[Tolo News] Afghanistan's first Vice President, Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... says Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI) is behind the fighting across Afghanistan.
The former warlord, who is in Faryab for nearly three weeks to clear the province from Taliban, told TOLOnews on Saturday that Pakistain was able to put an end to Afghanistan's war if it remained honest in this respect.
"The war not only in north but in the entire country, everyone knows, who are leading them," said Dostum, who was a prominent warlord in fighting soviet troops. "One day, the [insurgent] groups fight under the name of al-Qaeda and the other day under the name of Daesh. But ISI and Pakistain's [military] generals are organizing and financing these groups."
He however promised that as long as the province is not cleared of Death Eaters, he will not return to Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... Dostum has reportedly planned to conduct massive operations in Almar, Qaisar and Ghormach districts.
"After clearing this province, I will present my report to the national security council. My next plan is Kunduz if the security council agrees and the president orders. And after I clear Kunduz, I will leave to Badakhshan," he added.
Touching on Daesh fighters in Afghanistan, Dostum stated that Pakistain wanted to continue war in Afghanistan through Daesh which he said was a puppet of the neighboring country.
"They [Pak officials] say they are bringing Taliban to negotiation table. But they want to continue war by Daesh. This is one of the political games of Pakistain," said Dostum, who leads the anti-insurgent operation in Faryab along with his three sons.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... he stressed the need for continued support of international troops to the Afghan forces.
This was the second time in less than a week that Afghanistan's senior government officials blame the fighting and recent bombings on Pakistain.
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everyone bar bambi knows Pakistan is behind afghan war from day one and we pay them to fund/train Taliban/jihadi groups.
If there was peace in Afghanistan/region the cheques from the west would stop. Paks know this.
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[Tolo News] The recent deterioration of ties between the Afghan National Unity Government and its counterpart in Islamabad has prompted commentators to urge Afghan officials to turn to the international community for help, with all highly skeptical of Pakistain's willingness to cooperate in putting an end to the Taliban insurgency.
The National Unity Government over the past year has attempted forge closer ties with Islamabad in hopes of getting the Pak's to end their covert support for the Taliban and push the bully boy group to the negotiating Table. Despite early signs of hope this summer, following the death of Taliban leader Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... , and a subsequent wave of Taliban attacks inside Afghanistan, the tenuous grounds of cooperation between the two countries deteriorated and mistrust is now said to be at an all-time high.
Many Afghan analysts have said the recent trip of top Afghan security and diplomatic officials to Pakistain will not yield any positive outcomes. Instead, they argue the Afghan government should seek to gain leverage over Pakistain through the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... and the U.S., who they believe could help force Pakistain to cooperate.
"Unfortunately, until now, Afghanistan has not considered an extended, defined and correct diplomacy strategy," international affairs expert Hadi Miran told TOLOnews on Saturday. "Although major efforts have been in place regarding the matter, Afghanistan still has international options, and by using these options, Afghanistan has the potential to force Pakistain to accept its demands," he added.
According to former minister of interior Mujtaba Patang, there is a spectrum of options available to the Afghan government when it comes to how to approach the intransigence of Pakistain. "Among the options Afghanistan have, one of them is to keep open the negotiation window, with conditions including executive assurances, and this should be signed off on by the international community" he said, referring to peace talks with Taliban leaders. "The second option is that the international community could swiftly impose political sanctions on Pakistain to mount international pressure."
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[ALMANAR.LB] The defense for ousted Egyptian president Mohammad Mursi filed an appeal against a death sentence and prison term for the former president, a lawyer said on Saturday.
mursiMursi, who was toppled by the army in 2013, was sentenced to death in June for allegedly participating in prison breaks and violence against police, and to life in prison for espionage.
Mursi had been in prison at the start of the 2011 uprising against veteran leader Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , and escaped along with thousands of others after protesters attacked cop shoppes across the country.
"We submitted an appeal to the Court of Cassation to all prisoners sentenced, including Mursi," his lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsud told AFP.
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[Libya Herald] Tunisia has strongly condemned the attacks and killings carried out 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.... in Sirte's residential district No. 3 and said that the only way to destroy it was by agreeing a government of national unity.
