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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Flesh-eating tropical bug in ISIS-held Syria ‘spreads across Mideast’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A disfiguring tropical disease that had been previously been contained in Syria is now reportedly spreading across the Middle East as millions are displaced, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis, which can lead to severe scarring on the face, is a parasitic disease spread by bites from infected sand flies.

The disease regularly goes undiagnosed and untreated.

The disease had been contained in Syria, particularly to regions under ISIS control such as Raqqa, Deir al-Zour and Hasakah.

The ongoing Syrian civil war has devastated the country's medical facilities and along with the chronic lack of clean water, the situation has created a breeding ground for sand flies the carry the disease.

In September 2012, the disease’s outbreak began among Syrian refugees in Leb, according to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention.
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
White House launches Muslim outreach office
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President B.O. is establishing a new position to coordinate outreach to the Muslim-American community, picking a former president of the Muslim Youth of North America to run it.
According to Discover the Networks, since 1985 MYNA has been the Islamic Society of North America's (ISNA) outreach to Muslim children and their non-Muslim friends aged 12-18. MYNA and ISNA are closely associated with Tablighi Jamaat
A group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms...
Even more exciting than our beloved president's usual Muslim Brotherhood friends -- the FBI must be having fits.
"A big part of this role is making sure the national conversation about these communities is not framed through a single lens, but covers the full range of issues that Muslims and other Americans face," Zaki Barzinji, who will work out of the White House Office of Public Engagement, told the Huffington Post.

Barzinji's new job deprives Gov. Terry McAuliffe, D-Va., of his director of intergovernmental affairs. Barzinji previously worked on McAuliffe's gubernatorial campaign.

"This appointment is a further extension of this Administration's commitment to America's tradition of religious pluralism," Valerie Jarrett
...reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
political hack, now senior advisor to President B.O....

, senior adviser to the White House office of public engagement, told the Huffington Post.
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Tablighi Jamaat

#1  "This appointment is a further extension of this Administration's commitment to America's tradition of religious pluralism," Valerie Jarrett

When we finally be rid of this unelected sow ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2016 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, Ilm al-Kalām is an important part of the current WH rhetorical arsenal.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2016 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought that was NASA's new mission?
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2016 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  ...besides cooking the books on "adjusting" past temperature recordings.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/30/2016 12:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Muuuuuuuuuuuuuuz In Space!

WTF? I mean WTF? Look at his stomach!
Jeeeebus, I mean allu Akbar ! WTF?
Zooooomg!
I mean allu Akbar! Look?
WTF? Srsly WTF?
Allu Akbars, it's damn Ms. Piggy!
Halp us Jeeebus.
Er, allu Akabar, and curly toes slippers etc.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/30/2016 17:23 Comments || Top||

#6  I sincerely hope someone plans to shadow Ms. Jarrett in the closing days of the administration, avoiding contact with her Secret Service detail until she is no longer a protectee, and then ensure she cannot leave the country until the extent of her criminal/treasonist acts can be compiled for her prosecution as a foreign agent of Iran.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/30/2016 17:47 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Taliban's Divided Factions Criticize Hibatullah's Appointment
Criticizing the appointment of Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada as Taliban's new leader, Mullah Mannan Niazi, spokesman for the Taliban's breakaway faction led by Mullah Rassoul, said on Sunday that the newly appointed leader is a puppet of Pakistan – just as his predecessor, Mullah Mansour, was.

He said Mullah Rassoul's faction wants an Islamic government in Afghanistan and that foreign troops should not stay in the country as invaders.

He said: "Hibatullah was appointed by those who appointed Mansour as Taliban's leader. It is part of the conspiracy that has started against the Taliban in the past."

"Those that are killed in the country are killed as a result of the fatwa issued by the unjust muftis that now claim they are leading Taliban. They are our killers and their hands are stained with our blood," he added.

The withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan has been one of the main pre-conditions of terrorist groups in terms of joining the peace process, but this time, the breakaway faction of the Taliban brought up the issue, with a slightly different angle.

"We do not want all foreigners, as invaders, in Afghanistan, but we want Afghanistan to have good relations with the world in the framework of international rules," he said.

Meanwhile, the presidential palace said they are ready to embrace the militant groups that quit insurgency and join the peace process.

"The peace door will always be open for the groups that quit killing the people, accept the Constitution of Afghanistan, and cut relations with terrorist groups ," said President Ashraf Ghani's deputy spokesman Shahussain Murtazawi.

