiate a full nuclear deal by their June deadline.
The US and five other powers insist that Tehran must fully cooperate with the U.N.'s ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency's probe for any nuclear agreement that grants Iran total sanctions relief. "Iran has not provided any explanations" on the suspicions, according to a confidential report obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
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[FOXNEWS] A U.S. military official on Thursday outlined plans to retake the vital Iraq city of Mosul from Islamic State terrorists as early as April -- an unusual move that swiftly drew criticism that the Pentagon was revealing too much information to the enemy.
A senior U.S. Central Command official said the "shaping" for the battle is currently underway, and the Iraqi military hopes to begin operations in the "April, May timeframe." The goal is to retake the city before Ramadan begins on June 17.
The official said five Iraqi Army brigades will be used in the fight, as well as several smaller brigades, composing a total force of up to 25,000 Iraqi troops. Three brigades of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters will participate as well.
But the details, disclosed at the close of a White House summit on combating violent extremism, raised some concerns.
"That is pretty amazing that that information's out there," retired Gen. Jack Keane, former Army vice chief of staff and a Fox News military analyst, said Friday.
A current and former military intelligence officer also told Fox News that the decision to publicly announce the plan was counterintuitive because it "telegraphs" the timing and number of units involved. The officers said it would allow Islamic State, also known as ISIS, or ISIL, to prepare for the battle by laying improvised explosive devices.
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But the details, disclosed at the close of a White House summit on combating violent extremism, raised some concerns.
[IraqiNews.com] US network 'CBS News' published Wednesday new photos of ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... , showing him in Bucca Camp in early 2004 wearing a yellow prison uniform.
Previous investigations revealed that al-Baghdadi was one of the 12 ISIS leaders who were imprisoned in Bucca, which is considered one of the toughest US prisons in Iraq. Al-Baghdadi spent 10 months behind jails, from February to December 2004, along with about 12 others; all of which have become leaders of the turban organization.
Photos of the man and some stamped papers can be seen at the link.
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The future of "His Immensity" -
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[Ynet] An Iraqi and Kurdish military force of some 20,000 to 25,000 troops is being prepared to recapture the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from 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.... fighters, probably in the April-May time frame, an official at the US Central Command said on Thursday.
The official said Mosul was currently being held by 1,000 to 2,000 Islamic State fighters. No decision has been made on whether small numbers of US military advisers might need to be on the ground close to Mosul to direct close air support, the official said.
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Yokay, I'll say it, SSSSHHHHH ...CCCCCC ITS A NOT-AN-ANCIENT-CHINESE SECRET!
[ARABNEWS] Top military officials from 26 member states of the anti-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.... coalition, including 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... and the US, stressed their readiness in Riyadh on Thursday to equip and strengthen the Iraqi army. Whose army were we training and equipping all that time we were there? Which army made up of phantom units ran like rabbits in the face of ISIL?
The officials also called on the coalition to improve coordination to combat terror groups that are hampering peace plans.
"The military chiefs expressed their willingness to make utmost efforts to establish peace in the Middle East," a Western diplomatic source told local media, during a press briefing.
US Gen. Lloyd J. Austin, who heads the US-led war against IS, and Gen. Tom Lawson, Canada's Chief of the Defense Staff, were among the senior officers attending the two-day talks.
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, second deputy premier and minister of interior, held talks with Austin, the head of the US Central Command.
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[An Nahar] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah lashed out at Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... on Thursday, stressing that the Gulf state is in a rift with the party.
"Hizbullah went back to the Syrians who welcomed it (in July 2006 war with Israel) to kill and displace them," al-Attiyah said in an interview with the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.
The Foreign Minister ruled out any aid offered by Qatar to Hizbullah, saying: "We disagree with the party."
Al-Attiyah pointed out that Hizbullah was a "party of resistance until it changed its direction and headed to Syria."
"We were surprised that Hizbullah (supported the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... ) at the beginning of the Syrian revolution and rewarded those who welcomed it with slaughtering and displacing them," he added.
"This is the core of our differences," al-Attiyah stressed.
In July, the Gulf Cooperation Council -- which includes 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... , Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the UAE -- has said the bloc would crack down on Hizbullah members as part of a joint effort to limit the group's "financial and business transactions."
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Syria's moderate opposition would obey a deal that maintains the safety of Aleppo's residents, the head of Syria's opposition National Coalition has said after a U.N. envoy said Damascus was ready to suspend the bombardment of Aleppo for six weeks.
National Coalition President Khaled Khoja, however, also expressed distrust in Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... , despite U.N. Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura's remarks announcing the government's willingness to suspend fighting in the key northern Syrian province.
"The FSA's [Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... ] General Staff and all FSA factions will fully abide by the terms of the agreement that will be announced in the event that a real solution is reached that achieves the demands of the Syrian people and restores security and stability to Syria," he said in an interview published on the Syrian Coalition's website.
"We welcome any effort aimed at stopping the bloodshed in Syria, and this has been the position of the Syrian Coalition since it was established," he said when asked about a plan put forward by de Mistura.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... he stressed "the Assad regime's compliance with peace initiatives will be judged by actions, not words."