The "crimes perpetrated by the terrorist organization" against innocent civilians had caused Tunis great concern, a statement today from the foreign ministry read.
It called on Libya's politicians from both side of the divide to back the Dialogue process and form a national unity government as quickly as possible. It was the only way, is said, of being able to counter terrorism as well as enabling the country to recover stability, security and unity.
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[Libya Herald] In his strongest statement so far about 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.... , Sheikh Sadek Al-Ghariani has called it a "cancer" which has to be destroyed.
In a statement issued by his Dar Al-Ifta (Fatwa House), the controversial sheikh, sacked by the House of Representatives as the country's Grand Mufti, called on the General National Congress (GNC, the government it appointed and revolutionaries, as well as the Libyan National Army under Khalifa Hafter to fight IS.
Still considered as Grand Mufti of Libya by the GNC and the rest of the Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... regime in 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... , he said that the military and anyone capable of taking up arms should head to Sirte and defend those attacked by IS. It defiled Islam by claiming to be its sole authority and front man, he added.
His call on Hafter's forces to join with Libya Dawn and attack IS is unprecedented. He has consistently demonised Hafter over the past year. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... now he describes IS as "the real enemy".
His description of IS as a cancer mirrors that of one of the main IS leader in Sirte, Hussein Al-Karamy, who yesterday said that Salafism is a cancer and must be destroyed.
Ghariani is widely seen as a Salafist.
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[AlAhram] Egypt will open the Rafah Border crossing with the Gazoo Strip on Monday for three days in both directions, state-owned news agency MENA reported on Saturday.
Big, nasty terror attack on Egyptian forces to follow within a week...
The border crossing was opened twice in June "to allow stranded passengers to pass through and to facilitate the delivery of weapons and ammo humanitarian aid," MENA quoted the Egyptian authorities.
During the last border opening, 1,158 Paleostinians passed through into Gazoo along with 82 trucks carrying construction materials for the tunnels.
Egyptian authorities have kept the Rafah crossing closed since October, following Islamist Lion of Islam attacks in Egypt's North Sinai which left over 30 security personnel dead.
Cairo has accused the Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, the de facto rulers of the Gazoo Strip, of aiding Lion of Islam groups in northern Sinai.
[Dhaka Tribune] The 40th anniversary of death of the founding father of the nation and most members of his family was observed across the country yesterday when people of all spheres demanded that the six runaway killers now staying abroad be brought back and executed at the soonest.
The government, ruling party Awami League and different socio-cultural, political and professional bodies organised elaborate programmes to pay their homage to the greatest Bangali of all time.
The national flag was flown at half-mast at all government, semi-government and autonomous offices, educational institutions, private buildings and Bangladesh missions abroad.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in a bloody coup along with his family members and relatives at his Dhanmondi 32 residence on August 15, 1975 by a group of disgruntled army officers. The murders set the stage for decades of military rule when the killers had enjoyed diplomatic privileges and political rehabilitation.
President Abdul Hamid and Premier 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.. placed floral wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu at Dhanmondi 32 and stood in solemn silence for some time in the morning. A contingent of the Armed Forces gave a state salute and bugle played the last post.
Later, flanked by her senior party colleagues, Hasina, also the head of the Awami League, placed another wreath at the portrait on behalf of the party.
In front of the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum, Bangladesh Mahila Awami League arranged milad and doa mahfil. The premier and her family members joined the event.
From there, Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana went to Banani Graveyard and paid respect to their mother Fazilatunnesa Mujib, brothers Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russel and other deaders of the August 15 carnage.
The prime minister then went to Tungipara at the shrine of Bangabandhu and placed floral wreath there. The chiefs of the three services also gave salute to the father of the nation.
The speaker placed wreaths at the grave of Bangabandhu followed by the central leaders of the party. Supporters of AL's different associated bodies and several socio-political organizations also placed floral wreaths there.
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[RUDAW.NET] The German Defense Ministry announced Saturday plans to withdraw its Patriot Missiles from the Turkish-Syrian border. The move comes after heated debates in German society on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's loyalty to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... and the West.
A spokesperson of the ministry confirmed reports about the withdrawal of 250 German soldiers and the missile systems in the coming months. The German troops were stationed near the mainly Kurdish city of Kahramanmaras.