Peace talks with militants, particularly with Taliban, has been government's top priority over the past several years, but the efforts have not yielded considerable results so far.

Analysts said they believe that there is still opportunity to carry on the peace process with militant groups.
Posted by: badanov || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Pakistan says DNA report confirms Mullah Mansoor’s death
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The authorities in Pakistain have said DNA report have confirmed that the man killed in a US drone strike was the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
We knew he was dead when they named his successor. But this is the Official Verification. Mullah Mansour has departed the building.
According to the local media reports, citing the local authorities, a DNA report said it was definite that the man killed in the US strike on May 21 was Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
He is One with the Ages.
The country’s interior ministry has said the confirmation was made following the DNA matching of DNA samples collected from the charred body against the relative who came forward to claim the remains.
He is no longer oxygen-dependent.
Pakistain’s foreign affairs adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy...
earlier said "All indicators confirm that the person killed in the drone strike was Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was travelling on a fake identity. The DNA test result will be available shortly."
That's the secret: just put on a pair of fake glasses and nobody will recognize you.
The country’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar had earlier said the government could not confirm the death without a scientific and legal basis.
He was killed in Pakistain, just like Osama bin Laden. That's where Abu Zubaidah, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad were all captured. The Quetta Shura is located in Pakistain. So is the Haqqani Network. Do we see a pattern here?
Mullah Mansoor was killed in a US drone strike in 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...
province of Pakistain in the afternoon of 21st May as he was travelling in a vehicle.
But he was wearing glasses and carrying a Pak passport and ID, so nobody in Pakistain recognized him.
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Hafter holds council of war in Benina
[Libya Herald] Armed forces commander-in-chief Khalifa Hafter held a council of war with his eastern commanders, though the meeting was not attended by Chief of Staff Abdul Razak Al-Nazhuri.

The main subjects were the army’s build-up for an advance towards Sirte and security in Benghazi once Death Eaters have finally been defeated. It is understood that discussion focused on the logistics of the army concentration to the south of Ajdabiya and the plans for the westward advance.

Another key concern has been that once the army had regained complete control, Benghazi would be subjected to classic terrorist attacks designed to undermine security and sow alarm.

In this connection, there is clearly no mood to reopen Benina Airport to civilian traffic, even though work to repair the terminals and aprons is said to be nearing completion.

One senior commander at today’s war council held in the military airbase on the other side of Benina told this newspaper that civilian flights were not about to resume any time soon. "It would be a disaster if an airliner was hit by a random missile" he said, adding that reports that the airport would shortly reopen were plain wrong.
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Arab Spring


The Grand Turk
Turkey's Erdogan accuses Russia of arming PKK militants
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2016 07:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Considering Russia's historic support, and that the PYD has a liaison office in Moscow, perhaps Erdy's histrionics have some merit.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/30/2016 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  The important thing is that somebody doing it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2016 11:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone forgot we backed Stalin against Hitler.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/30/2016 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  I for one would have stomped grannies to see Satan's speech to the House of Commons.

Posted by: Shipman || 05/30/2016 17:32 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Mystery continues to shroud identity of Muhammad Wali
[TheNation] The mystery shrouding identity of one of the two men killed in a suspected US drone strike in Balochistan, in which Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour is believed to be killed, could not be resolved till Tuesday.

After US authorities claimed to have killed Mansour in a drone strike, local residents gathered in Ahmed Wal area of Balochistan’s Noshki district around two unidentified dead bodies near a destroyed vehicle in which Mansour was believed to be travelling in, around 160 kilometres west of Quetta.

The bodies, charred beyond recognition, were shifted to civil hospital Quetta where one of the victims was identified by his brother as Muhammad Azam of Taftan area. He was said to be a taxi driver, a private television channel reported.

The second man was identified with the help of an undamaged passport and a computerised national identity card found near the burnt car bearing his name Muhammad Wali, the resident of Chaman. Pakistani authorities said the passport contained a visa for Iran.

There are no reports on whereabouts of Mansour’s body. It is suspected that Mansour used to carry fake travel papers in the cover name of Muhammad Wali and was killed along with his driver. However, the US claim of his death is yet to be officially confirmed by the Pakistan government, that summoned US Ambassador to Islamabad David Hale, yesterday, to lodge a protest for carrying out the drone strike on Pakistan’s soil.