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[ARA] Some European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... countries which withdrew their ambassadors from Syria are saying privately it is time for more communication with Damascus even though Britannia and La Belle France oppose it, diplomats said. It was only a matter of time. We knew that.
Those states have become more vocal in internal meetings about the need to talk to the Syrian government and have a presence in the capital. London and Gay Paree reject this, saying Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... has lost all legitimacy.
This makes a change in EU policy unlikely, but the debate underlines a predicament for Western states which ostracized the government at the start of the crisis, imposed sanctions, and four years on still find Assad in power.
Diplomats say the calls have come from or would be supported by countries including Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria and Spain, as well as the Czech Republic, which did not withdraw its ambassador. Norway and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , which are outside the EU, are also supportive.
Although Europe has long faced divisions on Syria, the calls have increased since 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.... advanced in Syria and Iraq last summer and US-led strikes started against the group.
US officials say there is no shift in their policy regarding Assad, even as their focus is fighting Islamic State, an al-Qaeda offshoot which is also an enemy of Damascus.
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'change position' - bending over & showing them your formerly virgin pearly white ass cheeks?
[The Peninsula] The fight against violent extremism is a "third world war" that knows no borders, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said Thursday, in urging greater international efforts to counter the threat. Somebody got around to saying it.
Violent turbans groups count imported muscle from about 90 different countries, "all potential murderous Moslems in their own country when they return," Judeh said during a a three-day conference on combating extremism hosted by President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... in Washington.
In the wake of brutal attacks in Europe and the Middle East, Obama said earlier that more must be done to prevent groups like 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.... and Al-Qaeda from recruiting and radicalizing.
"The threat we are confronting today is unprecedented... It recognizes no boundaries, no religion, no culture, no ethnicity. It spares no religion, no culture, no ethnicity," Judeh said.
"These murderous Moslems have proven to have no limit or inhibition to their brutality, barbarism or savagery," he added.
"It's our war as Moslems... It's our collective war as an international community."
He then reprised comments made by Jordan's King Abdullah II in December during a White House visit, labeling the fight against Islamic State bully boyz a "third world war," and pressed for increased international cooperation in the "generational fight."
"Violent hard boy groups provide... an umbrella of legitimacy to criminals everywhere," Judeh said, pointing to recent attacks in Copenhagen, Ottawa, Gay Paree and Sydney.
"Each one of us is a target. Let us work together to make them all a collective target."
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Wow we actually have an adult in the room discussing ISIS...
Amazing, compared to our foreign policy, Jordan seems to have a pretty good grip on it.
Nice that a Muslim temporarily decided to join our side.
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Rob, you're wrong about Jordan and especially about Abdullah. They've been strong allies since Desert Shield, Abdullah even more so than his father. Why do you demosntrate this irrational hatred of Jordan?
[Hurriyet Daily News] Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said Syrian opposition groups to be trained and equipped by a joint U.S.-Turkey program will also fight against the Syrian regime.
The trained Syrian opposition members are "expected to fight 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.... of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL] and elements of the [Syrian] regime," Cavusoglu said Feb. 19 to answer whether the program also aims to struggle against Syrian regime forces. Turkey and the U.S. were on the same page on this issue, Cavusoglu said.
The trained Syrian opposition members would "naturally fight against elements threatening the integrity of Syria," he said, noting that both "terrorist organizations, especially ISIL and the Syrian regime, are a threat to Syria's stability. ... They both kill innocent people," he said.
The train-equip deal between Turkey and the U.S. is at the last stage and would be signed shortly, Cavusoglu said while speaking at a joint presser with Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci.
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) will be sealed by U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass and a Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu within several days, a Turkish official told the Hurriyet Daily News. Sinirlioglu will travel to Washington next week and a visit by Foreign Minister Cavusoglu to the U.S. is also planned, the official also said.
Turkey offered a vague definition on the MoU for the target of the trained Syrian opposition fighters, as Turkey insists the struggle should not only be directed against ISIL bully boys, but also against Syrian regime forces.
Training of the Peshmerga in northern Iraq will also be a part of the MoU between Turkey and the U.S., as 20 Turkish soldiers will participate in the training program of Kurdish forces as part of the struggle against ISIL.
Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... citing U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura's plan to freeze the fighting in the Syrian city of Aleppo, Cavusoglu said Turkey supported the envoy's plan despite its "flaws" because even one day of a cease-fire would prevent the killing of hundreds of people.
He questioned whether the cease-fire would be practiced by the regime forces.
"A rooted solution is needed in Syria," Cavusoglu said.
Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... should leave power and a national administration should replace him so that a real solution can be achieved the minister noted.
Elaborating on his meeting with U.S. Congressman Michael Turner -- a long-time member of the House Armed Services Committee -- and U.S. Senator Bob Corker on Feb. 19, Cavusoglu said they discussed bilateral and regional issues such as Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Ukraine.
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It may explain the following, at laest on Turkey's part ...
* GROONG > SYRIA: SPECIAL FORCES FROM TURKEY ATTACK SYRIAN ARAB ARMY [aka Syrian Army Army = SAA].
[Arutz Shiva] A look at the writings of the ISIS victim shows her support and aid to Palestinian Arab terror groups, her acting as a human shield for them, and her active participation in anti-Israel protests. Rachel Corrie did the same. Kaplan provides some interesting insights and perspective.
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