In the last year, and especially in the last few weeks after Turkey attacked Kurdish positions in its own territory, Iraq and reportedly Syria's Kurdish regions, many German politicians demanded a withdrawal of the soldiers, who were sent to secure the fellow NATO member's southern border from attacks carried out of Syrian soil.
"Germany has to pull out the Patriot Missiles immediately. Otherwise the federal government will also be responsible for the Turkish escalation strategy and the following German involvement in the war," Tobias Pfluger, co-chairman of the German Left party, said in late July.
"Ze Patriot missiles are for ze protection against Assad's aeroplanes, vich never come, not against our ally Turkei," explained the anonymous German spokesman.
However, women are made to be loved, not understood... German news agency DPA reported that the decision was made prior to the renewal of Turkish-Kurdish violence and that it has to do with a new review of the situation and the necessity of the mission. The mission required too many highly-trained missile specialists of the German army and was too costly, the agency reported.
Starting in 2013, the mission had caused heated debates in Germany. The majority of Germans oppose the NATO mission in Turkey, because it sees Turkey as an ally of the so-called 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.... "[Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan's termination of the hard-won grinding of the peace processor is irresponsible and a serious setback for a democratic Turkey. Now it is crystal clear that the government in Ankara is not about tackling ISIS primarily, but rather weakening the Kurds," Claudia Roth, vice-president of the German Parliament, said just days after the renewed Turkish attacks on PKK positions.
Given the recent escalation of violence in Turkey and neighboring countries, the German army had increased its security measures and imposed a curfew on its soldiers in Kahramanmaras. The soldiers are allowed to leave their barracks only for official purposes and only in civilian clothes.
The German Ministry of Defense said that the withdrawal plans will be carried out until the end of 2015.
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Tell you what Plugs, how about you walk around ISIS territory with no guards and proclaiming all the way that you don't think that the Koran tells people to be violent.
I give you 2 hours before your head is cut off.
No? You won't? Then sit down and shut the fuck up or I'll turn you into Trump's new hairpiece.
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"Warped Theocrats" > must mean ISLAMO/THEO-SOCIALISTS???
* FYI IIRC LUCIANNE > UNFORGIVING CAPITALISM VERSUS UNSUSTAINABLE SOCIALISM AT THE IOWA STATE FAIR.
Whew, another killer long title.
More indica that the SECULAR MARXISTS-LEFTIES + ALIGNED ARE USING 9-11 + GWOT TO FORCIBLY IMPOSE "JUSTIFIED" OWG-NWO + US-GLOBAL SOCIALIST ORDER WIDOUT NEED TO ASK THE ORDINARY VOTER IFF THEY WANT SAME.
Unfortunately, whenever Commie Militants go agz Islamist Militants in combat, the former get their asses kicked - THERE IS LITTLE TO NO EVIDENCE THAT THE COMMIES + ALIGNED INCLUD OWG GLOBIES ARE ABLE TO CONTROL, LET ALONE STOP-DEFEAT-OR-DESTROY, THE HARD BOYZ + GLOBAL JIHAD.
Espec as the Western Lefts are amongst those helping the Muslim/Islamic World to nuclearize in the name of OWG-NWO.
* US LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM + OWG "CO-SUPERPOWER" HOOD > US IS HELPING ITS MILPOL OR GEOPOL ENEMIES, RIVALS, OR WANNBES BECOME STRONGER RELATIVE TO ITSELF = EACH CO-SUPERPOWER IS "PAR" AGZ THE US [ + by extension the West = JudeoChristianity], NOT "INFERIOR" TO SAME.
Reagan-Bush41 era "Diplomacy/Peace thru Strength" = now US-N-Only-The-US Unilateral Strategic Self "Retreat/Fallback is OWG-NWO + World Peace".
GLOBAL SOCLIALIST REVOLUTION VERSUS GLOBAL CALIPHATE.
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) leader Asad Umar on Saturday pressed on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... to take a clear stance and appropriate action in wake of the allegations levelled by Senator Mushahidullah Khan against former Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Zaheerul Islam Abbasi.