Even authorities in Balochistan did not confirm that the body lying in the Combined Military Hospital in Quetta was that of the Taliban chief’s. Reports said a sample has been collected from the corpse for a DNA test which will be conducted in Islamabad as Quetta lacks the facility.

But the mystery further deepened today when a man approached hospital authorities and claimed the body. According to our correspondent, the man Muhammad Rafiq declared him as nephew of Muhammad Wali and resident of Qilla Saifullah district. He later took the body along with him.

“No one from the hospital staff recognized the man and knew of whereabouts of the body,” our correspondent says, adding that phone number and residential address mentioned by the man in hospital papers were also wrong.

There was no official word on this incident from Balochistan government or any official concerned.

Meanwhile, Balochistan Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti announced to compensate family members of Muhammad Azam, asserting that authorities have been looking at all aspects of the drone attack.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/30/2016 00:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My Daddy and my husband to be,
Died by a hellfire yes, Siri.
Tho Ima just six,
Ima thank goodness for the U.S. spotters .i see.

Posted by: Shipman || 05/30/2016 11:18 Comments || Top||


Military leadership was unaware of US drone strike, says Fatemi
We guessed that.
[DAWN] Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi said Pak military leadership was 'unaware' of the United States (US) drone attack in 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...
which killed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Mansour, but also rejected the possibility of an intelligence failure in this regard.

"Pakistain does not have the technological means to detect drones," the special assistant argued in an interview with DawnNews on Friday.

"There are certain domestic and international elements involved," he claimed, "But some matters cannot be disclosed."

"Pakistain may protest against drone strikes, but cannot strike back decisively... Such attacks will never be permitted in Pakistain," he said.

Fatemi was of the opinion that US drone policy would adversely affect the western power in addition to negatively affecting the region where they are carried out.

When asked why aid is sought from the US despite its violations of Pakistain's territorial illusory sovereignty, Fatemi replied: "Ideally, it is our goal to not seek any aid from them, but Pakistain’s economic conditions make it so. We do not actively seek aid from anyone."

Regarding the American demand to act against the Haqqani Network, Fatemi adamantly emphasised that Pakistain is already "in action" against various terrorist groups, including the Taliban and the Haqqani Network.

"We are trying to keep dialogue and negotiations going with the [Afghan] Taliban."

"Negotiations with the Taliban have reached a rather unique junction. Our agencies will contact the new leadership. Whatever decisions and progress we had made in the QCG is now nil, thanks to the drone strike."

Fatemi also revealed that Pakistain is not the only country in contact with the Taliban, as "talks are the only way forward".

"Pakistain alone cannot bring peace to Afghanistan, it is a collective international responsibility," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  that's why it worked
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2016 11:38 Comments || Top||


Two more booked for helping Mansour get identity papers
[DAWN] Two more individuals said to be involved in helping Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour to obtain Pak documents for his alias Wali Mohammad have been tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
The arrests come days after Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture...
admitted that officials of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) were fraudulently ’selling’ Pak citizenship to aliens and ordered a national re-verification exercise in order to remove all illegal entries in the national database.

According to an interior ministry statement, Aziz Ahmad Achakzai, a risaldar major in the 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...
Levies Force, was arrested in Quetta for helping Wali Mohammad acquire a manual Pak ID card.

Achakzai, who still held the same position in Chaman, had attested the national identity card of Wali Mohammad in 2001.

Another Nadra employee was picked up in 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...
for tampering with records to secure Pak citizenship for Wali Mohammad’s second wife and children. The suspect, Riffat Iqbal, was serving as a superintendent with Nadra in Karachi and, according to the interior ministry statement, had disappeared after the drone attack.

Though the tampering was detected by his superiors, no action had been taken against him so far. The timing of his disappearance and his apparent link to the slain Taliban leader prompted the arrest.

The arrests came a day after the interior minister disclosed that more cases of a similar nature had been detected following the Wali Mohammad episode.

"Some startling facts have come to light," the minister said, without divulging the name of any high-profile foreign myrmidon who was also issued Pak papers. But he lamented that forged cards were distributed "like sweets" in the past and that this had been happening for well over a decade now.