In an interview to BBC Urdu, Mushahidullah, Minister for Climate Change, had alleged that the "former head of ISI had devised a conspiracy to remove the elected government." The senator's allegations were denied by both the government and military hours after the interview went live.
PTI's Asad Umar took to twitter to term the denial by the government insufficient, saying if the allegations levelled by Mushahidullah proved to be true, the former DG ISI and his accomplices should be tried for "planning and encouraging an act of treason."
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[DAWN] Chief of Jhalawan and Senior Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri has met the exiled Baloch leader Khan of Kalat, Mir SLearned Elders of Islamn Daud Khan in London on Saturday.
As part of reconciliation policy announced by the present government, the two leaders discussed the return of Khan of Kalat and other important issues related to Balochistan.
"Nawab Zehri has met the Khan of Kalat in London and will hold a discussion for his return to the country," said an office bearer of PML-N.
Earlier in August, Chief Minister Balochistan Abdul Malik Baloch, while talking to DawnNews had confirmed that his government will request members of the 'Grand Baloch Jirga' to make a formal appeal for Khan of Kalat's return.
"We believe in dialogue, and all channels are being used to find a negotiated settlement for the issues facing the province," said Baloch earlier.
The chief minister also stated that many turbans had surrendered their weapons and joined the political process, which is an encouraging sign for the province.
Earlier, Khan of Kalat Mir SLearned Elders of Islamn Dawood told a Baloch delegation that only the 'Grand Baloch Jirga' which had sent him abroad has the mandate and power to make a decision regarding his return.
The delegation had informed the Khan of Kalat that a gulf had formed owing to his prolonged absence from the political and tribal arena of Balochistan.
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[RUDAW.NET] Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations, Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution... has challenged the White House decision to hand over Nasrin As'ad Ibrahim (Umm Sayyaf), the wife of a prominent ISIS leader to the Kurdish authorities in Erbil, asking why she was not extradited to US to stand a trial.
"I am deeply concerned by the Administration's decision to transfer to the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq Nasrin As'ad Ibrahim, also known as Umm Sayyaf, who was captured by U.S. forces in Syria on May 15 during the operation that killed her husband, Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... , a big shot in 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)," said Senator McCain in a letter posted on his website on Thursday.
Senator McCain asked Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter to provide "detailed explanation in writing for why Umm Sayyaf was not extradited to the United States to stand trial."
McCain's letter that is addressed to Secretary of Defense and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, said that Umm Sayyaf had worked with top ISIS command and was behind the death of US citizen Kayla Mueller in Syria in February.
"Umm Sayyaf was clearly involved at the top levels of a foreign terrorist organization with which the United States is in a state of hostilities," it reads.
The US Department of Defense announced last week that it had transferred Iraqi citizen Umm Sayyaf, 25, to the KRG, citing "legal, diplomatic, intelligence, security, and law enforcement considerations,"
In his letter McCain wants assurances that Umm Sayyaf will be held accountable for her alleged crimes, saying: "I would also like to know what commitments, if any, the Kurdistan Regional Government or the Government of Iraq have provided to ensure that Umm Sayyaf is held responsible for her actions,"
Following Umm Sayyaf's handover, KRG Judicial Council Spokesman Umed Mohsin said, "We will sentence her based on fair and legal measures," adding that she will be tried according to KRG's anti-terrorism law, and all her due process rights will be protected.
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Maybe KRG was instrumental in her capture and the USA is merely returning her.
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And we should listen to Victor Charlie's prison snitch? Whatever the treasonous bum say is likely Barry Hussein's trial balloon...like in: "Throw shit on the wall, see what stick...
[IsraelTimes] Security agency reports a steady rise in West Bank terrorism, even as Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,'s key overseas terror chief plans for the long term
Paleostinian terrorism of 2015 looks very different from the kind that Israel suffered during the first years of the Second Intifada. The weapons are improvised, there are no "desperados" whom Israel is seeking for orchestrating the attacks; indeed, there is often no organizational support. But the effort to perpetrate terror attacks against Israeli targets is intensifying.
This figure does not include attacks prevented by the Paleostinian Authority, which has dismantled several cells that planned such attacks.