On Friday, Nadra Junior Executive Syed Afsar Hassan was taken into custody for allegedly tampering with family records to pass off foreigners as Pak citizens. An official statement said he had been involved with a human trafficking racket as well.
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Family of driver killed in Mullah Mansour drone strike files FIR against US
[DAWN] Family members of deceased taxi driver Muhammad Azam who was killed in an American drone strike in 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...
earlier this month filed a First-Information Report (FIR) against the United States on Sunday.

The FIR with was lodged by Azam's brother, Muhammad Qasim, at the Mal Levies station with the Mal tehsildar in the Noshki district.

In the FIR Qasim stated that his brother drove a taxi from Taftan to Quetta, and on May 5 Azam’s vehicle was blown up in Kochaki area of Noshki.

Azam was killed in a drone strike targeting Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Mansour near Quetta. He was the driver of the car the Taliban leader was travelling in.

His family members said Azam, a father of four children, was the sole earner in his family. They called for action to be taken against the US officials responsible for the drone strike.

"My brother was innocent and extremely poor. He had four children and was the sole bread earner of the family," Qasim stated in the FIR.

"US officials killed my brother while violating the Pak area. I do not know the names of US officials, but I want justice to be served," the FIR reads.

"We want justice," Azam's uncle, Haji Khuda-e-Nazar, told DawnNews on Sunday. "We want to bring the perpetrators of the drone strike to justice. My nephew Muhammad Azam was innocent and had no links to any terror group."
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Iraq
Fallujah residents bury their dead in the garden
[RUDAW.NET] Due to the extensive bombardment, residents of Fallujah are burying their dead family members in the garden, an Iraqi official announced Saturday.

"Fallujah is under a massive bombardment without differentiating between civilians or ISIS," said Abdulqadir Jumayli, media advisor of Anbar provincial council.

"The bombardment has made it impossible for the people to reach the graveyard, forcing them to bury the dead in the garden," Jumayli added.

Jumayli asked the security forces to stop the bombardment in order to save the lives of the civilians.

The Iraqi Army, meanwhile, has announced that the first stage of the battle for Fallujah is complete.

"Phase one is over and we have achieved our objectives," said Brigadier Rasool Yahya an Iraqi defence ministry front man to Al Jazeera on Saturday. "Our forces have isolated and surrounded the city of Fallujah."

He noted that 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....
(ISIS) has regrouped in the centre of the city.

"We are advancing on and closing in," Yahya said. "We are ready and the presence of civilians inside the city could delay us."

The protection of civilians has been a key concern in the battle for Fallujah. On Sunday, the day before launching the offensive, the Iraqi Army distributed leaflets advising civilians to flee or to identify themselves with white flags.
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  wait till you see the tomatos from that garden; bigger and juicier than ever.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 05/30/2016 9:40 Comments || Top||


Tensions escalate as Saudi Arabia calls Iran’s military presence in Iraq ‘unacceptable’
[RUDAW.NET] 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...
has called Iran’s military presence in Iraq, as "unacceptable" and told Iran to stop meddling in Iraqi affairs.

Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, made the comments on Sunday during a presser.
He accused Iran of sowing "sedition and division in Iraq" and provoking sectarianism between Sunnis and Shias.

Iran maintains it is assisting in the battle for Fallujah at the request of Baghdad and has, in turn, accused Saudi Arabia of supporting extremism.

"The role of our brothers, the Iranian advisers, is remarkable. They have great military skills to face the enemy," Abu-Kawsar, a commander of the Saraya al-Jihad militia, told Rudaw on Saturday. He added that their number was "not a lot."

Iran also backs the Shiite militia Hashd al-Shaabi.
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  I've thought for a while that Saudi can't stand by and let Iran take control in Iraq.

A Yemen style intervention is unlikely unless they can convince the US and NATO to stand aside, which may happen if Trump gets elected. Or they convince Egypt to send it's military in.

Iran can fight ragtag rebels, but would stand no chance against Saudis modern weapons in an open confrontation. At least for long enough for Saudi to smash Iran's oil infrastructure, which is all Saudi would really want. A broke Iran is no threat.
Posted by: phil_b || 05/30/2016 19:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Ayelet Shaked: Israel is the tip of the spear in war on terror
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked on Monday said that Israel is "the tip of the spear in the war on terror" in praising the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee for passing a major new bill on terrorism in its second and third readings.

The bill, which the committee has been debating intensely since the fall, but even dating back years, now goes to the full Knesset. In November, tempers flared in a debate on the bill as Knesset members, security officials and legal scholars fought over new more aggressive anti-terror legislation that would stiffen prison sentences for some nonviolent supporters of terrorist groups and strengthen the ability of security officials to seize terror funds.