According to the Shin Bet's own statistics, Israeli security forces have prevented 17 suicide kabooms so far this year -- that's 17 in just seven months. This figure does not include attacks prevented by the Paleostinian Authority, which has dismantled several cells that planned such attacks.
Five of the 17 attacks thwarted by Israel were planned by members of Hamas, five were planned by other groups, and the remaining seven were not associated with any organization. In other words, terror cells are now frequently being established without affiliation to a Paleostinian group, but rather on the basis of introductions between friends, fellow university students and/or connections on social networks. Such cells are exceptionally hard for the security services to penetrate.
This is supposedly a more "amateur" type of terrorism. But so far this year, too, Israel prevented eight kidnappings planned by these so-called amateurs -- and, again, this figure does not include kidnappings prevented by the Paleostinian Authority. Of those eight, four were planned by members of Hamas and the rest by Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... and other groups.
In all, over the first seven months of 2015, Israel's defense and security establishment prevented 111 attempted terror attacks, including shooting attacks and bombings along with the kidnappings and suicide attacks.
In all, over the first seven months of 2015, Israel's defense and security establishment prevented 111 attempted terror attacks, including shooting attacks and bombings along with the kidnappings and suicide attacks.
Hamas is the prime offender, the Shin Bet figures show, responsible for more than half of those attempts (62, to be precise, or 55 percent). But even Hamas is not using the same methods as it employed between 2000 and 2006 in the West Bank. Its members operate mostly on a local basis -- Hamas activists who have known each other since childhood, are neighbors in a Paleostinian city or come from the same village. One such cell is known to have operated in Beit Lakiya, not from from Modi'in, without any external help and with no funding from Gazoo or abroad.
These cells often rely on improvisation for their choice of weaponry and their plans for using it. Surprisingly, the Kalashnikov is no longer in fashion; its place has been taken by weapons manufactured locally. These include the "Carlo," named for the Carl Gustav recoilless rifle, whose Paleostinian version is produced in the West Bank and has been used by quite a few terrorists. A "Carlo" costs only about 700 Jordanian dinars (NIS 3,700; almost $1,000). A Kalashnikov or M-16 costs many times more.
The forces of Evil themselves are also different. In the West Bank, being a wanted terrorist is no longer "in." Today's forces of Evil have no desire for an on-the-run lifestyle; they want to commit the attack and get away with it -- and to go back to their jobs, their regular lives.
In almost all the cases of thwarted attacks, the targets were in the territories, not Israel. None of the prevented suicide attacks was planned for inside the Green Line, apparently because of the risk and the complexity involved. West Bank Paleostinian forces of Evil in 2015 find it far easier to engage in shooting attacks or plant roadside kabooms in the territories, with settlers and soldiers as targets.
There are also groups that are better organized, via regional West Bank hierarchies. But such groups are less dangerous because they are more vulnerable to the intelligence efforts both of the Shin Bet and of the Paleostinian Authority. They are reminiscent of "classic Hamas" terror hierarchies, which mobilized support via an array of social services, known as Dawa, from which they learned to recruit terrorists. They have an impressive presence, for instance, in Hamas's student unions, notably including those at An-Najah University in Nablus and in Bir Zeit north of Ramallah. Hamas fares extraordinarily well in the student union elections at these universities because of its widespread social activity for the students.
There are also West Bank Hamas terrorist infrastructures that are being directed by a "West Bank Command Center" in the Gazoo Strip. A group of forces of Evil who were released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal and expelled to the Gazoo Strip have established, within the Hamas military wing there, a command structure to direct terror attacks in the West Bank. Each member of this group is responsible for a cell, usually based in the area where he used to live, and for overseeing recruitment.
This Gazoo command center is led by a group of forces of Evil originally from Hebron, dominated by Abd a-Rahman Ghanimat. On occasion they transfer funds to their people in the West Bank, but their successes have thus far been fairly limited. Despite their functioning within the military wing in Gazoo, there is a degree of social and even cultural separation. The members of the "West Bank Command Center" are not considered particularly valuable, being regarded as a little narrow-minded and pedantic.
Finally, there are Hamas cells in the West Bank that take orders from the leadership abroad. The best-known of the overseas terror chiefs is Saleh al-Arouri, alleged by Israel to have orchestrated the June 2014 abduction and killing of the three Israeli teenagers -- the terror act that ultimately triggered last summer's 50-day war. According to a report by Channel 10 News, he recently left The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and is now living in Doha, 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... , alongside the politicianship of his organization.
Al-Arouri is considered "the military commander of the West Bank," a capable, charismatic, suspicious, and shrewd operator, with excellent connections abroad and among the Paleostinians. In the past, he used to speak to us Israeli journalists as a matter of routine.
Unlike the other terror groupings and their leaders, al-Arouri is focused in good part on the long term -- setting up sleeper cells, smuggling high-quality weapons. Ahmed a-Nagar, who has spent time in Jordan and coordinated June's murderous West Bank drive-by shooting of Malachi Rosenfeld, is one of several other Hamas exiles who work in parallel with him.
Al-Arouri prefers to keep a low profile on the whole, and not all attacks are coordinated with him. His primary goal is to rebuild the infrastructure of Hamas in the West Bank, which was heavily damaged over the past decade. If today's Paleostinian terrorism is marked by an absence of effective organizational support, Al-Arouri is at the forefront of efforts to change that.
[Ynet] In document released to the public, Eisenkot states that while Israel won't initiate wars, if war is forced upon it, the IDF will go on the offense rather than defense; also differentiates between 'wartime' and 'emergency' situation, stressing the need to define clear objectives to each military campaign.
In an unprecedented move, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot released a document to the public on Thursday defining and detailing the army's national security strategy.
The document details what can be expected from the IDF during three types of situations: Routine time, emergency situations and wartime.
Based on this division, conflicts like Operation Protective Edge and Operation Pillar of Defense are considered confrontations limited in their scope and are therefore define as "emergency," rather than "war."
This means these confrontations were meant to bring Israel "back to a situation of calm, without striving for an immediate strategic change," so the IDF cannot be expected to bring down the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, regime in Gazoo in such a military campaign, unless the politicianship tells it otherwise.
In the first chapter, Eisenkot discusses the "military aspect of the security perception" - deterrence, intelligence, defense and a decisive victory. The IDF chief determines that while Israel will not initiate wars for the purpose of conquering lands or achieving strategic goals, as it did in the First Leb War, when a war is forced on it, the IDF will prefer to attack rather than merely go on the defensive.
"The basic assumption is that the enemy cannot be defeated with defensive fighting, so an offense is required to achieve clear military results," the document states.
The definition of the "enemy" has also been altered. As the threat of an all-out war against another state or several other states is on the decline, the document redefines the main threat as coming from military organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah or terror organizations that are not affiliated with any one country, like global jihad and 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.... Because of that, the IDF will favor fighting with smaller forces that can maneuver quickly and easily between different fronts, over large and stationary forces. This statement comes in the midst of the public debate over the defense budget and the IDF's attempt to present itself as a dynamic army that can become more efficient.
While Hezbollah, Hamas and the Islamic State are all mentioned, Iran is missing almost entirely from the document. Tehran appears as an example of a distant enemy state and is mentioned one more time beyond that - as the puppet master behind Hezbollah and Hamas.
The Iranian nuclear threat, which is presented by the politicianship as the biggest existential threat Israel is facing, is not mentioned - possibly because the army's strategy on that issue is too classified to appear in a public document, or because the agreement signed between Iran and world powers is seen as mitigating the threat.
The document also determines that the chief of staff, being the army's commander-in-chief, would be the only one in contact with the politicianship, and it would be his responsibility to translate the government's instructions into operational orders.
This declaration emphasizes the fact the IDF is subordinate to the government and is only implementing the instructions given to it by the public's representatives.
Other principles detailed in the document include the importance of the strategic cooperation with the United States, strengthening Israel's standing in the region and maintaining Israel's relative advantage over its enemies.
In addition to the document released to the public, there is another top secret document, much more detailed, about how the IDF will implement its strategy.
A historic milestone
The document, titled simply "The IDF's strategy," is a historic milestone in Israel's national security. For the first time, the IDF is defining its defense worldview and using that to determine how to act.