The legislation passed by a vote of 10-2 with members of the opposition supporting the bill after having opposed earlier versions of the bill.

The committee rejected 165 reservations, many of which were raised and debated at Monday's hearing.

The bill, debated by the committee, comes alongside separate legislation that would expand the definition of illegal terrorist groups to include those that provide publicity and financial support for terrorist organizations but do not themselves perpetrate violent acts.

Current law already declares financial support for terrorism illegal, but the combined new legislation would stiffen prison sentences for those involved in terror financing and empower security officials with streamlined administrative procedures for seizing terror funds.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2016 07:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Interior minister moves to revoke citizenship of car-ramming suspect
[IsraelTimes] Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Sunday said he filed a request with the Haifa District Court to revoke the Israeli citizenship of an Arab man accused of carrying out a combined stabbing and car-ramming attack last October.
Consequences.
Alaa Raed Ahmad Ziwad was charged with four counts of attempted murder after he drove his car into an Israeli soldier, seriously injuring her, and then stepped out of his car to stab three others on October 28. The attack took place on Route 65 near the entrance to Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, northeast of Hadera, in the midst of a wave of stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks.

Deri on Sunday said he began the process of revoking Ziwad’s Israeli citizenship immediately after the attack, after the move was green-lighted by the attorney general.

Ziwad is a resident of the Arab Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm.

"Revoking citizenship is a rare, serious step but we must respond forcefully against anyone who harms the state’s security and its residents," said Deri in a statement.

The interior minister and leader of the Shas party also said he recently informed the family that the ministry would not renew the residency of Ziwad’s father, who appears not to be an Israeli citizen, "and I clarified that the relatives of the attackers also bear responsibility for their [the attackers’] actions," he said.
More consequences.
In October, Ziwad admitted to Sherlocks his attack was "nationalistically motivated," a police term indicating a terror attack. His confession marks a retraction from his initial claim that the attack was an accidental car collision, and the stabbings an act of self-defense after he was attacked by onlookers.

In his testimony, Ziwad told Sherlocks he wished to kill himself by killing Jews.
At which he doubly failed. So now jail, loss of citizenship, his aged father put out in the road... and no eternal virgins and boys with faces like pearls to comfort him in that well-furnished palace in Paradise.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Revoke his life
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2016 11:41 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
It's official: no hajj for Iranians this year
[AlAhram]
Iran blames Saudis, Saudis blame Iran. Both are correct.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2016 00:00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Outstanding.
Now the hajj bombing will have a scapegoat.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2016 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  If I were a Persian I'd set up my own hell hole in the desert, with rides, water, rocks and a real artificial black boulder. Maybe wymens, it would be yuuuuuuuuge and a golf course of course, A Marina? Hell yes! What do you mean? Liquid, hell my friend there's 7 million Jooooooooos an hours flight away! They can make water out of sand AND THEIR BOOKKEEPING SKILLZ, hell you want liquid? I'll bring you an Ocean! No moron, it won't look bad, we'll play it like the running of the Bullz in Pamplona Alabama. People will pay to watch and beg to participate. Easy peasy.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/30/2016 3:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Haji Nazi... No Haji for you.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 05/30/2016 4:10 Comments || Top||

#4  One can always hope Iran embarks on a kinetic Hajj.
Posted by: phil_b || 05/30/2016 4:16 Comments || Top||

#5  If I were an Iranian, I'd stop and think "Do we really need this religion of sociopaths invented by an illiterate Arab? Especially, considering the fact that our ancestors invented the only religion without any logical loopholes?"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2016 6:48 Comments || Top||

#6  The answer is to make the religion of sociopaths... unprofitable.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/30/2016 10:31 Comments || Top||

#7  "Do we really need this religion...

And so they have been, g(r)omgoru. A quick google gives us the following, among many others.