But most importantly, this document clarifies to the politicianship what is reasonable for them to demand and expect from the IDF, while at the same time demanding the prime minister and security cabinet to define exactly what the objectives of using military force in each instance are, what restrictions and constraints are imposed on the army, and what are the desired results.
This has never happened before. For the first time, the army is telling the politicianship what it needs from it in order to act effectively.
It is safe to assume that the prime minister, and mostly the defense minister, approved every letter and comma in that document before they allowed the chief of staff to declare it as a binding document and release it in full to the public.
The fact the defense minister approved the document is also a historic precedent, and Moshe Ya'alon should be given credit for doing something no defense minister had done before him. Some defense ministers appointed committees tasked with formulating Israel's security positions, but such positions have never been agreed upon and certainly not released to the public.
At the beginning of the document, the IDF defines the national goals and the principles of Israel's national security perception, which is similar to the principles outline by the Meridor Committee in 2006. The conclusions of the Meridor Committee, appointed by former defense minister Shaul Mofaz, were never released, not even to all members of Knesset.
The need to finally release a coherent document detailing the IDF's national security perceptions arose after the Second Leb War in 2006 and Operation Protective Edge in 2014. Both wars revealed failures that were the result of having no clear objectives for the war, as well as no clear definitions of what a "decisive victory" entails, what is considered a "victory," what should the army aim for and what roles do the IDF and politicianship each have.
The document answers all of these questions. For example, it clearly states that the politicianship can present the IDF with two kinds of demands while fighting an enemy that is not a sovereign state - meaning Hamas, Hezbollah or the Islamic State: A full and clear decisive military victory against the enemy, or a limited and defined strike against the enemy.
During Protective Edge, for example, the politicianship demanded a limited strike against the enemy, rather than a decisive victory. With this document, the IDF wants to prevent some of the criticism that would follow the next round of fighting with regards to whether or not the objective of the military campaign has been reached.
While the IDF chief clearly states that he will do whatever the politicianship instructs, he also goes into great detail about what the politicianship needs to do so he, as the commander of the army, can provide it with the desired outcome.
Another reason for the document's release to the public is to match the Israeli public's expectations with what the army can and cannot do. When fighting enemies who are not states, the IDF faces constraints. For example, Israel needs to have international legitimacy for the campaign, otherwise IDF troops and commanders fighting among civilian populations, as well as the politicianship, could be declared war criminals.
With this document, Eisenkot also seeks to show that the IDF is not set on past dogmas and does not use billions in tax payer money to prepare for previous wars, rather than the wars to come.
It is also an attempt to show the army is attuned to public opinion and that it understands that allocating resources to education, health and welfare is just as important as allocating resources to security.
Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, has pledged to block any future attempts by the UN to hit Iran with fresh sanctions.
"When Resolution 1929, the last series of sanctions resolutions, was adopted... we made it clear behind closed doors to our US and EU colleagues that Russia will not let another sanctions resolution against Iran be passed," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters on Friday.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The son of the former Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now sometimes referred to as Mister Bones... has called on his followers in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , Baghdad and Gazoo to wage jihad on the West.
The demand by Osama's son, Hamza Bin Laden, was made in an audio message released by al Qaeda website.
Hamzad is believed to be either 23 or 24 years old and the audio recording is believed to be the first such message from him him.
Touted as a future leader of the terror network, Hamza is believed to have taken part in attacks in Pakistain and Afghanistan as early as 2005.
The Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... network broadcast footage that appeared to show him among Taliban fighters in Afghanistan during the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Hamza specifically suggests London, Washington, Gay Paree and Tel Aviv as targets for attacks i the audio message shared by jihadidsts on Twitter.
The al Qaeda supreme leader Osama bin Laden wanted to nurture Hamza as his successor in the group, according to documents confiscated from bin Ladens' Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... hideout by US forces.
Hamza was due to travel to Abbottabad to join his father when US forces raided the hideout.
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[IsraelTimes] Abu Bakr Baghdadi took Kayla Mueller as a 'wife,' according to Yazidi teen who informed American intel officials
American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group, US intelligence officials told her family in June.
The news is but the latest in a litany of horrors perpetrated by the Islamic State group, which has beheaded, burned and crucified male captives while passing around women as sex slaves.
Mueller was held for a time by Islamic State financier Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... and his wife, known as Umm Sayyaf. Al-Baghdadi took Mueller as a "wife," repeatedly raping her when he visited, according to a Yazidi teenager who was held with Mueller and escaped in October 2014.
The 14-year-old made her way to Iraqi Kurdistan, where she talked to U.S. commandos in November 2014. Intelligence agencies corroborated her account and American officials passed it on to her parents in June.
"They told us that he married her, and we all understand what that means," Carl Mueller, Kayla's father, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Friday, which would have been his daughter's 27th birthday. Her death was reported in February.
Her mother, Marsha Mueller, added, "Kayla did not marry this man. He took her to his room and he abused her and she came back crying."
Umm Sayyaf confirmed that al-Baghdadi had "owned" Kayla during Umm Sayyaf's lengthy American interrogation in Iraq, the Muellers said they were told by American officials.
A US official confirmed their account, first reported by London's Independent newspaper. The official was not authorized to be quoted by name and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Abu Sayyaf was killed in a Delta Force raid of his Syrian compound in June, which resulted in a treasure trove of intelligence about the Islamic State group. Umm Sayyaf has been turned over to the Iraqi Kurds for trial.
The Muellers have been told she can be expected to serve a long prison sentence, said a family spokeswoman, Emily Lenzner.
Mueller was held with three other women, all Yazidis, the Muellers were told. All were sexually abused. When al-Baghdadi visited, he would take Mueller to his room, the witness told American officials. She would tell her fellow captives -- sometimes tearfully -- what had happened.
"Kayla tried to protect these maidens of tender years," her mother said. "She was like a mother figure to them."
When the teenaged Yazidi girl escaped with her sister, she asked Mueller to accompany her, the parents were told, but Kayla refused, worrying that her obvious Western appearance would lead to their capture.
By the time the Yadizi escapee reported the situation to Delta Force commandos in Iraq, Kayla had been moved, her parents were told.
US intelligence officials found information on Sayyaf's computer indicating that Mueller, who spoke some Arabic, had been searching for information about fertility to help Umm Sayyaf, who was trying to get pregnant, according to two U.S. officials who refused to be quoted because the information is classified.
Mueller, from Prescott, Arizona, was taken hostage with her boyfriend, Omar Alkhani, in August 2013 after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, Syria, where he had been hired to fix the Internet service for the hospital. Mueller had begged him to let her tag along because she wanted to do relief work in the war-ravaged country.
Alkhani was released after two months, having been beaten.
The Islamic State group claimed Mueller was killed in a Jordanian air strike near Raqqah, the group's self-declared capital in Syria. U.S. officials confirmed the death but not the circumstances.
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[BUSINESSINSIDER] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... says he writes emails "with the awareness" that Russian and Chinese hackers are likely reading them, he revealed in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday.
"It is very likely. It is not ... outside the realm of possibility and we know they have attacked a number of American interests over the course of the last few days," Kerry said, referring to recent reports that Russian hackers attacked the Pentagon and Chinese cyberspies were reading US officials' emails.
"It's very possible ... and I certainly write things with that awareness," Kerry added. He did not specify whether he was referring to personal email, government email, or both.
Chinese cyberspies have reportedly been reading the private emails of Obama-administration officials and "top national security and trade officials" since 2010.
The report comes amid the ongoing issue of Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Frederick T. Frelinghuysen ... 's use of a private email server for work-related correspondences while she served as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.
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John Kerry: I write emails assuming that Russia and China are 'very likely' reading them
..but certainly, never the American people. I'm aided in that assurance by our own Ministry of Truth, formerly referred to as the MSM, which will insure that any mistakes, errors in judgement, blatant idiocy, or treason will never reach the eyes or ears of the general public.
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Shoot a mile boys, he actually made a lucid comment...and a kind of backhanded slap at Hilda.
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Lucid, and insofar as he can assume that Russia and China (among others) have penetrated the State Department network, probably correct. Whether or not he writes his emails keeping that in mind I don't know.
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the "reset button" watermark graphic is a clue
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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...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 
John 
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The son of the former Al Qaeda chief 
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
Hillary Clinton