Iran's secret Christian movement grows, with help from abroad

Turning away from Shia in Iran: ''A Tsunami of Atheism''
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2016 10:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Ship, are those the canine-ites mentioned in the Bible?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/30/2016 10:43 Comments || Top||

#9  fwiw, the Hajj (or more accurately the Great Hajj) will be from ~Sept 9 to ~Sept 15 this year

- yes, Sept 11 falls in that period
Posted by: lord garth || 05/30/2016 12:18 Comments || Top||

#10  #7 Yea, but I like Zoroastrianism. Maybe with a twist of Allan identified with Ahr*man
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2016 16:13 Comments || Top||

#11  Hajj?
Gesundheit!
Posted by: European Conservative || 05/30/2016 19:44 Comments || Top||


Chief Syria opposition peace negotiator resigns
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The chief peace negotiator of Syria's mainstream opposition said on Sunday he was resigning over the failure of the UN- backed Geneva peace talks to bring a political settlement and to ease the plight of Syrians living in besieged rebel-held areas.
Not even a hudna? Oh dear.
Mohammad Alloush, who is also the representative of the powerful Jaish al Islam rebel faction in the Saudi-based High Negotiations Committee, confirmed the news in a statement to Al Arabiya News Channel.

In a statement seen by Rooters, Alloush said that the peace talks had also failed to secure the release of thousands of detainees or to push Syria towards a political transition without President Bashar al Assad.

The UN-backed parties have not set a date for the resumption of the peace talks after the High Negotiations Committee suspended their participation until the situation on the ground has radically changed.

The talks ended on April 27 with no breakthrough two weeks ago.

There had been expectations that a new round would be called at the end of May, but fighting has flared on the ground and aid deliveries to besieged areas continue to be blocked.

Diplomats said there was little chance that the opposition would take part in a new round of peace talks if violence was raging and no aid was reaching civilians.
Posted by: Fred || 05/30/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria


Terror Networks
ISIS said selling sex slaves online for funding
[IsraelTimes] Facebook post by IS fighter shows young women on sale in possible trafficking

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 reportedly resorting to sex trafficking in order to help fund its ventures. Experts say that the increased pressure on IS coming from Iraq and Syria may be causing fighters to try to sell sex slaves as a new source of income.

A report Saturday in The Washington Post traced the story to a Facebook post from last week. Images, which were supposedly posted by an Islamic State fighter, show young women hesitantly posing for the camera. The asking price was approximately $8,000 for each woman, the report said.

It is unknown, however, if the person who posted the images was selling the women himself, or commenting on other fighters’ sales ventures.

Facebook removed the images within hours. They were the first indication of the Islamic State offering women up for sale. According to The Washington Post, the postings came to the attention of the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors jihadists’ ­social-media accounts.

The person who posted the images advised his Facebook friends to "get married" and come to the Islamic State’s territories in Iraq and Syria. The poster also fielded questions and reactions from people who commented on the posts -- anything from discussing the valuation of the asking price, to how the women looked. The dialogue was casual and matter-of-fact.

The Islamic State has been known to utilize social media to recruit new members worldwide. Popular resources such as Facebook are just one way to attract the attention of impressionable youth. Fortunately, the efficiency of blocking jihadist accounts and postings -- as soon as possible after their publication -- has improved.

It is estimated that the terror group is holding captive approximately 1,800 women and maidens of tender years. These numbers come solely from those who have been captured from Yazidi communities in the region where IS is currently centered. Women are being used as sex slaves for the hard boy group, and even maidens of tender years are susceptible to rape.

The Islamic State, citing ancient Islamic belief, considers any non-Muslim woman -- or any Muslim woman who has renounced the IS form of Islamic worship -- as a legitimate slave. They are considered spoils of war.

The possibility of sex trafficking comes as no surprise to experts. The suffering of the captive women and girls increases as military and financial pressures on the Islamic State intensifies. The captives are the first to suffer when there are shortages of food, water and medicine. To boot, they are at risk when the Death Eaters who are holding them captive are under attack.

In the last few months, three dozen Iraqi and Syrian women who beat feet from the hard boy group, which is currently in control of their home regions, shared their plights in captivity. They recounted how Death Eaters would come to their homes, ask women to remove their headscarves, decide who they wanted and carry them off.

Several of those women conveyed how they were constantly raped and traded prior to their escape. They told of how their situation only got worse as, in addition to the constant rape and degradation, they suffered other horrors such as having their children taken from them.
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#1  And Obama worries that trannies, perverts, and pedophiles might not have access to you daughters bathroom, locker room, or shower.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/30/2016 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  By the way, I wonder that'll happen the first time a tranny tries to go into a restroom full of Muslim girls some of whose owners are around?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/30/2016 6:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought that friend request was fishy
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2016 11:43 Comments || Top||



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